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Outer Banks on Netflix is a series full of mysteries, but one of its biggest secrets is revealed late in the season. At the start of the show, we meet the orphan John B. (played by Chase Stokes), who swears that his father is still alive despite him having gone missing nine months earlier.
By the end of the show's first season, however, it seems as if we have confirmation that John B.'s father is really dead. In Episode 8, we see a flashback in which Scooter (David Ury) finds Big John's body, mummified on one of the Outer Banks islands due to the South Carolina heat.
At that point, it seems as if we have the whole story of exactly what happened to John B.'s father. He and Ward Cameron (Charles Esten) had originally planned to hunt for the treasure together, but after they disagreed over exactly how much of the treasure each was entitled to, they fought, and Big John ended up hitting his head and then flung overboard.
Initially, it seems as if he did die at sea, but we later learn he was able to make his way to an island and carve the word "Redfield" onto a compass before his death. John B. later finds this compass, in an event that sets up the show when the Pogues go diving for it in the first episode of the Netflix show.
By the end of Episode 8, it seems certain that John B.'s dad is dead, and even J.B. himself is ready to accept this. However, when the Netflix show ends with everyone believing that two people are dead who are not, this might hint that not everything is as it seems.
In the final episode of Outer Banks, the island residents all believe that John B. and Sarah Cameron (Madelyn Cline) have perished after they drove their boat into a tropical storm. However, at the end of the season, it is revealed that they are both still alive and have been rescued by a boat on its way to Nassau in the Bahamas–the exact place where the treasure is heading.
This could mean that John B.'s dad has also faked his own death and has somehow left a body that looks like him in order to continue his hunt for the treasure without Ward. Though this seems a little far-fetched, the show is already embracing some larger-than-life elements, so it is possible we could be heading for a surprise family reunion in the Bahamas.
Speaking to USA Today, showrunner Jonas Pate said that if Outer Banks gets a Season 2 from Netflix, "there would be a couple episodes that take place, at least partially, in the Bahamas. It unfolds into a bigger mystery. We keep our old villains and we add some new ones. But it always comes back to the Outer Banks."
Outer Banks is streaming now on Netflix.
