Two ex-Texas Rangers struggle with their sins against the Comanche and lost identity after a bank robbery that does not go according to plan.

SYNOPSIS:

Two Texas Ranger officers and old friends, Sr. Capt. Robert “Leroy” Cord and Capt. Henry “Harry” Hartman, after helping each other fight the Comanche in the “Texas – Indian Wars”, are both outraged when the Rangers are disbanded, despite their “success” with the so-called, “Battle of Little Robe Creek”, May 12th, 1858.

Now bitter and cynical, they join two unsavoury characters, ex-Militiamen, Mickey “the Weazl” Gallagher and John Baptiste “J.B.” Mercer in their plans to rob the “Ellis County Savings & Loan”, in the northern Texas back-water of “Belknap”. The bank robbery does not go well.

Mickey “the Weazl” is killed in a shootout and J.B. is mortally wounded, but escapes out the back with two bags of gold coins. When Leroy and Harry charge out the front door, Harry is shot by a neighbourhood kid, Jesse, with his brother, Frank, as they begin to ride away. Assuming Harry is dead, Leroy leaves him and goes after the wounded J.B. and the money. Meanwhile, Harry, very much alive, crawls away and eventually rides out into the desert, where he passes out from loss of blood and falls off his horse.

After tracking down J.B., who died while trying to bury the loot; Leroy ends up returning to the scene of the crime with a young Spanish couple. Meanwhile, Harry has been discovered by a small group of Indian refugees, who begrudgingly give medical aid and save Harry’s life. Leroy becomes drawn into Belknap’s small town soap opera, but can’t decide to what extent he should embrace the temptations.

Grateful, Harry stays on with the Comanche family, where the line between cowboys and Indians becomes blurred. Warned by the ghost of J.B., Leroy avoids a bizarre shootout in town at the “Stapleton Hotel”, but is in a quandary about whether or not to take the buried loot and move on. Harry also is confronted with a bizarre culmination to his new life. Both Harry and Leroy, in their way, have found themselves alienated from their own culture and become outlaws to the outlaws, on the “Outlaw Trail.”

OUTLAW TRAIL