Paladin (Richard Boone) returns to his hotel room to find the dead body of his friend Charlie Blackburn. Strapping the murder victim to his horse, Paladin returns Charlie to his home town in the middle of timber country. It soons becomes obvious that no one in town is willing to claim the body--and it is increasingly apparent that the solution to Charlie's murder rests with ruthless timber baron Win Loring (Douglas Kennedy) and his psychopathic son Keith (Hampton Fancher). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi