‘National Treasure: Edge of History’ Episode 7 Recap – “Point of No Return”

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Alison Helms
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National Treasure Edge of History Episode 7
Jordan Rodrigues and Lisette Olivera in ‘National Treasure: Edge of History’ Episode 7′ (Photo Credit: Disney+)

Disney+’s National Treasure: Edge of History episode seven is filled with one shocking twist after another, beginning with a fake tape implicating Jess in Sadusky’s murder. Agent Ross (Lyndon Smith) and her boss, Agent Hendricks (Armando Riesco), seem to believe the recording is real, and Hendricks instructs Ross to get a warrant for Jess’s arrest.

Episode six found Jess (Lisette Olivera) convinced she needed to travel to Mexico to talk to Salazar about the third relic. Tasha (Zuri Reed) and Oren (Antonio Cipriano) were equally convinced she’d never be able to return to the States if she left the country. That conversation continues in episode seven, and Tasha and Oren decide that if they can’t talk her out of it, they’ll go with her.

Jess thinks that she and Salazar can work together since neither wants Billie to find the treasure.

They pull up to Jess and Tasha’s place and see the FBI there taking their belongings. Tasha looks up warrants and discovers Jess is wanted for the murder of Sadusky. With the change in circumstances, Jess needs to talk to Ethan (Jordan Rodrigues).

While they talk, Oren goes through his boxes of shoes that he’s labeled for different occasions – like “in case of a hurricane.” He dumps out the one for when Jess needs to go to Mexico and along with old shoes is a lot of cash.

Ethan fills Jess in on what really happened to Liam in episode four. (Remember, he spoke with Liam in the hospital and got the full story.) Ethan believes Billie also framed Jess for Sadusky’s murder and points out that even the FBI fell for Billie’s lies.

And speaking of Billie (Catherine Zeta-Jones), she’s busy at the San Antonio courthouse befriending a reenactment worker from the Alamo. Billie’s new friend appears to be a history buff and informs her of the original Alamo in Mexico.

Back to the Scooby gang… Jess tells Ethan she’s going to Mexico and, surprisingly, he doesn’t try to convince her not to do it. He vows to clear her name and promises he’ll fill Liam in on everything. When Jess tells him she’ll see him soon, he makes her pinky swear.

A short while later, Ethan meets with Agent Ross to clear Jess’s name. When she plays him the recording, he immediately realizes it’s fake because of the way the impostor is speaking. it turns out Jess isn’t just good at solving puzzles; she also received a perfect score on her English ACT on her first try. He points out that the person speaking is using British wording. Billie Pearce is British.

Ross blows off Ethan’s claims but then is handed a report on Billie. Ross learns she was with Jess at the USS Kidd Museum and was recently arrested at the Alamo. (Take that, Agent Ross!)

Agent Ross goes to see Billie in San Antonio and asks about Jess, eventually telling her Jess is a fugitive wanted for murder. Before Billie and Kacey (Breeda Wool) drive off, Billie tosses out a cryptic message, telling Agent Ross, “I do hope your next lead doesn’t take you even further from home.” The way Billie words it confirms to Agent Ross that what Ethan said was true.

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Jake Austin Walker in ‘National Treasure: Edge of History’ Episode 7′ (Photo Credit: Disney+)

Liam (Jake Austin Walker) returns to his grandfather’s house to find his study’s trashed. He also discovers an AirPod of Jess’s on the floor.

Liam goes to Jess’s to look for her but stops short when he spots cops there. His next stop is the bar where he and Jess work. He gets her number (he doesn’t have his phone with his contacts), but she doesn’t answer. His boss informs him that after his stunt at Graceland, the bar is packed full of people wanting to hear him perform. Liam can’t believe it. He also can’t believe his boss is willing to pay him $1,000 to play one song.

As Liam gets done performing, he spots Myles (Dustin Ingram) and has a flashback of Myles pulling him out of the river. Liam confronts Myles outside the bar and accuses him of throwing him in the river. Myles attempts to assure Liam that he didn’t toss him in – he saved his life by pulling him out. Myles delivers the bombshell news that Billie is framing Jess for the murder of Liam’s grandfather.

Liam’s forced to process that not only was his grandfather murdered but Jess is being framed.

Agent Ross and Agent Hendricks discuss the tape and the possibility that Billie created it to frame Jess. Hendricks wonders about Billie’s motive, and Ross believes it involves his least favorite topic: treasure hunting. She’s certain the tape is a fake, but Hendricks isn’t convinced and wants her to find Jess and make the arrest.

Jess and the gang are surprised to see Ethan’s followed them to Mexico. He wants to help and reveals details of the fake audio framing Jess. After Tasha performs her magic, she plays the fake audio for everyone. Jess thinks she can use it to convince Salazar to work with her by exposing Billie as a threat.

Jess is in for the shock of her life when she makes it to the prison to see Salazar. The man she’s visiting claims to be her dad, Rafael (Alejandro Edda). He explains he was arrested for robbing a bank and he was mistaken for Salazar. Jess doesn’t believe him until he begins to sing the same lullaby her mom used to sing.

Now convinced he’s really her dad, she’s forced to break the news that her mom died last year. But things take a turn when he reveals the treasure is more important than anyone’s life – including his or her mother’s.

Jess doesn’t want to hear what her dad has to say, yet he continues talking about the relic and how it was moved. That provides Jess with a clue, but she insists she’s done.

Jess wants to quit looking for treasure, again, because this treasure hunt is ruining her life. Ethan, normally the naysayer, is full of surprises in this episode and tells her she was born to do this.

Jess returns to treasure-hunting mode (thanks to Ethan) and recites what her dad said: “The place where the first Queen of Spain and Saint Jerome met and passed notes.”

The gang puts their heads together to decipher the clue. They figure out there’s a street in Mexico City named Queen Isabella and a street named after Saint Jerome (in Spanish) that intersects with it. The nearest building is the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana, which used to be a convent. Sor Juana was a nun/feminist poet who was believed to be a daughter of the Plumed Serpent.

They head out to find the relic’s hiding place and discover an organ Sor Juana used to play. That could be what the “passed notes” referenced, and Ethan thinks it could be Jess’s mom’s old lullaby. (It’s a song only daughters of the Plumed Serpent knew.)

Ethan’s right and after Tasha plays the song, a secret compartment opens up. Oren tries to stall the nuns from going into the church, but he can’t lie to them. He confesses what his friends are doing, and Jess comes clean and shows the nun the relic. The nun admits she was waiting for someone like Jess to come along.

As the familiar music from the original National Treasure movies plays, Jess and her friends open all three relics and connect the pieces of the map. Of course, there are more codes exposed and Ethan, the bearer of bad news, tells Jess her father probably knows what it all means.

Back in the States, Liam is forced to ask Myles for help in finding Jess. Liam doesn’t trust Myles, but he can’t do this on his own.

Meanwhile, back in the Mexican prison, Rafael’s surprised when he thinks Jess is back to see him but it turns out his visitor is Billie. Jess sees Billie in the prison’s lobby and knows she has to do something or else Billie will have her father killed.

Episode seven comes to a dramatic close with Jess vowing to break her father out of jail!




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