A multiethnic middle school in Dallas County is plagued by gang activity-- more specifically, the really young kids here are joining gangs and getting into fights with one another. An adult gang member in particular is corrupting a young man who goes to school there. The adult gang member, "Loco" shoots and kills a concerned schoolteacher. Loco then encourages his mentee to shoot a random child at the school to prove his mettle.
Walker comes into the school as a substitute teacher and brings his own brand of not-vigilante but still tough-as-nails way.
In the episode there is original rap music with a Chicano twist. The lyrics are passable and rated G for prime time television. Not sure if they'd actually get real airplay.
A young girl is shot, mysteriously. Faith is, well, a girl of faith-- her family is religious, and this angle is played up somewhat. The girl is initially resistant to physical therapy, for example.
By the end of the episode,there's an interesting climax
one of the students, malcom, confesses to accidentally shooting Faith.
Walker: "I think you've learned a lesson that carrying a gun is not the solution" Cue Walker, Trivette and a group of cops surveilling and then invading the gang's hideout, with plenty of guns drawn. But when Walker uses karate to subdue Loco, the mentee Carlos is tempted to shoot Walker. He doesn't of course.
The epilogue involves Walker convincing the injured girl that it is just fine to believe in God but to also put in effort. She is finally convinced to go to physical therapy. Amazingly, Malcolm, the student who possessed the gun that ended up injuring her, is there in the room. This leads to an uncomfortable question. Did Walker even report what Malcom told him to authorities (well, besides himself)? If so, then there's no way that he would not have been detained initially, likely kept away from school in the interim. If not, that would be a major ethical breach for Walker, and essentially illegal as well, if he hid the evidence (the gun that Malcom gave back to Walker). Bottom line, it wasn't very realistic.
Walker's offhanded comment about (kids) carrying guns not being the answer rings incredibly ironic nowadays, as Chuck Norris's politics became more publicly right wing, as well as the various school based shootings that have taken place.
Walker comes into the school as a substitute teacher and brings his own brand of not-vigilante but still tough-as-nails way.
In the episode there is original rap music with a Chicano twist. The lyrics are passable and rated G for prime time television. Not sure if they'd actually get real airplay.
A young girl is shot, mysteriously. Faith is, well, a girl of faith-- her family is religious, and this angle is played up somewhat. The girl is initially resistant to physical therapy, for example.
By the end of the episode,there's an interesting climax
one of the students, malcom, confesses to accidentally shooting Faith.
Walker: "I think you've learned a lesson that carrying a gun is not the solution" Cue Walker, Trivette and a group of cops surveilling and then invading the gang's hideout, with plenty of guns drawn. But when Walker uses karate to subdue Loco, the mentee Carlos is tempted to shoot Walker. He doesn't of course.
The epilogue involves Walker convincing the injured girl that it is just fine to believe in God but to also put in effort. She is finally convinced to go to physical therapy. Amazingly, Malcolm, the student who possessed the gun that ended up injuring her, is there in the room. This leads to an uncomfortable question. Did Walker even report what Malcom told him to authorities (well, besides himself)? If so, then there's no way that he would not have been detained initially, likely kept away from school in the interim. If not, that would be a major ethical breach for Walker, and essentially illegal as well, if he hid the evidence (the gun that Malcom gave back to Walker). Bottom line, it wasn't very realistic.
Walker's offhanded comment about (kids) carrying guns not being the answer rings incredibly ironic nowadays, as Chuck Norris's politics became more publicly right wing, as well as the various school based shootings that have taken place.
