Original subtitles

( light rock action theme playing)

( carnival theme playing)

(children screaming, laughing)

But what I don't understand is,

if people keep getting a chance to come back and live again,

how come the world isn't getting any better?

(laughs)

You're laughing at me.

MONK: Oh, not at all.

It is just that many years ago,

I asked Lama Dolgin the very same question.

What'd he say?

He said that perhaps it is because,

though everyone comes back to live,

only a very few come back to learn.

Lama Dolgin sounds like he was a heck of a guy.

Lama Dolgin was a heck of a guy.

He was your teacher?

Yes.

My teacher and my friend.

Seems like you miss him.

Very much.

Kill the others if you must,

but the boy must be taken alive.

( ominous theme playing)

( light rock action theme 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 ♪

(children yelling)

Master Rin, next time you must try some cotton candy.

I certainly will. (laughs)

That was fun.

Thank you.

MAN: Damn, fellas, lookie there.

It's one of them there monkeys.

(hooting)

(men laugh)

If you'll please excuse.

If I will please?

Yes, please.

We would like to be on our way.

Damn, fellas, you hear that?

This monkey here's got himself some damn fine manners.

That's nice, real nice. Heh-heh-heh.

Where'd you learn that, over at the zoo?

Leave him alone.

Oh, don't you worry, little missy.

(laughs)

You'll get yours. (growls)

(laughs)

Now, come on, let's see what you got under the dress.

Here, give us a little peeky. Come on.

Hey, where you goin'?

Hey.

Where you goin', monkey?

We're just tryin' to have a little fun.

Please, we have no quarrel.

(mocks accent): Oh, we have no quarrel.

(laughs)

How about now, huh?

We got a quarrel now?

I said, stop it.

WALKER: Hold it, back off.

You okay? Yes, thank you.

What do you think you're doin'?

These folks are going,

and you're gonna leave them alone.

You hear that, fellas?

This old boy wants to let our guests go,

and the party ain't even hardly gotten started yet.

Look, mister, nobody's goin' anywhere

till I say they can go.

Back off before someone gets hurt.

Yeah, you.

Aah!

MAN: Get him.

(grunting)

Get out of here.

(engine starts)

I'm sorry about that.

Your apology is unnecessary.

As a wise man once said,

"Violence when there are alternatives is immoral.

"Violence when there are none is survival."

My thoughts exactly.

Thank you.

My pleasure.

( ominous theme playing)

Is something wrong?

Hopefully not.

WALKER: C.D., we have some special guests.

Oh, my goodness.

C.D. Parker, Susan Lee.

How do you do? It's a pleasure. Hi.

Master Rin. How do you do?

WALKER: And this is Susan's son, Davey.

Well, lookie here.

How you doin'?

Hi.

Let's get a couple of tables

and we'll get something to eat.

C.D. has got to start watering these plants.

Yeah, they do look awful, all right.

C.D.: Let's put these two tables together.

We should have plenty of room.

I'll help. Yes, sirree,

we don't get honored guests like this every day.

( mysterious theme playing)

You'll be just fine.

Well, I was thinking of a grilled-cheese sandwich

and some of C.D.'s world-famous, all-veggie chili.

Yes.

Oh, let me tell you, Cordell,

I'm gonna like this guy.

Gringo quesadilla

and meatless wonder right over here for this gentleman.

What in the world are you doing down here, Master Rin?

I have come to find the tulku.

Too-coo what?

The tulku.

It's what Tibetan Buddhists call the reincarnation

of one of their teachers, or lamas.

Five years ago my teacher, the Lama Dolgin, passed away.

Since that time,

I have searched all over the world

to find his reincarnated form.

So you think Davey's the one?

I am sure he is.

It's a little early to be sure.

There's still one more test.

Yes. One final test.

C.D.: What if Davey is the tulku?

RIN: He will come to Nepal

to be educated at the monastery.

These are pictures of famous Texas Rangers, Davey.

Are you okay with this? SUSAN: Would you be?

But if Davey really is the tulku,

then this is his destiny.

I can't stand in the way of that.

So if he does pass the test,

you're willing to move to Nepal?

Oh, I wouldn't be going.

But I thought you just said...

No, Master Rin said Davey would go to Nepal.

If I were to go,

I wouldn't be allowed to play any real part in his life.

But you're his mama.

I know I'm his mama.

But if he's the tulku,

that doesn't mean anything.

Now, let me check on that food.

If Davey is the tulku,

his care and education

will be in the hands of the monks.

SUSAN: I know this must be hard for you to understand.

It's hard for me to understand,

and I was raised this way.

It's gotta be so difficult for you, Susan.

