An escaped killer, who is anxious to prove he hasn't lost his nerve or his prowess with a gun, barricades himself with his two companions in North Fork's General Store, holding the Marshal as prisoner and challenging the town to try and face him. In the entire population of North Fork, only Lucas is strong enough to challenge the reputation of the desperate killer, but he is wise enough to see that the man's hysterical insistence that he can take on the whole town may mask a coward beneath his bravado. Lucas plays his hunch and stands up to the killer alone.