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This is a list of characters from the TV series Walker, Texas Ranger .
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| Portrayed by | Seasons | No. of episodes | First Appearance | Final appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chuck Norris | Pilot Season-8 and Trial by Fire | 198 | One Riot, One Ranger | Trial By Fire |
Cordell Firewalker, as Texas Ranger Sgt. Cordell Walker, is a former dolphin trainer with an elite Force Reconnaissance unit and a modern-day Ranger who believes in the Code of the Old West. He is a decorated Vietnam vet and a martial arts expert. He lived with his parents John and Elizabeth Firewalker, until the age of 12, when they were senselessly murdered by a trio of white supremacists. He was then sent to live on a Cherokee reservation with his paternal uncle Ray. On the reservation, the young Cordell lived a hard life, especially with some peers who bullied him, until one day, Billy Grey Wolf intervened and defended Walker causing the two to become "blood brothers". His name in Cherokee language is Washoe, which means "lone eagle". As an adult, after winning a world championship kickboxing title, Cordell enlisted in the U.S. Marines leaving for Vietnam. Upon his return, he joined DPS and then the Texas Rangers as a sergeant, earning numerous honors.
As a Texas Ranger, Walker opposes vigilantism, yet thinks nothing of bending any regulations which complicate his own pursuit of a criminal. Walker's customized pickup truck often doubles as a paddy wagon.
In the series pilot, Walker's partner Bob Mobley is murdered during a robbery. Then Walker meets pro-athlete-turned-rookie-Ranger James Trivette, who remains his partner and close confidante throughout the series.
Due to his Cherokee heritage (or so he claims), Walker sometimes has premonitions of investigations (usually if all else fails); his intuition always proves correct. In addition to martial arts, Walker is proficient in rodeo shows and individual episodes show he is efficient in apparently limitless abilities, such as flying helicopters and airplanes, replacing a Formula One driver and resolving various types of disasters. Despite his physical skills and moral soundness (expanded in the Chuck Norris Facts), which shows in most of the episodes, is sometimes saved or at least helped by his partner Trivette or other characters. In the episode, "Vision Quest", Walker falls into depression momentarily after losing his eye sight courtesy of a bomb, and upon learning the damage could be permanent, considers resigning from the Rangers, until Chief White Eagle and Alex help him to adapt to his disability until his eyesight returns.
Walker has some occasional romantic rapports in the early seasons of the series, such as in the episode "The Right Man at the Wrong Time" where he falls in love with a singer, and defends her from her ex-husband, and also hit by a veterinarian in a veterinary leg confiding uncle Ray. He was also briefly involved with a handicapped young woman named Robin. "Days Past" reveals that Walker was about to get married ten years prior, but his girlfriend Ellen Garrett, was killed in an ambush set up by criminal Vince Pike. Upset over Ellen's death, Cordell never told anyone about it (the affair is in fact told to Trivette and Alex by CD) and only at the end of the episode, after re-arresting Pike, he, with Alex's support, manages to truly make peace with Ellen's death.
In later seasons, he develops feelings for, dates, becomes engaged to, and ultimately marries the deputy district attorney Alexandra "Alex" Cahill. In the series finale, the Walkers welcome their first child: daughter Angela, whose name is a possible nod to Norris's 1988 movie Hero and the Terror .
