I have so many personal favorite episodes of this show, but "Ill Wind" is right up there in my top 5. (If anyone's interested in knowing the other 4, they are are "Never Wave Goodbye", "Angels Travel on Lonely Roads", "Corner of Hell" and "Storm Center".)
Kimble and Gerard are together again and I think this is their best episode together. Kimble saves Gerard's life not once, but twice in the episode and while he's grateful and appreciative to him for that, he still wants to bring him in to get strapped into the electric chair to die. This man seems to have no soul or feeling at all.
I love the ending which I found reminiscent of the episode "Landscape With Running Figures" with Gerard's wife. Like her crawling on the pavement at the end of that episode, we have a crazed Gerard down on the ground as well and shouting "Kimble!!!!" in the same anguished way that she did. Seeing him in that state in the same way that his wife was only underscored his all consuming obsession with capturing Kimble.
And I liked the song Jonesie sang throughout the episode which I thought highlighted the drama that was unfolding in each scene. I read that the original title for this episode was "Ballad for a Bitter Land", and i'm glad they didn't go with that because I have no clue what bitter land it refers to. I think "Ballad for a Running Man" makes more sense and think that would have been a great title. But whatever it's called, I think it's a solid 10 episode and one of the best of the series.
I think this episode would have made a great finale and closer for the third season, especially over the unexciting and sub par "Coralee" episode that wound up ending it.
I love the ending which I found reminiscent of the episode "Landscape With Running Figures" with Gerard's wife. Like her crawling on the pavement at the end of that episode, we have a crazed Gerard down on the ground as well and shouting "Kimble!!!!" in the same anguished way that she did. Seeing him in that state in the same way that his wife was only underscored his all consuming obsession with capturing Kimble.
And I liked the song Jonesie sang throughout the episode which I thought highlighted the drama that was unfolding in each scene. I read that the original title for this episode was "Ballad for a Bitter Land", and i'm glad they didn't go with that because I have no clue what bitter land it refers to. I think "Ballad for a Running Man" makes more sense and think that would have been a great title. But whatever it's called, I think it's a solid 10 episode and one of the best of the series.
I think this episode would have made a great finale and closer for the third season, especially over the unexciting and sub par "Coralee" episode that wound up ending it.