The Cartwright family gets in the middle of a manhunt in this Bonanza story. The only problem is that separate members get involved on both hands.
It's not by choice for Dan Blocker. One fine day Hoss Cartwright comes across a wounded Robert Wilkie and his son Rick Lamson. They make Hoss take them to a Ponderosa line cabin and Hoss discovers that Wilkie is an old friend of his father's.
In the meantime Morgan Woodward who knew both Ben Cartwright and Wilkie back in their salad days shows up at the Ponderosa. He was a peace officer and now is a bounty hunter and Lorne Greene along with Michael Landon, David Canary, and sheriff Bing Russell go along to see Woodward doesn't make too free a use of wanted dead or alive.
Wilkie who usually some rather mean characters on the big screen shows a more tender side in his performance. It was refreshing and quite offbeat for him. Of course the fact that he's wounded does take a bit of the starch from him.
An interesting and good story showing how old friends can drift apart. Three old friends.