Flint returns to the wagon train camp to announce that their company has appointed Jud Benedict as their new wagon master, and it isn't good news. Flint McCullough then offers the position to retired wagon master Chris Hale.

Charlie Wooster is smitten by actress Nellie Jefferson, when she joins the train. Not so with others, who tire of her incessant demands for special treatment. Meanwhile an obsessed man from her past is following her, talking about how she will meet her fate like the biblical Jezebel