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Walker soul searches after he nearly causes a young boy's death during a hostage situation.

In the two-hour season finale, a notorious gang Walker put away returns for brutal revenge. The gang escapes from prison and targets each Ranger. As his closest friends are marked for death, Walker is torn between catching the killers or helping his wife, who is rushed to the hospital when she goes into labor. Meanwhile, Trivette reunites with an old flame and prepares to get on one knee and ask for her hand in marriage, and questions are finally answered regarding the infamous Hayes Cooper.

The death of a government inspector seems to be linked to a cattle rustling operation that always manages to avoid the law.

Walker and Trivette get help from a legendary Texas Ranger, back to seek justice for his murdered son, to help track down an assassin with a senator in his sights.

When high-tech carjackers wreak havoc in Texas and kill Gage's old high school sweetheart, the Rangers make it their mission to bring the murderers to justice, while Gage learns to deal with his disability with the love and support of Sydney. (Taken from CBS Homepage)

Walker and Trivette go undercover to find out what happened to Walker's friend, a victim of a hijacking.

While transporting a condemned man from Ohio to Texas, his friends skyjack the plane and subdue Walker and Trivette, who must find a way to prevent his escape.

Walker goes undercover to foil a small town's local officials, who've been taking the law into their own hands by killing the town's criminals.

C.D. must rescue Walker and Trivette after they get trapped in Texas' backlands while tracking brothers.

Using a psychic to help locate a kidnapped 8-year-old earns Trivette ridicule from his fellow rangers.

Walker and Trivette come close to apprehending the leader of a drug ring they've put out of business. Alex gets involved in the case of a student's rape.

Walker seeks to bring justice to a Vietnamese gang responsible for murdering the son of his former martial arts instructor.

The Rangers have six hours to rescue a billionaire's daughter before she is killed—live—over the Internet.

Trent gains the reputaion of being a defender for abused woman. Maria Mendoza, who is the wife of drug dealer, Rudy Mendoza, who also beats her. When she sees Trent in the newspaper, she calls him. After meeting him she decides not to seek his help for fear of what her husband might do. But her husband had her followed. Trent goes to Carlos and asks him to check on Maria and her husband. Carlos gets the info and gives it to Carlos. And it's at that very moment that Mendoza's men shoot at them, but miss. Trent and Carlos get Maria away from her husband and bring her to Alex. She then gives them some on her husband's activities and Walker busts his operations. Mendoza wanting revenge has his men find Maria and they bring her to him, she finally gets the courage to stand up to him, and Walker, Trent, and Carlos arrive to save them. Maria decides to leave town and make a fresh start elsewhere.

Walker comes back from Los Angeles with Sammo Law to track down a killer.

Country-singer Merrilee needs Walker's protection from her estranged ex husband who's threatening her.

Walker and Alex are so excited about the arrival of their new baby that they start decorating the nursery with everything a baby could want and more. Meanwhile, the Rangers stumble onto a movie set and become stars for a day, and Walker and Trivette participate in a charity motorcycle ride. (Taken from the CBS Homepage)

Workers at a Medieval-themed restaurant moonlight as fine art and jewelry thieves.

A Texas Ranger wannabe tries to upstage Walker by capturing prison escapees, buts gets innocent civilians in harm's way as well.

In a desperate bid to avoid capture as Walker closes in, The Chairman kidnaps Alex.

Second part of two episodes. Sydney and Alex are kidnapped by two Mexican brothers that are looking for revenge. Now is up to Trivette, Gage and Walker to save them. Or will the girls end up saving them?

Walker must help Alex when she is stalked by an ex-convict whom she convicted back in the day.

When a new designer drug called "silk" results in several fatalities, Walker and Trivette must infiltrate the local club scene to find the source of the deadly substance.

In the two-hour season finale, a notorious gang Walker put away returns for brutal revenge. The gang escapes from prison and targets each Ranger. As his closest friends are marked for death, Walker is torn between catching the killers or helping his wife, who is rushed to the hospital when she goes into labor. Meanwhile, Trivette reunites with an old flame and prepares to get on one knee and ask for her hand in marriage, and questions are finally answered regarding the infamous Hayes Cooper.

At a senator's behest, Walker must stop a criminal genius who has infiltrated federal law enforcement computer systems.

When it appears that sending criminals to prison is not working, Walker suggests a new program that targets late teens or early twenty year olds. So Alex presents Walker's proposal to Senator Kay Hutchinson, who thinks that it should be considered but Commissioner Simpson, who thinks that the only solution is to build more prisons, and is also planning to ask more funds to build more prisons, and knows that Walker's proposal will jeopardize that, doesn't support it. But the Senator decides to give Walker a chance and assigns deputy Commissioner Luther Dobbs to evaluate it to see if it's feasible. So ten youthful criminals are brought to CAMP JUSTICE, where Walker and Trivette greet with the speech that the have an opportunity to turn their lives around or end up in Huntsville prison. Walker begins by making them run whenever they start acting up or be insolent. The next day Walker gives a speech about making ""smart"" choices. Walker then tries to get them into gardening; one of the boys

Alex and Walker's whitewater rafting trip becomes a working vacation when one of the rafters is murdered.

Walker and Trivette come close to apprehending the leader of a drug ring they've put out of business. Alex gets involved in the case of a student's rape.

Walker helps a ten-year-old severely wounded in a drive-by to end violence in her community.

Walker begins making real progress in ending The Chairman's reign of terror.

After killing a man involved in a carjacking, Walker becomes the target of several assassination attempts. These attempts begin to make sense when he learns that someone has put a $1 million bounty on his head.

Walker and Trivette set to prove that race was an illegal main factor in an arrest.

The Japanese mob is kicking up some trouble in Houston. Unfortunately for them, they decide to kidnap the wrong kid. The cute little daughter of a wealthy Texas power broker is home from a boarding school for some R&R and a little rodeo fun, when - on the drive home from the airport - she's violently snatched from her limo and two bodyguards. During the girl's previous year at the rodeo, she became one of Ranger Walker's many little buddies and proteges. So the bad guys have no idea what kind of bad news they've brought to themselves!

Vince Pike, the man who shot Walker's fiancee ten years earlier, manages to get an early release from prison. For Walker painful memories about the time with Ellen return. While he survived an attack by Pike's men back then, Ellen died. And now Walker seeks justice - and Pike a destroyed Walker when he wants to go after the persons in his life. First C.D., then Trivette, and finally Alex ...

A series of high-profile robberies puzzle the Rangers, but when one results in the death of Walker's friend, it becomes a personal crusade.

Though they've no jurisdiction there, Walker and Trivette go to Mexico to help Walker's former partner escape from Mexican criminals.

After his daughter is shot in a bank robbery, an old man goes on a hunt for the shooters along with Walker.

While kickboxing friends of Walker's visit, the son of a recently jailed mob boss vows revenge on those who put him there--a list that includes Alex.

Walker is not able to arrest Mick Flanders because his sister is in the Witness Protection Program. Mick, proving that he's invincible, kidnaps a boy named Archie who was staying at Walker's ranch.

A young mother's baby girl is stolen from her and illegally adopted by a rich couple who need a child to secure their political ambitions. It is up to Walker to return the girl to the rightful mother's arms, but Laurie (The young mom) withdraws consent after the shady adoption agent threatens the baby.

Walker has to stop white supremacists who are out to prevent the racially inclusive Unity Day.

Roscoe Jones, the (black) minister who succeeded Trent's father is being targeted by a man named Stan Gorman. It seems that years ago when Roscoe was in the Army, his friend, who is also black was the C.O. of a unit and one of the men in his command's Gorman. Gorman's a bigot, who didn't like being ordered by a black man. Eventually the tension between the two men reached it's breaking point when Gorman tried to kill Roscoe and his friend, while he killed his friend, Roscoe survived and testified against Gorman, who would be sent to prison. While in prison Gorman became head of a white supremacy group, and now he is after Roscoe.

While on a fishing vacation together, C.D., Trivette, and Walker reel in more than they bargained for when they accidentally uncover an elusive and illegal drug operation.

Walker finds himself fighting for his life after he attempts to rescue a group of federally protected mustang horses from some unsavory ranchers.

Walker receives a plea for help when a woman named Frances tells him how her husband, Billy, never returned home last night. Upon meeting Billy's probation officer, a man by the name of David Kilmer, Walker suspects something is very wrong.

The thrill of working on the set of a Hollywood western quickly turns into serious business when Walker and Trivette discover a group of stuntmen on the shoot plan to carry out an actual train heist.

Walker gets an ex-convict to impersonate a just-jailed criminal to help capture his accomplices.

While on their trip, Walker, Gage, and Trivette face two deadly situations: a murderous criminal on bail, and a grizzly bear with a taste for blood.

A homeless man's dog helps Walker track down the source of an attack on a priest. Meanwhile, Alex and C.D. put on a charity Thanksgiving dinner.

An abused lady nearly quits becoming a Texas Ranger following threats from her ex-husband.

Chuck Norris returns to the role of Hayes Cooper, the legendary bounty hunter from the 1800s. In this episode, Hayes battles a gang of outlaws, played by country singers John Anderson, Lee Roy Parnell and Mark Collie, who are terrorizing a Mormon wagon train. (Taken from CBS Homepage)

A satanic symbol is left at the scenes of child abductions, and it appears the children are marked for sacrifice at midnight on Halloween. (Taken from CBS Homepage)

Walker tells some children who are touring the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame the story of Hayes Cooper. The story begins in the Old West when Cooper, who was then a bounty hunter, went to a town to get his quarry, which he does. A farmer named Wilson has a mortgage due, and a man named Bedoe doesn't want him to meet it because he knows that the railroad's coming, and the Wilson's land is where they will be going through. Now the banker, who is in his pocket, wants to wait until he forecloses so that there'll be no hint of impropriety. But Bedoe is impatient, so has some of his men rough up Wilson. Cooper then helps him. One of Bedoe's men stabs him. The Wilsons offer Cooper a place to stay while he heals. Cooper then helps the Wilsons bring in their cattle but someone lets them out before they could deliver. The bank's about to foreclose when Cooper uses the money from apprehending the criminal to pay their mortgage. Bedoe decides to take drastic measures; he hires Rudd Kilgore, a deadly g

To get information on a gang who destroyed a friend's life via blackmail, Walker and Trivette join by posing as street fighters.

A desperate man named Hank Berigan asks Alex for help in persuading his daughter, Amy, to leave the cult that she has joined. When Alex goes to the cult, she is imprisoned within, realizing that once someone enters the cult, they are never allowed to leave.

Episode one of two. Alex and Walker make the proper preparations for their wedding.

After a young boy commits suicide, Walker works to improve conditions at a middle school; Sydney goes undercover as a singer to get close to a club owner.

Walker clears the name of a young martial artist framed for murder, then trains him for a kickboxing tournament championship.

Four women escape from a bus taking them to Gaitesville Prison. Two of the women and their boyfriends go back to robbing banks. The other two are on the run and end up giving Gage a ride. Alex checks into the case of one of the women, Laura Pope. It looks like her case was mishandled by her attorney.

After he robbed a bank Roy accidentally gets arrested because of a minor offense, but has to be freed after a short time. Walker and Trivette stay close on his heels but they are not the only ones. The bounty hunter Maxwell is also behind Roy. When Roy is (unprovable) killed by Maxwell, Walker and Trivette follow Maxwell, who is now behind Roy's partner Ned - who has the stolen money - and doesn't stop at nothing to get the money.

A dead child's spirit assists Walker to discover who murdered him eight years ago.

Alex seeks to prosecute a gang who terrorizes witnesses with arson, and attempts to murder firefighters responding to their blazes.

After surviving a rattlesnake attack, Walker (with Trivette) continues his pursuit of the killers who uncovered "Cooper's Gold."

Walker and his friends are on a fishing trip in the wilderness in a cabin run by Hank Cotton an old friend of Walker and CD. Meanwhile a group of Drug Runners ran by Glen Larkin and his younger brother Chip lay seige to this place and when they find an elderly couple who promise not to ever testify against them. However Glen shoots them dead anyway because no matter what he never leaves behind a witness. Meanwhile Alex is taking a ride with Bobby; Hanks son who is the Park ranger and they see the Larkins pick up a case of heroin Alex recognizes them and despite her warning to wait for Walker Bobby knows that they would be gone by then and orders them with their hands up unaware that one of Larkins men is sneaking up behind Bobby and shoots him. Alex narrowly gets Bobby back to the truck and head back to the lodge with the Larkins closely behind Walker and Trivette hear the gun shots Trivette thinks it is hunters but Walker knows that hunters don't use Automatic Guns. Once Alex and the

Walker tracks down a hijacked ambulance containing an urgently needed donor liver.

