5 Steps to Danger

While driving from California to New Mexico, Ann Nicholson picks up John Emmett at a truck stop. She is looking for someone to share the driving with her so that she can get to her ultimate destination, Santa Fe, quicker. He agrees to accompany her, being on a month-long vacation and heading to a fishing lodge by bus in that general direction. He soon begins to wonder if it was a wise decision. They are first stopped by a nurse claiming that Ann is under medical psychological care and then by the police, who are looking for her for questioning on a serious incident back in Los Angeles. Because of these encounters, she tells him her story: that she is indeed recovering from a stress-related condition, but that that stress was brought about by her need to get some politically sensitive military information to Santa Fe. Wavering between believing and not believing her story, John decides to trust her and go along with her as far as the story plays itself out, while the two are being chased by various people.