They head to Nassau to reach Ward’s home - and the treasure - before he does. But they miraculously survive and get rescued by a passing boat after using a gold bar to reflect light. They very nearly do die out when their boat capsizes. In very Romeo and Juliet fashion, Sarah tells John B, "I'd rather die than be without you,” as they sail into the storm. When Ward realizes Sarah is with him, he begs John B to turn around, but in response John B announces over walkie-talkie that Ward murdered his father. This makes John B a fugitive, so he escapes into a storm with JJ’s boat. Chaos ensues, and Ward purposely waits for Peterkin to bleed out rather than call for help. But Ward’s son Rafe, a cruel criminal and heavy substance user, shoots Peterkin to save his dad. John B manages to stop the plane, and good cop Sheriff Peterkin arrives to arrest Ward for Big John’s death, which she’d been investigating all along. When Ward overhears John B and Sarah talking about finding the gold, he commissions a private jet to fly the gold to his own home in the Bahamas. ![]() Most importantly, Ward has been hunting for the Royal Merchant for years, and he’s the one who betrayed and killed Big John. He also has several cops in his pocket, like Deputy Shoupe. ![]() Though he pretends to be a good guy, he’s actually connected to most of the criminal enterprises on the island. Ward Is Evil, ActuallyĪt some point, the two bad guys who’ve also been searching for the Royal Merchant end up dead in the water, and it turns out that Sarah’s dad Ward is the one who killed them. The woman chases them all out, but John B escapes with some of the treasure. ![]() But John B manages to rappel down the well, and inside a secret tunnel he stumbles upon the gold. As they usually do, they end up loudly bickering, and the woman wakes up and chases them around with a shotgun. John B and his friends sneak into her basement and discover a hidden well there. Parcel nine turns out to be the property of a scary old woman who is rumored to have killed her husband with an ax. John B eventually realizes wheat is slang for British gold, and wherever parcel nine is on Tanneyhill is likely where the treasure is buried. With the help of a teacher, they discover that on the day Denmark was lynched, he told his son to “harvest the wheat near the water in parcel nine forthwith.” Sarah and John B sneak off to the University of North Carolina to study Denmark’s diary, where they find a letter he wrote to his son in Gullah, a creole language. John B recalls that Denmark was on the Royal Merchant, and if he bought a plantation, he was probably the sole shipwreck survivor who escaped with the gold. At that point, they seem to have only known each other for a full day or so, but sure! Denmark Tannyįrom a picture in Sarah’s home, John B gets a new clue about the gold: she lives on Tanneyhill, a plantation once owned by a freedman named Denmark Tanny. The two fall for each other, and John B dramatically confesses his love in the rain. But they grow closer after he wipes out in front of Sarah while running away from child protective services and she patches him up. A former friend of Kie’s, she initially clashes with John B. But when they explore the ship, they realize there’s no gold - meaning someone, at some point, already took it.Įnter Sarah Cameron, the so-called princess of the Kooks and daughter of John B’s employer, Ward. ![]() After squeezing inside Olivia’s crypt, they find a map of the Royal Merchant wreck and a recording of Big John telling John B to finish what he started.Īfter stealing a water drone, they discover the Royal Merchant about 1,000 feet down. Inside the compass is the message “Redfield,” which John B eventually figures out is a reference to his great-grandmother Olivia. But he and friends JJ, Pope, and Kie get a major clue about Big John’s whereabouts when they find his old compass. Nine months ago his dad, Big John, mysteriously disappeared while on a treasure hunt. The Royal Merchant HuntĪt the start of the show, protagonist John B is living alone and dodging child protective services. It’s a lot to take in, so with Season 2 on the horizon, here’s a reminder of everything that went down in Outer Banks Season 1. The season ends with the Pogues split up, the main villain still on the loose, and John B framed for murder. They actually manage to find the ship early on, but with a bunch of bad guys on their tails, things quickly spin out of control. After his father goes missing, John B (Chase Stokes) and his friends set out to finish what his dad started: finding the Royal Merchant, a British ship lost at sea in the 1800s that held $400 million in British gold. Set in North Carolina’s coastal Outer Banks islands, the show follows several scrappy teen “Pogues” who clash with the rich “Kooks” on the other side of the island. Netflix’s teen soap Outer Banks is a cross between the surf culture of The O.C.
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