Jacks joins us this week to begin our journey into Hope Valley: 1874.

When Tom refuses to provide lumber for the boardinghouse, Rebecca gets creative.

March 26, 2026 | Hallmark Channel

The episode starts off in a pretty shocking way - Rebecca is met by her husband, Jim, who is supposed to be dead! Turns out, it was all a dream. Womp womp. But then she thinks her daughter is missing. Turns out, double dream! INCEPTION!

The next day, Rebecca and Sarah get to work on the boarding house. It's actually going really well. But she needs lumber for sale. Unfortunately for her, the only one who has spare lumber is Tom who is still against the boarding house opening. She decides to give it a shot anyway and ask and it doesn't go well.

While she was at Tom's, she left Sarah with another mom, Peggy & her daughter, Jenny. Sarah is shocked to find out that not everyone can read.

Tom has to rush off though because he finds out that Doyal is encroaching on his property. He threatens him that if he doesn't skedaddle, he's gonna shoot him. But then his daughter comes out, so that complicates things, obviously.

Rebecca has an idea to sell pies, so she goes to talk to Hattie about it. While in the boarding house, she sees Olivia drawing and it's really good. She asks her if she'd come and draw some ideas she has for the boarding house. Hattie is not thrilled about this.

Doyal's had it with Tom's ish, so he goes to the new law in town, Alexander. He says he'll look into it.

While on his horse, he comes up beside Rebecca and Sarah and he asks them about Tom. They tell him that Tom isn't a bad guy.

He then goes to talk to Tom and he says unless he has documentation proving that this land is his, the prospectors can do whatever they want on his land.

One night, Rebecca goes out to the prospector area and finds a ton of her wood from the boarding house that they've been taking to burn. She begs them to stop doing that.

There's a bit of a love connection going on between Clayton (Tom's blacksmith guy) and Olivia, Hattie's daughter. But Olivia dreams of the big city. And when he sees her light up when Alexander brings up Toronto, he gets sad.

Rebecca talks to the trading guy about getting lumber brought in. He tells her it's gonna likely be over $500 which is more than she has. She's looking at her ring and her daughter says whatever you do, don't sell your ring.

Lars, Ned's dad, shows up with the wood from the prospectors. They wanted to return it to her. Tom is there when this happens and tells her it looks like she's making friends. He also insists that she not pay him for the carriage wheel. Instead, he wants her to teach Peggy how to read.

The episode ends with Alexander writing a field report about this place. He says nothing of note except one woman who is a bit suspicious. Why would someone leave with her daughter to come to open a boarding house? UH OH!

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