A fraud case at a horse ranch becomes murder
Max Winter: I knew it. You're a horse whisperer after all.
Miranda Blake: Nonsense. Just saying a perfectly reasonable goodbye and thank you.
Max Winter: How much easier to be a horse.
Miranda Blake: What, a saddle on your back, slave to a lump of a rider?
Max Winter: Loved and fed and cared for.
Max and Miranda visit a horse ranch on the other side of the island to look into several instances of credit card fraud. During their investigation, the ranch's owner is killed and his grandson, who is the main suspect, goes on the run. Max and Miranda track him down on horseback.
Tropes
- Campfire Character Exploration: Max and Miranda learn a lot from Javier as they sit round the fire.
- The Corpse Stops Here: When José Rey is found leaning over the body with blood on his hands it is assumed he is the killer.
- Cowboy: The gruff stable manager even uses a lasso.
- Dysfunctional Family: The family who own the horse ranch are not exactly a model of harmony.
- Hysterical Woman: Pía is distraught after the murder.
- Like a Son to Me: The stable manager says this of his son-in-law-to-be, though in the past tense.
- Ret Irony: The murder victim was a few weeks from handing the business down.
- Sleep Cute: Miranda wakes to find Max spooning her with his arm across her body. She places her hand over his.
- Take My Hand!: The stable manager helps José up from the side off a ravine.
