He takes on the deputy's identity and arrives in town to start his new "job."
What he doesn't know is that the sheriff and his mistress are plotting to murder her husband and blame it on the new deputy.

"Killing Time"
USA 1988, OT: "The Killing Time", Action-Thriller

Produzent
Peter Abrams, Robert L. Levy
Drehbuch
Don Bohlinger, James Nathan
Regie
Rick King
Darsteller
Beau Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Wayne Rogers, Joe Don Baker, Camelia Kath, Janet Carroll, Michael Madsen , Gracie Harrison, Harvey Vernon, Shiri Appleby, Jeb Ellis-Brown, Harriet Medin, Richard Bolik, Mark Barkawitz, Mathew Brady
Link IMDB: The Killing Time