 The three Rangers, nicknamed "The Three Blind Mice," (Thomas Starkey, Brownley Harris, and Warren Griffin ) had performed a series of unauthorized killings of unarmed villagers and subsequently painted the bodies red, white, and blue.Cross and Sampson track down the killers, but all three are killed in the resulting gunfight.Cross determines that the mastermind behind the murders is General Mark Hutchinson, Commandant of West Point.