Can I talk to him?
Yeah, you can bid him farewell.
I, uh-
I think Tully believes this is fair.
They're going to lynch me.
That's murder.
Well, in our world, yes, but this isn't our world.
What happened, Gerard?
I went out to my car.
I found the girl,
and I saw a man.
But you can't prove it.
There's nothing I can prove.
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 costars in tonight's story:
R.G. Armstrong.
Bruce Dern.
Sharon Farrell.
Also starring Barry Morse as Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
ANNOUNCER:
A man on the run,
convicted on circumstantial evidence
of a murder he did not commit.
Calling himself Paul Hunter.
Driving relief for Inter-South Freight.
This is his first trip.
It is to be his last.
He's only a few miles away from a grim encounter
with truth and irony.
Excuse me. Sure.
My name is Gerard. Huh?
Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
What's up?
I have information a man I'm looking for
was recently employed here.
I have his picture.
No, I had all my own local gang here.
I know all my men.
Wait a minute. I believe that's, uh,
what's his name? Hunter.
But the hair would be darker.
Sure it is. Hunter.
Interstate sent him down to me to drive relief.
I put him on a run to Waterton yesterday afternoon.
Waterton? Where's that?
Well, it's a might good piece to drive.
You really wouldn't have to.
'Cause he's coming back.
Coming back? When?
Well, hm, hang on.
I had a load to pick up
and they probably put it on last night
so that means they ought to be due in here at, uh, 2:00.
What route would they use?
Oh. Right here.
They'll come by, uh, State Highway.
Where would they be say an hour from now?
Well, you ought to be able to catch 'em right here,
just outside of Moss Junction.
All right. Thank you.
How do I reach the sheriff?
Oh, sure.
Irma?
Uh, dial Sheriff Claypool.
Get him on the line.
I'll be doggone. Heh.
Hello, sheriff, this is Lieutenant Gerard speaking.
You Gerard? I'm Claypool.
Thank you for coming, sheriff.
There ain't no Inter-South rig come by here since sunup.
What's wrong?
Inter-South hired a man about four days ago
who fits the description of Richard Kimble, the man I want.
They sent him on a run to Waterton and back.
The truck should pass here within the next half hour.
We'll stop him.
Yeah, but let's get this barricade out of sight.
I don't want to give him any warning.
What's wrong with you?
I- I don't care what kind of trouble you in with the sheriff,
man, you can't outrun him in this rig.
You gonna stack us up!
There's- There's only me.
I don't want no trouble.
You had a helper. Where is he?
Well, h-he done get off on me there back yonder.
H-He was a man possessed.
He was a man possessed! Let's go.
No- There.
That side road. You passed it.
That's moonshine country, all that side of the highway.
I don't care about that.
We do. We leave them people be.
What, bootleggers? Lawbreakers?
If we go in back yonder, they set fire to the woods.
Time we put out the fire, replant the trees,
it's cheaper and it's safer to lose the tax on whiskey.
All right. Whiskey's not my problem.
All I want is Kimble. Now, please turn back.
Lieutenant. Them people hate a stranger.
They hate a lawman.
They hate a man in a store-bought suit.
You're all three.
You ain't even sure it was Kimble went in back there.
No sense gettin' your head blowed off just to find out.
Just be still, boy, and turn back around.
That's right.
Turn all the way around.
Lieutenant, come on home with me. Meet my missus-
Sheriff, I don't know how to make you understand this,
but I'm not gonna let Kimble escape this way.
Escape? Look, lieutenant, you can forget about him.
Tryin' to escape in that country
is the same thing as committing suicide.
Now, I wouldn't be going in there after nobody.
Sounds like Cody.
Look at what ol' Cody drug in.
Looks almost like a human, don't it, Tully?
What do you reckon that it is?
What you aimin' to do with it, Cody?
Kill him, Cody.
Now, somebody get me a gun.
Cody, look at your arm.
You're bleedin', Cody.
Look at how it's spurtin' out.
Cody, you go best wrap up that arm.
He cut an artery.
He could bleed to death.
Well, am I gonna bleed to death?
Shut up, Cody.
What do you know about it?
Enough.
Can you fix it up?
Yeah, I could.
Well, then, get on with it.
Lookie there. He stopped it from spurtin'.
Get me some soap and water.
You can fetch it yourself.
Roy!
I'll need a needle and some white thread
and a white cloth
and some alcohol.
Whiskey will do.
Elvie, he doctored Cody up real good
and I take to that kindly.
You go easy, you hear?
Mm.
Easy as pie, Pa. Ha-ha.
Now, I'd like my money back.
