After a psychopath murders a man who was on his way to a job as a deputy sheriff in a small California town, he assumes the deputy's identity and arrives in town to start his new 'job'. What he doesn't know is that the recently appointed sheriff and his mistress are plotting to murder her evil husband—and blame it on the new deputy.
Beau Bridges
as Sam Wayburn
Kiefer Sutherland
as The Stranger
Wayne Rogers
as Jake Winslow
Camelia Kath
as Laura Winslow
Joe Don Baker
as Carl Cunningham
Janet Carroll
as Lila Daggett
Gracie Harrison
as Mary Ellen Knoeller
Harvey Vernon
as Dick
Michael Madsen
as Stu
Shiri Appleby
as Annie Winslow
Jeb Ellis-Brown
as Brian Mars
Harriet Medin
as Nell
