History Recap / WalkerTexasRangerS9E18Legends

* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Sydney and Gage find the grille for the stolen [=LeSabre=] used to kill Connie Gibson and are prepared to arrest Hugo, one of his employee tries to strangle her to death in the midst of this fight. This is what Michael will soon try to do to her [[spoiler:while she is disguised as Alex (who is his final target) after doing so to Dean Scaggs while he and his mooks ambush her and Walker at his home near the end of the episode.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Sydney and Gage find the grille for the stolen [=LeSabre=] used to kill Connie Gibson, and are prepared to arrest Hugo, though not before kicking the asses of his employees. One junkyard employee tries to strangle Sydney to death in the midst of this fight, which is what Michael will soon try to do to her (disguised as Alex, who is his final target) while he and his mooks ambush her and Walker at his home near the end of the episode.]]

* TrashyTrailerHome: Dean Scaggs lives in one deep in the Texas backwoods. Gage and Sydney visit his home when they get a warrant for his arrest after one of the hitmen responsible for the hit against Judge Steigler identifies him while being interrogated by Trivette, but there's nobody in sight... until he returns home on his motorcycle and sees the two Rangers' unmarked Crown Vic parked outside, upon which he makes a run for it back into the city with Gage and Sydney in hot pursuit... and to Michael's office [[spoiler:where he ends up being strangled to death]].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Dean Scaggs is responsible for the blind hires to take out the people responsible for Sam Viscardi's conviction, and after all the victims are killed, the blind hires are killed afterwards. Near the end of the episode, when Gage and Sydney get a warrant for his arrest and follow Scaggs to Michael's office after Trivette arrests one of the men responsible for the hit against Judge Steigler and the dispatch manager of the gas plant, [[spoiler:it's not long before ''Michael gives him'' this treatment before he goes off to murder Walker and Alex.]]

* VillainNoLongerIdle: After Dean Scaggs is trailed by Gage and Sydney to his office, it's quite obvious he's out of blind hires, to which he decides to kill Alex himself, [[spoiler:though not before he murders Scaggs to keep him from talking mere moments before Gage and Sydney raid his office. Michael has then followed Walker and Sydney (who was disguised as Alex to fool him) to Walker's house, where he and his two heavies easily have their asses handed to them.]]

* TrashyTrailerHome: Dean Scaggs lives in one deep in the Texas backwoods. Gage and Sydney visit his home when they get a warrant for his arrest after one of the hitmen responsible for the hit against Judge Steigler identifies him while being interrogated by Trivette, but there's nobody in sight... until he returns home on his motorcycle and sees the two Rangers' unmarked Crown Vic parked outside, upon which he makes a run for it back into the city... and to Michael's office [[spoiler:where he ends up being strangled to death]].

* TrashyTrailerHome: Dean Scaggs lives in one deep in the Texas backwoods. Gage and Sydney visit his home when they get a warrant for his arrest after one of the hitmen responsible for the hit against Judge Steigler identifies him while being interrogated by Trivette, but there's nobody in sight... until he returns home on his motorcycle and sees the two Rangers' unmarked Crown Vic parked outside, upon which he makes a run for it back into the city.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Dean Scaggs is responsible for the blind hires to take out the people responsible for Sam Viscardi's conviction, and after all the victims are killed, the blind hires are killed afterwards. Near the end of the episode, when Gage and Sydney get a warrant for his arrest and follow Scaggs to Michael's office after Trivette catches one of the men responsible for the hit against Judge Steigler, [[spoiler:it's not long before ''Michael gives him'' this treatment before he goes off to murder Walker and Alex.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Dean Scaggs is responsible for the blind hires to take out the people responsible for Sam Viscardi's conviction, and after all the victims are killed, the blind hires are killed afterwards. Near the end of the episode, when Gage and Sydney get a warrant for his arrest and follow Scaggs to Michael's office, [[spoiler:it's not long before ''Michael gives him'' this treatment before he goes off to murder Walker and Alex.]]

'''Walker:''' I know.

** Also averted with the dispatch manager at the Talford Petroleum Refinery, where Trivette successfully finds the people who carried out the hit against Judge Stiegler (whereas Sydney and Gage had no luck at, respectively, the Waterton Refinery and the Venue Gas Plants). Although Dean Scaggs kills one of the hitmen, Trivette manages to arrest Floyd and the dispatch manager, upon which he is able to determine Scaggs tried to kill them.

** Also averted with the dispatch manager at the Talford Petroleum Refinery, where Trivette successfully finds the people who carried out the hit against Judge Stiegler (whereas Sydney and Gage had no luck at, respectively, the Waterton Refinery and the Venue Gas Plants). Although Dean Scaggs kills one of the hitmen, Trivette manages to arrest Floyd and the dispatch manager, upon which Trivette is able to determine Scaggs tried to kill them.

