Life in a fictional Tombstone in the 1880s.

Hollister investigates a series of mysterious deaths among the silver miners and links Lily Murdock, the town's most respected woman, with the tragedies; Lily is so well liked by the townspeople that the sheriff dares not accuse her openly.

Marshal Vern Fawcett resigns after killing one of the Holcomb brothers and returns to Tombstone to be with his family and to marry his girlfriend.

Hollister rushes a young wounded hoodlum to Tombstone's hospital, putting him under the care of nurse Mary Rice; when the notorious Gayleyville gang kidnaps her and the dying boy, Hollister and the wounded man each attempt to save the nurse.

Fragments of the Epitaphs are found at the scene of a robbery and on the body of a known killer; Hollister and Claiborne discover a strange code in the help wanted ads and with a planned typographic error; they smoke out a robbery gang.