The siblings flee into the forest at dawn. Using Jonas's old compass and the map, they find the crooked oak. Inside a hollow, they uncover a glass jar containing a 1945 Soviet deportation list—but Jonas's name is scratched out, and another name is written in blood: Kazlauskas.
A chase ends at the Iron Wolf's Cave. Matas uploads the photographs to a secure server, with instructions to release them to five major news outlets if he does not check in every hour. Austėja confronts the oligarch's right-hand man: "My grandfather didn't leave us a fortune. He left us a weapon. And we are not afraid to use it."
Matas: "So what now?" Austėja: "We find the other families. Season two." palikimas 1 sezonas
The men in the SUV are not developers. They are private collectors working for a shadowy European oligarch whose grandfather was a Nazi collaborator. The oligarch wants the journal—specifically, the location of a hidden train car buried in a tunnel near the Lithuanian-Belarusian border. Inside: not gold, but the personal archives of a murdered Jewish scholar, proving the oligarch's family profited from genocide.
The final scene: The photographs are released. The oligarch is seen boarding a private jet, then arrested at the tarmac by Interpol. Austėja and Matas stand at Jonas's grave, placing a stone on the headstone—a Jewish tradition, learned from the letter. The siblings flee into the forest at dawn
The letter reads: "To the one who finds this: burn it or protect it. There is no middle ground. – E."
The oligarch sends men to retrieve the evidence. Austėja and Matas are trapped in the forest, with night falling. Using Jonas's old partisan signals (three stone piles, a broken branch pointing east), they alert Onutė and a network of local foresters—the descendants of the original resistance. A chase ends at the Iron Wolf's Cave
The map marks three locations: a ruined windmill, a crooked oak, and a place called "The Iron Wolf's Cave." Meanwhile, a sleek black SUV arrives in town. Two men in suits introduce themselves as "real estate developers." They offer to buy the Vilkas property for ten times its value—cash, today.