I usually love "The Fugitive". However, this particular episode is hard to love and really was written very poorly. The ending, in particular, makes no sense. Oh well,...I guess you can't win 'em all!
Richard Kimble is traveling as Ben Horton. He looks around an amusement pier for a job and finds an unusual one...by becoming a personal aid to a disabled man. It seems that Leslie (Robert Duvall) is paralyzed and lives with his sister, Norma (Angie Dickenson). However, Ben starts to realize that Leslie ISN'T as hopeless and disabled as he thinks and his sister seems to do her best to keep him immobile. Ben starts doing exercises with him and eventually Leslie is able to regain the use of his arms and life looks great. But Leslie also is afraid of his sister and her boyfriend...and has good reason to be.
Up until Leslie became mobile, it was a very good episode. Then, it completely fell apart and the ending is one of the most baffling and stupid I can recall seeing in a very long time. I would say more but I don't want to spoil it. Suffice to say that one of the characters behaves so against type that it is just confusing and impossible to believe...sort of like Bette Davis' change that occurred at the end of the movie "Jezebel".
Richard Kimble is traveling as Ben Horton. He looks around an amusement pier for a job and finds an unusual one...by becoming a personal aid to a disabled man. It seems that Leslie (Robert Duvall) is paralyzed and lives with his sister, Norma (Angie Dickenson). However, Ben starts to realize that Leslie ISN'T as hopeless and disabled as he thinks and his sister seems to do her best to keep him immobile. Ben starts doing exercises with him and eventually Leslie is able to regain the use of his arms and life looks great. But Leslie also is afraid of his sister and her boyfriend...and has good reason to be.
Up until Leslie became mobile, it was a very good episode. Then, it completely fell apart and the ending is one of the most baffling and stupid I can recall seeing in a very long time. I would say more but I don't want to spoil it. Suffice to say that one of the characters behaves so against type that it is just confusing and impossible to believe...sort of like Bette Davis' change that occurred at the end of the movie "Jezebel".