S1E11: Thicker than Water (2007)
Attempting a deliberately risky dismount, Amy falls into Ty's arms, and he catches her, unaware that such a dismount was deliberate. Following the dismount, the romantic tension between the two reaches yet a new high, once both are standing firmly on the ground.
Lou pics a perhaps inopportune time to break the news of the rekindling of her relationship with her father to Jack, at a time when Jack is wielding a large chef knife, and surprisingly is actually exhibiting good technique. (I point this out because I am quite an experienced home cook and I just wanted to make a quick mention of how good and thorough the research is in this show in all aspects even down to the way that Jack holds the knife he's using.) Ducking out of the situation by blaming her sister, Lou breaks the news that Tim is coming to Heartland for lunch to Jack. Lou is initially troubled by what seems to be a somewhat positive response, which at any rate is far more positive than she was expecting.
Mallory, Amy's friend and younger neighbor, has literally been roped into becoming a cattle dummy so that I can practice his roping skills. Ty recognizes that there is something beyond friendship already brewing between him and Amy, and he wishes to impress Amy's father, rodeo legend Tim Fleming, when the latter arrives for dinner in the coming days. Trying to call Mallory's annoyance at him, Ty feigns expertise in roping.
Amy has Lou mucking out stalls, because Amy believes, as I do that such tasks are critical to establishing bonds with horses and, in Lou's case, to getting over fears of horses.
Jack looks for his hip waders just as Lisa buys a pair, and surely those events are connected. In fact, they are, since Jack is taking Lisa to his fishing cabin, a place a long way away from Heartland where the characters often go when they need a reset of sorts.
Meg lobbies Lisa to at least attempt to persuade her nephew to return to Heartland, standing up for the Fleming's just as Soraya would do for Amy if the need arose.
I've worked with young equestrians several times before, and a lot of them share loose fear of doing anything to or around horses' hooves. But taking the proper measures to stay safe, it is possible for anyone to work with a horse's hooves. And indeed, learning proper basic hoof care is an essential part of being a writer, and even more so if young equestrian owns their horse.
Now a quick primer on hoof care: my general preferred practice is to start with the back feet and work toward the front. In any case, I like to face the tail, gradually shift my weight into the foot closer to the horse, and then move my shoulder onto their body. If you do this calmly, you can easily pick up each one at a time and place it in the hand that is on the same side to which you are leaning. Then, using your free hand, do whatever you need to do. When they confront their grandfather about this, he deliberately dodges the question. It is not known exactly how long ago Jack's wife Lyndy passed away, but we can safely assume that it was a number of years ago. This is why the girls are so caught off guard when they connect the dots and realize Lisa has been invited, because no one has gone up there with Jack since Lyndy's passing and because Jack is so resistant to change.
Lou attempts to learn to join up and lunge from Amy, but her inexperience allows the horse to, in a sense, do whatever he wants regardless of her instructions because the horse doesn't care enough to follow those instructions because she's an ineffective leader because she's so inexperienced.
Amy and Lou begin to connect the dots as Amy receives a phone call from Soraya reporting that her mother has just sold Lisa Stillman a substantial amount of fishing gear-- and the girls remember that their grandfather was looking for his own fishing gear.
In one of only a handful of moments in the entire series, Mallory is lost for words as Jack and Lisa depart for the fishing cabin together. As they are leaving, Tim arrives at the ranch for the scheduled lunch.
Tim however does not come alone, bringing a cutting horse named Payback, in the hopes that his daughter will fix the horse. Cutting horses are not a particular breed, but those which are trained to separate individual cows from the group, perhaps to send one cow at a time into a chute for a medical examination, or, in a competition, to separate all of the cows wearing a certain number from a group which includes several numbers. There is no single "cutting horse breed," but the majority of horses used for this purpose have at least some quarter horse in them.
Lou begins to reveal her inexperience as she interjects regarding "dry work" (which doesn't refer to the absence of water as she seems to think, but in this case actually refers to working without an actual cow involved, just so the horse learns what to do without the distraction of the live animal). To be "cowey" is to have "cow sense," that is, to be able to think like a cow despite not being a cow. Both the horses and the humans involved in cutting need significant cow sense if they are to succeed in their endeavors.
