"( siren wailing )" "( dramatic theme playing )" "( siren stops wailing )" "Mort, why the lights and the siren?" "You'll wake up the whole town." "You mean you never checked on this guy?" "George, where is he now?" "I don't know." "So I went up to his room but he was gone." "He must have suspected something." "Which way do you think he's headed?" "For the river, I guess." "Jack, check out his room." "See what you find." "Schroeder, check the banquet room and the alley exit." "( sighs )" "We'll pick him up." "Believe me, it could have been a lot worse." "( door shuts )" "NARRATOR:" "( dramatic theme playing )" "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." "ANNOUNCER:" "The guest stars in tonight's story:" "Richard Anderson," "Edward Asner," "Fay Spain." "ANNOUNCER:" "( dramatic theme playing )" "NARRATOR:" "He used to be a doctor of medicine." "He's a chauffeur now." "Driving his employer home to the small Midwestern town where he was born." "Home." "For the man at the wheel, it is only a word, because there is no home for him." "Not now." "Because he's Richard Kimble." "A fugitive." "Jack, we're practically in Ardmore now." "I'd like to tell the committee you're in." "Jack, listen to me." "You'll thank me some day." "This is going to be the hottest industrial complex in the state." "Yes, okay, tomorrow morning, no later." "Call me at the hotel." "What a guy has to do for business." "( dramatic theme playing )" "Not in Ardmore, for crying out loud." "Pull in over there." "That's a hotel no matter what you think." "( door shuts )" "Nothing's changed." "( door shuts )" "Hey!" "Hiya, Mort." "George." "( both laughing )" "You old son of a gun, what's the idea, sneaking in early like this?" "What am I going to tell the welcoming committee?" "They're inside right now." "Tell them I goofed." "Mort Graham." "Our chief of police." "Tom Nash." "A friend of mine." "Drove up with me." "I drove up for him." "Glad to have you." "Anything I can do for you." "I'll just check in, get rid of these bags, huh?" "Tom, do me a favor, will you?" "Call my aunt and tell her we'll be out in about half an hour." "Yeah, sure." "George, I can't tell you what it means to the town." "What you're doing for us." "Now, don't get sticky, will ya?" "It'll be bad enough at the parade tomorrow." "Relax and enjoy it." "You've earned it, George." "As a matter of fact, we're having a little party for you tonight." "Good." "( rings )" "Oh, uh, can I help you?" "I think you have a reservation for" "( buzzing ) Oh, excuse me." "Is there a phone I can use?" "Oh, uh, yes, sir." "Right over there." "Ah." "Hello?" "Oh, no, no, no." "Mr. Forster hasn't checked in yet." "Can you give me a number?" "Yes." "That phone right there." "However, we're expecting him later today." "Yes, I can put a message in his box." "MAN ( on phone ):" "Okay, just say, "Forster, start sweating." "This time tomorrow you'll be dead."" "( hangs up )" "( clangs )" "You see, you're just out of practice." "No, Mort, out of shape." "( chuckles )" "Go on in and face them." "I'll see you later." "Right." "This I know." "I know the lines were crossed." "I heard what he said." "I guess I must have had the other house phone plugged in on yours." "I don't care how it happened." "Just who." "Oh, hello, Mr. Forster." "Hello, what's up, Tom?" "I tried to call your aunt." "Somebody got on the line." "He left a message for you." "For me?" "He said he wanted to kill you." "Eight hours driving and some people hear bells..." "Wait a minute, ask him." "He took the call." "Oh, just some kind of a joke, you know." "Sure." "You said the other house phone." "Where is it?" "In the TV lounge right in through there." "( banging )" "Good, that's good, Pete." "Now, we got to get everything in place." "Hey, that looks real fine." "We'll put that across the speaker's platform." "Mm-hm." "Who are they?" "The chamber of commerce." "You want to join?" "Now, we got to get the table and chairs and put them up in the middle-- Roy, Roy." "He's here." "Georgie." "Hey!" "Georgie." "Georgie, boy." "Hello." "How are you?" "Come on." "Good, good