While I'm talking to you,
there's something I wanted to ask you.
Who is Gerard?
I warned you I was observant.
You're afraid of him, aren't you?
Afraid of who?
That man, Gerard.
He's waiting up there like a cat at a mousehole.
What, for Parky? Why?
He's a policeman.
Why? What'd you do?
It's what they think I did.
They think I killed my wife.
NARRATOR:
A QM Production.
Starring David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble.
An innocent victim of blind justice,
falsely convicted for the murder of his wife,
reprieved by fate when a train wreck
freed him en route to the death house.
Freed him to hide in lonely desperation,
to change his identity,
to toil at many jobs.
Freed him to search for a one-armed man
he saw leave the scene of the crime.
Freed him to run
before the relentless pursuit
of the police lieutenant obsessed with his capture.
The guest stars in tonight's story:
Stephen McNally,
Nan Martin,
Richard Anderson.
Also starring Barry Morse as Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
ANNOUNCER:
Here in Southern Nevada,
man is changing the bleak face of nature.
With his machinery, he is carving a shaft
deep into the unremitting rock and sand:
a missile-launching silo.
When the job is finished, the Air Force will take over.
For now, it is a civilian crew
that tunnels under the desert crust.
A crew of deep and abiding loyalties.
One of its newest members,
a fugitive,
Richard Kimble.
Working now as laborer
and first-aid man.
The name he has taken: Parker.
Then the boss poke his finger in my chest and he says:
"Listen, you black-souled, heathen Apache.
"The government buys your beer,
so if this lady congressman wants to snoop around... "
Thank you, Mr. Glennon.
What I'm trying to make clear is
there's not much to see at this stage,
not much reason to go below.
I have to write a report.
I think that's quite enough reason.
That's ridiculous.
There's nothing to see or write about.
Miss Snell, what Jack is trying to say is that-
Well, I think that's fairly obvious, colonel.
He doesn't want me to go in the shaft.
It's dangerous.
It's no place for a woman.
Oh, Mr. Glennon,
they used to say that about Congress.
All right, we'll take a quick look-see
and then we'll go to lunch. Come on.
Anybody but her.
Anybody.
Send it up.
Mr. Glennon.
Joe,
get those cans outta there.
I don't wanna crowd you.
Come on in. There's plenty of room.
Come on, Indian. You're drawing time.
Spooky, but you get used to it, Miss Lait.
Maybe.
I like to build up.
I hate these oversized post holes.
You were glad to get the contract.
I needed the money.
You oughta know.
All right. Bargain basement.
Everybody out.
We won't be down here long.
I wish I could be more like you
and not afraid of everything.
Most of the crew are still on their lunch break.
Oh, don't- Don't stop for me.
I know you have a "time is of the essence" clause.
Would you like me to get some pictures, ma'am?
No, no. Not here. Not in the shaft.
We're over 200 feet down.
Anybody up there drops a pin on you,
it would nail you right to the floor.
If anyone dropped anything up there,
wouldn't that indicate negligence?
Look, Miss Snell-
Just one or two, Jack.
It'll just take a moment.
Right over here, miss.
Now, just a little smile to please your constituents.
Her heel.
Get a box from the tunnel.
Get the first-aid kit.
Oh, such a stupid thing to do.
Stupid.
Uh, Parker handles our first aid.
He's good.
Well, it's not broken.
You're quite confident, doctor.
Miss Snell.
We'll have the whole Congress laughing at me.
You'll destroy that negative, of course.
Just one print.
For your scrapbook.
Well, she shouldn't walk on the foot.
I'll bring a chair down.
No. Sorry, colonel.
I won't use a wheelchair.
Well, you'd better find some crutches.
Um, could I-?
Yes, Susan, I won't need you anymore.
You can go with him.
All right.
And I won't need you or your camera anymore, either.
Take it away.
Here you are.
This should help.
I feel like such a fool.
Get back to work, boys, huh?
Go on. Move.
Hold the elevator.
Right.
Stop!
Look out down there!
Jack!
Jack, fire!
If it gets to the tanks...
Give me a hand here.
Let's get to the control room.
Is there another way out?
No.
All right, give me a hand.
Higher. Higher.
Get back outta here. They're going to blow!
Dial nine. That's the control room.
Are we safe in here?
I asked you a question, Mr. Glennon.
I got no time to lecture
on gas overpressures.
Come on. Everything goes, boys.
Everything.
Okay, everybody against the wall
and down.
Miss Snell.
Get over to the mouth and get that hose down. Go!
What happened?
There- There was a gasoline can
and it rolled in.
I-I tried to stop it.
Colonel, we're gonna try to get water down the shaft.
Not with gasoline. Use dirt and sand.
Try to smother it.
Right.
All right, get that hose outta there.
Come on, get the hose outta there.
It's hot.
It's too hot.
Somebody answer that phone.
Stay down.
Hey, Jack...
Emilio.
I said stay down.
That will be in my report, of course.
Yeah, it figures.
Jack,
you figure he's got a chance?
Shut up.
Colonel.
Colonel, they don't answer the phone.
Keep trying.
Anybody hurt?
No.
Let's get to work on this door.
Something else for your report.
Emilio was on my first crew.
I'm godfather to one of his kids.
It's caved in.
I'll get a clamshell from town.
You line up the heavy stuff.
Right.
Cooley.
You'll clear all pictures through me.
Yes, sir.
Two hours gone by.
It's not too late, is it?
Depends on the air supply.
Look, I know it's rough.
You must be fond of her.
I was with her for six years.
She was wonderful to me.
Interstate News wants to buy my story.
They called you?
We were talking.
Well, someone's got to put her down on paper.
I'll bet the money's good too.
With this business you never can tell.
Emilio's smart, you know.
I knew a fella once, got caught like that.
Got under an overhang. Heh.
When we dug him out he was as good as new.
You think I'm whistling at the moon, huh?
Well, I think every man has to keep on hoping.
Yeah.
Alec,
take over, will you?
Well, we're doing all we can.
Perhaps you should have started before.
Look, it was an accident.
Granted.
But isn't your function
to anticipate any unusual circumstance?
Like Dale City, I suppose?
Hitting underground springs halfway through the excavating.
All right, you should've surveyed the site.
I took the government's survey. I was working close.
The whole committee saw it my way.
I had the extra appropriation right in my hand...
till you knocked it out.
I was doing my job.
Do your job.
But don't turn to stone.
Don't try to be like a-
Jack.
But I don't understand it, general.
I never cleared anything.
Yes, sir, I'll check it and call you back.
The clamshell is here, sir.
Right, sir.
Dave Cooley reporting back, sir.
That's my CO chewing me out.
The wire services picked up a picture.
Running it in all the front pages in Washington.
Everywhere.
Yours?
All mine. Exclusive. Coast to coast.
I told you to clear all pictures with me first.
This wasn't on the accident, sir.
No doubt about it, captain.
I'm going alone, 2:45 plane.
I'll pick up some men out there.
This time,
one way or another,
I've got him.
Gettin' hard to breathe.
There's plenty of air in here.
It's all that beer, Solly.
Well, actually, we only use one-fourth of our lungs.
Well, it's true.
Been proven.
Uh, Jack.
Well,
nobody told you to quit.
Move the dirt off.
They're really gonna dig us out?
Ah, 15, 20 hours.
Twenty hours?
The air gonna last that long?
That's what I thought.
That conduit, it's outside the shaft.
It could've stood up.
Yeah, if we can get to it.
We might.
There are spaces between that concrete.
Just possible a man might snake his way through.
All right, I'll give it a try.
Who said you?
