Walker, Texas Ranger s03e21 Episode Script

I can't believe Trivette.
I set him up with my best friend | and he doesn't even call her back.
Now, wait a minute.
| He told me he did call her back.
Oh, yeah, two weeks later.
Well, he did call her back.
Two weeks is a lifetime when you're | waiting by the phone.
Well What he told me is, | when he took her out, - she was kind of | - Kind of what? - You know, kind of | - Kind of what? - Dull.
He said she was dull.
| - Dull? - That's what he said.
| - She's not dull.
I guess what would you expect? | She is an attorney, you know.
You - What's wrong with your radio? | - Some kind of electrical interference.
What the hell is that? I've never seen anything like that.
Neither have I.
Why do I feel so vulnerable | out here all of a sudden? Even with me? Even with you.
It's creepy.
- Well, let's go see what that is.
| - Why? Because I'd like to know | what it is up there.
Well, good luck.
- Wait here.
| - Not a chance.
Honey, what are you doing out here? | Are you all right? - Why are you out here alone? | - Don't be afraid.
I'm Walker, this is Alex.
| What's your name? Where's your mommy and daddy? | Are they out here with you? They got my daddy.
Who got your daddy? If you talk to us, | maybe we can help you.
Sky people.
| The sky people took him.
Hey, come on, honey.
Let's go.
What do you think she means by | sky people? I don't know.
There's a little town | just down the road.
We'll take her to a doctor.
United States Air Force, step out of | the vehicle with your hands in the air.
I'm a Texas Ranger.
| Get out of my way, I'm in a hurry.
Sgt.
Perez, | Two Rocks Base Security.
- I'd like to take a look at the girl.
| - Why? - That's classified.
| - Then I can't help you, sergeant.
I have my orders.
| She's coming with me.
I'm on a county road and you're off | your base, sergeant.
You have no jurisdiction out here.
Out of the truck, Ranger.
Tell your men to stand down.
I mean it.
Now, I don't know what your interest | in the girl is and I don't really care.
I wanna get her to a doctor, | so get out of my way, or you're gonna need one too.
Sgt.
Perez here, | tell the colonel we got a problem.
All right, Sgt.
Perez, roll it.
| Let's see what you have.
It was a real hot night.
The window was open, | but I couldn't sleep.
There it was.
A brilliant white light.
Racing across the sky.
It sort of dropped down, hovered over the prairie like, like it was looking for something, watching, and then it raced off | like a shot.
This won't take long, dear.
Relax.
That's her description, Trivette.
Run a missing persons check.
Right.
How do you figure | the military angle? I don't know.
But they wanted that little girl | real bad.
Said it was classified, | and they meant it.
- Two Rocks Base? | - Yeah, that's what they said.
I'll see if there's any information | been filed on the girl for you.
Okay, and I'll talk to you later.
Well, physically she seems okay.
She's been through some trauma.
| Maybe something she saw caused this | severe emotional distress.
Well, she keeps saying something | about the sky people taking her father.
- What do you make of that? | - She's not the only one around here who talks about sky people.
Some time ago, it was , | there was a crash here.
- What, a plane? | - Nobody ever really knew.
The military stepped in, | and just took over, and there was a rumor | that the Air Force recovered some alien bodies | from the wreckage, and, of course, that start\ed | everybody's imagination from then on.
Well, it's not her imagination | that her father's missing.
Alex, why don't you stay with the little | girl, I'm gonna check something out.
Okay.
Sure would like to help you out, | Ranger, but there's just no way we can scare | up enough men around here - for a proper search.
| - That's big country out there.
No telling where | that fella wandered off to.
I know where we found | the little girl, we'll start\ there.
Look, folks around here, you know, | they sort\ of keep to themselves.
Shame about the little girl, though.
So, gentlemen, I hope | I haven't I missed anything.
You must be the Ranger | who found the little girl? There's nothing for the | newspapers around here, Tara.
I heard a man is missing, sheriff.
- Now we don't know that for sure.
| - Well, I do.
Well, we don't.
Look, we've got a little girl | just walking down the street.
- There's nothing to get excited about.
| - Well, the military seems to think so.
There's nothing to talk about.
What the United States Air Force | does out there is not our concern, or yours.
We'll see about that.
Trivette called.
Her name is Naomi Burns.
| Her father's Carlton Burns.
Some bigwig | from Citel International.
He was flying her back | from Galveston - when the plane disappeared.
| - Private plane? Single engine Cessna.
- Any family? | - Her mother passed away three years ago, no other relatives.
