Kerry James

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.

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.