Walker, Texas Ranger (TV Series) Family Matters (1993) User Reviews

Family matters

[coltras35 · 7/10 · 19 October 2022]

Walker befriends a teased boy by the name of Archie, and gives the boy permission to come over to his ranch anytime he wants. When Walker and Trivette find a man by the name of Mick Flanders and his pal, Leo, robbing a bar, Mick boasts that he can't be prosecuted. As it turns out, Mick's sister, Lainie, is in the Witness Protection Program, and she is having him added as well. While Archie is at Walker's ranch, Mick breaks into the ranch and kidnaps the young boy...

Chuck Norris shows his soft side in this involving episode that has a good idea regarding a criminal being untouchable due to be part of a Witness Protection programme. The ending is quite sad. The life lessons Walker gives to a boy is pleasant.

Great episode with a sad ending.

[jsn_hylnd · 10/10 · 30 December 2014]

Here we have another exciting and dramatic episode in which we saw Walker and Trivette battle the justice system and Walker and Alex get into a couple of heated arguments.

"Spoilers" Showing begins where Walker befriends a troubled kid named Archie who was getting chased by some bullies and he walks off with Walker to pick some flowers. Meanwhile, a couple of thug mechanics desire to go on a crime spree in which we see them walk into a strip joint, rob and terrorize everyone and then shoot a bartender after he tried to intervene and save his stripper sister. Walker and Trivette bust in and arrest them but are quickly let go because one of the creeps, Mickey Flanders, has a sister on the witness protection program and he is on it as well which means he is free from prosecution and this is where Walker and Alex really butt heads because Walker being the good moral man that he is does not want to let this killer go while Alex has to abide by the law. This whole ordeal causes a conflict between Walker and the F.B.I. As Walker tries desperately to convince Mickey's sister Lanie to drop Mickey from the program, Archie eventually stands up to the bullies. The showdown comes at Walker's ranch where Mickey and his thug Leo try to kill Walker and hold Archie (Who had been staying with Walker) hostage but Mickey's sister arrives and tries to calm her brother down but Mickey shoots his sister and Walker takes down Mickey. Lanie dies in Walker arms uttering her last words "it's not his fault" and Walker turns his head to Mickey asking "who's going to protect you now?".

Loved this episode as it has a couple of lines that I like including:

"It's the funny thing about bullies, they only pick on kids who are afraid of them"

"If you've never met a man who doesn't have a scar or 2, that means he never fought for anything he believed in".

The ending nearly brought a tear to my eye but at least the bad guy ends up paying for it now.