Missing Nicolas Cage’s “National Treasure” films? Don’t worry, Disney+ has a new series to scratch that itch in National Treasure: Edge of History! The series premiere, “I’m A Ghost,” follows Jess Valenzuela as she uncovers a clue to a long lost treasure that some will do anything to find! Let’s dive in!
It Runs in the Family | Our story begins in 2001, as a man tells a tape recorder about a legend of an Aztec treasure that was hidden by a group of Mayan women who hid clues for the treasure’s location in three cubes hidden around the world. In Mexico City, a man named Rafael (Alejandro Edda) breaks into a church and finds one of these cubes, but is immediately jumped by armed men who tell him that he betrayed Salazar. Rafael escapes and goes home to his wife and newborn daughter and gives them a piece of parchment that has someone’s name on it. As Rafael stalls the men when they break into their home to kill him, his wife and daughter escape as the men burn their home down with Rafael inside.
21 years later, Jess Valenzuela (Lisette Olivera) and her friends Tasha (Zuri Reed), Oren (Antonio Cipriano) and Ethan (Jordan Rodrigues) appear to be locked up in prison, but are actually in an escape room in Baton Rouge that no one has ever beaten. Jess, however, manages to crack a hidden clue to the keypad that unlocks the door and they escape, but are disqualified after Ethan uses his cell phone against the rules. While that’s going on, a woman named Billie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) purchases a mansion and smashes the walls looking for something that she doesn’t find, which gets her in trouble with an unseen caller.
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Meet Mr. Sadusky | At her job at a storage unit, Jess is tasked with tracking down the mysterious owner of a storage unit that has Freemason symbols all over it. After finding a military burial flag in the unit, Jess does a search on Freemasons with a recently deceased relative and finds an obituary for Jack Sadusky- son of Peter Sadusky (Harvey Keitel).
Jess tracks Peter down and he spots her father’s necklace around her neck and starts going on and on about the treasure and that the necklace is a symbol of treasure protectors and he gives her a letter for his grandson, Liam, which Jess doesn’t take, assuming that he’s insane. But before Jess leaves, Peter covertly slips her the letter. The next day, Jess goes to work to find FBI agent searching Peter’s unit- since he died in his sleep last night.
The Treasure is Time | Jess spots a detail on the FBI agent’s badges that proves the badges are fake and lies her way out of trouble and later opens the letter to find a picture of the Sadusky family an an apology from Peter to Liam. She and Tasha track down Liam (Jake Austin Walker) at a bar and try to give him the letter, but he refuses to take it as soon as he hears that it is from his grandfather. Jess is about to throw out Peter’s stuff, when she sees a Freemason gavel in his box that was also in the photo.
Jess and Tasha track down the Freemason temple where the photo was taken and Jess uses the gavel to unlock a clue that points to a hidden compartment that holds another cube like the one Rafael took. Jess shows it to Ethan, but he won’t bite, telling her that she could get deported by going on this crazy treasure hunt. Jess then gets a call from Billie who demands the cube and tells her that she has Oren with her and will kill him if Jess doesn’t hand it over.
National Treasure: Edge of History is now streaming on Disney+.
