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Season one of Outer Banks is set in the titular coastal town in North Carolina, and focuses
on a group of teenage friends, known as the Pogues.
The Pogues are a group of working-class locals, who are constantly at odds with the wealthy
seasonal elites, known as Kooks.
The Pogues ringleader is John B Routledge, and fellow members include his reckless best
friend, JJ, the brainy Pope, and Kie, who is technically a Kook, but stays loyal to
her longtime friends in the Pogues instead.
John B’s father, Big John, has been lost at sea and presumed dead for nine months,
following his quest for a long missing ship from the 1800s, known as the Royal Merchant,
and all of the treasure it contained.
With no legal guardian, John B is forced to evade child protective services and the well-meaning
Sheriff Peterkin to avoid being sent to live in a foster home.
After a hurricane, the Pogues find a wrecked boat containing a compass belonging to John
B’s father.
Using clues from the compass, the Pogues uncover a map to the Royal Merchant wreckage, and
a message from Big John urging his son to finish what he started.
Despite a pair of mysterious, armed and dangerous men hunting them down, the Pogues manage to
track down the ship wreckage, only to discover that someone had already taken all of the
gold.
Meanwhile, John B begins to grow close to Sarah Cameron.
Nicknamed the princess of the Kooks, Sarah is the daughter of John B’s wealthy employer
Ward.
As the two begin to fall in love, Sarah realizes that she feels much more at peace as a Pogue
than a Kook.
This new relationship creates a lot of animosity between John B and Sarah’s ex-boyfriend,
Topper.
Also starting up a romance of their own are Pope and Kie.
Eventually, John B realizes that the Cameron family property was in fact a former plantation
built by a freed slave named Denmark Tanny.
Denmark had been the sole survivor of the Royal Merchant wreckage and escaped with the
gold.
John B and the Pogues manage to decipher a letter Denmark had written to his son before
his death, revealing the location of the buried treasure.
Unfortunately, Sarah’s father, Ward, overhears his daughter’s discovery and moves to steal
the gold for himself.
It turns out, Ward had been a treasure hunting partner of Big John, only to betray and murder
him.
Ward has been desperate to find the Royal Merchant for years, and has aligned with many
criminal organizations and corrupt cops, like Deputy Shoupe, to achieve his goal.
Ward then has his men capture the gold and orders them to fly it to his home in the Bahamas.
John B tries to stop the plane with some help from Sheriff Peterkin, who has spent the last
nine months trying to find evidence linking Ward to Big John’s death.
Unfortunately, Ward’s loyal, drug addict son, Rafe, murders Peterkin to save his father.
Ward then pins the sheriff’s death on John B, forcing him to go on the run with Sarah.
Not only are the police in pursuit, but so are the vengeful Topper and Rafe.
As the police close in, Topper proves his true love and devotion to Sarah by helping
her and John B escape.
As the season comes to a close, John B flees with Sarah straight into a tropical storm.
The two are presumed dead, with the Pogues mourning the loss of their friends.
Fortunately, John B and Sarah actually survived and were rescued by a cargo ship headed for
the Bahamas.
In season two of Outer Banks, the Pogues get a message from John B telling them that he
was alive and well in the Bahamas.
And so, the Pogues devise a plan to exonerate him for Sheriff Peterkin’s murder and expose
Ward Cameron’s villainous nature.
They record Ward killing his pilot, Gavin, who threatens to expose Rafe killing Peterkin,
but unfortunately the video is destroyed.
Fortunately, they manage to find the gun Rafe used to kill Peterkin, but then unknowingly
deliver it to the corrupt interim Sheriff Shoupe.
Upon discovering that John B and Sarah are alive in the Bahamas, Ward and Rafe race to
retrieve the gold and sell it off before the Pogues can get their hands on it.
John B and Sarah team up with the cargo ship’s captain, Terrence, and his crewmate, Cleo,
to steal the gold, but during their escape from the Camerons, Sarah is shot by her brother,
Rafe.
