- Previously o When Hope Calls.
- Sam Tremblay at your service. - Can you swing a hammer?
With one hand? - This? It still works.
(hammering) ♪
- Ask him to, you know, clean up.
- Wondering if you had any work for a couple of handymen.
- I'm sure Sam could use a hand. - Sam?
- I hear Tess is looking for a new foreman.
- Yes, she is. - So tell me what happened.
- I walked into a door. - What really happened?
♪ - Uh, Sam?
- He landed on our doorstep at the perfect moment.
- So you don't know anything about him.
♪ (shrill whistling)
- Just make it tight.
You go like this.
(shrill whistle)
(blowing into grass without success)
- I think my grass is broken.
- It happens.
Why don't you go find another piece.
- Great job on the girls' ceiling.
- Thank you. - I have a few more projects
if you don't mind sticking around a little longer.
- Oh, a list.
I'm not so good with lists.
- Oh!
- But hold on to it.
I'm gonna go out for a few days, work on the claim.
- OK. You'll be back?
- Unless I strike it rich.
- Haha!
♪
(door closing)
(cows mooing)
(geese honking)
(sighing)
(dog barking) (horse neighing)
- Ugh! Ah! ♪
- Kids, let's go!
Eleanor, are you alright with Fred and Mary Louise?
- Oh, we'll be fine. - Are you taking the wagon?
- Much better flowers by foot. - Have fun.
I'm gonna start the ironing. - Nope, nope, nope!
You don't have to.
- It's ironing day. - Take a look!
- (Lillian): When did you do that?
- This morning, when you were upstairs with the children.
- Thank you.
Uh, I guess I'll come with you
on your field trip then. - Nope. No, no.
You are gonna relax. You can go read a book
or get a coffee at Pearl's. ♪
- Thank you. Haha!
- Go.
Off you go!
- I've reinforced the door,
put double locks on it. Nothing lasts longer than a day.
- Constable, I think we've got your next case for you.
- What's that? - Well,
somebody's been stealing from Ken's smokehouse.
- That's right. And it's not the first time.
Last night, they stole some bacon I had in there.
And an entire fish. - Really?
- Yup. I give you a description, I've seen him before.
- Yeah. Please, let's have it. - Beady yellow eyes,
pointy ears,
and I saw him wearing a black mask across his face.
I don't suppose you have any handcuff about yea big?
- You know, Ken, we Mounties
don't have jurisdiction over raccoons
just yet.
But as soon as I'm allowed to arrest wildlife,
I'll make sure to come see you.
- Appreciate it.
(indistinct chatter)
- Hey, Lillian. - Hey!
- Grace come with you to town? - No. She's with the kids.
She wanted to give me the morning off.
- Oh, that's nice of her. I need a sister like that. I have
four different appointments at different ranches across
the valley today. - Yikes!
What's going on?
- Oh! Hello, I'm Constable-- - Nathan Grant.
- Gabe! - It's good to see you.
- Likewise. Sorry for jumping the gun on this, I just didn't
see you in there. This fella
blew the rail line in Kennisis County. Tried robbing the train.
- Spotted back in Hope Valley? - That's right.
Been on his trail for about a week now.
I lost him three days ago up around these parts.
♪
Does he look familiar?
- Lillian?
- Sort of looks like Sam.
(theme music)
♪
- Mounted Police!
He's not in there.
- Not in the orphanage either. - I didn't say for certain
it was Sam; I said the poster kind of looked like him.
- I never saw him with his beard.
- How long he been staying here? - Well, three days.
- I lost him three days ago just south of here.
- Was looking for food and work. - Well, he didn't get any money
from that rain robbery. Did you get a good look at his hands?
- What do you mean? - Apparently, he's missing
the top part of his little finger.
It's on his left hand. - Uhhh...
He was wearing a bandage on that hand.
Sometimes gloves. I don't think I ever saw for sure.
He said he got it scraped up prospecting.
- Let's check out the cottage.
- Yeah. Thanks.
