The Fugitive quotes

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.

No job for Richard Kimble is anything more than a means to an end: survival. The dignity of his profession is a memory -- and a hope. He can never know what unexpected shift of fate will send him running again, perhaps in pursuit of the one-armed man, perhaps in flight for his life.

Free once again with the rootless freedom of the hunted. Anonymous in a world in which he must dread the sound of his own name, Richard Kimble continues running, searching, a fugitive.

One community appears much like any other to a man who travels a lot. To Richard Kimble, fugitive, some are friendlier than others, some are more colorful. But they all have one thing in common: danger.

As a doctor, Richard Kimble was sworn to the preservation of human life. Now, years later, as he travels a lonely path from city to city and state to state, the life he is searching to save is his own.

Encinas County, California. For the common laborer, a haven of perpetual harvest. For Richard Kimble, a sanctuary. But here on this fertile land, where the miracle of life stands in rich abundance, Kimble has watched the hand of Death reach out and twist Fate to its own purpose.

Death brings with it a jolting shock of reality. No man can live or die in this world without in some way affecting the lives of others. Richard Kimble flees the aftermath of tragedy, a tragedy with which he was not the maker, but of which he will share the guilt. This is the burden of a fugitive.

Fifty-five miles outside of Lincoln, Nebraska, wild animals in cages bring the curious to Major Alan Fielding's Jungleland. Richard Kimble, wearing the name Nick Peters, has found work here. The job began this morning. It is destined to end tonight.

One man’s dream ends, while another man’s nightmare merely continues. Richard Kimble is free, he has room for tonight.

When a man has the law at his heels, every stranger becomes a potential enemy, every incident takes on sinister proportions. Dr. Richard Kimble has eluded his pursuers for more than two years. he knows that his freedom depends largely on luck and that, sooner or later, that luck must run out.