John Gavin plays a war hero, now down on his luck, who accepts a job from his old sergeant, now a federal agent (Meeker), to stop a gang out of Mexico from running illegal hooch across the border. Along the way, he befriends a shoeshine boy whose sister (Lawson) works for the main bad guy (Gardenia) across the border. The federal agents stop several shipments and manage to kill most of the rum runners, but the main henchman (Lopez) kills the shoeshine boy in the process. So our hero decides to cross the border and put an end to what's left of the rum runners once and for all. Gavin makes a classic, steel-jawed gunfighter, although by today's standards, he looks almost comical. Maybe it's his silly Hollywood cowboy hat. The interplay between Gavin and Lopez's psychotic, black-garbed henchman is the episode's highlight.
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