“Unfinished Business” quotes from Criminal Minds

The world in which young people get married and share love and build dreams is a thousand miles from the world in which Richard Kimble walks. The world of pursuit and fear. The world of a fugitive.

The name on the time card is Hayes. A name is easily changed, dropped and forgotten. Every identity Richard Kimble has borrowed has vanished for good when he moved on.

He will use many other names and move through many other places. Searching for Richard Kimble, dreading each backward look as long as he must remain a fugitive.

A man on the run, convicted on circumstantial evidence of a murder he did not commit, calling himself Paul Hunter, driving relief for InterSouth Freight. This is his first trip. It is to be his last. He's only a few miles away from a grim encounter with truth and irony.

It is a never-ending pattern. Buy a ticket, catch a bus, East or North, South or West, destination any town. This time, maybe he'll be there, a man with one arm, and for Richard Kimble, the never-ending pattern will be ended.

Enter a town for the first time and, if you're a fugitive, you will try to determine where the danger is. Most often, it will come from the police -- but not always.

The night is over. The town that held a gun to Kimble’s head is many miles behind, already becoming part of the dizzying procession of towns through which a fugitive must pass. Searching for the man who can mean his salvation.

This is where it began -- Fairgreen, Indiana. Here, ten years ago at the county hospital, Richard Kimble completed his internship. Here, he met a nurse named Helen Waverly and here, they resolved to get married. Now, he's come back to a town where people have reason to remember him -- perhaps some more than others.

A man tries to arm himself against a lonely night, for he knows that at this time and place, there can be no homecoming for a fugitive.

The road of escape has led Richard Kimble to a new sanctuary. The work: dispatcher for Bullet Trucking Company. No questions asked, no references required. A good job for a fugitive.

Justice can be delivered by a final act of violence, or it can be elusive and taunting, as it has become for Richard Kimble. For him, justice hides around the next bend in the road, beyond the next mountain, on the bus that is just pulling out. Somewhere, sometime, he will find it, and so he moves on.

A man on the run assumes many identities, each one reflecting in some way the life he has left behind. Thus, Dr. Richard Kimble, now known as Harry Reynolds, works as an orderly in a Michigan hospital. Once a respected pediatrician, he finds a hint of security in the familiar hospital routine. But no man, not even a convicted murderer, can completely abandon his past, nor can his past abandon him.

The death sentence comes in many forms, affecting each man in a different way. For some, it means an end to pain. For others, it becomes a challenge to live. For Richard Kimble, the challenge is repeated with every new turn of the road.

If you are a fugitive, you travel a lot, most often by hitching a ride with a stranger. And, always, you ask yourself: Who is he? What kind of man hides behind that face?

For a man named Blackburn, justice will be done. But for Richard Kimble, that day has not yet come, and so he moves on, searching.