George Michaeljohn, played by Andrew Duggan, and his daughter Lily (Dawn Wells) hire Hagen to search for George's wife, an escaped mental patient. Hagen searches for an escaped patient (Mercedes McCambridge) from a mental hospital who is accused of poisoning her roommate, the same way she did her stepson 12 years ago. When Hagen finds her in the woods, she shoots him, and he must now depend on his attacker for his survival. 

A small town VIP seems to be trying to help as Hagen arrives to clear a friend and finds him dead, after an escape attempt.