Owing a favor to a sheriff, Josh agrees against better judgment to go to the lawless town of Bent Horn to bring back a man wanted for bank robbery and murder based on the word of another man who was involved in the robbery.
Josh Randall has been asked by his friend Sheriff Hank Bedloe to come and meet him secretly in the hotel at Sand Rock. Josh arrives finding an unfriendly crowd in town. One of the men challenges Josh asking if he is looking for Sheriff Bedloe as is the rest of the town. Josh brushes him off to go to Bedloe's room where he finds Bedloe with outlaw Gabe Justin tied up. Gabe says he and Ted Jenks were the ones who held up the bank and murdered a bank clerk. Bedloe wants Josh to go to the outlaw town Bent Fork to bring Jenks back to stand trial. Josh initially doesn't want to go but grudgingly agrees to take on the job. He makes his way to the saloon in Bent Fork where he asks about Jenks but the men there are tight lipped. He eventually finds Jenks and starts back with him although Jenks protests that he is innocent. On the trail they are followed making the trip dangerous as Josh pushes on.—Anonymous