Carlacia Grant Pitched This Alternate Outer Banks Ending For Cleo

Spoiler alert: This post discusses events from the Outer Banks series finale.

Cleo had already become a full-fledged Pogue when she joined the Outer Banks crew in Season 2 of the Netflix series, and by the show’s end, she made the big move to Kildare to live out the rest of life with her husband, Pope. It’s a happy ending for the Bahamian pirate, but not exactly the one that actor Carlacia Grant was hoping for. Grant tells Elite Daily that she had asked the writers for Cleo to complete her story in a different location.

“I pitched that [Cleo and Pope] would move to The Bahamas together,” Grant says, pointing to the importance of her character’s home in Nassau. In the show’s final season, Cleo is barred from returning to Kildare due to not having U.S. citizenship, forcing her to return to the Bahamas. But after the Pogues recover the Royal Merchant gold in the finale, Pope is able to marry Cleo and erase her citizenship issues, as the newlyweds settle into life together at Tannyhill mansion in Kildare.

Though Grant didn’t get the Bahamian ending she wanted for Cleo, she still thinks the island is an important second home for herself and Pope. “I think we'd probably split time and go to The Bahamas most of the year,” Grant theorizes. “Dual citizenship!”

The actor has thought a lot about Cleo and Pope’s married life, including starting a family together. “I imagine them having a couple little Pogue-lets,” Grant says.

While Cleo and Pope’s dynamic hasn’t always been the smoothest, Grant likes to think that bickering is their love language, and they wouldn’t let up on each other even as husband and wife. “I think Pope and Cleo will have the kind of marriage where they argue about everything,” Grant says. “I feel like they would be that couple that very awkwardly just starts arguing over everything, but they love each other. And that kind of what works between them.”