Warning: Spoilers ahead for Netflix’s Outer Banks season 1. Netflix’s new show, Outer Banks, has romance , drama and adventure. But it also has mystery, specifically around what happened to John B.’d dad. Netflix’s Outer Banks, which premiered on April 15, follows John Booker Routeledge and his group of friends called the Pogues in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
In the first episode, it’s revealed that John B.’s father, John Senior, went missing at sea one year before the events of Outer Banks. Since then, John B. and his friends have been on a mission to find out what happened to John Senior. Their search of he truth led them on a treasure hunt for $400 million in gold. Their treasure hunt started after John B. and his friends found his father’s compass that contained a clue about where the treasure was. In the end, John B.
On the night of John Sr.’s death, Lana overheard a conversation between Ward and Scooter. Ward told Scooter that he and John Sr. were on a boat together when John Sr. told him that he found the $400 million treasure. At first, Ward was ecstatic until John Sr. told him that he would only receive 20 percent of the money because he had done most of the work to find the gold and all of the research his. Ward then argued that John Sr.
Fast forward to the current events of Outer Banks and the finale ends with John B. promising to get revenge on Ward for killing his dad.