Pope Heyward

* Season 3
* Season 2
* Season 1

**Pope Heyward** is one of the main characters in *Outer Banks*. He is portrayed by Jonathan Daviss.

He is the smartest of the Pogues and has a scholarship on the line — his ticket to a life outside of the Outer Banks. John B describes Pope as 'the brains on the operation'. Although Pope is always up for an adventure with his friends, he is also the cautionary voice in the group. He is constantly thinking of possible consequences to their actions and warns the group when he feels that they are about to do something stupid. His warnings, however, often fall on deaf ears.

## History

### Biography

Pope lives on the poorer side of town known as The Cut. His father owns and runs Heywards, a seafood store, which provides seafood for the entire island. Pope's father, Heyward is a legendary character in Outer Banks who can provide anything for anyone on the island. Pope is described by John B as a bit of a weirdo at times or an oddball but also the smartest person he knows. Pope is under a lot of pressure from his father to excel in academics, his dream is to study medicine.

## Throughout the Series

### Season 1

Pope gets into shenanigans with The Pogues throughout Season 1. He helps his friends on their quest to find the gold from The Royal Merchant ship wreck. They successfully find the gold, but get into a lot of trouble along the way.

Secretly, Pope crushes on Kiara the whole season and he makes a move at the end of Season 1. She pushes him away at first but eventually kisses him back. Pope was in the running for a merit scholarship for college but he left his interview halfway through to help the Pogues get the gold, messing up his chances to get a scholarship.

### Season 2

In Season 2, Pope finds out that John B is actually not dead and he's thrilled. He, Kie, and JJ go on a mission to clear John B's name. During season 2 Pope finds out he is related to Denmark Tanny, the slave that escaped as thr Royal Merchant sank and brought the gold to shore. After finding that out, he decides to be adamant in getting the cross of Santo Domingo and the Royal Merchant gold.

### Season 3

Pope and the Pogues are getting by on the deserted island. They see a plane and flag down the pilot- thinking they are going to be rescued.

The group agree that he is their only chance of getting off the island so they just go along with what he says. They get on the plane. JJ asks Jimmy why he was flying in this area and he tells them it’s to fish for Wahoo. The group realize Wahoo aren’t in season and so he must be lying. They see a photo of the boat they used before in Jimmy’s bag and this confirms their fears. They fight with Jimmy and the plane crashes in the water. John B, Sarah, JJ, Pope, and Cleo swim away.

Pope and The Pogues are desperate to find Kiara, who was separated from them after the crash. They try to find her but Carlos and his men find them first -determined to kidnap them still. The Pogues run away.

Pope goes back to the Outer Banks. He introduces Cleo to his parents.

The Pogues try to steal the cross from Ward but Rafe gets it first and melts it.

Later, the Pogues try to find their way to South America to rescue Big John. They get on Ward’s plane to fly down to Venezuela. They find Big John and eventually the treasure. They're thrilled.

In a flash forward 18 months later, Pope is about to go to school. An old man approaches the Pogues complimenting their discovery of El Dorado. He has a proposition for them- help him find Blackbeard’s treasure.

## Personality

Pope is the most responsible out of the group and always wants to do the safe and legal thing. He is more quiet and calm than the others. He wants to stay out of trouble because he wants to get a scholarship for a college. This doesn't work out very well because the group constantly breaks all kinds of rules and gets into trouble a lot.

Pope is caring and protective. Sometimes he doesn't know what he wants. Although he is usually the one that tries to calm down his friends when they get into fights, he can get angry and aggressive, especially when it's about his friends.

## Relationships

### **Cleo**

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Cleo and Pope met on Coastal Adventure in the second season. At first, she pointed the knife at him and they had a fight until Pope mentions John B and Sarah, who Cleo already knew from when they were in Barbados. Pope brings Cleo to John B and Sarah and she decides to help them get the Cross. Cleo helped Pope and they jumped on the water to get on the ship with John B and Sarah. She gets stranded on the island with them and becomes an official Pogue.

In the third season, Pope and Cleo become close friends. He talks to her about the scolarship and they even light up a fire to get the attention of the plane that rescues them. During their trip to the OBX, they create the "No-Love Club" after Cleo cheers Pope up because of Kiara. When they arrive to Kildare, Pope asks his parents to let Cleo move in with them because she helped them and she doesn't have a place to stay. Pope's parents agree and Cleo develops a great relationship with them. When Pope walks Cleo into her room she tells him that she never had her own room and he tells her that now she does. When he leaves, she lies on the bed and says "Thank you, Pope" with a smile on her face. During the season, Cleo is the person that is there for Pope the most. They lie to a police officer and pretend to be a couple who wants to run away to get married so they can steal the cross from the train. When he thinks of shooting Rafe because he melted the Cross, Cleo is the one that puts talks to him and stops him. He has a breakdown and cries in her arms. They later walk home together and Cleo looks at him smiling while she goes into her room. Pope also smiles when he turns back. Cleo is the one that convinces Pope's parents to let them go to South America. In the final episode of the third season, Cleo tells him that all her life the only thing she ever thought about was surviving but during those months with him, she felt her life could be different. She says that she wants to quit the No-Love Club and kisses him on the cheek. He smiles at her and they share a kiss. In the last scene, they are seen holding hands and smiling at each other. Cleo and Pope are happily dating.