Neither Tim directly acknowledges what he sees between Ty and Amy, nor does she directly deny that anything is going on between them. Inside the ranch house for the first time in 10 years or more, Tim immediately gravitates toward a picture of Marion.
As the sisters and their father try to get a family meal underway, Mallory seems to interject at every possible occasion, until Mallory's persistent badgering convinces Lou to set her a place at the table as well. As the meal gets underway, Lou pitches for the first time the idea that will eventually become the dude ranch.
One by one, the family leaves the table in response to Tim and his overbearing and pressuring attitude toward Amy. Now left alone, Mallory breaches each topic one by one, going down the list of things the sisters had agreed not to discuss during the meal.
After a drive of several hours, Jack and Lisa arrive for the first time together at the fishing camp. Left alone to do dishes together, 12-year-old Mallory believes she somehow has a shot with almost 18-year-old Ty. After a short Trail ride, the two of them come upon a dairy farm-- so identified because of which cattle, in particular, are in the shot in that particular scene.
Jack's experience and Lisa's total lack of experience are on full display in relation to each other as the two begin fishing at the river near the fishing cabin. Jack teaches Lisa how to fly fish in one of the most iconic moments of the early relationship. At the same time, back at the arena, Amy shows her father the progress she has made with Spartan, the jumper that her mother had rescued. Years ago, Lou was in fact a very good jumper, but she gave all that up after the accident that nearly killed her father. Is because of this accident that lose so afraid of horses, and Lou needs her sister's help to hide that fear. Now that that same over-competitive pressure is being applied to Lou, she eventually gives in and takes a critical step in overcoming her fear. In spite of the fact that she actually performed well, these storms off because she had a negative experience during the jumps, suffering from a flashback to her father's accident. She was old enough to remember the accident, but Amy was not.
At the fishing cabin, Jack and Lisa take important bonding steps in their relationship, as Tim, Amy, and Lou return to Heartland to find a cow from the dairy farm and Tim's cutting horse tied to the same post.
Once Tim leaves, Ty and Amy are alone again, and Amy wants to take their relationship further than it has ever gone before, wanting to do to Ty what he has done to the horse and the cow.
This may have been a coincidence, but it is possible that the cow used in this scene actually belongs to Amber Marshall, the actress who plays Amy, in real life. Amber owns at least one cow of this same breed, and later in the show, animals that she owns will appear in the show. I'm not sure when she bought the cow that she owns, so I can't definitively prove that this cow is that cow, but it wouldn't be an interesting coincidence if the cow was the same. Jack and Lisa return to Heartland from their fishing trip, having grown even closer as a couple. Seconds away from sharing a kiss in Lisa's car, and to realize they are being watched, and they abandoned the kiss at the last minute.
Amy attempts to bribe her grandfather to give her more cows so that she can work with the cutting horse that her father left her with the promise of a cup of tea. Having secured the cows, Amy can now begin to retrain the cutting horse.
Jack and Lisa's date at the fishing cabin is now all the rage in the town of Hudson, and all the gossip at Maggie's is about this new couple. Val Stanton wants to know all the details that she can possibly get about how Jack who she sees is a more low class in country type could have possibly landed a date with Lisa who is much more high class and definitely rich.
Angered by the pressure her father put on her, Lou does not want to see Tim again so soon, but Amy wants him to return to the ranch for another visit so that they can continue to bond and so that she can show him the progress she has made with the cutting horse. The coffee has run out, and Amy sees this as an opportunity to assuage her grandfather again, hoping that his reaction to another visit by her father will be as mellow as his reaction was to the first visit.
Amy's demo of her progress with payback has not gone exactly as planned. Amy Falls intentions between Tim and Lou reach a boiling point as Amy comes to the defense of her sister against what she sees as a father who is completely distant and at the same time entirely too competitive.
We see Jack alone at Maggie's, waiting there for Lisa to arrive for a lunch date. Instead, the first arrival is not Lisa but Val, and Jack must somehow find a way to get out of a lunch with Val in order to make space for the date with Lisa. This does not happen soon enough, and the two rivals come face to face. Now that Lisa has arrived, Jack is far more at ease than he was with Val.
Amy attempts to comfort her sister and to help her genuinely get over her fear of horses, away from any pressure put on by their father. What defines Amy is her unending desire to give anyone-- humans or horses-- as many second chances as they need, because no one is beyond redemption. While Lou is initially of the opinion that it would have been better if she had never reconnected with her father, Amy sees the good in restoring the connection with her father and despite his past mistakes, is always willing to give him another chance.
