- Matt is ordered to Ridge Town to reopen the case of an army major who was murdered 12 years before, when a dying outlaw he shot swears he did not commit the crime, and it appears the whole town is hiding something.
- There is some confusion about the naming ot this episode (see Two Tall Men, 1965). Matt travels to a small town to help solve a 12 year old shooting of an army officer at the near-by fort. Because the sheriff's wife had a short affair with the officer, some suspicion points to the sheriff as the shooter. The wife insists that the sheriff was with her the night of the shooting, leaving Matt to look elsewhere for the shooter. As Matt learns more about the town's selling supplies to the Army at the fort, earning extra $$ from inflating prices of the supplies, his safety begins to disappear.
A friendship formed with a mentally impaired man who works at the livery stable helps Matt survive the beating the townspeople give him for a trumped up charge of abusing Sue Ann. While healing up from the beating, Matt gets an additional clue to the 12 year old mystery shooting from an old coat and returns to town, where the townspeople once more try to kill him to protect their secrets. The sheriff sides with Matt. The townspeople take the sheriff's gun away from him, and things look bad for the sheriff and Matt until the sheriff's father shows up and admits to shooting the army officer and accidentally shooting himself, paralysizing himself from the waist down.
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