Episode
Walker, Texas Ranger: Lucas (2)
Overview
Lucas becomes a crusader in the fight against AIDS.
Details
- Series
- Walker, Texas Ranger
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1997-10-18
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Lucas (2) is Episode 4 in Season 6 of Walker, Texas Ranger. It aired on 1997-10-18. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 3: Lucas (1)
An AIDS-stricken seven-year-old tries to find his mother, with Walker's help.
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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
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