Bat encounters a group of wranglers who are stealing horses. A old flame of Bat's asks him to rescue her current beau, accused of murder and shackled to a tree by a lynch mob led by the slain man's brother who leads the wranglers.
The Andersons get their kitchen repainted. Also, Jim purchases items for the children they have been wanting, but the next day they all forget his birthday. Margaret gets upset at their alternative plans and asking for more favors.
A crime wave sweeps Cheyenne, WY putting a burden upon the Territorial Administrator. He turns to the one man he knows can handle his problem Bat Masterson.
Flames from a fierce dock fire approach a chemical supply building. With the building already cut off by fire, Mike Nelson attempts an almost suicidal task: swim into the building through an underwater intake pipe and douse the chemicals in water.