- Lillian! Where's Grace
and the rest of the kids? - They went up towards
Fraser Woods with the older ones. They had a school project.
I'll go get them. - No, no, no, you don't.
You stay here, I'll go, just to be safe.
- (British accent): Nothing's broken. Ice it when you can
and keep it wrapped. - OK. Well, thank you
for taking a look. I just wanted
to make sure it wasn't anything more serious.
- Well, I didn't quite say that.
- You just said my hand was fine.
- Mrs. Stewart, how are you sleeping?
- What does this have to do with my hand?
- I'm concerned that your injured hand
isn't your biggest issue right now.
Everyone needs a good night's sleep.
- I've lost my foreman, my cattle drive
starts in a little over two weeks;
there is no time for sleep. - Then, make time.
A tired mind makes mistakes. - The axe just slipped.
- Has an axe you were swinging ever just
slipped before?
It was your hand this time, but next time could be
much worse.
- Well, I'm interviewing prospective foremen
this afternoon and maybe one of them will be suitable.
That'll lighten my load.
- Good. As your nurse,
I encourage you to be... open-minded.
- As your patient, I will try.
(door opening and closing)
- I let him stay so close to the house.
- There's nothing to worry about. It's probably not him.
- What if it is? What if I let a dangerous man in?
- None of us sensed anything off about him.
- What if we were wrong?
- I'm sure everything will be just fine.
- Didn't exactly settle in, did he?
- Yeah.
Looks like he might have left in a hurry.
Did you say that this fugitive blew up a rail line?
- Yeah. Yeah, that's right, why?
- Did he say anything about where he was going?
- Said he was going prospecting, but I don't know where.
Is that dynamite? - Oh, it was.
It's empty now. Show her the map.
- We found this with his things.
He seems awfully interested in Hodges Pass.
- Is that far from here? - Not if we ride hard.
- I'll keep the children inside.
- I think that would be best.
- Is it pretty?
- Oh! It is beautiful!
- (man): Grace!
- (girl): Who's that?
- I don't know.
- Uh, why don't you wait here.
I'll go see what Mr. Stewart wants.
What's going on?
- The Mounties think there's a fugitive in the area.
- What?!
- He held up a train just south of Hope Valley.
The constable from that area tracked him this way.
- Nathan Grant is here?
- Who's he?
- He's just a Mountie that I met in Hope Valley.
- Why is there another Mountie here?
- He just had some business with Constable Kinslow.
It's no big deal.
- Are you gonna help us pick flowers?
- Uh, what's...
We should... we should head back.
Come on.
(indistinct chatter) (horse neighing)
(mysterious music)
This shouldn't take too long to sort itself out?
- Lillian thought the fugitive looked like Sam.
- How can that be?
- There's some evidence to that effect.
Let's just hope it's a misunderstanding.
- Well, it has to be.
- Have a good day. See you.
- Joe, where would you keep your jimmy bars?
- Uh, uh! Hmm... Excuse me?
- Jimmy bars... Crowbars, I think you call them.
- Oh, uh... I don't have any in stock,
but I could order you one. - It's rather a rush.
- A rush? - Yes.
- For a crowbar? - Yes.
- Is it a medical thing?
- Well, I-I work in a medical office
and I need it for... a thing,
so, uh, so, yes, yes, you could say that.
- Well, you could borrow mine. It's just in the back.
- "Train robbery." Imagine.
- We've got two Mounties running him down.
I'm sure a man like that won't want to be anywhere near
a town like this. - What do you mean?
- We're small enough to notice him
and big enough to scare him off.
- Have you seen this? - Oh!
He's about as well-groomed as my uncle Pete. Hahaha!
The man never did meet a bar of soap he liked.
(men chuckling)
- Oh, excuse me. Mr., Mrs. Clark!
Hahaha! I, uh...
I thought you were staying through the weekend.
- We heard there's a fugitive on the run,
and we thought it best to head back to Union City.
