Walker, Texas Ranger (1993–2001): Season 5, Episode 4 - The Brotherhood - full transcript
MAN: I gave you what I had.
I'll pay it all back next week.
One more week.
That's... That's all I ask.
Really, I-I'm gonna
get my old job back.
I have a wife and two kids.
I mean, they gotta
eat, don't they?
Not until I get
mine, they don't.
I've been very patient
with you, Semple,
and generous.
You needed a grand
and I was there for you.
Now I want my money.
But... But $5000?
Money costs, doesn't it?
(chuckles)
What can I say?
Gentlemen, break his legs.
Oh, no. Please!
(singing indistinctly)
MAN: Milo.
Milo Creech?
Yeah. What about it?
Step into my office.
What for?
Do it.
( suspenseful theme playing)
(sighs)
Assume the position.
What the hell's the problem?
What the hell is the problem?
You are, son.
Watch the fence, there, Milo.
(car starts)
Milo, Milo, Milo,
you don't write, you don't call.
No R.S.V.P. for
the policeman's ball.
All right, all right,
what's this all about?
It's about justice, Milo.
Oh, okay, okay, I see.
You guys are just
trying to scare me, right?
No.
No.
Oh, no!
(screaming)
(dog barking)
Whew.
TRIVETTE: Texas Rangers.
Got a warrant for
the Bodine brothers.
( dramatic theme playing)
(buttons beeping)
(phone ringing)
Yeah?
Start the shredder.
Rangers comin' in!
You gotta buy us five minutes!
Come on.
Five minutes. Go!
MAN: Over here.
Make sure you destroy all
the state-militia contact codes.
They're in there,
they're in there.
TRIVETTE: Texas Rangers.
Everybody stay where you are!
(all clamoring)
Thanks.
WALKER: Ben and Frank Bodine,
you're under arrest.
TRIVETTE: Stop the shredder!
Damn! Walker, you know,
you cannot come in
here without a warrant.
What the...?
FRANK: Easy. We want our lawyer.
BEN: Yeah, I want my lawyer.
FRANK: We want our lawyer.
They can have the
whole bar association.
Won't do 'em any good this time.
( light rock action
theme playing)
♪ In the eyes of a Ranger ♪
♪ The unsuspecting stranger ♪
♪ Had better know the truth ♪
♪ Of wrong from right ♪
♪ 'Cause the eyes
Of the Ranger ♪
♪ Are upon you ♪
♪ Any wrong you
do He's gonna see ♪
♪ When you're in
Texas Look behind you ♪
♪ 'Cause that's where
The Ranger's gonna be ♪
TRIVETTE: Alex, what
typographical error?
The biggest gunrunners
in the Southwest
are gettin' off because
of a typo? That's not right.
It doesn't take much to
invalidate a search warrant.
Hey, Walker... Whoo!
Too bad, you had your chance.
You couldn't hold
the Bodine brothers.
There'll be another time.
Well, not for us, because, uh,
we'll be in Costa Rica.
(both laugh)
And you will be out of luck.
You only beat this
because of a clerical error.
Well, maybe you should
pay your help more.
(laughing)
Just remember one thing.
A clerical error on
your death certificate
won't mean you're still alive.
Oh, oh, Frankie,
was that a threat?
Hey, hoss, did you
just threaten me, huh?
Boo.
MAN (over TV): This is the
third time in as many months
the D.A.'s office has
lost a high-profile case
due to a seemingly
trivial technicality.
Asked to comment
on this latest case...
Now, if that don't beat thunder.
Both them guys are
gonna get off on a typo.
There ain't a damn
thing right about that.
I agree with you, big dog.
Well, unfortunately,
felons walking on a technicality
goes with the territory.
That doesn't mean
we have to like it.
I know.
Señor Walker?
Oh, Marta.
Hello. It's good to see you.
Yes, and you too.
You remember Alex Cahill?
Si, como no.
Sure.
And Ranger Trivette?
Hello. Hey, how are you?
All of you helped us
very much last year.
Yeah. How's that boy,
Tom, of yours doing?
He staying out of trouble?
Yes. Thanks to Señor
Walker, he's in high school now.
And he's making A's and B's.
Oh, you must be so proud.
That's terrific.
Yes, I'm very proud.
It's my oldest boy,
Ernesto. He's in trouble.
Trouble?
Tommy told me he
joined the Marines
and he was doing great.
Yes, he was doing fine,
until he came home
on leave two days ago.
Sit down, Marta.
Tell us what happened.
Uh, Ernesto went
out last night and I...
I don't know where he went
but he came home very late,
and about 20 minutes
later the police came...
and they say that Ernesto
raped this white lady
in the parking lot
of a shopping mall,
and then they took
him away to jail.
We don't have
any money for bail,
and I don't know what to do.
Have you heard
anything about this?
No, it hasn't come to my office.
My Ernesto would never
do anything like that.
No, we know he wouldn't.
Go home, Marta,
and I'll check into it.
Everything will
be all right, okay?
Thank you. Okay.
(sighs)
( suspenseful theme playing)
(cell phone rings)
(sighs)
Bodine here.
No, I already told you, Ben,
don't worry about it.
Yeah, I just spoke to Sully,
he reassured me that
we're free to go anytime.
No, he can't touch
us in Costa Rica.
And I wouldn't
worry about Walker.
He's more Air
Force than infantry.
Don't worry about it.
The cops can't touch us.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, I'll talk to you
when I get home.
Bye.
(panting)
Ah!
What did I do?
This is police brutality.
He thinks this
is police brutality.
Oh, God. Okay, all right.
What are you doing?
You mind if I do
this one, sarge?
No, go for it.
You can't do this.
You can't do this!
They say he ran down my street.
I don't know. He must've
looked like me, I don't know.
Cops rousted me,
brought me downtown,
they put me in a lineup.
She picked me out.
And here I am.
It's crazy, Walker.
I mean, me.
I mean, raping some woman.
I mean, you know
me better than that.