It's gonna be tight fit, Solly.
To your left 10, 12 feet.
Colonel Lawrence?
Yes?
I'm Lieutenant Gerard.
I believe this man was caught below with the others.
That's right.
I can't believe it.
I've talked with him. He seems quiet, intelligent.
Yes.
A quiet, intelligent murderer.
I'd prefer that no one knows who he is.
Or why I'm here.
Mr. Gerard, um,
this is Miss Lait, the congresswoman's secretary.
How do you do?
Mr. Gerard is a friend of, uh...
What's his name?
Parker.
That's right. Parker.
Colonel, what are their chances?
It doesn't look good.
I'll wait.
Hey, Jack, I think I've got it.
MAN At this point, there is no way of knowing
how many, if any, are still alive.
Even generous estimates would indicate
the air supply must be almost exhausted.
Friends of Congresswoman Snell's in Washington
are promising a full investigation.
Stay tuned for our next regularly scheduled newscast
at 6:00.
Pull the cap.
I'll rig the compressor and get the colonel.
They answered.
They heard you?
Yeah.
Lucky Jack Glennon
did it again.
You're just too mean to die.
He did it. He did it.
You need something, Miss Snell?
Thank you. Nothing.
Do you think the headset will go through?
It should. It's small enough.
I've been smelling it for years,
and I never knew plain old air
could smell like French perfume.
They've got it.
Hello?
Hello? Hello, can you hear me?
Glennon?
Jack. Jack.
They've got their microphone down.
The colonel wants to speak to the lady.
This is for your throat.
And put this in your ear.
Thank you.
Hello?
Congresswoman Snell speaking.
This is Colonel Lawrence.
Are you all right?
Quite well, colonel, under the circumstances.
May I speak to my secretary, please?
Marion, I'm so glad.
You can release this statement to the wire services.
I intend to fix the blame for this.
If it hadn't been for one of the crew-
A man named Parker.
well, I just don't know what.
Here, tell her about yourself.
Mr. Parker?
Hello.
LAIT Mr. Parker?
Uh, that's right.
Marion tells me you're a hero.
I'm sure your friend will be delighted to hear that.
What friend?
Mr. Gerard.
Gerard, huh?
Yes, he's standing right here beside me.
It is Gerard, isn't it?
Mr. Parker?
Does that crane operator know what he's doing?
He's the best.
He's slow.
Well, he has to be.
The shaft could cave in again.
There's no other way out?
No.
Lieutenant...
what if he won't come up?
We go in after him.
You hear anything?
Not a thing.
That bandage, uh, looks a little tight.
I'll loosen it for you.
You're very observant.
So am I.
It's strange.
Little pieces that flake off a person
and leave so much naked,
so much to be seen.
A word.
A look.
Just a held breath.
Feel better?
Much.
You should have been a doctor.
Bothered you, didn't it?
Just the word.
I say doctor,
and it's like a whip,
flaking off one of those little pieces.
Another word I've noticed...
We're gonna make it.
They'll be breaking through soon.
You'll be out.
You can hotfoot it back to Washington
and start to scream.
Mr. Glennon, let's not make this a personal issue.
I am the chairman
of a Congressional subcommittee.
I'm working for you as much as everyone else.
Sure. Keep projecting. It makes a nice public image.
You project a rather strong one yourself.
Patron saint to an army of featherbedders.
That's Washington talk.
Not at all. It's based on considerable observation.
Dale City and here.
You have 20 more men on your crew than you need.
What do you suggest I do with them?
They're not cats, to be drowned when I've got too many.
Mr. Glennon, my committee spends the government dollar.
That's a hard, realistic business.
And if you choose to carry 20 extra men
out of misplaced sentiment-
They'd do as much for me.
And more.
A lot of them weren't eating regularly.
It was rough.
Oh, you tied the can to me good
on that Dale City job.
Don't blame me. You bungled the job.
I didn't bungle it.
You showed manifest incompetence.
I had to point out- You had to whip somebody.
Because you had been whipped.
Because Senator Halsey gave you the brush.
Mr. Glennon.
You had him all tagged for wedding bells.
And a cheap little blond grabbed him away.
Gossip. Left the Great God Snell
with egg on her face.
She had to have a human sacrifice
to give her back her self-respect.
Him, me, anybody.
Just happened I was first in line.
Not true.
Oh, don't tell me.
I've got friends in Washington.
Don't count on them.
Mr. Glennon,
don't ever bother to bid again
on another government job.
No, sir. No more tunnels. They stink.
Next time, Jack gets us a nice little dam.
Or a bridge. Huh, Jack?
Yeah, next time, nothing. I'm through. I'm broke.
Well, you can't quit now.
You gotta chip in.
Hm? For Alec.
Wife's gonna have a baby.
A kid?
Oh, that's swell. When is she expecting?
Oh, uh,
maybe four years or five years.
Four or five years?
Why you...
Four or five years.
You can't buy that in the supermarket.
I wouldn't know. I'm not shopping.
I've got what I want.
You don't believe that?
Should I?
Well, I'm on
four Congressional subcommittees.
Chairman of one,
respected, quoted.
I have national coverage.
Oh.
Well, that's good.
I work with brilliant,
exciting people.
Some I've known for years,
and we've formed close and lasting associations.
Well, that's very gratifying.
We're very close, the people I work with.
My secretary, you met her.
She's like my- My own sister.
Boy, you look sick.
Let me see your arm there.
Boy, you are sick. No, it's-
Why do they bother you?
They don't. I just told you. I've got what I want.
I made up my mind when I was in college.
What I wanted and how to get it.
I knew what it took.
A thick, tough skin.
They can't hurt you when you're wearing a suit of armor.
But you can hurt yourself...
if you get locked inside.
Well, maybe I like it inside.
Maybe I'm used to it.
Maybe I don't want to come out.
Every human being needs someone to talk to.
I talk to my analyst.
Through my visor.
For $30 an hour,
he's glad to listen.
But while I'm talking to you,
there's something I want to ask you.
Who is Gerard?
I warned you I was observant.
You're afraid of him, aren't you?
Afraid of who?
That man Gerard.
He's waiting up there like a cat at a mousehole.
What, for Parky? Why?
He's a policeman, Jack.
Why, what'd you do?
It's what they think I did.
They think I killed my wife.
Well,
let 'em ask me what I think.
They're through.
We're about to bring the first one up.
Will you all stand back, please.
Mr. Gerard, you're in the way. We're working.
So are we.
All right, put it down.
Colonel Lawrence, are you sure
there hasn't been a call from Interstate News?
I don't know.
Hey, colonel.
They're sending the dame up first.
Back into my suit of armor.
I guess everyone gets trapped in his own way.
When I'm having breakfast with my secretary, Dr. Kimble,
I'll read about you in the papers.
That's it.
Okay, Victor, take her away.
Well, now, how do we get you outta here?
Don't get mixed up in it, Jack.
Who asked you?
What are we gonna do with him?
You do nothing.
Well, who says?
I say. You could end up in jail.
Well, so could you.
You figure to go alone?
Yeah, since when did you start workin' without a crew?
You got a way to do it, Jack?
Maybe.
Hurry up and get her outta there.
Send that cage back down.
Hold it, Gerard. These men know what they're doing.
Would someone get me out of this mummy case?
Of course.
You're waiting for Parker.
You're a policeman.
You're very perceptive.
So is he.
Did he give you any trouble?
A lot.
He saved my life.
All right.
He'll be coming up too.
Where's my secretary?
Well, it's a simple question. Where is she?
Talking to Interstate News, I think.
Killing a story.
Killing what story?
Hers.
