Trey returns home to find her absent father Johnny has unexpectedly reappeared after years of being away.

Johnny gathers Ardnakelty men at his house and proposes planting gold in the river to swindle Rushborough.

Cal forces his way into Johnny's gold scheme by threatening to go to the police if refused.

Rushborough discovers the planted gold in the river, convincing him that Ardnakelty holds real buried treasure.

Trey shows Rushborough her secret photographs of the Ardnakelty men planting gold in the river.

Trey realizes that Johnny and Rushborough are partners who are together running a double con against Ardnakelty.

Trey places a bag of fake gold on the pub table, stopping Cal from exposing Johnny's scheme.

Cal pins Johnny down outside the pub and threatens to shoot him if he has not left by Monday.

Men in cars arrive at the Reddy house at night and threaten to burn the family out of their home.

Trey discovers Rushborough's body lying dead on the mountain road, his head bashed in and chest stabbed.

Detective Nealon interviews Trey, who lies and claims she heard Ardnakelty men outside her house the night of the murder.

Lena tells Noreen she and Cal are engaged, spreading a false rumor to protect Cal from townspeople's suspicion.

Trey retracts her false story to Nealon and tells him she saw Johnny leave the house that night.

Sheila confesses to Trey that she murdered Rushborough to protect Trey from being dragged into Johnny's dangerous schemes.

Trey burns the shed to destroy murder evidence, and Johnny uses the fire as cover to flee Ardnakelty.

Cal Hooper's quiet retirement is shattered when Trey's father Johnny returns to Ardnakelty carrying a dangerous con involving a man named Rushborough and a legend of buried gold. Cal forces himself into the scheme to protect Trey, but Johnny has already made her a pawn in his plan. When Rushborough is found murdered on the mountain, the investigation threatens to destroy Trey's carefully built future in Ardnakelty. Trey lies to the detective to frame the townspeople she holds responsible for her brother Brendan's death, forcing Lena to intervene before Cal takes the blame. Sheila's shocking confession and Trey's decision to burn the evidence reshapes everyone's understanding of loyalty and justice. Johnny flees under suspicion of the murder, leaving Trey free to grieve and finally move forward.

The central mystery and revenge plot of The Hunter.

Trey spends the night at Lena's house, reflecting on Johnny's history of violence toward the family.

Mart Lavin warns Cal that Johnny has a long reputation for swindling the people of Ardnakelty.

Rushborough shows the Ardnakelty men a gold ring he claims his grandmother brought from Ardnakelty.

Sheila warns Trey to stay far away from Rushborough, telling her that he is a dangerous man.

Trey wakes before dawn and secretly photographs the Ardnakelty men as they plant gold in the river.

Rushborough slaps Trey for showing him the photographs and then crushes Banjo's paw with his heel as a threat.

Johnny tells Trey the truth: he invented the grandmother story and owes Rushborough a large debt.

Trey carries injured Banjo to Lena's house, lying that she accidentally stepped on his paw.

Lena visits Mrs. Duggan and learns that no historical legend of buried gold exists in the Ardnakelty mountains.

Nealon reveals to Cal that Rushborough's real name was Terence Blake, a known London criminal.

Townspeople tell Trey to leave Noreen's store over Johnny's actions, but Noreen refuses to allow it.

Mart warns Lena that unless Trey retracts her story, the Ardnakelty men will accuse Cal of Rushborough's murder.

Ardnakelty men take Johnny to an open field and force him to dig as mob punishment for his con.

Johnny promises Trey a postcard from wherever he ends up and takes money from Cal before fleeing down the mountain.

Mart visits Cal and confirms that Nealon has concluded Johnny murdered Rushborough and fled Ardnakelty.

Before the murder throws Ardnakelty into chaos, key moments quietly define each character's motivations and the dangers closing in. Mart warns Cal about Johnny's reputation, Rushborough's gold ring seduces the men's greed, and Sheila's early warning about Rushborough foreshadows her violent intervention. Trey gathers photographic evidence in secret while being threatened and manipulated by both Rushborough and Johnny. After the murder, Nealon uncovers that Rushborough had a criminal past under a false name, while townspeople turn against Trey once Johnny's true intentions are exposed. Mart orchestrates mob justice against Johnny in an open field, but the truth about who really killed Rushborough remains concealed. Johnny's flight from the mountain leaves the investigation closed and Trey's family quietly protected.

The hidden moments and supporting events that shaped the story.

Trey sneaks into the meeting at Johnny's house and listens as he pitches the gold scheme to the men.

Cal persuades Mart to vouch for him so he can invest in Johnny's scheme and keep watch.

Trey secretly offers Johnny her help keeping Rushborough away from the river during the gold planting.

Trey borrows Cal's camera under the pretense of a school project, hiding her real plan for revenge.

Rushborough hands Trey a bag of gold foil and orders her to claim she found it buried in the mountains.

Lena tells Cal she suspects Rushborough is Johnny's partner rather than an outsider being innocently conned.

Johnny returns home from the pub with a broken nose and accuses Trey of revealing his plan to Cal.

Cal warns Trey that her involvement in Johnny's scheme could destroy the reputation she worked hard to build.

Lena visits Sheila at the Reddy house and offers to take her and the children in; Sheila refuses.

Cal decides to stay silent rather than directly challenge Trey about her lies to Nealon, choosing to trust her.

Lena tells Cal that Johnny came to her house the night of the murder and left around eight.

Mart tells the pub men that Ardnakelty should take it upon themselves to punish Johnny if Nealon does not.

Lena warns Cal that the fake engagement rumor has already spread through the entire town of Ardnakelty.

Nealon tells Cal that phone records show Johnny visited Blake's cottage the night of the murder.

Trey looks at the burned mountain and accepts she will never find Brendan's grave, feeling finally at peace.

Behind the headline events, a series of quiet decisions and surprising revelations shaped the outcome of everything in Ardnakelty. Trey concealed her revenge plan from Cal, borrowing his camera and secretly aiding Johnny while gathering evidence for her own purposes. Lena's suspicion that Rushborough and Johnny were working together proved correct, and her willingness to protect Cal by spreading a false engagement rumor showed what real loyalty costs. Cal's choice to trust Trey rather than challenge her lies directly gave her the space to choose loyalty over revenge on her own terms. The revelation of Sheila's precise method for luring and killing Rushborough reframed the entire story as one of fierce maternal protection rather than cold criminal conspiracy. Trey's acceptance of the burned mountain as a symbol of release marked her transformation from a revenge-driven teenager into someone capable of choosing her own future.