I didn't do it, Walker.
I know you didn't do it.
Where were you last night?
(sighs)
I can't say.
Why? I-I just can't.
It's gonna be hard
to help you, Ernesto,
if you don't tell me
where you were last night.
It's a matter of honor.
It's a matter of your freedom.
I didn't do it, Walker.
Hey, Ernesto. How you doing?
Can I talk to you for a second?
Okay.
I'll talk to the D.A.'s office,
find out what they have.
Guess who got shot.
Who? Frank Bodine.
(buzzer)
You can take him away.
Small caliber at close range.
Hydroshock bullets.
Forget about ballistics.
Well, whoever did it
knew what they were doing.
( dramatic theme playing)
Yeah, yeah, I know.
I just heard about it.
Sully, Sully,
how the hell am I supposed
to know who it was?
Hey, in my line of work,
it could be anybody.
Hell, for all I know, it
could've been Walker.
Sully, I know it was my brother.
What the hell good
does that do me now?
No. No.
I am not hanging out here
for another week,
all right, pal?
I am going to Costa
Rica this afternoon.
That's why I called you.
Yeah... No, no, no, listen.
Would you please just
shut up for a minute, okay?
Now, listen, I want
you to sell everything,
and then I want you to wire
it to my account in Geneva.
I will call you from San
Jose with a new number.
Do you got it?
Yes, I am calm, all right?
I'm calm. Smell it, feel it.
I'm calm.
All right. Thanks, Sully.
I owe you bigtime.
( suspenseful theme playing)
Going somewhere, Mr. Bodine?
What the h...?
Time to pay the piper.
Yeah. You're right.
( tense theme playing)
Beautiful.
Damn it!
I can't believe I did that.
We'd better get out of
here, right? We'd better go.
Sarge, we gotta go.
Went clean through.
What?
We gotta find the bullet.
Sergeant Horne, I
think we should go.
Come on, we
gotta find the bullet.
Officer?
Get casts made of
these prints, will you?
Yeah.
What have you got?
One shot, clean
through the heart.
M.E. says it looks like a 9 mm.
Looks like?
Yeah, it went clean
through the body.
Haven't been
able to find it yet.
Right over there,
the police were here.
Okay, just one car?
TRIVETTE: Hey, Walker.
This gardener says he
remembers a police car in the area
just after the
time of the shots,
except it wasn't a
Laurel Park police car.
Did he get a number on the car?
Mm-hm. One of them.
First two, five, three.
But then after
that he's not clear.
Five, three...
Why don't you find out what
district uses that designation?
All right.
Trivette, something's
bothering me here.
Someone went to a lot of trouble
to dig a bullet out over there.
And what's an
out-of-district police car
doing in this area?
And if they heard the shot...?
Why didn't they respond?
Exactly.
(sighs)
I guess we'll find that out
when we know who's
driving the police car.
Hey, Walker, wanna come here?
Look at this.
You remember Milo
Creech, the loan shark?
Mm-hm.
Just last week,
he beat an assault
with a deadly weapon
on a technicality.
Three days later
somebody threw him
off a roof and
killed him, right?
Two weeks before that, some
guy named Jefferson Brady...
The kiddie-porn guy? Yeah, yeah.
His case was dismissed
on a technicality,
and three days later
somebody gunned him down
outside his office.
Get this.
The killer used
hydroshock bullets.
Like Frank Bodine.
And three weeks before
that, we got another one.
Guy's case is thrown
out on a technicality
and a few days
later he's shot dead.
Hydroshock bullets?
You got it.
Now, in each one
of these situations,
we got no witnesses
and no suspects.
I think that's interesting.
Very interesting.
I'm gonna keep digging.
I'm gonna go see Alex,
see what's going
on with Ernesto.
(groans)
What did you find out?
Doesn't look good, Walker.
He didn't do it,
Alex. He's a good kid.
It would help if he
told you where he was.
Yeah, it would.
What do you have on him?
Right now it's the
victim's word against his.
How solid is she?
Scale of one to ten? Yeah.
I'd say about a five.
The detectives said
it took her a long time
to pick Ernesto
out of the lineup.
Hm, what about DNA tests?
We should have the results
back in about a week to ten days.
That'll be too late.
He'll be AWOL
from his unit by then.
Can you hurry it up?
Sure.
Can you do me another favor?
Can you contact the judge
and see if he'll lower the bail?
Walker, this is a
very serious charge.
Yeah, but the kid
deserves a break.
All right, I'll see
what I can do.
Okay. Thanks.
RIKER: A couple of seconds left,
you know. Popeye's got the ball.
He passes it to Jason,
who won't pass it to Jim,
who's wide open
under the basket.
They lose the game.
I swear, if the Mavericks
don't start winning,
I'm gonna bomb
their locker room.
It's gonna take more than
a bomb to wake 'em up.
Pay up, son. I'm light today.
Ah, come on. I don't care.
You're never gonna
get rich bettin' on losers.
(fake laughter) Yeehaw.
Hey, boys, there's, uh,
something in here
might interest you.
Oh, hey.
Oh, man, that's a shame.
RIKER: Yeah,
that's... That's terrible.
What's the world coming to?
Check out page two.
"Felons to benefit from
early-release program."
"Parents protest
the early release
of the Maple Street Molester"?
They just put this guy in.
How can they be letting him out?
I don't believe this crap.
Well, he won't be out long.
No, no, he won't.
Yo.
Turns out 53 isn't a
Dallas designation after all.
Belongs to the Brookdale
Police Department.
Brookdale Police Department?
Long ways from Laurel Park.
Checked it out myself.
Brookdale had 20 units on patrol
at the time of Frank
Bodine's murder.
Why don't you arrange for
us to talk to those 20 officers?
(phone rings)
Walker.
Walker, it's Alex.
I talked to the judge
and he has agreed to
drop the bail to $10,000.
Oh, that's great.
I'm going over now
to take care of it.
Okay. I'll call Marta
and I'll have her meet us
outside the courthouse.
