Steve Austin promises the sheriff of Kanab County to find and protect a rare and legendary cougar known as Taneha from a group of townsfolk intend on hunting down and killing the animal. He joins forces with a young girl E.J. Haskell, who has a personal vendetta against the wild cat.

US government weapon designer Harry Green is arrested on suspicion of selling his ideas to the opposition. His friend Steve Austin convinces Oscar Goldman that Harry could be the victim of an E.S.P. spy who by reading his mind managed to copy his designs. Oscar is then persuaded to take on a similarly gifted counterspy, young student Audrey Moss.