The existence of the Texas Rangers is threatened by budget cuts.

Angel, Trivette's old girlfriend, comes to town looking for her father and asks for his help. He does and when they finally find him, she pulls a gun and kills him, she then knocks Trivette out. Trivette investigates the man and learns that he testified against some Jamaican drug dealers. When Angel goes to get her payment, the leader of the Jamaicans orders her killed, but she was ready for them. She eventually goes after them. She eventually makes it to the top man and Trivette is there also. When he tries to kill Trivette, she steps in front of him and is shot and eventually dies in Trivette's arms.

Walker and Trivette are chasing some robbers; while Walker goes after two of them, Trivette goes after the third, Kroeger, the leader. Walker manages to grab one of them, Floy. Trivette follows Kroeger to a darkened area. Trivette sees that Kroeger is about to shoot, so he shoots back but from an awkward position. When he gets up he discovers that he shot a boy. The doctors don't think that it's wise to operate on him right now. Trivette goes before a review board, and the man investigating the shooting is Lieutenant Moffett, who has grudge against Trivette; it seems that the two of them were competing for the same Texas Ranger post and Trivette got it. Moffett discloses to the review board that he believes that Trivette acted irresponsibly. Walker, while believing in Trivette, says that he only heard one shot and postulates that Kroeger had a silencer on his gun. Trivette is suspended. He is crucified by the media. And he decides to drown his sorrows in the bottle. When Walker finds h

Cooper sets out to get justice for the Wilsons. He begins by confronting two of Kilgore's men; they draw on him and he outshoots them. Cooper is about to leave when he is stopped by Texas Ranger Cabe Wallace, who wants to sort out what happened between Cooper and the men he killed. After being satisfied that Cooper acted in self-defense, he lets him go but first talks to him about the line between justice and vengeance. He then offers Cooper a Texas Ranger badge, which Cooper accepts. He then goes off to find Kilgore and after finding him, he tried to bring Kilgore in, but Kilgore has too many men and he is shot. He rides out into the desert and is found by some Indians who nurse him back to health. Back in town Bedoe is going to buy the Wilson land but Sarah speaks out, and Sheriff backs her, but Kilgore kills the Sheriff. When Wallace returns he confronts Kilgore who kills him. When Cooper recovers he returns and faces Kilgore and wins. He also takes out Bedoe. Cooper then decides to

An indian shaman transports Walker back to the 19th century to prevent a recurrence of a 20th century injustice.

A judge has a meeting with Alex and Walker where he has discovered something interesting, but just before he can tell them, a helicopter comes in and the man inside kills the judge. Fortunately Walker jumps into the helicopter and pulls the killer out with him. The killer, whose name is Sonny, reveals that a prominent businessman named DL Dade ordered the hit and also reveals that he is an underworld figure. With Sonny's help, Walker and Trivette begin to take down Dade's illegal operations but it still doesn't get anywhere because there is no way to connect these operations to Dade, and the men they arrested refuse to talk. Afterwards at the safehouse, Sonny is watching an adult video and reveals to Alex that at one time Dade was in the adult video business and there was this one girl named Candy Delight who was the star. Just after Alex leaves, a helicopter with one of Dade's men armed with a rocket launcher kills Sonny and the guards watching him. CD wonders how they found Sonny

Walker (with the aid of a jet pack) and Trivette protect a Mexican Presidential candidate from an assassin.

Victor La Rue has been declared fit for trial. During the course of the hearing, La Rue manages to subdue the bailiffs and get their guns. He then demands that Walker come here but Walker is out chasing down some criminals. So while La Rue taunts Alex.

A series of high-profile robberies puzzle the Rangers, but when one results in the death of Walker's friend, it becomes a personal crusade.

Walker must clear the name of Trivette, who's been accused in the disappearance of $5 million in counterfeit money.

When warehouse robberies get linked to the Russian mob, the Rangers call on the Moscow police for assistance.

An AIDS-stricken seven-year-old tries to find his mother, with Walker's help.

A principal of a high school has his suspicions about a teacher who may be involved in the sudden influx of drug usage on campus. They try and bust him but with disastrous results. Then, the principal actually witnesses the exchange between the teacher and student.