Alex... thanks.
You're welcome.
ERNESTO: Mom.
Mom.
Thank you so much.
Oh, thank Alex Cahill.
She's the one that got
the judge to lower the bail.
I just paid for it.
Thank you, Miss Cahill.
Yeah, thanks.
It's my pleasure.
But now can you tell
us about your alibi?
And you won't tell anyone?
Strictly off the record.
Angela Escobar.
Ay, Ernesto, no.
Who is she?
Well, obviously you haven't been
reading the society
pages, Walker.
Angela is Congressman
Escobar's daughter.
She just got accepted
to Harvard Law School.
Yeah, we met last May, just
before I got into the Marines.
I was still working
at Phil's Garage.
She brought her Beemer in and,
well, we hit it off right away.
And you never told me?
Well, we only had three dates,
and then her father
found out about it
and told her never
to see me again.
But you did see her.
Yeah. I called Angela
before I came home on leave.
We still feel very
strongly about each other.
I saw her the night of the rape.
Well, we talked
almost all night.
I love her.
And she loves me.
And we agreed to keep
our relationship secret
until she finishes law school
and I get out of the Marines.
Then the heck
with her father, man.
So you couldn't
use her as an alibi
because her father would
find out you were together.
Right, right. I mean, She
has enough to worry about,
getting ready for law school.
I just didn't wanna
get her into trouble.
That's very honorable but
you're not out of trouble yourself.
When will we know?
The DNA results
should be in tomorrow.
If they're negative,
the D.A.'s office
will drop all charges.
As soon as we find
out, we'll let you know.
Now, go on home
and enjoy yourselves.
Okay.
(speaking Spanish)
Thank you.
Thanks, Walker.
Thank you, very much.
Miss Cahill,
thanks. Appreciate it.
Bye. See you guys later.
(chuckles)
Feels good to help
somebody who deserves it.
Yeah, sure does.
DRIVER: Get on the bus.
Get on the bus.
Got you something to do tonight?
Your girlfriend, your mama?
Maybe you got some
boyfriends at home.
MAN: Getting out of here.
Yeah, got some
freedom coming up.
Freedom.
MAN: Was that a
pothole you missed?
( tense theme playing)
(tires screech)
Hey, now, ain't that nice?
They giving y'all an escort.
(beeping)
(tires squealing)
(screaming)
MAN (coarse voice):
Last thing I remember,
those two cop cars
come alongside.
Next thing I know,
I'm packed in jelly
and they're shining
lights in my eyes.
You're absolutely sure
they were real policemen?
I've been in and out
of every joint in Texas.
I know a cop when I see one.
They were the real thing.
No doubt about it.
Thank you for your
cooperation, gentlemen.
You guys ready?
Yeah. Sarge.
You two were on patrol
together last Wednesday?
Yes, sir.
Where were you around 2:45?
Two forty-five?
Uh, well, I don't
know. Let me think.
We were up at
Oakwood, weren't we?
Yeah, I wrote that down, uh...
Yeah, we rolled by
Oakwood Plaza at 2:40.
Were you in the Laurel Park area
any time that day?
Laurel Park? No, sir.
Got no reason to
go to Laurel Park.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you.
Sure. Thank you again.
Well, okay, captain,
that's, uh, the last of them.
Okay, very good.
You've spoken to everybody
that was on duty that afternoon.
Does that clear it up?
For now, captain.
Ranger, I'd like to
get this resolved.
I don't want a cloud hanging
over any of my officers' heads.
I can understand that.
You know, whoever did this
killed two arms dealers
and a busload of early releases.
Well, I'm sorry.
I just don't feel
any great sense of loss here.
WALKER: That's not
the point, sergeant.
We can't have people
going around killing
whoever they think
deserves killing, can we?
No, you're... You're...
You're right, you're right.
(clears throat)
Well, I'm sure that
none of my people
had anything to do with it.
Thanks for your time, captain.
Thank you, Ranger.
Thanks, Ranger.
Well, what do you think
about the Tuna Texas Twister?
You're the first one
that's eaten one of them.
It was fine.
Just fine?
Yeah. C.D., a tuna
sandwich is a tuna sandwich.
Oh, no, no, no. No,
that's where you're wrong.
This is a special
blend of tuna fish.
I've got some Hungarian
paprika in there
that cost damn
near $100 an ounce.
Once a week,
I try to bring something
to this restaurant
that'll improve
the culinary habits
of the people that come in here.
Now, you've been
honored to eat this first.
Now, what do you think?
I'd be honored to eat it again.
Good. Good.
You liked it. Yeah.
Good.
Ranger Walker.
Bob Horne, Brookdale P.D.
Yeah, didn't we
talk this afternoon?
We sure did.
Can I join you?
Sit down.
I spoke to Sergeant Ross.
He says you're bent out of shape
because someone's
taking out bad guys.
I guess you could
say I'm a little bent.
Maybe they're just
doing everybody a favor.
I mean, think of
all your hard work
arresting the Bodine brothers.
Meant nothing.
They'd be in Costa
Rica right now
if somebody hadn't done
something, and that is wrong.
I'll bet that secretly you're
cheering these guys on.
Well, you'd lose that bet.
I have a hard time with
anyone who becomes judge,
jury and executioner.
Maybe that wouldn't be necessary
if liberal judges
would do their jobs
and put these crazies
where they belong.
Come on, Walker, this
country is tired of hiding
behind locked doors.
Well, there's only one
problem with that point of view.
What happens when
they make a mistake
and kill an innocent person?
What happens when
they kill the people
they're paid to protect?
For every innocent person,
a hundred bad guys go down.
Sounds like lousy odds to me.
You wouldn't happen to know
who's behind this, would ya?
No.
But you gotta love 'em.
No, I gotta take 'em down.
And how are you gonna do that?
Real hard.
Ain't gonna be any
room left for good people
unless somebody does
something about the scuzzoids
that are ruining this
world. Watch your hands.
