After responding to an item in the local newspaper, Paladine takes the Overland stage to Bracketville to see DeWitt about his unruly son. For his fee, he is to kidnap the boy, take him to another town where some friends will sit on him until he cools down. Then he finds the son just rode in on the stage with him and is the new attorney. When he is killed, Paladin must shoot it out with the marshal or himself be killed.