The one she sold when she thought...
She couldn't wait.
Marion.
Oh, thank heaven you're all right.
Oh. Oh, Marion,
we were so frightened.
Were we?
All set.
Then do it.
Hey, there's something wrong with the headset.
I don't hear 'em no more.
Up there on top.
We need some help.
What's wrong?
Parker must have gone off his nut.
He smashed the microphone
and holed up in the control room.
He doesn't give up.
I'm coming down.
All right.
They say Parker's a criminal.
People fool you sometimes.
I'm a police officer. Where's Parker?
In the control room at the end of the tunnel.
He's the one who was killed.
I told you Parker's in the control room.
I have to warn you. He's wanted for murder.
Murder?
So if anyone tries to interfere...
Can they get this open?
Maybe. It's pretty heavy. Give it a try.
Get me out of here.
Get me out.
It's jammed. We're trying.
What goes down there?
I don't know.
Marion. Marion...
Let him go.
Let who go?
That was a fine thing you did for Parker.
That photographer has given us a complete statement.
I thought you'd wanna know.
That was a fine thing you did for Parker.
Apparently, there was no question of negligence.
The contractor involved
will not be blamed.
The, um, contractor involved
would like to say thanks.
He might say it even better over dinner.
Like this?
I'd look pretty silly.
The "Great God Snell"
on crutches.
Oh, no, you wouldn't.
You wouldn't look silly.
Not anymore.
You like your steak rare?
Richard Kimble eats alone.
For him, all roads are lonely,
all seasons dangerous.
Until the day when he can prove his innocence,
Richard Kimble must remain
a fugitive.
Hold it, everybody!
Now, you stand right over there, mister.
Now, listen here, Charles Edward,
that ain't no way to treat nobody.
Now, you stand right still, Hanes.
I was just having some fun.
You could've killed somebody outside there with that truck.
I said stand still.
Charles Edward, I don't want no trouble out of you.
I'm leaving the country.
He grabbed my wheel. He almost made me hit that boy.
I got a boat waiting to take me out, you ask him.
Go on, ask him.
I had nothing to do with it, sheriff.
Well, that's gratitude for you.
It's your fault I'm here.
All right, get down on your belly, boy.
NARRATOR:
A QM Production.
Starring David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble.
An innocent victim of blind justice,
falsely convicted for the murder of his wife,
reprieved by fate when a train wreck
freed him en route to the death house.
Freed him to hide in lonely desperation.
To change his identity.
To toil at many jobs.
Freed him to search for a one-armed man
he saw leave the scene of the crime.
Freed him to run
before the relentless pursuit
of the police lieutenant obsessed with his capture.
The guest stars in tonight's story:
Philip Abbott,
Warren Oates,
Madeleine Sherwood.
ANNOUNCER:
This is a man who must keep moving, pursuing, pursued.
He is not a man of solitude,
but often the friendless open road
is his only alternative to death by execution.
Richard Kimble, he travels a lot by thumb,
makes many a long lonely hike between rides.
Jud Tormey! How are you?
Remember me?
Hey, don't back off, buddy.
Here, pour $2 worth of gas there in the truck.
Keep the change. Hey.
What's the matter? I ain't gonna hurt you.
I'm leaving the country.
Who's that down there at Central?
Is that you, Marybeth Thompson?
Ha ha! Well, you get me Cox's Landing down there,
will you, honey babe?
That's right.
It's Hanes.
Hanes? McClure?
Yes.
Yes- Yes. Cox's, all right, all right.
Bart? It's Hanes.
You got that boat ready, ain't you?
Do I have money?
Does a wild bear live in the woods?
Ho-ho, now, you listen here,
I'm gonna be down there in half an hour, you hear?
I'm gonna have some mighty unfriendly folks on my tail,
so I ain't got no time to visit with you.
You have everything ready, now, you hear me?
All right.
Marybeth?
Marybeth, come to the phone.
Mayor Potter, is-? Is my son Tad there, please?
Uh, no, he ain't, Marybeth.
I let him out for coffee.
Oh, I- I've just got to find him, Mayor Potter.
I just found out that, uh,
Hanes McClure is on his way to town.
Marybeth, I ain't calling nobody nothing.
No, ma'am.
No, I'm just saying that Hanes McClure
coming back to Corona just don't make sense.
I know what I heard, Charles Edward.
And I'll tell you something,
I've got Jud Tormey calling from down at the corners,
and he will tell you the selfsame thing.
Come on, get in.
Hurry up.
Hurry up!
Where are you headed?
What's the next town?
Ha! Corona.
Ain't nobody goes to Corona, buddy.
You come from it and you go through it.
Now, me, I'm going through it to get where I'm going.
I'll drop you off there if you want.
I've gotta find a couple of days work pretty soon.
Uh-huh.
I guess it doesn't matter where.
We can't have him living here, Charles Edward, we can't.
Hanes McClure is a criminal, wanted everywhere.
That ain't quite true, Mr. Potter.
He's been in trouble, yeah, but-
He done that bank holdup in Macon.
He shot that guard.
There ain't nobody proved that yet.
This town give birth to that man.
He shamed us and disgraced us.
Yeah, well, ain't much here he can do any harm to.
What's he coming back here for? What?
Well, I'm gonna try to find out before he gets here.
I'm gonna go up and stop him at the bridge.
Now, you being the mayor,
you try to keep this thing quiet till I get back.
Tad, your mama wants you.
Shirky's Billiards.
Yes, ma'am.
Now, Tad, you ma wants you.
It's gospel truth, Louise.
Hanes McClure, just as big as a frog in a-
Uh, hold on, Louise, will you, please?
No- Just hold on.
Tad?
Now- Now, Tad listen, there is a rumor
that, uh, Hanes McClure is on his way.
N-now, I want you to just go back
to the telegraph office, and stay there.
You just stay off the streets until mama tells you, hm?
Well, I tell you, there's this creek
that runs up the river about a mile or so south of Corona.
Now, back in Prohibition days, my daddy,
he knowed some of them smugglers. You catch on?
Well, one day me and some of my buddies,
we was maybe 5 or 6 years old,
we slipped over there,
and we swiped us a jug of that Puerto Rican rum,
tied a string on it and sunk her over the side of the creek.
Every now and then we'd go down there
and we pull up that old jug of rum.
Oh, it was cold. Oh, good and cold.
We'd have a swig out of it, everybody was happy.
Uh-oh.
You turkey, that's Charles Edward Shafter.
Hold on, Hanes!
Now, listen here, Hanes,
I just want to make sure
we ain't gonna have no trouble in this town.
Get your hand off my truck, Charles Edward,
I ain't got time to visit with you.
Charles Edward's getting mad.
Hold it, everybody.
Now, you stand right over there, mister.
Now, listen here, Charles Edward,
that ain't no way to treat nobody.
Now, you stand right still, Hanes.
I was just having some fun.
You could've killed somebody outside there with that truck.
I said stand still.
Charles Edward, I don't want no trouble out of you.
I'm leaving the country.
He grabbed my wheel.
He almost made me hit that boy.
I had a boat waiting to take me out. You ask him.
Go on, ask him.
I had nothing to do with it, sheriff.
Well, that's gratitude for you. It's your fault I'm here.
All right, get down on your belly, boy.
Down there. On your belly.
You're all right, ain't you, Sue-Ann?
I thought he was gonna pull my hair out.
Anybody see where that first bullet went?
All right, now, everybody clear out of here.
I'm taking these prisoners out.
Mayor Potter, you get them out of here.
Shirky, you help me here with Hanes.
Okay, up on your feet, mister.
