Original subtitles

( mysterious theme playing) (Resync by Chuck)

This was no ordinary night.

It hung like a shroud.

Dark, dank, deadly.

What are you doing?

Hey, you ever think about down the road?

After the Rangers, I mean.

I like what I'm doing just fine.

So do I. Yeah, but think about this.

The last couple of weeks, we've been shot at, dynamited,

nearly decapitated by that semi-truck.

You know what kind of stress that does on your biorhythms?

No, but I'm sure you're gonna tell me.

What we need is some soft duty.

What are you up to?

( mysterious theme playing)

WOMAN (on radio): All units in the vicinity,

silent alarm at Arcadia Tool and Die, Taylor and Park.

This is Walker. We're on it.

No!

Walker. Look, man, I've been up all night.

Three days of stakeout. No, I want... I want a shower

and I want a warm bed.

It's only two miles away.

Walker.

(tires screeching)

TRIVETTE: See? The gate's locked.

Quiet as a tomb.

Just let the locals handle it.

Well, we're here now. Let's check it out.

We can get over this way.

What are you doing?

This is the best way over.

(grunts)

(grunts)

(yelling)

You all right?

Yeah. What the hell was that?

I don't know.

They were dressed up like ninjas.

Goddamn it.

Damn, those were Rangers.

Just go. Go!

Come on, go!

( 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 ♪

We do jigs, fixtures,

special tooling for cars and planes.

Nothing appears to be missing that I can nail down.

Where's your safe?

Right in here.

We had the payroll in there, Walker,

and I appreciate you cutting the buzzards off at the pass.

Maybe we got here before they got to the safe.

They jumped us from the second floor.

What's up there?

Just storage for clamps,

uh, railroad keys, small custom units and such.

Just cookie-cutter type stuff.

I want a list of everything, missing or not.

Okay, sure. Take about a day,

but I'll have Suzanne get an inventory to you.

(speaking indistinctly)

That one guy could sure bring it.

Yeah, he was a Shodokan stylist,

Japanese system.

If that means fast, I'm a witness.

Yeah, the guys I was fighting with

were tae kwon do stylists, Korean system.

What style are you?

Chun Kuk Do.

What system is that?

All of them.

( suspenseful theme playing)

Shhh.

(chuckles)

You could've scared me to death.

That is not what I had in mind.

I was worried sick about you

when I heard there were Rangers involved.

Well, a couple of them stumbled into it.

One was a pretty good fighter.

That'd be Cordell Walker.

Old man Parsons knew him and said he was their top man.

You said there'd be no problems, Cody.

Look, you just stay cool, okay?

We'll be sunning in Mazatlán by next week.

TRIVETTE: All I'm saying is that a guy

has to keep an open mind about the future

so that when opportunity knocks...

Look, don't include me

in any more of your crazy schemes.

I have never had anything but your best interests in mind,

you know that. Oh, is that right?

What about the phony stock fund?

Slight error in judgment.

Yeah, and the oil investment?

Yeah, see, we could still come out on top in that.

If the IRS changes their mind...

Well, how about the cattle deal? Turned out there were no cattle.

Who knew there were no cattle?

Look, just cross me off your sucker list, okay?

We've had our misfortunes,

but this is an investment in time, not money.

Oh, yeah. Not one red cent...

Walker. Trivette. Not one plug nickel's

gonna come out of your pocket. Sure. Right.

I've been looking for you two.

I got the news you've been waiting for.

What news?

Well, Jimmy explained how you were feeling,

I mean, with the heavy caseload, close to burnout.

So when he volunteered you,

I had it cleared through the captain.

Hold it. Volunteered me for what?

The movie.

What movie?

You didn't tell him?

Not yet.

Tell me what?

I'm late for court, so, uh, Jimmy can fill you in.

Yeah. Thanks.

No need to thank me yet, partner.

What are we doing on this movie?

Technical adviser.

Technical adviser? No way.

Walker, you gotta stop and smell the coffee, all right?

You're gonna be great on this one.

Trivette.

No way.

( upbeat country theme playing)

But you're a man out of time.

(blusters)

(whinnies)

Hyah. Hyah.

(whinnies)

Cut, cut, cut. No, no, no.

That crane's supposed to be all the way up to the height by now.

We're gonna have to reset this whole shot again.

Okay, Brenda, somebody,

give me a cappuccino out of craft service.

Oh, is this great or what, huh?

Did I tell you I used to ditch school to go to Westerns?

Caught every one in town, huh?

What is this? Hollywood in our back yard, Walker.

It's Hollywood, all right.

