The Fugitive Page #13

The Punk Kid is handcuffed to a bench as a cop works on a

report. Suddenly the Kid notices something that gets his

attention.

KID'S POV

A wanted poster of Kimble over the cop's head.

BACK TO SCENE:

The Kid sees - Wanted for Murder - realizes who it is.

PUNK KID:

(to cop)

Hey. Hey! I know that guy!

The cop looks up, sees Kimble's poster and then back at the

Kid.

CUT TO:

INT. TRAUMA HALLWAY - NIGHT

Kimble moves toward prosthetic clinic. In passing through

the trauma hallway he becomes aware of a crisis developing.

A major accident has happened, victims are being brought in.

The P.A. CALLS for doctors. STATIC.

ANGLE ON FAR END OF TRAUMA HALLWAY

Elevator doors open as orderlies bring in new patients.

Some walk, some are helped by family and police. Nurses

direct traffic.

Orders fly. Medicines are called. Family members yell for

doctors. Ask for the injured. Anne picks up the pace with

an ORDERLY wheeling a gurney carrying a young patient,

a BOY.

ANNE:

What happened?

ORDERLY:

A bus flipped off the overpass. Got

at least twenty more coming in.

ANNE:

What about this one here?

ORDERLY:

Fractured sternum. X-ray's coming

up.

Anne checks the boy's chart.

ANNE:

Okay, we've got to get some room

in this hallway, people.

Orderlies quickly move the non-life-threatening patients out

of the hall. Still more help is needed. Anne spots Kimble.

ANNE:

Hey, take this one up the hall to

Critical Care.

Kimble nods. Anne moves to another patient.

Kimble grabs the kid's gurney and begins wheeling it up the

hall. As he pushes he looks at the kid's X-rays.

Anne looks up, barks another order, then suddenly sees Kimble

pushing the gurney and looking at the film.

ANNE:

Tries to negotiate through the incoming patients to get a

better look, but Kimble is gone. She goes back to work.

ON KIMBLE:

He wheels the Boy's gurney into an elevator. The doors

close.

INT. HOSPITAL - O.R. CORRIDOR - NIGHT

Kimble wheels the gurney down the hall and stops the Boy

on the scrub threshold to the O.R. and stops a SURGEON.

KIMBLE:

Hey. Hey!

A Surgeon pauses and eyes Kimble's janitor suit and the

gurney.

KIMBLE:

They just sent this one up.

He takes a look at the Boy's chart and grabs the X-rays and

yells to O.R. nurse.

SURGEON:

Bob! Get this one into room four,

stat.

He looks up, Kimble is gone.

INT. PROSTHETIC CLINIC - COMPUTER ROOM - NIGHT

Kimble enters the Prosthetic Clinic computer room. The

Technician from the day before is listening to her Walkman,

sees Kimble and waves. Kimble waves back and turns into the

glass-walled computer room and closes the door.

He closes the blinds and turns on the computer.

CUT TO:

INT. CRITICAL CARE UNIT - NIGHT

The crisis has wound down. Anne moves into the room and

begins checking patients. She stops a unit nurse, GLADYS.

ANNE:

Gladys, where's the boy I sent down

with the janitor?

GLADYS:

What boy?

ANNE:

The one with the fractured sternum.

GLADYS:

He never came in here.

INT. PROSTHETIC CLINIC - COMPUTER ROOM - NIGHT

Kimble scans DOS files, each an eight-letter enigma. Finds

one with promise and loads it up.

KIMBLE:

Wrong...

He backs up and tries another file.

"CLIENT DEMOGRAPHIC ORGANIZER SEARCH BY: AGE, SEX, RACE,

LIMB, OR OTHER?"

Kimble knows he's got it.

INT. PROSTHETIC CLINIC - COMPUTER ROOM - CLOSE ON SCREEN - NIGHT

Kimble keys in these responses:

"SEX:
MALE"

AGE:
35-50

RACE:
CAUCASIAN

LIMB:
RIGHT ARM

OTHER:
POINT OF REPLACEMENT: MID HUMERUS"

INT. OPERATING ROOM WING - NIGHT

Anne comes out of the stairwell and stops the Surgeon we

saw with Kimble.

ANNE:

Dave, did you see a janitor come up

here earlier?

SURGEON:

Yeah, he brought a kid up.

(handing her the chart)

Anne, did you write the orders? I

couldn't make out the signature...

ANNE:

I saw -

SURGEON:

(in a hurry now)

Whoever did knew what the hell he

was doing. Kid's a hair away from

a ruptured aorta.

He heads to the operating room, leaving her stunned. She

stares at the scrawled orders.

CUT TO:

INT. PROSTHETIC CLINIC - COMPUTER ROOM - CLOSE ON SCREEN - NIGHT

A "PLEASE WAIT" message appears on the screen. We hear the

COMPUTER PROCESSING, searching, narrowing.

The screen flashes:

"NUMBER OF POSSIBLE CANDIDATES: 75

DO YOU WISH TO SUBDIVIDE?"

KIMBLE:

Seventy-five. Hell, yes.

Kimble types in another defining characteristic...

Residence:
Illinois.

Again he waits. Rattles the blinds to make it seem like he's

cleaning. The list shortens.

"NUMBER OF POSSIBLE CANDIDATES: 21"

KIMBLE:

What else?

MEMORY HIT - INT. CHICAGO COURTROOM - DAY

Prosecutor stands before the jury.

PROSECUTOR:

... murdering Helen Wills Kimble the night of January 20...

INT. PROSTHETIC CLINIC - COMPUTER ROOM - CLOSE ON SCREEN - NIGHT

Kimble types in:
"Candidates having adjustment appointments

between January 21, and February 1, 1993."

Kimble waits. Sixty-five names come up. Again too many.

Kimble's reached a dead end.

Kimble thinks.

MEMORY HIT - INT. KIMBLE'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

The fight with the One-Armed Man.

INT. PROSTHETIC CLINIC - BACK TO SCENE ON KIMBLE

Something has clicked in his memory.

CUT TO:

INT. PROSTHETIC CLINIC - PROSTHETIC STORAGE ROOM - NIGHT

Kimble stands beneath the hanging artificial limbs. He

takes down an arm, works the joint.

MEMORY HIT - INT. KIMBLE'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

Kimble fights the One-Armed Man. He wrenches the man's

prosthetic arm.

INT. PROSTHETIC CLINIC - PROSTHETIC STORAGE ROOM - CLOSER ON ARM

He moves it again. Harder, at an awkward angle.

MEMORY HIT - INT. KIMBLE'S BEDROOM - TIGHTER ON ONE-ARMED MAN'S

ARM - NIGHT

Kimble wrenches the arm...

INT. PROSTHETIC STORAGE ROOM - CLOSE ON ARM

The joint strains.

MEMORY HIT - INT. KIMBLE'S BEDROOM - CLOSE ON ONE-ARMED MAN'S ARM

Kimble wrenches it and it BREAKS.

CUT TO:

INT. PROSTHETIC OFFICE - CLOSE ON PROSTHETIC MANUAL - NIGHT

A detailed diagram of arm construction.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

Kimble makes notes.

CUT TO:

INT. HOSPITAL ELEVATOR - NIGHT

Anne rides the elevator back to trauma. She's thinking.

CUT TO:

INT. PROSTHETIC CLINIC - CLOSE ON COMPUTER SCREEN - NIGHT

Joint repair list between January 21-April 21... Five names

come up with Greater Chicago addresses.

Kimble hits print. The MACHINE begins PRINTING. Kimble

looks up at the Prosthetic Clinic Technician - she is

listening to her headphones, can't hear the printer. He

continues to shake the blinds.

EXT. PROSTHETIC CLINIC/TRAUMA HALLWAY - NIGHT

Kimble leaves Prosthetic Clinic and starts down the hall

for the exit when a voice stops him.

ANNE (O.S.)

Do you have a particular interest in

our patients' x-rays?

Kimble turns to see Anne coming toward him.

KIMBLE:

What do you mean?

ANNE:

I saw you looking at that boy's

chest film.

She moves in on him. He eyes the exit.

KIMBLE:

It's a hobby of mine -

ANNE:

What other hobbies do you have?

Brain surgery?

KIMBLE:

What do you want?

She reaches him.

ANNE:

I want to know how that kid ended

up in surgery.

KIMBLE:

I'm a janitor. I did what I was

told.

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