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[***]

MAN: Come on. This way.

Drop it off.

Give me that shovel.

[MAN DRILLING]

Go on.

WORKER: Go ahead now.

Hey.

What the hell?

Hold it!

WORKER 2: Hold up.

What you got?

WORKER 2: Come on, Ron.

Whoa.

Somebody better notify the authorities.

[POLICE RADIO INDISTINCT]

[EERIE NOISES]

Coroner says he needs a little more time.

I'm going to talk to the contractor.

Right.

TRIVETTE: You okay?

WALKER: Yeah, I'm fine.

All right, I'm going to talk to the contractor.

Right.

[***]

[BIRD CAWING]

[HORSE NEIGHING]

[BELLS JINGLING]

[EERIE WHOOSHING]

[THEME SONG PLAYING]

* In the eyes of a Ranger *

* The unsuspecting stranger *

* Had better know the truth of wrong from right *

* 'Cause the eyes of the Ranger are upon you *

* Any wrong you do he's gonna see *

* When you're in Texas, look behind you *

* 'Cause that's where the Ranger's gonna be *

[***]

[STONES RUMBLING]

All right, coroner finished his prelim exam.

Skeleton appears to be that of a...

Teenage boy.

Murdered.

That's exactly right.

The bullet's lodged in the fourth vertebrae.

Looks like a .30-cal.

The coroner also believes the victim might be Asian.

Native American.

This necklace is Apache.

Mescalero.

Walker, where is all this coming from?

How do you know it's a boy? How do you know he was murdered?

Now, you sure he's Indian?

Because I saw a young Indian boy on a white pony.

Okay. Where is he? Where did he go?

You wouldn't believe me if I told you. Try me.

Okay.

He rode right through these rocks.

I don't believe you.

I know.

What, there are no tracks? What is he, a ghost rider?

I don't know, Trivette.

All I do know is this necklace is real,

And it belonged to the dead Indian boy.

Yeah, but how do you know? The coroner's saying

that those bones have been there for eight or ten years.

How can the necklace and the skeleton possibly be connected?

It's crazy.

Yeah

real crazy.

[BIRD CAWING]

[BRAKES SCREECH] [PARKING BRAKE SET]

Hello, Rangers. I'm Walt Taylor,

chief of security for Forman Development.

I'm Walker. This is my partner, Trivette.

Howdy.

What can we do for you?

Mr. Forman sent me down here

to see if we can be of any help.

Word's out about what you boys found down here.

News travels fast.

Well, we appreciate the offer,

but what's your concern?

Well, since that skeleton was dug up

adjacent to Forman development land

in Forman City limits,

Mr. Forman sent me down here

to see if there was anything we could do to make certain

that neither would be adversely affected

by the death of an Indian kid.

This case will be investigated just like any other.

Well, sure.

Of course.

If there's anything I can do to help,

just ask, okay?

Anything at all.

Just any...any.

Did you tell anyone about my idea

that the victim was an Indian boy?

No. I try to leave that speculation up to my mystical partner.

WALKER: Then how did Mr. Taylor know

it was an Indian boy?

Yeah, how'd he know?

[TIRES SCREECH]

[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]

Just 16 years old.

He had his whole life ahead of him.

What a shame.

Man, who is this guy?

How are going to find out anything after eight years?

There's nothing in the hole with him.

Right? There's no ID, no belt buckle.

He didn't have anything on him.

You know, I'm thinking, why don't we do dental impressions?

Because if he's an Apache, like you say,

there's that Mescalero reservation

on the other side of the New Mexico border.

That's not a bad idea. I've got another idea.

Ranger Walker. Ah, Professor Labeau.

Hello.

Professor Labeau, Alex Cahill, James Trivette.

Hi. Hi.

You want to take a look? Please, yes.

Of course. I read an article about you in the paper.

I read the same one.

Well, hell, I didn't read the article. What's up?

Professor Labeau does anthropological and facial reconstruction,

forensic sculpture.

Oh, okay. I read about that in National G.

So you're going to take the caveman's skull,

you're going to slap some clay on it,

and you're gonna tell us what he looks like.