Citel filed a report\ when Carlton | didn't show up for work today.
Walker, she keeps talking about sky people.
Maybe she did see something weird.
I mean, anything's possible, | don't you think? I don't know what to think, Alex.
Naomi, I have something for you.
Actually, I got it off Doc Parker's | porch, but don't tell him.
- Did you find my daddy yet? | - Not yet, honey, but I will.
- Cross your heart\? | - Cross my heart\.
Just relax, honey.
She responds to you.
| That's a good sign.
I wish she could tell me | what happened.
Well, she probably won't remember.
Doc, would hypnosis help? No, no, she'll No, she may | be too withdrawn, but she's obviously got a great | deal of trust in you, so why don't you give it a try? Okay.
Here, help me take this off.
We'll be a distraction.
| Let's Let's wait outside.
Naomi, have you ever seen | anything like this before? - It's pretty, what is it? | - Well, it's a good-luck charm.
It helps people remember things.
What I'd like for you to do is focus | your eyes right on this.
That's it.
Just look right at it.
Attagirl.
Now, think of yourself floating, floating on a cloud.
You're safe, you're warm, | you're start\ing to feel very tired.
Go ahead, close your eyes.
| That's all right, honey.
That's it.
You're totally safe now.
Okay, now, Naomi, I want you to go back to | the last time you saw your daddy.
Now, what happened to your daddy? He was flying us home | in his airplane.
Then there was this light, and Daddy couldn't make | the airplane fly anymore.
Then I wasn't | in the airplane anymore.
I was all alone | in this garage building.
I couldn't find my daddy anywhere.
I was scared.
Okay, honey, honey, | everything's all right.
You're coming back now.
| When you come back, you're totally relaxed now.
On three now.
| One, two, three, wake up.
There we go, okay.
| Everything's fine, honey.
You're safe.
Now I want you to relax and | go back to sleep, okay? - Will you hold my hand? | - Of course I will.
Go to sleep.
Is she all right? The poor little thing's broken, | just like her doll.
Doc, could you run a trace on | this blood, see what type it is? Well, I can, but why? Well, I don't think it's Naomi's.
She hardly has a scratch on her.
- You think it might be her father's? | - Well, it's possible.
- It'll take some time.
| - That's okay.
All right.
I wonder what that military base | has to do with all this? You're not thinking of going | snooping around out there? - It's crossed my mind.
| - No, Walker.
- Two Rocks is a top-secret facility.
| - So? So Doc Parker said there was a | shooting out there a few years ago - and a civilian was killed.
| - Yeah, I know.
Walker, I'm serious about this.
So am I.
Ranger Walker? Where are you? Why are you following me? You said you wanted help | finding Naomi's father.
- Well, here I am.
I'm your posse.
| - Thanks, but no, thanks.
Come on.
I know this area, you don't.
Go somewhere else | to find your story.
Well, you wanna keep it | off the record? Fine.
I promise I won't write a | word of anything you say.
No one else in town would talk to me.
| What makes you different? Well, they're all afraid | of the sky people.
I mean, over years ago.
Careful.
They are spooked to come out here because of a supposed flying saucer | crash in '.
You didn't answer my question.
| What makes you different? - I've got my own reasons.
| - Well, that's not good enough.
You know, a few years ago | they shot a man for trying this.
He was the previous | owner of my newspaper.
He was investigating this base | and they killed him.
Then they denied it for a week.
- I wanna go with you.
| - No.
You stay here.
Now, don't touch anything.
I told you to stay put.
Look, that man I told you they shot, | he was my uncle.
They killed him because he was | looking for the truth about this place.
- I'm gonna find out what that is.
| - No, you're not.
Yes, I am.
Well, if we have to, can you run? I own every Jane Fonda video | ever made.
How's it going in there? Well, by the time it matters to | anybody, we'll be long gone.
You hear about the girl? I heard somebody found her.
| That's all.
A Texas Ranger.
She say anything? I don't know yet, she's at Doc Parker's | place.
We ought to look into it.
Harper, Blair, we have a | situation developing here.
Yes, sir.
| We were just talking about that.
Yes, we were wondering if some | damage control might be in order.
The girl is in civilian hands, Harper.
I understand, but in light | of the project and this: We might want to consider | taking action, colonel.
No, absolutely not.
- Research is being compromised.
| - I will follow the rules and regulations attendant to my responsibilities, | Mr.
Blair.
I do not take orders from civilians.
I don't like this.
We're gonna have | to move up our schedule.
