Ben Calhoun gets to end of beating line alive, then is invited for a last dinner before being shot. Ben wins his life back in a poker game, but Pembrooke reneges, and Ben runs away for his life and kills his pursuers.
After one of Breed Pembrooke's two sons is killed accidentally while robbing the train station, the ruthless man has Calhoun and the train conductor kidnapped and taken to his makeshift "town" where he finds them guilty of murder and sentences them to death. But he plans to submit the men to his sadistic games before killing them.—rbecker28