to see you." "Yeah." "You haven't changed a bit." "Listen to this." "I didn't mean to break up a meeting." "It's practically over anyway." "GEORGE:" "Arvin." "Still have that old soda fountain in the drug store?" "ARVIN:" "Why, you want your old job back?" "GEORGE:" "You never can tell." "ROY:" "I might." "( all laugh )" "Ben." "How are you, fella?" "Oh, about the same, I guess." "Don't have to ask about you." "Hey, let's get a car and tear up the town like old times." "We'll get a couple of belts." "At least a cup of coffee." "I'd like to but I have to see my aunt, you know." "It will just take a few minutes." "Anyway we'll-- We'll see you tonight." "I'll be the first one there." "Good." "Gotta get this all finished up." "Say, Tom, on second thought, I'll call my aunt myself." "Roy, do you think you can scare up a decent room for my friend Tom Nash here?" "Any friend of Georgie's gets the presidential suite." "Come on." "( suspenseful theme playing )" "Great bunch of guys." "Which way to your aunt's?" "Down to the corner and turn left." "( engine starts )" "Hey." "( dramatic theme playing )" "Ben's place looks run down." "( thuds )" "Same old movie house, beanery." "Same old town." "You're looking for someone?" "Maybe." "A kid who, uh, used to live here?" "Georgie Forster?" "Don't spend too much time looking for him." "Not after that phone call." "Look, this is my town." "These are my people." "Outside from my aunt, it's all I've got." "I was only saying." "You said it." "I heard it." "Now, let's forget it." "There's the drugstore." "Is that where you used to work?" "Yeah." "( dramatic theme playing )" "Your stomach's acting up." "He must be back." "How does he look?" "Well fed." "Rich." "That's too bad." "I mean, it's too bad that he didn't come back looking for a hand out." "I don't know what you mean." "Well, at least then you could have said, "I told you so."" "He didn't have a penny and you were barely 18." "What sort of father would I have been to let you go with him?" "It's a shame that we never really had a chance to find out." "Where are you going?" "I'm a lot more than barely 18 now, Daddy." "I'm going to get a drink." "It's so wonderful to see you again." "So wonderful." "I'll be coming back often now." "When we start building our first factory." "( chuckles )" "Now, I have some business with Mrs. Hurtig." "I don't like to be alone." "You won't be." "I'll leave my friend with you." "She'll want to hold your face." "Come on the other side, please." "Your nephew told me all about you." "That's a good face." "Did you meet Nora?" "No, ma'am." "It seemed so right." "The two of them." "Take him away." "Ma'am?" "Take him away before this town breaks his heart." "( dramatic theme playing )" "( dramatic theme playing )" "I'll get the keys." "Right." "ROY:" "Georgie." "Yeah." "Four yards to a first down." "Forty-three." "Sixty-two." "Eighty-seven." "Hut!" "Ah!" "Ha." "( grunts )" "You all right?" "( exhales heavily )" "( chuckles )" "Was" " Was a time I could move to the left." "( dramatic theme playing )" "You're a real pro, Roy." "Almost, but not quite." "Right, Georgie?" "Tom, go get that basket of fruit and run it out to my aunt's." "Yeah, sure." "And don't forget that seating list." "Don't bother with those." "Kobey." "( chuckles )" "Room number seven, Georgie." "Lucky number for a lucky guy." "Thanks, Roy, I'll get these." "Ah, yeah." "This way, Mr. Forster." "Thank you." "Are you a friend of his?" "Like that." "You know why anyone in this town would want to kill him?" "Georgie?" "Kill Georgie?" "You flipped or something?" "Boy, you better get off that stuff." "He's like saving this town from the walking dead." "Who'd want to spoil that?" "I don't know." "You talk to the chief?" "No, he wouldn't let me." "Probably some old crank who caught him stealing peaches 30 years ago." "I gotta check on the party set up." "( dramatic theme playing )" "Operator." "Give me the police." "Eh." "Well, here you are, Mr. Forster." "Oh, you don't have to do that." "If I had to, I wouldn't." "Thank you very, very much." "Well, thanks a lot." "( door shuts )" "( dramatic theme playing )" "I, uh" "Drove by the store." "I looked for you." "I was there." "I've always been there." "Is this the new industrial city you're going to build for us?" "Yes." "Let's talk about us." "( chuckles )" "You know something?" "I needed a drink to get myself up here." "To see me?" "Yeah, you're an important man, George, but then you always said you'd make something of yourself." "You said things too, Nora." "We both said a lot of things." "Here comes the cavalry." "Ardmore is saved." "Very funny." "It's true, though." "But they're not worth it." "Nora..." "You age very well, George." "I've kept active." "What about you?" "Well, you know what Ardmore is like." "What the devil is it?" "My aftershave lotion?" "What?" "Well, I move here, you move there, like magnets that don't match." "You still get angry when you don't get your own way, don't you." "Well, hooray, at least you remember something." "Please." "Nora, there's no place to run." "The world is too small." "( dramatic theme playing )" "You remember that too." "( sobbing )" "Hey, there's nothing to cry about." "It's been so long, George, and you don't know me anymore." "Well, we'll have to do something about that." "Yes." "I guess we will." "( knocking on door )" "Easy, easy." "We're not a couple kids anymore." "( knocking )" "MORT:" "Hey, George, open up in the name of the law." "I'll get rid of him." "Now, you wait, you hear?" "Oh, hello, Mort, come on in." "Thanks, George." "Need a witness on that parking meter case?" "No, no, we've got him cold, but you're another problem, George." "Nothing in the world like feeling wanted." "I mean security." "You're a big, important man now." "Make things easy for me." "Let me detail some men." "Who you been talking to?" "Oh, some kook." "Called me just a minute ago." "Wouldn't give his name." "Said if you ride in the parade, you're dead." "Two men?" "No men." "Would you carry a gun?" "My coat wouldn't hang right." "One man?" "Mort, I mean it." "I'll walk, I'll kick the whole thing." "I didn't come back here to be surrounded like a king." "Or a gangster." "What then?" "I've been hunting for the right spot for two years." "If it came up Ardmore, and the project does you some good, swell." "I'll even buy the speeches and the parade." "But if you start listening to every joker that calls" "I had to go through the motions." "See you tonight?" "You bet." "I'm glad you came over, Mort." "I'll see you, George." "Nora?" "Nora?" "( dramatic theme playing )" "( hammer banging )" "Excuse me." "Would you see that a section's roped off for Mr. Forster's friends?" "You bet." "Thank you." "For the hanging?" "What?" "Or an auction, maybe." "It's supposed to be a tribute." "You're with George, aren't you?" "I work for him." "No." "Nobody works for George." "You're either with him or he fires you, right?" "You're Nora, aren't you?" "His aunt mentioned you." "I go out and talk to her sometimes." "I'm going out there now." "Can I give you a ride?" "( car honks )" "Hey, Nora." "Guess what?" "You've got a bottle in the car?" "So?" "Let's go." "Not now, Charlie." "I'm busy." "CHARLIE:" "All of a sudden you're busy." "The minute the big guy waltzes into town you forget your old drinking buddies, don't you?" "Charlie, please." "Wait a minute." "I don't think the lady wants to go with you." "If I'm paying for the booze, she wants to go, buddy, now you stay outta this." "It doesn't look like it, does it?" "You're right." "I guess there's no sense in fighting over a dame that's skipped out." "( car starts )" "( dramatic theme playing )" "( engine starts )" "You went to see him, didn't you?" "Am I still too good for him, Daddy?" "All I know is he walked out on you and ever since then you've been running to the nearest bottle." "It wasn't that he left, it was that I stayed." "The fact is he did leave and if you don't care about yourself, I do." "Do you care about this, Daddy?" "What does that--?" "That's what happens to things that you care about." "( suspenseful theme playing )" "( motor rumbling )" "( tires squealing )" "( tires squealing )" "( suspenseful theme playing )" "Yeah, but that, what do you call it, that" "A pitman arm." "Yeah, it could have dropped off." "Well, I think somebody loosened it." "That's kind of serious talk." "I checked that car before we left." "You got this notion somebody's after George." "It's not a notion." "Not to you." "I just think he needs protection, that's all." "I tried, but he wouldn't buy." "Ever use a gun?" "In the service." "Good." "You're always close to George." "You're his protection." "Just keep your eyes open." "Schroeder." "Better get some prints on old Tom Nash, here." "Prints?" "That isn't a peashooter I just gave you." "It takes a state permit." "It's routine." "We won't even send out papers until next week." "Well, why all the red tape?" "I mean, I'm going to have it back by tomorrow." "If it wasn't for red tape, I'd probably be out of a job." "Take him to the torture chamber." "I don't know, I'd hate to see George blow his stack." "What for?" "Oh, that gun permit." "If Tom Nash were put on the spot somehow because we dragged our feet with the paper work." "Okay, I'll put it through now." "We can have it processed in a couple of hours." "Yeah, Jack, do that." "( ominous theme playing )" "( machine typing )" "( suspenseful theme swells )" "( dramatic theme playing )" "My aunt like the fruit?" "I didn't get to your aunt's." "Why not?" "All of a sudden, I ran out of steering and brakes." "You could have been hurt." "You could have been killed." "That was still the whole point." "What's that?" "Just been finger printed." "Why?" "Compliments of the chief." "Fingerprints." "That's bad news, isn't it, Tom?" "What do you mean?" "Six weeks ago I find you sleeping in my garage and burning up with fever." "George, you know I appreciate all you've done for me." "No, that's not what I'm talking about." "At any rate, there you were without a coat on your back or a dime in your pocket." "A man like you, sophisticated, intelligent, you must have been running." "I've never asked you why." "Don't spoil your record." "Tom, let me help you." "You can't." "You're calling it." "There's a late bus tonight." "I'm not leaving tonight." "Look, I don't want you to stay for me." "I don't want you to take that chance." "They won't send those prints in until next week." "You don't give up easy, do you?" "Well, neither does he." "Who?" "Whoever fixed that steering assembly." "Who in this town knows about cars?" "Now, wait a minute, if you're thinking of Ben..." "He runs a garage." "You're wrong." "He's not made that way." "What way?" "He wouldn't try to kill me this afternoon and come to my party tonight." "Maybe I won't go to the party." "Frayed cuffs, empty pockets." "Like I was advertising that I never made it." "Then stay home." "Do us both a favor." "I told you I can handle George." "I told you." "You stay away from him." "Just put my hopes on my loving husband?" "Who doesn't bring in enough to feed the cat?" "All the chances I had in this town and I had to pick a nothing." "Don't say that." "A nothing." "Shut up!" "No wonder you hate to go to the party tonight." "You're jealous of George." "You've shoved him in my face all these years." "Jealous." "Well, maybe you've got the right." "I'm warning you, Janet." "And change that tie, Ben." "It's got grease on it." "( dramatic theme playing )" "COP:" "Hey, Schroeder, everything's quiet." "If anybody wants me," "I'll be across the street grabbing a bite." "Boy, let's hear some of those oldies, huh?" "Give me a bottle of scotch." "Thank you." "( oldies playing on record )" "Fellows, drink up." "The tab's on me." "Oh, no, no, no." "We're giving this party." "It doesn't matter who pays." "It's the thought that counts." "Come on." "( chuckles )" "Yeah, relax and enjoy it." "Line up and get your credit cards, boys." "Is that what you're going to say when Roy asks for a toast?" "What are you going to say?" "You love him like your own son?" "Fellows..." "You could have been his partner." "He came to you for money once." "I haven't got any guts." "What's your excuse?" "Must eat you." "Watching him get richer and richer." "What do you watch?" "Your daughter?" "MORT:" "Will you two quit it." "What's the argument?" "He's doing very big things for this town." "For all of us." "We're not worth it." "Why don't you tell him?" "Like I was saying inside, George, it's not like we're just anyone." "We're your oldest friends." "You could do so much for Ben." "What have you done for him lately, Janet?" "I'm out here with you." "Doesn't that mean something?" "What is it supposed to mean?" "That I like you." "That I always have." "That" "If you did something for Ben, I'd" "How do I say a thing like this." "That I want to show my appreciation." "He's too good for you, Janet." "He always was." "He's a weakling." "A piece of wet newspaper." "He survived you." "Where are you going?" "Through the lobby." "Maybe Ben wouldn't notice that I was out here with you." "You see, Janet, you are persuasive." "I'm doing something for him already." "Man, this leg is giving me fits tonight." "Football?" "Parking lot." "Parking lot." "No kidding." "The three of us were on the town." "I always kept the car souped up real good." "I let Georgie drive that night." "He didn't have a car of his own, so when he got behind the wheel, he never wanted to quit." "Always the same." "Just one more joint." "So... we make one more place." "And we get out of the car." "And this mile-high drunk backs right into us." "Pow." "Like I'm trying to go off tackle, and I'm hit by a couple of tons of steel." "You were the only one that was hurt?" "Only me." "Man, I could have killed George for dragging us there." "Nah." "It wasn't his fault." "He thought so, but" "Everybody else said it was just one of those things." "Even Ben." "Oh" "Hey, George!" "Been wanting to grab you and tie you down." "Gang?" "A toast." "We all know why we're here." "Not for any business deals." "Georgie, we just want you to know you're with friends." "MAN:" "That's right." "NORA:" "Yes, let's hear it for little boy blue." "Thank you." "Come on." "What kind of a dead-beat party is this anyway?" "I know." "You're all worn out from counting your profits, now, aren't you?" "( Charlie laughs )" "Hey, where do we go to register?" "( both laughing )" "Get him out of here, Nora." "Ben." "Dear Ben." "I never thought you'd speak up." "Took a lot of that old jingle-jangle in the pockets, doesn't it, huh?" "Isn't that it?" "Aren't you in the wrong place?" "Your bar is down the street." "Nora, what is this all about?" "Ask Mrs. Willoughby." "She'll give you the whole scoop." "I'm asking you." "Let me go, buster." "I have a date." "Nora." "What's going on?" "Let me go." "( ominous theme playing )" "Do you think that the whole world just stood still while you were off climbing mountains somewhere?" "Get me out of here, Charlie." "You sober up first." "Listen, buddy" "( tense theme playing )" "( glass shattering )" "Let him go." "Come on." "I've got to open up at 7 in the morning." "Hey, Ben." "Not you." "I'm sorry, Roy." "( crowd murmuring )" "( dramatic theme playing )" "Janet." "I messed it up." "The whole thing." "It's all right, honey." "It's all right." "I spoiled it for you, Ben." "Listen, maybe you can have your hair done tomorrow." "Before the parade, huh?" "You know what he said, Ben?" "He said you were too good for me." "You see?" "With all his money, what does he know?" "Let's go home." "What's with all these party poopers?" "I guess the party's over." "Still early." "We could go for a walk." "I'll go up and get a jacket." "Meet you up in the room." "Goodnight, Ben." "Goodnight." "What's with you, anyway?" "The way you told him off in there, now you're hanging around, waiting to get another look at him." "Why don't you just get lost?" "Got a light, Tom?" "Hm?" "Yep." "George, I" " I'm sorry about the party." "Oh, that's all right." "Roy and Tom and I might go out on the town." "Good night, George." "Good night." "Well..." "( ominous theme playing )" "( ominous theme swells )" "( dramatic theme playing )" "( printer whirring )" "Send your staff down here to set up this project." "Pull out of here tonight." "Are you in orbit again?" "All right." "I'll go with you." "Be my guest." "( phone ringing )" "Hello?" "Oh, hello, Mort." "What's going on?" "No, I'm alone." "( suspenseful theme playing ) He's in his room." "Kimble." "Yes, Mort, I'll be careful." "Thank you." "George-- The chief's on his way up here." "Take the rented car." "George, I didn't kill anyone." "You better get going." "Hey, how's for that walk?" "( tense theme playing )" "It's like an undertaker's convention." "I just got a call from Chicago." "Tom has to drive these papers back." "And miss all the doings?" "I wish I could stay." "Well, now, uh" "What's all this talk about a walk?" "( siren wailing )" "( suspenseful theme playing )" "Mort, why the lights and the siren?" "You'll wake up the whole town." "You mean you never checked on this guy?" "George, where is he now?" "I don't know." "( ominous theme playing )" "( footsteps approaching )" "GEORGE:" "So I went up to his room, but he was gone." "He must have, uh, suspected something." "MORT:" "Which way do you think he'd head?" "For the river, I guess." "Jack, check out his room, see what you find." "Schroeder, check the banquet room and the alley exit." "( sighs )" "We'll pick him up." "( door shuts )" "Believe me, it could have been a lot worse." "I've heard some sharp lying in my day." "Everybody deserves a break sometime." "I guess." "The trouble is, some guys just get the bad ones." "Let's walk." "( suspenseful theme playing )" "Nothing upstairs." "Give me a light." "Thanks." "Roy, I just got home." "Let's not spoil it." "I just mean you're lucky, getting away." "Not having to walk the same lousy streets every night." "Roy, come on." "That's the corner where Clara said "no" to me." "That's the store where I lost my first job." "And the post office, where I got my answer from the pros." "Special delivery." "To say they didn't want me." "Your leg hurts, you think about things like that." "Nights, when you're laying awake in your room." "( suspenseful theme playing )" "( song playing within, crowd chattering )" "You don't remember that joint, the Talley Ho?" "Not especially." "The parking lot?" "Roy, that was 15 years ago." "Yesterday." "Well, stop remembering." "I can't." "I pass here every day." "I'm stuck." "I had it all, Georgie." "And the next day, nothing." "You feeling sorry for yourself?" "Okay." "You want to blame me?" "Okay, I'm used to it." "Somebody's to blame, Georgie." "One more year and I'd have made the pros." "I was good." "Not good enough, Roy." "You just thought you were." "All right." "Come on." "You just try to stop me." "Gimp and all." "You just try." "Go ahead." "Don't be silly, Roy." "Don't you think we're a little old for this?" "Come on." "I'll show you just how good I was." "Roy..." "I just want you to be nothing." "Like I'm nothing." "I don't feel like too much right now." "Come on, Roy, get up." "This won't help anything." "Maybe this will." "( song playing within )" "Nora." "Have you seen George?" "Do you know where he is?" "GEORGE:" "Roy, don't be a clown." "Why don't you stop whining?" "Stop feeling sorry for yourself." "It was your fault!" "Don't you talk that way to me." "Like all the rest." "Hands in my pockets a knife in my back." "Welcome home!" "Welcome home!" "What is it?" "What happened?" "Uh, Roy was, uh" "Showing us how to use the gun." "It, uh, went off accidentally." "No one hurt." "Are you sure you're all right?" "Yes." "Yes, I'm all right." "( siren wailing )" "He needs a ride out of town." "Just so happens I was going that way." "Come on." "( suspenseful theme playing )" "Tom." "If there's ever anything I can do..." "( suspenseful theme swells )" "( dramatic theme playing )" "The bus stops a couple of miles up ahead." "Thanks." "Poor George." "Pretty rough to come home looking for old friends, find out they don't exist anymore." "Well, he has one friend." "Let's make that two." "NARRATOR:" "Darkness and silence and flight into fear." "Richard Kimble has made this journey before." "He will make it again." "Until he proves his innocence, he remains a fugitive." "( dramatic theme swells )" "( dramatic theme playing )"