Arrested during a barroom brawl in a small and unfriendly town, Paladin (Richard Boone) groggily awakens in his jail cell to find he has been accused of murder. It seems that one of the other incarcerated brawlers has been mysteriously killed in his cell--and as a stranger in town, Paladin has been "elected" to shoulder the blame. With the town's marshal (Martin Balsam) under pressure to mete out justice, Paladin places his fate in the hands of a mercurial young woman named Maggie (Joanne Linville)--who knows more than she should about the tragic incident. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi