A naked beauty appears in Brisco's hotel room and explains to him that she is a time traveler from the future, and that her race created the orbs. She pleads to him that the future is in his hands, but he must stop John Bly that night.
With the help of Prof. Albert Wickwire, Brisco County Jr. and Lord Bowler manage to fake their deaths and escape. Now on the run, they must prove that a rogue general is behind everything, before his deadly posse tracks them down.
Brisco County Jr. is hired by the attorney of a group of robber barons to track down and apprehend the infamous John Bly and his gang, a job that was previously entrusted to his late father Brisco County Sr.
The cavalry arrests Brisco County Jr. and Lord Bowler under the accusation of high treason. They are to be promptly court-martialed and executed by firing squad. Can they prove their innocence before it's too late?
Brisco, Lord Bowler, and Socrates Poole travel to an unpopulated island for a bounty hunters convention, but soon after they arrive they discover that someone is trying to systematically kill all of the attendees.
Every bounty hunter in the land is tracking Brisco after he is wrongly accused of murder. On the run, Brisco himself is hot on the trail of John Bly and enlists the help of Crystal Hawks, a beautiful bounty hunter who is looking to cash in.
Brisco poses as gunslinger Kansas Wily Stafford in order to get close to Dixie Cousin's ex-husband Doc McCoy, who has been hired by John Bly to steal the U.S. Army's top secret "super cannon".
Brisco comes to Socrates aid after he gets into trouble running up a gambling debt with one of the men who killed Brisco's father. And with a little friendly persuasion, Lord Bowler and Dixie Cousins are more than willing to help out.
An old friend who is on trial for murder insists that Brisco defends him as his lawyer even though he hasn't handled any kind of criminal case in over five years.
Brisco, Bowler, and Dixie protect a baby that was left with Dixie by Pete Hutter. They learn that the baby is Emperor and heir to all of China and that the Black Lotus gang and it's leader want the baby so they can rule China through him.