Review: When Calls the Heart “Heart’s Desire” (Season 2, Episode 3)
A new two-hour special airing of When Calls the Heart aired on the Hallmark Channel tonight with the first focusing primarily on Abigail Stanton going to Hamilton to find her missing daughter-in-law Clara and the second primarily focusing on Elizabeth, who returned to Hope Valley, helping the father of two of her students tend to their homestead while he was away for a few days.
Some of the highlights of the first hour also included:
• Rosemary being offered a role at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco by Wallace Zelman, a legend in the theatre world;
• Elizabeth’s sister Viola getting engaged to Sir Lionel;
• Jack working like crazy in Hope Valley to get the new church/school built before Elizabeth’s return to town;
• Rosemary’s dream role turning out to be a lie because the men sent to offer her the role actually worked for a man named Cliff Connolly, whose box office receipts were stolen by Rosemary’s former manager Mike Ryan – she was to be used by the men and Connolly to get Ryan to come out of hiding and return the money;
• Jack figuring out that Rosemary was in trouble, thanks to a townsman who was nearly run off the road by her captors, and rescuing her
• New town mayor Henry Gowen basically pilfering money for new mill owner Lee Coulter;
• Bill Avery having to deal with a very upset Abigail over learning his wife Nora is actually still alive and then Bill having to deal with Nora herself;
• Elizabeth’s other sister Julie still secretly seeing Jack’s younger brother Tom; and Elizabeth being the only one who knows about it and expressing her concern over Julie’s lack of judgment where men are concerned; and,
• Elizabeth’s parents expressing concern about her decision to return to her teaching post rather than remaining in Hamilton to look for something better.
The highlights from the second part of the episode included:
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