Reese decides to throw a party for Captain Parmalee's fourth anniversary with Company B. Chad and Joe are sent after robbers to recover Press Wasco's money and to unofficially pick up whiskey for the party. In the meantime Reese is busy trying to get a cake baked. The cook at the Laredo Saloon quit and left town so Reese ends up baking the cake with a little help from Joe. Gunslinger Mike Kelly shows up in town and challenges Parmalee to a gunfight at a quarter past eleven. Parmalee remembers Kelly's face and eventually discovers Kelly's real name is Fallon, a revenge minded man from his past. Reese, Chad and Joe convince Kelly they will gun him down from behind if he draws on the Captain. Kelly and Parmalee face each other but Kelly backs off as he hears each of the Rangers guns being cocked behind him. Parmalee isn't quite sure why Kelly backed off and everyone celebrates his anniversary, although Reese's party is a day early, with the whiskey and the cake Reese baked that re

Joe is on a stage that is held up by Indian Pete's gang and their only intent seems to have been trying to kill a 9 year-old girl passenger. The stage arrives in Laredo and the girl is dismayed to find out it doesn't continue to San Remo where she is going to live with her Uncle Charley. Reese, Chad and Joe go to draw their pay but are overdrawn so Parmalee gives them $5 each as a loan. They lose it at the saloon playing double or nothing so the girl, Gussie Smith, offers to pay them to take her to San Remo. Since they are broke on their weekend off they accept the girl's $10 offer. Captain Parmalee has also warns them to be on the lookout for a character who is passing bad checks. They arrive in San Remo, a near ghost town, and Chad goes to ask the sheriff where Charley Smith's place is. The sheriff turns out to be a gunfighter who murdered one of Chad's friends years ago. After being kicked off the land by ""Uncle Charley"" and shot at the Rangers discover the real Uncle Charle

Clay Morgan runs a reverend out of Black River because he feels the reverend's presence will eventually lead to local law enforcement. Joe keeps the reverend from being murdered by one of Morgan's thugs. It turns out that the reverend was Parmalee's first arrest as a young ranger. Parmalee sends Eric and Chad to Black River disguised as ministers. The three rangers work with the town's church committee to get a church established, the reverend back and Black River out of Morgan's control.