Episode 67 -
It's Griffin Rock's Founder's Day celebration, the anniversary of the day Horace Burns founded the town.
Dani's real name is revealed to be "Danielle"
Dani's been chosen to light Founder's Day torch for having organized Griffin Rock's successful clothing drive for the mainland.
Huxley stops the torch-lighting with some breaking news. He claims that Horace Burns's wife, Bertha, was Bertha the Pirate, who in 1652 stole a fortune from Ye Olde Griffin Rock Guild Hall charity fund.
Dani states that Horace's wife Bertha was her great great great grandmother, meaning their son was Zachary Burns's father, his son was Zachary, and his son was the father of Charlie and Woodrow. From Horace to Charlie's children, there have been six generations of Burnses on the island.
Huxley produces a portrait of Bertha the Pirate, who bears a striking enough resemblance to Dani.
Mayor Luskey is so angry over the accidental fire and his hair getting doused off in the aftermath that he can't think rationally and refuses to listen to reason, and suspends the Burnses in his blind fury. He storms off with Mr. Alper, Mr. Harrison, and Milo to form a "Citizen's Safety Board"
Neither Boulder nor Cody understand how someone could be blamed for the actions of another from long ago. Cody's teacher Mrs. Murphy (obviously a different teacher from Mr. Schulte) still yells at him for all the trouble Kade caused in school years ago.
Chase has looked into the Burns' history and has found no piratical record.
Through some "persuading", Huxley confesses that he learned about the Burns' being descended from Bertha via Woodrow Burns, who's currently at the library.
Wait, WOODROW'S BACK! MARK HAMILL!!!!
Woodrow didn't come to the family with the news first because he wanted to surprise them with the map to Bertha's lost treasure.
However, the map doesn't specify exactly where the islands its depicts are located. Boulder scans the map and Graham has him invert the image, revealing that the islands aren't islands, but bodies of water, and that the shoreline resembles the cove by the sea caves near the Griffin Keys.
Cody and Dani are willing to go looking for the treasure with Woodrow, but Dani's reasons are her wanting to get to the bottom of this whole thing and clear the Burns family name (and her face). Naturally, Blades is on board too.
Meanwhile, the traffic lights start acting up, so Luskey's new Citizen's Safety Board attempts to help by having Mr. Harrison direct traffic. He does well at first, until a bee lands on his nose and his swatting it away messes up his hand signals, causing several vehicle collisions.
At the cave, Blades is too big to fit inside, so he stay behind, much to his secret delight.
The three spelunkers search the cave for a long time and wind up falling down a rivered tunnel. The walls are too thick to contact Blades, but they hope he's gone for help by now. In actually, Blades is cheerfully building a sand firehouse on the beach outside the cave.
One of the walls in the cave bears a skull and crossbones. Or cross
bone since there's only one.
In the direction of where the missing second bone would point if it weren't missing, Dani's found a lever, which opens the wall to reveal... a chest!
The chest is brought back to the firehouse, and is opened to reveal... nothing, much to Woodrow's disappointment.
However, there is something written on the inside of the chest: "Only the last key will unlock the hidden treasure."
They deduce that it refers to the farthest island of the Griffin Keys.
Chase will stay behind to watch over the command center while everyone else goes out to find some answers.
Kade inadvertently angers a nest of digger wasps, to which Kade is allergic.
Heatwave forces Kade into a nearby pond to ward off the wasps.
Things are getting worse in the town as the Citizen's Safety Board proves more and more inept. The mayor regrets having suspended the Burnses, but he feels compelled to not give up and that he can't just go back on his decision.
X-shaped palm trees mark the spot!
Boulder digs till he hits something, which is... a rotted piece of wood.
Dani encourages boulder to keep digging. The rotted wood is revealed to be a mast of a ship!
Bertha had buried her entire ship!
Inside the captain's quarters is a desk on which a large chest of gold coins and Bertha's log book are set upon.
Bertha's long reads "I, Bertha Carnahan, hereby end my pirate career with my richest booty yet, the Guild Hall charity fund. I wish to start afresh in life as Mrs. Horace Burns, but I cannot return the treasure without revealing my identity. While I would gladly accept my own punishment, I cannot bring shame upon Horace and his family. Thus, I bury this treasure here hoping that, one day, my descendants may find it and do what is honorable. What I do, I do for love."
At "Founder's Day Part 2", Milo protests the Mayor in attempt to "Bring back the Burnses!"
The Burnses present the treasure to the townspeople. It'll be used to pay for any damage caused during the Burns' absence, and the rest will go to charity as originally intended. And Bertha's pirate ship will go to the museum (much to Blades' disappointment).
Dani convinces the mayor that, even though Bertha gave up being a pirate before she married Horace, people should be judged for what they do, not for what others do or have done. Thus, the mayor reinstates the rescue team.
Mr. Alper let's Chief know about the emergencies that still need taken care of.
Cody wants Dani to repeat what she said to the mayor to Mrs. Murphy at Cody's school.
The log book doesn't mention how Bertha and Horace met or how they fell in love, which gets Woodrow excited about finding out more to the story.
This one was surprisingly well done. Woodrow was a nice surprise that wasn't announced before the episode's airing, and as always, he's a fun addition. And Dani got to be the center of attention this time, in which she demonstrated a competent degree of leadership skills and a string willingness to uncover the truth about her family's history. And the end result of the episode was a good lesson about judging people based on who they are instead of who they're related to. And on top of it all, we were presented with a good old fashioned treasure hunt, and who doesn't like one of those? But what's more is how it wasn't an ordinary "follow the map" type of hunt, but one laid out with cleverness and intrigue based on just how cunning a pirate Bertha was by leaving clues and riddles that had to be solved in order to find the treasure. That woman must have been a genius with the lengths we saw her having gone to. I think the only downside of this episode was how bad it made both the mayor and Huxley look in this one, when we've seen before how the two of them are typically good people not prone to such slandering others. But at least the two of them learned the truth in the end and were made better for it.