Nobody seems to be
willing to step up to the plate,
but I am.
And screw anybody
who gets in my way.
Well, the problem is
that Walker is a cop.
One of the best.
Yeah, what was my
brother, chopped liver?
All his life, all Randy ever
wanted was to be a cop.
Two months. Two
months on the force.
You saw what the legal system
did to the guy that shot him.
Yeah.
Nothing.
Nada. Zip.
That's how all this got started,
and I'll tell you something.
It felt good to shoot the
bastard that killed Randy.
It felt good.
(balls clacking)
I hear ya, sarge.
I'm just saying I
think we ought to
give it a rest for a while.
Well, we'll give it a rest
when the revolving door
stops spitting vermin
back onto the streets
faster than we can arrest 'em.
Look at that, gentlemen.
Read it and weep.
That's a list of
all the murderers,
rapists and pedophiles
released by Dallas
courts in the last week.
Will you look at that?
Makes you wanna puke.
I'll tell you, Lou, we
need more forces.
Three of us aren't gonna
be enough to turn the tide.
Well, I think Romero and Leach
are ready to play. Fulton too.
No, no, no, not Fulton.
Fulton's too much
of a straight arrow.
Now, you remember that
drunk driver that killed his wife?
He just walked.
His name is on this list.
We'll save him for Fulton.
Can I get a beer?
Yeah.
All right, I believe
what we're doing
is for a good cause.
You're damn right it is.
And God knows it's something
that needs to be done.
That's right.
I just think we ought to
draw the line somewhere,
and I'm drawing a
line at killing cops.
Listen to me a minute.
We became policemen
because we believed
it was a calling,
not just a job.
That's why we joined the force.
That's why Horne's
brother joined the force.
He paid the price.
And that's why Horne had to
take the law into his own hands.
You see, Foster,
we are answering
to a higher call now.
Walker gets in
the way, he's dead.
( ominous theme playing)
Okay.
Good. Let's go over the list.
MARTA: Listen to
my Ernesto. Don Juan.
(chuckles)
I'll send two dozen roses,
and on the card I'll write:
"One for each hour of the
day that I think about you."
What do you think?
You're getting to be
such a romantic, Ernesto.
But sending her flowers,
isn't she gonna get in trouble
with her father? Nah.
I'll just send them
from a secret admirer.
Angela will know
they're from me.
I'll bring you back
roses too, Mom, okay?
I know.
You have dinner ready, right?
Si. All right.
Don't be late.
Yeah, yeah.
Walker, come check this out.
This is interesting.
All right, we got
this cop-killer
who's released on a technicality
three months ago because
he wasn't properly Mirandized.
He kills this Dallas rookie
named Randy Horne,
and then three days later,
he's gunned down in his driveway
by a hydroshock bullet.
Randy Horne?
Is he related to Bob Horne?
How about his younger brother?
Good news.
The DNA results
just came back in.
No possible match to Ernesto.
My office is dropping
all the charges.
Oh, man. Marta's
gonna be so happy.
Yeah, she sure is.
In fact, I'm gonna
go tell her personally.
Great.
When I get back,
we'll follow up on
this Bob Horne.
All right.
( ominous theme playing)
Mr. Lopez?
Yeah, what's the matter?
Well, you won't be
rapin' anybody else.
Drop the flowers.
Turn around.
Put your hands behind your head.
Hands behind your head.
I didn't do anything, man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's what they all say.
Get down on your knees.
Now!
On your belly.
All the way on your belly.
I didn't do anything.
On your belly!
You're making a mistake, man.
Turn over.
Turn over.
What are you doing?
(grunts)
(car starts)
DISPATCHER (over
CB): Attention, all units.
Shooting in the alley
between Salinger and Moore.
Shooting in the alley
between Salinger and Moore.
This is Ranger
Walker. I've got it.
(radio chatter)
Shot three times.
He was dead when we got here.
Oh, God.
Do you know him?
Yeah, I knew him.
( melancholy theme playing)
Mr. Walker.
Ernesto will be
back any minute now.
Marta, I, um...
Can I come in?
Sure.
MARTA (screaming): No!
( suspenseful theme playing)
I said it would happen.
The hell are you talking about?
I said one day an innocent
person would be killed,
and now one has.
Ernesto Lopez.
And you can tell whoever did it
I'm coming after him.
(crying)
I'm so sorry, Marta.
You know, Señor Walker,
for years and years,
I worried that the gangs
were gonna get mi hijo.
But with your help,
he got out of the gangs.
And then for years I worried
that they were
going to retaliate
and he'd be gunned down
in some kind of
senseless drive-by.
And then that happened
last year, you remember?
You remember my
Ernesto lying on the sidewalk
in a pool of his own blood?
But he recovered.
You should've
seen him in therapy,
day after day, working so hard.
And I never thought that he was
gonna come back all of the way,
but he did,
because my Ernesto is a fighter.
He survived the gangs
and he survived the drive-by.
And then he joined the
United States Marines.
And I thought everything
was gonna be okay.
He had his whole
life in front of him.
He... He was making
something of himself,
and he was in love.
And I don't know why.
Can you tell me why?
Señor Walker, can you tell me
why my Ernesto had to die?
I don't know. Can
you just tell me why?
(sobbing)
( melancholy theme playing)
HORNE: Walker.
We need to talk.
Too late for talk, Horne.
I'm getting a warrant
for your arrest.
I don't think so.
Drop it.
(groans)
Foster?
Ross. I'm here!
Get up, Horne. It's over.
(groans)
(groans)
We were right, Walker.
Tell that to Marta Lopez.
Sergeant Ross in there?
Ross.
Foster and Horne are dead.
This doesn't have
to go any farther.
Give it up.
I'm coming in.
(gunshot)
( dramatic theme playing)
( light rock action
theme playing)
♪ 'Cause the eyes
Of the Ranger ♪
♪ Are upon you ♪
♪ Any wrong you
do He's gonna see ♪
♪ When you're in
Texas Look behind you ♪
♪ 'Cause that's where
The Ranger's gonna be ♪
I'll pay it all back next week.
