Teenager Piney Danning shows up telling Vail that her neighbor, who lives in an isolated area, is seriously hurt. But Vail needs assistance reaching the injured person because he's unfamiliar with that section of the Everglades.
Piney Danning races to Linc's police substation to tell him that a neighbor has badly injured his leg in a trap. When Linc arrives at the scene of the accident he discovers that Piney's story was a ruse - he's really needed to settle a century-old land dispute between two feuding families.—David Bassler