The Fugitive Season 1 quotes

Without a past, a man has no future. For Richard Kimble, his memories are the source of his courage. They give him the strength to face another uncertain tomorrow.

The Chinese Sunset Motel, situated on a tarnished hyphen called the Sunset Strip that separates Los Angeles from Beverly Hills. For Richard Kimble, working as a man of all jobs under the alias Jack Fickett, it is a welcome bit of limbo.

A fleeting moment to laugh, to be warmed, to contemplate what could have been. An hour ago, he was Jack Fickens. Now he must find a new name, a new place. A man who must lose himself in order that someday, he might again find himself. Richard Kimble, fugitive.

The work is hard, to be endured from day to day, but here, just twenty miles north of the Gulf of Mexico, Richard Kimble has found reason to gain a new foothold on life, his first in a very long time.

The storm has come and gone, but few of those who sought shelter together that night will forget it. And Richard Kimble, the next hill now in his eye, will find occasions to look back and remember. A fugitive has time for that.

The life of an artist is a restless, lonely one, without peace -- like a man pursued, finding peace and rest only when he has created something of beauty. But then, after that, he is forced into flight again, and he moves once more into the unknown, searching. For Richard Kimble, a fugitive, there is also only pursuit and a lonely searching. Moments of beauty, even moments of rest, are rare, because for him, as for the artist, to stand still is to die.

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.

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.

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.