In Reno's search of Hound Adams he ends up in a bar right at the time that the bar is being taken hostage. When the police try to negotiate with the hostage taker Dutch Dixon makes them believe that Reno is the one responsible.

The partner of Lt. Don ""Dutch"" Dixon (Steven J. Cannell), Woodrow Bickford (Ron Johnson), calls Bobby and Chey and says he has the evidence to expose Dixon. When Bickford turns up dead and video turns up showing Dixon killing him, Dixon goes on the run, or so it seems. So Reno heads out to track down Dixon, and get him to expose the location of the information to clear Reno's name. Part 1 of 3.

Hatch Landry, a head money hunter, whom Bobby trained many years ago, snatches Reno and Bobby a bounty before the nose away. To his surprise Landry delivers its "bounty" mostly dead at the police. The two take their competitors somewhat more exactly under the magnifying glass and state that Landry with the looked for criminals organizes bizarre people hunts.

Reno and Bobby must come this time a mysterious horse killer on the trace: Several valuable running horses were already killed in brutal way, which made an insurance company distrustful. Reno takes thereupon a job on the stud on, on which the horses were killed. Already soon it proves as an excellent horse specialist and wins themselves the confidence of the owner Donna MacKenzie. That does not please the foreman SAM at all...