‘When Calls the Heart’: Elizabeth Gets Heartbreaking News About Little Jack
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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for When Calls the Heart Season 7 Episode 10 “Through the Valley.”]
Elizabeth (Erin Krakow) gets heartbreaking news at the end of the latest When Calls the Heart.
The episode opens up with Elizabeth teaching her class, and when she dismisses everyone for lunch, Little Jack (Hyland Goodrich) is asleep. “Is it time for school, momma?” he asks. She suggests he go outside to get fresh air. She then admits to Nathan (Kevin McGarry) — who is promoted to chief constable (“It’s more of a change in title than anything really”) — that she’s a bit concerned about him. “You think he’s coming down with something?” Nathan asks. Elizabeth says he wasn’t warm, so she thinks he’s just staying up late reading comic books. Nathan offers to take him out for a pony ride on Saturday to get him away from the comic books.
When Elizabeth brings that up with Jack, however, he reveals that his friends invited him to play baseball for Saturday. “I don’t want to hurt Mountie Nathan’s feelings,” he says. She assured him he doesn’t have to do something to make someone else happy. He asks for a cookie instead of apples, but she tells him he has to do things to make his mother happy, like eating healthy snacks.
However, then Little Jack goes missing while out playing baseball with his friends and chasing a fly ball into the woods. The entire team looks for him, and Nathan find him unconscious. They hurry him to the infirmary, where Faith (Andrea Brooks) suggests it could be dehydration but plans to run some tests. She asks about any unusual behavior. Elizabeth says he’s been drinking a lot and he fell asleep in class. He’s also always hungry. After Elizabeth and Nathan leave with Little Jack, however, Faith shares her concerns with Mei (Amanda Wong) that while dehydration is her best explanation, it could also be heat stroke or diabetes. “He doesn’t have all the symptoms,” she adds.
At home, Elizabeth asks how he was feeling when he went looking for the baseball. “Sometimes I feel dizzy,” Little Jack admits. She promises not to let anything happen to her.
When Faith gets the test results, she immediately goes to see and takes a moment outside her house. She then tells Elizabeth and Nathan, “I’m so sorry to tell you that Little Jack has diabetes.” But, as Elizabeth notes and Faith confirms of the time, “there’s no cure for diabetes.”
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Hope not I do not l like when they use the children in medical issues
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Is Little Jack going to die?
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No they find a miraculous medicine that helps him.
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In real life, back then? Possibly. In a Hallmark show? Not a chance.
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Technically they are in the 1920s now on the show, so it's possible for Little Jack to receive insulin, it was invented in 1921 and tested on a 14 or old boy.
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Insulin is a Canadian discovery by Banting and Best.in 1921. Let't hope the show keeps it so instead of making it an American discovery. This show is awful on history. No mention of Ww1, no Union Jack flags,no governors in Canada. Even if there were he would be appointed not elected,and Nathan's uniform should be brown or green not red. By the 1920's. Red was for formal events. And more Lucas. He us hardly in the show. I watch for his character.
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I am American. I am not surprised that World War 1, the Spanish flu, or anything from that time period have been skipped over or omitted. It's a Hallmark show. It can't be that realistic. I didn't know that Governors in Canada were appointed not elected. As they are elected in the United States. Quite a few of the stars of the show are Canadian. I have never been to Canada. I live about 8 1/2 hours from the Canadian border. But, getting a passport when you are low income is hard. And hasn't been the top of my list.
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I agree. I dont like when they use children. Hopefully, although no cure, insulin was discovered in 1921. Maybe, this is the direction they are going. Time will tell.
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I don’t like it at all when they use children. Also, when is Elizabeth ever going to get married.
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this is a life long issue for both Elizabeth and Little Jack - Nathan will be able to help Elizabeth in anyway she needs, cementing their relationship and commitment to each other's family.
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