Here you go.

Do you think Master Rin is a coward?

Why, do you think so?

I don't know.

But, I mean, back at the carnival,

when those men were pushing him around,

he didn't even fight back.

Well, Davey, the bravest thing a man can do

is stand up for what he believes.

By that measure, I think Master Rin

is one of the bravest men I've ever met.

I think so too.

Thank you, Ranger Walker.

Whoa.

Holy mackerel.

RIN: That was a very good meal.

Thank you.

The final test is tomorrow afternoon.

You would both do us an honor if you would attend.

Oh, it'd be our pleasure.

We'd love to.

( mysterious theme playing)

Walker.

Wasn't this the...?

Yeah.

Now, Ray, remember, cover me from the truck.

I don't wanna be a target out there.

MAN 1: The building belongs to the Black Tigers, an Asian gang.

MAN 2: Ah, we should have no trouble here.

( mysterious theme playing)

The meeting's at 8:00.

If they try anything stupid, kill them.

This will do very well.

Even the police will never come in here.

What the hell?

You must leave. Leave?

You know who we are? We're the Black Tigers.

If you leave, you may live.

If you stay, you will die.

(grunts)

Kill them.

(all grunting)

(gasping)

I told you you would die.

(grunts)

(groans)

Get rid of them.

(bell dings)

(crowd chattering quietly)

All of the items on the table

are from the same village in Tibet.

They're all quite similar,

and in many cases even identical to each other.

But three of the items

once belonged to the Lama Dolgin.

MAN: Here they come.

This is the final test.

Choose well and choose wisely.

( suspenseful theme playing)

This is mine.

And this.

Mm-hm.

And this too.

You gave me this, Master Rin.

Yes.

For your birthday, 30 years ago.

The lama has returned.

(speaking foreign language)

(all chant)

(chatter over police radio)

MAN: Yeah, they're going through there right now.

Walker, Trivette.

Kim. Hey, Kim. What you got?

Well, that depends.

Either we've got six members of the world's only

all-Asian, no-parachute skydiving club,

or somebody did a number on these guys

like I've never seen before.

Any IDs?

No, but from the look of their tattoos,

I can tell you one thing.

They weren't choirboys.

Tattoos?

There's something else.

This was in the dumpster with the victims.

Hello.

Okay. Thanks, Kim.

KIM: Sure thing.

Drug deal gone bad?

Well, I don't think a drug dealer

would leave all that behind.

What do you make of it?

I don't know, but I got a real bad feeling.

( mellow theme playing)

What is Tibet really like?

What's it like?

Well, allow me to answer you with a story.

Many, many years ago, when I was a young student,

I spent an entire winter studying at the monastery

high up in the mountains of Tibet.

Each morning, all of the monks would wash up

in a small fountain outside in the courtyard.

Now, one morning,

right after snow had fallen,

a new student arrived at the monastery.

When he saw them washing in the fountain,

he asked the master if the water was cold.

What did the master say?

Nothing.

Nothing?

That's right.

Instead he picked up a bucket, filled it with water

and dumped it on the student's head.

He dumped it on his head?

Mm-hm.

But why didn't he just answer his question?

He did, in the only way he could.

Because no one can tell you how something is.

The only way the student can really know

if the water was cold

was by feeling it himself.

Exactly.

The only way I can know what Tibet

is really like is to go there.

Of course.

You could always dump a bucket of water on your head

and see if that helps.

(laughs)

Now, step with your right foot, this way.

Step with your left foot, this way.

Now, step with your right foot again.

You're holding the ball, like a moon coming out.

That's good, that's good. Now...

( ominous theme playing)

Run, now.

No, he is mine.

Go, bring me the boy.

Leave him alone, Chang.

I would think that you above all others

would know that that is not possible.

Aah.

( action theme playing)

You do not have to be what he was.

It is my destiny.

No, it was his destiny.

It does not have to be yours.

That is a lie.

(grunting)

(grunting)

Aah!

What's the matter, teacher?

Have you no more lessons to impart?

Only one.

But I fear you are not yet ready for it.

Aah!

You are not worth killing.

(panting)

(horn honks)

(speaking foreign language)

(chatter over police radio)

The boy. Where is Davey?

OFFICER: All right, you all set to go out there now?

How is he?

I don't know.

Think he took some real good shots back there.

He's asking where Davey is.

Well, it looks like Master Rin

and Davey were practicing tai chi,

right in this area here.

Three guys came from that direction.

Two of them chased Davey that way.

The third one...

Looks like he fought Master Rin right here.

I'm gonna go look for Davey.

How do you know they didn't catch him?

I don't.

