Heartland: Season 4

Lou is in Dubai, Caleb and Ashley are on the circuit, Amy has just returned from the Ring of Fire tour, and Jack is glad that folks are coming home as the ranch is too much for him by himself. Amy is disappointed that Ty's homecoming doesn't go as planned when he shows up with a female "friend" on the back of his motorcycle.

Nick Harwell is having trouble with his polo pony and Amy, Scott, and Ty get involved, but will his wealthy patron allow him to follow their advice? Meanwhile, Lou is home for a visit, and she's upset that the dude ranch has been neglected and that Dubai might not be all that she thought it would be.

Mrs. Bell has an accident in her pony cart and Ty needs to treat Sugarfoot at Heartland. Lou has extended her stay at the ranch and is ducking calls from Peter, who's still in Dubai. Chase shows up at the ranch and wants Amy to do a clinic with him. Ashley wants to host a birthday dinner for her mother despite Caleb's misgivings.

As graduation looms, change comes to Heartland: Amy is offered a full scholarship at a university in Colorado; to Mallory's chagrin, Badger comes to work as a ranch hand; Lou and Tim arrange a deal to sell the dude ranch to Lisa; after several pointed suggestions from her mother, Ashley thinks about her future life with Caleb.

Peter returns from Dubai to find out what's going on with Lou. Amy and Ty convince Sarah, the town hermit, to let them treat her sick horse at Heartland. Badger and Mallory go on an adventure neither of them will soon forget.

When Tim decides not to enter his horse in the big race, his jockey/girlfriend Janice agrees to ride for a competitor; Badger buys a car but finds out that it's stolen and must get rid of it before Jack finds out; When Soraya starts managing the dude ranch, Ashley wants to be promoted to manager at the café.

When Caleb needs cash for a down-payment on his trailer lot, he enters a team roping event; Amy is upset when he asks Kit to be his roping partner. Meanwhile, Badger is trying to interpret the mixed signals he's getting from Mallory about their relationship status; and Tim considers selling Lightning Dexter, his race horse, rather than keeping it through its convalescence period.

Amy is hired to teach a class of convicts about horse training as part of their work program, and Ty is surprised when one of the cons turns out to be an old friend. Meanwhile, Badger's summer at the ranch is coming to an end and he's upset that Mallory might just be using him in an effort to gain Jake's attention.

Lou returns from Dubai to spend time with the family. Ty and Amy discover where her father's rustled cattle are being pastured and the whole family rides out to bring them back. Ashley's mother offers to give her the lot that the trailer is on if she'll get Caleb to sign a marriage contract (pre-nup).

When Ty's travel buddy Grant shows up at Heartland irate to punch out Ty for "kissing Blair", this disclosure puts Ty and Amy's relationship in jeopardy. Meanwhile finding out that their marriage was not legal puts Caleb and Ashley into a turmoil. All the relationship drama makes Lou question her marriage with Peter.

Tim decides to enter his racehorse, Lightning Dexter, in a claiming race despite Amy's objections. Amy and Ty's troubles are aggravated when Chase comes to town and offers to put in a bid on Dexter. Meanwhile Lou finds out that she's pregnant, and Peter comes home although he really needs to be in Dubai.

Jack resists taking a trip to France with Lisa while dealing with some old memories resurrected by remodeling Marion's room into a nursery. Amy agrees to be a bridesmaid at Ashley and Caleb's wedding; Caleb asks Ty to be his best man but has difficulty asking him to move out as Ashley wants.

Amy finds that she's over-committed when she promises to "de-sensitize" three horses for the local police; deciding that she needs help, she calls in Chase. Meanwhile, Amy's returning the last of Ty's things throws him, and when Jack discovers that Ty is skipping classes and not showing up to help Scott, he proposes a road trip.

When famous Olympic trainer Stewart Forrest hires Amy to coach his Olympic-hopeful daughter, Amy feels that he's pushing her and her horse too hard. When Amy again gets Chase's help, Ty is concerned. Meanwhile, Jack is concerned that Mallory is neglecting her horse, Copper; and Lou discovers that while Peter is home with her, his business in Dubai is in crisis.

Everyone at Heartland is concerned by the bad publicity surrounding Olympic trainer Stewart Forrest's lawsuit against Amy; even Chase pulls his horses from Amy's training, but Ty lends Amy his support and Lou does some investigating. Meanwhile, Caleb returns from his honeymoon alone: his wife Ashley has remained behind in Italy for an additional week with her mother.

Caleb's rodeo buddy Bryce returns from Afghanistan in a wheelchair and asks Amy to get his horse back into condition so that he can sell it, but she would rather convince him to try riding again. Caleb's wife Ashley has still not returned from Italy. Jack gets a call from the Foothills Cowboy Hall of Fame, but it's not for what he expects.

As Tim and his girlfriend announce that they are selling the ranch and moving to California, one of Tim's old girlfriends arrives and claims that he's the father of her son Shane. Ashley finally comes home. Ty is still having trouble being just-friends with Amy. Ashley decides to go to school in British Columbia and Caleb is not sure if he should go or stay.

Ty and Amy take on a pair of Clydesdales with help from Sugarfoot. Lou's water breaks while Peter is out of town. When a horse-crazed boy and his mom show up at Heartland, Tim learns that he has a son about whom he never knew.