Sheriff, I never saw that man before.
He just gave me a ride.
That truck would've killed me.
I seen you grab the wheel, mister.
Tad, you help Shirky with Hanes.
Go on.
Okay, mister, you march.
Look, I never saw the man before.
He just gave me a ride, that's all.
Answer the phone.
Someone, please answer the phone.
Answer.
All right, get in here.
Right over there.
Sherriff, if you can just wait until he comes to...
Step right back here. Come on, come on.
He picked me up just this side of a place called Jud's.
Shirky, go get Doc Featherstone,
and get my car over at the pool hall
and bring it around in back.
Am I on duty as of now?
I- I get paid as of now?
Yeah, all right.
Tad, answer that telephone.
Step over here, please.
Hello.
Tad, is-? Is Hanes McClure in there?
Tad, you get out of there.
You get out of there right away, now.
Now, you know what your daddy come to, running with his kind.
Now, you get out.
Now, you go and run to the telegraph office
and stay there, Tad.
Tad get out of there!
Tad, Tad, do what I tell you.
Tad? Tad, please.
Now, how do you figure? A quiet afternoon,
chicken sandwich for lunch, game of horseshoes,
and then something like this.
You know, they blame a lot of things on Hanes McClure.
Say he robbed a bank and killed a man in Macon,
and he would have run down Tad Thompson.
Reckon he would have shot me.
I owe you something.
You owe me something sheriff, uh, not a drink, but, uh-
You better take it.
You see, uh, I believe your story
because I got a flasher and your picture
right over there in my desk.
I know who you really are, knew it right along.
Sorry, doc.
Raise the price on beer 10 cents.
Raise the coffee a nickel. A nickel.
Uh, push that, uh, front pool table back a ways
and figure out how to make room for more clients in here,
and find that other bullet hole that Charles Edward made.
All right, Mr. Allsup here wants a word with you.
You remember me, don't you, Hanes?
Local paper.
Oh, yeah, sure J.P.
How are you? Fine.
Now, I'd like a statement from both you boys, if I can get it.
Oh, I'll tell you, J.P.,
I ain't got nothing to say that's fit to print.
What were you doing leaving the country?
And how did you two boys come to fall in together?
Together?
Listen here, J.P.,
don't you print nothing about me.
Nothing!
I'm in this town because he stopped my truck
and I'm gonna get back on him for that.
You print my name one time, one time-
All right, that's all.
I'm gonna get you! Let me go!
Get back in there. You ain't going nowhere.
How are you?
You're gonna put a special guard on this jail tonight, ain't you?
Them two boys are killers.
Hm. Shirky Saulter here,
will be on night guard if I need him.
I'm going to wire the sheriff for help right now.
Now, Shirky,
I please don't want nobody in here.
I want to keep this thing just as quiet as possible.
Now, you stay here for a while
until I'm through with the telegraph.
Shirky, put your badge on. You're on duty now.
Here, boy, these things go in File 5 back there,
under "New Contacts. "
Mr. Potter, why would they say that man killed his wife?
Put that behind you, boy. You got responsibilities here.
Well, everything back to normal now?
Uh-uh. I'm off duty now, so I brought my boy a sandwich.
Sandwich?
Mighty near suppertime.
Peanut butter sandwich and a nice banana.
That'll tide you through.
It's so much nicer than your eating at Shirky's pool hall.
Here you are, dear.
Oh, now, son, Mama is sorry that she got so upset
on the phone today, but I-
Oh, oh, Charles Edward.
Marybeth.
Charles Edward, you are just the man I want to see.
Now, I want to ask you about Hanes and all.
They're not gonna stay here long, are they?
No longer than I can help.
Yeah, well, because you and I know
just how he used to upset this town.
How he led my husband right straight down the garden path.
I do not want Tad under that influence.
Okay, Marybeth.
Tad?
You go straight home, now,
when your work's done, you hear Mama?
You stay out of all this.
Yes, ma'am.
Now, Mr. Potter, I got a couple of telegrams to send.
If I use the phone, why half the town'll be listening in.
Tad, take these down.
Yeah, one of these will go to the sheriff,
up at County Seat.
And I guess the other one will go to Lieutenant Phil Gerard,
Police Headquarters, Stafford, Indiana.
Yeah, Myrtle, it's true.
Hanes McClure,
and a wife-killer, name of Kimble, from up north.
Fact, Myrtle.
Uh, spread the word out your way, will you?
Well, uh, tell folks to come on in tomorrow.
Hey, I hope you're not too peeved at me now, buddy,
because I sure didn't mean half of those things I said to you.
Prk your car behind the pool hall.
Uh, 50 cents.
I didn't even know who you was when I picked you up.
We have that in common.
We got a pickle in common too, babe.
Why do you pick up hitchhikers when you're on the run?
Who, me? I was on extended vacation
until old Charles Edward started honking that siren at me.
Ain't he a lulu?
New news since I left town.
Well, Myrtle, I- I'd better get back on duty.
Yeah, Myrtle, well, I better look after these prisoners.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, bye-bye.
Hey, uh, Hanes?
Yeah?
How many banks you rob all told,
uh, six or eight?
How many times they catch me?
Well, never did, I guess.
Then how did you know it was me?
Got your description.
Look, friend, uh, I live around here.
Everybody knows what I look like.
I was born here.
Uh, true you run
with the Schofield gang, though, ain't it?
That's right.
Didn't you ever make a mistake?
Schofield gang, they- They traffic in, uh, women,
uh, bad liquor and dope.
Must make a lot of money.
Mark how he's holding that bird gun, will you?
Shameful mean, them Schofield boys,
with their furs and, uh, fancy cars.
Still, I never did hear of a Schofield,
uh, strangling his wife.
Now, Bead, I'm gonna give you a dollar
to stay here tonight with Tad.
Now, in case any messages come in,
I want one of you to be awake.
Understand?
Shirky or me'll be at the jail all night, so...
Hey, thanks, Mr. Potter.
You tend to business now, Tad.
Hey, what you got, Tad?
Just a message.
Well, let me see it.
"Richard Kimble in custody.
Please advise. "
What's the matter with you? I was only spoofing you.
Sue Ann, you taking that to the prisoners?
Oh, there's only two 45-cent specials there,
but old Shirky, he's charging the city
a buck an a half apiece.
Let me carry it for you.
About half the other counties in the state,
suspect in that robbery and murder in Macon.
Please hang up the phone, Charles Edward,
and let me talk to you, please.
Well, it's too much excitement for my town, sheriff.
Me here all by myself.
That's why I said in my telegram "don't phone me,"
because everybody listens in.
Well, you better get somebody over here tomorrow,
because I may need some help.
You know who that- That sheriff is, don't you?
That's Lou Kylie.
That's Fat Schofield's brother-in-law,
You know that, don't you?
Well, that's my worry.
You've been friends with the Schofields for years.
I'm gonna level with you, Charles.
They're after me.
I'm running from the Schofield gang, not the law.
They gonna send some boys down here
and they're gonna murder me.
I'm in the County System, Hanes.
I've got to report to the sheriff.
He's gonna send his killers down here and get me!
Don't you understand that?
It would make sense, McClure,
if you hadn't stopped to pick me up.
What?
Aw, come on, man, you think I ain't got a reason?
And you think those Schofields don't know my truck?
I was gonna give you that truck boy,
and they'd be following you and I'd be long gone.
And that's the gospel truth.
I was leaving the country.
Charles Edward, I ain't lyin' to you.
I don't want that bunch busting up my town.
Well, you're a bit mite late, ain't you, babe?
You done went and told them where I'm at.
