During a bank robbery in Dallas, Walker's partner is killed. Trying to solve this case, Walker finds out that this raid could have been only a test for a much bigger goal: simultaneously robbing four banks lying next to each other. No one believes him. After a bomb explodes in a far away bank, which has just gotten a valuable load, everyone goes there. When the actual raid starts Walker must face the gang alone.
After he robbed a bank Roy accidentally gets arrested because of a minor offense, but has to be freed after a short time. Walker and Trivette stay close on his heels but they are not the only ones. The bounty hunter Maxwell is also behind Roy. When Roy is (unprovable) killed by Maxwell, Walker and Trivette follow Maxwell, who is now behind Roy's partner Ned - who has the stolen money - and doesn't stop at nothing to get the money.
Trivette goes undercover into jail to infiltrate and destroy a drug ring. During a hurricane the transport crashes; the prisoners can escape and are hiding with hostages in a remote hotel. Among the fugitives: Trivette. When the transport is overdue Walker starts searching and lands up in the hotel where he goes for the prisoners one by one with the help of a handicapped person.
Using a psychic to help locate a kidnapped 8-year-old earns Trivette ridicule from his fellow rangers.
The Japanese mob is kicking up some trouble in Houston. Unfortunately for them, they decide to kidnap the wrong kid. The cute little daughter of a wealthy Texas power broker is home from a boarding school for some R&R and a little rodeo fun, when - on the drive home from the airport - she's violently snatched from her limo and two bodyguards. During the girl's previous year at the rodeo, she became one of Ranger Walker's many little buddies and proteges. So the bad guys have no idea what kind of bad news they've brought to themselves!
A helicopter comes in and the man inside kills the Judge in front of Alex and Walker just before he can tell them what he has discovered Fortunately Walker jumps into the helicopter and pulls the killer out with him. The killer, whose name is Sonny, reveals that a prominent businessman named DL Dade ordered the hit and also reveals that he is an underworld figure. With Sonny's help, Walker and Trivette begin to take down Dade's illegal operations.
An escaped psychopathic prisoner named Max Kale goes on a spree, eager to kill people who helped put him away in prison—a list of people including Walker, Alex, a doctor named Jane Pine, a judge named Hollister, Max's ex-wife Angela, and the neighbors from the street where Max was raised. Now Walker must do whatever it takes to protect the people and put an end to Kale's rampage.
Walker and Trivette investigation of the murder of an assistant high school football coach leads to their discovery of a blackmail plot towards the team caused by an illegal high-stakes gambling ring and they must end it before the state tournament game the high school team had been preparing for starts.
For years Walker has believed that the man who murdered his parents at a carnival in the sixties was dead, but after visiting with one of them men who had attacked them that night, Walker realises that his parents' killer has been living the life of Riley for the past few years, and he needs the help of an old cowboy who witnessed the crime to track him down.
Victor DeMarco, a mob boss who was put away in prison years ago, is given a new trial and intends to go free by using false witnesses. After his men kill two of the real witnesses, Walker and Trivette go undercover to protect the final witness, a rodeo rider who is an ex-boyfriend of Alex after he refuses protective custody.
Walker and Trivette go undercover in a prison as a convict and a guard respectively to gather evidence on a convicted felon that had a key witness and two rangers murdered, but are unaware that the assistant warden and some of the guards are working for the felon. On top of all that, Trivette gets exposed, forcing Walker to work alone and bust the warden before his own cover is blown and the felon walks free.
After saving a female Mexican immigrant who was brought in illegally and forced into prostitution, Walker goes undercover with Mexican agent Jesse Rodriguez as a peasant to track a large operation of slave-labor smugglers in Mexico that are migrating Mexican immigrants into the United States illegally by tricking them with false promises of providing them with a better life.
While being put to work at a farm, Jesse finds one of their men there to whom he once arrested a long time ago could identify him as a police officer once he remembers him which puts both his and Walker's cover at risk, forcing Walker to show his worth by standing up to the slavers to meet the real leader of this slave-labor operation before their cover is blown. Meanwhile, after the female immigrant they saved is recaptured and forced back into prostitution, Trivette leads a manhunt to get her back.
After arms dealer Randall Hooks is killed by Walker in a raid his older mercenary brother Caleb Hooks gets revenge by killing Phillip Daniels, the F.B.I. agent in charge of the bust and kidnaps Walker and makes him fight to the death. Meanwhile, Trivette works with Daniels' partner, Carl Bishop to locate Walker.