This doesn’t seem to bother the unhinged Rafe, who confesses to his father that he
wanted to kill his traitorous sister for good.
As John B takes Sarah to a surgeon to save her life, Terrence and Cleo escape with the
gold.
Upon Sarah’s recovery, she and John B learn from Cleo that Ward and the Bahamian police
have stolen back the gold and seemingly killed Terrence.
As John B and Sarah return to the Outer Banks to reunite with the other Pogues, they also
get fake-married to prove their love for each other.
Meanwhile, Pope meets a wealthy stranger named Carla Limbrey, a woman whose ancestors have
a dark connection to Denmark Tanny and the Royal Merchant.
Carla has also been searching for the Royal Merchant wreckage for many years, and had
been double-crossed by Ward Cameron.
Carla has obtained a tape of Ward's pilot, Gavin, confessing that it was Rafe that killed
Peterkin, but wouldn’t use it to exonerate John B unless the Pogues helped her retrieve
a key belonging to Denmark Tanny.
Carla believed Pope’s family had the key in their possession, as it’s revealed that
Pope is in fact a descendent of Denmark Tanny.
This key supposedly led to another treasure in the Cross of Santo Domingo.
Carla believes that a magical shroud stored inside the cross could cure her of a disease
that is rapidly killing her.
And to be even more sure that the Pogues would cooperate, she kidnaps Pope and holds him
hostage.
The Pogues rescue Pope and flee, but now they have to worry about Carla, Ward, Rafe, and
the police all hunting them down.
As the police catch up to the Pogues, John B surrenders himself and is arrested.
As Ward bribes an inmate to murder John B, the other Pogues try everything they can to
free him.
Sarah tries to get the help of her younger sister Wheezie to incriminate Rafe, but Rafe
catches her and tries to murder her.
Fortunately, Topper arrives and rescues his former love.
Meanwhile, Pope and Kie find the mysterious Tanny key in the hopes of using it to exonerate
John B.
But it’s actually the formally corrupt Shoupe who saves the day, using Rafe’s fingerprints
on the gun to exonerate John B and apprehend the true killer.
With John B saved, the Pogues turn their attention to bringing down Ward.
They swap a fake Tanny key to Carla Limbrey for her tape of Gavin, which implicates Ward.
After turning this tape over to the police, the authorities issue a warrant for Ward’s
arrest.
Not wanting to go to prison, Ward flees on his boat and blows it up, seemingly killing
himself.
Following this, the police receive a taped confession, where Ward takes responsibility
for the deaths of Big John, Gavin, and Sheriff Peterkin, exonerating Rafe.
John B is relieved by Ward’s death, fracturing his relationship with the grieving Sarah.
With Ward dead, the Pogues turn their attention to the Tanny key and the mysterious Cross
of Santo Domingo treasure.
Unfortunately, Carla has discovered that she was given a fake key, and arrives in the Outer
Banks with her half-brother, Renfield, to retrieve the real key by any means necessary.
The Limbreys, now working with an erratic Rafe, manage to find and steal the Cross.
The villainous trio all attempt to double-cross each other, with Carla forced to murder her
own brother before Rafe steals the cross for himself and flees.
Rafe meets up with his mother, Rose, and the duo take the gold, the cross, and a kidnapped
Sarah to flee the country aboard a ship known as Coastal Venture.
The Pogues sneak their way onto the ship, where they discover that Ward Cameron is also
on board, alive and well.
It was Ward’s plan all along to fake his death and have his family join him in paradise.
Helping the Pogues in their fight aboard the Coastal Venture is Cleo, who just so happened
to be working as part of the ship’s crew.
Unfortunately, the Pogues are defeated and forced overboard.
The Camerons now have the cross and the gold, while the Pogues wash up on a deserted island
they dub Poguelandia.
As the season comes to a close, Carla Limbrey visits an alive and well Big John, who promises
to help her on her quest if she agrees to help his son, John B.
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