The Fugitive (1963) s04e25 Episode Script
Death Of a Very Small Killer
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But if the ones I'm treating now don't respond, I tell you, I need that reserve.
These people know they're being sacrificed for an experiment? I'm only interested in one thing: finding a cure for our homegrown brand of meningitis.
And you don't care how many people you kill.
Well, I do.
I'm gonna put those people on separadone.
Kimble, you try to treat those patients, and I'll turn you in.
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 guest stars in tonight's story: Carol Lawrence, Carlos Romero and special guest star Arthur Hill.
Trouble, mate? I think you could use some transportation.
Prowler's about to cast off.
That's Captain Mulvane.
Tell him Lanny sent you.
Thank you.
And it ain't for free.
If you're thinking of hitchhiking, forget it.
Hold it.
That's not him.
Richard Kimble, fugitive, a man for whom there are no neutrals, only enemies or friends.
To such a man, a stranger's whim, a decision to lend a helping hand, means the difference between freedom or death.
Thank you.
Not a matter of thanks.
That 100 bucks don't half cover it.
I'm short-handed, so you can work out the difference.
- All right.
- If you can manage it.
I'll manage.
We'll be putting in at Puerto Binales for supplies and fuel.
After that, it's a six week run to the fishing grounds.
You can come along with us, or we can drop you off at Puerto Binales.
Puerto Binales will be fine.
Oh.
Ahem.
Here, take these.
It's the same stuff I've been giving you.
If you can find a doctor in port, that'll be even better.
Thank you.
Good luck.
Senor? Habla ingles? Yes, senor.
How far is it to Santa Luca? Three hundred kilometers, perhaps more.
What's the best way to get there? This is Puerto Binales.
There is no good way to get any place from here.
Isn't there a bus? Some men call it a bus.
It leaves tomorrow, in front of the Municipal Palace.
Is there a place to stay? Sancho Modesto has clean rooms and good food.
There, next to the church.
Thank you.
De nada, senor.
Yes, my friend.
How much for a room? The rooms are 25 pesos and 50 pesos.
That's $2 and $4.
For one person, the $2 room is big enough.
Fine.
Here is the key.
You feel all right? The room is upstairs on the right.
What's the matter? What's wrong? Shall I carry him to his room? No, he is very sick.
Can you hear me? Just get the pills in my pocket.
Penicillin.
How Long have you been taking these? About three days.
- Can you walk? - I can make it to my room.
No, he's not going to his room.
Take him to the truck.
Give me a hand.
Here, never mind.
I'll carry him.
Here Careful, careful.
- Dr.
Morales.
- Yes.
- He gave me this for his room.
- Thank you.
Louis.
Take him inside quickly.
How often have you been taking the medicine I gave you? Three times a day Like you told me.
What else have you been taking? Dr.
Howell, you didn't give me anything else.
Yes, Diego, but how is it that the medicine I gave you to correct the irregular beat of your heart has in fact been doing the opposite? Am I a doctor, to know this? Diego, what else have you been taking? My brother, he found a miracle cure made out of the Azana cactus.
Your brother.
What else have you been taking? Nothing else.
Oh, of course, except for the herbs my wife gives me.
If one medicine is good then three must be three times as good, hmm? Ah, Senor Dr.
Howell, you hit the nail on the head.
I'm gonna give you a new prescription.
Si.
''Pine wood, six feet Long, one and a half feet'' Dr.
Howell, this sounds Like a coffin.
That's right.
I'm gonna tell my wife and my brother I can no longer take their medicine.
May I see you, doctor? - Goodbye, Diego.
- Goodbye, doctor.
- Where are you dragging me? - You have a new patient in Room A.
Another one of your suffering people? - One of yours this time.
- An American? Mm-hm.
I found him in Sancho's.
A wandering sailor, no doubt.
You're a doctor, why don't you treat him? I'm weeks behind in my work.
I know that, Frederic, but I think you should see him.
Easy enough to see who's running this clinic.
Doctor, before he passed out, he said he'd been taking these for three days.
Ahh, pulse 1 10, pupils dilated, absent breath sounds in the, uh, right middle lobe.
Temperature 104.
4.
- Diagnosis? - Pneumonia.
Start an IV, 500 c.
c.
, And leave word to call me the moment he regains consciousness.
Even if you're asleep? I won't be sleeping.
I'll be working in the lab.
You really shouldnt.
You've been working every night this month.
When are you going to rest? When I find what I've been Looking for.
All right.
I'll call the American consul at Ciudad Hernandez tomorrow.
No.
No point in wasting phone calls.
Manuel, my friend, it's really nice to see you.
Good evening, Sancho.
And good evening to you, Manuel.
- How is your beer? - Same as always.
In that case I'll have one.
Carlotta, one beer for the sergeant please.
- Sit down.
- Thanks.
- How's your family? - They are well.
Thank the Lord.
Paca and Ynez doing well in school? They do well.
Well, so much for old things.
What about new things? Such as? Do you have an American here? Ah, yes.
What's your interest? I would just Like his name, that's all.
I'll just Look in the register.
Ah, here it is.
Thomas Barrett.
Barrett, huh? There's no Thomas Barrett among the crew of the Prowler.
Maybe he was a passenger.
The Prowler was a fishing vessel.
And why would a passenger come to Puerto Binales? who knows the way of the American tourist? Perhaps he came here just to be alone.
- Where is he now? - He is ill.
Dr.
Morales took him to the clinic.
No, no, no, this one's on me.
- Please.
- Thanks, Sancho.
- Bye.
- Bye-bye.
- You're working Late tonight.
- Ah.
So are you.
Or is this a social call? Some of each.
- How are they doing? - Oh, still alive.
But they will soon be dead Like the others, of your meningitis.
- My meningitis? - Doctor, I didn't mean that-- It's your people who die of it by the score every year.
My people don't waste their Lives struggling against the wind.
A strong wall keeps out the wind.
- Even the hurricane? - Maybe.
You're a fool.
The disease is as old as time and it'll be here when your walls are dust.
What can I do for you, sergeant? You have a new patient here, an American who was on the fishing boat that came in this morning.
- What about him? - I'd Like to talk with him.
- I'm afraid that won't be possible.
- I must insist.
Oh, very well then, I'll ring up the isolation ward.
- Isolation? - That's right.
We do that in all cases of suspected plague.
Since you're apparently immune, I'll tell the duty nurse to send you right in.
That won't be necessary.
But I will expect a call from you tomorrow with a complete report on him.
Who he is and why he has come to Puerto Binales.
I've already checked on him, sergeant.
The consul at Santa Luca is a personal friend of mine.
The patient's name is Thomas Barrett and his record is completely in order.
Dr.
Morales and Dr.
Howell.
What did he want? Ugh.
The usual bureaucratic idiocy.
I brought you some potato soup and tortillas with fresh butter.
Soup.
All right, I'll knock it off.
Maybe you should relax for a while.
You mean because I've failed? Failure is no disgrace.
You do have a clinic to run.
I didn't come here to be the great white doctor to a horde of grateful peons.
I came here to find a cure for what has been killing these people - since the beginning of time.
- Yes, I know.
Sometimes I think my people mean no more to you than the animals in those cages.
They are footholds so that you can climb your great mountain.
On the top of that mountain is a way to save their childrens lives and their children after them, for all time.
If it is there.
You don't have to believe in it.
Frederic, I-- Forgive me.
Doctor, the American is conscious now.
- I'll be right in.
- Do you want me to go with you? No, you lock up here.
What is this place? You're in the clinic of Puerto Binales, senor.
All right, Arturo, I'll take over.
How are you feeling, Dr.
Kimble? Later, senora, Later.
Later.
Top of the morning, Kimble.
By the way, in case you're wondering how your fame has spread all the way to Puerto Binales, I get the hometown papers by pony express.
I'm always proud when one of my colleagues does something to distinguish himself.
- Thank you.
- Don't mention it.
The real thanks belongs to Dr.
Morales.
She found you in Sancho's.
Probably saved your life.
Well, thank her for me, will you? - Why don't you thank her? - Because I'm leaving.
Why? Well, you know who I am, you know the answer to that.
The day they brought you here a police officer came by.
I sent him away.
- Why? - Because you're a doctor.
Well, I'm not exactly what you'd call a colleague any longer, doctor.
I'm a convicted murderer.
I don't care if you're the mad bomber.
You're a doctor, a trained physician.
What is that supposed to mean? Some time ago, I made an enemy.
His name is meningococcus meningitis.
I chose it, I picked it and I've been fighting it all my Life.
It's all coming back, isn't it? There's already a prescribed treatment for meningococcus meningitis.
- Is that what you're gonna tell me? - Yeah, well, I was.
But obviously you're talking about a particularly resistant strain.
Exactly.
You see, I was right.
You will be a help.
The disease is endemic to this province, as it is to most of tropical South America.
I found a partial control.
If we catch it early enough for separadone, about 50 percent recover.
But there's no complete cure.
I'm gonna find one.
Well, what am I supposed to do? You're a physician.
I can't run this clinic and do my meningitis research too.
Not the way I want to.
I need help, Kimble.
I need time.
You can give it to me.
I'm sorry.
You Leave here, you won't get out of this province.
- You'll turn me in? - Mm-hm.
I see.
Well, is it a deal? Yeah.
What are you doing? Taking fingerprints.
The American who's at the clinic.
The American again.
What has he done to gain this attention? Wanna find out who he is.
Why he has come here on a fishing boat on whose rolls he is not listed.
Rodriguez, you are forgetting the first Lesson of a good policeman: mind your own business.
If nothing else, he is in this country illegally.
I would Like to get this to the FBI in Washington.
How? The mail goes to Santa Luca once a week.
By the time it gets there, comes back and goes to Washington, your friend, if he is wanted, will be Long gone from here.
And if he isn't wanted, well, then you've wasted your good time.
I could go to Santa Luca and send a cable.
Rodriguez, you are an excellent police officer.
I need you here, not in Santa Luca chasing ghosts.
Maybe you will be lucky and this man will commit a robbery or a murder and then you can arrest him.
Until then, I want you to Leave him alone.
Is Dr.
Howell above the law? Are you so thoroughly the police officer that fear is all you know that passes between men? Well, speak to the people of this village and they will tell you about Howell.
Oh, the people are fools.
He has saved their Lives.
Speak to Nunez, whose son he saved from the influenza, or Valismo, whose children he stole from death's door.
Or speak to me about the time he killed the malaria before it killed me.
All right, perhaps he did those things.
But for his own glory.
Was there not glory enough where he came from? Of glory and money there were plenty on Park Avenue with the great physicians.
Howell came here.
He is our friend, Rodriguez, and I will not have you trouble him without reason.
Yes, captain.
I'll be back.
This is the isolation ward.
- Are all these cases meningitis? - Yes.
Has it been declared an epidemic? Well, they're not all local cases.
Dr.
Howell has requested to see cases all over the area.
Here's a typical one in its critical stage Otitis media, pneumonia, cranial nerve involvement.
She was flown here from a village near Dos Piedras.
Well, surely they must have better hospital facilities in Dos Piedras.
Yes, but there is no cure for the disease.
Dr.
Howell is at Least getting close to finding one.
The more cases he has to study, the sooner-- The sooner he'll what? He hasn't time for the cases he has now.
Conditions are not ideal, doctor.
That's what you're here for.
These people were here Long before anyone knew I was coming.
You and Dr.
Howell have more than you can handle without importing any new cases.
You seem to have acquired a great deal of knowledge in your short stay here.
Haven't you? No, I, um, grew up in Santa Luisa, about 70 miles from here.
In our village, a rich man was one who owned two chickens or maybe a cow.
And for the rest of us Life was just one constant journey between disaster and catastrophe until death put an end to it.
I was Lucky.
For me disaster came in one day, and destroyed almost all of my Life.
Do you really wanna hear about this? Do you wanna tell me? I'd Like to.
I want you to understand about Howell and me.
You see, when I was 8 years old, there was an earthquake and with it came a fire.
My whole family was killed.
Somehow I survived and Howell found me.
He was a young intern attached to a United Nations aid team.
Since there was no one to take care of me, he was literally stuck with me.
So he took me into his home, he and his wife.
What happened to her? She died.
From meningitis? Yes.
So we were all that were Left, Howell and me.
He started his clinic, raised me, and Later he sent me to the University of Mexico, where I got my degree.
Then I came back here.
To help him find his cure.
No.
He's my family.
Who knows if there is a cure or if anyone will ever find it? All I can do is make it possible for him to try.
Look, Reina.
Don't.
Don't feel sorry for me.
Please don't.
I don't feel sorry for you.
That's not what I feel at all.
Kimble, take a Look at this.
Taken from our prize guinea pig this morning.
Complete absence of Neisseria intracellularis.
Now, take a Look at this one.
This was taken from him two days ago.
As you can see the disease is in an advanced stage.
- What happened? - I don't know.
Come here.
There he is.
Healthy as the day he was born.
Two days ago he was dying of meningitis.
Here's a list of the things he's been shot with: sulfamerazine, sulfadiazine, penicillin, separadone, vitamin K.
A double dose of separadone, in fact.
But all drugs that have failed before in this stage of the disease.
- Something worked this time.
- But what? The hand of God? Ha.
Maybe it is that, after all.
Maybe it was some combination of these drugs, some sequence of administering them.
No, they've all been done before.
It's in the records there, Kimble.
All right, we'll try double separadone on each of the others.
Why don't you get some rest.
I'll go over the List and repeat the sequences - with some of the other animals.
- Okay.
Call me if you need me.
Mr.
Barrett.
I'm pleased to see you've made such an excellent recovery.
I am Manuel Rodriguez.
Good morning.
How goes the great work? Well, you'll have to ask that of Dr.
Howell.
Well, Dr.
Howell unfortunately does not always tell me what I wish to know.
When I asked about you, for example, he told me very little.
You come here from nowhere, knowing no one here.
Three weeks Later, you're working for Dr.
Howell.
And all this is, heh, very strange, Mr.
Barrett.
Can you explain it to me? Well, there's nothing to explain.
I don't know what you want to know.
I have this work to do.
I do it.
That's all.
Well, you do it very well.
Some of my friends have been fortunate enough to be your patients.
They say you're a skillful doctor, almost as good as the heroic Dr.
Howell.
Thank you.
Yes.
Well, I'll be seeing you, Mr.
Barrett.
We're going to Ciudad Hernandez to check on Senor Barrett.
But Captain Gomez-- Captain Gomez won't be back until tomorrow.
Reina, go and call him.
Doctor, come in quickly.
You were right.
It was the separadone, a double dose.
That and the standard amount of sulfadiazine taken in alternation.
Last night I treated eight infected animals.
This morning there were signs of favorable response in six.
- Congratulations.
- Oh, that's marvelous.
Well, we've got 42 patients in various stages of the disease out there.
I'll start the treatment immediately.
Four grams a day.
Separadone's still Listed as an experimental drug.
Look, I know about the side effects, but that's limited chiefly to heart patients and pregnancies.
Besides, you saw those animals.
Yeah, but they were just animals.
These are people.
The manufacturer says that anything over two grams may prove to be fatal.
What about the 50 percent who are still dying of the disease? I'd call that fatal, wouldnt you? It'll be a few days before we really know whether we're successful.
Well, I can't stay that Long, Howell.
Why not? Why can't he stay? Who knows? Maybe he's got a big business deal waiting for him in Santa Luca.
Thomas, I That's not his name.
His name is Richard Kimble and he's wanted for murder.
I don't believe it.
Ask him.
Yeah, that's true.
We made a bargain.
I promised not to turn him in to the police.
In return he promised to help me.
That's not a bargain, that's blackmail.
What are you going to do now, turn him in? He Ivied up to his end.
As far as I'm concerned, he's free to go.
Will you? Now that you're set free? Reina, go outside, please.
Reina.
She'll be all right.
Later you can explain that you're innocent.
You'll be able to resume being lovers or not, as you choose.
All right, doctor, we all know how tough you are.
Not tough enough.
I finally got it.
Meningitis? Unless you're just making up a lie to keep me here.
Of course I would.
But in this case I'm not Lying.
You're a doctor.
It's easy enough for you to check.
My temperature is up to 102, my blood work checks out positive.
Don't worry, Kimble.
We've got a treatment now.
But I'm going to need you.
- All right, I'll stay a while.
- Good.
I'll start the treatment of the patients tonight.
You get a good rest, take over in the morning.
By Monday, we should know how it works.
- Get some rest in.
- I'll be all right.
Nurse.
According to this chart, half these patients have received no medication - within the last 24 hours.
- Yes, doctor.
- Why? - Those were Dr.
Howell's orders.
- What's the reason? - I don't know, doctor.
Take care of this.
Hello, Kimble.
How's it going? About half the patients are getting a double dose of separadone.
Good.
The duty nurse tells me that the other half are receiving no medication at all.
Well, we couldnt treat them all.
We, uh, ran out of separadone.
When we get some more, we'll give it to them.
I thought the patients came here for treatment too.
I'm aware of that, Kimble.
But this isn't Rockefeller Center, where you pick up the phone and your order's delivered before you hang up.
The Last batch of antibiotics took three weeks to get here, and half of it was unusable.
I've ordered some more, and I hope it gets here before the week's out.
Until then, there's nothing more to be done.
Any improvement? Without the separadone, there's nothing to stop the infection.
Why don't you take a rest? There's nothing more you can do now.
- Where did this come from? - From Santa Luca, senor.
The supplies that were ordered.
''Surgical instruments, alcohol, rubber gloves, rubber sheets.
'' Where are the antibiotics? There are none in this order, senor.
Dr.
Howell ordered a supply of separadone.
The supplies were delivered Last week.
Are you sure? I delivered them myself, senor.
- To Dr.
Howell himself.
- Thank you.
Arturo.
Where do they keep the reserve medical supplies? Well, all the supplies are kept in the medicine closet, doctor.
Come in.
Ahh, I just spoke to Reina.
She says that some of the patients on the increased separadone seem to be responding.
Their fever is down and the blood and spinal count is greatly improved.
What happens to the people that aren't receiving the series? Well, in a few days we'll have enough to start them on it too.
- Until then? - We've been through this, Kimble.
I told you, we've run out.
It's been in the supply room for about a week.
That's all I've got and it's not to be used until I say so.
Why? Because it might interfere with your experiment? That's right.
They're tolerating an increased dosage but they may require more.
I need that reserve.
Those people came for treatment too.
Treatment? Who's talking about treatment? - I'm trying to find a cure.
- You've found a cure.
A 100 percent cure.
All we know is that a double dosage of separadone cured some guinea pigs.
Well, human beings are not guinea pigs, doctor.
They may require more, maybe even a triple dosage.
And if they do, I want to be able to give it to them.
Doctor, there are 11 people Eleven people in there that are dying.
Now, half of them could be saved with one single dosage of this drug you're hoarding.
You want me to give it to you in simple mathematics, doctor? You're talking about five or six cases.
I'm talking about thousands.
And thousands more who haven't even been born yet.
No, I'm talking about 11 people who came to you because they thought you could help them.
But if the ones I'm treating now don't respond, I tell you, I need that reserve.
These people know they're being sacrificed for an experiment? I'm only interested in one thing: finding a cure for our homegrown brand of meningitis.
And you don't care how many people you kill.
Well, I do.
I'm gonna put those people on separadone.
Kimble, you try to treat those patients, and I'll turn you in.
Luis Ramirez, four c.
c.
's of separadone, two c.
c.
's of sulfadiazine, IV at 1 a.
m.
- Who's next? - He's the Last one, doctor.
All right.
Dr.
Morales will be on at 5:00.
Give her the List of patients.
She'll take over from there.
Senor doctor, won't you be returning tomorrow? No.
Congratulations.
The attendant phoned as soon as you'd Left.
Loyalty to the chief.
Kimble, I must say you surprised me.
I didn't think you'd have the nerve.
Unless you didn't really believe I'd call for the police.
- I believe you.
- As it happens, I didn't call.
- Why not? - No point in it now.
You've messed up the great experiment, but clapping you into a jail isn't going to solve that.
Besides, I need you here.
I'm not going to stay, Howell.
I've done my work.
You've got your cure.
We don't know yet if it's a cure.
It Looks good, I'll admit.
But we need time to assemble and analyze the results.
I need you here-- Reina! Arturo, go get Dr.
Morales.
Then help me with Dr.
Howell.
I wanna get him back to his cottage.
There.
And here is your Dr.
Barrett.
Richard Kimble, wanted by the United States authorities for unlawful flight to avoid execution.
- Are you sure this is Barrett? - It is him.
In Ciudad Hernandez they were not so protective of the great Dr.
Howell and his friends.
They matched his fingerprints and you see the picture.
All right.
Let's go.
He'll come around when the nitrotal takes effect.
We'll be outside.
It's meningitis, isn't it? Yeah.
His treatment didn't work.
He gave it to himself and it's useless.
Well, there's still a chance.
What chance? He's been carrying the infection around for weeks.
It's already too far advanced.
He's dying.
And the serum is a failure.
Reina, what can I do? You've done more than you had to.
You owe us nothing.
And I-- I know now that you have to Leave, so The doctor, he is asking for you.
Still around, eh, Kimble? Dr.
Kimble has been treating you.
He couldve saved himself the trouble.
You're going to be fine.
My dear girl, I've been studying this disease for Longer than you've been alive.
I am not going to be fine.
I'm-- I'm so sorry.
What do you mean? That your drug failed.
All your years of work were wasted.
Oh, save your tears, angel.
The drug works fine.
I never took it.
What are you talking about? Why didn't you? A few years ago, if you remember, I took a vacation to Santa Rita.
The fact is, I went there to recuperate from a coronary attack.
Rather a bad one.
I didn't know.
Well, there was no need.
But, anyhow, you can see why I couldnt take any separadone.
The side effects.
But even with the side effects, there was still a chance.
A very slim one.
And if I didn't make it, I'd have been dead then and there.
This way I bought myself a couple of days.
For more testing? But why? It wasn't necessary.
The only thing that was ever necessary was for me to do my work.
And now it's done.
The pharmaceutical house can clear up the details.
You better get going.
There's a smart cop named Rodriguez on your trail and I won't be around to keep him off anymore.
I don't think you're doing that for me, I Not really.
But when Reina's finished her work here, she'll be Looking around for a new Life.
And I've decided that your chances are pretty slim.
She loves you.
I wouldnt want her doing anything foolish.
Nothing personal, of course.
Of course.
I Love you.
I Love you, my angel.
Go now, take him to the ocean at San Pablo.
He can get a boat there.
Go now, quickly.
Senora, may we see the doctor? The doctor is very ill, senor.
It is a very important matter.
Maria, send them in.
Dr.
Howell, I beg you, forgive the lateness of the hour.
Oh, there's nothing to forgive, Pablo.
A visit from my friend is always welcome.
I am sorry you are ill.
I hope you will be well soon.
No, I will not be well again, Pablo.
My enemy has at Last caught up with me.
The meningitis? I am dying, my friend.
- We have business, Dr.
Howell.
- Be quiet.
You are in the house of the doctor.
Oh, that's all right, Pablo.
How can I help you? The man who, uh, worked with you, the American, Senor Barrett, where is he? Oh, he's not here anymore.
Why? What do you want with him? Is this the same man as Senor Barrett? Oh, of course it is.
I saw him only yesterday.
Why are we wasting time? No, this is not Barrett.
Barrett Looks nothing Like this.
Captain Gomez, this is a Lie.
I have seen this Barrett with my own eyes.
Dr.
Howell says it is not Barrett.
That is good enough for me.
Captain, this is madness.
Now, we still have time to catch him, to set up roadblocks.
Barrett is Kimble.
The doctor says no.
All his Life he has labored for us, and we have in return given him nothing.
Now, the Least we can do is to believe his dying words.
I am sorry, captain, but I am calling some men here to search the clinic and the grounds.
I have given you an order, sergeant.
If you disobey it, you can seek employment with your friends in Ciudad Hernandez.
Goodbye, my friend.
Vaya con dios.
Arenas, Lets go.
There are the boats.
Tell them you're from Dr.
Howell and any one of them will take you anywhere you want to go.
Why is it I'm always attracted to men who chase a dream? Maybe-- Maybe it wasn't just a dream for you.
And for you? If I thought that's all it was, I'd stay here.
Perhaps it's time for me to have a dream.
And I think I know now what shape it will take.
Goodbye, Richard.
To Richard Kimble, the fugitive, the respite of love is brief, the end of love, a necessity of survival.
in flight from the numberless enemy, darkness and loneliness are harsh but sheltering friends.
But if the ones I'm treating now don't respond, I tell you, I need that reserve.
These people know they're being sacrificed for an experiment? I'm only interested in one thing: finding a cure for our homegrown brand of meningitis.
And you don't care how many people you kill.
Well, I do.
I'm gonna put those people on separadone.
Kimble, you try to treat those patients, and I'll turn you in.
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 guest stars in tonight's story: Carol Lawrence, Carlos Romero and special guest star Arthur Hill.
Trouble, mate? I think you could use some transportation.
Prowler's about to cast off.
That's Captain Mulvane.
Tell him Lanny sent you.
Thank you.
And it ain't for free.
If you're thinking of hitchhiking, forget it.
Hold it.
That's not him.
Richard Kimble, fugitive, a man for whom there are no neutrals, only enemies or friends.
To such a man, a stranger's whim, a decision to lend a helping hand, means the difference between freedom or death.
Thank you.
Not a matter of thanks.
That 100 bucks don't half cover it.
I'm short-handed, so you can work out the difference.
- All right.
- If you can manage it.
I'll manage.
We'll be putting in at Puerto Binales for supplies and fuel.
After that, it's a six week run to the fishing grounds.
You can come along with us, or we can drop you off at Puerto Binales.
Puerto Binales will be fine.
Oh.
Ahem.
Here, take these.
It's the same stuff I've been giving you.
If you can find a doctor in port, that'll be even better.
Thank you.
Good luck.
Senor? Habla ingles? Yes, senor.
How far is it to Santa Luca? Three hundred kilometers, perhaps more.
What's the best way to get there? This is Puerto Binales.
There is no good way to get any place from here.
Isn't there a bus? Some men call it a bus.
It leaves tomorrow, in front of the Municipal Palace.
Is there a place to stay? Sancho Modesto has clean rooms and good food.
There, next to the church.
Thank you.
De nada, senor.
Yes, my friend.
How much for a room? The rooms are 25 pesos and 50 pesos.
That's $2 and $4.
For one person, the $2 room is big enough.
Fine.
Here is the key.
You feel all right? The room is upstairs on the right.
What's the matter? What's wrong? Shall I carry him to his room? No, he is very sick.
Can you hear me? Just get the pills in my pocket.
Penicillin.
How Long have you been taking these? About three days.
- Can you walk? - I can make it to my room.
No, he's not going to his room.
Take him to the truck.
Give me a hand.
Here, never mind.
I'll carry him.
Here Careful, careful.
- Dr.
Morales.
- Yes.
- He gave me this for his room.
- Thank you.
Louis.
Take him inside quickly.
How often have you been taking the medicine I gave you? Three times a day Like you told me.
What else have you been taking? Dr.
Howell, you didn't give me anything else.
Yes, Diego, but how is it that the medicine I gave you to correct the irregular beat of your heart has in fact been doing the opposite? Am I a doctor, to know this? Diego, what else have you been taking? My brother, he found a miracle cure made out of the Azana cactus.
Your brother.
What else have you been taking? Nothing else.
Oh, of course, except for the herbs my wife gives me.
If one medicine is good then three must be three times as good, hmm? Ah, Senor Dr.
Howell, you hit the nail on the head.
I'm gonna give you a new prescription.
Si.
''Pine wood, six feet Long, one and a half feet'' Dr.
Howell, this sounds Like a coffin.
That's right.
I'm gonna tell my wife and my brother I can no longer take their medicine.
May I see you, doctor? - Goodbye, Diego.
- Goodbye, doctor.
- Where are you dragging me? - You have a new patient in Room A.
Another one of your suffering people? - One of yours this time.
- An American? Mm-hm.
I found him in Sancho's.
A wandering sailor, no doubt.
You're a doctor, why don't you treat him? I'm weeks behind in my work.
I know that, Frederic, but I think you should see him.
Easy enough to see who's running this clinic.
Doctor, before he passed out, he said he'd been taking these for three days.
Ahh, pulse 1 10, pupils dilated, absent breath sounds in the, uh, right middle lobe.
Temperature 104.
4.
- Diagnosis? - Pneumonia.
Start an IV, 500 c.
c.
, And leave word to call me the moment he regains consciousness.
Even if you're asleep? I won't be sleeping.
I'll be working in the lab.
You really shouldnt.
You've been working every night this month.
When are you going to rest? When I find what I've been Looking for.
All right.
I'll call the American consul at Ciudad Hernandez tomorrow.
No.
No point in wasting phone calls.
Manuel, my friend, it's really nice to see you.
Good evening, Sancho.
And good evening to you, Manuel.
- How is your beer? - Same as always.
In that case I'll have one.
Carlotta, one beer for the sergeant please.
- Sit down.
- Thanks.
- How's your family? - They are well.
Thank the Lord.
Paca and Ynez doing well in school? They do well.
Well, so much for old things.
What about new things? Such as? Do you have an American here? Ah, yes.
What's your interest? I would just Like his name, that's all.
I'll just Look in the register.
Ah, here it is.
Thomas Barrett.
Barrett, huh? There's no Thomas Barrett among the crew of the Prowler.
Maybe he was a passenger.
The Prowler was a fishing vessel.
And why would a passenger come to Puerto Binales? who knows the way of the American tourist? Perhaps he came here just to be alone.
- Where is he now? - He is ill.
Dr.
Morales took him to the clinic.
No, no, no, this one's on me.
- Please.
- Thanks, Sancho.
- Bye.
- Bye-bye.
- You're working Late tonight.
- Ah.
So are you.
Or is this a social call? Some of each.
- How are they doing? - Oh, still alive.
But they will soon be dead Like the others, of your meningitis.
- My meningitis? - Doctor, I didn't mean that-- It's your people who die of it by the score every year.
My people don't waste their Lives struggling against the wind.
A strong wall keeps out the wind.
- Even the hurricane? - Maybe.
You're a fool.
The disease is as old as time and it'll be here when your walls are dust.
What can I do for you, sergeant? You have a new patient here, an American who was on the fishing boat that came in this morning.
- What about him? - I'd Like to talk with him.
- I'm afraid that won't be possible.
- I must insist.
Oh, very well then, I'll ring up the isolation ward.
- Isolation? - That's right.
We do that in all cases of suspected plague.
Since you're apparently immune, I'll tell the duty nurse to send you right in.
That won't be necessary.
But I will expect a call from you tomorrow with a complete report on him.
Who he is and why he has come to Puerto Binales.
I've already checked on him, sergeant.
The consul at Santa Luca is a personal friend of mine.
The patient's name is Thomas Barrett and his record is completely in order.
Dr.
Morales and Dr.
Howell.
What did he want? Ugh.
The usual bureaucratic idiocy.
I brought you some potato soup and tortillas with fresh butter.
Soup.
All right, I'll knock it off.
Maybe you should relax for a while.
You mean because I've failed? Failure is no disgrace.
You do have a clinic to run.
I didn't come here to be the great white doctor to a horde of grateful peons.
I came here to find a cure for what has been killing these people - since the beginning of time.
- Yes, I know.
Sometimes I think my people mean no more to you than the animals in those cages.
They are footholds so that you can climb your great mountain.
On the top of that mountain is a way to save their childrens lives and their children after them, for all time.
If it is there.
You don't have to believe in it.
Frederic, I-- Forgive me.
Doctor, the American is conscious now.
- I'll be right in.
- Do you want me to go with you? No, you lock up here.
What is this place? You're in the clinic of Puerto Binales, senor.
All right, Arturo, I'll take over.
How are you feeling, Dr.
Kimble? Later, senora, Later.
Later.
Top of the morning, Kimble.
By the way, in case you're wondering how your fame has spread all the way to Puerto Binales, I get the hometown papers by pony express.
I'm always proud when one of my colleagues does something to distinguish himself.
- Thank you.
- Don't mention it.
The real thanks belongs to Dr.
Morales.
She found you in Sancho's.
Probably saved your life.
Well, thank her for me, will you? - Why don't you thank her? - Because I'm leaving.
Why? Well, you know who I am, you know the answer to that.
The day they brought you here a police officer came by.
I sent him away.
- Why? - Because you're a doctor.
Well, I'm not exactly what you'd call a colleague any longer, doctor.
I'm a convicted murderer.
I don't care if you're the mad bomber.
You're a doctor, a trained physician.
What is that supposed to mean? Some time ago, I made an enemy.
His name is meningococcus meningitis.
I chose it, I picked it and I've been fighting it all my Life.
It's all coming back, isn't it? There's already a prescribed treatment for meningococcus meningitis.
- Is that what you're gonna tell me? - Yeah, well, I was.
But obviously you're talking about a particularly resistant strain.
Exactly.
You see, I was right.
You will be a help.
The disease is endemic to this province, as it is to most of tropical South America.
I found a partial control.
If we catch it early enough for separadone, about 50 percent recover.
But there's no complete cure.
I'm gonna find one.
Well, what am I supposed to do? You're a physician.
I can't run this clinic and do my meningitis research too.
Not the way I want to.
I need help, Kimble.
I need time.
You can give it to me.
I'm sorry.
You Leave here, you won't get out of this province.
- You'll turn me in? - Mm-hm.
I see.
Well, is it a deal? Yeah.
What are you doing? Taking fingerprints.
The American who's at the clinic.
The American again.
What has he done to gain this attention? Wanna find out who he is.
Why he has come here on a fishing boat on whose rolls he is not listed.
Rodriguez, you are forgetting the first Lesson of a good policeman: mind your own business.
If nothing else, he is in this country illegally.
I would Like to get this to the FBI in Washington.
How? The mail goes to Santa Luca once a week.
By the time it gets there, comes back and goes to Washington, your friend, if he is wanted, will be Long gone from here.
And if he isn't wanted, well, then you've wasted your good time.
I could go to Santa Luca and send a cable.
Rodriguez, you are an excellent police officer.
I need you here, not in Santa Luca chasing ghosts.
Maybe you will be lucky and this man will commit a robbery or a murder and then you can arrest him.
Until then, I want you to Leave him alone.
Is Dr.
Howell above the law? Are you so thoroughly the police officer that fear is all you know that passes between men? Well, speak to the people of this village and they will tell you about Howell.
Oh, the people are fools.
He has saved their Lives.
Speak to Nunez, whose son he saved from the influenza, or Valismo, whose children he stole from death's door.
Or speak to me about the time he killed the malaria before it killed me.
All right, perhaps he did those things.
But for his own glory.
Was there not glory enough where he came from? Of glory and money there were plenty on Park Avenue with the great physicians.
Howell came here.
He is our friend, Rodriguez, and I will not have you trouble him without reason.
Yes, captain.
I'll be back.
This is the isolation ward.
- Are all these cases meningitis? - Yes.
Has it been declared an epidemic? Well, they're not all local cases.
Dr.
Howell has requested to see cases all over the area.
Here's a typical one in its critical stage Otitis media, pneumonia, cranial nerve involvement.
She was flown here from a village near Dos Piedras.
Well, surely they must have better hospital facilities in Dos Piedras.
Yes, but there is no cure for the disease.
Dr.
Howell is at Least getting close to finding one.
The more cases he has to study, the sooner-- The sooner he'll what? He hasn't time for the cases he has now.
Conditions are not ideal, doctor.
That's what you're here for.
These people were here Long before anyone knew I was coming.
You and Dr.
Howell have more than you can handle without importing any new cases.
You seem to have acquired a great deal of knowledge in your short stay here.
Haven't you? No, I, um, grew up in Santa Luisa, about 70 miles from here.
In our village, a rich man was one who owned two chickens or maybe a cow.
And for the rest of us Life was just one constant journey between disaster and catastrophe until death put an end to it.
I was Lucky.
For me disaster came in one day, and destroyed almost all of my Life.
Do you really wanna hear about this? Do you wanna tell me? I'd Like to.
I want you to understand about Howell and me.
You see, when I was 8 years old, there was an earthquake and with it came a fire.
My whole family was killed.
Somehow I survived and Howell found me.
He was a young intern attached to a United Nations aid team.
Since there was no one to take care of me, he was literally stuck with me.
So he took me into his home, he and his wife.
What happened to her? She died.
From meningitis? Yes.
So we were all that were Left, Howell and me.
He started his clinic, raised me, and Later he sent me to the University of Mexico, where I got my degree.
Then I came back here.
To help him find his cure.
No.
He's my family.
Who knows if there is a cure or if anyone will ever find it? All I can do is make it possible for him to try.
Look, Reina.
Don't.
Don't feel sorry for me.
Please don't.
I don't feel sorry for you.
That's not what I feel at all.
Kimble, take a Look at this.
Taken from our prize guinea pig this morning.
Complete absence of Neisseria intracellularis.
Now, take a Look at this one.
This was taken from him two days ago.
As you can see the disease is in an advanced stage.
- What happened? - I don't know.
Come here.
There he is.
Healthy as the day he was born.
Two days ago he was dying of meningitis.
Here's a list of the things he's been shot with: sulfamerazine, sulfadiazine, penicillin, separadone, vitamin K.
A double dose of separadone, in fact.
But all drugs that have failed before in this stage of the disease.
- Something worked this time.
- But what? The hand of God? Ha.
Maybe it is that, after all.
Maybe it was some combination of these drugs, some sequence of administering them.
No, they've all been done before.
It's in the records there, Kimble.
All right, we'll try double separadone on each of the others.
Why don't you get some rest.
I'll go over the List and repeat the sequences - with some of the other animals.
- Okay.
Call me if you need me.
Mr.
Barrett.
I'm pleased to see you've made such an excellent recovery.
I am Manuel Rodriguez.
Good morning.
How goes the great work? Well, you'll have to ask that of Dr.
Howell.
Well, Dr.
Howell unfortunately does not always tell me what I wish to know.
When I asked about you, for example, he told me very little.
You come here from nowhere, knowing no one here.
Three weeks Later, you're working for Dr.
Howell.
And all this is, heh, very strange, Mr.
Barrett.
Can you explain it to me? Well, there's nothing to explain.
I don't know what you want to know.
I have this work to do.
I do it.
That's all.
Well, you do it very well.
Some of my friends have been fortunate enough to be your patients.
They say you're a skillful doctor, almost as good as the heroic Dr.
Howell.
Thank you.
Yes.
Well, I'll be seeing you, Mr.
Barrett.
We're going to Ciudad Hernandez to check on Senor Barrett.
But Captain Gomez-- Captain Gomez won't be back until tomorrow.
Reina, go and call him.
Doctor, come in quickly.
You were right.
It was the separadone, a double dose.
That and the standard amount of sulfadiazine taken in alternation.
Last night I treated eight infected animals.
This morning there were signs of favorable response in six.
- Congratulations.
- Oh, that's marvelous.
Well, we've got 42 patients in various stages of the disease out there.
I'll start the treatment immediately.
Four grams a day.
Separadone's still Listed as an experimental drug.
Look, I know about the side effects, but that's limited chiefly to heart patients and pregnancies.
Besides, you saw those animals.
Yeah, but they were just animals.
These are people.
The manufacturer says that anything over two grams may prove to be fatal.
What about the 50 percent who are still dying of the disease? I'd call that fatal, wouldnt you? It'll be a few days before we really know whether we're successful.
Well, I can't stay that Long, Howell.
Why not? Why can't he stay? Who knows? Maybe he's got a big business deal waiting for him in Santa Luca.
Thomas, I That's not his name.
His name is Richard Kimble and he's wanted for murder.
I don't believe it.
Ask him.
Yeah, that's true.
We made a bargain.
I promised not to turn him in to the police.
In return he promised to help me.
That's not a bargain, that's blackmail.
What are you going to do now, turn him in? He Ivied up to his end.
As far as I'm concerned, he's free to go.
Will you? Now that you're set free? Reina, go outside, please.
Reina.
She'll be all right.
Later you can explain that you're innocent.
You'll be able to resume being lovers or not, as you choose.
All right, doctor, we all know how tough you are.
Not tough enough.
I finally got it.
Meningitis? Unless you're just making up a lie to keep me here.
Of course I would.
But in this case I'm not Lying.
You're a doctor.
It's easy enough for you to check.
My temperature is up to 102, my blood work checks out positive.
Don't worry, Kimble.
We've got a treatment now.
But I'm going to need you.
- All right, I'll stay a while.
- Good.
I'll start the treatment of the patients tonight.
You get a good rest, take over in the morning.
By Monday, we should know how it works.
- Get some rest in.
- I'll be all right.
Nurse.
According to this chart, half these patients have received no medication - within the last 24 hours.
- Yes, doctor.
- Why? - Those were Dr.
Howell's orders.
- What's the reason? - I don't know, doctor.
Take care of this.
Hello, Kimble.
How's it going? About half the patients are getting a double dose of separadone.
Good.
The duty nurse tells me that the other half are receiving no medication at all.
Well, we couldnt treat them all.
We, uh, ran out of separadone.
When we get some more, we'll give it to them.
I thought the patients came here for treatment too.
I'm aware of that, Kimble.
But this isn't Rockefeller Center, where you pick up the phone and your order's delivered before you hang up.
The Last batch of antibiotics took three weeks to get here, and half of it was unusable.
I've ordered some more, and I hope it gets here before the week's out.
Until then, there's nothing more to be done.
Any improvement? Without the separadone, there's nothing to stop the infection.
Why don't you take a rest? There's nothing more you can do now.
- Where did this come from? - From Santa Luca, senor.
The supplies that were ordered.
''Surgical instruments, alcohol, rubber gloves, rubber sheets.
'' Where are the antibiotics? There are none in this order, senor.
Dr.
Howell ordered a supply of separadone.
The supplies were delivered Last week.
Are you sure? I delivered them myself, senor.
- To Dr.
Howell himself.
- Thank you.
Arturo.
Where do they keep the reserve medical supplies? Well, all the supplies are kept in the medicine closet, doctor.
Come in.
Ahh, I just spoke to Reina.
She says that some of the patients on the increased separadone seem to be responding.
Their fever is down and the blood and spinal count is greatly improved.
What happens to the people that aren't receiving the series? Well, in a few days we'll have enough to start them on it too.
- Until then? - We've been through this, Kimble.
I told you, we've run out.
It's been in the supply room for about a week.
That's all I've got and it's not to be used until I say so.
Why? Because it might interfere with your experiment? That's right.
They're tolerating an increased dosage but they may require more.
I need that reserve.
Those people came for treatment too.
Treatment? Who's talking about treatment? - I'm trying to find a cure.
- You've found a cure.
A 100 percent cure.
All we know is that a double dosage of separadone cured some guinea pigs.
Well, human beings are not guinea pigs, doctor.
They may require more, maybe even a triple dosage.
And if they do, I want to be able to give it to them.
Doctor, there are 11 people Eleven people in there that are dying.
Now, half of them could be saved with one single dosage of this drug you're hoarding.
You want me to give it to you in simple mathematics, doctor? You're talking about five or six cases.
I'm talking about thousands.
And thousands more who haven't even been born yet.
No, I'm talking about 11 people who came to you because they thought you could help them.
But if the ones I'm treating now don't respond, I tell you, I need that reserve.
These people know they're being sacrificed for an experiment? I'm only interested in one thing: finding a cure for our homegrown brand of meningitis.
And you don't care how many people you kill.
Well, I do.
I'm gonna put those people on separadone.
Kimble, you try to treat those patients, and I'll turn you in.
Luis Ramirez, four c.
c.
's of separadone, two c.
c.
's of sulfadiazine, IV at 1 a.
m.
- Who's next? - He's the Last one, doctor.
All right.
Dr.
Morales will be on at 5:00.
Give her the List of patients.
She'll take over from there.
Senor doctor, won't you be returning tomorrow? No.
Congratulations.
The attendant phoned as soon as you'd Left.
Loyalty to the chief.
Kimble, I must say you surprised me.
I didn't think you'd have the nerve.
Unless you didn't really believe I'd call for the police.
- I believe you.
- As it happens, I didn't call.
- Why not? - No point in it now.
You've messed up the great experiment, but clapping you into a jail isn't going to solve that.
Besides, I need you here.
I'm not going to stay, Howell.
I've done my work.
You've got your cure.
We don't know yet if it's a cure.
It Looks good, I'll admit.
But we need time to assemble and analyze the results.
I need you here-- Reina! Arturo, go get Dr.
Morales.
Then help me with Dr.
Howell.
I wanna get him back to his cottage.
There.
And here is your Dr.
Barrett.
Richard Kimble, wanted by the United States authorities for unlawful flight to avoid execution.
- Are you sure this is Barrett? - It is him.
In Ciudad Hernandez they were not so protective of the great Dr.
Howell and his friends.
They matched his fingerprints and you see the picture.
All right.
Let's go.
He'll come around when the nitrotal takes effect.
We'll be outside.
It's meningitis, isn't it? Yeah.
His treatment didn't work.
He gave it to himself and it's useless.
Well, there's still a chance.
What chance? He's been carrying the infection around for weeks.
It's already too far advanced.
He's dying.
And the serum is a failure.
Reina, what can I do? You've done more than you had to.
You owe us nothing.
And I-- I know now that you have to Leave, so The doctor, he is asking for you.
Still around, eh, Kimble? Dr.
Kimble has been treating you.
He couldve saved himself the trouble.
You're going to be fine.
My dear girl, I've been studying this disease for Longer than you've been alive.
I am not going to be fine.
I'm-- I'm so sorry.
What do you mean? That your drug failed.
All your years of work were wasted.
Oh, save your tears, angel.
The drug works fine.
I never took it.
What are you talking about? Why didn't you? A few years ago, if you remember, I took a vacation to Santa Rita.
The fact is, I went there to recuperate from a coronary attack.
Rather a bad one.
I didn't know.
Well, there was no need.
But, anyhow, you can see why I couldnt take any separadone.
The side effects.
But even with the side effects, there was still a chance.
A very slim one.
And if I didn't make it, I'd have been dead then and there.
This way I bought myself a couple of days.
For more testing? But why? It wasn't necessary.
The only thing that was ever necessary was for me to do my work.
And now it's done.
The pharmaceutical house can clear up the details.
You better get going.
There's a smart cop named Rodriguez on your trail and I won't be around to keep him off anymore.
I don't think you're doing that for me, I Not really.
But when Reina's finished her work here, she'll be Looking around for a new Life.
And I've decided that your chances are pretty slim.
She loves you.
I wouldnt want her doing anything foolish.
Nothing personal, of course.
Of course.
I Love you.
I Love you, my angel.
Go now, take him to the ocean at San Pablo.
He can get a boat there.
Go now, quickly.
Senora, may we see the doctor? The doctor is very ill, senor.
It is a very important matter.
Maria, send them in.
Dr.
Howell, I beg you, forgive the lateness of the hour.
Oh, there's nothing to forgive, Pablo.
A visit from my friend is always welcome.
I am sorry you are ill.
I hope you will be well soon.
No, I will not be well again, Pablo.
My enemy has at Last caught up with me.
The meningitis? I am dying, my friend.
- We have business, Dr.
Howell.
- Be quiet.
You are in the house of the doctor.
Oh, that's all right, Pablo.
How can I help you? The man who, uh, worked with you, the American, Senor Barrett, where is he? Oh, he's not here anymore.
Why? What do you want with him? Is this the same man as Senor Barrett? Oh, of course it is.
I saw him only yesterday.
Why are we wasting time? No, this is not Barrett.
Barrett Looks nothing Like this.
Captain Gomez, this is a Lie.
I have seen this Barrett with my own eyes.
Dr.
Howell says it is not Barrett.
That is good enough for me.
Captain, this is madness.
Now, we still have time to catch him, to set up roadblocks.
Barrett is Kimble.
The doctor says no.
All his Life he has labored for us, and we have in return given him nothing.
Now, the Least we can do is to believe his dying words.
I am sorry, captain, but I am calling some men here to search the clinic and the grounds.
I have given you an order, sergeant.
If you disobey it, you can seek employment with your friends in Ciudad Hernandez.
Goodbye, my friend.
Vaya con dios.
Arenas, Lets go.
There are the boats.
Tell them you're from Dr.
Howell and any one of them will take you anywhere you want to go.
Why is it I'm always attracted to men who chase a dream? Maybe-- Maybe it wasn't just a dream for you.
And for you? If I thought that's all it was, I'd stay here.
Perhaps it's time for me to have a dream.
And I think I know now what shape it will take.
Goodbye, Richard.
To Richard Kimble, the fugitive, the respite of love is brief, the end of love, a necessity of survival.
in flight from the numberless enemy, darkness and loneliness are harsh but sheltering friends.