The Fugitive Page #7

The Duty Nurse, standing with the Highway Trooper, sees the

patient's light come on and starts down the hall toward the

patient's room.

CUT TO:

INT. PATIENT'S BATHROOM - DAY

Kimble shaving when we hear the DUTY NURSE ENTER the

patient's room. He moves OUT OF FRAME.

DUTY NURSE (O.S.)

Mr. Patterson, do you need some more

water?

ANGLE - MAN'S EATEN BREAKFAST

The Duty Nurse looks from the tray to the man, impressed.

DUTY NURSE:

... Oh, you did a good job on this.

She takes his empty plastic pitcher and...

... pushes open the bathroom door - no sign of Kimble - and

refills the pitcher from the sink.

DUTY NURSE:

(over her shoulder,

to patient)

... It does get dry in here, doesn't

it?

She doesn't expect an answer, turns OFF the WATER, and goes

into the main room. As the door closes we see Kimble behind

it.

CUT TO:

INT. HOSPITAL - HALLWAY - DAY

Kimble, clean-shaven, and wearing the patient's glasses and

a doctor's white coat, moves down the hall to the emergency

room exit. Suddenly the State Trooper steps back from the

E.R. admissions desk with his newly received fax, and starts

down the corridor toward Kimble.

The Trooper looks up as the two men pass...

TROOPER:

'Scuse me, Doc?...

Kimble turns but continues slowly backing toward the E.R.

doors behind him.

TROOPER:

... Don't know if you heard or not

but we're looking for an escaped

prisoner from that bus train wreck

'couple hours ago. Thought he might

show up here if he was hurt.

KIMBLE:

What's he look like?

The Trooper looks down at his fact sheet as we see a slow

trickle of blood from a shaving nick begin winding down

Kimble's cheek.

TROOPER:

(from fax sheet)

Approximately six one, 180 pounds,

brown hair, brown eyes and beard.

At the last second Kimble feels the drop of blood and wipes

it clean as the Trooper looks up.

TROOPER:

... Seen anyone that fits that

description?

KIMBLE:

Every time I look in the mirror ...

but without the beard.

They laugh.

KIMBLE:

Excuse me...

TROOPER:

Sure.

Kimble moves through the E.R. doors as an ambulance parks

outside...

EXT. RURAL HOSPITAL - EMERGENCY ROOM RAMP - DAY

Two PARAMEDICS try to take out a patient on a gurney. The

lead wheels are stuck.

KIMBLE:

Here...

Kimble helps clear the wheels so the collapsible gurney

comes free.

PARAMEDIC #2

Thanks, Doc, we had to dig him out

from under a train.

As the gurney comes out, Kimble looks right into the face

of the Young Guard. The Guard's eyes suddenly open wide.

YOUNG GUARD:

It's him... It's -

Kimble claps the portable oxygen mask back over the Young

Guard's mouth and keeps his hand there.

KIMBLE:

How is he?

The Paramedics move him toward the ramp.

PARAMEDIC #1

He's pretty bad off. Broken leg,

ribs. Concussion.

As Kimble moves away...

KIMBLE:

Tell the E.R. doctor he's also got

a perforated spleen.

He's gone... The two Paramedics share a look as they whisk

the Young Guard inside.

PARAMEDIC #2

(impressed)

Jesus, how could he tell that from

looking at his face?

ANGLE - AMBULANCE

Kimble climbs behind the wheel.

EXT. TRAIN CRASH SITE / OPERATIONS HEADQUARTERS - DAY

A full communications link is in place.

Deputy marshals answer phones, work faxes, add information

to a situation board. Troopers bring in information. Poole

calls Gerard.

POOLE:

Background just came in from

Chicago.

GERARD:

Hit me.

Renfro and Poole lay out the details. The download of

information comes clear and fast.

RENFRO:

Richard David Kimble. Vascular

Surgeon. Convicted of first-degree

murder in the killing of his wife.

Pleaded innocent. Claimed a

one-armed -

GERARD:

Let's not retry the case. Priors

and accomplices?

Gerard steps up the hillside out of sight of the

investigation to take a leak. Followed by Renfro and Poole.

RENFRO:

None. No previous arrests.

Poole takes up a position discreetly behind tree as Gerard

unzips his fly and relieves himself.

GERARD:

Sealed juvie record?

Poole calls out from behind tree.

POOLE:

Nothing. Total cherry.

GERARD:

Relatives? Children?

RENFRO:

No relatives.

POOLE:

One child. A son. Died in drowning

accident three years ago.

GERARD:

Girl friends? Ex-wives? Friends?

Combinations of the above?

POOLE:

Lot of friends. Doctors. Hospital

staff.

Gerard zips up.

GERARD:

Start there. Authorize taps. Cover

his lawyer first.

RENFRO:

Never get it.

GERARD:

Bet me.

Renfro won't take it.

GERARD:

Have Stevens go to Judge Rubin,

he'll sign 'em.

... Biggs charges up the hillside.

BIGGS:

DeLange Hospital. Wounded guard

swears to High Holy he saw Kimble

right there in the hallway.

Ambulance, missing too.

ANGLE - SITUATION TENT

Gerard moves quickly to the map.

GERARD:

Give me a time.

BIGGS:

O-nine-thirty. Twenty minutes ago.

Gerard redraws the circle of units. No longer are we

covering a fifty-mile radius. The circle is redrawn,

tightened, with the hospital as its center. The

triangulation is set.

CUT TO:

EXT. RURAL RAILROAD CROSSING - DAY

The ambulance follows three cars toward a rural railroad

crossing.

COP (V.O.)

... We're waiting up here in Canton.

Wondering if you heard anything on

this Kimble chase -

INT. AMBULANCE - DAY

Kimble behind the wheel as he approaches the railroad

crossing. The biocom monitors police chatter:

DISPATCHER (V.O.)

Two-twelve-A, be advised that all

discussion on this matter is to be

conducted on a tactical frequency

- either Channel K or Z. Over.

Frequency goes dead. Kimble looks THROUGH the windshield:

ROAD SIGN:

An arrow points toward Canton, two miles.

The cars in front slow as the railroad crossing signal

suddenly activates and the bars begin to drop. Kimble pops

the SIREN and hurriedly snakes through the crossing and

heads in the opposite direction... but his maneuver gets

attention.

INT. TRUCK CAB - DAY

Truck driver watches Kimble cut through the crossing and

reaches for his C.B. radio.

EXT. CRASH SITE - DAY

Poole hangs up phone.

POOLE:

Ambulance just spotted two miles

west of Doverville. Heading north

on State road 53.

Renfro turns to the map and marks it. The circle is much

smaller.

RENFRO:

Running outta map, Sam.

The crash site and hospital are already marked. Gerard is

ready to move.

GERARD:

Just the way we want it. Okay,

people, let's button up.

They move off to waiting State Trooper cars and helicopter.

INT. AMBULANCE - DAY

Kimble driving down a rural road. He flips down visor and

eyeballs folded roadmap...

EXT. SECONDARY ROAD (KENTUCKY) - DAY

... The ambulance crests a hill. In the distance we see the

Grosvner Viaduct and the Barkley Dam.

EXT. HIGHWAY (KENTUCKY) - DAY

Blowing other traffic off the road, WHOOPING CRUISERS and

G-cars stream south through the rugged rural terrain of

Southern Illinois. Overtaking them all, a CHOPPER THUNDERS

overhead.

INT. HELICOPTER

Heading into hilly terrain. Down below we see the ambulance.

Inside the helicopter Gerard eyes the terrain.

PILOT:

(into radio)

We've got a visual...

(to Gerard)

He's heading toward the viaduct.

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