Heartland

It's been four months since Ty's sudden and still unexplained departure, and Amy has moved on and gotten used to working with Caleb Odell, Heartland's new stable hand. After Amy becomes determined to rescue a wounded wild mustang, Caleb helps her to capture the horse. But when she attempts to gentle the mustang, nothing seems to work. With Amys 16th birthday just days away, Lou is busy planning a surprise birthday party for her sister.

Ty has come back to Heartland, but he quickly realizes that profound changes have occurred in his absence; Caleb, the new ranch hand, seems to have taken over both his job and his place in Amy's heart; Lou and Tim are both going head to head with Jack over their plans to turn Heartland into a dude ranch or Equine Retreat. But when Jack refuses to let Lou tear down the old bunkhouses that his grandfather built with his own hands, she surprises everyone by taking a job as a waitress at Maggie's.

When Tim gives Amy a beautiful Grand Prix jumper for her birthday, she's forced to make a difficult choice between a career in show jumping and her work at Heartland. The intense training hours, and Tim's constant pushing, prove to be too much and before long, her school work is suffering. Caleb tries to impress his hero, Tim, by pushing his horse to the limit and tragically injures Shorty in the process.

The spring cattle drive is a much-anticipated event, and Lou makes it her mission to hustle everyone out of the house at the crack of dawn. But she has a hidden agenda - a secret, all day date with Scott. But nothing turns out the way anyone hoped. A torrential rainstorm turns an idyllic day on horseback into a water-logged endurance contest that brings simmering tensions to the surface.

Lou is forced to reconsider her choice to live and work at Heartland when her former New York colleagues arrive for a weekend equine retreat. Desperate to be taken seriously as an equine facilitator and an entrepreneur, Lou has to rely on the uneasy alliance between Jack and Tim to take her clients on an overnight trail ride, only to discover that her citified friends find her grandfather and her father more breathtaking than any mountain vista.

Out for a ride along the river, Amy comes across an RCMP officer desperately trying to save a young boy from drowning. While Constable Mark Rodriguez struggles to pull the boy to safety, Amy tends to Venture, the officers panicked police horse on the shoreline. Soon after, Rodriguez shows up at Heartland with Venture, who has suddenly developed a fear of water. It soon becomes obvious that Ventures not the only one with demons to slay.

With the annual Hudson Heritage Rodeo looming, everyone at Heartland gets roped into the action and intrigue of broncs, bulls, beer, beauty queens and belt buckles. Even Jack and Tim are forced to work together when, much to Jack's chagrin, Tim elbows his way onto the planning committee. Meanwhile, Lou is grooming Soraya to represent the Heartland Equestrian Connection brand in the Queen of The Rodeo competition, obsessively micro-managing every detail of her wardrobe and presentation.

In the middle of heat wave, a cattle truck loaded with sick and overheated horses pulls into Heartland. Ty can hardly believe his eyes when the driver turns out to be his dad, Brad Borden. Everyone works late into the night to save the horses. But their efforts may be all for naught when Lou finds out the horses have been sold to a slaughterhouse.

As Amy returns a runaway steer to the neighbouring ranch, Ty joins her and asks her to give their relationship another chance. But their discussion is cut short when they are nearly thrown off their horses by a helicopter screaming overhead. Suspecting that the helicopter belongs to cattle rustlers that have been active in the area, Tim takes matters into his own hands and recruits Caleb and Ty to keep an eye on his cattle.

While Tim is recuperating from his injuries at Heartland, Callie Philips makes a surprise visit. Amy is already having a hard time dealing with the near loss of her dad, and Callies presence isn't making it any easier. Everybody at Heartland is asking the same question: is Callie Tim's girlfriend?

Lou has just booked a famous guest into the Dude Ranch, but shes sworn to secrecy. If word got out that Hollywood starlet Mindy Fanshaw was staying at Heartland, the ranch would be swarmed by paparazzi. Mindys up for a lead role in a film that could propel her from a teen B-movie star to an A list celebrity, but she needs to learn how to ride a horse, and fast.

Lou has her hands full when Mackenzie Hutton, one of the corporate cowgirls, decides to have her wedding at Heartland. Bad timing, considering Lisa has just arrived with a cursed horse for Amy to treat. The beautiful Andalusian named Diva Girl, has been returned to Lisa by multiple owners claiming the horse caused their divorce. While Amy is busy treating her new client, Lisa turns her attention to Lou, determined to help her plan the wedding.

When Lou realizes that her latest guests at the Dude Ranch are oil speculators conducting seismic tests, she kicks them off Heartland. But she doesnt stop there. Lou organizes a town hall meeting to protest Bedford Oil. Tim tries to warn her against fighting big oil in Alberta, but Lou is determined.

Hoping that Heartland will have a therapeutic effect on two tough kids on probation, Clint Riley books into the dude ranch for a weekend of teambuilding and discipline. Tara and Badger are two of Clint's toughest cases. And since Ty seemed to turn his life around at Heartland, why not these kids? But things get off to a rocky start when Clint has a mysterious allergic reaction and is rushed off to the hospital leaving a reluctant Lou in charge.

Learning that Mrs. Bell and Sugarfoot are in danger of being evicted, Lou accidentally re-ignites an age-old grudge between Jack and Tim when she decides to raise money for Mrs. Bell by resurrecting the Hudson Derby, a no-holds barred endurance horse race. Amy soon finds herself secretly helping Tim train for the race, and has to turn down Caleb when he asks her to go back to team roping so he can get enough points for his Pro-Rodeo card.

When Amy discovers that her horse, Spartan, has been stolen, she sets out on a mission to find him. Just when it looks like all hope is lost, Ty spots him at a horse auction, but before he can do anything the auctioneers gavel comes down and Spartan is sold to the highest bidder. Without a bill of sale Amy can't prove Spartans her horse and is devastated when his new owner turns out to be Wes, a sworn enemy of the Bartletts.

In the aftermath of Spartans kidnapping, Amy believes her bond with her beloved horse has been destroyed. After trying everything she knows to rebuild the trust, she turns to her Mom's horse journals hoping to find the answer. In the process, she discovers an old photograph of her Mom and a world-famous First Nations horse whisperer named Victor Whitetail.

When Amy hears that a herd of wild horses is starving in the mountains near Jack's fishing cabin, she's determined to help them. Despite Jack's warnings about the treacherous winter roads, she and Ty plot to deliver hay to the starving horses, and spend some much needed alone time together. Lou is a planning a road trip of her own with Peter. She's looking forward to a romantic weekend, but Peter calls the whole thing off after realizing Lou still hasn't told her family about their relationship.