Eh, it's a bit more complicated,

but that's the general idea.

I think it's worth a try.

Oh, great.

[***]

That's him.

Damn!

After all this time,

it's got to come flying right back in our face.

Well, it's bad, Mitch.

Bad for Forman City, and it's bad for this family's good name.

Good name?

You flatter yourself.

Powerful name, maybe.

A name that keeps certain politicians up at night.

But good? Please, Daddy,

spare me.

You watch your mouth, son.

Do we understand each other?

I'm sorry.

Mitchell bad boy, Mitchell get spanked.

Consider my butt tanned and my attitude adjusted.

This laissez-faire attitude of yours

is getting a little hard to swallow.

Is that why I'm still not running Forman Development?

Oh, not again.

We've been there and back on that one.

No, that's it, all right.

Me.

[SIGHS]

It should be me in charge.

Because without me,

none of this would've happened.

That's right.

None of this would've happened.

[COUGHING]

Walt, you look like you seen a ghost.

What are we going to do, Mr. Forman, about all this?

Yeah, Mr. Forman.

What are we going to do?

Nothing.

Not yet.

We're going to keep quiet.

But, Mr. Forman, I don't think you understand.

Don't tell me what I don't understand, Walt.

'Cause you're in deep. You're deep as we are.

Now, there's a difference.

See, the Forman name

can turn this any which way we want it to go.

We got the money for the best lawyers in Texas,

and what you've got is a public defender

and the rest of your life in prison.

So you keep your mouth shut, Walt.

Do as you're told.

You frightened, Walt?

But what are we going to do, Mr. Forman?

I think you ought to do what Daddy said, Walt.

Keep your mouth shut.

My name is, uh, Ranger Walker.

I'd like to ask you a few questions.

What is it I can do for you, Ranger Walker?

Well, I understand you've been working here for over 10 years.

That's right.

I'm looking for someone who might know this boy.

Yeah.

I think I do. This looks like Tom's little brother.

Tom who? Tom Raven.

This could be his brother Billy.

Uh...

Do you recognize this?

Yeah!

This is Billy's.

COOK: Order up!

I...I have to get to the kitchen now.

Just a couple more questions, please.

No. No more questions.

I already told you all I could remember, Ranger Walker.

Por favor, senor.

[MUFFLED MUSIC PLAYING]

[HORSE SNORTS]

[HORSE NICKERS]

[HORSE NEIGHING]

[CHATTERS]

[GUNSHOTS]

What's that?

What's wrong?

[GROANING]

Come on, drive, man, drive!

Move, move! [TIRES SCREECHING]

[***]

[WIND BLOWING]

[HORSE NEIGHS]

What in the hell have you done now?

What I've done is nail 15 targets without a miss.

You know what I'm talking about.

Not until you tell me.

The attempt on the life

of that ranger Cordell Walker, that's what!

Oh, yes. That. Yeah.

I heard something about it.

But you don't think I had anything to do with it, do you?

[SCOFFS]

Look, I give you my word.

Well, your word isn't worth much. Apparently.

Apparently? You mean obviously.

Ever since your mother died,

it's been one lie after another,

like some kind of cheap novel.

Oh, please!

I've been trying to love you for 27 years, Mitchell.

I've paid very dearly.

Oh, you're so corny!

Hurry! Push him on the swing.

Push him on the swing. Can you push him?

Lupe, go inside, please.

Come here, querida.

Hello. I had a feeling I'd see you again. Hi.

Uh, Mrs. Alonzo, this is my partner, Ranger Trivette.

Pleasure.

Um, please, take a seat.

Can you tell us anything else

about Billy and Tom Raven?

Not much, but I will try.

[SIGHS]

Tom and I were seeing each other.

He'd come by the diner, and Billy would be with him.

It was a happy time.

One night, about eight years ago,

Tom and I were supposed to go on a date.

He didn't come to pick me up.

The next day, I went to his place,

a trailer he lived in with Billy,

but he was not there.

Uh... the...the police were there.

