Joseph Flaxton is supposed to have left a fortune and some of the locals are keen to find it. The boys and Jonathan's mother Lucy are ignorant but a local squire's factotum is intent on finding it for himself and blackmails other rogues to aid him. In this episode he persuades some smugglers, down on their luck, to search for it while they steal the valuable stores of wine and brandy.
—Patrick Rowley-Brooke