No, I'm not hungry.
Chicken wing, fried potato?
I'm gonna tell you something.
That money you went and took out of my pocket
and put in your safe,
that's their money, boy.
And they think there's a whole lot more,
and they're gonna send their boys down here
and they're gonna wreck this town,
and then you're gonna have to let me out of here,
Charles Edward.
Sheriff, uh,
maybe there is someplace you could take us.
Doc, I'm sorry you're mixed up in this whole business.
Now, suppose he's telling the truth.
The town would be safer,
and we'd be a lot safer if you'd get us out of here.
Hey, Tad, oh, a message coming in.
Police Headquarters, Stafford, Indiana.
Doctor, I'm sorry.
I didn't want to send that message.
I know it ain't true.
That's what I tried to-
You doing a wrong thing, Mr. Shafter.
He don't belong here.
You know it.
Not a man like that.
I looked straight at him. I know.
Somebody ought to set that man free.
Uh, I'm gonna have the prisoners shave and wash up,
uh, soon as Charles Edward comes back from the meeting.
Now, I could let, uh, say, the six of you,
look through the windows and into their cells.
Uh, 4 bits apiece, uh,
to defray the expense of, uh, maintenance here.
All right, Tad.
Take a little time off, now.
We're gonna hold council meeting awhile.
Bead, you go on home if you want to.
You ain't needed no more.
All right, come on, boys. Let's get down to it.
Corona jail, uh, Deputy Saulter.
Oh, uh - Oh, yeah, uh, Mrs. Thompson.
The sheriff?
Well, yeah, Charles Edward is over to the telegraph office-
I know we can get that bird gun away from him
if we can just chum him over here a little closer.
Charles Edward has deputized me himself.
If you had any money, he'd sell it to you.
They think I got money.
Maybe that ought to do it.
Schofield money?
My theory is that this triumph belongs to the whole community.
We need time to get them television people over here,
and the newsreels-
Now, I ain't got the authority to keep them prisoners here.
Folks coming in from everywhere to see them.
All we're asking, don't rush no deputies in from County Seat,
to sneak them two out of town.
Sneak?
I could no more do that now
than sneak a fish through a cat farm.
Take a look outside at the people
I got to deal with already.
And you think about that.
If you do take them out,
what do you reckon will happen here,
when the folks coming to see them find out we got no show?
And what if some galoot gets drunk
and starts a riot or a fire?
You want to help this town, then you get out there
and you tell those people to go home.
This ain't no carnival.
Oh, yeah, Mrs. Parks. Uh, we all know Hanes McClure,
but this wife-killer is the one you ought to get a look at.
Got a kind of a subterficious appearance to him.
No, uh, this officer, name of Gerard,
is coming down from Indiana to get him, uh, sometime tonight.
Uh, now, don't say who told you,
but come on in.
Uh, bring the family.
They'll be here most of the day.
Shirky.
He's sleeping?
Yeah.
Shirky, if I don't get out of here, I'm going to-
Oh, yeah. Wait, wait.
Come in.
I don't want to take a chance on waking him up.
What are you talking about?
You and I can help each other.
Nobody'd blame you. There's a way.
Way to what?
I think I know where he's hiding the Schofield money.
The Schofield...?
Fifty thousand dollars.
Why, he ain't got no $50,000.
What're you doing in here, Tad?
Well, I just brought over a couple sandwiches-
Uh, for them? Mm-hm.
Look, the town feeds them breakfast and supper,
that's all.
Where'd you get them?
I bought them at your place.
My place?
Mr. Potter let me off while council meeting's going on.
Well, if you paid for them already,
go on, feed them, feed them.
They're just cold roast beef.
Thank you.
Here's a sandwich for you.
I'll be doggoned.
Tad, boy, you like to revive my faith
in human nature, son.
You know something?
You remind me a whole lot like your daddy used to be,
just too dad-burned-good for this town.
Ain't he a good old boy, Kimble?
I tell you, my daddy used to hustle sugar for his granddaddy
years ago, making moonshine booze.
That was before you was born, though, wasn't it, son?
Yes, sir.
I brought this.
Walt Whitman.
My pa left all his books to me.
Oh, maybe 25 books.
World Atlas, book on poems, and, oh, whatnot.
Thank you.
That one talks about what a man is.
You know, the, uh- The nature of man.
Your father not living?
No, sir.
He's dead, ain't he, Tad?
Yes, sir. He-
He died in prison when I was 9 years old.
J.P. had me haul her down here.
To get a picture for the newspaper.
Well, this is the gun I was telling you about.
Now, this is the way your picture's gonna be,
with me next to the machine.
I was the first one to see them at my filling station.
If I could've gotten my shotgun in time,
they never would of got into town.
Now, folks, uh, if anybody else wants to get a snapshot
of Sue Ann, uh, by the bullet hole,
why, here's my camera, uh, with a flash attachment.
A dollar a shot, plus expenses.
Now, another 50 cents, and she signs her autograph.
Uh, remember, she's the poor little girl
Hanes McClure done grabbed by the hair.
Now, up yonder on the wall, is the other bullet hole.
Uh, Sue Ann's gonna stand on the table and point to it.
That way, uh, you get a little more of her in your picture.
A $1.50 for that pose.
Uh, Sue Ann, uh, I've got to get back on duty.
You're in charge here. Make sure that everybody pays.
Now, I got to go back on duty,
so you give me the promise, Tad.
You get them boys out of there.
Now, you just get them out.
Nobody else in town I can talk to, Mom.
They're gonna do to you just exactly the way
Hanes McClure done your daddy years ago.
Now, uh, him and- And Hanes,
hey acted as if they was just too big for this town.
Maybe they were.
Don't you backtalk me. You get them out of here.
Oh, baby.
I made sacrifices to give you a good start in life
in spite of your daddy's transgression.
And if Mr. Potter wants you to stay on and in charge,
why, that means that he's got confidence.
That makes you a mighty important young man.
Mighty important.
Are you sassing me?
Mom, you're late to work.
Now, listen here, you get them out of there time I call
or else I'm gonna come back here and I'm gonna...
Ooh, I am gonna slap you good.
Now, you see if I don't.
I don't know. Maybe Hanes is right.
Sheriff Kylie does take his orders from Schofield.
He sure could have found a deputy to send by this time.
You better go get something to eat
before the beer starts flowing, Charles Edward.
Uh, they're pretty quiet right now.
You may need your strength.
Well, anybody from the sheriff shows up
or if you hear from Lieutenant Gerard,
you come and get me.
Be back in 20 minutes.
I think he's got $50,000
sewn inside the lining of that coat.
Can you get it?
I don't know.
But you can. Get the keys.
I- I doesn't go in there.
Uh- Uh, you get it.
Uh, go on, now, get it.
All right.
Now, get the gun and cover.
What-? What's going on here?
All right, Shirky, get over here.
Watch it, Hanes.
Don't do something you'll be sorry for.
Aw, shut up, Shirky, and go get them keys or I'll kill you.
I got one load in this gun, boy, and I'm gonna make it pay.
Oh!
You keep them covered, Tad.
Uh, I- I'll go get help.
Mr. Saulter.
Charles Edward, come quick.
Hurry, Tad, boy.
Hurry, boy.
I'm gonna bust you loose
from this two-bit town, son.
You're just my kind.
Get me out of here.
It's you and me against the world, son.
Come on, Tad, come on.
Out the back way.
We'll use Mr. Shafter's car.
I'll get the keys.
Now, give me the keys. You stay here.
No.
Hey.
Tad, hey.
I go with you.
You can't go with me, Tad.
Tad.
