 Gunfighter Clay Larkin is wanted dead or alive with a reward of $5,000. He kills a bounty hunter and takes off. Newly O Brien, on his way to Dodge City, stops at a restaurant where Larkin is having lunch. Bounty hunter Lon Toomes and two henchmen spot Larkin and try to capture him, but the outlaw is rescued by Newly, who takes him into custody. Newly, seriously wounded, struggles to reach Dodge City with his prisoner while the three bounty hunters are hot on their trail.