The dynamic between the sisters has completely changed over the course of these first 12 episodes of the season, and indeed of the series. Whereas before, the two sisters were constantly at each other's throats and could never agree on anything, by now, they are inseparable.
Amy and Ty grow closer still and ride off into the sunset, followed eventually by Lou.
Mallory, Amy's friend and younger neighbor, has literally been roped into becoming a cattle dummy so that I can practice his roping skills. Ty recognizes that there is something beyond friendship already brewing between him and Amy, and he wishes to impress Amy's father, rodeo legend Tim Fleming, when the latter arrives for dinner in the coming days. Trying to call Mallory's annoyance at him, Ty feigns expertise in roping.
Amy has Lou mucking out stalls, because Amy believes, as I do that such tasks are critical to establishing bonds with horses and, in Lou's case, to getting over fears of horses.
Jack looks for his hip waders just as Lisa buys a pair, and surely those events are connected. In fact, they are, since Jack is taking Lisa to his fishing cabin, a place a long way away from Heartland where the characters often go when they need a reset of sorts.
Meg lobbies Lisa to at least attempt to persuade her nephew to return to Heartland, standing up for the Fleming's just as Soraya would do for Amy if the need arose.
I've worked with young equestrians several times before, and a lot of them share loose fear of doing anything to or around horses' hooves. But taking the proper measures to stay safe, it is possible for anyone to work with a horse's hooves. And indeed, learning proper basic hoof care is an essential part of being a writer, and even more so if young equestrian owns their horse.
Now a quick primer on hoof care: my general preferred practice is to start with the back feet and work toward the front. In any case, I like to face the tail, gradually shift my weight into the foot closer to the horse, and then move my shoulder onto their body. If you do this calmly, you can easily pick up each one at a time and place it in the hand that is on the same side to which you are leaning. Then, using your free hand, do whatever you need to do. When they confront their grandfather about this, he deliberately dodges the question. It is not known exactly how long ago Jack's wife Lyndy passed away, but we can safely assume that it was a number of years ago. This is why the girls are so caught off guard when they connect the dots and realize Lisa has been invited, because no one has gone up there with Jack since Lyndy's passing and because Jack is so resistant to change.
Lou attempts to learn to join up and lunge from Amy, but her inexperience allows the horse to, in a sense, do whatever he wants regardless of her instructions because the horse doesn't care enough to follow those instructions because she's an ineffective leader because she's so inexperienced.
Amy and Lou begin to connect the dots as Amy receives a phone call from Soraya reporting that her mother has just sold Lisa Stillman a substantial amount of fishing gear-- and the girls remember that their grandfather was looking for his own fishing gear.
In one of only a handful of moments in the entire series, Mallory is lost for words as Jack and Lisa depart for the fishing cabin together. As they are leaving, Tim arrives at the ranch for the scheduled lunch.
Tim however does not come alone, bringing a cutting horse named Payback, in the hopes that his daughter will fix the horse. Cutting horses are not a particular breed, but those which are trained to separate individual cows from the group, perhaps to send one cow at a time into a chute for a medical examination, or, in a competition, to separate all of the cows wearing a certain number from a group which includes several numbers. There is no single "cutting horse breed," but the majority of horses used for this purpose have at least some quarter horse in them.
Lou begins to reveal her inexperience as she interjects regarding "dry work" (which doesn't refer to the absence of water as she seems to think, but in this case actually refers to working without an actual cow involved, just so the horse learns what to do without the distraction of the live animal). To be "cowey" is to have "cow sense," that is, to be able to think like a cow despite not being a cow. Both the horses and the humans involved in cutting need significant cow sense if they are to succeed in their endeavors.
Neither Tim directly acknowledges what he sees between Ty and Amy, nor does she directly deny that anything is going on between them. Inside the ranch house for the first time in 10 years or more, Tim immediately gravitates toward a picture of Marion.
As the sisters and their father try to get a family meal underway, Mallory seems to interject at every possible occasion, until Mallory's persistent badgering convinces Lou to set her a place at the table as well. As the meal gets underway, Lou pitches for the first time the idea that will eventually become the dude ranch.