( mysterious theme playing)

(chuckles)

Oh, thank you, Ranger Trivette.

Hi.

Where's Davey?

It's all right, Walker's looking for him.

What do you mean, looking for him?

Where is he?

WALKER: He's right here.

Davey.

Hey, are you okay? Uh-huh.

Ranger Walker found me.

More like he found me.

DAVEY: Master Rin, are you gonna be okay?

RIN: Yes, Davey.

Now that you have been found,

I am going to be just fine.

Master Rin,

can you tell us what's going on?

Who's hungry? I am.

See you later.

I'm gonna go get us a little treat, okay?

It is a story that begins long ago.

( majestic theme playing)

RIN: At this time,

Lama Dolgin was not yet a great teacher.

He was a student trying hard

to learn the lessons of Buddha.

There was another young man in the village.

He took offense at the inner peace

of Lama Dolgin...

I challenge you. No, I don't fight.

And challenged him to a fight.

At first, the lama said no.

Chang would not be denied.

He attacked Lama Dolgin.

And though Chang was a gifted warrior,

the lama defeated him easily.

Chang, humiliated by his defeat

at the hands of the monk,

pulled a short sword

to plunge into his own stomach.

But Lama Dolgin took the sword from Chang,

and told him he would not be witness

to such a cowardly act.

Chang fled his family and his village,

living out the rest of his life in a slow,

swirling descent into madness. (sobbing)

When Chang finally did take his own life

many years later,

his last words were a vow of revenge

against Lama Dolgin.

Wait a minute, he's dead?

He died almost 30 years ago.

But... And now he's been reborn.

Reborn? Wait, this isn't one of

your Cherokee things, is it?

Chang was reborn 25 years ago.

He has spent his whole life

preparing for vengeance.

Now he is ready.

So this Chang guy, who died 30 years ago,

is trying to kill this 8-year-old boy?

Oh, not kill. Capture.

If Chang were to kill him,

he would only be postponing the inevitable.

Because the lama would be reborn again.

Exactly.

Wait, no. You guys are losing me again.

Chang does not wish to kill Davey.

He wishes to imprison and corrupt him.

If he can do so, he can destroy the lama's

path to enlightenment.

And then Chang's vow would be fulfilled.

You don't really believe that stuff?

Well, it doesn't matter what I believe.

But I do know Davey's in danger.

Hi.

Uh, Susan, until we get all this cleared up,

I'd like for you and Davey to stay at the ranch.

Thank you.

Okay, good. Let's go.

( mysterious theme playing)

Do you think Master Rin's gonna be okay?

Yeah, he's gonna be fine.

But what if the men from the park come back?

Well, if they come back, I'll arrest them.

So don't you worry, now.

Get some sleep.

Good night, Ranger Walker.

Good night, Davey.

( ominous theme playing)

MAN: Where's the boy?

(gun cocks) WALKER: Freeze.

We are doctors. (Trivette scoffs)

We're candy stripers.

Up against the wall.

Go on.

Aah! (grunts)

( action theme playing)

(both yelling)

TRIVETTE: That's impossible.

Except for one thing.

What's that?

They did it.

(sighs)

Well, our plan worked,

but we underestimated them and they got away.

All right, security checked the parking lot,

the police went through the rest of the area.

They just disappeared.

But people don't just disappear.

In Tibet, there is a saying:

"The eyes of the hawk see no food for the dog."

That sounds very Cherokee.

What Master Rin is saying

is that you can't solve an Eastern riddle

with a Western mind, Trivette.

Yeah, but this is the West.

People don't just up and disappear

into thin air in the West.

You know, there are many who say that in the West,

science has become the only true god.

That it is trusted completely

and its beliefs are so well-regarded

that they are actually considered to be laws.

And indeed, it is the most powerful deity.

The worship of science and technology

has provided the West with many things.

But there has been a cost.

A cost? Yes.

For if you wish to make science a god,

you must first kill magic.

Magic. All right, so you're saying this is magic.

You believe those guys just vanished?

What did you see, Ranger Trivette?

( mysterious theme playing)

(growls)

Susan?

(gentle moan)

Come in.

Hi. Did you sleep well?

I must have.

Where's Davey?

I don't know.

Oh, my God, Walker.

What are we gonna do?

(purring)

Looks like he's doing fine.

( gentle flute theme playing)

(both laugh)

(growls)

There we go.

Can I ask you something, Ranger Walker?

Sure.

Do you ever get scared?

Everyone gets scared sometimes, Davey.

I get scared a lot.

Well, you weren't scared of that mountain lion.

That was different. He was friendly.

( suspenseful theme playing)

Have fun.

