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Walker, Texas Ranger Season 9 Episodes
Season 9 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2000 - 2001
Episode 1
Home of the Brave
Sat, Oct 7, 2000
The Rangers stop a baby kidnapping ring that sells them to parents desperate for one. Also, a property owner wants his tenants out of the apartment building, so he plants a bomb in it with them inside.
Episode 2
Deadly Situation
Sat, Oct 14, 2000
Walker, Trivette, Alex, Gage, and Cooke go to another city to play baseball with its police department. Alex meets with the D.A. who is a friend of hers to talk about a major drug bust they made. Later two cops are waiting for someone when three detectives come in and try to kill them. One of them is killed, but the other gets away. He makes his way to the courthouse and the detectives chase him. He runs into the D.A.'s office and they shoot the D.A.. Walker shows up and tells them to get out. He then talks to the cop who claims that he has proof that they are stealing drugs from their busts. Walker finds it hard to believe and sends Gage and Cooke to look into it and learn it might be true. He thinks that one of the city's high-ranking cops might be working with the detectives.
Episode 3
White Buffalo
Sat, Oct 21, 2000
A new drug called the White Buffalo hits the streets and Alex, Cooke, and a young child find the dealers while hiking. Cooke is shot by them. Meanwhile, Walker investigates a buffalo statue that appears to be crying real tears.
Episode 4
The Avenging Angel
Sat, Oct 28, 2000
A wrestling friend of Trivette's is killed during his flying entrance to the ring. The Rangers search for the businessman who wants to put the wrestling company out of business.
Episode 5
Winds of Change
Sat, Nov 4, 2000
A man who calls himself The Chairman talks with various mob bosses and informs them that he knows who, among their people, are undercover operatives sent by the government. He offers to weed them out for a fee. But one named Cardoza who is based in Texas refuses but when the Chairman tells him that a Senator is in Dallas to meet with Alex on how to deal with him, he claims that it doesn't bother him. But he actually decides to take her out. The Chairman then informs the Rangers who stop Cardoza's men. Later when the Senator is informed of undercover agents turning up dead, she decides to form a task force to find who is doing it and she wants Walker to head it. He accepts and brings in Trivette, Gage, and Cooke to help him and is told that a New York cop named Rosetti is part of his team too. Thinking that whoever is doing this must be hacking the government's computers, Trivette gets a hacker who is in jail to help them. They start by going after Cardoza.
Episode 6
Lazarus
Sat, Nov 11, 2000
Walker and his team are still searching for the man who is eliminating undercover agents. He gets a lead when a mobster's son goes to people who pay his father for protection asking for more. When one of them decides to go to his father and tell him what he's doing, he kills him. Someone sees it and tells Walker who then sets out to get the mobster's son. The mobster then goes to the Chairman to deal with this.
Episode 7
Turning Point
Sat, Nov 18, 200060 mins
Walker sets out to go after the Chairman. He decides to go after his clients. He decides to start with a man Rosetti knows who is now in Miami. He sends Rosetti, Trivette, Gage, and Cooke there. They eventually find the man's accountant. They convince him to testify against his boss. Gage and Cooke are bringing him back to Dallas. But when his boss learns of this, he informs the Chairman who then makes sure he doesn't reach there.
Episode 8
Retribution
Sat, Nov 25, 2000
After Walker and his task force have taken down a considerable number of the Chairman's roster of crime families and organizations that paid him to terminate undercover agents in their operations, the Chairman requests the best killers from all of his remaining employers to meet him in Dallas to take out Walker and his task force. After somehow expecting the Chairman to form this death squad, Walker orders higher security at their headquarters. This is not limited to Alex, who Walker assigns bodyguards to. After following several leads and busting a few more key players on the Chairman's roster of criminals, Walker and his team are set up in an ambush involving plenty of fists and bullets. The Chairman sets up Alex into thinking Walker was hurt. This was only a trap to lure Walker into a one-on-one fight with the Chairman, ending with another trademark explosion that sees Alex and Walker escaping to live another day. The show winds down after hearing the good news that all of the criminal organizations brought down by the Rangers met legal justice and the task force's computer expert, on loan from prison, Buzz, got both a pardon and her freedom.
Episode 9
Child of Hope
Sat, Dec 9, 2000
Some men are robbing the homes of wealthy people when they are out. But when the owners of the one they are currently robbing come home early, they kill them. That's when the driver goes off and tries to go on the run with his wife and baby. But his cohorts find and kill him. His widow gets away with her baby. She later leaves her with Alex who decides to care for her. Walker, who is investigating the robberies, discovers the link between the baby's mother and the robbers so he tries to find her before they do.
