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Jacks joins us this week to continue our journey into Hope Valley: 1874.
ABOUT: HOPE VALLEY: 1874 (SEASON 1 EPISODE 6)
A birthday triggers emotions for Rebecca and Sarah.
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR: HOPE VALLEY: 1874 (SEASON 1 EPISODE 6)
April 23, 2026 | Hallmark Channel
CAST & CREW OF: HOPE VALLEY: 1874 (SEASON 1 EPISODE 6)
Bethany Joy Lenz as Rebecca Clarke
Benjamin Ayres as Tom Moore
BRAN’S HOPE VALLEY: 1874 (SEASON 1 EPISODE 6) SYNOPSIS
The boarding house is really coming together and it's time for Rebecca and Sarah to actually move into a room! She's kinda freaking out over the curtains and Hattie checks on her. Rebecca explains she's trying to stay busy because Jim's birthday is coming up - his first birthday since his passing. Clayton brings in the new table and it's real nice. Alexander shows up and asks if his room is ready yet. She says no but he's like I'll just take it as is. He asks Olivia if she missed him and she says they always do. Rebecca reluctantly agrees to let him stay in the unfinished room. Hattie notices that Sarah is uncomfortable with the mountie around and she says she just didn't know a policeman was going to be staying there.
Alexander tells Rebecca he wants to make the boarding house his base of operations. He promises he'll keep things tidy and pay her an additional $2 a month. But she needs to sign a contract. He says he promises that he's here to protect, not bring danger to their door.
She finds Tom out there trying to break a horse and they have some flirty flirty fun times. But there's an issue - Doyal has dammed Tom's stream while prospecting and it's caused Tom's farm to flood. So Tom applies for a land patent to keep Doyal from prospecting his land. But what he doesn't know is that Doyal also applied. It's going to be up to Alexander to figure out what's what.
Late one night, Rebecca goes to look at a picture of her husband. She's real sad. The next day, finally some good news. The furniture for the boarding house is here! Despite not having all the money she needs to pay for it, the trading guy says he knows she's good for it.
Ned's dad finally finds some gold. He's happy about that. But is disappointed to find out it's only worth $10.
Rebecca is getting a little lightheaded while working and ends up fainting. Luckily Tom is there to catch her as she falls.
He brings her inside and she finally comes to. She says she just stood up too fast.
Alexander tells Tom he's going to hold an emergency hearing to deal with the land dispute.
Olivia goes to check on Sarah. She says they said my dad would be ok too but he never got better. She is worried about her momma and really misses her pa.
Rebecca and Sarah have a heart to heart about Jim and take turns sharing memories of him.
Ned's parents decide they need to try their luck somewhere else and head out to move.
Tom shows up for the meeting and brings other town members who are worried about losing their lands to the prospectors. Doyal shows up and brings a crew of his own. Alexander allows each of them to make a statement as to why they deserve the land. Tom explains that he's been working this land for 3.5 years. It's his. Doyal's daughter explains that the law is that the first person who has worked the land and files an application gets the land. That's the law.
Alexander decides that the law is clear - the first to file gets the land. Doyal did it first. However, in a world of right & wrong, uphold what is right. Tom has been working the land for years before the prospectors arrived. The law is for land that hasn't already been claimed, not in a situation where the land has already been claimed. Tom gets the land but Doyal is able to cross it to get to other streams. Doyal is not pleased and says he's going to take it up to Alexander's superiors.
Ned's parents come to say goodbye to Rebecca. She says wait...you can stay here for free if you run my mess tent. They agree to stay.
The episode ends with Rebecca and Sarah planting an apple seed in honor of Jim. While in Chicago, we see someone who I assume is Jim's mom seeing a drawing of Rebecca and Sarah in the paper.