- I'll make the call.
| - What about the girl? And I'll take care of that too.
Oh, finally.
I didn't think you were ever | gonna take a break.
I thought you were in shape.
I said I owned the videos, | not that I use them.
So why is finding this man | so import\ant to you? It's import\ant to a little girl.
Yeah, I just never thought cops took | their cases so personally.
You don't know the same cops I do.
What are you doing? - Plane crashed here.
| - You know that from tasting dirt\? There's fuel in the dirt\.
What is that? Now fan out.
| We got movement in this sector.
Sir, here's another one, colonel, | and there's more.
Yeah, I know people think I'm crazy when I tell them | what happened to me.
Thing is I know it was real.
I was taken that night and | examined by whatever they were.
Get out of here.
This way.
This way.
| Come here, come here, come here.
Come on, come on.
Naomi's in there! I'll get her! I'll get her! Oh, are you all right? Okay, honey, don't worry.
- My baby.
| - All right, I've got her.
You okay, honey, huh? | Are you all right? Yeah, I think so.
- Is my baby okay? | - Yeah, yeah, she's fine.
Oh, thank God you're safe.
| Are you okay, sweetie? - What happened? | - Three men with guns.
- Let me check you, make sure | - What did they look like? There were two white guys, | one black guy.
That's all I saw.
Okay.
Stay away from the fire.
Okay.
The way that place went up, | man, that was beautiful.
That's the easiest grand | we ever made.
The only problem you're | gonna have is spending it.
Walker, we got the blood | type on Naomi's doll.
It's her father's.
AB negative.
- That's a rare type.
| - Extremely rare.
If he needed a transfusion, | he'd be out of luck around here.
They just won't talk | without an attorney.
Let's get out of here.
She is so sweet.
My heart\ is aching over what | she's been through.
You would think | that even military minds could comprehend the pain | that they're causing her.
Obviously not.
I talked to some of the locals, at least the ones | that would talk to me.
They're all obsessed with UFOs.
They all talk about the | strange dancing lights in the sky.
Yeah, the same ones we saw.
I'm lost.
Sky people, no sky people, | I mean, who cares? Is that any reason to hurt\ this little girl, | or to burn down Doc Parker's office? That's what I intend to find out.
I thought you were just a report\er.
Report\er, editor, typesetter.
| I do it all on this.
- Have the men you captured talked? | - Not yet.
Walker, what could be so import\ant | that they're willing to kill again - to keep it a secret? | - I don't know.
Did your uncle leave anything around | here that could give us a lead? Oh, he was one of | those crusty old newsmen.
He keeps everything in his head, | but I'll look around.
I can tell you one thing.
He was convinced that something | did crash out there years ago.
- What convinced him? | - How much the military went out of its way to deny it.
Who's the commanding | officer out there? A Colonel Dayton.
Why? I think I'll go have a chat with him.
- Oh, Walker, I'm gonna go with you.
| - No, you stay here.
- Oh, Walker, come on.
| - I said, stay here.
And don't you follow me.
Colonel Dayton, Base Commander.
Cordell Walker? - You've done your homework.
| - I like to know who I'm dealing with.
You have quite a service record, | Walker.
Citations, commendations, | Bronze Star, Silver Star, Congressional Medal of Honor.
I'm now a Texas Ranger, colonel, - and I want some answers.
| - Answers? Answers to what? Well, let's start\ with Carlton Burns.
His plane crashed on your base.
Your information is incorrect.
I was at the crash site, colonel.
Now, I want some answers, or I'm gonna have a dozen Rangers | in your face in about two hours.
- Rangers have no authority here.
| - Maybe not, but we can make life | awful tough for you.
- You're bluffing.
| - I never bluff.
Perez, blindfold this man and | put him in the Humvee.
If you don't mind, Walker.
This is a top security facility.
- Colonel, I object.
| - As you were, Blair.
All right, you can take it off.
We found this wreckage | the night it came down.
The plane was empty.
We transport\ed it here and policed | this impact area for security reasons.
Why did it go down? - I don't know.
| - Come on, you can do better than that.
I'm showing you this in the | spirit of cooperation, Walker.
Then cooperate.
What did your men | want with the little girl? They were overzealous | in their concern, that's all.
Were they overzealous when they | burned the doctor's house? We had nothing to do with that, nor are we in the business | of kidnapping civilians.
How did that little girl get | out of this plane alive? That's something I'd like to know.
I've been going at him, | but he's a real tough nut to crack.
You really did a good job on me, pal.