They told me Tom had been shot in the head.

They thought that Billy had done it, then ran away.

Anyway, that's what they told me.

Do you believe that?

No! Billy could never do such a thing.

He and Tomas, they loved each other.

Did Thomas die?

They told me he survived

with severe brain damage.

Who told you?

Dr. Sheldon,

at the Brookside Sanitarium where they put Tom.

I went there, but Dr. Sheldon said

it was useless to see Tom,

that the bullet had completely damaged his brain,

and that he would never recover.

I understand Tom is still there at Brookside.

He's been there eight years.

Okay.

Thank you very much, Mrs. Alonzo.

We appreciate it. You're welcome.

Thanks. Thank you.

So?

[SIGHS]

So let's go to Brookside and see Tom Raven.

Okay, that's fine,

but Walker, you got to do me a favor on this, all right?

What?

Don't say anything about seeing ghosts to those people,

or we're going to spend a lot more time at Brookside than we want to. Okay?

Whatever you say.

[***]

DOCTOR: Mr. Raven's file could be, uh, chapter and verse,

a definitive textbook

on the variance inherent in depression related violence.

Sociopathic tendencies, schizophrenia

Of course, the brain damage done by the bullet that almost killed him.

Is that him? Yes, it is.

He looks dangerous.

So then I can go with you?

No.

I could insist, you know.

As Raven's physician of record,

it's my right to go in with you!

You can insist all you want, Doctor,

but you're not going in with us.

It's a murder investigation.

You have no authority, Doctor.

Very well. Let them in!

[DOOR BUZZING]

[WHISPERING] Turn this on.

[STATIC]

[***]

Is that me, Tom?

[MUMBLES]

[PAPER RUSTLES]

[WHINES]

I need to ask you some questions.

Do you understand?

[MOANING]

Understanding is what none of us do,

except for me

and you.

Can you tell me what happened?

Anything at all.

Mmm... Mmm-hmm.

[BREATHES SHAKILY] He rides the lightning.

Lightning?

He...he...he...

Are you talking about the lightning on your brother's chest?

The thunder

the thunder is filled with God's fire.

Goodness protects him from the evil.

From the evil!

[SHUDDERS] The evil.

[MOANING]

Tom...

I need to know who shot you.

Who shot you? No, no, no, no!

No, no more!

No more!

No more! I go exploding!

I go exploding! I go exploding!

No, no, no! No more! No more!

I go exploding, I go exploding!

I go exploding, I go exploding, I go exploding,

I go exploding, I go exploding...

[CRYING]

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

[DOOR BUZZES OPEN]

[DOOR SLAMS]

Oh, ho, ho, I got to tell you.

I got to go with Sheldon.

That guy is as loony as a junebug.

I don't think so, Trivette.

Oh, but you don't think so?

No, I don't.

You know what? And I'm not even going to ask why.

Yes, I am! Why don't you think he's crazy?

Because... Watch out!

Shoot!

Shoot!

[***]

I'll take him myself.

[TIRES SQUEAL]

[HONKING]

[HONKING]

[HONKING]

[ENGINE REVS]

No!

[BRAKES SCREECHING]

This is Trivette. I'm at Diplomat and Farmer's Branch.

I got a crash and burning tractor.

[SCREAMING]

[SCREAMING CONTINUES]

[SCREAMING AND CRYING]

Ambulance is coming. [SCREAMING]

Take it easy, Walter.

[RESUMES SCREAMING]

Guess who owns Brookside Sanitarium

where Tom Raven has been hanging out for eight years?

Tell me.

Del Forman.

So what do you think?

I think Tom Raven is telling us who shot his brother,

and whoever it is has a distinctive mark on his face.

Trivette. Yeah.

Run a profile on Del Forman and his son.

[KEYBOARD CLACKING]

[COMPUTER BEEPS, TRILLS]

ALEX: Same birthmark.

That's not evidence.

Especially coming from a man who's been declared legally insane.

[PHONE RINGS]

Walker.

Okay, thanks, Doctor.

Walt Taylor can talk.

I'm going to go see what he knows.

