Brian teaches Guthrie how to hunt and also to respect all wild life, but Guthrie is not sure he could shoot to kill. Several days later, Adam risks being mauled when he and his brothers track and corner ""Old Scarback"", a wounded mountain lion suspected of killing local livestock. When Adam is knocked unconscious in a fall, Guthrie is forced to make a life-or-death decision when he sees the lion afeter Adam.

During a blizzard, the sheriff asks Hannah and four others trained in first-aid to fly to an isolated mountain community where botulism has broken out. When the plane goes down and raio contact is lost, Adam sets out to backpack into the mountains to find themm against the advice of the National Guard. Meanwhile, Hannah calls on her inner strength to help,keep the survivors, including the gravely wounded pilot, alive and hopeful of rescue.