The Virginian poses as an ex-convict to infiltrate an outlaw gang guilty of a woman's murder, but finds his cover threatened by the arrival of another new member.

Trampas wins $1,000 at poker in Medicine Bow and heads to his old stomping grounds of Logan, New Mexico to repay several debts and see the girl he'd left, but she's married to the Marshal. There he has a run in with Comancheros who virtually run the town and have the town leaders under their thumb.