You guys keep digging.

Right.

You know, Jimmy,

I'm beginning to think that Walker really did see a ghost out there.

You doubt him?

And you didn't?

Not for an instant.

Alex, paranormal events are as commonplace to me

as the changing of the weather.

Oh, right. Since when?

[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]

[SIGHS]

How you feeling?

Uh...

Why didn't you do it, Walt?

Why didn't you shoot?

I done a lot of bad things,

but murder ain't one of them.

You want to talk about it?

[GROANS]

No.

Tell me, Walt...

Did you shoot Billy Raven?

No.

No, no.

Then who did?

I can't...

Tell you. I...

I can't tell you that.

[FOOTSTEPS RECEDING] [HEAVY BREATHING]

Well, it's Ranger Walker, isn't it?

I'm Mitch Forman.

I know who you are.

Tsk, yeah, well.

I just came by to see how Walt Taylor was coming along,

but, uh, they won't let us in to see him.

[CHUCKLES] Old Walt must've gone crazy

to try something like that, huh?

Not half as crazy as you putting him up to it.

Well, well, now, Ranger Walker.

What a high and mighty one we are, huh?

It's no wonder people are trying to take you out.

I want to tell you something, Forman.

I know you killed Billy Raven.

It's just a matter of time before I prove it.

[GROANS]

[***]

[COUGHING]

You disobeyed me again, didn't you?

Went straight against my orders!

I used my initiative.

You haven't got brains enough for initiative.

Damn! I can't believe you went after Walker again.

Oh, don't fret, Daddy.

Three strikes, and Mr. Walker will be out

for good.

[SCOFFS] He hit me.

He laid his hands on me, and now he is dead.

And you're a stupid fool.

Jeopardizing everything we've built up for your own two-bit ego,

using Forman Company personnel in attempted murders,

connecting an entire organization to felonies?

You know what you've done?

You put every one of our heads right on the block!

Me? [GLASS SHATTERS]

Who kept the crazy Apache alive all these years, huh? Oh...

Alive and just waiting to burn me to the ground.

He's locked up. He's harmless.

Harmless... harmless.

[GASPING]

He put Walker on my tail.

That's why I went after him,

to defend myself,

because you don't have the guts to put Tom Raven where he belongs

in a grave.

No. It's because I've still got a little bit of honor left.

It's the least I could do

after taking away everything the poor mad fool had.

[COUGHING]

[COUGHING FIT]

Help me, son.

Help me. Help me here.

[COUGHING]

Help me here, son.

[CONTINUES COUGHING]

Damn you.

[COUGHING, GASPING]

And damn me for bringing you into this world.

[GROANS]

Oh...

[GRUNTS]

[GROANS]

PRIEST: And so on this sad day,

we commend the soul of Delmont James Forman

to his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

That which is of the earth shall return to the earth.

For the soul of the righteous shall be one

with the heart of God. Amen.

Amen. Amen.

Amen.

[***]

The king is dead.

Long live the king.

Mitch Forman,

the man with the power.

So, it should be interesting now, huh,

our little game to find out who goes down first?

We'll see, won't we, Forman?

Yeah, you're right, Walker.

We will see.

ALEX: I'm afraid, from a lawyer's point of view,

we don't have much hard evidence against Forman.

What we do have is an eight-year-old murder

with no physical evidence,

except for an eight-year-old bullet,

and, yes, in our minds,

we have a very strong suspect,

but one who can be linked, by proof, that is,

at best, circumstantial.

Finally, we have two possible witnesses,

whose corroboration might get us to trial.

But one witness is in the hospital, too afraid to talk,

and the other one is in a sanitarium by court order.

Prosecution rests.

So what do we do?

Until we can prove Tom Raven isn't crazy,

Walt Taylor's our best bet.

But he's scared to death.

Yeah, I know,

but I think he wants to talk.

He's been carrying a big burden of guilt for a long time.

Let's go talk to him.

[GRUNTS]

[DOOR OPENS]

Walt, this is Alex Cahill,

Assistant District Attorney.

