Matt is wounded while trying to arrest a quick-drawing gunslinger. The marshal recuperates while the bad guy runs wild in Dodge.
An immigrant blacksmith's house is burned down, and he rejects Matt's offer to help bring in the arsonists.
Ruth Franklin, a saloon girl, foils a plan by three men to rob Slim. Afterward she persuades Slim to help her father, who plans to return the $50K he embezzled from a bank in Helena.
Jim Hardie hunts for an outlaw who killed a Wells Fargo employee, but the killer is also being sought by two Apaches for killing a woman and her son.
Hardie investigates reports of a gold hijacking.
