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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.

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)

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 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)

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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)