The Long Game is the ninth episode in the fifteenth season of the CBC drama Heartland. It originally aired December 12, 2021.
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Amy enters Spartan into an endurance race after realizing he's not ready to retire, Jack is set on gentling an unbroke horse despite the danger, and Lou and Katie reveal hidden feelings while camping.
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Amy, Caleb, and Evan Garland enter an endurance race. Jack buys a dangerous horse, Blue, from his friend Stumpy and is determined to gentle him without Amy’s help. Lou and Katie go on a camping trip, where Lou plans to tell Katie that she and Peter may get back together. However, Lou changes her mind when Katie tells her that she is happy with her life.
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- Aside from the recap, Peter does not appear in this episode.
- This is the first time where Jack attempts to calm a horse down without needing help from Amy.
- The third attempt looks almost successful until Blue throws Jack off of him and scrapes his arm, which he tries to hide from Lisa.
- Logan returns after attending Tim and Jessica's wedding in Happy Ever After.
- Jessica also does not appear in this episode in addition to Peter.
- As make up for missing the place they were initially going to go to, as well as Peter's ski plan being averted, Lou and Katie go on a camping trip, and a few things happen over there:
- Lou brings all but one piece to steady a tent.
- Lou forgets duct tape to put on the brach to keep the tent steady.
- A mouse sneaks into the car and ends up eating all the meals that Lou had planned.
- Katie did bring up how she and Peter would always use bear guards, which apparently works for rodents too.
- The girls try to look for a hot spring, but end up getting lost and have to return to where they started after Lou sprains her ankle.
- Katie reveals she always knew that Lou and Peter were fighting, which had become a separation turned divorce.
- All this of which happened during the eighth season where she brought up the divorce, which almost made Georgie unable to do her signature move to be let in by Extreme Team.
- Katie sits by the water and makes up with Lou as the mother comes by to check on her.
- They almost leave until Katie gets resources from another group of people camping as well.
- They add beans to the hot dogs, though Lou requests more ketchup so she can finish hers.
- Lyndy only appears in one scene in this episode.
- During the endurance race, Evan cheats by knocking Caleb off his horse, causing him to sprain his arm.
- As Amy never mentioned Tim to Logan, the young boy decides to know more about Tim by talking to him.
- Tim reveals to Logan that when he tried to call his daughters, they would always try to avoid them, occasionally accepting the calls, but then hanging up on him. He was lucky however that they gave him a second chance, something he thought he didn't deserve.
- This advice allows Logan to take the calls from his dad, where he lies saying he was busy working.
- Per advice on slow and steady wins the race, Amy is able to pass Evan as Spartan sprints past him and crosses the finish line first.
- The last two scenes in this episode feature Amy brushing Spartan and Jack having gotten connected with Blue as the two ride into the sunset.