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| Episode No. | Season | |
| 28 | 2x15 | II |
| Original Broadcast Date | October 30, 2009  June 18, 2010 
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The Farm is the fifteenth episode in Season II and the twenty-eighth episode in Flashpoint.
Synopsis[]
Team One responds to a woman holding hostages at a convenience store. They free the hostages and capture the woman, who informs them she ran away from a small community known as 'The Farm' after hearing plans of an attempt to commit murder on its residents. Ed and Jules enter and discover that it is a cult, however, Ed is captured by their leader, Charles.
Plot[]
A red car pulls up to a gas station and a brunette steps out. An attendant tells her she has to pay for the gas inside first. She goes inside and instead pulls up a gun to the clerk, demanding the money in the cash register. However, it isn't enough, so she demands more. The clerk admits that this is his second day and he doesn't know about the vault. Things get worse as a mother and daughter are taken hostage too, as well police cars show up, having been summoned by the attendant. Team One is also called to the scene.
Checking the subject's car, she is identified as Rachel Simpson, who went to a rehab facility fifteen years ago and never left. Jules heads over to her parents, who explain that their daughter had an alcohol problem when she was 14 before turning to cocaine. She was sent to a rehab facility called The Farm to get clean, but then she got married to Charles Stewart, the leader of The Farm.
Jules and Ed head over to The Farm. The place is private property surrounded by an electric fence. They get to talking with Stewart, who reveals to have a son named Isaac. However, Ed can tell that he's hiding something. Further investigation determines that the place is a cult, as evidenced by one woman who left her husband and starts talking about Stewart with such reverence, or that Isaac has been taught to fear the outside world.
Greg manages to negotiate for the mother and daughter to be released, Rachel becomes hostile when she sees the team have guns trained on her. With no choice, Greg orders the team to break into the station and arrest Rachel. As she is being led outside, she pleads to be let go, explaining that her actions were to get back to The Farm to rescue her son before Stewart kills everyone.
Worse yet, as Ed is scoping out a barn, one of the cultists draw a gun on him. Isaac shows up too, believing that Ed has hostile intentions, and raises his rifle, forcing Ed to surrender. Jules takes notice and is ordered to keep a low profile. Driving to The Farm, Rachel explains that eight years ago, one of their patients, Gary, got clean, but went back to drugs and died of an overdose. Since then, Stewart is determined to keep all his followers on The Farm, fearing they would end up like Gary.
As Ed is tied up, he notices Stewart swallowing a number of pills. Soon, Greg calls to negotiate with Stewart. When he refuses to release Rachel, Stewart hangs up. As Isaac watches over him, Ed reveals the truth of his father's plans, a thought he grapples with. Team One then infiltrates The Farm. Leah and Wordy take out the two men guarding the front gate while the others freed Ed. Ed then opens Stewart's safe and finds painkiller pills. Greg tells Winnie to talk to Stewart's doctor.
Stewarts starts herding his followers into the barn. However, Isaac then confronts him. Stewart convinces his son that he's doing the right thing. One of his cronies then spots Team One advancing towards them and goes to head them off with Ed's gun, only to shot by Jules from a sniper perch. Stewart then locks everyone in the barn and starts mixing ammonia with chlorine to gas everyone to death. The team is forced to a use a grappling hook to pull off the barn door to free them. As they start arresting Stewart's henchmen, he and Isaac run out the back. As Ed and Sam give chase, Winnie calls them to report on Stewart's condition. Stopping in the middle of a field, Stewart holds a gun to his son's head. With Jules having no line of sight, Ed tells Stewart they know about his cancer and convinces him that he shouldn't take Isaac's future away from him. Reluctantly, Stewart lets Isaac go and commits suicide.
As Team One contains The Farm, the police bring Rachel's parents, who embrace their daughter before introducing her to her grandson.
Quotes[]
- James: " Drop your weapon." (Points a handgun at Ed.)
- Ed: "Safety's on there, James. And this is an MP5 submachine gun. Fires 800 rounds per minute, 400 meters per second. So, unless you want a demonstration, I suggest you drop your weapon, and we can talk about this."
Cast[]
- Hugh Dillon as Ed Lane
- Amy Jo Johnson as Julianna 'Jules' Callaghan
- David Paetkau as Sam Braddock
- Enrico Colantoni as Gregory 'Greg' Parker
Recurring Cast[]
Guest Starring[]
- Gina Holden as Rachel Simpson
- John Pyper-Ferguson as Charles Stewart
- Matthew Knight as Isaac
- Adam Butcher as Danny
- Dan Lett as Rick
- Eve Crawford as Katherine
- Jana Peck as Heather
- Jesse Bond as James
Uncredited[]
- Hannah Cheesman as Uniformed Officer
- Christopher Cordell as Leonard
- Kallan Holley as Emma Pearson
- Keith Kemps as Alan Milroy
- Patricia Marceau as Linda
Producers[]
- Anne Marie La Traverse - Executive Producer
- Bill Mustos - Executive Producer
- R. B. Carney - Co-Executive Producer
- Mark Ellis - Co-Executive Producer
- Stephanie Morgenstern - Co-Executive Producer
- Sharon Mustos - Associate Producer
- Adam Roberts - Associate Producer
- John Calvert - Producer
- Melissa R. Byer – Consulting Producer
- Treena Hancock – Consulting Producer
- James Hurst - Supervising Producer