

He’s proven over and over that he’s disgusted by working class people, despite having grown up in The Cut himself. In the end, Ward’s actions reveal that he never cared about his family as much as he claimed to. Worse, the Pogues realize he has not only the Royal Merchant gold but also the Santo Domingo cross, meaning the Camerons have plenty of money at their disposal to come after them. Sarah and John B leave Ward for dead and then escape to an island with the rest of the Pogues. “Is this how you killed my father?” John B demands as Ward’s head starts to bleed. In the ensuing brawl, John B strikes Ward so that he falls and hits the back of his head on the side of the boat, just as Ward did to Big John. Ward says he can’t let Sarah go because she knows too much, and begins to choke her out before John B interferes. “I finally understand what everyone was trying to tell me,” Ward says. Sarah manages to escape from Ward, but he confronts her on the deck.

Sarah, of course, discovers that’s not the case, and chaos ensues when John B and the rest of Pogues who snuck on board the ship fight back. Unsurprisingly, the first thing Ward does once Sarah discovers he’s alive is lie and claim that John B walked away once he gave him the gold cross. He used scuba gear to swim away and wanted to tell her he was alive, but had to make sure Rafe got away first. “It was the only way to make sure that we were all safe and we were all together,” Ward tells Sarah. It’s not until Rose Cameron kidnaps Sarah and throws her on an international cargo ship that she finds out the truth: Ward is alive, and her family all faked his death. With Shoupe, Sarah, and the rest of the Pogues watching from the dock, Ward blew up the boat, killing himself.Īt least, that’s what appeared to happen. (This frees Rafe - who, let’s remember, pulled a knife on his stepmom and nearly killed his sister several times - from jail.) Then he put on a white suit and went to stand on his boat, The Druthers. He admitted that he killed Big John and Gavin, but also lied and said he killed Peterkin. Ward made a confessional video saying that he’d hated growing up as a Pogue and was willing to do anything to keep the lavish Kook lifestyle. Instead, he found a way to avoid consequences once again. Rafe was captured, and it seemed like Ward would finally get his comeuppance. With the evidence of Rafe’s finger prints on the shell casings and gun that shot Peterkin, SBI raided the Camerons’ home. But when Shoupe revealed that he was actually working with North Carolina’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) to take Ward down, Ward appeared to be out of options. To him, there was no problem money and power couldn’t fix.įor a while, this appeared to be true, with several cops like Deputy Victor Shoupe under Ward’s control. Even when Sarah said she’d testify against Ward, he claimed everything would work out in the end. And when Gavin the pilot threatened to tell authorities the truth, Ward killed him. When Sheriff Peterkin tried to arrest Ward, Rafe shot her and Ward covered it up. He flew the gold to the Bahamas as soon as John B and Sarah found it. As a Kook with deep pockets, Ward Cameron has always been a formidable opponent for John B and the Pogues.