- Oh, well, yes, of course. But if there is a fugitive
out there, the open road would be the absolute worst place
to be. In fact, a couple of well-heeled, respectable folks
like yourselves, you'd be perfect targets, really.
No, if I were you, I'd stay right here at the hotel
'til everything just blows over, huh? Safe as houses.
Here we are.
(door opening) - (Grace): We're home!
Alright, grab some lunch and we can wax
your flowers after.
- Glad you're all home.
- Just a walk in the woods.
- Oh, it's better we're all in the one place.
- Thank you for coming to find us.
- I just had to make sure you all were safe.
- I'm sure we've used up enough of your time.
- Well, actually, I think I should stick around.
- Are you sure that's necessary? - Yeah, for my peace of mind
and just to be safe. But of course, it's up to you.
- We'd like that very much.
Thank you, Chuck.
♪
- So, what's the idea? - So, our teacher
told us to pick a flower that's most like us.
- I picked a rose. - It's a nice choice.
- They've got thorns. - OK, this wax is very hot,
so only Grace is allowed to do the dipping.
- Then what? - Well, once the flowers
are coated in wax, then we dip them in the water
to cool them off and then just let them dry.
- That way they'll be preserved when you take them to school.
- Nifty! - What did you pick, Christian?
- It's a leaf from a maple tree. I like 'em
'cause they grow tall, and they're good for climbing.
- It's hard to beat that.
What about you, Grace? What did you pick?
- Oh, it's not my project.
- But if you had to pick one,
which one would you be? - Maybe
a morning glory because she likes getting up so early.
(chuckling) Maybe
a violet because your favourite colour's purple?
- I think maybe a daffodil.
She's bright,
they come up in the spring so they're hopeful,
and I once read that they're a sign of creativity.
- Bright, hopeful, and creative; sounds like our Grace.
- OK. Uh, alright, so whose flower is ready?
OK.
(indistinct chatter) ♪
- Hello.
(clearing his throat)
(mooing)
- The problem is you're just too worried about overgrazing.
- Yeah, but when you overgraze, you create bigger problems.
I remember the year when we-- - When I'm your foreman,
we'll just move your herd to the winter pasture a lot later.
- Will "we"?
- Yes, ma'am. Just leave it to me.
I'm what's known as an ideas man.
I got a lot of 'em.
- I bet you do.
♪
- Stay right there, Sam.
- What's this about? - Hoping you can explain this.
- It's for blowing stuff up. - Like what, exactly?
- In my case, there's a ridge over there that shows
some promising trace, so I wanted to open it up
some more. What's this about? - Show us your left hand, Sam.
♪ - Why?
- I'm following a train robber.
Tracked him up these parts. Seems like his love of dynamite
cost him a part of his little finger.
- You knew I was staying with Miss Walsh and Miss Bennett.
They would have vouched for me.
- Actually, it was Miss Walsh who put us onto you.
- Lillian?
- What are you doing?
- Oh, it's a public service. I think people should know.
- Really? Or you, uh, you could tell me the truth.
- Well, it's also extremely good for business.
- Oh. - I've already convinced
four couples to stay a few more nights.
- Personally, I'd be happier if the Mounties caught him.
- Oh! Well, me too of course. Yeah, it goes without saying.
It's just that right now I could...
use all the extra money I can get my hands on.
Speaking of hands, looks like I'm not
the only injured Stewart. - Ah, nothing. Banged it up
at the ranch. Not serious. - What, did you see Maggie?
- I did. It's fine. - Good, good.
How goes the foreman hunt?
- They're either not experienced enough... or they're too eager
to tell me how to run my ranch. - Thank you.
Well, I'm glad you're looking.
- Yeah.
♪
- I guess I'll head back into town
and see if those posters sparked anyone's memory.
- We've been tracking him for over a week, he's got to be
getting desperate. - Yeah. He'll be hungry.
- He can't exactly walk into a hotel and order dinner.
But I might know where a bandit can get a free meal.
(indistinct chatter) (bell ringing)
- Ronnie! How's Tess?
- Oh, salty as usual.
Oh, you mean her hand. Uh, she seems fine.
