Episode
Renegade: Fighting Cage (1)
Overview
Reno receives a video tape as proof that his estranged brother Mitch is still alive, despite being declared dead in Vietnam by the military many years prior. The video tape depicts Mitch competing in a rather sketchy underground cage fighting tournament. Reno decides to enter this strange underground world and investigate his brother's disappearance by posing as one of the fighters. He soon discovers that his brother has been brainwashed, and rescuing him from this dangerous and barbaric lifestyle will not be quite as easy as he once thought.
Details
- Series
- Renegade
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 1993-05-10
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Fighting Cage (1) is Episode 21 in Season 1 of Renegade. It aired on 1993-05-10. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 20: Vanished
The daughter of Reno's loyal long-time friend Assistant D. A. Wells begins going on a downhill spiral, entering a life of drug addiction. Upon further investigation, Reno and Cheyenne discover there is much more to this family tragedy than originally thought. They soon uncover a rather elaborate scheme involving black market drugs, a touring rock band, and a corrupt band manager who plans to use the girl to leverage Wells into dropping the impending case against her brother, a notorious drug dealer.
Episode 22: Fighting Cage (2)
After having some success in the preliminary rounds of the tournament, Reno begins to make some progress with helping his brother Mitch regain his memory. This becomes easier once he slowly starts having flashbacks of childhood memories of the two. Eventually Mitch joins Reno's side. The two bring down the entire cage fighting circus and those who conduct it, with the help of Bobby Sixkiller and a special task force.
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Episode 19: Moody River
Reno helps out a man being attacked in the middle of the road. The man takes Reno home with him to Second Chance Farms: a place where ex-criminals who want to begin a new life are able to work.
Episode 18: The Hot Tip
Reno is to bring Amber Dane, a Hollywood Starlet, before court. Reason: Amber allegedly killed her friend five years before .
Episode 17: Headcase
Joe Cortez had sworn revenge with his arrest. He breaks out of prison and procures himself weapons and money.
Episode 16: Billy
Reno is to snatch in a the gangster Dad Meecham and his three sons. While a brawl in the Saloon the sons become arrested, Meecham however can escape.
Episode 15: The Two Renos
Lieutenant Dixon and Frank Bickford think of a plan to finally capture Reno: They release a criminal Tommy, who looks just like Reno.
Episode 14: Samurai
Reno Raines is about to arrest the gangster franc sand when he becomes a witness, as a small Japanese girl is kidnapped.
Episode 13: Give and Take
Reno helps a woman with a flat tire in the desert. Soon after that the woman is found dead in her home.
Episode 12: Val's Song
A bullet that was meant for Reno critically injured his girlfriend Valerie instead. After spending months in coma, she is finally released from her suffering. The criminal lieutenant Donald "Dutch" Dixon places a trap for Reno: He lets spreads the news that Valerie is healed.
Episode 11: Lyon's Roar
Reno sets out to bring in Earl Lyons, a former comrade from Reno's Army Ranger days, who now is addicted to morphine and has gone insane, living in the wilderness. Reno must stop Lyons before either the trigger-happy authorities, or drug runners whom Lyons double-crossed, get to him first.
Episode 10: Partners
After reading in the Newspaper about the trgic death of his ex-mentor/partner Reno seeks information as to what had caused his ex-partners death.He is informed by one policeman that an infamous drug dealer was responsible.The drug dealer one Jesus Ortega had escaped to Mexico.Reno accompanied by Bobby heads for Mexico for two purposes: Justice,and Revenge.