Where the Heart Is: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Where the Heart Is Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
The Final Curtain
Apr 19, 1998
After a serious accident at Goddard's, Peggy and Ruth have divided loyalties. Meanwhile, the landlord of the Skelthwaite Arms dies and revelations follow, shocking his widow and da
The Healing Game
Apr 26, 1998
Peggy and Ruth are barely on speaking terms, Simon becomes increasingly isolated, and the new landlord of the Skelthwaite Arms falls out with The Scorpians.
Fresh
May 3, 1998
A new nurse's fresh approach threatens Peggy and Ruth's ways. When a life-threatening emergency occurs, the transfer has some hard lessons to learn.
Gone Fishing
May 10, 1998
The men go to Whitby on a fishing tip but the only catches they make are on a eventful evening surrounding the local nightlife.
Darkness Follows
May 17, 1998
A 19-year-old who hoped to travel has to face the fact that he now can't due to his failing sight. Ruth and Simon's holiday plans are thwarted.
Family Matters
May 24, 1998
Tragedy strikes the community when Dick runs over a child with his van.
Ice Pops
May 31, 1998
Peggy must face the possibility of her own serious illness; Dick struggles to come to terms with the death of the boy in the van accident; and Ruth has problems with her grandmothe
No Place Like Home
Jun 7, 1998
Simon digs up Peggy's back garden as a silver wedding anniversary present while she's on holiday with Vic in the lake district.
She Goes On
Jun 21, 1998
A dying woman's family want to protect her from knowing about the seriousness of her condition while Peggy nurses her. A delegation from Denmark arrives at Goddard's.
Love
Jul 5, 1998
Peggy is concerned when an old flame of Vic's arrives at Skelthwaite. Stephan's attempts to woo Jacqui fail and Patricia's old flame returns from New Zealand.