- You're family, so I want to tell you something:
she cannot continue to burn the candle at both ends.
She needs rest.
- Cuts against her grain pretty good.
- Still, if you could find a way
to reinforce my recommendation, I think it would help.
Excuse me.
Hello, Joe! - How are you doing?
- Fine!
Something, uh... something ail you?
- No.
No, no. Look at that. Oof!
- Wonderful!
- My crowbar, is it working out?
- It's... it's doing its job.
- What exactly is that job?
- Get inside. - What?
OK. Yeah.
- This used to be the gold office.
- I know.
- I was sweeping up this morning,
and I think I found some... Well, I'm not sure,
but I think it was gold dust.
And then, I thought...
perhaps there's more.
I suppose it's foolish.
- What's foolish is you're trying to do this on your own.
Let me give you a hand.
(birds singing)
- Could you move those, please?
- Of course.
What's going on?
- Time to get ready for dinner.
- Christian, can you get more tomatoes, please?
- Is there anything I can do to help?
- Are you volunteering? - Definitely heard volunteering.
- Do you know how to use this? - I do, yes.
And how many?
- The whole pail. There's ten of us.
That is if you're staying for dinner.
- I thought I might. - Well then,
better stop talking and start peeling.
- Helen, one more place setting, please.
- You're barking up the wrong tree here.
Raccoons got into my smokehouse. They're clever.
- But any of them wear a size-11 boot?
If I was to follow that trail, where would it take me?
- Goes up north, towards Radford.
- (Gabriel): Train line up there, isn't there?
- That's right. If you went far enough,
you hit the Northern Spur. - Gabe!
Over here.
Still warm.
Looks like this guy doesn't have such a head start after all.
- Hello?
Oh, I'm sorry. Do you have a patient?
- No... just straightening up.
- I came in for more of those eye drops, but I can wait.
- No. I'll get you a bottle right now.
- Is everything alright...? - Everything is... fabulous.
- Maggie! I was able to find some more sif...ters.
- Sifters?
- Hm? No. What?
(scoffing) - You know me, Joe.
Joe? - Mm-hmm.
- I'm gonna get the story out of you one way or another.
- Yeah...
Please tell her.
- What's all this then? - I was sweeping up this morning
and I think I found some... gold dust.
- You know, that's not the craziest idea.
- It's not? - When mining was at its peak,
Bart used to say that he didn't know what to do
with all that gold.
I know where he kept his weigh scales and his safe.
- You want in?
- Step aside.
(squealing)
- Then there was the time Miss Lillian and I went
to our very first barrel race. - No, not this story...
- Sounds good! - What happened?
- Miss Lillian and I only went to watch,
but then I realized she wasn't sitting next to me anymore.
- Was she lost? - No, she was out
on the course with her pony. She signed herself up for the race.
- But it was a bad idea because I didn't have permission.
- Did you get in trouble? - I most certainly did.
- But was it worth it?
- Well... - She won the blue ribbon.
Her very first time on the course.
- But still, it was wrong
and I hope that none of you ever do anything without permission.
- Miss Lillian misbehaved! (laughter)
- Can we hear another story? - Yes. Please!
- There was the time she tried to cut her best friend's hair
with these big garden shears-- - Definitely time for everybody
to clean up. Thank you, Chuck.
- At first light we'll be able to continue tracking.
- I hope this guy is ahead of us and hasn't circled back to town.
Is that the bullet wound? - It acts up on occasion.
- Well, at least the guy that did that is behind bars.
- I wish I was sure everyone involved in that robbery was.
- What makes you think that they're not?
- Robber said he didn't steal all the money the bank said.
- He's a criminal, Gabe.
He's lying. That's what they do. - I know, I know.
- But you don't think that's the case, do you?
- I'm not sure. Just doing what we were trained to do.
- Investigate.
(sighing)
- I need to talk to the bank manager. And his teller.
But they've both moved on.
- Well, that sounds like a coincidence... or a clue.
- I aim to find out which.