### Kiara

*Main page:* Kiara and Pope

Pope's feelings for Kiara are evident from fairly early on the first season. He watches on with jealousy as John B and Kiara dance together in The Wreck and is angry at Kiara when she focuses mainly on John B and the trouble he is in. He comforts Kiara when she gets upset over John B's relationship with Sarah. He drunkenly admits that he is in love with her on the night that John B is deemed a person of interest in the murder of Sheriff Peterkin. However, Kiara rejects him and tells him that it can never happen and that they want different things. Pope is angry and the next morning he is cold and distant. Later that day, when Kiara, JJ, and Pope helps John B escape, Pope tells her that he's fine just staying friends, but Kiara kisses him, and when John B and Sarah are deemed missing persons after getting lost at sea, Pope holds Kiara's hand for comfort and they embrace and hold on to one another, devastated. In The Gold, Kiara asks Pope if he wants to hook up, but he rejects her because she is high. In Homecoming, they hook up. In My Druthers, Kiara breaks up with Pope because she never saw him as nothing more than a friend.

### JJ

*Main Page:* JJ and Pope

JJ and Pope are probably the closest duo of the group. When Rafe and Topper beat Pope up when he was delivering groceries on Figure Eight, JJ, helps him with his revenge. When Pope gets caught by the police, JJ takes the fault even if it meant getting beat up by his abusive father, and when he was in jail he smiled because he knew taking the fault for Pope was worth it because it was a close friend of his, even when he knew what was going to happen to him later.

An episode after, Pope was worried about JJ and asked for him, but a few minutes later he sees JJ and hugs him very tightly, then JJ, jokingly and platonically, kisses him on the cheek and said "I love you too man". Pope sees bruises and cuts on JJ's face and asked him if Shoupe did it, to which JJ responded that it was his dad. Pope told him that it was his fault (Pope to JJ that it was Pope's fault) and that he was going to say to the police that he had all the fault, JJ was telling him to shut up, but then he grabs Pope's face and said to him "for once in your life trust someone else".

JJ has also stepped between a gun and Pope to protect him, while Pope put his hands on JJ's shoulders to keep him in line. Pope is often seen calming JJ down as well as stopping him from doing stupid things. They are seen hanging out with each other outside the story's plotline. JJ helps Pope through all his struggles and always has his back whenever times are hard.

When JJ revealed the bruises on his abdomen that were given to him by his father, Pope was initially shocked and sad for JJ, but there for him nonetheless.

### John B

Pope and John B are best friends. They remain close throughout the first season, except when Kiara and John B get closer. Pope has a crush on Kiara so he lashes out in one episode saying "Why is it always about John B?". In the end, he cares about him and grieves him when he thinks he is dead. In the beginning of Season 2, Pope and the other pogues do everything they can to try and clear John B's name.

### Sarah Cameron

Pope and Sarah are friends and they care about each other. When Sarah first joined the Pogues, Pope and JJ both welcomed her into the group with open arms while Kiara didn't due to her history with Sarah. Pope along with JJ and John B, lured Kiara and Sarah onto Heyward's boat and then stranded them, and by doing so made them make up and become friends again, which works. Pope and Sarah, along with the other Pogues, searched for the gold together and in season 2, The Cross of Santo Domingo. After John B was framed for the murder of Sheriff Peterkin, he, JJ and Kiara helped Sarah and John B to escape on *The Phantom,* and later on when they were presumed dead at sea, he grieved them both.

## Physical Appearance

Pope is a handsome teen boy who is usually seen wearing button up t-shirts, shorts and a cap. He is African-American. He is of above average height and has a lean yet athletic build.

## Appearances

* *The Lucky Compass*
* *The Forbidden Zone*
* *Spy Games*
* *Midsummers*
* *Parcel 9*
* *Dead Calm*
* *The Runway*
* *The Bell Tower*
* *The Phantom*
* *The Heist*
* *Prayers*
* *Homecoming*
* *The Darkest Hour*
* *My Druthers*
* *The Bonfire*
* *The Cross*
* *Trapped*
* *The Coastal Venture*
* *The Bells*
* *Fathers and Sons*
* *The Diary*
* *Heists*
* *The Dark Forest*
* *Happy Anniversary*
* *Tapping the Rudder*
* *Welcome to Kitty Hawk*
* *Secret of the Gnomon*

## Quotes

> **John B (Describing Pope):** "And that's Pope, the brains of the operation... finalist for the Lucas T. Vanderhorst Merit Scholarship. And the smartest person I know. Little bit of a weirdo. His father's this legendary character, Heyward. Anything you wanted on the island, Heyward could get for you. Now, I'm not sure Heyward knew what to make of his oddball son, but it didn't matter. He was a Pogue, just like the rest of us."
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> **Pope:** "Yeah, you have a death compass."
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> **Pope:** "I'm gonna loose my merit scholarship"
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> **Pope:** "Well If you come up too fast, nitrogen gets into your blood, and you get the bends."
>  **JJ:** "Bends like, bend over?"
>  **Pope:** "The bends kill you."
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> **Pope & JJ (In unison):** "Woogity woogity woogity!"
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## Trivia

* He was on the math team
* He was a finalist for the Lucas T. Vanderhorst Merit Scholarship before he lost it after walking out during the interview.
* He wants to go to college and study forensic pathology and become a coroner.

## References

1. ↑ Midsummers, 1x05
2. ↑ Dead Calm, 1x07
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pilot, 1x01
4. ↑ The Bell Tower, 1x09