Diane Perella

The race card -- After their first thrilling victory in the playoffs, the Panthers feel invincible - until Mac (Blue Deckert) makes racial statements that test the team's bond. Tim (Taylor Kitsch) and Billy (Derek Phillips) adjust to having their father back in their lives while Tami (Connie Britton) worries about Julie's (Aimee Teegarden) new friendship with Tyra (Adrianne Palicki). The game everyone is preparing for this time doesn't include the Dillon Panthers as the girls take the reigns in a game of Powderpuff football. With Julie as QB and Tyra as linebacker, all bets are off.

Kurt Nypo, a powerful drug dealer, is attempting to get rid of Walker when he starts to get close. Nypo also has Tony Kingston, one of Walker's karate students (and whose mom he is dating), deliver the drugs. Meanwhile, the Rangers are working on locating a rapist at a college that Alex teaches at.

Walker and Alex are trapped on board a crashed plane that sinks to the bottom of a remote lake.

When a small town mob blames a boy for the murder of a well-liked local woman, Walker is called into stop the angry group from lynching the youth while he attempts to prove him innocent.

Walker becomes the guardian of a 7-year-old boy who unknowingly contracted AIDS from his drug-addicted mother, who left him behind after escaping a drug bust.