Episode
The Fugitive: Taps for a Dead War
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Fugitive
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 25
- Air date
- 1964-03-17
- Runtime
- 51 min
Episode context
Taps for a Dead War is Episode 25 in Season 1 of The Fugitive. It aired on 1964-03-17. The runtime is 51 min.
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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 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.
More episodes from this season
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 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.
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.
Episode 28: The Homecoming
While working as a research technician for the wealthy Allan Pruitt, Kimble gets involved in the business of Allan's teenage daughter, Janice, who returns home after spending a year in a mental hospital recovering from a nervous breakdown after witnessing a young boy under her care get killed by two vicious stray dogs. But Allan's new wife, Dorina, does not take a liking to Janice and plots to drive her insane by hiring a neighbor to make his pet dogs bark in the nearby woods and convince Janice that the dogs are alive (they were captured and put to sleep by the local dog-catcher). But when Kimble claims that he has heard the dogs barking, Dorina asks the local sheriff to investigate Kimble to find any dirt on him.
Episode 21: Rat in a Corner
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.
Episode 29: Storm Center
While working as a dock worker in Florida, Kimble is recognized by Marcie King, a young woman who five years earlier asked Kimble to perform an abortion for her (illegal at the time; pre-Roe Vs. Wade). Kimble refused due to his religious beliefs, and Marcie went to another second-rate doctor to have it done. But after the operation, because of complications, Marcie can no longer have children and she incredibly blames Kimble for it. When a hurricane hits the area, Marcie and her boyfriend Harry, an embezzler on the run from the law, approach Kimble and threaten to turn him in unless he drives them to safety from the hurricane and the police looking for them.
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 30: The End Game
A discarded photograph, with Kimble in the background, leads Gerard to Chicago where he assembles a team of detectives where they trap Kimble within an eight-block radius of the city. With Kimble wandering from place to place, and being recognized by whomever he comes into contact with, he flees from both policemen and local citizens, finding refuge in a small house which is the home of two middle-aged men, named Jake Devlin and Sam Reed, who have long argued over his innocence.
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 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.