Running Down a Dream is the eighth episode in the sixteenth season of the CBC drama Heartland. It originally aired November 20, 2022.
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Amy teaches Lyndy how to barrel race. Logan's father arrives at Heartland. Jessica seeks distraction from a disappointment in New York. Katie gets her ears pierced, causing a fight with Lou.
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Amy teaches an enthusiastic Lyndy to barrel race, and when Caleb learns that legendary barrel racer Sherri Wild is selling her barrel racing school, Amy teaches him, too. Sherri sells her school to Tim and Caleb so they can expand their rodeo school. Logan's father Greg is released from prison and wants Logan to move to Nova Scotia with him, but Logan convinces his dad that Hudson is his home. Jessica is wary of submitting her photos for a possible advertising job because of her disappointing show in New York. Tim creates a portfolio of her photos, and after seeing the collection, Jessica submits her work and lands the advertising job for designer Grayson Bolt.
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- Aside from the recap, Clint and Finn do not appear in the episode.
- The latter does appear in a photo that helped Jessica get a job and via text message when Amy asks if he got to his place safe.
- The events from Be Careful What You Wish For is brought up in this episode by Caleb.
- This is also the first episode to show barrel racing since that one.
- This is the first episode where Logan's dad appears after he couldn't in the preceding season when he failed parol.
- It's revealed that Logan was only a baby when his mother died, and Greg was stuck being a single parent.
- According to Logan, his dad took the fall for a crime, which reveals why Greg got behind bars in the first place.
- It's when Logan sees his uncle that he decides to move with his dad.
- Upset by Lou pushing back the ear pierce appointment because of a meeting extension, Katie lies to Lisa in going to Maggie's to pick up an order so that she can get the ears done on her own.
- Upon wearing a beanie to go hippie, Lou is quick to figure out what Katie is hiding.
- They then fight where the events of the preceding episode are mentioned.
- Upon wearing a beanie to go hippie, Lou is quick to figure out what Katie is hiding.
- Tim attempts to speed up Lyndy's lesson to do barrel racing, which Amy is quick to catch, making the dad realize he is overstepping.
- Despite getting five seconds less than Sherri, she decides to give her barrel racing school to Tim and Caleb anyway, albeit not for free.
- Realizing he doesn't want to take Logan away from his life at Heartland, Greg decides to move away by himself.