Some men can never be free. From birth, they are their own jailers, they are their own prisons, they are trapped by their own talents. For Richard Kimble, a fugitive, freedom is flight. For flight brings hope, and with hope, there is always tomorrow.
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
Quick reflexes are necessary to a doctor. They are indispensable to a fugitive. For Richard Kimble, who is both doctor and fugitive, they can mean survival.
In the storybooks, when you save a man’s life, you are richly rewarded. For a fugitive, it doesn’t always work that way ... and sometimes, when you are chased by the Furies, the life you must save is your own.
If you are Richard Kimble, you lead a complicated life. However, certain decisions are simple: when the police start getting involved, you don't wait around to see what happens.
If you are Richard Kimble, fugitive, your already complicated life has become more so. You can no longer rely upon on your instinct, because for all you know, your pursuers may be machines, and you are merely a human being.
To a fugitive, only the past is real. Each morning, it rises with the sun. Each night, it returns with the darkness. There is no present. And, for Richard Kimble, the future is filled with uncertainty and fear.
(Joe Tucker has Charlie Fletcher, the man he blames for his four-year status as a wrongfully-convicted fugitive, at gunpoint)
I'm not proud of what I did.
Tell him what you're doing now, what you're doing to make up for it.
I'm getting my affairs in order, I'm turning everything over to Carolyn.
(confused) I don't get it.
Because Wycoff told him he has to stand trial for perjury.
For some, an end finally comes to the running. But for Richard Kimble, the end has come to only one more day and the running must go on.
A target may be paper, an animal, or a man. To a gun it makes no difference, nor does it care who pulls the trigger or why. To Richard Kimble, a fugitive, guns are a familiar enemy, for he is always a target, a target for which the law has issued a mandate -- if necessary, shoot to kill.
Love needs time to grow, and a hunted man has no time. Yesterday, a need that found hope in a look, a word, a touching of hands, is today denied by flight -- a flight from guns. Today’s guns are already miles behind, but the need remains.
A derrick barge used for underwater salvage work off the coast of California. Richard Kimble has taken the name Tony Carter, and, unknowingly, taken the hand of trouble.
The highway north carries a fugitive to freedom -- a freedom shadowed by his own special jinx. He cannot look back now. He can only look ahead to the day when that jinx will ultimately be broken.
A fugitive has many enemies. A desert is among them. But the desert can also bring friends.
To Richard Kimble, a border is a dark tunnel whose other end might lead to the final encounter with a many-faced enemy. But for the moment, it leads to safety.
For a fugitive, there must be wariness in even the simplest chore: an extra sense, sharpened by the two-fold chase--the fugitive hunted and the fugitive hunting.
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