One more week.
That's... That's all I ask.
Really, I-I'm gonna
get my old job back.
I have a wife and two kids.
I mean, they gotta
eat, don't they?
Not until I get
mine, they don't.
I've been very patient
with you, Semple,
and generous.
You needed a grand
and I was there for you.
Now I want my money.
But... But $5000?
Money costs, doesn't it?
(chuckles)
What can I say?
Gentlemen, break his legs.
Oh, no. Please!
(singing indistinctly)
MAN: Milo.
Milo Creech?
Yeah. What about it?
Step into my office.
What for?
Do it.
( suspenseful theme playing)
(sighs)
Assume the position.
What the hell's the problem?
What the hell is the problem?
You are, son.
Watch the fence, there, Milo.
(car starts)
Milo, Milo, Milo,
you don't write, you don't call.
No R.S.V.P. for
the policeman's ball.
All right, all right,
what's this all about?
It's about justice, Milo.
Oh, okay, okay, I see.
You guys are just
trying to scare me, right?
No.
No.
Oh, no!
(screaming)
(dog barking)
Whew.
TRIVETTE: Texas Rangers.
Got a warrant for
the Bodine brothers.
( dramatic theme playing)
(buttons beeping)
(phone ringing)
Yeah?
Start the shredder.
Rangers comin' in!
You gotta buy us five minutes!
Come on.
Five minutes. Go!
MAN: Over here.
Make sure you destroy all
the state-militia contact codes.
They're in there,
they're in there.
TRIVETTE: Texas Rangers.
Everybody stay where you are!
(all clamoring)
Thanks.
WALKER: Ben and Frank Bodine,
you're under arrest.
TRIVETTE: Stop the shredder!
Damn! Walker, you know,
you cannot come in
here without a warrant.
What the...?
FRANK: Easy. We want our lawyer.
BEN: Yeah, I want my lawyer.
FRANK: We want our lawyer.
They can have the
whole bar association.
Won't do 'em any good this time.
( light rock action
theme playing)
♪ In the eyes of a Ranger ♪
♪ The unsuspecting stranger ♪
♪ Had better know the truth ♪
♪ Of wrong from right ♪
♪ 'Cause the eyes
Of the Ranger ♪
♪ Are upon you ♪
♪ Any wrong you
do He's gonna see ♪
♪ When you're in
Texas Look behind you ♪
♪ 'Cause that's where
The Ranger's gonna be ♪
TRIVETTE: Alex, what
typographical error?
The biggest gunrunners
in the Southwest
are gettin' off because
of a typo? That's not right.
It doesn't take much to
invalidate a search warrant.
Hey, Walker... Whoo!
Too bad, you had your chance.
You couldn't hold
the Bodine brothers.
There'll be another time.
Well, not for us, because, uh,
we'll be in Costa Rica.
(both laugh)
And you will be out of luck.
You only beat this
because of a clerical error.
Well, maybe you should
pay your help more.
(laughing)
Just remember one thing.
A clerical error on
your death certificate
won't mean you're still alive.
Oh, oh, Frankie,
was that a threat?
Hey, hoss, did you
just threaten me, huh?
Boo.
MAN (over TV): This is the
third time in as many months
the D.A.'s office has
lost a high-profile case
due to a seemingly
trivial technicality.
Asked to comment
on this latest case...
Now, if that don't beat thunder.
Both them guys are
gonna get off on a typo.
There ain't a damn
thing right about that.
I agree with you, big dog.
Well, unfortunately,
felons walking on a technicality
goes with the territory.
That doesn't mean
we have to like it.
I know.
Señor Walker?
Oh, Marta.
Hello. It's good to see you.
Yes, and you too.
You remember Alex Cahill?
Si, como no.
Sure.
And Ranger Trivette?
Hello. Hey, how are you?
All of you helped us
very much last year.
Yeah. How's that boy,
Tom, of yours doing?
He staying out of trouble?
Yes. Thanks to Señor
Walker, he's in high school now.
And he's making A's and B's.
Oh, you must be so proud.
That's terrific.
Yes, I'm very proud.
It's my oldest boy,
Ernesto. He's in trouble.
Trouble?
Tommy told me he
joined the Marines
and he was doing great.
Yes, he was doing fine,
until he came home
on leave two days ago.
Sit down, Marta.
Tell us what happened.
Uh, Ernesto went
out last night and I...
I don't know where he went
but he came home very late,
and about 20 minutes
later the police came...
and they say that Ernesto
raped this white lady
in the parking lot
of a shopping mall,
and then they took
him away to jail.
We don't have
any money for bail,
and I don't know what to do.
Have you heard
anything about this?
No, it hasn't come to my office.
My Ernesto would never
do anything like that.
No, we know he wouldn't.
Go home, Marta,
and I'll check into it.
Everything will
be all right, okay?
Thank you. Okay.
(sighs)
( suspenseful theme playing)
(cell phone rings)
(sighs)
Bodine here.
No, I already told you, Ben,
don't worry about it.
Yeah, I just spoke to Sully,
he reassured me that
we're free to go anytime.
No, he can't touch
us in Costa Rica.
And I wouldn't
worry about Walker.
He's more Air
Force than infantry.
Don't worry about it.
The cops can't touch us.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, I'll talk to you
when I get home.
Bye.
(panting)
Ah!
What did I do?
This is police brutality.
He thinks this
is police brutality.
Oh, God. Okay, all right.
What are you doing?
You mind if I do
this one, sarge?
No, go for it.
You can't do this.
You can't do this!
They say he ran down my street.
I don't know. He must've
looked like me, I don't know.
Cops rousted me,
brought me downtown,
they put me in a lineup.
She picked me out.
And here I am.
It's crazy, Walker.
I mean, me.
I mean, raping some woman.
I mean, you know
me better than that.
I didn't do it, Walker.
I know you didn't do it.
Where were you last night?
