Uncharted The Thief End

Plot

The game begins in medias res with treasure hunter brothers Nathan "Nate" Drake (Nolan North) and Samuel "Sam" Drake (Troy Baker) driving toward an island in a storm while fighting off armed thugs in boats before their boat is scuttled. Years before, when Nate (Britain Dalton) is living in the St. Francis orphanage, he's visited by Sam (Chase Austin), who was kicked out for criminal activities. After helping him sneak out, Sam tells Nate he's leaving for a job that will keep him away for a few years, before cheering him up by telling him that he knows where their late mother's effects were sold.

Years later (before the events of the first game), the two are on the trail of infamous pirate Henry Avery, who enacted the largest heist in history in the 1600s, with plunder worth 400 million dollars. Teaming up with wealthy treasure hunter Rafe Adler (Warren Kole), the brothers sneak into a Panama jail where Avery's first mate, Burnes, was hanged. Aided by the corrupt Warden Vargas (Hemky Madera), Nate makes his way into the 300 year-old prison. Vargas pulls out a letter, and discovers that the trio (Nate, Sam, and Rafe) are searching for Henry Avery's treasure, demands a cut, saying "I want in." Nate eventually sneaks into Burnes' tower cell, where he finds a crucifix. Nate lies to Vargas saying there weren't any clues or valuables. Nate meets up with Sam, later with Rafe. The trio finds a safe place to converse, realizing that Saint Dismas was the man on the crucifix, they discover that they are to go to Scotland next. When they are about to leave, Gustavo, who was beaten up by Nate earlier, comes in with his "friends". Eventually Gustavo gets the upper-hand when the guards come in. Vargas then discovers Nate lied, and brings him, Sam and Rafe into his office to talk. Rafe argues that "they're doing most of the work", and after a discussion, Vargas asks for a fourth of the 400 million dollars treasure. Vargas warns Rafe about not crossing him again, but Rafe stabs him to death but not before he can fire his gun, alerting the guards and forcing them to flee. Sam was assumed to have been killed in the attempt, leaving Nate so distraught that he gives up the search while Rafe continues without him at the Saint Dismas Cathedral from Scotland.

Fifteen years later (three years after the third game) Nate has retired from treasure hunting and now works for a salvage company while attempting to enjoy a normal life with his wife Elena (Emily Rose), though he misses the life of adventure. One night, he is visited at the office by a very much alive Sam, who explains that he was saved by 'doctors' and left to rot in jail for the rest of his life for Vargas' death. However, he claims that he was broken out by his cellmate, drug lord Hector Alcázar (Robin Atkin Downes), who, upon learning that Sam doesn't know where the treasure is contrary to previous statements, gave him three months to find it or suffer his wrath. Though reluctant at first, Nate eventually agrees to help Sam while telling Elena that he's taken a salvage job in Malaysia.

After learning of a crucifix similar to the one in Panama being sold at auction at the Rossi Estate in Italy, the two team up with Nate's mentor Victor "Sully" Sullivan (Richard McGonagle) and sneak into the auction to steal it. As, Sullivan said, the crucifix was moved out of storage before it was supposed to be, forcing the trio (Nate, Sam, and Sullivan) to steal the crucifix in front of everyone. Nate gives them the idea of stealing the cross in the dark, but there would be an emergency backup power so that there would only be a small amount of time to steal the cross. Being so close to the cross would be noticed, until a waiter popped up. Sam states that a waiter wouldn't be noticed, which leads to Nate taking down the lights and Sam stealing the cross while wearing a waiter costume. Sullivan leads them into the auction room. Nate and Sam were to go through the cellar until Sam found a waiter disguise. Nate pickpocketed a waiter for his card, which gave them the access to the cellar. On the way Sam knocks out a waiter and Nate goes solo. After shutting down the lights, Nate goes to meet up with Sam with guards patrolling. After coming back into the building he meets Nadine Ross (Laura Bailey). Nadine forces Nate to fight with her, with Nate reluctant. Because Nadine gets the upper-hand, Nate is kicked out of the window and grabs the curtain before falling. There he finds Sam on another building. Sam gives Nate his gun and Nate is forced to fight his way through the guards. Nate makes his way to the top of a roof where there was a cable that he used to swing into the auction room, meeting up with Sam. They fight their way outside where Sullivan had his car ready for a getaway. After they escaped, the note inside contained the birth year and the death year, pointing to Henry Avery's grave, which was in Scotland at the Saint Dismas Cathedral burial grounds, meaning that Rafe was always searching the wrong place, it was the cemetery, not the cathedral itself.

Arriving in Scotland and sneaking past Shoreline goons, Nate and Sam find a series of secret passages under one of the tombs. After making it through some tests, they find a room with a scale: on one side is another cross and on another is a group of copper coins. Seeing through the trick, which was greed, Nate makes Sam take one of the coins instead of the cross, which activates a light map pointing to King's Bay in Madagascar. They're then cornered by Nadine, who Sam tricks into springing the scale's trap, causing the chamber to collapse, allowing the two to escape. During this time, Nate begins to suspect that Avery was recruiting other pirates for something.

