- Cheyenne tries to help a young man with a younger sister and brother and a troubled history. Sadly, Cheyenne who is looking for his friend finds proof that the young man committed a serious crime involving Cheyenne's missing friend.
- Cheyenne riding at night has a lame horse. He spots a cabin with a light on but when he yells to get their attention he is given a "lead" reception. He sneaks around to a back door. Inside he finds a young boy Tad with a rifle but his slightly older sister Kat gets a drop on Cheyenne. They disarm Cheyenne as they think he is the law. Before he can talk to them, their older brother Clay Rafferty bursts in the door with a posse following him. A stray bullet hits a lamp starting a fire. Cheyenne is able to knock out Clay, send the kids out the door, and then drag Clay outside. Cheyenne tells the sheriff he is looking for his business partner Whitey Caine. They were to sell a remuda of Pinto horses branded with the Lazy K. Cheyenne returns to the Rafferty home to get his horse where he notices a "V" branding iron in the barn. He takes the kids to town where he finds the boy a job and the girl a home. When Tad saddles their horse he notices the saddle say "Whitey" on it. He becomes friends with the kids until he reveals the evidence that Clay killed his partner.—Anonymous
- A TV Western re-make of "Angels With Dirty Faces". Warner Brothers owned Cheyenne. They used a number of their classic films as the plot-lines for Cheyenne episodes (another one was "The Treasure of Sierra Madre").
In this episode Edd Byrnes plays the "Rocky Sullivan" role (Jimmy Cagney) and Walker plays "Father Gerry" (Pat Obrien). The story hinges on Cheyenne persuading the condemned criminal to fake cowardice at the moment of his execution in order to keep a younger brother (in AWDF the Bowery Boys) from following his road in hero worship.
Cheyenne Bodie (Clint Waker) stops at a cabin outside the town of Agate for help with a lame horse, but is drawn into a gun fight between the Rafferty family and a posse seeking eldest brother Clay Rafferty (Edd "Kookie" Byrnes-- pre 77 Sunset Strip). He helps the posse capture the outlaw, but finds that the two younger Raffertys, Kat (Sue George) and especially Tad, (Darryl Duran) look up to big brother as a hero, so he settles them with the town's parson in an attempt to break the cycle of violence and lawbreaking in the family which began with their father, who, it was said, danced a gig on the gallows before he was hung to show his contempt for the law. When Clay is brought to trial, Cheyenne proves his crime by showing how he altered the brand on a stolen horse, and Clay, like his father, is sentenced to hang for theft and murder. Young Tad is angry at Cheyenne for testifying against his brother, and vows to get even with the law when he grows up, so Cheyenne confronts Clay in his cell and asks him to play the coward on the gallows to help set his brother right. Clay initially refuses, but starts to weep and moan when he sees the noose. Tad goes off to school to become a vet.
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