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‘Ferry 1’ Movie Recap: Everything To Know Before Watching The Sequel

Netflix’s 2021 film, Ferry, follows the early years of Dutchman Ferry Bouman’s criminal life when he used to work as a driver and hired gun for an Amsterdam-based crime lord, Brink. In short, it tells Ferry’s origin story and serves as a prequel to Netflix’s Undercover series, where we had seen Dutchman Ferry as the head of one of the world’s largest XTC networks, running his operation across Europe. The opening scene of the film established that Ferry grew up around an alcoholic and abusive father, Jack, because of which he left home at an early age and ran away to Amsterdam, where he started working for Brink, learning the nitty-gritty of the drug trade from scratch.

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Mattijs Gets Shot

One ordinary afternoon, two masked men barged into Brink’s House X and pointed guns at everyone present inside the cash depot. While the robbers were filling their bags with cash, Brink, seated on a chair, spotted a gun under the table and tried to pull it out to shoot the robbers. However, before he could do so, Brink’s son, Mattijs, saw his father going for the gun and tried to stop him from putting his life in danger. As soon as Mattijs stood up, one of the masked men pulled the trigger reflexively and shot Mattijs in the chest. The robbers quickly left the place and escaped in a car, while Brink took his son to the hospital.

In the hospital, Brink, who had recognized the robbers’ Southern accent, ordered Ferry to hunt these three men down and give them a brutal death. Following his boss’s orders, Ferry started searching for any clues in the CCTV footage and came across a young man who had been keeping an eye on the cash depot for quite some time. Ferry took the photograph and traveled south to meet his brother-in-law, John Zwart, who knew these Southern campers quite well. Ferry told John about the robbery and showed him the photograph of the man on the CCTV camera, whom John recognized quickly. His name was Jason, John Kant’s son, who had fled to a campsite called Zonnedauw in Belgium a year ago. So, Ferry knew what his next decision was. Before leaving, John Zwart also told Ferry about his sister Claudia’s condition, who had been diagnosed with a tumor in her head and only had a couple of months to live.

Ferry Kills The Robbers But Not The Driver

As soon as Ferry arrived at Zonnedauw campsite, he figured that Jason hadn’t visited his caravan for the past few days. Ferry rented a trailer and started waiting for Jason to come home. In the meantime, he befriended a candy stall owner, Danielle van Marken, who used to look after Jason’s cat. Ferry believed that the caretaker might have Jason’s phone number, and therefore staged a robbery inside Jason’s trailer, forcing Danielle to call Jason and bring him out of his hiding. Jason took the bait and fell into the trap. And as soon as he arrived home, Ferry pointed a gun at him and asked him to drive to Winterswijk Quarry, where Ferry finally killed him. From his pocket, Ferry recovered a cell phone that gave him the name of the second robber, Davy. With John’s help, Ferry located Davy and broke into his house, pointing a gun at him. After a bit of a scuffle, Davy told Ferry that they were hired by none other than Brink’s son, Mattijs, who wanted to pay his debts but was too afraid to ask his own father. Ferry wanted to tell Brink the truth, but as soon as he called him, Brink informed him about Mattijs, which was why Ferry decided to bury the truth as he didn’t want to hurt a grieving father more. 

Before shooting Davy to death, Ferry had asked him about the third and last person involved in the robbery, who turned out to be Danielle’s brother, Lars. Ferry had developed feelings for Danielle, but he didn’t want to hurt the woman who had been so nice to him since he had arrived at the campsite. Ferry confronted Lars in the woods but didn’t shoot him. Lars was just the driver and had nothing to do with Mattijs’ death. Under normal conditions, Ferry wouldn’t have minded shooting Lars, but right now, he had two big reasons not to. First of all, he was his lover’s brother, and secondly, Ferry knew that it was Mattijs who had planned the robbery and therefore deserved what he got. In the end, Ferry asked Lars to disappear from the face of the earth so that Brink or his men would never be able to find him. After sparing Lars’ life, Ferry broke all ties with Danielle in order to protect her and her brother. He knew those harsh words broke Danielle’s heart, but he had no other means to keep her safe. Soon after, Ferry left the campsite and lied to Brink that he had killed all three robbers.

Rico Finds Out About Lars

Things weren’t the same after Ferry came to Amsterdam, leaving Danielle behind. He started drinking to ease his pain, but nothing helped. Even Brink could see that Ferry was grieving more than him and therefore asked him to take a vacation if he wanted to, because his condition was now affecting the business. Rico, who’d started to look after Brink’s business in Ferry and Mattijs’ absence, suspected that something was off, and he soon found the reason why Ferry had been acting so strange for the past two months. Danielle had come to Amsterdam for a friend’s marriage when she bumped into Ferry while he was waiting for Rico to pick him up. Ferry and Danielle were just talking when Rico arrived and found out Danielle’s last name, “van Marken,” which finally rang a bell. Rico quickly informed Brink that Ferry had lied to him about the third robber.

Ferry Kills Brink

Brink brought Ferry to his house and asked him the reason why he lied to his face. At first, Ferry didn’t want to tell him the truth, but when Brink decided to hurt Danielle to get to the bottom of the truth, he told him how his son was the mastermind of the entire robbery. He told Brink that he had failed as a father because his own son was afraid to share his concerns with him, but as usual, Brink didn’t want to believe that his son could have done something like that. He didn’t want to discuss the matter anymore and just asked Ferry to kill Lars or tell him where he was. Ferry refused to give him Lars, which was when Brink sent a man to hurt Danielle while he ordered Rico and his men to kill Ferry. It was at this moment that Dutchman Ferry Bouman lost his mind and showed Brink what he was really capable of. He shot everyone at the house and later followed the man driving to Danielle’s hotel and shot him at the traffic stop. The next morning, Ferry made a surprise visit to Danielle and told her that he wasn’t fond of Amsterdam anymore, implying that he wanted to settle down with her in Zonnedauw.

Ferry Starts A New Business

With the police looking into the brutal killings, I guess Ferry made a safe decision to relocate himself to the campsite to avoid any arrests. He later introduced Danielle to his sister, who was doing much better than before. During the conversation, Ferry told Claudia about the ecstasy pills that Danielle had given to him. He asked Danielle if she had more when she told Ferry that her brother, Lars, made them. Well, you see, it seemed like a blessing in disguise that Ferry didn’t shoot Lars in the woods, because now this very same man was going to cook for him and help him lay the foundation of the XTC empire. In the mid-credits scene, which most likely took place a few months later, Ferry entered an abandoned warehouse, where Lars had been making the pills for him, implying that he’s already in the business.

Ferry Will Try To Save Jez In Sequel Film

The trailer for Ferry 2 suggests that it takes place sometime after the events of Undercover. In 2023, Netflix had released a series based on the titular character, which depicted the rise of Dutchman Ferry Bouman, while Undercover showcased his downfall and how his XTC empire turned to ruin. Now in the sequel film, Ferry’s second cousin, Jezebel Van Kamp, or Jez, paid a visit to him in Spain seeking help. It turned out Jez owed some money to the wrong crowd, and now a crazy guy named Lex Van Dun was looking for her. Ferry wanted to help a member of the Bouman family even though everyone around asked him to stay away. The official synopsis of the film even suggested that Ferry had a hand in the death of Jez’s father, Jurgen, and Ferry, under a guilty conscience, wanted to protect Jez at all costs in order to redeem himself. So the question here is: Will Ferry be able to save Jez? I guess we’ll find out soon enough.

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