"Lucky and the Railroad Ransom" is fortieth episode of Spirit Riding Free and the first episode of the seventh season.
Plot synopsis
While a patient Kate waits on the altar, Lucky—with support from a surprising ally—must confront Jane... for once—who is holding Jim captive.
Plot
The episode begins with Lucky and Jim being under captive by Jane "Butch" LePray. Her bulky henchman guards Lucky, which she and two other goons escort Jim to the train station. Meanwhile, Rooster, the bearded bandit tells Lucky that she was the bait in the whole plan.
While Lucky being held captive, back at the church, Kate sends Pru and Abigail to look for Lucky, while she entertains the crowd before Snips does something. But when both girls walk up to the Prescott house, Spirit warns them not to enter the house, and they spot the bulky henchman watching them, a realize that Lucky is in trouble. While Pru sneaks down the chimney and frees Lucky, Abigail lures the bulky henchman into the dinning room. All three girls escape, while Spirit knocks out the crook. Then, the girls follow the hooves steps of the horses.
Lucky reveals that the horses belong to Grayson, which meant he was part of Butch's gang too. The PALs find Jane telling Jim that she was mad Lucky revealed her true face, and that she wanted Jim to open one of the vaults in a JP & Sons train. Jim shakes off one of Jane's men, but gets punched in return. Lucky tells Pru and Abigail to warn the town and Sheriff of Butch's return, while she rescues Jim.
Once they run off, Lucky runs toward the group, but gets grabbed and pulled behind a tree by none other than Grayson. He is wondering who were the men that stole his horses. Lucky tells him that the men work for Butch LePray, but it seems Grayson never heard of her. However, Grayson wants to turn her in for the money.
Lucky and Spirit climb to the roof of the moving train, while Grayson follows behind Jane and her men. He reveals himself by throwing the first punch, and deals with both henchmen while Jane hurries with Jim to the engine of the train. Lucky arrives and helps Grayson fight the men before separating them on the train car by un-hitching it.
Jane meanwhile knocks out the engineer, and handcuffs Jim to the train, before having him tell her the code to open the safe. Once she collects the bag of money, she tears the lever off the machine, which causes the train to speed over control. Then, she refuses to spare Jim's life, and leaves him chained up. She then makes her way through the train and ends up going the other way, because Lucky and Grayson approach her. They warn the passengers on the train about Jane's scheme, and unhitch the car with the crowd on it.
Meanwhile, Rooster tries to stop Pru and Abigail from reaching the wedding ceremony, but they outsmart him, due to his head injury. The arrive at the church, and tell everyone that Butch captured Jim.
Jane then climbs onto the roof, and is about to jump onto her getaway cart, but Spirit knocks her through an opening in the cart. Just when the notorious bandit finds her bag of money, Lucky and Grayson enter the capartment. Grayson then reveals that Jane was the one who killed his dad--Judge Merle Grayson--when escaping jail. He says that he can't wait to have her arrested. While they both fight each other, Lucky races to help her dad. She axes the handcuffs he was wearing, but he tells her that he must stay on the train and figure out how to slow it down, because if it got too fast, it would go off rails.
While he is figuring that out, Jane was about to throw Grayson off the train, when Lucky jumps in on her and gets ahold of the missing lever. But just when she grabs it, Jane throws her off the train, but Spirit catches Lucky, and brings her up to the engine. Lucky throws the lever to her father, and he catches it. Then, he reattaches the lever to the train, and slows it down.
Meanwhile, Grayson finishes lassoing Butch, and just when he ties her up, she breaks free. But just when she opens the door, she sees her exit blocked by the Sheriff and his deputies. One by one, he handcuffs Jane and her goons, and takes them away.
Lucky is happy to see her dad, and they thank Grayson for his help, but that doesn't mean he has changed into a better person, yet. Though the wedding ceremony got interrupted, Kate and Jim still get married in front of their house, and there is a celebration afterwards.
Notes & trivia
- This is the second time Grayson got an injury on his eye ever since "Lucky and the Risky Rescue."