When Calls the Heart Season 10 Episode 4: Great Expectatations

Rosemary receives a check-up from Faith because the baby is a week overdue. Faith reassures her and Lee, advising Rosemary to stay active and to distract themselves from the due date.

As Lee and Rosemary walk through town they brainstorm distractions, but Mike comments on Rosemary's belly and Florence follows, making the due date impossible to forget.

Bill teaches Jamie to shoot a basketball and suggests he befriend the other kids, while Harry the bandit slips into the Mercantile hoping not to be seen.

Little Jack and Elizabeth sneak up on Lucas on the saloon porch. Rosemary and Lee stop by and Little Jack is surprised by the idea of a mommy and a daddy together, and Elizabeth frowns, concerned.

Bill enters the saloon and finds Mrs. St. John in his usual booth, and they talk about Jamie warming up to Hope Valley and the possibility of the family moving there.

Faith thanks Nathan for his help with the bandit and Harry stumbles out of the shop with Scout barking; Faith insists on treating his injured hand while Nathan's suspicions rise.

Joseph finds Henry bonding with the horses at the stables and offers him a supportive ear whenever he needs to talk.

In Faith's office Harry climbs out the back window while she fetches supplies, and Nathan catches him with stolen lard; Faith learns Harry is the bandit who tried to rob her.

Little Jack asks Elizabeth about his father and she painfully explains that he is no longer with them.

At the jailhouse Faith finishes dressing the bandit's wound and he apologizes, and she learns he has been stealing to support his family and argues that people deserve a second chance, while Nathan stays reluctant.

At home Elizabeth shows Little Jack his father's old Mountie hat and places it on his head, smiling bittersweetly.

Rosemary feels contractions in town and calls for Lee to fetch Faith; Florence and Holly rush to bring Faith, who arrives with Nathan through a growing crowd, and Lucas drives Rosemary, Lee, and Faith home.

At the cafe Minnie and Holly tell Mei the baby is coming and begin preparing food.

On the saloon porch Jamie longingly watches the other kids and Mrs. St. John offers him a tour, but he pouts and asks to go home; Mike arrives to take her on the tour.

Jamie approaches Toby and Cooper by the hoop and asks to play; Toby protests but Cooper invites him, and Jamie apologizes for being curt.

On the tour Mrs. St. John has Mike pause by a piece of land she wants to buy; Mike says the town owns it and tells her about Bill's past as a Mountie, lawyer, judge, mayor, cook, and small business owner.

Joseph meets Bill at his office and they worry about Henry's antisocial behavior, with Joseph suspecting Henry needs a way to make amends before he can feel better.

At the jail Nathan and the bandit talk about Faith, and Nathan notices Scout warming to Harry and softens toward the prisoner.

Mrs. St. John asks Bill about the land she wants to buy and he says town land is not for sale per the town's values; she wonders if he holds a grudge but he reassures her it is not his decision.

At home Lucas and Little Jack play while Lee walks off his stress and Little Jack asks Lucas about his dad, so they go for ice cream.

Elizabeth sits with Nathan on Rosemary's front steps and they talk about childbirth and single parenthood; Nathan suggests she trust her instincts with Little Jack and offers the town's support for Rosemary.

Nathan opens the bandit's cell to take him elsewhere.

Bedridden, Rosemary bemoans childbirth and Faith and Elizabeth guide her through a contraction with breathing, while next door Lee tells Lucas how helpless he feels.

Outside the shop Nathan has the bandit apologize, and Ned and Florence offer him work at the store to repay the stolen lard in exchange for dropping the charges.

At the saloon Joseph and Bill tell Henry he must complete community service per the Judge's order; Henry calls out their scheme but agrees to do it.

Mike and Bill discuss Mrs. St. John and Bill admits he suspects her land-buying motives, then she interrupts them and opens up about her past before retiring for the evening.

Rosemary's contractions grow closer and Elizabeth fetches Lee to reassure her; once she calms, Elizabeth and Lucas light a candle from Minnie and the whole town joins with lit candles.

Faith announces the baby is a girl, and Elizabeth rushes in to meet her goddaughter, whose middle name is Elizabeth; Lee and Rosemary look on tired but overjoyed.

The next day Elizabeth walks her students through town teaching vocabulary and Cooper invites Jamie to join them at school.

Outside the schoolhouse Lucas and Elizabeth sit together and talk about Little Jack and his father, and Elizabeth reflects on the boundless nature of love.

The episode resolves Rosemary's overdue pregnancy with the birth of a baby girl, whose middle name is Elizabeth and whose godmother is Elizabeth; Lee and Rosemary are tired but overjoyed. The bandit Harry's thread is left unresolved within the episode: Nathan has him apologize and the mercantile offers him work to repay the stolen lard in exchange for dropping the charges, but whether he takes the work is not confirmed within the episode.

Henry's community service is assigned by Joseph and Bill and he agrees, but his redemption arc continues beyond this episode. Mrs. St. John's attempt to buy town land is rebuffed by Bill citing the town's values, yet she remains in Hope Valley and shares part of her past, keeping the land-buy mystery open. Little Jack's questions about his late father Jack are acknowledged and gentled by Elizabeth and Lucas but not resolved, since Jack's absence is an established fact from earlier seasons. The episode closes on Elizabeth and Lucas reflecting on the boundless nature of love by the pond.