While busy teaching karate at the Chisholm Middle School, Walker witnesses the suicide of Henry Monroe, a much-bullied 12-year-old due to his poverty-stricken life, and seeks to do something to have the school improve its image, but eventually learns that the kids who bullied him belong to a gang that wants to keep the school just the way it is. Meanwhile, Trivette, Gage and Sydney are infiltrating the nightclub of Lorenzo Cabral.
Tropes seen in this episode:
- A Day in the Limelight: Sydney, Gage and Trivette have to take on the Lorenzo Cabral investigation while Walker is trying to help the Chisholm Middle School improve its image and save other students from facing the same fate as Henry.
- Big "NO!": From Walker at the beginning of the episode when Henry takes the fall and kills himself.
- Bully Brutality: The start of the episode has a bullied 12-year-old deciding to kill himself, but when Walker seems to succeed in talking him down and getting him to change his mind, he slips and falls to his death anyway, upon which Walker spearheads an anti-bullying campaign not only throughout the school, but to the community.
- Continuity Nod: Abraham Verduzco, who plays Jesus Rodriguez in this episode, previously played Carlos Delgado in Season 6's "Test of Faith", and both his characters gave up gang lifestyles to live decent lives.
- Despair Event Horizon: The episode starts with Henry being bullied, as usual, and it's now come to the point he can no longer put up with it.
- Driven to Suicide / The Precarious Ledge: Kicking off the subplot of the episode is Henry's suicide, after he'd been bullied one too many times at school. After Henry kills himself by jumping off the roof of the school, this prompts Walker to have the school improve its reputation.
- Manly Tears: Walker displays this after Henry commits suicide, but his sadness turns into action that he hopes something will be done.
- One Dialogue, Two Conversations: During the beginning of the episode, Sydney and Trivette wonder if Gage would like Salsa (the dance). After he comes in he claims he loves Salsa, especially on chips. It is after the fact, the two tell him they mean the dance rather than the food item.
- Talking Down the Suicidal: As Walker is about to leave after karate class, he sees Henry on the roof about to make the jump of death. Walker races up to the roof and tries to reason with Henry before he can do it, but fails miserably.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Pretty debatable in this episode.
- The episode starts off with Henry deciding he couldn't take any more of the bullying and tries to kill himself. Walker tries to talk him down and stop his suicide attempt, but fails. Afterwards, Walker then decides to turn his sadness into action to help improve the reputations of the students and the school itself so they don't suffer the same outcome Henry did.
- Can't forget about this background song played throughout the episode:You're stronger than you think you are
You'll shine If you just follow your star
You can do even more than you know
But you got to believe that's so
A life worth saving.