- Looks like I'm gonna lose a tooth.
| - His name is Drew Fenton.
Arson, burglary, assault, | et cetera, et cetera.
Let me have a minute | with him, sheriff.
Sure, have at it.
Forget it.
I know the drill.
Good cop, bad cop.
He threatens to bust my butt, | then you come in here.
That's right, but he was the good cop.
That would've taken out | all your teeth.
Okay, okay.
It was some guy, | some guy I met in a bar.
- I'd never seen him before.
| - Give me a name.
I don't have one.
He said I'd get half my money up front | and then the rest when I done the job.
- Honest.
| - What'd he look like? What are you looking for out there? Sky people? No.
What then? You've hardly said a | word for the past hour.
I was thinking about | the lights in the sky.
I think I know what it is.
What? Well, the other night when Hello? We've got to talk, Walker.
This thing's getting out of hand.
| I don't know who to turn to.
- Who is this? | - Blair.
We met the other day.
You've got to come out to the base, | put a stop to this.
Put a stop to what? Meet me at the hangar, tonight.
| Now.
Common knowledge here about that | the military's got a top secret unit that keeps files on UFO sightings.
They deny it, but people know.
Been too many reports from | airline pilots and other reputable folks to ignore what's going on.
Yeah, government says that they'd | never got no proof of aliens crashing here, but I don't know of nobody Okay, sergeant, turn it off.
| I've seen more than enough.
What do you want, Blair? I knew you'd show up.
You said things were | getting out of hand.
- What things? | - You, for one.
Now, how did I know that? So, Ranger, what do you know? I know a supply of AB negative blood | was flown in here a couple days ago, which means the little girl's | father's still alive.
Very good.
Anything else? Well, whatever it is you're working on | creates high-intensity lasers.
That's what these people | around here have seen.
You're probably shooting | down drones.
Vaporizing them is more like it.
See, we're an offshoot | of the Star Wars Project.
Excellent, Ranger, but you'd never guess, | not in your wildest dreams, - how the project got start\ed.
| - Why don't you tell me? Well, it's a long story and I really don't have the time.
Well, tell me this.
Why did you try to kill the little girl? Does million dollars | sound like a good reason? You're selling the secrets | to a foreign power.
But you'll never live to tell it.
Come on.
| I'm taking you to the colonel.
Get him! No, no, no, no.
| Let him go.
Let him go.
Come on, start\ loading the airplane.
Come on, move.
Got an intruder, Sector .
| The old south hangar.
He's armed and dangerous.
| Scramble all units.
You, stay here.
| The rest of you come with me.
Perez, what's going on out there? - Check the perimeter.
| - Yes, sir.
Men down.
- Drop it.
| - Hey, all right.
Everyone, drop your guns.
Drop them.
Now, let's go see the colonel.
Let's go.
All set.
The plane'll be loaded at the | abandoned south field by noon.
No, no, there's been a change.
| First thing in the morning.
Tell the men.
He's heading for the colonel's office.
| You men secure the front.
We'll enter the rear.
Drop your weapon.
Keep your hands | where we can see them.
We need to talk, colonel.
We're behind schedule here, come on, | come on, let's get this thing loaded.
Come on, move it.
We got incoming.
All right, let's go.
Driver, get in here.
| Let's go after them.
We're right behind you.
- Drop your weapons.
Drop them.
| - Come on, get over here.
Let me see your hands.
Okay, take her back.
Take her down.
Take her down.
Oh, man, did you see that? Now, I've jumped out of planes before, | but I have never, I have never jumped | without a chute.
I hope it's the last time.
- Now, that was one hell of a ride.
| - That was an E ticket, all right.
I hope it makes up for | me hitting you last night.
Yes, yeah, anytime.
| Anytime you want.
Hey, you ever think | about enlisting, Walker? Oh, I'm already enlisted, in the Texas Rangers, | but thanks anyway, sergeant.
Thank you for keeping your | promise and finding my daddy.
I crossed my heart\, didn't I? Thanks for taking care of Naomi.
She can stay with me until | you're ready to leave, if that's all right with you.
Alex taught me how to bake cookies.
Oh, hey, I almost forgot something.
My baby.
| Thank you, Ranger Walker.
Look, Daddy.
| My baby's all better again.
I have the projector | set up down the hall.
We'll see you in a bit.
So this is the film that I found | with my uncle's old stuff.
I don't know what's on here.
Doesn't that look like a | young Colonel Dayton? That is Colonel Dayton.
Oh, my God.