Following a clue in the form of an engraving of a volcano on the coin, the three head to a dormant volcano in King's Bay. Inside, they learn that Avery, Thomas Tew, and ten other pirates pooled their treasures together into one massive hoard. The next clue to the hoard's location is in one of twelve towers in King's Bay. Though Shoreline, which somehow got there first, searches them all, another marking on the other side of the coin narrows it to two. While Sam goes to one, Nate and Sully go to the other, which turns out to be the right one. After circumnavigating the various tests, Nate realizes where they're headed.

Before he can tell Sam, he's contacted by Rafe, who reveals that he's been tracking them using the GPS in their phones and tries to get him to give up the chase. Nate refuses and, after disposing of the phone, rescues Sam from Rafe's men. Back at the hotel, Nate and Sam explain to Sully that the clues point to Libertalia, a remote pirate colony of which Avery and the other captains seem to be the Founders. Before they can set out, Nate is confronted by Elena, who found out the truth and isn't happy. Further angered when she meets Sam, whom Nate never mentioned. She leaves, and when Nate refuses to give up the quest to go after her, Sully goes instead.

Now alone, Nate and Sam set out for Libertalia, following more clues on several remote islands that eventually point to the right one. Returning to where the story began, Nate washes up on the shore of the island and, after several fights with Shoreline, finds Sam. Together, they make it to Libertalia, where they find evidence of a civil war between the Founders and the colonists after the Founders kept all the gold for themselves. In the Treasury building, they learn that, to protect the gold, the Founders moved it to a walled enclave called New Devon on the other side of the island. On the way, they're cornered near a cliff by Rafe, who reveals that he was the one who released Sam from jail; Hector Alcázar died six months before in a shootout in Argentina. As Nate reels from the deception, Rafe deems him no longer needed and tries to shoot him. Sam takes the bullet, but Nate is still knocked off the cliff.

Nate is found alive by Elena, who changed her mind and found him with help from Sully. Nate then tells her the truth about himself: when he and Sam tried to steal their mother's belongings from a large estate, they were caught by the old woman who lived there. Upon learning who they were, she revealed that their mother, Cassandra Morgan, was an historian specializing in Francis Drake who worked for her. She agrees to let the brothers go but as they do, she suddenly died of illness, causing Sam and Nate to panic as she had already called the police before learning who they were. The two fled with their mother's journal and honored her theory about Drake's descendants by changing their names. They stuck together from then until Sam's supposed death.

Understanding now that his past was too painful for him to discuss, Elena agrees to help Nate save Sam, as he no longer cares about the treasure. On the way to New Devon, they discuss Rafe and Nadine's motivations: he wants to build his own reputation, while she wants to repair the name of her family and company. Additionally, Nate and Elena begin to come to a true understanding, to repair their relationship for good. Arriving in New Devon, Nate and Elena learn that the founders had started fighting among themselves. In Tew's house they discover the corpses of most of the founders, and learn that Tew and Avery poisoned the others to keep the treasure for themselves. Arriving at Avery's house, they enter its catacombs and after avoiding numerous traps, the couple finally reconcile fully. They subsequently arrive at a ship graveyard, where they save Sam from Shoreline and Sully saves Nate. Though Nate seems to convince Sam to give up, he changes his mind after they're separated.

The three try to follow him, but Elena and Sully are soon unable to continue, forcing Nate to go alone. He eventually arrives at the cavern containing Avery's ship and the treasure, where he sees Rafe force a reluctant Nadine (Who is satisfied with the smaller cache of treasure and wary of Avery's traps) to finish the job. Soon after, a triggered trap causes an explosion on the ship, which Nate runs onto to find the treasure and Sam trapped under a beam. Though Rafe has Nadine disarm Nate, she then turns on him. Pointing out the corpses of Avery and Tew, who killed each other over the treasure, she leaves the three of them behind on the burning ship while she flees. Fed up with the Drakes and wanting the treasure for himself, Rafe engages Nate in a duel using Avery and Tew's swords, which ends with Nate dropping a net full of gold on top of him, crushing him to death. Nate creates another explosion that floods the room, allowing him to free Sam, and they return to their friends and leave in Sully's plane.

Nate and Elena return home while Sam and Sully decide to partner up. Back home, Nate's boss announces that he's selling the company, and Nate is the new owner. Elena explains that Sam gave her what little gold he got from Libertalia and she plans to revive her old show, acknowledging that a life of adventure is the only life for them. Their first job: the one in Malaysia he lied to her about.

Years later, Nate and Elena are living on a tropical beachside with their teenage daughter Cassie (Kaitlyn Dever). When she discovers objects from her parents' adventures, Elena convinces an initially reluctant Nate to start telling Cassie their story.