A shrewd businesswoman (Joanna Barnes) acquires ownership of a processing plant vital to Garret Ranch mining activities.

Redigo tangles with the U.S. Forest Service when the Garret Ranch becomes involved in a water pollution problem complicated by murder.

Well played, well written and thoughtful drama. Pushed to the limit by the bank's conditions for granting the Garret Ranch a loan, Jim Redigo is forced to admit he's got a lot of dead weight on his payroll. The mess he gets into with his frightened, aging workers and the opportunistic attorney who takes on their case, is handled with suspense and imagination. Richard Egan, Charles Bronson, and William Windom are excellent in this one.