“Unfinished Business” quotes from Criminal Minds

Santa Barbara, California. Two hours up the coast from Los Angeles. A harbor town, a fishing town, an early mission town. To Richard Kimble, temporarily using the name Jeff Cooper, it has been a sanctuary, but a fugitive knows that a sanctuary becomes a trap if he stays too long.

Richard Kimble has seen the eyes of the hunter. He knows that for Gerard the chase will never end. But his bones ache from running and he needs the love of a girl. For sanctuary, he will risk a trap. For, in the long, long chase, he has lost everything but hope.

A man cannot run forever. Two hours up the coast from Los Angeles, Richard Kimble has found a place he thinks is safe. Here, in the early mission town of Santa Barbara, wearing the name Jeff Cooper, he has begun to put down roots. A man on the run must sooner or later become tied to a town. The look on the face of a girl. The touch of her eyes. But there may always be the doubt. What has he left behind? A footprint? A careless word? A remembered image in the eye of a stranger? A match? What can they track him with? If he is tired enough of running, he will put the doubt aside.

The road north, the road east. For the moment, to Richard Kimble, it makes no difference. The road ends nowhere.

Now, 11 months a fugitive, Richard Kimble emerges from the blackness of hiding into the gray anonymity of another alias: Ray Miller. He thinks of the day when he might find the one-armed man, but for now, Los Angeles, California offers him temporary haven.

This was Ray Miller, cut man. Before that, James Lincoln, bartender. And how many weary lonely, heart-breaking identities before that? Only if he succeeds in discovering the man who made him an outcast, can he again be Richard Kimble.

California. The Imperial Valley. Richard Kimble, now wearing name of Joseph Walker. Occupation: farm laborer. The California sun is hot, and there is a strange antagonism in the eyes of the other workers. A hatred which he cannot fathom. But one which Richard Kimble tries to ignore in his effort to keep the secret of his identity.

There is no celebration for a fugitive. Richard Kimble moves on, his objective always the same: to find the man who alone can deliver him from execution.

Sierra Point, New Mexico. Resident population: 562. Transient population: 1. Richard Kimble, who currently bears the name Al Fleming. It is now more than a year since the escape.

A city with ten million lights casts a hundred million shadows, each one only a passing refuge for a man on the run -- a man like the Fugitive.

The freighter, Alaskan Star. Six hours out of Seattle, Washington. Carrying a crew of 14, with accomodations for 12 passengers. One of them, Richard Kimble, now wearing the name Larry Talman. Destination: Alaska, the 49th state. Objective: to earn a large sum of money in a short period of time, and thus underwrite the next phase in the search for his wife's killer.

Larry Talman, freed from the suspicion of murder, leaves the Alaskan Star. But it is Richard Kimble, still under the sentence of death, that steps ashore. He will stay in this place as long as it is safe. Then he will move on. It is said there is no rest for the wicked -- nor, sometimes, for the innocent.

A ride with a stranger -- a friendly stranger. But a fugitive cannot afford the luxury of friendship. He has to keep his thoughts to himself, weigh every word carefully. ... Drive carefully. Do everything carefully: from the moment you wake until you go to sleep at night -- if you have a place to sleep. One false move, one little quirk of fate .... How long before they know it's Kimble, not Carter? Twelve hours? Ten hours? Six hours?

A letter from an old friend. No return address, no name. A fugitive has to watch his step. Every step he takes, every hour, every minute, every second, any moves he makes might lead to death row. There's no way of knowing in advance. There's never any way of knowing.

Lt. Gerard

Finally, Kimble! (draws his gun) Finally.

This is Richard Kimble's recurring nightmare, and each time it ends, he wonders whether he will awaken to the same nightmare of reality.