Tom Miggs, still seeking revenge for the death of his son Jimmy at Gideon Brood's hands, makes a new acquaintance: Sheriff Bart Kelton, who hates Brood for reasons of his own. But there's no guarantee that Gideon will live long enough to fall into Miggs's trap, since he's got the grave-robbing, double-dealing outlaw Clay Parkhurst to contend with. Meanwhile, Betts searches for Maria in a hostile town, and Abby and Race are stranded in the desert.