A faith healer arrives in town and begins bilking the people out of their money. But when he lays his hands on the Dead Man's Gun (having convinced a wife-beating, murdering scoundrel to turn his gun over and begin a new life ... little did he know the cad's REAL reason for giving up the gun!), he strangely begins healing people for real! He gets bolder and bolder, eventually killing one of the town's gentlemen in order to steal his wife, by convincing his faithful, God-fearing retarded assistant that the gentleman was evil; then he turns against his own friend and partner when he suggests they get out of town. This is a big mistake. His ex-partner figures out that the faith healer set up their retarded assistant for the man's murder, so he shows up during the faith healer's next sermon and proves that he was planning on running off with the town's church-building money, and that the retarded guy was tricked into commiting the murder. The town then REALLY turns on him when they re