Jeffords and Cochise capture a killer in the desert. They must return him to Tucson or an Apache will hang for murder. However Cochise has been shot and they have lost their horses.; Lack of communication causes an Army patrol to attack a band of Apaches who have been given permission to camp by the fort. The women and children of the Apache band are captured, but the Chief and his warriors begin a series of raids on the white men. Jeffords and Cochise have to try to stop the bloodshed.; An Apache messenger thinks he killed a white man and Cochise and Jeffords must track him down, all the while dodging the threat of Geronimo's raiders.; The Chiricahua strongholds, mountain passages that let the Apaches keep enemies at bay with only a few men.; Duties of Indian agents in the old West.