** Also averted with the dispatch manager at the Talford Petroleum plant, where Trivette successfully finds the people who carried out the hit against Judge Stiegler (whereas Sydney and Gage had no luck at, respectively, the Waterton Refinery and the Venue Gas Plants). Although Dean Scaggs kills one of the hitmen, Trivette manages to arrest Floyd and the dispatch manager, upon which Trivette is able to determine Scaggs tried to kill them.

** Also averted with the dispatch manager at the Talford Petroleum plant, where Trivette successfully finds the people who carried out the hit against Judge Stiegler (whereas Sydney and Gage had no luck at, respectively, the Waterton Refinery and the Venue Gas Plants). Although Dean Scaggs kills one of the hitmen, Trivette manages to arrest Floyd and the dispatch manager.

* SecretMessageWink: Averted for Sammy Viscardi after he is convicted for his crimes. Walker had been watching the trial in the gallery along with Michael and Scaggs, but while he congratulates Alex on the convictions, he sees Sammy nod to Michael while he is led out of the courtroom in handcuffs to await sentencing the next day at 9:00 AM, and doesn't realize what this means, until he and Trivette are the first Rangers on the scene when the head juror, Connie Gibson, turns up dead. After forensics determine that Gibson's death was not an accident, having found car headlight glass and chipped auto paint on the rail she went over, not to mention the vehicle used in the murder, a brand-new cobalt blue Buick [=LeSabre=], was reported stolen, Walker concludes that Sammy was nodding the message to Michael that he avenge him, with Gibson having been his first victim, at which point he apprises Alex of the situation and arranges that extra protection be provided for her and everyone involved in the trial.

* SecretMessageWink: Averted for Sammy Viscardi after he is convicted for his crimes. Walker had been watching the trial in the gallery along with Michael and Scaggs, but while he congratulates Alex on the convictions, he sees Sammy nod to Michael while he is led out of the courtroom in handcuffs to await sentencing the next day at 9:00 AM, and doesn't realize what this means, until he and Trivette are the first Rangers on the scene when the head juror, Connie Gibson, turns up dead. After forensics determine that Gibson's death was not an accident, not to mention the vehicle used in the murder, a brand-new cobalt blue Buick [=LeSabre=], was reported stolen, Walker concludes that Sammy was nodding the message to Michael that he avenge him, with Gibson having been his first victim, at which point he apprises Alex of the situation and arranges that extra protection be provided for her and everyone involved in the trial.

* SecretMessageWink: Averted for Sammy Viscardi after he is convicted for his crimes. Walker, watching the trial in the gallery along with Michael and Scaggs, sees Sammy nod to Michael while he is led out of the courtroom in handcuffs to await sentencing the next day at 9:00 AM, and doesn't realize what this means, until he and Trivette are the first Rangers on the scene when the head juror, Connie Gibson, turns up dead. After forensics determine that Gibson's death was not an accident, not to mention the vehicle used in the murder, a brand-new cobalt blue Buick [=LeSabre=], was reported stolen, Walker concludes that Sammy was nodding the message to Michael that he avenge him, with Gibson having been his first victim, at which point he apprises Alex of the situation and arranges that extra protection be provided for her and everyone involved in the trial.

* OverlordJr: Michael Viscardi becomes the new head of the Viscardi Organization after his father is convicted by Alex. Who knows if he has children of his own who will succeed him after Walker arrests him?

** Also played straight with Michael Viscardi after he and his two henchmen are easily taken down when they raid Walker's home to kill him and Alex, [[spoiler: only for them to find out Sydney was acting as a decoy to trick them]]. It's safe to assume Michael got the same treatment his father did before him upon conviction for his crimes.

** Also played straight with Michael Viscardi after he and his two henchmen are easily taken down when they raid Walker's home to kill him and Alex, [[spoiler: only for them to find out Sydney was acting as a decoy to trick them]]. Michael likely got the same treatment his father did.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: This is averted with Sammy Viscardi, because he's looking at life in prison for his crimes. But it is, however, played straight with Hugo (the junkyard owner who tried to cover for Connie Gibson's killer along with his employees), Floyd (the oil contractor who killed Judge Stiegler) and the dispatch manager of the gas plant Trivette was visiting after they were arrested. It is likely they all got reduced sentences in exchange for their testimonies against Michael.

* TitleDrop: From Gage when he, Trivette and Sydney examine the championship match program at the office while Alex is in the middle of the trial: