Nate Phelps, a former professional football player, has robbed a bank in Bakersfield, California, and killed a man. Phelps' accomplice is caught but Phelps remains at large and heads to Los Angeles, where he grew up. Erskine and Colby, already on the West Coast, take charge of the investigation. Phelps tries to flee out of the country but finds himself at odds not only with the law but with criminals who seek the $50,000 Phelps has taken from the bank.
—Bill Koenig