Hawkeye

Elizabeth's husband returns from captivity, but while she struggles to make a decision about her future, Chingachgook questions William's association with a shaman who practices "black arts." '

An old friend appeals to Hawkeye to help free her brother-in-law from his captors, but the French have put a bounty on Hawkeye's head and everyone is trying to kill him. '

A Massachusetts woman reputed to have mysterious healing powers struggles to save the fort from the epidemic, only to be branded a witch. '

An Indian chief blames Elizabeth for a smallpox epidemic that ravages his tribe shortly after her inadvertent violation of sacred ground. '

The capture of a Huron chief's wife leads Hawkeye to his parents' killer, and even Elizabeth may not be able to stop him from taking revenge. '

Elizabeth resists her father's efforts to bring her back to Virginia, even after Taylor produces new evidence that her missing husband is dead. '

Hawkeye fumes when Taylor grants a pardon to a recalcitrant soldier in exchange for crucial information about the French. '

Taylor has Hawkeye tried for treason when the captain is shot soon after a heated argument between the two men, but Hawkeye's sense of honor hinders Elizabeth's efforts to prove his innocence. '

An enigmatic French prisoner intrigues Hawkeye, who begins to believe that the soldier may not be what he seems. '

A provoked attack on Taylor prompts the captain to ban the entire Delaware tribe from the fort, including Chingachgook. '

Hawkeye and Chingachgook conspire to help two runaway slaves being returned to their owner by a "gentleman" from Virginia. '

The brother of a man Taylor had executed seeks revenge by luring the captain and Elizabeth on a business expedition that will lead to their capture by the French. '

When a stranger offers, for a hefty fee, to lead Elizabeth to where her husband is being held, the suspicious Taylor and Hawkeye insist on going along. '

Elizabeth's visiting nephew realizes his dream of becoming a soldier, but when his courage fails in battle, Hawkeye and Chingachgook step in to help. '

Hawkeye's old mentor arrives at the fort -- not for a reunion but for revenge. '

Chingachgook has a vision that hostile Indians will kill Hawkeye. '

Hurons kidnap an infant from the fort, and any attempt to get the child back could spark a war. '

The French have laid siege to the British fort, and rumor has it that they are bringing up an enormous cannon. '

Hawkeye saves a settler from the French trader who kidnapped her, but killing him prompts revenge from the trader's Huron allies. '

After Elizabeth's encounter with a bear, she decides to take lessons from Hawkeye in wilderness-survival skills, in exchange for teaching Hawkeye how to read, but ammunition thieves bent on selling their stolen goods to the French interrupt them. '

Elizabeth talks Hawkeye into guiding her to the French fort so she can negotiate for the release of her husband, but they step right into the middle of the war. '

Hawkeye saves Virginia merchant William Shields and his wife when they're ambushed by hostile Indians on their way to open a trading post at Fort Bennington, but then Shields is captured by the French through the machinations of his treacherous brother, an officer at the fort. '