After the meeting, Leona is invited to elder Cecil Delaronde's house to meet with a small group of bandmembers who voice their concerns about problems on the reserve. With an election in the offing Leona knows what's coming and she declines their proposal she run against Andy Fraser.

The meeting, covered by Kyra Amos, a news reporter for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, backfires on Chief Andy Fraser when Victor starts asking challenging questions. After the meeting, Chief Fraser attempts to intimidate Victor, leading to an exacerbation of existing tensions between Victor and his wife Gloria.

Victor is stonewalled in his efforts to tape bandmembers about what's really going on at Blackstone - but his camera leads him to Natalie, gas-sniffing with her friends.

Natalie is living her own private hell, one including sexual abuse. Her suicide borne of hopelessness forces Leona's decision to run for Chief. Leona asks Victor to run as a Councillor with her, a discussion witnessed by Councillors Leonard Morin and Rick Amenakew. Victor declines but nevertheless becomes the target of intimidation, causing the final rift between Victor and Gloria. She leaves him for the city, and Victor aligns with Leona.

They win the election, thereby upsetting a familial power-base that had been untouchable for years. But Andy Fraser, Leonard Morin, and Rick Amenakew meet to plot how they can get Leona ousted out of office.

'A constitution will give us power over our own future. That's real self government, not something imposed by the Indian Act. A constitution defines what's important to Blackstone as a Nation, as a people. It has to come from the people, the stakeholders... So what do you want?'