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The Best Episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger Season 5

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Every episode of Walker, Texas Ranger Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover 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,...
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  • Devil's Turf
    8.0/10(124)
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    #1 - 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.

    Director: Michael Preece

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Ranger's Christmas
    7.9/10(127)
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    #2 - A Ranger's 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.

    Director: Michael Preece

    Writer: N/A

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  • Mayday
    7.9/10(119)
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    #3 - 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.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: N/A

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  • Full Contact
    7.9/10(119)
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    #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.

    Director: Michael Preece

    Writer: N/A

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  • Days Past
    7.9/10(123)
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    #5 - 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 ...

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: N/A

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  • Sons of Thunder (2)
    7.9/10(121)
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    #6 - 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 all the cops that were killed. Trivette gets a call from a cop, who has some info he would like to give him but asks that they meet in his place, when Trivette goes there, the killer has already killed the cop and shoots Trivette. Carlos was visiting Trent when the killer tries to kill Carlos but Trent saves him. After giving a decription of the man, Carlos thinks that it's a Metro cop named Rod Barkley. While Alex checks on him, Walker asks Carlos to explain who is this guy is and why is he killing all these cops. A few years ago, Carlos, the other cops and Barkley were chasing this motorist who was speeding. When he stopped, Barkley then proceeded to beat him up, eventually the other cops had to pull Barkley off the boy. When all of the other cops stated that there was no reason justifying Bark

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Brotherhood
    7.8/10(115)
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    #7 - 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.

    Director: Michael Preece

    Writer: N/A

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  • Trial of LaRue
    7.8/10(127)
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    #8 - Trial of LaRue

    Season 5 Episode 20

    Aired 3/8/1997

    Victor La Rue has been declared fit for trial. During the course of the hearing, La Rue manages to subdue the bailiffs and get their guns. He then demands that Walker come here but Walker is out chasing down some criminals. So while La Rue taunts Alex.

    Director: Michael Preece

    Writer: N/A

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  • Last Hope
    7.7/10(121)
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    #9 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The 99th Ranger
    7.7/10(126)
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    #10 - The 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.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: N/A

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  • Codename: Dragonfly
    7.6/10(123)
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    #11 - 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.

    Director: Michael Preece

    Writer: N/A

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  • Cyclone
    7.6/10(113)
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    #12 - Cyclone

    Season 5 Episode 10

    Aired 11/23/1996

    As a cyclone approaches, kidnappers demand $10 million for a buried bus full of children.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: N/A

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  • Lucky
    7.6/10(111)
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    #13 - 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.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: N/A

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  • Higher Power
    7.5/10(118)
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    #14 - Higher Power

    Season 5 Episode 1

    Aired 9/21/1996

    Walker must fight to protect the reincarnation of a Buddhist monk.

    Director: Michael Preece

    Writer: N/A

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  • Redemption
    7.5/10(112)
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    #15 - 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.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: N/A

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  • Patriot
    7.4/10(123)
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    #16 - 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.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: N/A

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  • Plague
    7.4/10(123)
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    #17 - 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.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Father's Image
    7.4/10(113)
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    #18 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Texas vs. Cahill
    7.4/10(116)
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    #19 - 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. The next morning Tony is found dead at Alex's beside and she is arrested for suspicion of murder. She reveals to Walker that Tony came to her last night with evidence that would turn the case around before she passed out. Her father Gordon Cahill returns to defend her in court. Alex is put in a womens prison where the convicts want to get revenge against her for putting them in there, but she is saved by a woman named Alfre Grimes who was put in because of a mistake. Meanwhile Walker and Trivette learn from Tony's sister, Mollie, that he had falling out with Tillman, and with Gordon's help they suspect Tillman is behind the murder - because if the prosecuting attorney is having an affair with the defense attorney and the defense attorney ends up dead then Lane Tillman would go free because there would be no second trial. Then Mollie gets a letter from Tony and

    Director: Michael Preece

    Writer: N/A

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  • Ghost Rider
    7.3/10(124)
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    #20 - Ghost Rider

    Season 5 Episode 3

    Aired 10/5/1996

    A dead child's spirit assists Walker to discover who murdered him eight years ago.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Silent Cry
    7.3/10(115)
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    #21 - 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.

    Director: Michael Preece

    Writer: N/A

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  • Heart of the Dragon
    7.3/10(117)
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    #22 - 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.

    Director: Michael Preece

    Writer: N/A

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  • Swan Song
    7.2/10(124)
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    #23 - 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.

    Director: Karl Kases

    Writer: N/A

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  • Sons of Thunder (1)
    7.2/10(145)
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    #24 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Chuck Norris

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  • The Deadliest Man Alive
    6.9/10(127)
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    #25 - 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 (and may even be involved in the JFK assassination), 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.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: N/A

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Devil's Turf" is the best rated episode of "Walker, Texas Ranger" season 5. It scored 8/10 based on 124 votes. Directed by Michael Preece and written by N/A, it aired on 2/15/1997. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "A Ranger's Christmas".