Lily and Leo wake up together on Wilder Ranch, making plans to stay and build a future on the land.

Lily opens a letter from Jonathan Cross revealing Wilder Ranch is for sale, but she cannot afford to buy it back.

Leo and his college friends fly from New York to Utah, not knowing Lily will be leading their wilderness tour.

Lily arrives at camp to guide her new guests and is shocked to discover Leo is among them.

Lily and Nicole lead the group out on horseback along Butch Cassidy's Outlaw Trail through the Canyonlands.

Terry steals Duke's journal from camp and holds Nicole at gunpoint, demanding to be taken to the treasure.

Bradley wrestles Terry for the gun on the cliff edge and Terry falls to his death below.

The group agrees to leave Terry's body and continue searching for Duke's hidden treasure the next morning.

Walter breaks his foot on the trail and the group splits — Nicole and Bradley take him back while Lily and Leo push on.

Lily and Leo cross the Green River together; Lily's foot gets trapped in the current and Leo talks her safely across.

Lily and Leo share a sleeping bag after her pack gets wet and end up having sex for the first time in ten years.

Jay and Kevin emerge from the brush, zip-tie Lily and Leo at gunpoint, and steal their decoded clues.

Bradley appears with a gun and reveals he plotted the entire trip, then forces Lily and Leo to lead his group to the treasure.

Nicole arrives at the cave exit with park rangers who apprehend Bradley, Jay, and Kevin and free Lily and Leo.

Lily and Leo use Duke's fifteen million dollars to buy back Wilder Ranch and begin a new life there together.

Something Wilder follows Lily Wilder, who is desperate to buy back her family's ranch but lacks the money, and Leo Grady, her first love who unexpectedly appears on one of her desert tours. Their reunion forces them back into each other's orbit just as their tour group is torn apart by a gunman determined to steal a buried fortune. After the group splinters, Lily and Leo brave the Canyonlands alone, uncovering both the treasure and their feelings for each other. Dangerous co-conspirators close in, putting them in serious physical danger before a timely rescue brings the ordeal to an end. The discovery of Duke's hidden fortune finally allows Lily to reclaim everything she lost and build a new life with Leo back on Wilder Ranch.

The headline events of Lily and Leo's reunion, survival, and second chance.

Duke says goodbye to Lily before leaving on another adventure and leaves behind a cryptic riddle note.

Leo's sister Cora calls him at the airport while Bradley scolds Leo for working instead of relaxing on vacation.

Leo and Walter are frustrated when Bradley brings his uninvited friend Terry along to join their annual vacation.

Nicole picks up Leo's group from the roadside and drives them to base camp for their Canyonlands adventure.

Leo visits the barn to get better boots and tries unsuccessfully to get Lily to talk about their shared past.

The group works on their first trail puzzle and Leo solves it faster than anyone else.

Leo's friends figure out that Lily is Leo's former girlfriend at the campfire and Lily shuts the conversation down.

The group sets up camp at Maze Overlook and works on their next treasure puzzle before Terry disappears with Duke's journal.

The group debates whether Duke's treasure is real and agrees it could be worth around ten million dollars.

Leo eavesdrops on Lily and Nicole discussing how finding the treasure could help Lily reclaim the ranch.

The group drives to the town of Ely and visits Lucky's bar hoping to find clues from Duke's old contacts.

Leo steals a photo of Duke near a tree from the bar bathroom and the group flees while being shot at by the bartender.

Lily and Leo cut themselves free from the zip ties using a knife Lily had hidden in her boot.

Leo realizes the photo from Lucky's bar is a mirror image, meaning they have been searching the wrong tree stump.

Lily, Leo, Nicole, and Walter gather at Wilder Ranch to celebrate with champagne and read Duke's letter explaining the treasure hunt.

Behind the headline drama, a series of smaller moments set the stage for everything that follows in Something Wilder. These events establish who Lily and Leo are before and during their reunion, capturing the group dynamics, clue-hunting detours, and personal exchanges that give the main plot its texture. From the awkward early interactions at base camp to the crucial photograph Leo discovers in a bar bathroom, these beats drive the story forward in ways that are not always obvious until later. The hunt for Duke's treasure takes the group off the main trail and into unexpected encounters, including a car chase through a rural Utah town. By the end, the supporting characters and smaller revelations all pay off in a joyful celebration back on Wilder Ranch.

The supporting beats and quieter moments that shaped the bigger story.

Lily and Leo promise they will be happy together forever while looking out over Wilder Ranch in Wyoming.

Lily is rejected for a bank loan, confirming she has no way to buy land or reclaim the ranch on her own.

Bradley reveals the trip destination is a treasure-hunting adventure in Utah, a place Leo has dreaded returning to.

Lily and Leo talk alone by the campfire and Leo reveals he left messages with Duke that Lily never received.

Bradley tells the group that Terry deliberately planned the whole trip in order to steal Duke's journal and find the treasure.

Lily tells Leo about Duke's stroke, his three years of decline, and his death while they are alone together.

Leo confesses he still has feelings for Lily and they share a passionate kiss together in the rain outside camp.

Before the group splits up, Bradley pulls Leo aside privately to warn him not to let Lily distract him from the mission.

Leo stops Lily on the trail the morning after they sleep together and professes his love for her.

Lily and Leo find alarming messages on Terry's satellite phone revealing he had been working with three outside co-conspirators.

Lily and Leo discover a braille cipher burned into the tree stump outside Duke's cabin pointing them to a new canyon location.

Bradley confesses he deliberately pushed Terry off the cliff and admits he was working with Terry, Jay, and Kevin all along.

Leo deciphers the code in the cave as pointing to Lily's home cabin but lies to Bradley about what it actually means.

Lily and Leo find a hidden wall compartment in Lily's cabin containing a gold coin and a personal note from Duke.

Lily and Leo arrive at a bank in Telluride and learn that Duke left Lily fifteen million dollars.

Something Wilder is built on a series of revelations that shift the story's direction and deepen Lily and Leo's relationship at every turn. Their decade of missed connection unravels through intimate conversations, where they discover that Duke withheld Leo's messages and kept them apart without either knowing it. The treasure hunt escalates from a quirky adventure into a life-threatening situation as the truth about Bradley and Terry's conspiracy emerges piece by piece. Lily and Leo's growing closeness produces key emotional turning points — a rain-soaked kiss, a profession of love, and the quiet courage it takes to trust someone again. Leo's crucial lie inside the cave protects Lily from their captors and ultimately leads them to Duke's real hiding place. The riches Duke left behind not only fund Lily's future but finally allow her to make peace with her father.

The discoveries, confessions, and emotional turning points that changed everything.