Stan Kelly

Did conman Adam Spangler kill a woman for her jewelry, or do the fingerprints reveal the truth?

"The Logan family learns that adopted son Jeremy is not an orphan after all. When a letter arrives informing Jeremy that his mother, Emma, who suffered from consumption for three years, has been released from St. Mary's Sanitarium in New York. Jeremy asks Ned Logan (Brett Cullen) if his mother can join them in Kentucky until she's well again.

Cut off from her highly addictive medicine, Jeremy's mother Emma has fled the Logan farm in a horse and buggy, taking young Lexy hostage. Emma is headed to New Orleans in a desperate search for the drug she craves. Ned Logan, along with Clay, Jeremy and trusted farm hand Isaac set off in pursuit.

As the Kentucky state assembly election approaches, two candidates emerge: the hardworking and honest newcomer Gerald Clancy, and William Winters, whose ethics are questionable. The big issue during the political campaign: the tobacco farmers are outraged when the Winters' foreman John Turner offers just 5 cents a pound for their tobacco down from last year's 8 cents a pound.

Ben defends a country singer accused of murdering his dishonest business partner after the two open a club with money won in the lottery.

Faced with her first national crisis - the death of nine DEA agents in Latin America - Mackenzie shows strength and resolve in dealing with a corrupt leader. Meanwhile, Nathan Templeton is approached by an ambitious congressman who served with Mac's Vice Presidential candidate, Warren Keaton (Peter Coyote), and is eager to divulge potentially damaging info in an effort to derail his nomination. Mac's teenage twins resume public school, only this time it's complete with secret service detail and press spectacle, and while popular Horace welcomes the attention, shy Rebecca finds it overwhelming.