It seems like any other ordinary day at the Ponderosa when a really brutal US Marshal played by Claude Akins arrives and takes into custody one of the hands played by Wesley Lau.
Pernell Roberts and Dan Blocker are right there and they don't care for Akins's methods and are concerned their friend Lau might not reach Los Angeles to stand trial for a murder he's accused of. Akins agrees to let them go, but they have to deposit their six guns in the stagecoach's locked strong box.
It's not long before a whole lot of other people start complicating the trip for which Bud Osbourne is driving the stage. John Weingraf and his daughter Fintan Meyler are a pair of European travelers going to the Pacific coast. Also another stranded cowboy on the trail, Ron Hayes is looking for a lift. It all comes to a head when the whole cast arrives at Will Wright's stagecoach relay station.
This episode of Bonanza is driven mainly by the performances of Lau and Akins. As you might gather neither is quite what he appears to be when we first meet them. Don't let this one slip by.