- Time for me to get home and give Alice some supper.
- Should we call it a night?
- We'll start back first thing. - Remember,
we're in this together. - We won't forget.
- By tomorrow we could all be rich.
Just think of the things I could buy my little girl.
Good night! - Good night.
- What would you do? If we found something?
- Oh... I got so caught up
in looking, I never even thought about the money.
- But if you suddenly had hundreds,
even thousands of dollars? You could do anywhere,
do anything? - I don't know.
I got everything I want. - You wouldn't change a thing?
- I guess I would.
I'd get some new shelves for the store, bring in extra dry goods.
(chuckling)
- You must be very happy with your life the way it is.
- I am.
What about you? What would you do?
- Nara. I saw the temples in Kyoto,
but ran out of money before Nara. Then maybe...
Siam? - Wow,
you've been to some amazing places.
How'd you ever end up here in Brookfield?
- Well, I go to places I've never been,
and I'd never been to the Great Northwest, so here I am.
- Wherever the wind blows. - Adventure is my rudder.
- Did you ever think it would lead you to finding gold
in the floor of an infirmary?
- Well, that's the wonderful thing about adventure.
You never know what it'll lead to.
- I'm not tired. Are you?
(dog barking)
- Gets cold out here at night. - Thank you.
You should get some sleep. I'll keep watch.
- Or we could rehash old stories about when we broke rules.
- Sorry about that. - I think at breakfast
I'll tell them about what happened when you decided
to break open that wasp's nest.
- I was trying to keep them from worrying about the fugitive.
- I know.
(mooing)
- That's a welcome sight. Thank you.
Go on inside.
- Lillian!
- I'm going to have to ask you to stop right there.
- Whoa.
That's the second time in two days I've had a gun pointed
at me. Can't say I like it.
- Can't say I blame you. - Well, I surrender.
Me and all ten of my fingers.
- I had to check. - Sure you did.
- Sam... - Excuse me.
- Drop it! (gunshot)
(tense music)
Hands up.
Glad you're alright.
- You don't have to leave. - Think I do.
- Sam, I'm sorry.
When you got here, you'd been...
you'd been living in the rough and you looked it.
- I get it.
- These children are under my protection.
- I understand. You couldn't take any chances.
- Exactly.
- I'm just surprised
you think that I'm the kind of man that would blow up a train.
- I didn't think it was you.
I just...
I couldn't completely
rule out the possibility that it was.
- Thank you for the roof over my head and the meals.
Mighty grateful, ma'am.
(mooing)
- Lucie.
Good to see you.
What brings you out here?
- That was a nice party you had the other day.
- Thank you. Do you mind? - Yeah.
I don't think you rode all the way out here to tell me that.
- You're right. I came out here to talk business.
- Oh!
Well, what can I do to help you?
- I hear you're looking for a new foreman.
- I am. - Couldn't do better than me.
- Really?
OK, why is that?
- I'm smart, experienced...
modest.
- What would your father say
about you leaving his ranch? - My brother's taking over.
I'll be taking orders from him.
- Right. - I'd rather take them from you.
- I see.
- Anything you need, I can take off your hands.
- You think so?
- I heard about Daniel.
The thing is, you've known me since I was twelve.
You'd never have to wonder about trusting me.
- You already started working?! - We never stopped.
- Find anything? - Afraid not.
- Unless you call this something!
I believe, my friends, we have just hit... what is it you say here? Hit the pay dirt!
- Just hit pay dirt. - Hit pay dirt!
(squealing)
Have a look!
- We found our man. I wanted to be sure you knew.
- That's good. You're all right? - Yes.
- It wasn't Sam.
- No.
No. Did he come back here?
- Yeah, he did. And then he left again. For good.
- It's probably for the best.
- Why would it be for the best?
- He wasn't a fugitive, but... you barely know the man.
- I had a good sense about him. - You did the right thing.
You have children to protect.
- Thank you for letting us know that you found the right man.
- Is Mr. Sam back? - No, Freddie.
