In one of his final performances, Oscar-winning character actor Victor McLaglen is cast as Mike O'Hare, the two-fisted engineer overseeing the construction of a new dam. Insisting that the dam will seriously endanger the local water supply, wealthy landowner Henry Ritchie (Herbert Rudley) hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to put a stop to the project. But after a lively fistfight with the indomitable O'Hare, Boone becomes quite fond of the big lug--and begins to suspect that Ritchie's opposition to the dam is not borne of good intentions. This episode was one of several directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, who happened to be Victor McLaglen's son. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi