No. Oh, please don't leave me.
Please, you don't know the harbor. Please.
Carla, I can't take you with me.
Oh, no, please.
You need me, you'll get caught.
Maybe I will, but they won't hurt you.
I want 'em to find you here, safe.
Kimble.
No, Papa, no.
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:
Brenda Scott,
Tim O'Connor,
Joe De Santis.
ANNOUNCER:
Hey, Tonino, what's the horn for?
Tuna's running. Just heard it on the radio.
Hey, tuna.
The tuna is running You hear that?
Tuna.
Little fishing villages that dot the coastline
are like the sea that sustains them:
capricious.
Sometimes cordial,
sometimes angry, dangerous.
Tonight, the village of Puerto Viejo
will be festive.
Handyman Jeff Parker rooms in the warehouse loft.
He's had a pleasant month here.
But he's made no commitments, for it's only a matter of time
till he has to move on.
Parker is a fugitive.
Where's the handkerchief?
Who got it?
Hey, you got it, Carla.
Choose, huh? Make a choice.
Get ready, Miguel.
Get back, everybody.
You got him good, Carla.
Dance, dance with her, Jeff. You get a kiss.
Hey.
Oh, I don't know how it goes.
I can show you.
All right, what do I do?
Put your fingers on my shoulders.
You learn quick.
Kiss him, Carla.
Kiss him.
Ey.
I'm happy to see my people having a fiesta all night long.
What makes you so happy tonight, huh?
The tuna is running again, Joe. I heard it on the radio.
Yeah, that's right. The tuna's running again.
Go home. Go to bed, you old fool.
I guess you're right.
How am I gonna take my boat chasing tuna,
5:00 tomorrow morning?
Myself?
With my whole crew asleep home in bed?
Five, six days, you're gonna be out there fishing.
You wanna stay up all night? Stay up catching fish.
You wanna celebrate? Okay.
But I'll tell you when.
Now, go home.
Go to bed before I break somebody's head.
Carla, you go to bed too. It's late.
No, Papa, it's not late.
Don't, Miguel.
Carla, I want to see you.
Stop bothering me.
No, I want to talk to you right now.
Leave me alone, Miguel.
You listen to what I have to say.
Why is it, for the first time,
you did not choose me at the dance tonight?
Have I changed? Is there something different about me?
I wait this whole night
for you to get the scarf so that you will choose me.
Why is it you don't?
Parker,
you like my daughter Carla pretty good, yeah?
She's a beautiful girl, Joe.
She's only just 15 years old.
No mama to watch out for her.
She does need a woman's advice.
You know, Parker,
I don't want to make trouble for you.
But, uh, I got the state prison in one direction,
the border that way, smugglers off the coast.
Now, that's the kind of guys come to Puerto Viejo
same like you.
Now, mostly I say to them
"Anda, move on. "
You, I trust. I put you to work.
Sure, sometimes I see you get nervous
when the sheriff patrol comes around,
but that's okay with me. I trust you.
But I'm not stupid.
Understand, Parker?
If you trust me, Joe, why do you bring it up?
You're a good man. You do your job.
But don't chase after my Carla.
Have you seen me chasing?
You smile at her, you talk to her,
you make it easy, she come to you.
Tonight, I see with my own eyes.
Huh? You gonna deny?
She asked me to dance, Joe.
You gonna blame it on the girl?
No blame, no denial.
Is that clear?
Now, Parker, don't chase after my Carla.
You come around one more time,
I'm gonna shove this down your throat.
Ever since he came you act like I am the stranger.
He is the stranger.
Me, you know all your life.
Miguel, go away and stop acting
like some silly little kid or something.
If you don't, I'll just scream.
Jeff?
I...
I wanted to, uh-
Well, to say how sorry I am
about the way everything happened out there
in-in front of everybody and everything.
I'm sorry we didn't get to finish our dance.
I didn't get a chance to thank you for asking me.
Gave me a chance to join in the fun.
And my father just bursting in like that-
Honestly, it's-it's ridiculous.
I think he has a big responsibility.
Oh, yes, I know.
But, I mean, you know, just because I always played
with Miguel when I was little, well,
that doesn't mean I have to choose him for everything.
You know, uh,
Miguel's always bothering me,
wanting to kiss me.
So ridiculous.
Well, he likes you a lot.
Still,
if a woman doesn't want a man to kiss her then he shouldn't try.
But if she does, then he should know it.
Well, I think Miguel will learn that.
Honestly, I don't see how you can go around
understanding everybody else so well.
Carla, I want to walk you home.
We'll have a talk.
See, I'm going to leave Puerto Viejo tonight.
Leave?
Look, Carla, I want you to-
What did my father say to you?
It has nothing to do with your father.
I'm leaving because of something that happened a long time ago.
Oh, it's only Pablo,
drunk again as usual.
Hey, Pablo, wake up.
Go home.
Usually, we just throw cold water on him.
Pablo. Wake up.
Is he sick?
Carla, uh,
go tell your father to meet me at Pablo's shack, hm?
Go on.
Parker?
What's going on?
Pablo's dead.
I think it's bubonic plague.
Hey, how come you was with Carla when you found him?
I thought I told you to stay away from Carla.
Joe, I'd be a hundred miles away from here by now
if it weren't for this.
Now, understand me. I think Pablo died of the plague.
What do you know about the Plague? You're no doctor.
Then call a doctor. Call the Public Health Department.
I gotta sail tomorrow morning.
What's the matter, tryin' to louse me up?
If I don't sail, I don't get no fish.
Joe,
half your town may be sick.
One case of this is an epidemic.
Okay, Parker. Okay.
Crazy drunken fool.
I told you once, I told you a hundred times.
Now, look, Parker,
if I call the Public Health they're gonna say one word:
Quarantine.
I gotta stay. You gotta stay.
You wanna stay, maybe the cops come.
They ask a lot of questions- Where everybody been?
Me, I know one thing, them tuna fish ain't gonna wait.
It's a lousy way to die, Joe.
Look, maybe somebody in town is gonna get it, maybe not.
If they quarantine, I lose, you lose.
Whatever you did, I don't care.
I like you, yeah?
You wanna get out of my town,
I help you pack your things.
You gotta report it, Joe.
All right, tomorrow morning,
after I sail, somebody reports.
Tonight, you got no choice.
You got a choice.
You get out of my town, that's your choice.
You go up to your room,
you pack up your things and you get out,
or I break you with my hands.
Operator, uh, give me the nearest office
of the Public Health Service, please.
All right,
better get your guys out of here right away.
Now, do everything you have to to keep this town sealed off.
There's only one road from the highway.
The roadblocks will be simple. That's good.
What are you people?
What are you trying to do here, huh?
Good morning. Good m-
We're from Public Health. We're quarantining your town.
Jeff Parker.
That scum. He called them, huh?
Oh, no, Papa, he didn't. No.
Yes, I did.
Parker, you dirty scum.
I told you get to get out of my town.
Now, look, I'm gonna sail my boat
or I'm gonna kill somebody.
Now, you get out of here, Parker, you get out-
Wait a minute. W-w-what are you getting mad at this man for?
He saved your town.
Now, look, you tell your men to get away from my boat.
I'm gonna sail for tuna.
Right through the Harbor Patrol and the Coast Guard and all?
Now, listen- Now, you listen to me.
Nobody leaves this town.
Not in any way or for any reason for the next seven days.
If you try it, I'll lock you up.
Now, look,
do me the favor, huh?
This been a very bad year.
Me and my people, we owe a lot of money.
Me, I could lose the boat.
Now, please, let me sail, will you?
Look, me and my men,
we could be on the boat a hundred miles away,
a week, 10 days-
Same thing like quarantine, no?
No.
Joe, this is Dr. Davis.
He examined Pablo.
It's bubonic plague, in spades.
You and I were in the shack.
If anyone gets it, we've got the best chance.
And Carla.
She shook him trying to wake him.
You, doctor,
you're not gonna let my daughter get sick like that.
I guess I'd better give you inoculations.
Can't you wait on that?
Okay.
Why don't you tell the rest of your fly-casters
that I'm gonna need all the help I can get.
Come on, in a week, if we're lucky,
it's all history.
Are you opposed to inoculations?
Oh, no, I-I just happen to know that, uh,
the vaccine for this is-
Well, it makes people sick.
Well, you do get around, don't you?
I worked in a hospital once.
Good, good. I'm gonna need a lot of help.
The first thing you do is get a couple of guys
to clean this room out.
We'll spray it,
and we'll use the storeroom as a dispensary
and a fumigation depot.
I'm gonna call for some supplies.
Now, you had better be careful.
Keep hangin' around him, there's going to be trouble.
Now, you read the instructions, use the insecticide.
Use plenty of it, all around the house.
Anyone has a sore throat, a fever, swollen glands,
get in touch with us, all right?
All right, that's fine.
If you know anybody else that hasn't been examined,
you send them down here right away.
There you are.
Read the instructions, use the insecticide
around the house, use plenty of it.
Anyone has a sore throat, swollen glands,
doesn't feel well, you get in touch with us, huh?
Tell the children to use the soap.
Hi.
Dr. Davis says rest is the most important thing.
I haven't seen you stop in three whole days.
Well, you ought to practice what you preach, young lady.
Papa says you're afraid of something. Are you?
Well, everybody's afraid of something.
But you didn't leave.
You stayed in Pablo's shack so that nobody could get in.
It turned out to be a wasted effort.
Nobody tried.
Still, if you should get it because of that it-
Well, then it would be like-like
you're really not afraid of anything.
Carla, men are not supposed to be afraid-
Oh, I know, I know.
But, you know, doctors, they're really not.
They're not afraid of anything.
Even if I should get it.
You're not afraid you have it, are you?
Oh, no.
No, but if I should,
I wouldn't be afraid,
because you'd be there, wouldn't you?
I would be there.
Here, drink your coffee.
Yes, ma'am.
No, Parker isn't here.
He said he was gonna spray the whole dock-front
and that's, uh- That's a big territory.
My daughter with him?
Yeah, yeah. His dinner was getting cold
so I sent her to find him.
So that's who you are?
Who'd you think I was?
I dunno. A man from Mars or something.
I took you some supper but Dr. Davis said
that you hadn't gotten back yet.
Well, he's usually right.
That's very heavy, isn't it?
It was a lot heavier a couple days ago.
I'm gettin' used to it now.
Hey. What?
Let's go for a boat ride.
All you do is slide it down the bank.
It's Tonino's. Tonino does it all the time by himself.
But not under quarantine.
Well, that's almost over.
Come on.
If you're afraid of what Papa might think-
What papa already thinks.
I'm old enough to know who I like.
My mother was married when she was my age.
Uh...
You know, I'm practically 16.
Oh, it's ridiculous.
Do you remember your mother?
Very well.
I don't very well.
But I remember when she died.
It was in-in this great big,
shiny, white hospital,
and it was way up high.
Oh, the highest I've ever been.
And I...
I-I just felt like I could look down
and just see everything.
And then Papa came in and picked me up
and carried me out,
and I looked at mama.
Oh...
I thought I was gonna be scared,
but I wasn't.
Because there was a doctor there.
He was standing right next to her.
Oh, I wonder what it's like
to work in a clean, white hospital.
Dr. Davis says that you did once.
What did you do?
It was just a temporary job.
Oh.
Must've been just wonderful though.
Yes, it was.
Hey, wouldn't it be wonderful
if-if I could be a nurse
and you could be a doctor
and we could go around to all the little dirty towns like-
Like Puerto Viejo and wherever people needed us
and-and I could wear a white dress and...
And you wouldn't even really have to
be in love with me or anything.
Well, you're right, Carla, to separate the make believe
from the "being in love" part.
Carla, you can't be happy pretending to be in love.
I'm not pretending.
Is that what you think?
In 36 hours, Dr. Davis is going to lift this quarantine.
I'll have to leave.
Yes, I think you're pretending. I think it's not very real
for you to be in love with somebody
who just drifted into town who's twice your age.
Big lecture.
Just because you're afraid I want you to kiss me.
No kiss,
I'm sorry.
Jeff, I didn't mean afraid.
Carla, your love and affection are very precious things.
They'll never mean more to you or to anyone
than they do right now.
Now, if you're going to offer them to someone,
offer them to someone who can share them with you.
Someone you know, someone you can trust.
I trusted you.
How do you know what your kiss might have meant to me?
You just don't go around experimenting with strangers.
Experimenting?
Carla, there are- Oh, let me go.
Carla. Leave me alone.
No, no, no, we looked there.
I don't know.
Uh, listen, thank you, thank you.
Goodbye.
Carla. Leave me alone.
Carla, what has he done to you?
Leave me alone.
It was Parker, wasn't it?
Oh, let me go, Miguel.
Your father's been looking all over this town for you.
So are you going to leave it all up to my father, Miguel?
All what?
I'm supposed to be your girl, Miguel.
Oh, yes, you're supposed to be, but you're always with him.
So why couldn't you be a man and stop him?
I didn't think anything
really was going to happen.
Well, it did.
Miguel...
Miguel, if you really liked me,
you'd go out and get him for this.
You'd fight for me.
You'd just go out there and get him.
I will, Carla, I will.
Joe.
Joe, it's Carla.
What?
Well, she's here.
You see, it happened.
Parker.
Sorry, mister, nobody's allowed to come through.
You in charge of the roadblock?
Me, I'm Joe Vardez.
Oh, sure, I've seen you.
I want to report on a guy we got in town.
He hurt my daughter.
Who is it?
He goes by the name of Jeff Parker,
but I dunno.
I think he's some kind of a crook
trying to hide from the cops.
Carla, take it, will you?
Carla.
Hello.
Yes, this is Joe Vardez.
Well, you may have lost your tuna, Mr. Vardez,
but you caught yourself a shark.
You turned out to be a pretty good detective.
You mean J-Jeff Parker?
Yeah.
Oh, you took his fingerprints, huh?
I thought he might make a habit of chasin' little girls,
so I, uh- I had him checked out at headquarters.
Found out who he really is.
Yeah, who?
Doctor what?
Yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
Jeff Parker.
He's a doctor.
A doctor?
Yeah, all the time, he's a doctor.
Kimble, Richard.
Wait. Wait, Carla.
Carla.
Five o'clock.
Six o'clock tomorrow morning, I've got to let them take you.
That's when the quarantine is over.
Thirteen hours and you've had it, doctor.
What is that "doctor," some kind of a needle?
You have a very Freudian personality.
I mean, you knew you were going to be caught here.
In the quarantine, yes.
Now, I would have been long gone.
I don't think you would, doctor.
If I knew I killed somebody?
Now, that's an interesting puzzle.
Hm.
Is he trying to atone for taking a life by saving others,
or is he proven innocent by innocent faith in outcome?
What kind of grades did you get in Abnormal Psych?
Jeff.
Carla, you stay away from him.
Let me go, Let me go.
What's going on here? Hold on, young lady.
Jeff, I'm sorry.
It's all my fault. I'm sorry.
That's all right, Carla.
I didn't know, I-I didn't know.
Now, you listen to me, Carla...
Vardez- You shut your face.
Now, listen to me.
Okay, mister, you tell my daughter.
He's a murderer,
he's dangerous, Carla.
He is not.
Papa, Papa, he never touched me.
He nev-?
But Miguel told me-
I lied to Miguel to get even.
Whether he did anything to you or not, Miss,
won't change anything.
He is a murderer.
I was convicted and sentenced.
Why didn't you tell me who you were?
Understand me,
he's been sentenced to die.
He's a doctor.
Oh, please.
Please, don't you see?
He never touched me.
He was good to me.
He was kind to me.
Please don't let them do this to him.
Please help him.
Carla, nothing can happen to him
while he's under the quarantine,
but after 6:00 in the morning,
I have no more authority over him or anyone else.
Please. Please help him.
Look, Carla, there's nothing he can do.
But he's a doctor.
You're a doctor.
You're both doctors.
Carla,
I try to think about you, you know?
No, Papa, you were scared to face him yourself.
Me, scared? I could kill that man with my two hands.
That's why I go for the cops. I don't wanna kill nobody.
You did, Papa. You did.
No, Carla, I just-
Miguel ran to you, you ran to the cops.
It's the same thing, scared.
What's the matter, you talk to your father like that?
You sick or something?
Carla...
You take her temperature?
I don't got no thermometer, but, uh, to me,
her face feels hot like a stove.
All right, young lady,
let's take a look at that throat of yours, hm?
Leave me alone.
The throat. Open up. Leave me alone.
Come on, now, stop that.
Open up. come on.
Stop yelling and crying for about an hour,
and you might get well in a hurry.
You know how to use a thermometer?
I'll leave this one with you.
It might be just emotional upset.
Under the tongue.
You take her temperature at 7, 7:30 and 8.
And you, young lady, you get into that bed
and you stay there until I tell you to get up.
Hello, Davis.
I took her temperature again, it's higher up.
My daughter's scared, doc, and maybe me too.
Papa.
Papa, tell him, please.
She want that Parker, that Dr. Kimble to come.
I don't care, she want him, you bring him.
You want, you can bring the cop too.
Okay.
