A doctor who is conducting experimental alcoholism treatments on prominent persons is arrested for the murder of the blackmailer who threatened to reveal the names of his patients.
A ruthless oil tycoon is slain and the young geologist he betrayed is charged with the crime.
Ryker (Clu Gulager) distrusts the motives of a pretty woman (guest star Marilyn Erskine) when she consents to marry Ryker's good friend, shy storekeeper John Conway (guest star Jack Warden) in "Shadows Of The Past."