You got a right smart of hardness in you, don't you, doc?
Fix you some eats, if you like.
Thank you.
Back yonder.
Hey, girl.
Just don't get excited.
Why don't you sit down? I'll fix you something to eat.
Here.
Go on, take it.
Tell the others I'm broke.
Fix me something to eat I can take with me.
Okay.
Hey, Tull, Georgie says there's an automobile
comin' up the trace. Yeah. Get back out there.
Where do you think you're going?
Gotta keep moving, Tully.
Now, hold on there. I don't know who you are yet.
I don't allow strangers to come and go around here
as they please. Pa, he's okay.
He gave me his money.
I'm in trouble, Tully.
Keep me here, it'll be bad for you.
Somebody chasin' after you?
That's right.
You stay right there. You'll be safe.
You can watch how we get shed of somebody
we don't really want around here.
Look at him.
Look at that automobile.
Elvie, now take it easy.
Hey, mister.
You lookin' for somebody?
I don't suppose you have a constable here?
Uh, police?
It's my pa tells folks what to do.
Uh-huh. Come on.
Hey, Pa, I want you to shake hands with a friend of mine.
My name is Gerard. I'm looking for a man
who might've come through here about an hour ago.
We don't keep strangers here, mister.
Well, uh, look, uh,
I have nothing against any of you but-
Hey, lookie, Tully, he brung us a toy.
All right, the man I'm after is a convicted murderer.
I told you, mister, there ain't nobody here you want.
I gotta tell you again?
I want my car brought back.
What car?
Oh!
Come on!
Elvie.
Shh!
What you got there?
Shh!
Three hundred and forty dollars!
Hey! Let me have that, Cody!
Give me my money back!
Come on, now. Ow! Aah!
Ow!
Elvie,
I won you fair that time, huh?
Elvie?
Elvie.
Come on, Elvie, now, don't be playin' like that.
Ol' Tully will kill me.
Elvie.
Elvie! Now don't play like that 'cause Tully's gonna kill me!
Wait a minute. The girl's hurt.
I can see that much.
Elvie?
That's one way to get your car back.
What are you talking about?
I found her like this.
Now, you reckon she done this to herself?
What happened here?
Elvie.
Who done this?
I never touched the girl.
I found her like this.
There was a man here.
I saw him running away.
What man?
A man in-
A man in overalls and a...
...baseball cap.
Hey, Tull, maybe that doc could fix Elvie up.
Elvie.
Doc!
Doc run out on us, Tully. Run out!
Get Roy and some of the boys and fetch him back here.
Hey, Tull! Doc's here!
What's it about?
I know why you're runnin' away, doc, but-
What you don't know is Elvie's hurt real bad.
She's beat up.
Kimble,
will you tell them who I am?
Why don't you tell him what you done to her?
Where is she?
In her bed.
Kimble.
I didn't do it.
Call an ambulance, Tully,
she's got a concussion.
Ain't got no way to call.
Well, then send somebody.
Gerard's car. Take her in that.
I don't see what for.
You done fixed her up same as you done ol' Cody.
This is different.
I have no way of telling how bad it really is.
Sorry, Tully, he kicked me.
Ah, that loony up ahead?
Kyle, take your cousin and some of the neighbors
and go out and fetch him back here.
Elvie.
What happened?
Ah, he got away.
He won't get far.
Gerard?
Yeah.
Elvie.
I know you won't tell on me now.
I'm gonna give you his wallet back
and I'm leaving all the money in it.
Please don't tell on me now.
Will Elvie be all right, doc?
Well, she can come to in five minutes
or she may never come to without the proper help.
If Gerard- You get back in there
and see that she gets the proper help!
You're gonna need me on your side.
Don't you get me mad.
Doc.
I never meant to holler at you that way.
I need for you to be good to Elvie.
I ain't got nothing else decent
in this whole world.
I can't send her to no hospital 'cause, you see,
outside of here the police want us. Everyone.
They'd take her too.
I can't have that.
Well, then, call this off, Tully.
Gerard is the police. He's trouble for both of us.
Can't.
Now, if it wasn't for her...
I can't let nobody beat up on my girl and get away with it.
Well, then call a doctor, Tully. A real doctor. Let me go.
Doc, I know he says you done a killin'.
Ain't nothin' worse than a senseless killin'.
I believe that.
And I see'd you had a chance
and a point-blank reason to shoot Cody dead
and you throwed away the gun.
You just take care of Elvie, and...
...I'll take care of this here Gerard.
Now, wait a minute.
You all know that I been sweet on Elvie Gage for a long time.
So I get first licks at this man.
And I say he needs floggin'.
Mister, you ain't never seen a man flogged
until you see him get it with the wet end of a rope.
Hold on, Cody.
Elvie's my young'un.
Whatever is done to him, I'll do it.
I didn't touch your daughter.
I went after my car- Shut up!
Take him into the saloon.
Bring him on here.
Put him in this chair. Cody?
Take your rope and tie him up good and tight.
You better do better than Roy and Kyle did out yonder.
Now, listen. I'm an officer of the law.
I came here on official business.
Other officers know where I am.
If I can't stop you,
just remember I can't do anything to help you either
when they find out what you've done.
You talking a swap of some kind, are you, boy?
No, I came here to arrest him.
All I can do is to ask you to let me safely out of here
with my prisoner, and warn you that if you don't-
Hold on a minute. Now, you say "prisoner. "
You ain't got no prisoner.
That man was convicted in a court of law.
I been lawed up to court once or twice myself,
and I know how that is.
Fifty dollars or fifty days.
Our system of justice may not be perfect,
but it does give every man a fair chance to defend himself.
How about that, doc?
You get a fair chance in court?
Yes.
You mean he's speaking true?
You're a killer?
No. I couldn't prove my innocence.
But they let me try.
You've been to court, Tully.
At least you know they hear both sides.
Come on, Tully, he done got away one time already.
Tully.
You've got him tied down.
Send for the sheriff.
Accuse him in court.
Any man deserves that.
My wife was killed. She couldn't testify.
Elvie's still alive.
Well, wait until she can talk.
If she said he did it, then-
Ain't no tellin' what Elvie's gonna say, Tully.
She's liable to be out of her head for a week.
All right.
Don't hold with nothin' senseless.
We'll wait an hour, doc, then- You boys, y'all get.
Pa.
Pa! Elvie!
What's the matter with her, doc?
Anybody who'd do this to her has got justice a-comin'.
And he's about to get it.
Cody, I'm gonna need me a jury of peers.
Go out and see to it.
This here is now pronounced a court of law,
and I'm about to try a man for beatin' up Elvie!
You have no authority to try anybody.
You wait and see if I ain't.
Guilty or not guilty?
I did not harm that girl.
State your name. Now, y'all listen to this.
State your name.
I'm not gonna play this- Say your name!
Cody, I'm a-runnin' this.
My name is Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
I'm an officer of the law.
How do I know you're an officer of the law?
You ain't carrying no badge, no papers.
They're in my pocketbook.
What pocketbook?
It was in my coat. Dr. Kimble knows who I am.
He's guilty of being a police. Ain't that enough?
Kyle, you can witness first. Tell what you seen out yonder.
Elvie run off with his car.
He caught up to her and beat her up for it, is all.
Can you say that you saw me beat her up?
We seen you stoopin' over her.
That is circumstantial evidence!
It proves nothing!
Didn't you people ever hear of reasonable doubt?
Ain't no doubt about what shape my little Elvie's in.
I told you that I found her unconscious,
and I saw a man running away.
What man?
Why don't you try and find out?!
He could be running scot free
while you're wasting your time with this mockery!
Come on, Tully, let me testify.
I was out there and I saw what happened.
Soon as I'm finished with Kyle.
Elvie?
What's goin' on?
Do you know me?
Sure I do.
Here, drink this.
Elvie, you have what's called a concussion.
Well, I got a headache, I know that much.
Well, if you rest a while and it'll go away.
Elvie, I know somebody beat you up,
but they're out there now accusing the wrong man.
Now, he's no friend of mine, but I know he didn't do this.
And I think his life depends upon your going out there
and telling them what really happened.
Will you try?
Mm-hm.
All right, Kyle, that's all.
Cody, you tell what you seen.
Well, he was-
Look, why don't you just shoot me
and set the woods on fire?
I know very well what you feel,
what you think you're trying to do.
Men felt like that and behaved like that 5,000 years ago.
Well, thank heavens some of us have grown up a little,
learned just a little.
There is not one beast in the jungle that kills
just for the sake of killing.
But if you think that's what you have to do,
then stop trying to dignify it and let's get it over!
Now, if that ain't a confession, Tully, I don't know what is.
The principal witness has something to say.
Now, Elvie, Cody and Roy and Kyle,
they said it was this feller here beat up on you.
Now he claims it was somebody else.
Now, I want you to point your finger
at the one who really done it.
I don't care who it was.
Him.
That foreigner done it.
Kyle, I'm gonna leave you and Roy to guard him.
He gets away again, it's gonna be somebody's hide.
