 This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey s oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to help the good-good guys capture the bad-bad guys." The warden of the Desert Wells Penitentiary asks Tex Reed (Ted Ritter) and Slim (Slim Andrews) to check the series of bank robberies which have been committed by escaped convicts. Lockwood (Harry Harvey), head of an aopposing political machine, is behind the escapes and robberies, and the escapes are being planned by Red (I. Stanford Jolley), a convict. Tex trails the next escapee but the hang shoots the man before Tex can question him. Jimmy (Gene Alsace), brother of Tex s girl friend Mary (Virginia Carpenter), is set up, by the gang, to be killed while robbing a bank by Carter (John Rutherford)who will collect a reward for shooting him. Jimmy is wounded but not killed and Tex arrests him to keep him safe. The gang now wants to get rid of Tex, so they send Red, dressed as a prison guard, with a fake message from the Warden for Tex.