Those guys can't even ride a horse.

I thought they were pretty good.

How would you know? You're from Baltimore.

Right.

Mean Streets to Six Guns.

What's that?

Poor kid from the hood

claws his way up to become a two-fisted Texas Ranger.

So that's what you've been doing on that computer.

Hey, Desley and Winslow would love to get their hands...

Who?

Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes, man.

I'm talking about the real deal here.

A real-life action hero.

I've got more important things to do

than hang around here all day.

Hey, I was thinking about Mel Gibson to play you.

Great. Walker.

What'd you think of that shot?

Great.

MAN: Okay, people, here we go.

(gasps)

(whinnies) (screams)

WOMAN: Help!

(excited chatter)

(grunts)

Oh! Oh, help!

Okay, boy, I got you.

Slow down.

(gasps)

(whinnies)

(chatter)

(whinnies)

Are you okay?

I'll be fine.

I'll die of embarrassment when you find out

I grew up around these parts.

And I really do know how to ride.

You must be Ranger Walker.

That's right.

Ellie Preston.

You okay, Ellie?

Yeah, I'm fine. Ranger Walker, this is my brother, Cody.

He's doing stunts on the show. This is Walker, our new tech.

Way you chased down that horse,

looked like you could do my job.

You sure you're okay?

Fine.

Well,

it was nice to make your acquaintance.

Nice meeting you.

Seems to me she's cozy with that Ranger already.

Don't worry.

She doesn't know anything.

Yeah?

Well, if this is as good as we're told,

we're talking millions.

Your sister, Walker, I don't care who it is,

anybody gets in my way,

I'll break them down like a .410 shotgun.

( tense theme playing)

( dramatic theme playing)

(both yelling)

Hey, Jake. What's up, Jake?

How you doing, man?

Hey, boys, how you doing?

I just got back in from scouting around.

Something about riding the rails flat out seeps into your blood.

What's the score?

We're gonna hit a Federal Reserve shipment.

(scoffs): You mean cash?

I mean $28 million cash.

New currency from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing,

headed for the banks in Dallas.

When do we go?

Three days.

Where do we stop the train?

That's the beauty of it, see. We don't stop it.

Cody here tell me you got the equipment I need, but, uh,

you hit a little speed bump along the way?

Two Rangers dropped in from out of nowhere.

Um, one's named Walker.

Cordell Walker?

You know him? Yeah, I know him, all right.

He's like a snake that grows a new tail.

You can't kill him and he won't die.

That's not all.

This morning, Walker and his partner showed up on the set.

What? CODY: Hey, relax.

I mean, they don't suspect anything.

They're our technical advisers.

That's it.

Yeah, okay, you could be right.

Yeah, makes sense.

Walker's got a rep.

Somebody probably thought he'd lend some weight

to the PR proceedings.

Hey, you boys know how long

I've been dreaming of this heist?

Ever since I was a little kid

listening to that midnight-special whistle,

heading for parts unknown.

We're gonna go on schedule.

What about Walker?

Walker's a man.

No more, no less. If he gets in the way,

we're just gonna have to prove he's human.

Show him how to die.

( mysterious theme playing)

Right.

( slow country music playing in bar)

C.D.: Well, it's a fact,

Sam Bass robbed more trains and more stagecoaches

than any other desperado in the history of Texas.

Captain Jones took a company of Rangers,

went down to Round Rock, wasted him.

Yep, sure did.

There wasn't a woman riding with Sam Bass.

This is the Hollywood version, C.D.

You mean it can be like it didn't actually happen?

Right.

ALEX: No Ellie Preston, no money for the movie.

She's hot.

Well, I can understand that. I sure can.

Yeah, she wanted to see Cordell.

Oh. Speak of the devil.

Don't get sick on those peanuts.

Is Trivette here, C.D.?

He's over there. He can't eat his chili.

They gave him a deadline on the script.

This Hollywood business is getting completely out of hand.

This is wonderful, isn't it?

I'm gonna have to hire somebody full-time to come down here.

I'm spending so much time out on the set.

That's what they call it, the set.

What are you talking about?

Here, take a look at this.

"C.D. Parker, Texas Ranger." What is this?

That's my credits.

Yeah, in the movie biz, they call it a resume.

You mean "résumé."

No, it's a resume.

See, you work a job, the job is over,

then you resume working on another job.

It says here you played Stanley Kowalski

in A Streetcar Named Desire.

I'm glad you asked about that one, Cordell.

Yes, sirree.

(laughs): Get a load of this.

Stella?

Oh, Stella?