- 'Cause I can do it now! I can whistle.
I want to show him!
- I'm afraid
Mr. Sam was just passing through and he won't be back.
But you could show me. I would love to see you whistle.
(whistling)
Great!
Try again? (whistling)
- Headquarters is sending a transport wagon tomorrow.
- Good. - Listen, um...
Thank you for all your help in finding this guy.
- My pleasure.
- Oh, uh, Gabe...
What was the name of the manager and the teller?
- Mike Sinclair was the manager. Russell Meeks was his teller.
- I'll keep my eyes and ears open.
If I hear anything, I'll be sure to let you know.
- Thanks.
- Oh, Gabe... try not to get shot again.
- And you try not to get blown up.
- Twenty-four hours of digging
and we found a lovely piece... of fool's gold.
- How about a cup of coffee and a free slice of cake
for each of my fellow treasure hunters?
- That is tempting,
but seeing as we're back to normal working folk,
I better open the store.
Ladies. It was a pleasure.
(laughing) - You know...
I enjoyed the excitement. - So did I.
- Really? With all the places you've been,
I would've thought Brookfield wouldn't be too exciting for you
at all. - I came here on a whim,
but this town continues to surprise me.
- I'm glad.
- But there is one treasure I can't find anywhere else.
- What's that? - Your Victoria sponge cake,
of course. - You're obviously a woman
with great taste. (laughing)
Let's go in.
- So, how 's your day off? (giggling)
- It's very relaxing. (giggling)
It's good we're safe and sound. - Yes.
- And I only managed to accuse one innocent man in the process.
- You just did what you thought you had to do.
- That's what Constable Kinslow said.
- Constable Kinslow?
He's not Gabriel anymore?
Hey, he found the fugitive. He was just doing
what he thought he had to do. - I know. So was I.
Just... doesn't feel great.
(sighing)
Sam's probably sleeping outside tonight.
- The man's a prospector. He probably always sleeps outside.
- The kids sure like having Chuck around.
- They do.
- How about you?
(laughing) Chuck's a good man.
(grunting) - Here, let me get that.
Did Maggie suggest that...
the best medicine for your hand was more work?
- Just doing what needs doing.
- Heard you were considering Lucie Clay as your new foreman.
- Yeah, I considered her. She's not the right fit.
- I think she's the perfect fit.
- I disagree. - Why?
- She's... not a Stewart.
- Tess, Chuck doesn't want the job.
If you keep waiting around for him,
you're gonna run yourself into the ground. He has a career.
- It's gonna be his ranch one day.
- Is it?
You and my brother built your ranch up from a few acres
into the biggest in the valley. You should be proud of that.
- Yeah, I am. - I completely understand
you wanna keep it in the family. - I do.
- But if you're asking Chuck
to become the foreman just so he'll run the ranch,
it's not gonna work. - Why not?
It's the Stewart Ranch. If Chuck is running it day in, day out,
he is gonna see that this is what...
This is what he's meant to do.
- Tess, Chuck loves you.
And he loves Brookfield. But...
he studied hard to become a vet. That's his dream.
- How long did you want to tell me this?
- I've been practicing all day, pretty much.
- You're not gonna drop it, are you?
- My brother would never forgive me if I didn't look out for you.
- Well, I guess I need to have another chat with Lucie Clay.
A few more of those bags need loading.
You know, because I need the help...
- Great.
- Thank you. - Nothing to thank me for.
- Well, Eleanor disagrees. Her and the children
baked you cookies. - Be crazy
to turn that down. Thank you.
- The kids really enjoyed your stories about Lillian as a kid.
- I have plenty more of those.
I can come by anytime to tell some more.
- I think the children would be thrilled.
- You know, growing up at the ranch,
it was just my folks and I. Here, it's a lot louder, busier.
- It gets pretty crazy. - Yeah, but it's fun
and cheerful and warm.
Except for the fugitive part,
I really enjoyed staying here.
- I'm glad.
- This home that you and Lillian made...
it's the kind of home I hope to have someday.
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