When Lucy Hunt visits Matt Dillon, she has cooked up a tale that her bible-quoting husband, Ephraim, is going to kill her. Everyone believes that Ephraim is a good man, since he studied to be a preacher, but Lucy swears that he's mean and cruel, and that he holds her past sins against her. Matt's a little skeptical about the story, and when he questions Kitty about her, she confirms that Lucy Hunt is ruthless, and that since a young drifter, Booth Rider, went to work at their place, something has been going on...