Lt. Philip Gerard quotes from The Fugitive

Lt. Gerard

Now come on, Aida, every second you hold me up you drive her closer to the edge.

Lt. Gerard

But it might be an idea to keep an eye on Burt Green. A lawyer representing Kimble shouldn't be looking that pleased with himself.

Gerard

(after shooting Fred Johnson dead off the amusement park tower) All right, you can relax, Chandler. I just did your killing for you. (watching Kimble climb down) You've had a good day, haven't you? I guess we both have. After all, for four years now, we've -- both of us -- kept an innocent man in hell. Well, how are we going to end all that? You could keep that man alive. (after Chandler doesn't answer) But you won't, will you?

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.

Lt. Gerard

I check the out-of-town papers every couple of weeks.

How long as this been running?

Lt. Gerard

Seven days.

Where?

Lt. Gerard

New York, LA, Pittsburgh, I haven't checked the rest, but she's spent a lot of money.

She?

Lt. Gerard

Eleanor Burnett. Those are her initials. She's in love with him.

You know that?

Lt. Gerard

I know she never missed a single session of the trial.

There's only about a hundred back roads and they don't show on no map.

Lt. Philip Gerard

Then that copter can make all the difference, with a white station wagon on these green hills.

Unless Kimble ditches the wagon and goes by shanks mare.

He might. He knows ever back trail around her for twenty miles.

(self-servingly) I offered to pick him up and hold him.

Lt. Philip Gerard

(seeing through it) You had your chance.

He's not gonna let some kid hold him up, assuming he hasn't ditched him.....

Lt. Philip Gerard

He hasn't ditched him yet.

Well he ditched the car just like I said.....!

Lt. Philip Gerard

All he had was half a tank of gas, just like you said!

If Richard Kimble is dead, that would be the end of a lot of worry and trouble for you, and yet you seem to be trying to prove that he's alive.

Lt. Philip Gerard

You said if Kimble is dead.

And you hope it's a slip of the tongue.

Lt. Gerard

You know as well as I do there's no point in filing unless you have some sort of new evidence.

And there couldn't be any new evidence could there? I mean after all, he is guilty.

Lt. Gerard

I want to know who that man was with Barbara Webb this afternoon and where she's gone with him.

I don't know.

Lt. Gerard

I hope you enjoyed your drive this evening, Mr. Malone, because it's going to cost you.

You'd have a tough time proving I broke any laws and you know it. Now I've been a newspaperman almost as long as you've been a cop, Lieutenant, and I am not easily intimidated.

Lt. Gerard

There's something else we both know. If that man with her is Richard Kimble, Miss Webb will go to prison for a long time.

I was just out taking a little drive in her car.

Lt. Gerard

You fired her for just this sort of thing, but you're still in love with her, aren't you?

None of your business.

Not in my opinion, Lieutenant, when your department is so busy trying to make an example.....

Lt. Philip Gerard

Your son is NOT being made an example of, Mr. Pierce; your son STOLE A CAR.

He BORROWED a car!

Lt. Philip Gerard

The courts will decide that! My men perform a police function only. Perhaps the Judge will believe Gary's story, I certainly hope so.

Lieutenant, you know better. My boy's in deep trouble. He said he was going out for a little ride, but your overenthusiastic men arrested him before he could return the car.

Lt. Philip Gerard

(clearly stunned Pierce is doubling down on excusing his son) Overenthusi.....oh come on now, Mr. Pierce, you can't have it both ways! Either my men are lax or they're going beyond the call of duty! Which way do you want it?

It isn't a question of how I want it! I'm making a case for simple justice.

Lt. Philip Gerard

No you're not! You're acting like an angry father! That makes you an irresponsible newspaperman!

Lt. Philip Gerard

(both hidden from sniper Arthur Brame with Kimble bearing Gerard's sidearm) You warn me of a killer yet you hold a gun at me. You have your own unique sense of justice.

Richard Kimble

We'll talk about justice later.

Lt. Philip Gerard

That wasn't my doing.

Richard Kimble

Well this killing isn't mine.

Lt. Philip Gerard

Should I tell you something, Kimble, I'd never believe it was. I think I know that much about you.

Lt. Philip Gerard

I wanted both of them. One was a killer. He'd killed before and if allowed to escape he'd have killed again. The other one, Kimble, he's done the one murder he'd probably ever do. And until I find him....and I will....he's no real menace to anyone, but himself.

(finally sinking in what Kimble really is compared to her late husband) Honest Sam.

No real menace to anyone but himself. That’s the way it must be for Richard Kimble. Still alone and hunted. Even the good he might do is unable to balance the scales of justice which have made him, and keep him, a fugitive.

As I TOLD you, Lieutenant, he is an employee of the College just as we ALL are.

Lieutenant....

Lt. Philip Gerard

Look Professor, I'm something of a psychologist, too. I know when I've touched a nerve and I know what I see with my own eyes. That is the man Kimble is after! Now there comes a point where coincidence ends and harboring a fugitive begins!

Lt. Philip Gerard

Now DON'T try and sidetrack me, Simpson, I want Kimble!

But you've GOT him! Kimble, Johnson, AND the tape!

Lieutenant, don't you want your killer?

Fred Johnson

(in the other room restrained by Kimble) Let me go! Get me out of here! Let me go!

Lt. Philip Gerard

(storming into the room, and for the very first time all three protagonists confront one another at the same instant) Kimble!

Richard Kimble

Here's your man, Gerard!