Episode
Walker, Texas Ranger: Sons of Thunder (1)
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Walker, Texas Ranger
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 24
- Air date
- 1997-05-04
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Sons of Thunder (1) is Episode 24 in Season 5 of Walker, Texas Ranger. It aired on 1997-05-04. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 23: A Father's Image
Ranger Hunt goes undercover to stop a crime boss from raising his ten-year-old son to take over the family business.
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
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