You like that? Charlie, let me have your hat.

How about this one?

(imitating the Godfather): Never discuss family business in front of strangers.

Listen to me, Santino.

We got booze, we got women.

We don't need narcotics.

No narcotics, Santino.

Yeah, that's... That's good, C.D.

That was Marlon Brando in The Godfather.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know.

(quietly): Geez.

Hey, what was the name of that restaurant

where I took on that hostage situation

and saved those 14 people?

It was six people, Trivette, and we saved them.

It's already been written.

I got a message you heard from that tool-and-die plant.

Yeah, the inventory only had two items missing:

A railroad switch key

and a signal-maintainer switch-lock key.

A switch key

and a signal-maintainer switch-lock key?

Yes. Go figure.

CODY: Don't give me grief about this, Ellie.

ELLIE: Cody.

Let go of my arm, Cody.

Decoupage.

You know, plastered things there.

Stick them up on the wall there.

Something else.

(speaking indistinctly)

You have a problem, Ellie?

This is family business, Ranger.

She said let go of her arm.

( tense theme playing)

Favor, Walker?

Sure.

I could use a ride to my hotel.

ELLIE: Mama died when we were young.

My daddy was just a wildcatter.

He wasted his life chasing dry holes

and whiskey and women.

I decided to try acting

just to get out of Coalton, Oklahoma.

So I headed for California.

Got married when I was 18.

Searching for my identity, I guess.

Who was it said "love is just a dance"?

Well, he's just taillights to me now.

I'm not sure what to do, Walker.

Maybe I just need somebody to talk to.

About Cody?

He's fighting his own demons.

He's been in trouble since he was 15 years old.

What kind of trouble?

First, it was juvenile hall.

After that, it was market robbery

and then more of the same.

I got him into stunt work.

I thought I had him straightened out.

And now?

Well, I know it's not a job for the Rangers,

but Cody's always had these big ideas

about how to beat the system.

I just know every time he's got those ideas,

there's bound to be trouble.

Is that what you two were arguing about?

No.

The usual.

Money.

He spends it faster than I can make it.

Well, he's not a kid anymore, you know.

You mean, why do I put up with it?

Well, when we were growing up, we were in a bad situation.

Uh, we had abuse, neglect.

Cody protected me.

We have a bond.

I'll never walk away from him if he needs me.

Well, that's what a family's all about.

You know, you've got a hard shell, Walker,

but I don't think you're so tough.

I'd say it's just a smoke screen for a gentle soul.

Don't worry.

I won't tell anybody.

( tender theme playing)

( western theme playing)

(chatter)

Whoa. Whoa.

Now, what we got here, this is early in the picture

when the gang goes from robbing banks

to their first stagecoach.

Right, before they graduated to the trains.

You read the script.

Right. I love the twist before the train heist

and the way the love story was layered...

Layers are for cakes. Action's what sells.

Now, what we've got here

is the guard on the stage,

he's really a Texas Ranger, but he's undercover.

Now, do you have any trouble with that?

No, that's fine.

Great. Cody, Burkett, climb onboard.

Now, they have been riding in front of the gang.

They leap from the horses onto the stage.

Now, the Ranger, he spots them,

wheels, opens with his shotgun, misses.

What? Walker, what?

Well, a Ranger wouldn't miss from that distance

with a double-barreled shotgun.

(sighs)

So you're saying a fistfight,

that would be better?

Well, I'd think so, huh?

(laughs): Yeah.

What would you do?

CODY: Yeah.

Why doesn't the famous Ranger show us?

Wait a minute.

I'm not an actor.

Come on. We're all actors in our own way.

Come on, Walker. It's all make-believe.

Holy buckets.

(laughs)

What do you guys have in mind?

Well, I had something like this in mind.

( tense western theme playing)

(yells)

MAN: What's going on?

Aaagh!

(whinnies)

I don't believe this.

(grunts)

(all whinnying)

(panting)

Make-believe, huh?

( western theme playing)

(speaking indistinctly)

Whoa!

Those guys like living on the edge, huh?

Yeah, when you live on the edge,

you're never far from falling off.

Burkett's package is a little more serious than Cody's.

Got a B and E and an armed robbery in Frisco and L.A.

( mysterious theme playing)

JAKE: All right, we're gonna hit the train

right here below Texarkana

where there's a 20-mile stretch of badlands.

Now, this is gonna require split-second timing.

The money is gonna be in a post-office boxcar

shut tight and guarded by treasury agents from the inside.

So how do we get in?

We're gonna drop in by chopper.