When the death of a friend's son is ruled an accident, C.D. investigates further. Meanwhile, Walker and Trivette hunt an escaped prisoner.

The deaf daughter of an Elvis impersonator witnesses a murder, necessitating the Rangers' protection until the suspect is apprehended.

While on a fishing vacation together, C.D., Trivette, and Walker reel in more than they bargained for when they accidentally uncover an elusive and illegal drug operation.

After an amnesiac finds nerve gas at a genetic research facility, they need Walker's protection.

Walker pursues a group of killers seeking the lost treasures of Hayes Cooper, a Wild West Texas Ranger. Parts of the episode are "flashbacks" to Hayes Cooper, who with Lockett (played by Trivette/Gilyard), is pursuing a group of killers.

Alex and Walker's whitewater rafting trip becomes a working vacation when one of the rafters is murdered.

Prison escapees take some nuns hostage and make demands, threatening to kill some battered women if they are not met.

A malevolent medicine man resurrects after desecration of his burial ground.

When the rangers arrest Jimmy's brother Simon, Jimmy soon finds that his life is in his brother's hands when Simon is told to kill him.

Victor LaRue having been released from prison by the parole board because of good behavior,seeks to take revenge on Alex Cahill,and Walker.

A Cherokee reservation's inhabitants are in danger from risky, experimental practices at a nearby dairy farm.

Cherokee youths are stealing artifacts from a museum, claiming they were taken from their ancestral burial grounds.

Episode two of two. Alex and Walker make the proper preparations for their wedding.

Trivette is summoned to a nursing home called Quiet Rest by an old friend, Joshua Lenord. Lenord is a victim of Alzheimer's Disease and wants to show Trivette a tape recording of what's been going on at the nursing home. Lenord can't find the tape and then dies the next day. It turns out the doctors in charge, Dr. Munroe and Dr. Daniels, are illegally testing drugs on the residents for a cut, including using a drug banned by the FDA. So based on Trivette's notice of the male nurse's rude behavior, the death rate ratio, and the drugs found from Josh's autopsy, CD is sent in undercover. CD discovers that another patient, Maisie, is also undercover because her best friend was sent there and died and she remembered all the stuff her friend told her about the place. With Maisie's help she and CD find the drug samples but are caught. Luckily, a transmitter hidden in a Bible alerts Walker and Trivette. Munroe tries to stall them by sending the male nurses after them while she destroys the

A rookie officer framed for departmental corruption takes Alex hostage.

Trivette's girlfriend goes missing and her pictures start showing up on the web.

Alex discovers an abandoned infant, and she and Walker become instant parents.

Walker and Trivette must save Alex, who is kidnapped by career criminal Victor LaRue (Wayne Pére).

Joe Lopez, a safecracker, who has been paroled returns to see his wife, Marta, and his son, Tommy, who are friends of Walker and the gang. While his wife is uncertain of whether or not she wants him back, his son hates him. She offers him a job at her new restaurant. At the same time, Walker is working on a series of armed robberies that have been going on. What they don't know is that the robbers are all paroled convicts, who are staying at the same halfway house that Joe is staying in. The leader tries to recruit Joe and he says yes. But he then goes to Walker and tells him. Walker wants to arrest the guy who tried to recruit Joe but Joe asks him to let him try and find out who the boss is. When the day of the job comes, they manage to elude Walker. And when they arrive, Joe learns that the boss is his parole officer, Buck Coburn, and that they have Tommy there, to make sure Joe does the job. Walker and Trivette eventually find out where the job is. They arrive to stop Coburn, and J

A loan shark, who has a minister's son under his thumb, attempts to steal a charitible telethon's proceeds.

Walker pitches in to race for the Cherokee indian racing team. Meanwhile, Carlos and Trent search for the evidence lost in their car robbery.

A tyrannical small-town sheriff (Lee Majors) reports a drug-related accident to cover his murder of a truck driver who refused to smuggle for him.

Walker and Cahill head to the mountains of Utah to track down the crashed remains of a plane that was used during a daring bank robbery in 1988—which resulted in the death of one of Walker's friends—unawares a survior remains and has turned cannibal.

A Santa-suited group hits armored cars; a gang steals Christmas donations from a church where former members now worship.

To help stop gang related activites, Walker organizes basketball tournaments amongst a group of interracial kids.

