Phoebe is a lonely widow living in the hills alone -- until one day she finds a well-dressed man staggering toward her cabin. The man has been shot in the head, the victim of an apparent robbery attempt (the thieves stole his fine horse). Phoebe, unaware of this, takes in the man, nurses him back to health, and gives him a new name -- Jed Frazier. Meanwhile, back in Dodge, Matt arrests one of the thieves on an unrelated charge. When Phoebe, at Jed's urging, comes into Dodge to tell Matt about the shooting, the imprisoned thief hears about it and calls from his cell window to his partner about how their victim survived his injury and might testify. The gunman asks Phoebe about "Jed Frazier," who meantime has left the cabin in search of his true identity, and gets the information that he's on the way to the train station. Phoebe, realizing she's unwittingly tipped off a killer, rushes to tell Matt...
—Peter Harris