Then we're gonna disable the agents with nitrous oxide.

But if the train stops before it gets to Dallas,

the Dallas Tower's gonna know

and they're gonna want to communicate

with the engine by radio.

So here's what we're gonna do.

We're gonna hit it right here,

just as it slows to go through this whistle stop

on its Dallas approach.

(knock at door)

Who the hell is that?

SUZANNE: Cody, you in there?

Get rid of her.

(sighs)

You said you'd call. Now, wait.

LASSITER: I said, get rid of her now.

What the hell are you doing here?

Parsons, he's been asking questions.

He may be suspicious.

(acoustic folk theme playing)

(indistinct)

No loose ends.

Okay?

Understand?

MAN: Let's try this now.

GORDON: How's that?

All right, here we go, everyone.

Set for rehearsal.

(coughs)

Come on, we got a meeting.

No way. I'm in the middle of a shootout at Joe Bob's Grill.

We didn't have a shootout at Joe Bob's Grill.

Poetic license.

Let's go.

GORDON: Action.

Oh!

(screams)

No, no, no, that's not working for me.

Brenda, somebody, give me a cappuccino.

I don't believe this, guys.

(train whistles blow)

WALKER: We've come across something

you may be interested in, Jake.

Oh, is that right? It's always good to see you, Walker.

Jake Lassiter.

Jimmy Trivette.

You know, Walker and me, uh, we took down

some bad bandidos together last year,

sliding across the border, trying to loot cargo.

They wore this cut-up rug on their boots

so they wouldn't, uh, leave tracks,

but Walker, he's got that nose.

That Indian blood of his.

Well, on this one, we don't know who they are.

It all started with a break-in

at a tool-and-die plant near Denton.

Now, what would security be interested in

a break-in at a tool-and-die plant for?

They took a switch key

and a signal-maintainer switch-lock key.

Well, maybe somebody's got a set of Lionels for Christmas,

want to play switchman.

(laughs)

Walker thinks there's more to it than that.

Oh.

In what way?

Is there anything valuable

being transported in the next few days?

Something coming and going all the time here. You know that.

Something big.

First, you gotta understand

the volume of merchandise that passes through here every week.

Millions of dollars worth. Tell you what I can do.

I'll check the manifest for valuable paintings,

jewelry, et cetera, et cetera. But it's all on a need-to-know.

Does that mean we don't need to know?

No, that... That means anything sizeable that comes through here

has already got extra security attached to it,

unless there's a crime committed.

Look, Walker, I appreciate your interest,

but, uh, all you have here is a meaningless break-in

and a hunch.

I'll tell you what.

I'll alert our people.

We'll be on top of it from here.

Good seeing you again.

Nice to meet you, Tribette.

Tribette.

Better than Trivet.

Guy says you're the man with the golden gut,

and then he shines us on with this need-to-know crap.

It only confirms something going down.

Think there's gonna be a hit?

Yeah. (radio buzzing)

Then go back to your crystal ball,

find out what's going on, man.

Trivette.

DISPATCHER: Trivette, you and Walker

have a call from a Buck Parsons.

Arcadia Tool and Die?

That's him. Wants you to meet him in Denton, 620 Decker.

Says it's urgent.

(starts car)

(dramatic theme playing)

She didn't show up for work this morning.

I got concerned.

She'd been acting funny ever since the break-in.

I got to thinking maybe she... She knew something,

she just wasn't telling.

Did you move that knife, Buck?

BUCK: No, no.

TRIVETTE: That's... WALKER: Cody Preston.

Look, some other time, okay, Ellie?

A woman has been murdered, Cody. Suzanne Moore. Did you know her?

What have you gotten yourself into?

My God, Cody, we never lied to each other.

That was our bond.

I'm sorry, okay, Ellie?

Oh!

Yeah, Bubba.

Yeah, well, Bubba, I sure do appreciate it.

No, I'll hold, but I don't want to be here all day.

Any luck?

Well, on one front, it looks good, Jimmy.

But I jumped plumb naked to get out here looking for Cody.

Where is he?

Finished the picture. He's out of town like a scalded cat.

Cody's gone. So's Ellie.

Yeah, and she's awful upset too.

You didn't say anything to her about the body?

Well, I guess I...

Uh, she was... She was asking for Cordell,

and I... I just let it slip the murdered girl knew Cody.

Yeah?

Yeah, okay.

Well, that... Yeah, that's good information.

Yeah, I... I think we can use that.

Yeah, well, it's good to talk to you, Bubba.

My... My regards to the wife and kid.

You bet. Thank you, Bubba.

