Cross Fire

Cross Fire is a two parter episode in the first season of The Adventures of Red Ryder. It features the first appearance of Sniper.

Part 1
Red Ryder is scouting the city late at night when he recieved a message from Angelo about a disturbance and Ryder goes to investigate, when he arrives, he is threatened by a police helicopter, threatening to kill him, however, the copter is suddenly hit by something and goes down. and crashes, Ryder rushes to the crashed copter to check for survivors, but there were none, Ryder sets up a crime scene to find out what happened. Ryder realises the pilot was killed from the crash, not from a gunshot that was heard, from the roof of the building where Ryder saw the copter crash, Ryder is able to analyse the first point of impact and is able to find the tail rotor that was severed, from there, Ryder was able to find the point of the shooter, but finds it to have been a member of SWAT. Further investigation showed that the SWAT member was killed by a riquochet bullet from another shooter, and the riquochet also shot down the copter.

Ryder continues to investigate and is able to find out where the shot originated, from there, he is able to find a bullet casing with a radio frequency, using his De-Coder, he enters in the radio frequency and finds a message from the shooter, a man who calls himself 'Sniper', telling him to come to the bank tomorrow, also, if Ryder backs out, Sniper has a hostage and a very itchy trigger finger.

Part 2
Red Ryder arrives at the bank to confront Sniper, in the bank, Sniper appears to be waiting for Ryder. Ryder starts by gliding to Sniper and slams him into the ground, but Sniper quickly gets back up, but Ryder is able to use his grappling hook to reach a gargoyle and hide. Ryder is able to continue attacking Sniper and evading the gun expert. Eventually, Sniper threatened to kill his hostage, but Ryder is quickly able to take down Sniper and put him in handcuffs, upon defeat, Sniper says he was expecting Ryder to be more intimidating.