Hunter and McCall are transporting a prisoner back to L.A. when they have to stop at a small town. They place their prisoner in the custody of the Sheriff. Later that evening after the waitress from the local café brings the prisoner his dinner she's attacked and at the same time the prisoner's cell is opened. He runs out and everyone assumes he attacked her. However Hunter and McCall think the Sheriff had something to do with it. When they try to question him, they learn the Sheriff is the step-son of the town's wealthiest man.

Hunter and McCall track a bounty hunter who is not fussy about the condition of his prey.

Police informant, Sporty James, believes that he will receive a large sum of money after witnessing a murder.

When Hunter and McCall investigate the murder of an unidentified man, their interest is piqued because the victim seemingly never existed -- and the killing appears to be a professional murder.

Hunter is assisted in a murder investigation by a sign language interpreter when the murder victim is a deaf man.