Jess is on the trail of the ruthless killer, Bill Hangston, who is wanted dead or alive for the heinous crimes of murder and rape of a young woman who had two young children. On his way to Wooster, Texas, he runs into some of Rudy Stalling’s men and one of them, Earl Lancaster, accidentally implies that Hangston works for Mr. Stalling. Jess tells Lancaster that if Hangston doesn’t come to Wooster to meet his fate, he’d come out to Stalling’s place and kill him and whoever got in his way. Rudy Stalling gives Hangston two choices. Either turn himself into the law in Wooster, or make a run for it. Hangston strangely decides to turn himself into the law, knowing Jess’s reputation. After Hangston breaks out of jail, with the help of two of Rudy Stalling’s lead men, Jess goes after Hangston, but Stalling wants him to take Lancaster with him to make sure he finds out who helped Hangston break out of jail. Jess, having his reasons, allows Lancaster to accompany him. Meanwhile, the rustlers who have been stealing Stalling’s cattle are identified during a gunfight between Stalling’s men and the McLowrey brothers and their gang of thieves. Stalling hires Jess to hunt down the McLowrey brothers and Lancaster, who never seemed to fit in as a hired gun, agrees to go along with Jess on the hunt. During the chase, Lancaster slowly begins to change his ways and tries to find redemption for himself, vowing never to hire his gun out again. Jess doesn’t entirely trust him and doesn’t believe he can redeem himself. The hunt for the McLowrey brothers turns out to be a bloody and dangerous one with a trail of bodies left along the way. They've taken over the town of Ferguson, Texas, and Jess has to find a way to get to them without harming any of the innocent townsfolk living there.