Episode 10
Faith
Sat, Dec 16, 2000
The granddaughter of a friend of Alex and Walker's is in need of a liver transplant. When a donor is found, the liver is on its way via ambulance. But some men who pulled a robbery run into another vehicle near the ambulance. When the vehicle they were driving is damaged, and one of the robbers is seriously injured, they steal the ambulance and its driver. The liver is still in the ambulance. Walker and his team must find it before it is too late.
Episode 11
Golden Boy
Sat, Jan 6, 2001
Walker takes in a young boxing prodigy after his parents are killed in a car accident. Meanwhile, Gage and Cooke go undercover to take down a drug ring.
Episode 12
Desperate Measures
Sat, Jan 20, 2001
A bus transporting female convicts is forced off the road and the ones who do so are the partners of two of the convicts on board. They proceed to go on a crime spree. The other two are chained together and escape. One of them claims to be innocent of the crime she was convicted of and tries to find her son. Her husband tries to find her so he can kill her. They eventually run into Gage who is on a bike ride.
Episode 13
Division Street
Sat, Feb 3, 2001
Boomer Knight runs a youth center in a gang neighborhood to keep the children from joining the gangs. Walker helps him organize basketball tournaments. The drug dealers try to intervene by kidnapping him.
Episode 14
Saturday Night
Sat, Feb 10, 2001
Walker and the others are working on reports that the mob is making a move on Dallas and they are forcing criminals to turn their operations to them or else. At the same time a friend of his, who owns a club, borrowed money from someone who works for the mob. And after he pays them, they insist that he give them ownership of the club. When the mob boss arrives, he tries to kill him, but Walker stops him, and they agree to work together to get them.
Episode 15
Justice for All
Sat, Feb 17, 200160 mins
After a lawyer who is representing a man who was beaten when he was arrested is shot, Walker and his team must find out who did so.
Episode 16
6 Hours
Sat, Apr 14, 2001
A Dallas billionaire's daughter is kidnapped by her bodyguard and held for ransom on a nationally televised website. Walker and the Rangers have only six hours to save her before she dies.
Episode 17
Medieval Crimes
Sat, Apr 21, 2001
Gage and Cooke go undercover at a medieval themed restaurant to gather evidence that some workers are stealing art from museums overnight. Gage is identified by a waitress and his life is in jeopardy.
Episode 18
Legends
Sat, Apr 21, 2001
After a trial where a crime boss is found guilty, the head juror is killed. The Rangers connect the murder to the convicted criminal's son. Others are in danger from his revenge for putting his father in prison.
Episode 19
Unsafe Speed
Sat, Apr 28, 2001
Gage and Cooke go undercover to bust a biker gang that has been dealing drugs to illegally licensed truck drivers. One of them caused a fatal highway accident that first alerts Walker and company to the operation.
Episode 20
Without a Sound
Sat, Apr 28, 2001
While trying to prevent a crime, Gage is near an explosion. Its intensity damages his hearing. While they wait to see if it returns, Walker and the others try to find the ones he tangled with. And they are also planning to take him out too.
Episode 21
Blood Diamonds
Sat, May 5, 2001
A wounded Walker ascends through a manufacturing plant, wounded and using his gun one bullet at a time on killers as he recounts the story of a visiting African businessman who collapses from an Ebola-like virus after infecting several people. He, who has since died of it, was a pawn in an African diamond smuggling ring. Now Walker has the diamonds and a whole cartel is in the building going after him. A "Dallas"-like twist ending keeps him going.
Episode 22
Reel Rangers
Sat, May 5, 2001
Walker is not involved in this episode's story, but he has a few scenes checking in with Alex's obstetrician to try to find out the sex of their coming baby. Trivette leads a group of Rangers backstage at Las Colinas Studios to investigate skullduggery on a movie being filmed in Dallas.
Episode 23
The Final Showdown: Part 1
Sat, May 19, 2001
Lavocat breaks his gang members out of prison to help kill the Rangers and determines a threat to his life. He caused the deaths of C.D., Jenson, and attempted to kill Trivette. A Hayes Cooper story parallels the modern-day one.
Episode 24
The Final Showdown: Part 2
Sat, May 19, 2001
Lavocat continues with his plans to kill the Rangers. As the Hayes Cooper story unfolds, Hayes fights an ancestor of Lavocat's. In the present, the Rangers go after him. Trivette gets engaged to a lady named Erika. Alex gives birth to a daughter named Angela.
