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Emile Lavocat is the main antagonist of the 2-part series finale of Walker, Texas Ranger, "The Final Showdown". He is the arch nemesis of the series protagonist Cordell Walker(Chuck Norris).
He was portrayed by Marshall R. Teague, who also voiced Krunk in Crash Nitro Kart and Jimmy Reno in Road House.
Teague also played several other "heavies" (major villains) in the Walker series, including the primary villain in the series premiere and multiple other central villains throughout its run. However, all of them are completely unrelated to the character of Lavocat, who only appears in the finale.
Biography[]
Backstory[]
Lavocat is the vicious ringleader of a large nationwide gang of armed robbers. Lavocat and his gang robbed 8 Texas banks and 3 armored cars, with Lavocat using which his signature sniper rifle. He is also the great great grandson of the notorious leader of a gang of outlaws known as the "Desperados", Milos "Moon" Lavocat (the arch nemesis of the legendary Texas Ranger (later Sheriff), Hayes Cooper, an ancestor of Walker. Both characters have American Indian heritage, with Lavocat being part Louisiana French as well. The finale includes two parallel timelines, one taking place in the modern day, and another centering around the ancestors of the characters in the Old West, played by the same actors.
Walker helped apprehend Lavocat and his gang. Lavocat later pled not guilty by reason of insanity and got life without parole in a Maximum Security Facility for the Criminally Insane; however, the gang leader staged his death, by pretending to have poured fuel oil all over himself and then set himself on fire, and as a result he was believed to be dead by the Rangers. He begins to plot his retribution against the rangers who arrested him and his gang. Over the next 7 years, Lavocat becomes a fugitive on the run and begins to recruit a new army of mercenaries.
The gang leader intends to eliminate the Texas Rangers of Company B, who are 11 in total, including Walker, Trivette, C.D., Ranger Wade Harper, Ranger Cliff Jensen and 7 other Texas Rangers who arrested him and his gang in 1993. In 2000, as soon as he reached a considerable number of mercenaries for his new army, the gang leader returns to Texas. In the ninth season episode "The Avenging Angel", the rangers receive news of the death of fellow Ranger C.D., caused by a heart attack. In fact it will be discovered that it was Lavocat who successfully assassinated C.D., via ricin poisoning.
Events of Series Finale[]
In the last two episodes of the series finale "The Final Showdown", Lavocat stages a spectacular and deadly prison break at the Maximum Security Facility in Huntsville using an armed helicopter and guided missiles, freeing four of his top lieutenants (Ross Dollarhide, Shilts, Jonas Graves and Chastain). Returning to his hideout, Lavocat explains his plot to the four, and along with the mercenaries they reform the gang with the purpose of eliminating the Texas Rangers of Company B. Gradually the gang leader and his gang begin a massacre: Lavocat assassinates the Ranger Cliff Jensen on the steps of Ranger headquarters using a heavy sniper rifle, firing from at extremely long range. He leaves a spent shell casing at the scene of the shot, along with a note taunting Walker.
Meanwhile Shilts, Graves, Chastain and some of the mercenaries attack Ranger Wade Harper's house, killing both him and his wife, Betsy. In addition, Lavocat and Dollarhide attached a bomb under Trivette's car, but Trivette nevertheless miraculously survives. However, their plot goes awry when Dollarhide, despite Lavocat forbidding him from going out into town until they've completed their mission, leaves the hideout to visit a prostitute, and is spotted by a state trooper who contacts Walker, Gage and Sydney. Without realizing it, he leads authorities to their hideout. The enraged Lavocat berates and threatens him with a knife for disobeying a direct order.
Thus begins the final showdown between Lavocat and his gang, and the Texas Rangers. Hearing an approaching helicopter and realizing that the gang has been found, Lavocat grabs his sniper rifle and aims at the incoming chopper, only to see Walker himself looking back at him with his own sniper rifle. With one shot, Walker destroys Lavocat's sniper scope, though Lavocat barely avoids fatal injury. Walker then jumps down onto the building to engage in close combat with the gang, joined by his fellow Rangers. After a gunfight and hand-to-hand battles, Walker's forces use confiscated grenades to take out Shilts and a few mercenaries. Gage fights and takes down Dollarhide and apprehends Chastain. Sydney fights and apprehends Graves, as well as taking out one of the mercenaries for good measure. Two other Texas Rangers battle the remaining mercenaries.
Walker himself confronts Lavocat for brutal one-on-one combat. At one point their guns are discarded and they proceed to fight hand-to-hand and Lavocat eventually pulls a knife. During the extended clash both fall from a window. Surviving the fall, Walker manages to defeat Lavocat by pulling the pin on one of the grenades that Lavocat had on his belt. Lavocat screams in horror one last time before being blown up with his car, finally putting an end to the vicious gang leader once and for all and avenging C.D., Jensen, Wade & Betsy and the two rangers who were murdered in the line of duty 7 years ago.
Personality[]
Like most antagonists in the series, Lavocat is an almost cartoonishly cruel and violent individual. Not satisfied with merely killing Walker, he seeks to taunt and torment him before delivering the fatal blow. He has no regard for innocent life and is known to take hostages. His sadism and overconfidence proved to be his ultimate downfall, as by not murdering Walker outright, Walker gains valuable time to locate and turn the tables on his pursuer.
Powers and Abilities[]
Lavocat is a skilled marksman. In the present day, he wields a Barrett Model 82 .50 caliber rifle. He is strong enough to fire this heavy, unwieldly weapon offhand, from the shoulder. His great-great grandfather, Moon, also uses some type of heavy long-barreled rifle, possibly a Shiloh Sharps 1874 Long-Range. Lavocat also excels at hand-to-hand fighting, managing to wound Walker in single combat during the climactic battle. He not only fights using a large combat knife but unarmed as well. He is as merciless to his own goons as he is towards his enemies, threatening at one point to cut the throat of one his goons who had disobeyed him.
Trivia[]
- The finale features two timelines with ancestors of the present-day characters played by the same actors. Though technically different characters, the unfolding events and ultimate conclusion in both times are very similar, right down to the climactic one-on-one battles at the conclusion.
- Marshall R. Teague portrayed numerous other unrelated villains throughout the Walker series, including the pilot, making him one of the few actors to appear in both the series premiere as well as its finale. Like his character Lavocat, Marshall Teague himself has American Indian heritage.
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Cliff Eagleton | The Chairman/Nolan Pierce | D.L. Dade | Emile Lavocat | Janet Munroe | John Bodie | Russell Stafford | Salvatore Matacio | Stan Gorman | Theodore McNeely | Victor Larue | ||