Po prijatí zákona, zakazujúceho výrobu a predaj alkoholických nápojov, nastala v USA v dvadsiatych rokoch éra prohibície, ktorá bola zároveň aj érou vzostupu mocných zločineckých gangov, ktoré mali z nelegálneho alkoholu výnosný obchod. Hlavou najmocnejšieho z nich bol známy chicagsky mafián Al Capone. Na druhej strane stoji mladý a ambiciózny policajt plný ideálov Eliot Ness.
A US Treasury Agent finds himself in opposition with his fellow agents who are involved in gun running.
Barstow and Stevens are forcing the local printer to print fake silver certificates which they then sell. Treasury Agents Chick Weaver and Throckmorton Snodgrass arrive working under cover. But when Chick's true identity as an Agent is revealed, Barstow sends his henchmen to finish him off.
Using marked bills, Steve is looking for the supposedly dead Henry Hardison. Coming to Bonanza Town he gets a job with the town boss Crag Bozeman and gets paid with marked bills. He suspects Hardison is Boseman's boss and he is right as Hardison and his men are now planning to get rid of both him and the Durango kid.
Cowboy T-man, Rex Allen, and his partner, Homer Oglethorpe (Buddy Ebsen), go undercover to track down some gold smugglers.