The BEST episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger season 5
Every episode of Walker, Texas Ranger season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger season 5!
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.
#1 - Days Past
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/22/1997
Vince Pike, the man who shot Walker's fiancee ten years earlier, manages to get an early release from prison. For Walker painful memories about the time with Ellen return. While he survived an attack by Pike's men back then, Ellen died. And now Walker seeks justice - and Pike a destroyed Walker when he wants to go after the persons in his life. First C.D., then Trivette, and finally Alex.
#2 - Lucky
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1996
A homeless man's dog helps Walker track down the source of an attack on a priest. Meanwhile, Alex and C.D. put on a charity Thanksgiving dinner.
#3 - 99th Ranger
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/8/1997
An abused lady nearly quits becoming a Texas Ranger following threats from her ex-husband.
#4 - Full Contact
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/1/1997
Walker clears the name of a young martial artist framed for murder, then trains him for a kickboxing tournament championship.
#5 - A Silent Cry
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1996
Walker searches Dallas nightclubs to seek out who raped a friend's daughter with the help of a mickey slipped in her drink.
#6 - Last Hope
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1997
A troubled teen endangers everybody at Ranger Camp by stealing a money bag from drug dealers.
#7 - Cyclone
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1996
As a cyclone approaches, kidnappers demand $10 million for a buried bus full of children.
#8 - The Deadliest Man Alive
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1996
The world's most deadly assassin who has left a trail of blood in history, The Viper, is in town. Walker is informed and recruited by Interpol Agent Draper who's hunting the Viper now for nearly 25 years. Since the killer is in town to carry out another assassination - the target could be the visiting Israeli Ambassador - it's up to Walker to find and eliminate the Viper before he hits once again.
#9 - Heart of the Dragon
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/5/1997
Walker protects a young man who has a jade dragon that a Chinese gang believes has magical power.
#10 - Higher Power
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1996
Walker must fight to protect the reincarnation of a Buddhist monk.
#11 - Sons of Thunder (2)
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/4/1997
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 to all the cops that were killed.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#12 - Redemption
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1996
Alex's estranged father is hired to represent a crime figure in a trial she is prosecuting.
#13 - Codename: Dragonfly
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1996
A military helicopter with stealth capabilities has been stolen to be utilized by a drug cartel. The thief turns out to be an ex-Marine and old comrade of Walker's who left him for dead in Vietnam.
#14 - Devil's Turf
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/15/1997
When a mix of steroids and meth starts killing high schoolers, Walkers seeks the source of the deadly combination.
#15 - The Brotherhood
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1996
Walker takes on a trio of Vigilante Cops,who decided to take the law into their own hands.This is especially so,since these Killer Cops have executed a friend of Walkers,who was innocent of rape.
#16 - A Father's Image
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/3/1997
Ranger Hunt goes undercover to stop a crime boss from raising his ten-year-old son to take over the family business.
#17 - Swan Song
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1996
Walker and Cahill head to the mountains of Utah to track down the crashed remains of a plane that was used during a daring bank robbery in 1988—which resulted in the death of one of Walker's friends—unawares a survior remains and has turned cannibal.
#18 - Mayday
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1997
After surviving a plane crash that was supposed to kill him and an important witness, Walker must protect the witness from hit men coming to make sure they're dead.
#19 - The Neighborhood
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/26/1997
Walker helps a ten-year-old severely wounded in a drive-by to end violence in her community.
#20 - Plague
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1996
A Cherokee reservation's inhabitants are in danger from risky, experimental practices at a nearby dairy farm.
#21 - Patriot
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1996
After the leader of a white-supremacist group is arrested, they retaliate by taking over a minority-owned television station.
#22 - Texas vs. Cahill
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/10/1997
Alex's current case is a retrial of Lane Tillman, a mob boss, who is defended by Tony Seville, who was Alex's lover years ago is found dead at Alex's bedside and she is arrested for suspicion of murder, which brings back her father Gordon Cahill to defend her in court.
#23 - Sons of Thunder (1)
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/4/1997
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.
#24 - Rookie
Season 5 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/17/1997
Joey Prado just graduated from the academy with the best marks since Walker. One of his first assignments is to go undercover as a drug dealer. Along the way, he reunites with his childhood friend Vic Solano.
#25 - A Ranger Christmas
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/1996
Walker tells the story of the Old West's Hayes Cooper, a Scrooge-like Texas Ranger who finally learned to have Christmas spirit.