The women take sides as Slotter's miners and Ling's railway workers fight each other for control of the mine. Violence escalates and ends in loss on both sides.

With the mine in ruins, Slotter's depravity reaches new depths as the camp struggles to save the last surviving miners trapped underground.

Chase Sloat is hounded by ghosts. The women use his troubled mind to their advantage as the Slotter household turns on itself.