I got his gun, Tull.
He wiggles, I'll wang him with it.
Can I talk to him?
Yeah, you can bid him farewell.
I, uh-
I think Tully believes this is fair.
They're going to lynch me.
That's murder.
Well, in our world, yes, but this isn't our world.
What happened, Gerard?
I went out to my car.
I found the girl,
and I saw a man.
But you can't prove it.
Well, is there anything else? I-
I think I can still make Tully, uh,
listen.
There's nothing else.
There's...
...nothing I can prove.
And the girl says you're to blame.
Pretty convincing.
Elvie.
Uh, tell me,
how did he happen to beat you up?
Well, I just taking his puny old automobile to-
To fool around some and-
And he come and he drugged me out and he whacked me.
And that's all I can remember
with this headache and everything.
Elvie, I don't believe you.
Are you calling me a liar?
Elvie, that man has chased me.
Now, I know you think all policemen are your enemies,
but he is all policemen to me and he is my enemy.
Now, if he takes me away, they'll put me to death.
Now, can you think of any enemy that's worse?
Yeah, maybe not.
Elvie, I know he's not the kind of man that beats up on girls.
Well, he did on me.
Hey, now, wait a minute! That's mine!
Here, you picked my pocket and I caught you.
When did you pick his?
I never did.
I found that right here under my pillow and that's the truth.
Mm-hm.
Well, why wasn't it there when I first came in?
Oh, all right.
I found it in his coat when I taken his automobile.
Well, was that before he beat you up?
Well, of course!
Go fetch him.
Elvie...
You know, Gerard would give you this $300
if you go out there and tell the truth.
Three hundred and forty dollars.
No, there's $300, Elvie.
Or maybe it was $340.
Are you going to sell a man's life for that?
And Elvie, if it was $340,
then where's the rest of it?
Don't tell me that one of your own folks
would cheat you
after you lied for them.
Shut up.
Just shut up and get out of here!
Get!
Your daughter had his wallet.
Let's get on with it, Tully, that don't prove nothing.
Brings up an interesting question.
If Elvie stole the wallet, and he knocked her out,
why didn't he take it back?
Come on, let's get on with it, Tully.
Know what he says don't make no sense.
Reckon they right, doc.
Billfold don't prove nothing.
Pa?
Pa!
Now you stay inside. You ain't well enough to be out here.
I don't want to.
All right, let's get on with it.
You gonna give me what you owe me, Cody?
What?
It was mine first. What was yours first?
It never was yours at all.
Be quiet, Elvie.
Pa, he owes me $40.
She don't mean nothin' by that, Tully.
You stole that wallet off of me and when you brung it back,
you held out $40!
You ain't even feelin' good, now.
She's just lyin'. You know that.
Give me my money back!
Look, now, Tully, she's lied all her life,
you ain't gonna start believin' her now.
Get off me, you.
Come on, now. Let me go! He a liar.
See that, Pa? Tully, that don't mean nothin'.
You know I got them things when I fell in the bottles.
Not them cuts, Cody. I put 'em there!
I put 'em there, Pa!
Oh, my Pa's gonna get you, Cody!
Go fetch Cody back.
Now, I want you out of here.
Get.
Ma?
You go along with her.
You take her to the hospital.
Hospital, hear?
You let the sheriff get to her first.
I'll set the woods on fire.
You can't keep the law out of here forever.
If you're still protecting him when I-
You try comin' back to get him.
See what happens.
He'll keep trying, Tully.
As long as there's a chance, he'll keep trying.
Kimble.
You're going to go on running?
There's a man I have to find.
Still the same fairy-tale.
So nothing changes?
And nothing changes the truth.
The truth is still that you're guilty before the law.
What's the matter, Phil?
Nothing, captain, why?
Because I've already heard from three of your men
about getting chewed out this morning.
You haven't been here three hours yet.
That's hurting your average.
I'm sorry.
Phil, what happened?
I found Richard Kimble. I tried to take him into custody
and I narrowly missed.
It's all in my report.
I read your report.
The facts are there, but- But what, sir?
Facts are bread and butter to an officer of the law.
Aren't the facts enough?
Enough for me and the department.
I hope they satisfy you.
Oh, captain. Yes, lieutenant.
Uh,
would you endorse a requisition for me?
Uh, I'll be needing a new pistol.
Yes, lieutenant.
Thank you.
It is a never-ending pattern.
Buy a ticket, catch a bus.
East or north, south or west.
Destination: any town.
This time maybe he'll be there.
A man with one arm.
And for Richard Kimble the never-ending pattern
will be ended.