How is she?
It's hard to tell.
She wants you to come.
Hey, wait a minute.
He's a prisoner.
He's a doctor.
He's got no license.
He's got an educated opinion.
He stays here.
Now, look, if she's got it,
we're all gonna be here seven more days,
and I can't do it all.
He comes with me.
All right, get on your feet.
A hundred and one and a half.
I'll have some tests flown up to the lab.
They ought to let us know by noon tomorrow.
Will Dr. Kimble be here then?
Yes, he will.
Until 6 in the morning, then he goes with me.
Negative, everybody stays until those lab reports come back.
You're going to extend the quarantine?
I have to. Excuse me.
Will you have to examine me again?
At 12:00 and 5:00 in the morning
Dr. Davis will be here.
I don't want Dr. Davis.
I want you.
Look, Carla, I'll come if they let me.
You get some sleep.
Don't worry, everything will be fine.
Come on, doctor, it's time to get up.
Time to hit the good old deck.
What time is it? It's 5 a. m.,
so be about.
Cheer up. It's time to do good in the world.
Unlock him, take him down to see his patient.
He'd say she had it even if she hasn't.
Keep him out of the death house seven more days.
That's ridiculous.
The lab report will be here by noon.
If she hasn't got it, we'll know.
Come on, you.
Now turn this way a little.
Say, could you hold that lamp up, please?
All right, you can turn the lamp off.
Carla.
Operator,
get me the sheriff's office.
Carla, go on back. I know which way to go.
I want you to say you were kidnapped.
Later, I will.
Look, there are no big, white hospitals in my life.
That's what I was trying to tell you when we found Pablo.
There's nothing to share with anyone.
No.
No, you have to hurt me to make me leave you now.
Come on.
Look in every building.
Remember, he's got the cop's gun.
And he's got my daughter too.
Miguel, Tonino, you go that way.
You, you come with me.
It's locked with a chain.
The gasoline. We'll come back for it.
Get the doors.
Miguel, what'd you find?
Nothing.
How about the beach?
The garage where you store your boat.
No, Vardez went down there to look.
Let's try the sand dunes.
No. Oh, please don't leave me.
Please, you don't know the harbor. Please.
Carla, I can't take you with me.
Oh, no, please.
You need me, you'll get caught.
Maybe I will, but they won't hurt you.
I want 'em to find you here, safe.
Kimble.
No, Papa, no.
You got the key?
Unlock that handcuff, quick.
You ain't got much time.
Joe,
if you think I ever hurt your daughter, then shoot me.
Papa, please.
Papa, he didn't do anything. Let him go.
Please.
Kimble...
take my daughter and get out of here.
I see you come in here,
I point my gun straight at you,
I'm gonna kill you,
but I can't shoot.
I gotta make up my mind, you good or you bad.
If you bad, I'm gonna kill you.
But I can't shoot.
Go on, Take her out of here.
You don't want to run like this, Carla.
Away from Puerto Viejo?
Yeah.
Give her a chance someplace in the world.
She fight for you, she lie for you.
Just like her mama did for me.
She love you that much.
Take that chance.
She don't belong to me no more.
Papa?
You gonna be happy with him.
Go on.
Your mama die in this town.
Carla, I...
I couldn't have come this far without you.
I have to go on alone.
This is your home.
I...
I want my kiss.
Well, I, uh-
I guess I made, uh, a big problem
out of that before, didn't I?
We grownups sometimes get things a little mixed up.
Well, kids too.
I-I hope you can be a doctor again somewhere.
Oh, Papa, I love you.
Ah, ah.
All right.
You take aspirin and you stay in bed for the rest of the day.
You've got a dilly of a cold coming on.
Which must be what was wrong with you last night.
Complicated, of course, by being hauled out
in the cold by this Kimble person.
Yeah, she didn't even have no coat.
Can you imagine?
Forcing her to go with him like that.
Yeah. That's awful.
Also, he left town at 5:30 a. m. this morning
and the quarantine wasn't up until 6.
He broke the law.
How's the girl?
Well, she's suffering from exposure
so go easy on her.
Is-is there any news?
Found the motorboat, empty.
Everyone makes a joke about the fish that got away.
But not this time, huh?
Not this time.
Somewhere far ahead in the distance and time
lies a harbor of many names:
safety, love,
security, peace.
Meantime, the only haven for Richard Kimble
is the freedom to move,
and remain a fugitive.