The New Prospect town counsel grants two inventors permission and $100 to build and demonstrate their glider that will allow Man to fly. A gruff stranger, who will later prove to have connections to the two men, also comes to town but is soon found murdered. While Hec determines if the connections are strong enough to throw suspicion on the two inventors, he also deals with the town drunk, who finds it hard to live with a secret in his past.
—statmanjeff