Buster Rayburn is in prison reminiscing about how he got there. He was released from jail and met an attractive woman named Lacey Lane at a bar who seduced him into killing her gangster boyfriend for her. However, Lacey betrayed Buster by tipping off the police about their plan to run away together. When the police arrived at the train station to arrest him, Buster managed to grab an officer's gun during a struggle and shot Lacey, killing her. Buster laments that if only he had walked away from Lacey when he had the chance, he wouldn't be back in jail.