All previous lawmen hired to escort the outlaw Wilder brothers (James Griffith, Harry Dean Stanton) to their hanging in Dakota territory have been murdered by the brothers' friends. Now Paladin (Richard Boone) has been engaged to take on the daunting task of seeing that the Wilders are brought to justice. En route to the Dakotas, Paladin and his prisoners cross the paths of several strangers--but which one has been chosen as Paladin's assassin? ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi