The Fugitive Page #11

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INT. 11TH STREET STATION - DAY

Morning roll call. Kimble's photo distributed to cops by

Detectives Kelly and Rosetti.

KELLY (V.O.)

As of this morning Chicago P.D. was

alerted to the reappearance of

Richard Kimble.

INT. TRAIN STATION - DAY

Newman and Poole check train station. Looking for Kimble.

They show his photo to homeless people. No help.

EXT. FRONT OF COOK COW TY HOSPITAL - DAY

Holding a handkerchief to his face, Kimble moves through

arriving patients and enters Cook County Hospital.

INT. HOMELESS SHELTER - DAY

Renfro and Biggs check shelters for Kimble. They show his

I.D. to administrator. Look around.

INT. GERARD'S OFFICE - DAY

The place is humming now. Detectives Kelly and Rosetti sit

in front of Gerard. Gerard studies Kimble's file. Renfro

sits in.

KELLY:

Police units have also increased

patrols around homeless shelters and

mass transit stations in the city.

EXT. LOOP EL STATION - DAY

Police patrol the platform looking for Kimble.

INT. FRONT OF COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL - CORRIDOR - DAY

Kimble moves past security, then pockets the handkerchief and

turns up a hallway, blending in with the indigents and poor.

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INT. UPSCALE DOCTOR'S OFFICE - DAY

NURSE FLYNN, a woman about 45, attractive, smart, loyal.

Poole and Gerard talk to her in an examination room.

FLYNN:

I ran his office for twelve years.

Yes, we were very close. But he

wouldn't come to me for help.

INT. COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL - HALLWAY - DAY

Busy with doctors, orderlies and street people. Kimble moves

down hallway and enters.

INT. PROSTHETIC CLINIC - WAITING ROOM - DAY

He moves into the room and takes a new patient form, looks

around. SEE BACK INTO the office area of the clinic. It

could be any hospital clinic from this view.

But as Kimble turns to leave we see a PATIENT waiting to be

called. On his lap we see a prosthetic arm. Kimble looks up

from the arm to the man.

PATIENT:

Good morning.

KIMBLE:

Good morning.

As he turns to leave we hear:

ROBERTS (V.O.)

Don't underestimate this guy...

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INT. UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER - SURGEONS' LOCKER ROOM - DAY

Dr. Roberts from the party, talks to Biggs and Gerard as he

takes off scrubs to get into shower.

ROBERTS:

R.K.'s one smart, cold sonofabitch...

He did her, no question.

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INT. COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL - BASEMENT - DAY

Kimble moves down the hallway containing the janitor's

locker room. Janitors move in and out the door.

INT. KIMBLE'S OLD HOUSE - DAY

Gerard walks through Kimble's house. The art and most of

the furniture is gone. Books are in boxes and shopping

bags around the room. Plastic covers the remaining pieces

of furniture.

Gerard stares at the empty walls. Shadows on the walls show

where the art once hung. Gerard pauses, tries to absorb the

place. He takes a book from one of the bags and looks at it.

INT. COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL - JANITOR'S ROOM - DAY

Kimble moves past the lockers, racks and boxes of cleaning

supplies, stops at a board listing work schedules, vacation

leaves, locker numbers. Behind him a LOCKER SLAMS. As a

janitor moves off to the showers we see his locker did not

close but remains slightly ajar from the impact.

INT. JANITOR'S LOCKER ROOM - CLOSE ON LOCKER - DAY

Door opens revealing the janitor's clip on I.D. hanging

from a green shirt. Kimble steals it.

INT. GERARD'S OFFICE - DAY

Gerard looks at the two detectives.

GERARD:

Gentlemen, I appreciate the

cooperation of the Chicago police...

He moves toward them.

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INT. CLOTHING STORE - DAY

A SALESMAN stands on ladder looking through pants sizes.

SALESMAN:

Did you say, 38/34?

KIMBLE:

No. 34/34.

ANGLE ON SALES COUNTER

WHAP. A folded pair of green janitor's pants drops onto the

counter in front of Kimble. He already has the green shirt

to the uniform.

INT. SELF-SERVE PHOTO BOOTH - CLOSE ON RICHARD KIMBLE - DAY

Photographed.

ANGLE - SIDE OF THE BOOTH

Kimble takes the finished photos from the delivery tray.

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INT. U.S. MARSHAL'S OFFICE - DAY

RENFRO:

Was there anything in your initial

investigation that would make you

think Kimble would come back to

Chicago.

ROSSETTI:

The man definitely has friends here.

GERARD:

What about lady friends?

KELLY:

Not that we found.

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INT. SALVATION ARMY STORE - CLOSE ON APARTMENT NOTICE - DAY

A card on a community bulletin board advertises a basement

apartment for rent.

BIGGS (V.O.)

What about the man he claimed

attacked his wife?

Kimble pulls the notice from the board as we -

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INT. U.S. MARSHALS' OFFICE - DAY

Kelly and Rossetti share a look, a smile.

KELLY:

Right... You ever been downwind of a

stockyard when the breeze is

blowing? That's where we were

sitting when Richard Kimble told that

one...

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EXT. POLISH LADY'S APARTMENT - DAY

Kimble knocks at door. It is opened to reveal a PUNK KID,

18-20. He calls to someone O.S.

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INT. POLISH WOMAN'S BASEMENT - DAY

A light comes on and an OLD POLISH WOMAN, her stockings

rolled down her shins, leads the way down the basement

stairs. The Punk Kid stands at the top of the stairs,

watches Kimble.

ROSETTI (V.O.)

We found nothing.

The Polish woman shows him a spare but sufficient bed and

nightstand set up. She points to door leading up to the

street.

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INT. POLICE WOMAN'S BASEMENT - AFTERNOON

Kimble also at work at the bedside table. He carefully cuts

out his do-it-yourself photograph and places it over the

existing photograph on the hospital I.D. The name on the

I.D. says:
Desmondo Jose Ruiz. Then he places a thin piece

of lamination plastic and trims the edges.

Kimble defaces the plastic to give it rough look, then

examines the finished product not bad.

INT. MARSHALS' OFFICE - DAY

KELLY (O.S.)

If this guy existed believe me

someone would've found him.

ON GERARD:

He raises an eyebrow.

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INT. DR. NICHOLS' OFFICE - CLOSE ON FRAMED PHOTOGRAPH - DAY

Of medical residents. Two photographs next to each other. A

young Richard Kimble and Charles Nichols.

NICHOLS (O.S.)

Richard Kimble... I saw him two

days ago.

WE PULL BACK to see: Gerard studying the photos. Renfro

looks up like someone's bitten him. He, Biggs and Gerard are

in Nichols' administrative office. Gleaming. Filled with

awards and photos of Nichols and influential people. Nichols

hangs up his lab coat and slips back into his suitcoat. He

shows no sign of nervousness.

NICHOLS:

He stopped me in my car. I gave him

some money.

GERARD:

Where was this?

NICHOLS:

Outside our tennis -

(correcting himself)

- my tennis club.

Gerard moves around Nichols' office taking in the details.

GERARD:

Did he ask you for help?

NICHOLS:

I volunteered. He wouldn't accept

it.

GERARD:

Why do you think he came back to

Chicago?

NICHOLS:

He didn't tell me.

GERARD:

I didn't ask you that, sir. I'm sure

he was trying to protect you from

having to lie for him.

Gerard continues to move around the room, study prints,

books, drawings, awards and photos.

GERARD:

If you're really his friend, you'll

help us bring him in unharmed.

NICHOLS:

Why, so he can go back to prison?

If you want help, gentlemen, you've

come to the wrong man.

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