(sighs)
I can't say.
Why? I-I just can't.
It's gonna be hard
to help you, Ernesto,
if you don't tell me
where you were last night.
It's a matter of honor.
It's a matter of your freedom.
I didn't do it, Walker.
Hey, Ernesto. How you doing?
Can I talk to you for a second?
Okay.
I'll talk to the D.A.'s office,
find out what they have.
Guess who got shot.
Who? Frank Bodine.
(buzzer)
You can take him away.
Small caliber at close range.
Hydroshock bullets.
Forget about ballistics.
Well, whoever did it
knew what they were doing.
( dramatic theme playing)
Yeah, yeah, I know.
I just heard about it.
Sully, Sully,
how the hell am I supposed
to know who it was?
Hey, in my line of work,
it could be anybody.
Hell, for all I know, it
could've been Walker.
Sully, I know it was my brother.
What the hell good
does that do me now?
No. No.
I am not hanging out here
for another week,
all right, pal?
I am going to Costa
Rica this afternoon.
That's why I called you.
Yeah... No, no, no, listen.
Would you please just
shut up for a minute, okay?
Now, listen, I want
you to sell everything,
and then I want you to wire
it to my account in Geneva.
I will call you from San
Jose with a new number.
Do you got it?
Yes, I am calm, all right?
I'm calm. Smell it, feel it.
I'm calm.
All right. Thanks, Sully.
I owe you bigtime.
( suspenseful theme playing)
Going somewhere, Mr. Bodine?
What the h...?
Time to pay the piper.
Yeah. You're right.
( tense theme playing)
Beautiful.
Damn it!
I can't believe I did that.
We'd better get out of
here, right? We'd better go.
Sarge, we gotta go.
Went clean through.
What?
We gotta find the bullet.
Sergeant Horne, I
think we should go.
Come on, we
gotta find the bullet.
Officer?
Get casts made of
these prints, will you?
Yeah.
What have you got?
One shot, clean
through the heart.
M.E. says it looks like a 9 mm.
Looks like?
Yeah, it went clean
through the body.
Haven't been
able to find it yet.
Right over there,
the police were here.
Okay, just one car?
TRIVETTE: Hey, Walker.
This gardener says he
remembers a police car in the area
just after the
time of the shots,
except it wasn't a
Laurel Park police car.
Did he get a number on the car?
Mm-hm. One of them.
First two, five, three.
But then after
that he's not clear.
Five, three...
Why don't you find out what
district uses that designation?
All right.
Trivette, something's
bothering me here.
Someone went to a lot of trouble
to dig a bullet out over there.
And what's an
out-of-district police car
doing in this area?
And if they heard the shot...?
Why didn't they respond?
Exactly.
(sighs)
I guess we'll find that out
when we know who's
driving the police car.
Hey, Walker, wanna come here?
Look at this.
You remember Milo
Creech, the loan shark?
Mm-hm.
Just last week,
he beat an assault
with a deadly weapon
on a technicality.
Three days later
somebody threw him
off a roof and
killed him, right?
Two weeks before that, some
guy named Jefferson Brady...
The kiddie-porn guy? Yeah, yeah.
His case was dismissed
on a technicality,
and three days later
somebody gunned him down
outside his office.
Get this.
The killer used
hydroshock bullets.
Like Frank Bodine.
And three weeks before
that, we got another one.
Guy's case is thrown
out on a technicality
and a few days
later he's shot dead.
Hydroshock bullets?
You got it.
Now, in each one
of these situations,
we got no witnesses
and no suspects.
I think that's interesting.
Very interesting.
I'm gonna keep digging.
I'm gonna go see Alex,
see what's going
on with Ernesto.
(groans)
What did you find out?
Doesn't look good, Walker.
He didn't do it,
Alex. He's a good kid.
It would help if he
told you where he was.
Yeah, it would.
What do you have on him?
Right now it's the
victim's word against his.
How solid is she?
Scale of one to ten? Yeah.
I'd say about a five.
The detectives said
it took her a long time
to pick Ernesto
out of the lineup.
Hm, what about DNA tests?
We should have the results
back in about a week to ten days.
That'll be too late.
He'll be AWOL
from his unit by then.
Can you hurry it up?
Sure.
Can you do me another favor?
Can you contact the judge
and see if he'll lower the bail?
Walker, this is a
very serious charge.
Yeah, but the kid
deserves a break.
All right, I'll see
what I can do.
Okay. Thanks.
RIKER: A couple of seconds left,
you know. Popeye's got the ball.
He passes it to Jason,
who won't pass it to Jim,
who's wide open
under the basket.
They lose the game.
I swear, if the Mavericks
don't start winning,
I'm gonna bomb
their locker room.
It's gonna take more than
a bomb to wake 'em up.
Pay up, son. I'm light today.
Ah, come on. I don't care.
You're never gonna
get rich bettin' on losers.
(fake laughter) Yeehaw.
Hey, boys, there's, uh,
something in here
might interest you.
Oh, hey.
Oh, man, that's a shame.
RIKER: Yeah,
that's... That's terrible.
What's the world coming to?
Check out page two.
"Felons to benefit from
early-release program."
"Parents protest
the early release
of the Maple Street Molester"?
They just put this guy in.
How can they be letting him out?
I don't believe this crap.
Well, he won't be out long.
No, no, he won't.
Yo.
Turns out 53 isn't a
Dallas designation after all.
Belongs to the Brookdale
Police Department.
Brookdale Police Department?
Long ways from Laurel Park.
Checked it out myself.
Brookdale had 20 units on patrol
at the time of Frank
Bodine's murder.
Why don't you arrange for
us to talk to those 20 officers?
(phone rings)
Walker.
Walker, it's Alex.
I talked to the judge
and he has agreed to
drop the bail to $10,000.
Oh, that's great.
I'm going over now
to take care of it.
Okay. I'll call Marta
and I'll have her meet us
outside the courthouse.
Alex... thanks.
You're welcome.
