While searching for an accused murderer named Ahab Tyson (George Matthews), Paladin (Richard Boone) is saddled with an unsolicited travelling companion, a religious zealot named Stryker (John Hoyt). It seems that Stryker's younger brother was killed by Tyson years earlier, and the rancher is determined to exact the traditional Old Testament "eye for an eye" punishment upon the fugitive. It now falls to Paladin to safely escort Tyson to trial without himself falling victim to Stryker's Biblical wrath. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi