The Fugitive (TV Series) Landscape with Running Figures: Part 2 (1965) User Reviews

Plot summary

[ynot-16 · 10/10 · 28 October 2006]

This is a part 2 of an outstanding 2 part episode. Kimble is alone with Lieutenant Gerard's wife Marie, who has been blinded in a bus crash and is using a false name. Neither recognizes the other. Kimble, seeking medical help for Marie, has taken a truck. They arrive in the town of Tilden and learn the town has been evacuated because of the threat that the Tilden Dam will break. Alone in the almost-empty town, Kimble and Marie are harassed by lawless, disrespectful teenagers. Meanwhile, Gerard searches for Marie, who is still angry that Kimble appears to be a higher priority for Gerard than she is.

Kimble leaves Marie at a telephone switchboard to keep trying to call for help, though the lines are down. Marie finally gets through and summons help. Later, engaging in small talk with Kimble, she discovers who he is and tries to trick him into remaining until police can arrive to arrest him, thinking that the arrest of Kimble will get her marriage back to normal.

Kimble must defeat the teenagers, continue to aid Marie, discover and deal with her treachery, and escape before Gerard and the other police get to Tilden.

Part 2

[jsinger-58969 · 10/10 · 20 January 2023]

Picks up where part 1 left off. Dick is taking Marie into Tilden to get help for her blindness. There is an apparently disabled car across the road. A blonde asks Dick for help, and Dick is duty bound to give help when he can, especially when it's a blonde. He sees two toughs hanging out by the car. Bruce Dern would have been perfect here, but these two, Bob and Cedric, aren't bad. There happens to be a nice armoire in the back of Kimble's truck, and the two hoods admire it. Dick wants to get past them, but Bob says they are taking the armoire, and that's all there is to it. Kimble protests, but Bob says if you want me to hurt you, I can hurt you, and clobbers Dick with a pipe. They take the armoire, and Dick drives Marie into Tilden. Well, the truck runs out of gas before they get there, so they walk. Tilden, it turns out, has been evacuated because of the flood, although the town is dry as a bone. Kimble goes into the bar where Bob and Cedric are hanging out with their girlfriend. He tells them that Marie could die if they don't get help, but Cedric sneaks out to get a good look at her. He has fun throwing books at her and scaring the living heck out of her. Her screams alert Kimble, who takes Bob's pipe away from him. Bob, Ced and the girl run away terrified as Dick tends to Marie. Dick, who had a 5 o'clock shadow in part 1, now has a 12 o'clock shadow. Nice continuity. He has some cheese and crackers, his first food in several days, as he and Marie talk about their backgrounds. When Dick mentions the twice a week Stafford newspaper, Marie knows who he is. Strange that Dick doesn't recognize her, what with the small town and all. Now, Marie had earlier called Phil, who goes by Phillip to Marie, and told him about the bus accident. She hangs up on him when he won't commit to coming to her. Phillip takes a long look at Dick's wanted poster, and reluctantly says he wants to go to his wife. Dick answers the switchboard when Gerard calls back, and knows Marie has been playing him into staying with her with an offer of a reward and a wild time with her. He starts to leave, but Marie stumbles after him, and he inexplicably comes back to her, with an ambulance on the way. Why would he do that? Unless at that moment, he was so tired of the chase that he wanted to just give up. Fortunately, Marie passes out before she can tell anyone that the guy is Richard Kimble, and Dick feels like he's gotten a reprieve and decides to keep going. Like Thelma and Louise. So that may explain that, but what explains why Kimble would continue to use the alias Steve Carver even after he knows that the cops know that Steve Carver is Richard Kimble? Phil is sort of apologetic to Marie in the hospital, but tells her he'll go again when Kimble is seen next time. He then becomes the first man on network television to say that he feels like another man is in his throat and he can't swallow him. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but why would she stay with him after hearing that? But she looks like she feels the same way. You get the feeling that both of them are going to be calling Kimble's name during love making.

Part two is just like part one....with about 20 minutes worth of material stretched out to 50 minutes.

[planktonrules · 6/10 · 18 April 2017]

This episode picks up from the last. Mrs. Girard happens to be riding the same bus as Richard Kimble and the bus has an accident. Kimble then is in the process of driving Mrs. Girard to find medical help because she was injured in the accident...and is blind!

Soon, the come upon a stranded car--not knowing it's a trap. Some thugs terrorize them and Kimble gets slugged with a tire iron. Ouch. Well, they get away...for now. When they do find a town, it's abandoned-- all because of some serious flooding nearby*. From here until help arrives, the two mostly just kill time...chatting. All the while, neither knows who the other is.

The bottom line is that while very watchable, you've got a two-part episode that EASILY could have been made as one. Because of this, it seems very heavily padded and it's a shame, as learning more about Mrs. Girard should have made for an exciting episode.

* Despite hearing that there is flooding nearby, I found it bizarre that the town is the same sort of dry, dusty Southern California town you see in most episodes....and no puddles or signs of recent rain!

Kimble visits with the Mrs Gerard

[Guad42 · 6/10 · 3 May 2021]

Kimble is stuck with Mrs Gerard in this two parter after spending time with the family's son, played by Kurt Russell, in an earlier episode. Both kid and wife try to lasso him for capture but he gets away by the skin of his teeth in both episodes. I found it strange he vanishes at the end of this episode and none of the police at the scene found that odd. You think they would offer him a ride if nothing else. The outing is not very exciting as it is more of a study of what Lt Gerard's obsession with Kimble is doing to him and his family.

The supporting cast is led by Barbara Rush and she is always good. She delivers here as a woman driven to the edge by her husband's drive to get Kimble. The appearance of the three tyrant teenagers is more of an annoyance than a threat. Kimble should have worked one of them over to prove a point. Kimble never seems to get mad at anyone.

All in all, an acceptable outing but not one of the best for this show. At least, Mrs Gerard didn't fall in love with him! She is a rare one given how often that seems to happen.