WALKER: When I was a young boy about your age,

my father told me a story about a young Indian boy

who was afraid of just about everything.

DAVEY: Everything? WALKER: Mm-hm.

He was so afraid of everything that the kids in the village

called him Chicken Boy.

That's mean. Yeah, I know.

But the thing he was most afraid of was heights.

Me too.

But one day his grandfather told him a secret.

A secret? Mm-hm.

He told him, to overcome fear,

he has to face it.

So one morning, real early,

he got up before anyone else did,

went and found the highest cliff and decided to climb it.

But wasn't he afraid?

Yeah, he sure was at first, but every step up that cliff,

he got less and less afraid, until he reached the top.

And when he got to the top, he wasn't scared anymore?

No, he sure wasn't.

He walked over to the edge of the cliff, looked down

and saw his village fast asleep.

And then he saw something else.

Something else?

Yeah, he saw an Indian war party

getting ready to attack the village.

What'd he do?

Well, he yelled as loud as he could,

but no one could hear him.

So he got back and ran and jumped right off the cliff.

He jumped? Yeah.

He was hoping that on the way down,

someone would hear him screaming and would wake up.

DAVEY: Did they?

WALKER: Yeah, his grandfather heard him.

And he woke up the whole village.

Did the boy die?

No.

When the great white eagle saw

just how brave the boy was,

trying to save his village,

he swooped down and grabbed the boy

before he hit the ground.

Phew.

And when the enemy war party

saw what the great white eagle did,

they realized that the village

was protected by the great spirit.

So they made peace, instead of war.

And I bet the other kids

didn't call him Chicken Boy anymore, either.

No, they sure didn't.

(horse whinnies)

( ominous theme playing)

Susan.

Susan.

Mom?

Stay here, Davey.

Mom?

WALKER: Susan.

Mom?

( tense theme playing)

Susan.

This is Ranger Walker.

I need an ambulance at my ranch right away.

( ominous theme playing)

Aah!

So this is the vessel whose womb produced my enemy.

(chatter over ambulance radio)

TRIVETTE: Walker, how do you know he'll call?

Because he doesn't want Susan, he wants Davey.

(phone rings)

Hello, Walker.

CHANG (on phone): I want the boy.

WALKER: Let Susan go, Chang.

Bring me the child.

I'm told you're some kind of a warrior.

I am.

Well, what kind of a warrior

chases young boys, fights old men

and kidnaps women?

One who knows better

than to let anger rise up in the face

of your pathetic insults.

The situation is simple, Walker.

Bring me the boy and the woman goes free.

Fail to bring me the boy and the woman dies.

I will be in touch.

I'll turn you over to them if I don't get the boy.

(grunts)

Hah.

Hah. Huh.

Come on. (grunting)

( action theme playing)

Now what are you gonna do?

Chang considers himself some kind of a warrior.

Master Rin, what would happen if

Chang was defeated in honorable combat?

A shame. Would be as before,

and he would kill himself.

But fighting him is no easy task.

Years of training,

and a mind twisted with shame,

make him a most dangerous adversary.

You're not thinking what I'm thinking you're thinking.

Yeah, I am.

( tense theme playing)

(phone rings)

Hello.

Have you considered my offer?

Yeah, I have. You can have the boy.

I am pleased.

But first you have to fight me, Chang.

(laughs)

You challenge me?

That's right.

CHANG: Ranger Walker,

I don't know if you're brave or merely stupid,

but it makes no difference.

I will kill you either way.

You might not find it quite that easy, Chang.

( tense theme playing)

I was afraid you might have had a change of heart.

You got more important things to worry about, Chang.

(laughs)

You amuse me.

I shall try to make your death an easy one.

Come, Walker. Meet your destiny.

(grunting)

(groans)

Aah!

Come on, Walker.

You have learned well, Walker.

(grunting)

Good, Walker, but not good enough.

(grunting)

You fought bravely, but now it's over.

(groans)

( mysterious theme playing)

Yes.

(groaning)

(grunts)

(grunts)

Aah!

( ominous theme playing)

Chang.

It has to be this way.

( mysterious theme playing)

Forgive me, young master.

(sobbing)

WOMAN (on PA): This is a gate change, flight number 24...

Thank you, Ranger Walker.

No thanks needed, Master Rin.

You be good, okay?

DAVEY: I will.

I'm gonna miss you.

Me too, but it's gonna be okay.

Even though I won't be here,

I'll always be with you.

( tender theme playing)

I love you, my son.

DAVEY: Mom, do you like the flowers?

( mysterious theme playing)

( light rock action theme playing)

♪ '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 ♪