The Cartwrights encounter racial bigotry in Virginia City and end up protecting a Chinese boy from mob violence. Victor Sen Yung, in his largest role to date, speaks normally in the presence of his fellow countrymen, but reverts to broken English when with the Cartwrights.
Bennett hires a gunman to shoot Earp who brags he has faced down Earp before. However, Earp doesn't know him so he suspects there is more to the gunman's story. After trying to determine who the gunman is, Earp decides he must face him.
When a young man has been wrongly accused of murdering his fiancé's father, Dale helps him escape from jail so they can prove his innocence.
At the Wells Fargo auction, a man and a woman bid vigorously on a destroyed suitcase.
Betty is assigned to write a theme on devoted brothers and sisters.