The Calvary and Redell of the telegraph company are trying to convince Vittoro and the Apaches that the telegraph is beneficial to everyone. Half breed renegade Delgado and his small band disrupt the demonstration by cutting the wire further down the line and killing two telegraph company employees. Hondo comes across the two dead employees and is jumped by Delgado's band. He is chased and wounded but Delgado spares his life when he finds out Hondo was married to Vittoro's daughter. Hondo manages to get to an isolated cabin where he is healed by Doc Stanton, a wanted but innocent man. Hondo promises not to reveal Doc's presence. Upon returning to the fort he recommends they take a small force of select men and go up into the hills after Delgado's band, putting them on the defensive. Hondo, Buffalo Baker, the Captain, Redell and three cavalrymen encounter Delgado's band. The Captain is seriously wounded and Hondo has to break his word to Doc Stanton in order to save the Captain'

Crusading newspaper reported Jack Graham is wrongly convinced that the Apache Kid is being unjustly persecuted by the U.S. Army. When they capture him he writes a story claiming Hondo is a Judas and promises the Kid that his newspaper will hire the best lawyers possible to get him off. The Apache Kid escapes, killing a guard, and kidnaps Star Bird from Vittoro's camp after killing her father. Hondo is sent to track him down. He comes across young Emmy Jo, whose father was murdered by the Kid, and takes her back to the fort. He finds out that Graham has gone out after the Kid to show him the telegram from his newspaper guaranteeing their help. Graham finds Star Bird, who has been physically abused by the Kid, bound against some rocks. Just then Hondo arrives and the Kid grabs Graham and threatens to kill him. Hondo fights with and captures the Kid. Back at the fort Graham tells Hondo he's written a story praising him for his actions, repayment for saving his life. Hondo decks h

Hondo and Buffalo are sent by Colonel Crook to head up a sheep drive to provide food for the Apaches. Cattleman Ben Cobb is against it and hires Allie, one of the sheep drovers, to sabotage the drive. Cobb sends renegade Coro and his small band to kill everyone on the drive but they are no match for Hondo, Buffalo and the drovers. Cobb then sends two of his men to poison a waterhole. Hondo and Buffalo kill one of the men and capture the other during a gunfight. Hondo takes the captured man back to Cobb and interrupts a meeting intended to enlist other cattlemen against the sheep drive. Cobb jails Hondo but Buffalo manages to break him out. Cobb and the cattlemen attack in the morning but Hondo gets the drop on him and forces him to call off the attack. Allie then tells them of Cobb's plot to steal their land. The sheep are delivered to the Apaches.