A city with ten million lights casts a hundred million shadows, each one only a passing refuge for a man on the run -- a man like the Fugitive.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
The freighter, Alaskan Star. Six hours out of Seattle, Washington. Carrying a crew of 14, with accomodations for 12 passengers. One of them, Richard Kimble, now wearing the name Larry Talman. Destination: Alaska, the 49th state. Objective: to earn a large sum of money in a short period of time, and thus underwrite the next phase in the search for his wife's killer.
Larry Talman, freed from the suspicion of murder, leaves the Alaskan Star. But it is Richard Kimble, still under the sentence of death, that steps ashore. He will stay in this place as long as it is safe. Then he will move on. It is said there is no rest for the wicked -- nor, sometimes, for the innocent.
A ride with a stranger -- a friendly stranger. But a fugitive cannot afford the luxury of friendship. He has to keep his thoughts to himself, weigh every word carefully. ... Drive carefully. Do everything carefully: from the moment you wake until you go to sleep at night -- if you have a place to sleep. One false move, one little quirk of fate .... How long before they know it's Kimble, not Carter? Twelve hours? Ten hours? Six hours?
A letter from an old friend. No return address, no name. A fugitive has to watch his step. Every step he takes, every hour, every minute, every second, any moves he makes might lead to death row. There's no way of knowing in advance. There's never any way of knowing.
(in a dream sequence Kimble is cornered by Lieutenant 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.
(Gerard shoots and Kimble immediately wakes up, back in reality)
Another city, another identity. Help Wanted. Help, but there is none. Richard Kimble must live with his past and his future. His only consolation: that somewhere, perhaps here, there is a one-armed man who has nightmares of him.
It doesn't matter anymore who you are, or where. Every town, every city is just like the last: a waypoint on an endless road that goes nowhere. A place to stop running, to think, to hide. Another job, another name. Is that enough? It has to be. It's all you've got. ... They got the wrong man. That hits close to home, remember? They wouldn't believe you either. Tough, but it's no concern of yours. You have to stay clear, stay out of it; you can't afford to take the chance. What is he -- a stranger, a vagrant, a nothing? Just a name: Arthur Tibbetts -- no fixed address. Ask yourself: is he worth the risk?
When Martin Rowland accepted imprisonment for his crime, he set himself free from a prison of a guilty conscience and from a woman who had no conscience. Not so fortunate for Richard Kimble. His imprisonment remains unchanged.
The place: Utah, the hills above Salt Lake City. The project: to move a mountain. Giant machines and armies of men moving millions of tons of earth to make way for a river. A river which one day will turn the desert into Eden. For Richard Kimble, the mountain offers protection. Here, he is Paul Beaumont, timekeeper, lost among the other workers. Here, he feels he can rest a while. Here, he is safe.
(At Dan Pike's behest, Buck and others working at the construction site have pursued austistic youth Jamie for attacking Buck's wife)
Buck, that's the book we've been looking for, Robinson Crusoe. He never got a chance to give it back to her.
(Buck looks at the book, and his previous certainty of Jamie's guilt begins disappearing)
You never got a chance, did you Jamie?
JJamie
I couldn't.
BBuck
(now genuinely interested in hearing Jamie's side) Why not?
(when jamie explains he saw a man leaving the wife's trailer, he points to Dan, who's been harassing him)
DPDan Pike
Now come on, you gonna take the word of a kid who doesn't know his left from his right?
We don't have to take his word for it.
Most men have some secret fear. Most manage to live with it, to walk in the world with others and live a quiet, normal life. For one man, that is impossible: Richard Kimble, fugitive.
The outbound bus for from San Francisco -- destination: known. George Browning -- destination: unknown. His only companion: hope. Hope for the day when he can once again become Richard Kimble.
Always, there is the hunter, the hunted and the trap. Traps are of many kinds: of wood, of steel, of words. But this time, the trap is a city. Dr. Richard Kimble, two years a fugitive, is about to enter the trap. Why is Stafford, Indiana a death trap for Richard Kimble? Because here, a thousand people know him. This city is where Richard Kimble lived for 33 years. ... This is the neighbourhood which Richard Kimble knew as a child. This is the house in which he grew up. Now, in a time of desperate trouble for him, a stopping place within a city of danger. A city of danger because here also is the headquarters of police Lieutenant Gerard.
Home is the sailor, home from the sea. And the hunter, home from the hill. But for Richard Kimble, not yet. Not yet.
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