| Portrayed by | Seasons | First Appearance | Final appearance | No. of episodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarence Gilyard | Pilot Season-8, Trial by Fire (cameo) | One Riot, One Ranger | Trial By Fire | 174 |
James Trivette, commonly known as "Jimmy" or "Go Long Trivette" (during his time in the Dallas Cowboys), is Walker's partner. He grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and has an older brother named Simon, who appears in the episode "Brothers in Arms". As a young man he was a famous football player, and he was a member of the Dallas Cowboys until a shoulder injury ended his career. He later entered the Texas Rangers and became a colleague of Walker in the first episode of the series, "One Riot, One Ranger in Fort Worth". Trivette takes the place of Walker's old partner Bob Mobley who was killed during a robbery in the same episode. However, in the episode "Till Death Do Us Part", in which Walker ends up in a coma and his friends recall some of their greatest memories of him, it turns out their first meeting had taken place during a riot: while trying to calm the crowd, Trivette was ambushed and nearly killed, but was saved by his future partner. Walker's gruff character makes it difficult with their initial partnership, and Trivette is forced to work hard to gain his respect and trust, but they later become good friends. Trivette is very computer savvy, but sometimes mocks the fact that Walker knows more about him without the use of technology. Regarding C.D. Parker, he sometimes has some quarrels about his chili. but they are still good friends, with Trivette even giving him the nickname "Big Dog".
Trivette shows great professionalism and commitment to his work as a ranger, but is generally less skilled than Walker, in highlighting the qualities of his partner; on several occasions he ends up injured and Walker is left to complete his mission without him. Being quite touchy, he is sometimes the butt of jokes by Walker or CD or Alex, or is involuntarily involved in comic situations of various kinds. However, Trivette gets a bigger role in several episodes in which Walker is away with another case or other kind of business, and is the star of the episodes. He also had faced several legal problems, such as in "Trust No One" in which he is accused of having pocketed part of the spoils of a robbery, and in "The Hands of God", where he seemingly injured a little boy during a shootout, and in both cases, Walker never lost his faith in his partner, and Trivette is ultimately proven innocent at the end of both episodes. In addition, in "Justice for All", during their investigation into the death of an attorney for a serial rapist, Trivette, along with Sydney and Gage were facing accusations of police brutality when they went to question the rapist and his friends started the fight and with the help of his new attorney they would commit perjury to discredit the three of them to win the civil suit case. In the end once the truth was confirmed, the three got off the hook with the rapist in prison for another attempted rape, and the attorney facing disbarment for his actions.
Trivette is single most of the series, despite occasional romantic attachments in some episodes, such as "Behind the Badge" when he falls for a journalist, but she is forced to leave, or "Angel of Death" Trivette reconnects with Angell his girlfriend in high school, but finds that she is a killer. Angel is also killed at the end of the episode. In the last episode of the series, Trivette meets old girlfriend Erika (who previously appeared in the episode "Justice Delayed") and they decide to get married, despite some initial doubts when Trivette is nearly killed by one of the motorcycle gang who marked him as a target.
| Portrayed by | Seasons | First Appearance | Final appearance | No. of episodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheree J. Wilson | Pilot Season-8, Trial by Fire | One Riot, One Ranger | Trial By Fire | 186 |
Alex is a deputy district attorney. Her past is told in a few episodes: she grew up with her mother (who later died), and had clashes with her father (due to his alcoholism and abandonment) and later with her first husband. This necessity of fighting has affected her character, making it very specific. Alex has a great passion for her work, which sometimes puts her in danger, as in various episodes convicted criminals that she put away, who later escape or are released often try to kill her for revenge. On other occasions, Alex is taken hostage by criminals to lure Walker into a trap, but she usually remains unharmed because the rangers save her regularly, sometimes helped by other characters. On the other hand, Alex was shown care Walker during times that he was injured, helps him and the other Rangers by providing them with warrants, mandates, and permits. She and Walker share a passion for horses and protectiveness of minors.
Alex, at the beginning of the series, was just a friend of Walker and the two worked together regularly, despite having had a fight during their first meeting in court, in which Walker was witness to a process of Alex and she doubted that the ranger had been able to stop seven criminals at once. Alex, at the time, was involved with another man in the episode "Borderline", but later became Walker's girlfriend and the two married at the end of the seventh season. She later pregnant in the eighth season and has a daughter, named Angela, in the final episode.