I'll tell you, that old boy is something else.

He worked 42 years for the railroad over here in Mineola.

They put a white shirt and a clip bow tie on him,

made an executive out of him. But let me tell you...

C.D., what did he say?

Well, uh, it's... It's confidential

and it's strictly on a need-to-know basis.

We need to know.

I'm coming to it, Cordell.

This may be a carload of currency

coming out of Washington for the Dallas banks.

How much?

Well, in the neighborhood of $28 million.

Whew, that's a sweet neighborhood.

When's it coming in?

Gentlemen, it's coming as we speak.

Cody's involved somehow. Let's go check his motel.

TRIVETTE: Thanks, C.D.

(suspenseful theme playing)

That's Ellie's car.

(phone rings)

It's Ellie's.

Go ahead, C.D.

Cordell's old friend Lassiter's not in the office today.

Lassiter.

Ask him about the train.

C.D., what about the train?

All right, stay on it.

According to Dallas Tower, the train's on time.

Should be crossing into Texas about now.

Let's go.

(suspenseful theme playing)

(tires screech)

Tiger One, we're ready to rock 'n' roll.

LASSITER: That's a go, Tiger Two.

That's a go.

(coughs)

Jamming all central-control frequencies.

Hey, that's the four-by-four we saw at the tool-and-die.

Let's see your hands.

WALKER: Get out!

Get out!

Turn around. Hands behind your head.

(machine-gun fire)

Hyah!

They got Takimura and Davis.

LASSITER: No witnesses.

Ah!

C.D.: Yeah, Jimmy?

Tell Cordell he was right about that train robbery.

How?

Well, that car carrying that new currency...

C.D., what about it?

It disappeared.

What do you mean, disappeared?

The train arrived on schedule at Union Station,

but the car was missing.

We can't get a clear picture of this damn thing.

Ha! Don't that beat all?

Walker showed up again.

He caught Takimura and Davis.

We had to take them out.

Walker?

He's still out there.

Hey, what are you...? Get busy.

What did I tell you, to stop? Come on.

Go help them. Come on.

C.D. says internal systems

at Central Traffic Control was jammed,

so they couldn't tell when the car was cut loose.

That sucker's somewhere, man.

But where and how?

You've heard of a flying switch, right?

No, I've never heard of a flying switch.

You said you grew up watching Western movies.

Think about it.

It was switched off to an old branch line?

Son of a gun.

That's why they took the switch key.

So the siding switch was thrown, money car snatched,

and the siding switched back

when the rest of the train continued on.

Son of a gun.

There's an old branch line right down the road here.

Leads to a meat-packing plant that hasn't been used in years.

Just like in the movies. Yeah.

(car starts)

(suspenseful theme playing)

Hey, Jake, listen...

Hey, no, no, no. You listen.

What'd I tell you about mixing family with business, huh?

You have to cut your losses in the end.

Look, there is no reason to hurt her.

Hurt her? We're not gonna hurt her.

She's gonna be dead.

LASSITER: Come on. Come on!

Walker!

They got Ellie!

Oh!

No!

(gunshots) (screams)

Cover me.

(machine-gun fire)

(choked grunts)

(grunts)

I've been looking forward to this, Walker.

TRIVETTE: Hey.

Where do you think you're going, huh? Hm? Come on.

Hope you enjoyed it.

Lassiter!

Walker!

Cody.

I'm sorry.

You think you know someone, and then you discover you don't,

even as close as Cody and I were.

He was always looking for that pot

at the end of the rainbow.

Nothing that was gonna stop him, no matter what I did.

He went down the wrong path, Ellie,

but in the end, he proved that he loved you.

Miss Ellie, I'm sure everything's

gonna get easier for you.

And I'm just delighted

that the film's gonna continue to shoot here.

Well, I'm a survivor, C.D.

Yes, ma'am. I'll be fine.

Jimmy.

Hey, Jimmy, you look lower than a snake's belly

in a wagon rut.

Producers rejected my script.

Jimmy, all they did was take a pass.

That's what they call it in the biz: a pass.

It was my life.

They flushed my life.

You're not gonna give up, are you?

I mean, maybe what you should do is, uh...

punch it up a little bit.

You know what I mean?

Pump it up a little? Mm-hm

Take out the dull spots.

Right.

Little more heart.

You got it.

Drama. Yeah.

Pedal to the metal with the action, man.

Absolutely. Yeah.

(both laugh)

Now, Jimmy, you'll want to change your name

to protect the innocent too.

Especially mine.

(Resync by Chuck)

(upbeat 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 ♪