One by one, the family leaves the table in response to Tim and his overbearing and pressuring attitude toward Amy. Now left alone, Mallory breaches each topic one by one, going down the list of things the sisters had agreed not to discuss during the meal.
After a drive of several hours, Jack and Lisa arrive for the first time together at the fishing camp. Left alone to do dishes together, 12-year-old Mallory believes she somehow has a shot with almost 18-year-old Ty. After a short Trail ride, the two of them come upon a dairy farm-- so identified because of which cattle, in particular, are in the shot in that particular scene.
Jack's experience and Lisa's total lack of experience are on full display in relation to each other as the two begin fishing at the river near the fishing cabin. Jack teaches Lisa how to fly fish in one of the most iconic moments of the early relationship. At the same time, back at the arena, Amy shows her father the progress she has made with Spartan, the jumper that her mother had rescued. Years ago, Lou was in fact a very good jumper, but she gave all that up after the accident that nearly killed her father. Is because of this accident that lose so afraid of horses, and Lou needs her sister's help to hide that fear. Now that that same over-competitive pressure is being applied to Lou, she eventually gives in and takes a critical step in overcoming her fear. In spite of the fact that she actually performed well, these storms off because she had a negative experience during the jumps, suffering from a flashback to her father's accident. She was old enough to remember the accident, but Amy was not.
At the fishing cabin, Jack and Lisa take important bonding steps in their relationship, as Tim, Amy, and Lou return to Heartland to find a cow from the dairy farm and Tim's cutting horse tied to the same post.
Once Tim leaves, Ty and Amy are alone again, and Amy wants to take their relationship further than it has ever gone before, wanting to do to Ty what he has done to the horse and the cow.
This may have been a coincidence, but it is possible that the cow used in this scene actually belongs to Amber Marshall, the actress who plays Amy, in real life. Amber owns at least one cow of this same breed, and later in the show, animals that she owns will appear in the show. I'm not sure when she bought the cow that she owns, so I can't definitively prove that this cow is that cow, but it wouldn't be an interesting coincidence if the cow was the same. Jack and Lisa return to Heartland from their fishing trip, having grown even closer as a couple. Seconds away from sharing a kiss in Lisa's car, and to realize they are being watched, and they abandoned the kiss at the last minute.
Amy attempts to bribe her grandfather to give her more cows so that she can work with the cutting horse that her father left her with the promise of a cup of tea. Having secured the cows, Amy can now begin to retrain the cutting horse.
Jack and Lisa's date at the fishing cabin is now all the rage in the town of Hudson, and all the gossip at Maggie's is about this new couple. Val Stanton wants to know all the details that she can possibly get about how Jack who she sees is a more low class in country type could have possibly landed a date with Lisa who is much more high class and definitely rich.
Angered by the pressure her father put on her, Lou does not want to see Tim again so soon, but Amy wants him to return to the ranch for another visit so that they can continue to bond and so that she can show him the progress she has made with the cutting horse. The coffee has run out, and Amy sees this as an opportunity to assuage her grandfather again, hoping that his reaction to another visit by her father will be as mellow as his reaction was to the first visit.
Amy's demo of her progress with payback has not gone exactly as planned. Amy Falls intentions between Tim and Lou reach a boiling point as Amy comes to the defense of her sister against what she sees as a father who is completely distant and at the same time entirely too competitive.
We see Jack alone at Maggie's, waiting there for Lisa to arrive for a lunch date. Instead, the first arrival is not Lisa but Val, and Jack must somehow find a way to get out of a lunch with Val in order to make space for the date with Lisa. This does not happen soon enough, and the two rivals come face to face. Now that Lisa has arrived, Jack is far more at ease than he was with Val.
Amy attempts to comfort her sister and to help her genuinely get over her fear of horses, away from any pressure put on by their father. What defines Amy is her unending desire to give anyone-- humans or horses-- as many second chances as they need, because no one is beyond redemption. While Lou is initially of the opinion that it would have been better if she had never reconnected with her father, Amy sees the good in restoring the connection with her father and despite his past mistakes, is always willing to give him another chance.
The dynamic between the sisters has completely changed over the course of these first 12 episodes of the season, and indeed of the series. Whereas before, the two sisters were constantly at each other's throats and could never agree on anything, by now, they are inseparable.
Amy and Ty grow closer still and ride off into the sunset, followed eventually by Lou.
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