Bad Moon Rising is the third episode in the fifteenth season of the CBC drama Heartland. It originally aired October 31, 2021.
Synopsis[]
Amy discovers a teen with a gift for horses at Cooper's therapy center; Lou is pressured to shut the center down over recent break-ins; Lisa has Jack install a security system with Parker's help.
Plot[]
Amy reveals she plans to gentle the wild horse Jessica liked. After another break-in, Lisa talks to Jack about installing a security system. Amy works with kids at the horse therapy center when Cooper’s horse trainer quits. Lou and Rick discuss what to do about the break-ins. Paula Westfield complicates things for Lou and the center. Clint arrives at the center after receiving calls about the kids being involved in the robberies. One of the kids at the center, Logan, shows to have good sense about horses. Lou tries to help Cooper with the center and a gala he is planning to raise money. Jack does not respond well when Lisa and Lou ask about a watch he has. The family returns from the gala to find the house ransacked.
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Trivia[]
- Parker only appears in the first half of the episode.
- The boy that has a soft spot for wild stalled horses is named Logan.
- This is the first episode where Lyndy is shown crying since her birth in the season 10 finale.
- Jack is the only male at the ranch in this episode, being that he's taking Lyndy, Amy, Katie, Lou, and Lisa to Cooper's gala.
- This is the second gala to take place in the series, but the third overall, despite the one in season 4 being offscreen.
- Mac is the second child character to be the source of a horse's erratic behavior after Taylor Kennedy from Little Secrets.
- While Taylor did it with sticks, Mac did it with firecrackers.
- Mallory is the one who notices the female doing it while it's Logan who notices the male doing it.
- This is the first appearance of Paula Westfield since her introduction in the eleventh season.
- She wonders about Georgie's whereabouts, being informed by Lou that she moved to Florida to be part of the Olympics.
- Cooper's gala to raise money for his therapy center falls into jeopardy in two ways:
- Paula telling her story.
- Logan punching Mac before revealing the reason for Challenge's behavior.
- This is one of the episodes that shows Jack unable to use a phone correctly.
- He sets the alarm to sound around the entire house, which wakes everybody up.
- He turns off the entire system instead of just one camera, which causes the windows to be broken.
- This episode ends on a cliffhanger with Jack emotional after he notices the house tarnishly trashed.