While driving along a quiet country highway near Parkerville, Texas, Tod and Buz stop to help a stranded young woman with car problems. The three are soon held up and kidnapped by a couple who take them into nearby Dallas. The hold up was targeted as the couple had been following the young woman. The young woman is Bonnie Clayton, and what she is unaware of is that her criminal fugitive father, multi-millionaire Charlie Clayton, from who she is estranged, is coming back to the States specifically to see her to stop her from entering the novitiate, and take her to live with him in exile. He, a non-Catholic, believes she is only doing it to atone for the "mistakes" he's made in his life. The couple, brother and sister Antonio and Elena Madragarra, are aware of who she is, that Charlie is coming back and the reason, which is the reason they had to kidnap her, with Tod and Buz solely being collateral damage. Meanwhile, the Dallas police is aware of Charlie's return, as is station KLRD, Howard Davis, a reporter for which, initially broke the story on Charlie before he fled into exile. Davis wants to nab Charlie and again get his story this second time around.
—Huggo