S1.E3 ∙ A Ring of Dogs

Darris Blue once inside the vortex in Disappearing Bakersfield, finds what happens is a metaphor for people being stuck in old beliefs and strange characters.

A documentary retracing the haunting quest of a famed reporter, closely tracking a father's heart-rending, twelve year odyssey in search of his vanished son.

Jack Hearne, known as the Romany Rye, prefers living with the gypsies rather than claiming the right to his part of his half brother Phillip Royston's country estate, Cragsnest. When he saves Ruth Heckett, the daughter of his friend Joe, a London bird shop owner and burglar, from a theater fire, however, he changes his mind and marries her. As Ruth and Jack board a steamer for America to find witnesses to his parents' wedding for proof of his inheritance, Joe's partner Bos gives Ruth a Bible that he stole from Cragsnest, as a present. Unknown to them, the Bible contains the wedding certificate of Jack's parents, which Royston has been trying to recover so that he could destroy it. After Jack is lured off the steamer by Laura, a gypsy infatuated with Royston, blackjacked, drugged, and thrown into the water, Bos rescues him. At Southampton, where the steamer is wrecked, they save Ruth, who has discovered the certificate, and others in a breeches buoy, while Royston and Laura drown.

After three mail carriers have been killed and robbed of lumber camp payroll money, Corporal Rod Webb of the Canadian Mounties, is sent to Bear Creek. The body of each mail carrier who had been slain had been mauled by a huge bear, its tracks plainly visible. Disguised, Corporal Webb, with his dog, Chinook, undertakes to deliver the next shipment of money. In Bear Creek, Rod meets Fergus McLish , Hudson Bay factor, his office girl, Madelon , Jim Barclay , mine manager, and LeRoux , a burly trapper, who when Rod first sees him is buying supplies, including a case of honey from the post. Carrying the mail, Rod is attacked by a huge bear, trained by LeRoux to kill men on command. Chinook attacks the bear and saves Rod, but in the excitement LeRoux accidentally shoots and kills his Indian Partner, Grey Shadow , the son of Lone Eagle , tribal chief. Yellow Flower believes that Rod killed the chief's son, her husband.