They part ways. Nick returns to the house while Heath follows the fence to another break. As he goes inspect the damages, mountain men surprise him. After disarming Heath, Brother Hemit (Charles Tyner) informs him that he will be tried for murder by a jury of their peers.

When Heath lunges at him, he is hit and kicked in the stomach until he loses consciousness. They sling him over his horse and ride away.

           

Heath is taken to the mountain men's camp site where a widow, Bettina (Quentin Dean), identifies Heath as the man who killed her husband. Before hurling the dazed man inside a makeshift cage, they strip him of his belongings. Bettina spots a family photo and keeps it for herself.

           

The next day, Heath works as Bettina's slave, indulging her every whim. While she watches him drudge, she clutches the picture of the Barkley family she stole from him, daydreaming of being Audra.

           

While chopping wood for Bettina, Heath tries to soften her anger by apologizing for her husband's death. It has the opposite effect as she runs into her wagon and continues to contemplate the picture.

           

Back at the ranch, Victoria is worried sick about Heath and urges Jarrod and Nick to get more men to go look for him.

Bettina's hatred of Heath slowly turns into infatuation. During the middle of the night, she sneaks out to his cage and brings him a sandwich. She engages him in a conversation about men and women and their attraction for one another. He insults her by saying she should clean up first. She runs back into the wagon and takes out the picture. By this time, she had torn off half of it, keeping the part with Heath and Audra.

     

Next day, Heath continues to slave for Bettina at gunpoint. Behind bushes, Bettina begins to disrobe, thus creating a diversion for Heath to smack a bucket in Brother David's (Tom Pittman) chest. Surprised, he fires a shot that alerts the rest of the group. Bettina pleads with Heath to run away with her but he dashes off alone.

           

           

Nick and Jarrod return home empty-handed and dejected. As they climb up the stairs, an object is thrown through the window. Wrapped in Heath's bandana is his lucky coin and a note saying that Heath is as good as dead.

           

Brother Hemit proclaims Bettina's period of mourning over for he now wants her to marry Brother Cyrus whom she loathes. Since Cyrus was arrested last night for disturbing the peace, he asks for half of the money her husband Joshua left her in order to get him out of jail.

While in town, she browses through a dress shop. She is determined to resemble Audra in order to make Heath love her, but Brother Hemit puts a stop to her nonsense and picks a plain ordinary dress off the rack.

The saleslady (Amanda Harley) takes the picture Bettina inadvertently left on the counter and observes it closely.

           

Bettina decides to let Heath out of the cage and runs away with him. However, as they are about to ride away, Brother Cyrus accidentally shoots her off the horse. She dies shortly after.

           

Brother Hemit kneels down beside Bettina's corpse and looks up at Heath, wishing the bullet had hit him instead of her.