A diplomat's son assaults Gage, but is protected by diplomatic imunity.

Walker and Trivette investigate the death of a high school football coach.

Feuding gangs divide a neighborhood at Christmas.

James Lee Crown wants to raise the value of his horse and to do that he gets someone who works for his competition, to ensure that his horse wins. At a race, the horse of Wes Calhoun, is the one he is worried about and his man has managed to deliver so far but Calhoun senses that his jockey has been holding back. He tells him that if he continues to do that, he will be replaced. After he wins, Crown confronts Calhoun and his man, when Calhoun tells him that he wants no part of what he is doing, Crown shoots the both of them and the horse. Walker suspects something when he remembers how Calhoun's man looked after they won. He has Trivette look into it while he goes visit his friend, Max Elson. Elson's a former rodeo star who suffered a paralyzing injury. And he is now facing the possibility of losing his ranch unless he can come up with some money - if he could only enter his horse Rainbow's End, in the Texas Derby, and win they might save the ranch. But first they need a sponsor, so Wa

Ranger Hunt goes undercover to stop a crime boss from raising his ten-year-old son to take over the family business.

An escaped prisoner goes on a spree, killing people who helped put him away--a list of people that includes Walker.

Lucas becomes a crusader in the fight against AIDS.

Years ago, Walker put Garrett Stone behind bars and now that he's paroled -- it's payback time. As Garrett and his men pursue a Dallas bank-robbing spree, their getaway car driver is killed in a shoot-out. Trivette trains as a driver and then infiltrates their organization after arranging the gig through Bob, the owner of a hip nightclub on the east side. Meanwhile, Alex officially opens the H.O.P.E. Community Center (Help Our People Excel) and Carlos helps a young troubled boy say ""no"" to gang life. (Taken from CBS Homepage)

Walker poses as a peasant to track slave-labor smugglers in Mexico.

Carlos is working undercover. He is working on a ring of drug dealers, who are led by a man known as El Vaquero. When he witnesses the number two man, Johnny Primo kill someone and reports it to Walker, who says that they should take them down but Carlos wants to get El Vaquero because he believes that he was the one who killed his brother who was a junkie. Johnny has his fingerprints checked out and discovers that he is a cop. They grab Carlos and Johnny demands to know what he has told and when Carlos refuses to say anything Johnny beats him up. Carlos escapes and is taken in by a homeless man he met earlier. Trent and Walker are worried because he was suppose to come to the Karate tournament that Trent's gym is joining. They try to find him and the homeless man finds Trent and tells him where Carlos is. But a disgruntled member of the community, who was thrown out tells Primo's people where Carlos is and they tear the place apart and when they find Carlos, Johnny was about to kill h

There are recent mishaps at a motor speedway. The accidents are prone to a Cherokee team that turn to Walker for help. Meanwhile Trent and Carlos are searching for a teenage girl that has gone missing and is thought to have ended up in the hands of a registered sex offender. They end up rescuing her from the pedophiles house and soon find crucial evidence (photographs) to ensure his imprisonment. On their way to the Ranger Headquarters, they stop to help this woman with ""car problems"" and their car, along with the evidence are stolen. So now they have yet another crisis on their hands. Back at the speedway, Walker and Trivette are discovering that the events that have happened to the Team Cherokee are not all accidents and may be caused by another racing rivalry.

Carlos' nephew is in trouble with the law when a gun is found in his room. The gun was used to kill a cop and hidden there by one of his friends.

Walker goes undercover inside a prison to investigate enforced prize fighting.

Walker poses as a cocaine dealer to help break up a drug trafficking operation.

In last year's season finale, a vicious serial killer who set his sights on wealthy members of Dallas society was successfully apprehended, with Walker, Trivette, Alex and C.D. all risking their lives trying to stop him. But when Walker and Alex transported crucial evidence for a potential conviction, their plane mysteriously crash landed and trapped them inside. In the new season premiere, the serial killer awaits his trial, perilously close to being released from custody and ready to flee the country, as Walker and Alex struggle against all odds to get to the courtroom with the critical evidence that will convict him. (Taken from CBS Homepage)

Walker searches Dallas nightclubs to seek out who raped a friend's daughter with the help of a mickey slipped in her drink.

Walker helps a wrestler whose ex-wife is in hiding after witnessing a murder.