Alex had different interests and stakes various kinds, but in particular was committed to women's rights. In various episodes, she helped victims of sexual assault or domestic violence by their husbands/partners. This passion for feminism is variously explained in the series: In one episode Alex said that her friend was killed by her partner in a dispute, while in "Texas vs. Cahill", she was forced to admit that her ex-boyfriend, under the influence of drugs, had assaulted her years earlier. In the seventh season, following a near-death experience, Alex decided that her work as a deputy prosecutor is not enough to help others and founded a community center, called HOPE (Help Our People Excel), on the advice of Walker, where she helps children and young people in trouble.
| Portrayed by | Seasons | No. of episodes | First Appearance | Final appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judson Mills | 8-9 and Trial by Fire | 46 | Countdown | Trial By Fire |
Francis Gage is a Texas Ranger and makes his first appearance in the second episode of the eighth season of the series, Countdown pt 2. Since then he works with the team of Walker and Trivette, paired with Sydney Cooke. He is very skilled in combat and he never learned to cook. In the episode "Tall Cotton" it is revealed that he has a sister, Julie, who is a journalist. Between Gage and Sydney, there are a lot of similarities, so much so that in some episodes they are almost ready to declare. In the episode "Without Sound", Gage loses his hearing and Sydney helped him to cope with this disability until he regained his hearing at the end of the episode. This episode displayed the closeness of their duo.
| Portrayed by | Seasons | No. of episodes | First Appearance | Final appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nia Peeples | 8-9 | 47 | Countdown | Final Show / Down |
Sydney is a Texas Ranger and appears in the second episode of the seventh season in tandem with the Ranger Francis Gage. She's a very skilled in combat and able to defend herself very well. Although sometimes she is captured by criminals, there are several occasions she turns the tables and has to save Gage. Sydney sometimes uses disguises and her charm to attract criminals, but she is single and complains about it occasionally. Sydney mentions in "Wedding Bells Part 2" that she is 32.
| Portrayed by | Seasons | No. of episodes | First Appearance | Final appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gailard Sartain (pilot episode only) Noble Willingham | Season 1 (pilot episode only)-8 | 155 | One Riot, One Ranger | A Matter of Faith |
In the eighties, C.D. was a Texas Ranger, and after a long period where he was captain of the rangers as well. He was also partnered with Walker when Walker first joined the Texas Rangers. In the show, he is retired and owns a restaurant in Texas called "C.D.'s Bar and Grill". C.D. aids the rangers throughout the series in their fight against crime and helps put many criminals behind bars.
C.D. disappears from the series halfway through season 7 (due to Noble Willingham leaving the series to run for Congress), with his last appearance being in the Christmas episode "A Matter of Faith". For the rest of the season, he is written to have left on a cruise around the world, which leaves him unable to attend Walker and Alex's wedding in the season finale. He then remains off-screen until the eighth season episode, "The Avenging Angel", when Walker receives a phone call saying that C.D. has died of an apparent heart attack while on a fishing trip. However, in the series finale, it is revealed that C.D. actually died of poisoning by Emile Lavocat, and the symptoms presented as a heart attack.
| Portrayed by | Seasons | No. of episodes | First Appearance | Final appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floyd Westerman (Season 1 and 2) Apesanahkwat (Season 3) | Season 1-3 | 16 | One Riot, One Ranger | On Sacred Ground |
Ray in the series plays the uncle of Cordell Walker. He was the only relative that remained for Walker when his parents died. He was born and raised in the Indian reservation, where Walker grew up learning the traditions of the tribe. His uncle gave him the name of Washoe which means Lone Eagle. Walker's uncle has always been a very friendly and very serious with Walker, although he had not agreed on the choice of his brother to marry a woman who was not Cherokee. Much of the story so far reported is told by Lucas Walker in double episode where the ranger takes custody of an orphan child. Ray lives in the reserve but often staying on the ranch of Walker. Rather old at the beginning of the series, Ray has an active role in the stories but dispenses advice to his nephew and the other characters. He died of a heart attack while in the Indian reservation; reappears in a few episodes in which Walker recalls and recounts his childhood, played by another actor but as a young man. According to the pilot episode, Ray saw service in Africa during World War II when he was stabbed by a German bayonet in 1943.
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