Episode
The Fugitive: Rat in a Corner
Overview
Herbie Grant, a second-rate hoodlum, is shot in the leg while trying to rob the liquor store where Kimble works. Herbie later takes Kimble hostage where Herbie claims that although he tried to rob the store, he is innocent of two other liquor store robberies in the other towns. Kimble agrees to help clear Herbie in which the hood lets the fugitive go. Kimble is summoned to the local police station to give his statement on the robbery where he is recognized by Herbie's sister, Lorna, who works at the local post office. She threatens to turn Kimble in unless he turns over her brother who she believes to be guilty of those other robberies. But at a local motel where Herbie is staying, he is recognized by a maid who calls the police and they arrest him. Thinking that Kimble double-crossed him, Herbie reports Kimble to the police.
Details
- Series
- The Fugitive
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 1964-02-18
- Runtime
- 51 min
Episode context
Rat in a Corner is Episode 21 in Season 1 of The Fugitive. It aired on 1964-02-18. The runtime is 51 min.
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Episode 20: Bloodline
Kimble works as a kennel-man for Max Bodin, a breeder of prize-winning Irish Setter show dogs, and who is currently putting his kennel up for sale. Max's son, Johnny, and Johnny's wife Cora discover that one of the dogs has developed hip dysplasia which means all of the dogs in the bloodline will likely inherit the condition and be worthless as show dogs. But they keep the news from Max and plot to live off the sale. But when Kimble stumbles onto their plan, they have him investigated.
Episode 22: Angels Travel on Lonely Roads (1)
On the run from the Nevada State Police, Kimble hitches a ride with Sister Veronica, a nun traveling to Sacramento where she plans to renounce her vows. After fixing her car when it breaks down, Kimble agrees to travel with Veronica only to the nearest train station. But Veronica believes Kimble to be her savior and insists that he tag along with her all the way to Sacramento.
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Episode 19: Search in a Windy City
Believing that the one-armed man is in Chicago, Kimble contacts Mike Decker, a newspaper columnist who defended Kimble during his trial. Kimble and Decker organize a city-wide search for the one-armed man. But things get complicated with the arrival of Decker's alcoholic wife, Paula, who gets nervous of Kimble's presence and falls off the wagon. Meanwhile, Gerard learns about Decker's search for a one-armed man and decides to use the writer to set a trap for Kimble.
Episode 23: Angels Travel on Lonely Roads (2)
Kimble and Sister Veronica continue their journey to Sacramento, unaware that the Nevada State Police have put up a roadblock at the state line. While Kimble deals with a disgruntled ranch hand, named Chuck Mathers, who suspects his true identity, Sister Veronica accidently discovers Kimble's identity from a TV news report. But she does not tell Kimble about her knowledge of who he really is.
Episode 18: Where the Action Is
While working as a hotel lifeguard in Reno, Nevada, Kimble is caught in the middle of a feud between the hotel owner Dan Polichek, and his spoiled and rambunctious teenage daughter Christine. 'Chris' believes her father drove away her mother who commited suicide years ago and she sets out to disgrace Mr. Polichek by provoking bar fights, humiliating herself, and goes too far when she pretends to be having an affair with the reluctant Kimble.
Episode 24: Flight from the Final Demon
While working as a health club masseuse, Kimble is recognized by Sheriff Bray, a local lawman with policial aspirations. But Kimble manages to escape with the help of co-worker Steve Edson. After confiding his secret to Steve, Kimble learns that Steve is a fugitive of conscience: five months earlier, Steve was tried and acquitted for the murder of his girlfriend Linda's abusive brother, a murder that Steve actually committed and he apparently cannot live with the guilt over having gotten away with it. Kimble reluctantly lets Steve travel with him. But Steve begins leaving behind clues that soon puts Sheriff Bray back on their trail, including contacting Linda for help and letting her vengeful other brother, Joey, track them down.
Episode 17: Come Watch Me Die
While working as a farm hand in a small Nebraska town, Kimble witnesses the arrest of a local man, named Bellows, who is suspected of a double murder. Kimble finds himself 'deputized' by Deputy Bowers to help transport Bellows to the county jail, along with four witnesses who saw Bellows fleeing from a farm house which was the scene of the crime. Although Bellows convinces Kimble that he (like Kimble with his wife's murder) is an innocent victim of circumstantial evidence. But the townsmen remain unswayed. That night when the men get drunk and decide to lynch Bellows, Kimble helps him escape. But Kimble is betrayed when Bellows, who really did kill the farm couple, escapes and holds another farm couple hostage.
Episode 25: Taps for a Dead War
While working as a roller-rink supervisor, Kimble is recognized by the horribly scarred Joe Hallop, a Korean War veteran who blames Kimble for his condition. Apparently back in the Korean War, Kimble was nearly killed in an enemy grenade explosion in which Joe shielded Kimble and got his face disfigured in the process. Knocked out, Kimble never knew who saved his life. Joe then plots to lure Kimble into a remote area and kill him by using one of his war mementos: a live grenade.
Episode 16: The Garden House
Kimble is working as the caretaker at a spacious ranch in Connecticut which is owned by newspaper heiress Ann Guthrie who lives with her husband Harlan and her sister Ruth. Ann and Ruth's late father founded the Westborne Clarion, the newspaper that Harlan currently runs. Although Ann is the sole benefactor of her father's estate, she believes Ruth is entitled to part of the fortune. But Ann is unaware that the greedy Ruth is having an affair with Harlan and they plot to murder Ann and claim everything. When Kimble suspects Ruth and Harlan's plan and informs Ann, the skeptic heiress refuses to believe Kimble. Knowing that Kimble knows, the crafty couple plot to frame him for Ann's murder.
Episode 26: Somebody to Remember
While working as a warehouse worker, Kimble is recognized by the Greek-born owner, Gus Priamos. Gus tells Kimble that he is dying from cancer and has only six months to live and hopes to aid the Fugitive with a scheme to make it look that Kimble has fled the country to Greece. But when Gus' jealous girlfriend Sophie learns Kimble's idenity from a magazine article, she contacts Gerard who gets a heads-up on Kimble and Gus' plan.
Episode 15: Home is the Hunted
Kimble returns to his home town in Illinois after learning that his father, John Kimble, has suffered a heart attack and has donated his medical library to the University of Wisconsin and in the process of selling the family house. While Kimble hides out at the home of his sister Donna and her sympathetic husband Leonard, Kimble blames himself for his father's condition, but is more troubled by his younger brother Ray, who believes Kimble is guilty and thinks he's to blame for ruining his life since people see Ray as "the brother of a killer". Meanwhile, Gerard arrives in town to search for Kimble and focuses on Donna and Leonard who try to shake off the relentless detective long enough for Kimble to get out of town before Gerard finds him.
Episode 27: Never Stop Running
While working as a migrant worker in New Mexico, Kimble becomes an unwilling party to the kidnapping of a young boy who is the son of his landowner boss. The boy, Jimmie, has been abducted by Ralph Simmons, a disgruntled former football player, along with his wife Helen and his cousin Dave. When Kimble discovers that Jimmie is a haemophiliac and that Ralph has bruised him during the abduction, Kimble must find a way to get the boy away from the kidnappers and to a hospital, or Jimmie will soon die from internal bleeding.