Outer Banks finally introduces Sarah Cameron's mom and reveals why she left

Warning: This post contains spoilers from Outer Banks season 5 from this point forward.

For the last time, the Pogues have returned to Netflix with their latest adventure in Outer Banks season 5. When we last left them in season 4 nearly two years ago, the gang was mourning the tragic loss of JJ, who was stabbed by his biological father, Chandler Groff, over the Blue Crown. Now, they're determined to avenge JJ and get the crown back to end the treasure hunt.

But the parental drama was far from over in the final season. From the very start of the show, the identity and backstory of Sarah, Rafe, and Wheezie's mom had been left as one of the biggest question marks, so much so that some fans even wondered whether Rose was actually Wheezie's mom. (She's not.) Well, Outer Banks season 5 finally answered all of our lingering questions.

Oddly enough, the Pogues' hunt for the Blue Crown happens to connect them to Sarah's mother and a piece of the Cameron family's past. While searching for the scytale, which is to be used in conjunction with the crown, Sarah comes face to face with her mother for the first time since she left when Sarah was four years old, and the revelations are completely shocking.

The truth about Sarah's mom Ellie in Outer Banks season 5

Once the Pogues know that they need to find the scytale next, digging into the artifact brings Sarah to the realization that she has seen the item before. When she was a child, she and Rafe were playing in the attic of her mother's castle, which the Cameron family lived in before she and Ward divorced. Sarah held the scytale, but her mother told her that the item wasn't to be played with.

John B and Sarah strike out at her mother's castle, untouched for 16 years and full of Cameron family memorabilia. They next head to New Orleans to the address Sarah found for her mother in old documents. What are the odds that her mother is still in the same location all these years later? Alas, Sarah finds her mom, Ellie Cameron (Natalie Brown), singing at a bar.

Earlier in the season, Sarah had told John B that she believed her mother left their family behind because she wasn't ready to be a mother. Well, that's not the truth, as Ellie explains to Sarah. According to her mother, Ward changed once he moved from The Cut (a former Pogue!) to Figure 8 upon marrying a Kook. He was obsessed with money, treasure, and revenge.

Ellie wanted out of their life and Ward's obsession and threatened to leave with Rafe, Sarah, and Wheezie. Ward countered that she would never take his kids away from him. He drugged a glass of wine, which led her to passing out on the couch. He placed Wheezie, who was a baby at the time, in her arms, and took a photo with wine and cocaine in front of her before calling the police.

After the incident, Ward forced her out of town and made her promise that she wouldn't take anything with her or contact their kids ever again. She admits that she was scared of Ward but also that she regrets the decision that she made to follow through with his demands. The revelations are a lot for Sarah to take in, considering she arrived in New Orleans full of anger for her mother.

But Sarah asks her mother for help with the scytale, which she had sold years ago. Ellie helps save Sarah and John B's lives from Julio's men, who had hunted them down. Sarah parts from her mother with the hope of rebuilding a relationship, and by the ending flash forward to her wedding with John B, Ellie is present, front and center for the occasion with a hug for her daughter before she says "I do."

Unfortunately, because Rafe and Sofia escape the Outer Banks to hide out in South America to avoid Rafe going to jail for killing Sheriff Peterkin, he wasn't able to reconnect with their mother. Wheezie and Ellie both attended John B and Sarah's wedding, though they aren't shown interacting or having a moment together. But in the end, the Cameron family has been, at least in part, reunited.

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