Episode
Walker, Texas Ranger: Saving Grace
Overview
Prison escapees take some nuns hostage and make demands, threatening to kill some battered women if they are not met.
Details
- Series
- Walker, Texas Ranger
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1998-01-10
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Saving Grace is Episode 14 in Season 6 of Walker, Texas Ranger. It aired on 1998-01-10. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 13: Tribe
Walker's friend, Reservation Police Chief Sam Coyote has been seeing Nora Shannon, an archaeologist who has been working on the reservation. When he proposes to her she turns him down and things get a little unpleasant between the two of them. Now an oil company that knows that there's oil under the reservation wants to get it before the Indians know about it, only problem is that Dr. Shannon site is where the oil is. So the oil company hires one of the men on her crew to do what it takes to get her to leave. But when that fails, he kills Dr. Shannon and frames Sam. While Walker and his deputy, George don't believe that Sam did it, the killer tells the Feds about Sam and Dr. Shannon, so they are about to arrest Sam and take him off the reservation, when Walker instructs George to arrest Sam so that he can remain on the reservation until they sort it out. When Walker learns about the oil company's application for mineral rights, he then goes to the man and after talking with him, he kno
Episode 15: Money Talks
C.D. is offered a job as the acting head of security at Golden Wells, a high class resort, replacing the previous man, who just disappeared. C.D. asks the assistant security chief Grady what happened to his predecessor. Grady tells him that he had a drinking problem. C.D. then goes to the Sheriff and asks if it's true, who tells him no. C.D. then offers to help. What they don't know is that he caught Grady doing something without his knowledge, so Grady had him killed. Walker is then instructed by the commissioner, who was instructed by the Governor to go Golden Wells, because several of the country's wealthiest men will be there this weekend for a special function, and he wants Walker to discreetly keep an eye on things. Alex accompanies him as his wife and Trivette pretends to be a capitalist. Trivette tells Walker that Grady, C.D.'s assistant has a criminal record which somehow was missed when he applied for the job. Grady concerned that C.D.'s getting too nosy instructs one of his
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