Brisco and Bowler arrive in Hard Rock, and foil local thug Roy Hondo from breaking up the restaurant run by Bowler's ex-girlfriend Lenore. It turns out Hondo is running a protection racket.

The last member of Bly's gang, a cat-burglar named Pepe Bendrix, escapes Bowler and Brisco but is arrested by Agent Brown, who offers him a pardon in return for Pepe's recovering the last Orb. Meanwhile, a time traveller, Karina, arrives and tells Brisco that the Orbs are artifacts from the future.