Awesome / Heartland

Season One

• Jack is massively protective of his granddaughters, especially fifteen-year-old Amy, and tells Ty under no uncertain terms to stay away from both Amy and her older sister Lou.
• Jack: "Your first punch better be good, son; it's the only one you're gonna get."
• At the end of episode 10, "Born to Run," the Flemings, Mallory, and Ty help save the herd of mustangs that were being sent to the slaughterhouse.
• Amy proves to Ben that his horse, Red, is not "washed up" by jumping all the hurdles that Ben previously failed to clear, with the hurdles several notches above where Ben had previously had them.
• Even though she was so scared she literally was having flashbacks, Lou was still able to get Spartan to successfully jump a hurdle.
• When Heartland's stables are set on fire in late season 1, Jack immediately runs into the flames and gets all the horses out into the paddock, where they'll be safe. Keep in mind the man's old enough to have grandchildren in their late teens and 20s and has to be carried out on a stretcher, unconscious with a subdural hemotoma.
• Immediately after being released from the hospital, Jack identifies the arsonist from the fire (Wes, one of Tim's former employees who had tried to kill off the herd of mustangs earlier in the season), and gets out of his wheelchair to confront the man. Tim beats him to it, pinning Wes against his own truck.
• In her first competition in months, Amy still manages to come in second, managing to get enough points to compete in the Fall Finale.
• Ashley throws the final round of the Fall Finale as a major "screw you" to her mother after realizing that Val tried to get Spartan taken away from Amy.
• Amy comes in first in the Fall Finale after having only returned to competitive show-jumping a mere week before.

Season Two

• Lou and Tim co-sign a loan to create a corporate equine retreat, and Tim writes out a check so that Lou can begin working more quickly. Unfortunately, Jack does not approve, at least initially, although he lets them go through with it by the end of the episode.
• In the season premiere, Amy and Caleb are able to bring in a "ghost horse" that has been steadily coming closer and closer to Heartland, although Amy unfortunately misses a mandatory review session for her science final to do so.
• The moment that Jack realizes Ty is in serious trouble, he leaves Amy's birthday party to go rescue him and even gets into a physical altercation with the men who were hurting Ty.
• When Amy and Caleb find the mustang with a wild mare, they hear people shooting at the two wild horses and go riding off to confront the shooters, at great personal risk, only to find that the "shooter" is in fact Jack and Ty, who are shooting in an effort to get the horses moving along.
• Jack and Lou eventually come to a compromise for the new retreat: Lou is allowed to fix up and use the old boardhouses (that Jack's own grandfather had put up) instead of tearing them down completely.
• An RCMP officer, Constable Rodriguez, rushes into a river to help a young boy who is drowning, even though he is at the top of a hill and on horseback. When Amy hears the boy screaming for help, she also rushes to the river to see if there's anything she can do. Both Amy and the constable are applauded and mentioned by name in the local paper.
• Even though Mallory has never jumped before, she is able to clear her first jump using Amy's horse Spartan (whom Mallory is using without permission or supervision from any of the adults or teenagers).
• With almost no preparation, Lou joins the Rodeo Queen competition representing Heartland, although she winds up not placing.
• Lou pays for all the slaughterhouse-trailer horses, including Ashley's horse Apollo. When Ty's father winds up stealing all the money, she and Constable Rodriguez talk the place that had sold them to the slaughterhouse into giving them to Heartland.
• Ty finishes up high school by taking online courses so that he doesn't become more like his father.
• Tim jumps in front of the rustlers' gun when it looks like the rustlers are going to shoot Amy, who's running towards her family, without a second's hesitation.
• When Lou realizes that two of her guests are actually employees for the oil crew, she kicks them out.
• After Lou's speech to the town, all the ranchers park their trucks to prevent the oil crew from testing that day, even though it initially seemed that some may support giving their mineral rights to the Canadian government.
• Lou's line to the teenaged delinquents Clint brings to stay at Heartland: "There's only one thing anyone at this table should be scared of, and that's me." Talk about some Tranquil Fury!
• After Wes and an auction house worker steal Spartan, Jack and Tim work together to force Wes into signing Spartan back over to them.
• By the season finale, Ty has earned his high school diploma through online courses, passing in the top ten percent of his year.

Season Three

• Miracle
  • The video of Amy helping calm down Caesar after the trailer accident hits the Internet, and she becomes a minor celebrity in the media.
  • Amy is eventually able to get Caesar to walk through a trailer and be less fearful of flapping noises with the help of Ty, Mallory, and Caleb.
  • By season 3, Val is in remission from her "blood thing," and Jack seems genuinely concerned with her wellbeing.
  • For the first time since his accident, Caesar is able to complete a course of jumps, first with his normal rider on his back, and then with Amy. Even though she may not be able to do riding competitions anymore, you can tell Amy is still a fantastic showjumper.
• Little Secrets
  • Ever since Amy's Caesar video went viral, business at both Heartland and the dude ranch has been booming, to the point of Heartland having a six-week waiting list.
  • When Caleb goes into Maggie's to get coffee for Jack, he sits in Ashley's waitressing section. When he asks for a cup of water for himself, she pours the entire pitcher into his lap, but when Jack comes in to see what's taking Caleb so long, she sweetly tells him that the coffee will be ready quickly.
  • Even though Taylor has a major head-start and Amy's riding a horse that hates leaving the barn, Amy is able to catch up to Taylor and Trooper before they can go off of the cliff.
• Man's Best Friend: Caleb is able to successfully lasso Jake's cowpony, Kramer, from a galloping horse on his first try.
• The Haunting of Hanley Barn: Even though they believe the barn to be haunted, Amy and Ty last the whole night, in a thunderstorm, because they want to help the horses.
• Glory Days:
  • Considering Ty's only recently gotten his GED, it's pretty impressive that he managed to get into two different vet schools.
  • Tim offers to teach Caleb "bulldogging," and when Caleb messes up during his training, Tim demonstrates, taking the bull down incredibly quickly for a man in his 40s/50s who hasn't done it in twenty years. Unfortunately, this also gives him the idea to rejoin the rodeo circuit.
• Growing Pains:
  • When the cougar tries to attack while Lou, Peter, and Richard Chenoweth are on a trail ride, Lou and Peter are able to scare him off from horseback, while Richard Chenoweth (who earlier in the episode insisted that he could handle a cougar) winds up falling off his horse.
  • When Peter comes into the Dude Ranch to find Richard Chenoweth coming on to Lou (even saying that Lou started it), he literally throws Chenoweth out and starts a fistfight, ultimately coming out the winner.
  • When the cougar winds up breaking into the horse barn at night, Ty is able to scare him off with a pitchfork, keeping the horses and Amy (who is in the barn feeding Merlin) safe.
  • Near the end of the episode, Lou confronts Richard Chenoweth about the inappropriate flirting and the lawsuit, with her cellphone on in her bag in case he tries something again.

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