[GROANS]

Mr. Taylor, we have reasons to believe

that the Formans were threatening to blame you

for what happened eight years ago.

I...I can't talk about this.

Walt, we know who killed Billy Raven.

Mitch Forman.

Talk to us.

[SIGHS] All right.

All right.

It was late, toward dawn.

Mr. Forman and his geologist buddies,

they was digging for test samples of uranium

and finding pretty good traces.

Mitch was keeping a lookout,

and I was giving him a hand.

We'd been on the Raven brothers' property for a couple of nights,

but this was the closest we'd come to their trailer,

and everybody was jumpy.

So he thought he and his brother might stay clear,

but Billy...

Billy had other ideas.

I guess he thought he'd be a crazy Apache

and go down there and have fun

with whoever was there.

And if there was trouble, he'd just ride,

but it didn't work that way.

It just didn't work out that way.

"Uranium," Mr. Forman yelled,

and...and that's when I saw the kid in the dunes.

Guess he...that one word, that's all he needed to hear.

Guess he was too happy to be careful.

He jumped on his horse,

and he made a beeline for the trailer.

I could hear him yelling.

[WHOOPING]

And I heard something else.

[GUN SHOT]

I heard a shot.

Billy!

[CRYING]

[GROANS]

And those shots put a chill in me that reached way down.

No!

And I ran on ahead of Mr. Forman.

Damn fool! What the hell are you

What have you done?

There was only blood on the sand and the darkness.

Mr. Forman, he took his son Mitch away,

told me to bury the body.

Told me if I didn't, they'd say I did it.

And you already know what happened to Tom Raven.

Mr. Forman pulled the strings to keep him locked up.

All this...because of a greedy old man

and a crazy young fool.

[TAPE RECORDER CLICKS]

Well, do we have enough to get Tom Raven released and re-examined?

More than enough.

Thank you.

We heading to Brookside?

As fast as we can get there.

Take it easy, Walt.

We're going to set you free, Raven.

Oh, yeah, like my baby brother?

You murdering bastard.

Like you killed little Billy, huh?

[LAUGHS]

After all these years, you were playing crazy.

Impossible. Mitch, this can't be.

Let's go. Mitch. Mitch.

Keep helping these killers, Doc,

and they'll put you away forever.

Get him out of here!

Mitch, please, listen.

Mitch, my God, please. He's right.

I can't have anything to do with murder.

Look, out of my way! [GRUNTS]

This time, I'm doing it right.

[***]

What happened?

Mitch Forman and some men

they...they took Tom.

Where? I don't know, but they hit me,

and they just took him by force.

Look, I didn't have anything to do with this. I swear to God.

How are we going to find him?

I don't know.

[HORSE NEIGHS]

This way.

How do you know this is the way?

Billy's showing us the way.

Where?

Billy knows.

[***]

There he is.

[GROANS] [MITCH GRUNTS]

If it hadn't been for Walt Taylor

and that self-righteous father of mine,

I would have finished you off years ago, Raven!

[ENGINE REVS]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

Now... I'm going to make up for that mistake.

Give some fresh air

to that sneaky...

[GRUNTS] Apache brain of yours.

Any last words?

[BLOWS RASPBERRIES]

[GROANS]

[GRUNTING AND GROANING]

I always knew that truth would win out,

and that justice would be done!

Everything you do from now on

will be like committing suicide.

[LAUGHS] Me and Billy have won!

We've won! [SCREAMS]

You've got a funny way of winning,

you stupid Indian. [LAUGHS]

Hold it! Texas Rangers!

Look, you handle them!

I'll take care of Geronimo here.

[TOM GRUNTS]

[EERIE SOUND]

[HORSE WHINNIES]

Billy.

[GUN SHOTS]

Man, I see it, but I still don't believe it.

Get up.

What's the matter, Mitch? Seen a ghost?

Thanks, Billy.

Bye, little brother.

* 'Cause the eyes of the Ranger are upon you *

* Any wrong you do he's gonna see *

* When you're in Texas, look behind you *

* 'Cause that's where the Ranger's gonna be *