ERNESTO: Mom.
Mom.
Thank you so much.
Oh, thank Alex Cahill.
She's the one that got
the judge to lower the bail.
I just paid for it.
Thank you, Miss Cahill.
Yeah, thanks.
It's my pleasure.
But now can you tell
us about your alibi?
And you won't tell anyone?
Strictly off the record.
Angela Escobar.
Ay, Ernesto, no.
Who is she?
Well, obviously you haven't been
reading the society
pages, Walker.
Angela is Congressman
Escobar's daughter.
She just got accepted
to Harvard Law School.
Yeah, we met last May, just
before I got into the Marines.
I was still working
at Phil's Garage.
She brought her Beemer in and,
well, we hit it off right away.
And you never told me?
Well, we only had three dates,
and then her father
found out about it
and told her never
to see me again.
But you did see her.
Yeah. I called Angela
before I came home on leave.
We still feel very
strongly about each other.
I saw her the night of the rape.
Well, we talked
almost all night.
I love her.
And she loves me.
And we agreed to keep
our relationship secret
until she finishes law school
and I get out of the Marines.
Then the heck
with her father, man.
So you couldn't
use her as an alibi
because her father would
find out you were together.
Right, right. I mean, She
has enough to worry about,
getting ready for law school.
I just didn't wanna
get her into trouble.
That's very honorable but
you're not out of trouble yourself.
When will we know?
The DNA results
should be in tomorrow.
If they're negative,
the D.A.'s office
will drop all charges.
As soon as we find
out, we'll let you know.
Now, go on home
and enjoy yourselves.
Okay.
(speaking Spanish)
Thank you.
Thanks, Walker.
Thank you, very much.
Miss Cahill,
thanks. Appreciate it.
Bye. See you guys later.
(chuckles)
Feels good to help
somebody who deserves it.
Yeah, sure does.
DRIVER: Get on the bus.
Get on the bus.
Got you something to do tonight?
Your girlfriend, your mama?
Maybe you got some
boyfriends at home.
MAN: Getting out of here.
Yeah, got some
freedom coming up.
Freedom.
MAN: Was that a
pothole you missed?
( tense theme playing)
(tires screech)
Hey, now, ain't that nice?
They giving y'all an escort.
(beeping)
(tires squealing)
(screaming)
MAN (coarse voice):
Last thing I remember,
those two cop cars
come alongside.
Next thing I know,
I'm packed in jelly
and they're shining
lights in my eyes.
You're absolutely sure
they were real policemen?
I've been in and out
of every joint in Texas.
I know a cop when I see one.
They were the real thing.
No doubt about it.
Thank you for your
cooperation, gentlemen.
You guys ready?
Yeah. Sarge.
You two were on patrol
together last Wednesday?
Yes, sir.
Where were you around 2:45?
Two forty-five?
Uh, well, I don't
know. Let me think.
We were up at
Oakwood, weren't we?
Yeah, I wrote that down, uh...
Yeah, we rolled by
Oakwood Plaza at 2:40.
Were you in the Laurel Park area
any time that day?
Laurel Park? No, sir.
Got no reason to
go to Laurel Park.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you.
Sure. Thank you again.
Well, okay, captain,
that's, uh, the last of them.
Okay, very good.
You've spoken to everybody
that was on duty that afternoon.
Does that clear it up?
For now, captain.
Ranger, I'd like to
get this resolved.
I don't want a cloud hanging
over any of my officers' heads.
I can understand that.
You know, whoever did this
killed two arms dealers
and a busload of early releases.
Well, I'm sorry.
I just don't feel
any great sense of loss here.
WALKER: That's not
the point, sergeant.
We can't have people
going around killing
whoever they think
deserves killing, can we?
No, you're... You're...
You're right, you're right.
(clears throat)
Well, I'm sure that
none of my people
had anything to do with it.
Thanks for your time, captain.
Thank you, Ranger.
Thanks, Ranger.
Well, what do you think
about the Tuna Texas Twister?
You're the first one
that's eaten one of them.
It was fine.
Just fine?
Yeah. C.D., a tuna
sandwich is a tuna sandwich.
Oh, no, no, no. No,
that's where you're wrong.
This is a special
blend of tuna fish.
I've got some Hungarian
paprika in there
that cost damn
near $100 an ounce.
Once a week,
I try to bring something
to this restaurant
that'll improve
the culinary habits
of the people that come in here.
Now, you've been
honored to eat this first.
Now, what do you think?
I'd be honored to eat it again.
Good. Good.
You liked it. Yeah.
Good.
Ranger Walker.
Bob Horne, Brookdale P.D.
Yeah, didn't we
talk this afternoon?
We sure did.
Can I join you?
Sit down.
I spoke to Sergeant Ross.
He says you're bent out of shape
because someone's
taking out bad guys.
I guess you could
say I'm a little bent.
Maybe they're just
doing everybody a favor.
I mean, think of
all your hard work
arresting the Bodine brothers.
Meant nothing.
They'd be in Costa
Rica right now
if somebody hadn't done
something, and that is wrong.
I'll bet that secretly you're
cheering these guys on.
Well, you'd lose that bet.
I have a hard time with
anyone who becomes judge,
jury and executioner.
Maybe that wouldn't be necessary
if liberal judges
would do their jobs
and put these crazies
where they belong.
Come on, Walker, this
country is tired of hiding
behind locked doors.
Well, there's only one
problem with that point of view.
What happens when
they make a mistake
and kill an innocent person?
What happens when
they kill the people
they're paid to protect?
For every innocent person,
a hundred bad guys go down.
Sounds like lousy odds to me.
You wouldn't happen to know
who's behind this, would ya?
No.
But you gotta love 'em.
No, I gotta take 'em down.
And how are you gonna do that?
Real hard.
Ain't gonna be any
room left for good people
unless somebody does
something about the scuzzoids
that are ruining this
world. Watch your hands.
Nobody seems to be
willing to step up to the plate,
but I am.
And screw anybody
who gets in my way.
