Dick gets stabbed by an escaped prisoner while heroically saving a young woman from the crook on a bus. This is somewhat of a change for the doc, who was shot a total of 8 times on the show, but was seldom stabbed. Cops shoot and kill the fleeing criminal and take Kimble to the prison hospital, the last place he wants to go. He's recognized by two cons who hatch a plan to blackmail him into smuggling morphine out of the hospital. There's a trustee who looks like Jackie Chiles Sr who picks up on Dick's nervousness but is upbeat because his parole hearing is coming up. He passes Kimble a note telling him to get the drugs or else. And then he distracts the nurse so Dick can get the morphine and put it in a laundry bag. It's not known how Morris got involved in this, and why would he insert himself into the situation when he is so close to his hearing? Anyways, Dick breaks the seal on the bottle, for reasons that will be revealed later. Doc is pressuring everyone to let him go, he feels all better. He does have amazing recuperative powers, but he just came in that day. The morphine is found, and Jackie Sr is blamed for it. He doesn't rat on doc. Nobody in prison likes a snitch, and he did have a part in it anyway. But Dick can't let guy take the rap, so before he leaves he writes a note to the warden explaining everything apparently, including the fact that he is Richard Kimble, because when the warden reads it, he knows. So it's real tense at the gate, as Dick is trying to get out of there before the guard gets the word and in a huge piece of luck, the girl he saved comes to the gate at that moment. Almost as unbelievable is the fact that she has not fallen in love with him and does not want to run away with him. He jumps in her car and drives off in a hail of gunfire. The girl is a bit confused about why the cops are shooting at them, but she's not upset about it. Dick tells her to drive to the bus station and tell the cops he got a ticket to anywhere. She's not sure what state that's in, but it works out. And about Dick opening the morphine bottle, he flushed the morphine and filled the bottle with water. Because Dick would never smuggle drugs. His conscience is clean, but Richard Kimble remains......a fugitive.