When Calls the Heart Season 12 Episode 4: Dancing Teens

Bill tries to talk Lee and Lucas through a compromise on shared use of the park land, separately, and gets nowhere with either. At the schoolhouse, Allie and the girls look over her dance party invitations; Elizabeth tells them they can practise at the school and offers to teach them the dances they want to learn — the Charleston and the shimmy — and Allie asks her not to tell Nathan. Allie and Emily collect the new dress Allie had shipped to the mercantile and tell Florence and Molly that the dance party is a secret.

At Nathan's house, Rosemary and Bill raise the unsolved Great Train Robbery case and ask to investigate it; Nathan tells them to take the lead and keep it quiet for now, and says he will pull the Garrison files to see whether there is a connection. At the café, Cooper and Toby learn the dance is for teenagers only and that at thirteen they are not invited; Angela mentions that the party involves partner dances. After she leaves, Joseph and Minnie worry that Angela has never been to anything like this, and Joseph wonders whether he should teach her a few steps.

Allie, Emily and Opal go to the saloon for lunch because Wyatt is working there. Opal invites him to the dance on Sunday, and he says it is the talk of the town and could be fun. Allie realises that if it is the talk of the town Nathan will find out, and leaves to find him — running into Oliver on the way out and inviting him too. Rosemary and Bill go to the mercantile to work out who could have spent the coin; Bill reviews the ledger and they find three one-dollar purchases, all for hazelnuts.

In the library, Angela tells Elizabeth she is not excited about the dance and that no one understands what it is like to be blind; Elizabeth says that must be very isolating. Nathan runs into Lee, who says they would be happy to lend Allie the saloon on Sunday — and Nathan does not know what he is talking about.

At Elizabeth's house, Elizabeth practises the steps she has promised to teach, and Rosemary helps her. At the Canfields', Joseph teaches Angela a few dance steps. Nathan comes home to find Allie and her dance supplies; he says he has a problem with secrets, and Allie tells him he does not want her to grow up. Elizabeth arrives, Allie says her father does not trust her, and Elizabeth proposes a compromise: she and Nathan will chaperone. Allie agrees and shows them the dress she has chosen. Elizabeth admits to Nathan that she is in over her head with the dances.

Mei teaches Elizabeth and Rosemary the Charleston at the saloon, and Elizabeth then teaches the teenagers at the schoolhouse. Elizabeth gives Angela a copy of Helen Keller's “The Story of My Life,” hoping the words will help even though it is not the same as meeting someone blind in person.

Lucas goes to see Edie Martell's ranch land for himself and she offers to show him around, telling him how much the land meant to her uncle and how much it means to her. Nathan meets Elizabeth at the schoolhouse and asks her to show him some of the dances; as they dance she tells him how proud she is of how he is handling Allie growing up, and he says he did not realise Allie's last scavenger hunt would be their last but that he could not be happier for her.

At the saloon, Molly tells Rosemary that something must be done about the dance and Rosemary says it is fantastic; Bill joins them and asks Molly about the gold coin she used to buy hazelnuts, and Molly says she did not spend a gold coin on nuts. Jed, nearby, takes notice. At the hazelnut farm, Joseph tells Henry that he feels he let Angela down, and Henry tells him to listen to Angela rather than give her words of wisdom.

Molly sees teenagers dancing in the street, goes to Lee's office and asks him to cancel the party as scandalous, then calls a meeting to hear the town's concerns. The teenagers ask Elizabeth to help them make their case; Elizabeth and Nathan defend them and commit to chaperoning, along with other adults, and the dance stays. At the Canfields', Joseph apologises to Angela for not listening, and Angela says she wants to meet other blind people, which is why she wants to go to a college for the blind; they apologise to one another, and Angela teaches Joseph the Charleston.

Allie struggles with her hair; Elizabeth arrives with a birthday gift and offers to help, and Allie tells her she has a crush on someone and hopes the dance impresses him, and Elizabeth promises not to tell Nathan. Lucas sees Edie leaving town, learns a calf got out, and helps her rope it; when he notices her ring is missing she tells him she was engaged but is not any more, and kept the ring on to put off male suitors.

At the party, Allie wonders where everyone is; Opal starts the music and the guests arrive. Oliver dances alone first and the others join in, with Minnie, Joseph, Nathan and Elizabeth watching. Molly asks Jed to dance outside, and as they dance he tells her that he bought those hazelnuts at the mercantile with the gold coin. Oliver approaches Allie with a present, but before he reaches her Wyatt arrives with flowers; Allie asks Wyatt to dance. Elizabeth and Nathan remark to one another that Allie is very happy, thanks to the both of them.

The episode ends at Allie's party, on the beat the whole episode has been building to. Oliver approaches Allie with a present, but before he reaches her Wyatt arrives with flowers and Allie asks him to dance. Elizabeth and Nathan watch and remark to one another that Allie is very happy, thanks to the both of them. The dance goes ahead with the adults chaperoning from the back, and Molly — who tried to have it cancelled — ends the night dancing outside with Jed.

The coin thread closes in the same scene: Jed tells Molly, as they dance, that he bought the hazelnuts at the mercantile with the gold coin. The episode does not state how Jed came to have the coin, and does not connect him to the 1907 robbery — Bill and Rosemary's investigation into the robbery is left open.

What remains unresolved: the triangle the episode sets up between Allie, Oliver and Wyatt is not resolved, and the episode does not show Allie choosing or rejecting either of them. Edie Martell's admission that her engagement is off is not acted on by Lucas within the episode. Angela's wish to attend a college for the blind is stated but not decided, and the park remains shelved.