Mr. McClure, Dr. Kimble saved my life from you,
and Mr. Shafter's.
I know he ain't no killer.
Listen, boy, I ain't neither.
I was just waving that gun around out there to scare folks.
Listen here, Tad, I'm your friend.
We're just alike, me and you, boy.
Oh! Oh...
Answer me!
Oh!
Come around here
and open up this jail cell.
Now, look, McClure, this isn't gonna work.
Tad, Tad!
Get out of my way.
A lot of people are gonna get hurt.
I know somebody's gonna get killed if they don't shut up.
We're only making things worse for the boy.
I worry about number one, babe.
Hanes.
Let me go, babe.
So long, babe.
My friend Charles Edward,
Took one clean through him.
I got one for you, old buddy.
Oh, don't look so concerned, Tad.
I shot my way out of worse than this, son.
My side. I lost all my strength.
Call a doctor, Tad.
What about Hanes?
He's dead.
Oh, my God. I'm sorry.
My- This is your mama speaking to you!
You come out of there, Tad, you hear me?
Let me go to him!
Tad, Tad!
Ma!
Ma! Can you hear me?
Tad, come out of there, please, please.
I m doing this, Ma.
This is one thing I'm gonna do.
Tad.
Call a doctor, Tad.
No.
Not now.
After you go, you hear me?
I did this thing wrong, but I did it.
You're free, and you go.
Now, it's time for you to grow up and grow up fast.
One more step makes you another Hanes McClure.
Haven't you seen enough already?
The sheriff may die.
He was forced to kill a man who once was his friend.
Now, go to the door and turn on the lights,
get a doctor in here.
Wait, Tad.
You turn on the lights,
and you open the door,
and they'll all come in here.
And then you take the doc
and you go out the back door,
and you take my car, and-
I got it.
Don't you worry.
Tad, Tad. Come on, now.
Come on. No more.
Oh, Tad. Tad...
Stay behind me. Right close.
Tad.
Nobody shoot.
A-all the man wants
is for me to drive him safe out of town.
He promised he won't hurt me.
Please don't try and stop him.
Please.
Leave us go.
Tad! Tad!
Doc.
Doc Featherstone! Doc!
Well, you can stop now, Tad. We're safe.
Hey, we really fooled them, didn't we?
Did you see their faces?
Man, we sure showed them something.
Done pulled off a regular Hanes McClure,
fooled that whole bunch so bad.
Walked right out on them.
Walked, right out.
Walked out of that jail.
Did you see that?
Walked out just like...
...just like...
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
Go on back, Tad.
I can't, I can't.
I got to get away from there.
Now, don't run.
If you feel you have to get away,
then walk away from it.
Don't run.
Here you are, boy.
Only $1 apiece. Do you want one?
There you are. They're genuine.
Right here. Another dollar. All right.
That's one for you.
You've got a real future here, now.
You took your life in your hands and-
And stopped a- A desperate jailbreak,
uh, criminals and everything.
Why, we know now that Hanes killed that man down in Macon,
and he might have killed you.
I never stopped the trouble, Mom,
I caused it.
Isn't that just like my boy not to grab the credit?
But we got the straight of it from-
From Charles Edward and-
And from Shirky too, about- About how-
How you saved things.
We know.
Bye, Mom.
You put that suitcase down
and you go home this minute.
You mind me, Tad.
Go home, or I'll...
I'll- I'll slap you.
Tad!
Tad. Hey boy,
did you get one of these?
Old J.P. Allsup's selling them for a buck apiece.
Picture of that fella that got away.
The things a fugitive
turns away from
are sometimes evil,
sometimes good
and difficult to leave.
Everything left behind is dangerous.
There is no safety for him anywhere.
But if he can keep moving,
there's hope.
NARRATOR:
Who is it?
Dan Martin.
They want Hallie out front.
I haven't seen her.
I'm sorry. I was sure I heard her voice.
How are you on keyholes?
NARRATOR:
A QM Production.
Starring David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble.
An innocent victim of blind justice,
falsely convicted for the murder of his wife,
reprieved by fate when a train wreck
freed him en route to the death house.
Freed him to hide in lonely desperation,
to change his identity,
to toil at many jobs.
Freed him to search for a one-armed man
he saw leave the scene of the crime.
Freed him to run
before the relentless pursuit
of the police lieutenant obsessed with his capture.
The guest stars in tonight's story:
Janis Paige,
Mark Richman.
ANNOUNCER:
A roadhouse several miles south
of Salisbury, Ohio.
Richard Kimble, wearing the name Pete Glenn,
grows restless now.
He has worked here two months.
Long enough in one place.
Perhaps too long.
Time to move on.
Mr. Haywood.
I told you to have that other banner up
by the time I got back.
I know, but- Skip the buts, huh?
Just get it done, will you?
Yeah, I got it.
Thanks.
Well, they were not on the train.
That was a wire from her.
They're driving in later tonight.
One thing you can always say about her,
she's got great timing.
Could of been held up at the telegraph office,
I'll call. Don't bother, huh?
And you can bet it wasn't the telegraph company.
Is this it?
We got stiffed by a table of college kids.
That's great.
We'll make it up tomorrow night.
You know, I'm about ready to forget the whole thing.
Look, Johnny,
I know it still hurts.
But you said she was gonna cut an album here tomorrow night.
"Hallie Martin at the Log Cabin" or something like that.
Yeah, that's what I said.
Her Royal Highness has decided to throw some crumbs
to the peasants.
And we happen to be the hungriest peasants on the block.
A half a million albums floating around the country
with our name on it could do us a lot of good.
I don't, uh, need any favors from her.
Use your head, Johnny.
With a name like hers,
we'll have the press swarming around here tomorrow night,
and not just those freeloading saloon bums.
We'll get some real coverage.
Okay.
But I'm not gonna wait up for the royal coach.
Mr. Haywood, I'd like to-
Mr. Haywood.
I just wanted to tell you I'm leaving tomorrow.
What do you mean you're leaving?
I'm taking off tomorrow morning.
Well, that's great.
That's just great.
I'm sorry.
Well, that's too bad you're sorry.
But tomorrow night is a big one and I need somebody
on that light who knows what they're doing.
Well, like I told you, I've got to go.
Okay, okay, walk. Walk.
But I want you out early.
I can't afford any more free breakfasts.
Davey, bring out that old, uh, lobby sign of Hallie's.
I don't want any complaints when she gets here.
What's bothering him?
Don't you know?
Come on, give me a hand.
Do I know what?
Johnny was married to her and she walked out on him.
Another man?
I guess you'd call it another life.
She told him she wanted to make it big.
She couldn't do it if she had to drag him along.
Must have been a hundred people standing around.
It sure wasn't pretty.
Rough way to get it.
Yeah. The trouble is, she did make it.
She made it big and Johnny's still here
sweating out the payroll every Saturday night.
The whole thing shook him up pretty good.
Well, there we are.
I guess that's your last official act.
Hey, what's the matter?
Uh, I guess I'm tired now.
Get some sleep.
Good luck, Pete.
Yeah.
¶ I never thought I'd find you ¶
¶ There never come a day ¶
¶ When someone could see The future life with me ¶
¶ But love has found a way ¶
¶ I've searched The whole world over ¶
¶ When you were here All alone ¶
¶ And I have found Someone who'll stick around ¶
¶ Now love is here to stay ¶
¶ Yes, love is here To stay ¶
Hello?
Hello.
I'm Hallie Martin.
I hope I didn't wake you up or anything.
That's all right.
Come on, grab a chair. Sit down.
I'm afraid I don't sleep much these days.
You work here?
