An actress charters the Enterprise to transport her and her manager to an abandoned trading post, offering Grey Holden $2000 if they can leave immediately. Although he will be forced to travel with a skeleton crew since most of his men are on shore leave, the Captain can't turn down such a generous payment. Only after the riverboat is underway does Holden learn that the woman retrieve a son from a family of river pirates who claim to have rescued the boy from Indians.
—David Bassler