Episode
Walker, Texas Ranger: A Father's Image
Overview
Ranger Hunt goes undercover to stop a crime boss from raising his ten-year-old son to take over the family business.
Details
- Series
- Walker, Texas Ranger
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 1997-05-03
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
A Father's Image is Episode 23 in Season 5 of Walker, Texas Ranger. It aired on 1997-05-03. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 22: The Neighborhood
Walker helps a ten-year-old severely wounded in a drive-by to end violence in her community.
Episode 24: Sons of Thunder (1)
Thunder Malloy, a preacher, who is a friend of Walker's dies and his wife and sons are left to fend for themselves. Trent, the eldest son, who is also a former student of Walker's, who years ago, had a disagreement with his father, when he chose to join the Army as oppose to following his father's footsteps, decides to leave the Army and come home to help his mother and siblings. Walker tries to get him to maybe be a cop but Trent does not want to carry a gun. For the moment he works as a security guard. Walker is also working a case involving someone who is gunning cops, and it seems that one his targets is Trent's friend Carlos Sandoval.
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Episode 25: Sons of Thunder (2)
As Trent tries to help out his family, and reconnect with his siblings especially his brother, Tommy, who felt that Trent deserted them. Walker tries to see if there is some kind of connection all the cops that were killed. Trivette gets a call from a cop, who has some info he would like to give him but asks that they meet in his place, when Trivette goes there, the killer has already killed the cop and shoots Trivette. Carlos was visiting Trent when the killer tries to kill Carlos but Trent saves him. After giving a decription of the man, Carlos thinks that it's a Metro cop named Rod Barkley. While Alex checks on him, Walker asks Carlos to explain who is this guy is and why is he killing all these cops. A few years ago, Carlos, the other cops and Barkley were chasing this motorist who was speeding. When he stopped, Barkley then proceeded to beat him up, eventually the other cops had to pull Barkley off the boy. When all of the other cops stated that there was no reason justifying Bark
Episode 20: Trial of LaRue
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.
Episode 26: Texas vs. Cahill
Alex's current case is a retrial of Lane Tillman, a mob boss, who is defended by Tony Seville, who was Alex's lover years ago.
The next morning Tony is found dead at Alex's beside and she is arrested for suspicion of murder. She reveals to Walker that Tony came to her last night with evidence that would turn the case around before she passed out. Her father Gordon Cahill returns to defend her in court.
Alex is put in a womens prison where the convicts want to get revenge against her for putting them in there, but she is saved by a woman named Alfre Grimes who was put in because of a mistake. Meanwhile Walker and Trivette learn from Tony's sister, Mollie, that he had falling out with Tillman, and with Gordon's help they suspect Tillman is behind the murder - because if the prosecuting attorney is having an affair with the defense attorney and the defense attorney ends up dead then Lane Tillman would go free because there would be no second trial.
Then Mollie gets a letter from Tony and
Episode 19: Days Past
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 ...
Episode 27: Rookie
Joey Prado just graduated from the academy with the best marks since Walker. One of his first assignments is to go undercover as a drug dealer. Along the way, he reunites with his childhood friend Vic Solano.
Episode 18: Devil's Turf
When a mix of steroids and meth starts killing high schoolers, Walkers seeks the source of the deadly combination.
Episode 17: The 99th Ranger
An abused lady nearly quits becoming a Texas Ranger following threats from her ex-husband.
Episode 16: Full Contact
Walker clears the name of a young martial artist framed for murder, then trains him for a kickboxing tournament championship.
Episode 15: Last Hope
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