Kodiak is forced to intervene in a serious family argument when the future of an impressionable youth is at stake. Brock, his father, has shot a man and run away with the youth.

Kodiak becomes suspicious of a cop who arrives to extradite a young car thief. Officer Mitch Kellog has come to take John Nootka back to Seattle on a charge of car theft and tells a very different tale of life and death, but which is Kodiak to believe?

Ford Windust is an embittered gold miner who has lost his arm and now he keeps his partner, Abel Lonegan in chains and under the threat of his shotgun to keep him mining for gold.