The episode's story revolves around Paladin lending his San Francisco hotel suite to a pair of newlyweds. The bride receives a disturbing wedding gift—her cat, mutilated—which draws Paladin into a vicious family feud. He discovers that the groom's half-brothers are threatening to murder their father, a man named Rupe Bosworth. Paladin travels to their farm to try and warn the father and intervene in the plot.