Well, the problem is
that Walker is a cop.
One of the best.
Yeah, what was my
brother, chopped liver?
All his life, all Randy ever
wanted was to be a cop.
Two months. Two
months on the force.
You saw what the legal system
did to the guy that shot him.
Yeah.
Nothing.
Nada. Zip.
That's how all this got started,
and I'll tell you something.
It felt good to shoot the
bastard that killed Randy.
It felt good.
(balls clacking)
I hear ya, sarge.
I'm just saying I
think we ought to
give it a rest for a while.
Well, we'll give it a rest
when the revolving door
stops spitting vermin
back onto the streets
faster than we can arrest 'em.
Look at that, gentlemen.
Read it and weep.
That's a list of
all the murderers,
rapists and pedophiles
released by Dallas
courts in the last week.
Will you look at that?
Makes you wanna puke.
I'll tell you, Lou, we
need more forces.
Three of us aren't gonna
be enough to turn the tide.
Well, I think Romero and Leach
are ready to play. Fulton too.
No, no, no, not Fulton.
Fulton's too much
of a straight arrow.
Now, you remember that
drunk driver that killed his wife?
He just walked.
His name is on this list.
We'll save him for Fulton.
Can I get a beer?
Yeah.
All right, I believe
what we're doing
is for a good cause.
You're damn right it is.
And God knows it's something
that needs to be done.
That's right.
I just think we ought to
draw the line somewhere,
and I'm drawing a
line at killing cops.
Listen to me a minute.
We became policemen
because we believed
it was a calling,
not just a job.
That's why we joined the force.
That's why Horne's
brother joined the force.
He paid the price.
And that's why Horne had to
take the law into his own hands.
You see, Foster,
we are answering
to a higher call now.
Walker gets in
the way, he's dead.
( ominous theme playing)
Okay.
Good. Let's go over the list.
MARTA: Listen to
my Ernesto. Don Juan.
(chuckles)
I'll send two dozen roses,
and on the card I'll write:
"One for each hour of the
day that I think about you."
What do you think?
You're getting to be
such a romantic, Ernesto.
But sending her flowers,
isn't she gonna get in trouble
with her father? Nah.
I'll just send them
from a secret admirer.
Angela will know
they're from me.
I'll bring you back
roses too, Mom, okay?
I know.
You have dinner ready, right?
Si. All right.
Don't be late.
Yeah, yeah.
Walker, come check this out.
This is interesting.
All right, we got
this cop-killer
who's released on a technicality
three months ago because
he wasn't properly Mirandized.
He kills this Dallas rookie
named Randy Horne,
and then three days later,
he's gunned down in his driveway
by a hydroshock bullet.
Randy Horne?
Is he related to Bob Horne?
How about his younger brother?
Good news.
The DNA results
just came back in.
No possible match to Ernesto.
My office is dropping
all the charges.
Oh, man. Marta's
gonna be so happy.
Yeah, she sure is.
In fact, I'm gonna
go tell her personally.
Great.
When I get back,
we'll follow up on
this Bob Horne.
All right.
( ominous theme playing)
Mr. Lopez?
Yeah, what's the matter?
Well, you won't be
rapin' anybody else.
Drop the flowers.
Turn around.
Put your hands behind your head.
Hands behind your head.
I didn't do anything, man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's what they all say.
Get down on your knees.
Now!
On your belly.
All the way on your belly.
I didn't do anything.
On your belly!
You're making a mistake, man.
Turn over.
Turn over.
What are you doing?
(grunts)
(car starts)
DISPATCHER (over
CB): Attention, all units.
Shooting in the alley
between Salinger and Moore.
Shooting in the alley
between Salinger and Moore.
This is Ranger
Walker. I've got it.
(radio chatter)
Shot three times.
He was dead when we got here.
Oh, God.
Do you know him?
Yeah, I knew him.
( melancholy theme playing)
Mr. Walker.
Ernesto will be
back any minute now.
Marta, I, um...
Can I come in?
Sure.
MARTA (screaming): No!
( suspenseful theme playing)
I said it would happen.
The hell are you talking about?
I said one day an innocent
person would be killed,
and now one has.
Ernesto Lopez.
And you can tell whoever did it
I'm coming after him.
(crying)
I'm so sorry, Marta.
You know, Señor Walker,
for years and years,
I worried that the gangs
were gonna get mi hijo.
But with your help,
he got out of the gangs.
And then for years I worried
that they were
going to retaliate
and he'd be gunned down
in some kind of
senseless drive-by.
And then that happened
last year, you remember?
You remember my
Ernesto lying on the sidewalk
in a pool of his own blood?
But he recovered.
You should've
seen him in therapy,
day after day, working so hard.
And I never thought that he was
gonna come back all of the way,
but he did,
because my Ernesto is a fighter.
He survived the gangs
and he survived the drive-by.
And then he joined the
United States Marines.
And I thought everything
was gonna be okay.
He had his whole
life in front of him.
He... He was making
something of himself,
and he was in love.
And I don't know why.
Can you tell me why?
Señor Walker, can you tell me
why my Ernesto had to die?
I don't know. Can
you just tell me why?
(sobbing)
( melancholy theme playing)
HORNE: Walker.
We need to talk.
Too late for talk, Horne.
I'm getting a warrant
for your arrest.
I don't think so.
Drop it.
(groans)
Foster?
Ross. I'm here!
Get up, Horne. It's over.
(groans)
(groans)
We were right, Walker.
Tell that to Marta Lopez.
Sergeant Ross in there?
Ross.
Foster and Horne are dead.
This doesn't have
to go any farther.
Give it up.
I'm coming in.
(gunshot)
( dramatic theme playing)
( light rock action
theme playing)
♪ 'Cause the eyes
Of the Ranger ♪
♪ Are upon you ♪
♪ Any wrong you
do He's gonna see ♪
♪ When you're in
Texas Look behind you ♪
♪ 'Cause that's where
The Ranger's gonna be ♪