- While fleeing the police through a forest, Dr. Kimble finds an armed criminal with a bullet wound. The criminal guides him to a cabin owned by a woman who is suspicious of their stories.
- Dr. Kimble is being pursued by the sheriff on a mountain road. He pulls off the highway and runs into the woods where a wounded man, Kenny, asks him for help. Kenny has a bullet in his side. They're both running from the cops and Kenny knows of a cabin a couple miles inland. Kimble helps him to the cabin. He tells the woman at the cabin (Laura) that there was a hunting accident. She lets them in and Kenny lies down in bed. She says the nearest phone is 10 miles away and convinces Kimble to stay the night and head out in the morning to call the sheriff. We learn that Laura went to stay at the mountain cabin after an argument with her boyfriend.
The next morning Kimble wakes to breakfast but before he can eat it, they see three men walking towards the cabin. Turns out these three are partners with the wounded man, who held up an armored car. Kenny tells Bantam and Larry that he threw the bag of money onto a freight train, but couldn't climb on to the train because he was hurt. So the money is somewhere on a train. The two don't buy it, and beat him till he passes out.
Meanwhile Sheriff Owen Troop decides he needs to head up to Laura's cabin. It turns out he's the boyfriend she had an argument with. The sheriff is afraid that Kimble may be hiding out in her cabin.
Back at the cabin, the three bad guys are waiting for Kenny to come to. Bantam asks Kimble, "How much longer before he comes out of it?" When Kimble says, "Why ask me?" Bantam replies, "Because you seem to know what you're doing." Kimble says he'll go in to check on him, but he's actually trying to escape out the back door. It's no good. Ross, the third bad guy, is there to stop him.
Just then, while he's outside, Ross sees the sheriff and his deputy hiking towards the cabin. Larry takes Kimble to the bedroom to keep out of sight while Bantam and Ross stay with Laura when she opens the door to greet the sheriff. The sheriff shows them Kimble's wanted poster and asks if any of them had seen him. Everyone says no and the sheriff says he'll be on his way. "Anything I can do for you in town?" he asks Laura. "Yes," she said, "would you call Mr. Tyler? He was worried about that old wood burning stove. Just tell him it draws fine." The two lawmen realize that Laura is signaling for help. They pretend to leave and then double back and enter through the bedroom. But Larry shoots the deputy and knocks the sheriff over the head. Bantam figured out that Laura was asking for help. He knows there's no Mr. Tyler.
The sheriff is forced to drive Bantam and Ross to a mechanic. They need parts to fix their car. Larry handcuffs Kimble to the bed and while everyone's away, tries to assault Laura in the cabin's front room. She runs into the bedroom to escape him. When Larry follows her into the bedroom, he discovers that Kenny has run away. Larry runs out the door after Kenny. With Larry gone, Kimble convinces Laura to unlock his cuffs. But everyone arrives back at the cabin before Kimble and Laura can escape.
Bantam makes a deal with Kimble. Remove the bullet from Kenny and Bantam will let Kimble leave. Kimble asks the sheriff to give him a hand. So Kimble and the sheriff are left alone with Kenny with Larry standing guard outside the back door. But Kenny dies. Kimble and the sheriff know that Bantam will probably kill everyone if they know Kenny's dead. So they hatch a plan to tell the other three that Kenny revealed where the money was before he died. The sheriff leads everyone in climbing a mountain, but what he really did was lead everyone in a circuitous route back to his jeep, where he retrieves his rifle. Kimble grabs Laura and gets them both out of the way. The sheriff shoots Ross, then Larry. Kimble throws a handful of rocks at Bantam. When Bantam turns in Kimble's direction, the sheriff is able to shoot Bantam as well. At that, Kimble starts running down the mountain. The sheriff yells for him to stop and then aims to shoot. "I won't shoot to kill," he tells Laura. Laura responds, "He saved our lives." That makes the sheriff pause and let Kimble go.
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