Walker tells children a Christmas story about a Texas Ranger from 1876. Hayes Cooper was said to have no Christmas spirit. In 1876, a baby was kidnapped and Haynes was assigned the case. At last, he found the baby and Christmas spirit.

A young boy is upset that his fireman father never seems to be home. The firemen are busy because a gang is torching homes of witnesses to the gang leader who is on trial for murder. The father is shot as he attempts to put out a fire.

Walker and Trivette receive a message from terrorists, who threaten to blow up enough anthrax to kill one million people in Dallas, if they don't receive $100,000,000 and the release of another terrorist from prison. It's a race against time as Walker and Trivette hunt for the bomb.

A criminal whose operations Walker and the others have been foiling decides to take them out, so has one of his men plant a bomb when they're all together. Walker sees him and discovers the bomb and tries to get rid of it but it blows up in his face. At the hospital they learn that Walker's blind and the doctors are uncertain if it's permanent. Gage and Cooke try to get the man who did this. Alex tries to help Walker cope but he's impossible. White Eagle shows up and tells Walker that he shouldn't worry if he can see again but to learn how rely on his other senses. And he does.

Trivette is giving a criminology lecture at the University. Afterwards, one of the students asks Trivette to help her prove that her father is innocent of a crime he was convicted of.

A man who calls himself The Chairman talks with various mob bosses and informs them that he knows who among their people are undercover operatives sent by the government. He offers to weed them out for a fee. But one man, named Cardoza who is based in Texas refuses but when the Chairman tells him that a Senator is in Dallas to meet with Alex on how to deal with him, he claims that it doesn't bother him. But, he actually decides to take her out. The Chairman then informs the Rangers who stop Cardoza's men. Later when the Senator is informed of undercover agents turning up dead, she decides to form a task force to find who is doing it and she wants Walker to head it. Walker accepts and he brings in, Trivette, Gage and Cooke to help him and he is told that a New York cop named Rosetti is part of his team. Thinking that whoever is doing this must be hacking the Government's computers, Trivette gets a hacker who is in jail to help them. They start by going after Cardoza.