Up until tonight.
What's your name?
Pete Glenn.
That was a nice song.
Your ex-boss wrote it for me.
Johnny fire you or something?
No, I quit.
What did you do for him?
Oh, I ran the, uh, spots,
uh, hung the curtains, swept the floor. You know.
Mm.
Why did you quit?
It was about that time.
Hm.
I know what you mean.
When are you leaving?
There's a bus in a couple of hours.
Did you, uh, run the follow spot?
Yes.
Would you run it for me?
I can't.
I'd appreciate it.
I'd like to-
Please, it would just be for the one night.
I'm sorry.
No, I'm sorry.
I guess sometimes I-
I get a little too pushy.
Still friends?
Still friends.
Good.
Good night, Miss Martin.
That's not friends.
The name's Hallie.
Good night, Hallie.
Good night, Pete.
Hallie.
Honey, we've been looking all over for you.
They've got your room ready.
So?
Well, you better get some sleep.
I sleep when I'm tired.
It's 3:30 in the morning,
and tomorrow night-
Is tomorrow night.
Now, get off my back.
Hallie.
And now a word from the crown princess.
Oh, come on, Dad, let her do what she wants.
She's going to anyway.
And that, dear family, is my message to the world.
You still here, huh?
I though I'd, uh,
stay through tonight.
Unless you've made other plans.
Don't do me any favors, huh?
I'm not doing you any favors.
I need the 15 bucks.
Okay. As soon as I can I'll have you meet our star.
She'll, uh, give you her cues.
That is, uh, if she ever gets here.
She's here.
How do you know?
I talked with her.
Oh, now you're staying, huh?
That's right.
Well, I guess she hasn't lost her touch.
Pete, is the-?
Hello, Hallie.
Johnny.
You still, ruining the coffee with those rotten egg shells?
Nice to see you too.
Johnny, we ought to be over that by now, don't you think?
Yeah.
I guess we ought to.
Coffee hot yet?
What time are the record people getting here?
Around 2 they said.
Then you and Glenn here
better, uh, run over your cues before lunch.
Pete and I will take care of it.
Pete and you will take care of it, huh?
Good.
Well, thanks for staying.
I need the money.
Is that the only reason?
Maybe not.
Johnny.
Hello, Nora.
How are you?
I'm fine, Johnny.
Nice to see you.
Come on, take a ride with me.
Oh, I- I think Dad's waiting.
Come on, it won't take long.
I just have to ask the sheriff to let me off the hook tonight.
Hey, is Frank Larson still sheriff?
Yeah. He'll get a kick out of seeing you.
Come on.
What do you need from Frank?
Well, my permit's only for 150 customers.
I want 200 there tonight.
Your sister's a very big draw now.
Have you seen her?
Yeah, I've seen her.
I left her playing Cleopatra with my light man.
I'm sorry, Johnny.
The wounds still show, huh?
That's funny, I thought I stopped bleeding months ago.
I guess we all have a few wounds.
And... off.
Applause, applause, applause,
and... on.
That's good.
Come on down.
For, uh, encores I do requests,
so I'm afraid you're just gonna have to wing it.
You know, most clubs you go into, you gotta rehearse
those cues, oh, six or seven times.
Even then you're libel to end up singing the last 16 in the dark.
What'd you do before you took this job?
A lot of everything, I guess.
Around here?
Around every place.
Then you, uh...
Can't be married.
No.
Sort of like me, I guess.
Split weeks and one-nighters.
That's about it, huh?
Well, Frank, you wanted to inspect. Go ahead, inspect.
I'd better check it with Ira at the fire station.
You can use the phone in my office.
I'll, uh, tell Hallie you're here.
Good. Then you can fill me in on all the local gossip.
I'm not sure there is any gossip
to fill you in on. Oh, come on.
Sometimes I think if I have to pack one more suitcase-
I know what you mean.
Are you all right?
Whoa.
That's what I get for drinking before breakfast.
Look, um...
You wait- You wait here.
I'll- I'll be back in a couple of minutes.
You know, you're a nice guy.
Glenn.
I thought you were supposed to be rehearsing the cues.
Oh, yeah, we just finished.
Yeah, I saw.
You better get rid of this junk.
I was going to.
I'll bet you were.
I don't know what I've done but I think we ought to
get it out in the open.
It is out in the open.
You've been trying to make it with Hallie
ever since she got here.
And you don't like it?
That's right.
Or you, mister.
Johnny. I think I convinced our friend the fire chief.
You wanna start taking me through this firetrap?
I'm glad you've got an open mind, Frank.
I'll, uh, get this stuff out of here.
Well?
Come on, Frank.
Come on in.
Well, it's not much, but, uh...
A man should never turn down an invitation
to a lady's dressing room.
You know, I don't think your ex-husband
even likes me talking to you.
I'm sorry.
I didn't know it was still that bad.
Has it worked yet?
What?
The morphine.
What are you talking about?
Well, it could be insulin or heroin.
But I'd guess morphine or a derivative.
You know what you're saying?
You're carrying a hypodermic syringe in your purse.
I'd say you just used it.
I also drink.
Have you got that down?
You don't sleep. Haywood said you lost weight.
You got pain so bad that the alcohol doesn't help anymore.
It only makes it worse.
That's why the morphine.
It's inoperable, isn't it?
Nobody knows.
How long have you known?
Uh...
A year ago, the 16th of last month,
at 2:35 in the afternoon.
I'm sorry.
Well, I'm sorry you found out.
I was hoping to keep it my little secret.
Well, as far as I'm concerned, it's still your secret.
Who is it?
It's me, Hallie.
I got an old friend out here,
uh, wants to say hello.
Frank Larson.
I'll be right out.
And now while, uh-
While you're keeping my secret, I'll be busy keeping yours.
I don't follow you.
Don't you, Dr. Kimble?
Well, you just think about it.
Don't you think you've had enough?
Why don't you mind your own business.
"You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.
Why don't you do this, why don't you do that?"
Why don't you go someplace and grow roses or something?
You're disgusting.
I guess it runs in the family, baby.
Hallie?
Why do you do it?
Leave me alone, Pete, I'm tired.
Let me take you back. Come on.
I can't go back.
All I want to do is go someplace and rest.
Come on.
Is this where he put you?
It's no wonder you quit.
We used to use this for storage.
Here, you can, uh, sit, lie down,
anything you want.
Can't you stay?
All right.
Why did you decide to stay tonight?
Well, I'm not sure.
I think I am.
I think I reminded you of your wife.
I could almost tell the way you look at me.
You see, during your trial...
It must have been a couple of years ago, I guess.
Well, anyhow, I-
I took quite a ribbing because of the resemblance.
So I suppose I followed the trial closer than most people.
You've darkened your hair and all that,
but your eyes are the same.
It was the eyes that made me feel
that maybe you didn't do it.
I didn't.
Have you seen Hallie?
She's supposed to do one of those radio interviews
on the phone.
She's probably in her dressing room.
Hallie?
Why do you want all this hate from everybody?
How often?
Whenever the pain starts.
Is it always bad?
Sometimes worse than others.
Well, why don't you wait and see?
Why?
So you won't start needing it when there's no pain.
She's not there.
I'll have to cancel the interview.
Look, try and find her, will you?
I'll look for her, Nora.
And now, doctor, what was your question again?
Why do you want so much hate from everybody?
Not everybody.
All right, not everybody.
Just the people who should mean the most to you.
You've got it backwards.
Only the people I mean the most to.
You understand?
I'm afraid not.
When my mother died,
I was 7 and Nora was 3.
If Dad could have crowned me queen of everything
I think he would have done it.
