...But won't forget about the characters left in the Outer Banks
While the show will follow Sarah and John B. to The Bahamas, that does not mean the show will not return to OBX. Pate told The Wrap:"We're gonna follow all those stories for Kaira [Madison Bailey], JJ [Rudy Pankow] and Pope [Jonathan Daviss] and keep developing them for sure. And the mystery element is something we want to expand on and we have several ideas about how that could happen.
"Anybody who wants money is gonna look at that like, 'Uh huh, these two kids are kind of sweet but a little bit of extra cash sounds a little bit better than having two kids on my boat.' "The reality of the stakes [are] staying alive and staying innocent until John B. finds a way to prove himself innocent in this entire thing... he's got to remain anonymous until he gets some sort of resolution."