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Jack Lord stars as a ruthless villain named Russ Doty as in the first minutes of the episode shoots two people, killing one, and steals money from the Timberline Stagecoach office. He then sets off with two other riders and heads out west. The Marshal soon has a posse and is tracking the bandits.

Luke, Simon and Davey are on the stagecoach with some passengers when they approach a rest-stop. Inside the cabin, Russ and his two members are holding the attendant hostage. When the stage arrives, Russ decides to hold everyone so the information of their whereabouts cannot be leaked out. When the food runs out at the cabin, Russ sends Luke into Timberline for supplies. He holds Simon, Davey and the others as leverage and any kind of trouble the hostages will be shot.

Jack Lord did an excellent job playing the ruthless Russ but also gave us a soft side to his abilities in this episode. His acting was one of the things that makes this episode entertaining. We also get to see a young and beautiful Marion Ross playing a Senator's daughter where she lights up the screen with her good looks. This was an episode that proved that the series had some good writing and some good actors.

Jack Lord plays villainous outlaw Russ Doty. He robs the Timberline Stagecoach office shooting Cal in the arm and leaving his colleague dead.

While the Marshall is hunting Russ Doty and his gang down. He hides out at a rest stop.

It is only a matter of time before the stagecoach arrives. Now Doty has hostages, one of them is an elderly Senator who falls ill and his pretty daughter Margaret Cartwright who attracts the attention of Doty.

Luke Perry and Simon Kane need to find a way to keep the passengers safe.

Lord plays a nasty baddie. In his scenes with Margaret he tells her that he was born in the wrong side of the track. Nothing was given to him.

The story has all the hallmarks of this kind of episode. One of the passenger's is a coward who wants to make a deal with Doty.

Also Doty's gang are not always comrades in arms with a lot of friction within.