Soft-hearted Kitty (Amanda Blake) is persuaded to hide handsome Steve Esler (Brett Halsey) from a lynch mob comprised of cattlemen. Steve insists he has been rustling cattle merely to avenge his father, who years earlier was brutally beaten by a trail crew. Matt (James Arness) is as sympathetic as Kitty towards Steve. But crusty old Doc suspects that the baby-faced fugitive is manipulating everyone's feelings--and that he is nowhere near the innocent lamb he makes out to be. This episode is based on the Gunsmoke radio broadcast of September 27, 1954. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi