The Fugitive (TV Series)

Escape into Black (1964)

William Conrad: Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : [Act One Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble disembark from a truck labeled "Tracy Trucking Company" on which he had hitched a ride]  Another stopping place at the end of another road. If your name is Richard Kimble, you're guilty to escape and flight.

  [Kimble starts to cross the street, heading toward an all-night diner] 

  Narrator : You have no future unless you can find the past - the night of September 17th, two years ago. You saw the man who killed your wife that night.

  [Kimble, in a flashback from two years ago, in salt-and-pepper hair, driving his vehicle, observes a shadowy figure running from Kimble's yard and start to dash across the street] 

  Narrator : His face was there for only a moment

  [Kimble clearly sees a one armed man in the car headlights. The car nearly strikes the man. They stare at each other for a moment, then the one armed man runs off] 

  Narrator : but you'll never forget it. You keep looking. Today, a truck driver mentions a one armed man in Decatur. The description fits.

• Narrator : [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble walking down a back street]  Some will believe him; some will not; some will change their beliefs. But most important, he again believes in himself. He again has the will to run. And for a Fugitive, this instinct is survival.