Outer Banks season 3 is scheduled to premiere on February 23, 2023, so refresh your memory with what happened during the season 2 finale.
There’s only a matter of days left until the beloved cast of Outer Banks returns to our Netflix screens. With new character additions of Carlos Singh, Ryan, and Sofia, things are definitely going to be shaken up – and we’re not just talking about the treasure hunt; someone might have landed a romance story.
Chase Stokes, Madison Bailey, Madelyn Cline, and the co-stars have remained tight-lipped about the plot, but let’s recap the season 2 finale ahead of the new episodes.
What happened in Outer Banks season 2 finale? An ending recap ahead of season 3
Ward Cameron is the big bad
The finale picks up from episode 9, which sees Ward Cameron, Sarah’s father, reveal himself as the show’s villain on the Coaster Venture ship. As if that isn’t enough betrayal, Rafe (Drew Starkey) is his right-hand man.
Ward explains his plan to take the family to Guadaloupe, a remote French island, and lies to Sarah that John B agreed to trade the Cross of Santo Domingo for her.
In case you forgot, the cross is a relic rumored to be worth half a billion dollars and holds the supernatural healing Garment of the Savior.
The lie is immediately uncovered when a skeptical Sarah fakes sea sickness to leave the scene and spots the golden treasure in the ship’s cargo, prompting her to call 911.
She is interrupted by Ward, who slaps his own daughter and tosses her in a storage area. By some miracle, however, the 16-year-old teen manages to trap him there instead – of course, the Pogues weren’t going to lose so easily.
The Pogues vs the Camerons
With the Pogues now free, they battle with Rafe and the ship’s crew to take the cross. But when Cleo, who turned on the Ward to join the Pogues, notices that the ship is about to malfunction, she urges her friends to leave the boat.
While Rafe is in a 1v1 with John B, Pope uses the crane to lift the cross but after coming to the realization that he cannot escape with it, he opts to drop his family’s treasure into the sea, rather than leave it with the Wards. Presumably due to the adrenaline, Rafe musters enough strength to pull the rope and stop the cross from plunging into the ocean. Meanwhile, Cleo and Pope use this opportunity to jump ship.
Things aren’t looking good for Sarah either, who is on the brink of death as his father attempts to strangle her. Luckily, John B saves the day last minute and pulls the villain off her. They enter a showdown and the teen eventually knocks Ward’s head so hard that he hits the deck’s metal edge, similar to how Ward fought with John B’s father over the gold.
Sarah subtly gives consent to John B for him to drop her father into the ocean, but he seemingly dies seconds before.
Team JJ and Kiara, meanwhile, are in an altercation with the ship’s crew, which ends with JJ getting knocked out and tossed into the ocean by the captain. Kiara jumps in after him and helps to keep him afloat.
The Pogues are alive and well – but stranded
By the 45-minute mark, the Pogues are alive in their lifeboat, but their enemies manage to pull the Cross of Santo Domingo to safety. Rafe aims his rifle at the teens but decides not to take the shot, giving them a way out.
The Pogues escape with their lives, but nothing else, and land on an island they proclaim at Poguelandia.
Back on the ship, Ward is miraculously alive and Rafe tells him his plan to avenge Sarah.
Big John is not dead!
A plot twist we didn’t see coming in the final minutes: John B’s father is alive, despite viewers being convinced otherwise since season 1.
New villain Limbrey (Elizabeth Mitchell) arrives at a house in Barbados to meet a man who claims to know about the shroud she has been searching for all season. When she approaches the figure, he turns around and is revealed to be John Routledge (Charles Halford). He agrees to give her the shroud’s location, but she must help his son in exchange.
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