Hey, you're right.
I didn't need it this time.
How about your sister?
Oh, Dad loves her, all right.
But it's always kind of an afterthought,
you know what I mean?
So you're going to cushion the fall for him and Johnny.
That's why I left Johnny.
He had me so far up on that pedestal
that he forgot what I was really like.
So you're gonna cut the statue down to size.
I'm going to destroy it before it destroys them.
Hallie- Look, Pete,
I didn't, uh-
I didn't tell you all this because I need a shoulder.
I know.
But anytime.
Thanks.
But are you...?
Are you sure it's really me you're worried about?
Who is it?
Dan Martin.
They want Hallie out front.
I haven't seen her.
I'm sorry.
I was sure I heard her voice.
How are you on keyholes?
How's the crowd?
It should be sold-out by showtime.
Record people happy?
Far as I know.
And how far is that?
Hallie, it's so close to showtime, don't you think-?
Are you starting with me again?
If you don't like the way I live my life,
you can just get out of it.
I'm sorry, baby-
Dad, how can you just stand there and take it?
If he wants a free ride on the glamour train,
he can just pay for it.
No free rides for anybody.
Maybe you'd better go, Nora.
Nora doesn't want to go, do you, baby?
Don't you know, Johnny?
Nora's had a crush on you for years.
Well, Hallie, you've come a long ways.
Johnny, please, I only want...
What?
What do you want now?
That's what gets to you, isn't it?
That I've got it made and you're just hanging on.
I always told you that small time's a sickness
you're born with.
That never bothered me, Hallie.
A small-time saloon keeper or king of the world.
It didn't matter.
Know why?
Because I had something that nobody else had.
Yeah.
I had a woman
that made everybody else seem second-rate.
And then one day, this- This woman,
this beautiful woman turned ugly and rotten.
Almost while I looked at her face.
Almost while I held her in my arms.
Just like a nightmare.
You know something, Hallie?
Seeing you again,
and listening to you just now with Nora and Dan,
well, I think maybe... maybe that ended it.
Understand?
Because all I can feel right now is a kind of relief.
Relief that it's all over.
Over and dead, Hallie.
Not a mourner in the house.
Oh!
Hallie.
Well, where is she?
I don't know, Johnny.
She was here five minutes ago.
I know.
I got a $2,000 house out there and she has to-
Davey, have you seen Hallie?
Well, no, I'm looking for Glenn.
It's almost showtime.
Thanks for telling me.
We have a drug addict working for us, Davey.
Get me the sheriff on the phone.
I'm sorry, Pete.
For a minute there, I...
Even forgot you were here.
I'm glad one of us remembered.
I don't think I could have gone through with it anyway.
I couldn't wait to find out.
Anyhow, if you had gone through with it,
everything so far would have been wasted.
What do you mean?
If something happens to you, Hallie,
the public's gonna want to know why,
and then everything comes out.
I suppose you're right.
Nobody wants to die alone, Hallie.
Nobody wants to die at all.
But at least you can do it the way you want.
Everything paid.
You really lay it on the line, doc.
Maybe I was thinking of someone who didn't have that choice.
A woman who must have died angry...
hating, afraid.
You don't have to be alone, Hallie.
Nobody's expecting me anyplace.
Both of us sitting on death row, huh?
They'll be looking for us.
Yeah.
Well, I hope we're not interrupting anything.
but you were supposed to be in front of that audience
a half-hour ago. No kidding?
Look, you don't owe me any favors and I don't want any,
but those people out there paid good money to hear you.
I was just going, Mr. Ziegfeld.
I'll get on the light.
Why don't you do that.
Johnny, listen...
Not now, Dan.
But Johnny...
Johnny, I've gotta talk to you.
Dan, it'll have to wait.
It can't wait.
Where is he?
He's up there.
Good, I'll take him right now.
Frank, how about letting him work the show first?
He's not going anywhere.
Sure, if you don't mind.
I'll just alert my boys.
Thanks, Frank.
Johnny, you've got to know.
What, Dan, what?
That- That hypodermic.
It's Hallie's.
What are you talking about?
I found it in Glenn's room.
Then he probably knows too, but believe me, it's hers.
Dan, what are you trying to tell me?
That Hallie...?
It's not what you think, Johnny.
Hallie is sick.
What do you mean "sick"?
I mean real sick.
Why don't you bring her on first,
then I'll tell you.
Ladies and gentlemen.
The Log Cabin is privileged to present
a program of songs
by one of America's most exciting personalities.
Miss Hallie Martin.
¶ I never thought ¶
¶ I'd find you ¶
¶ There'd never come a day ¶
¶ When someone could see The future... ¶
You never told Nora.
I knew how hard it was to keep quiet myself.
I just wasn't sure Nora could carry it through.
I'll tell her at the right time.
You see, I- I always felt I owed it to Hallie
to let her do it like she wanted.
But Johnny, you won't-
Shh.
I wanna hear the song.
¶... Love is here To stay ¶
She's, uh...
She's quite a performer.
Hold it, buddy.
That's right, you.
Let's go.
Frank.
Frank, uh...
I don't know how to apologize,
but, there's, uh, been a mistake.
What mistake?
Well, that syringe I found
doesn't belong to Glenn here.
Well, then whose is it?
It's mine, sheriff.
I, uh- I'm a diabetic.
That syringe contains insulin.
I accidentally left it in Glenn's room.
I guess I made a fool out of myself.
Well...
Here you are.
Thank you.
I'll give you a little tip.
Next time somebody like me grabs you on a bum rap,
don't look so guilty.
I'm almost ready to take you in anyhow.
I, uh, need him more than you do.
You could give him a couple of extra bucks for the scare.
Well, we got a free show out of you, anyhow.
See you later, Johnny.
Thanks, Frank.
You know about Hallie, don't you?
She doesn't know anyone else knows.
Why-?
Why did she tell you?
I don't know.
She just wanted to talk to somebody and, besides, I'm safe.
How do you mean "safe"?
She doesn't love me.
Thanks, Glenn.
I'm, uh- I'm sorry.
Yeah.
I can't let her leave that way.
That's the way she wants it, Johnny.
Dan, I'm still in love with her.
If she didn't know that, she wouldn't be doing this.
That's crazy.
Makes sense to her, doesn't it?
Does it?
Makes no sense to me.
All right, who else matters now?
I'm sorry. I-
I gotta see her.
Can I drop you somewhere?
I'm all packed.
Well, then I'll get on my traveling clothes
and we'll travel.
Pete, is she in there?
Johnny, what are you gonna do?
I'm gonna tell her that I know.
No, don't do it.
Would you mind getting out of the way.
Now, you always tell everybody: "Don't do me any favors. "
Maybe she feels the same way.
Well, if it isn't my friend the impresario.
What are you doing back here in the slums?
Making sure I don't skip out with the company towels?
No.
I, uh, thought you had gone.
I just wanted to air out the dressing room.
So long, Johnny.
So long, Hallie.
You coming, Pete?
Going someplace, Hallie?
Where are you off to this time?
Why, I'm going anywhere Pete wants to take me.
And what do you care?
Oh, I don't care.
As long as you don't come back.
Don't, Nora. No, I am sorry, Dad.
I am sick of this phony goddess routine.
You are so selfish, sadistic.
Everything you touch turns to dirt.
I am sick of the sight of you!
See you.
Nora, I...
I wanna talk to you.
You sure you'll be all right?
Sure.
Was that for me?
I think so.
Thank you.
A chance meeting.
A thousand ghosts are stirred.
And a fugitive wonders how long
before they'll be at rest.
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