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Oct 20, 2000 · Guilt: Directed by Jeff Bleckner. With Tim Daly, Mykelti Williamson, Marshall Bell, Dennis Burkley.
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- 2000-10-20
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Lt. Philip Gerard is the central protagonist in 37 episodes of the 1963-67 TV Series The Fugitive, where He was portrayed by Barry Morse.
On the night of September 19, 1961, Stafford Indiana pediatrician Dr. Richard Kimble found his Wife Helen murdered, but only after he saw a One-Armed Man leave the scene of the crime. Interrogation by the office of Stafford Police Lt. Philip Gerard resulted in interviews of 83 men matching the description provided by Kimble, none of whom were in the area at the time of the murder. Kimble was convicted and sentenced to die, but after a year's worth of appeals, He was being escorted by Gerard to the death house in March 1963 when their train derailed.
The crash freed Kimble from Gerard and He now became a fugitive, wandering the country and working low-paying odd jobs (those that require no identification or security checks and bring about little social attention) in his search for The One-Armed Man.
While Gerard was a formidably intelligent family man and dedicated public servant, He was duty-bound and relentlessly pursued kimible. Guilt or innocence was of no consequence to Gerard, whose own beliefs have been stated as: "I enforce the law. The law pronounced him guilty... I enforce the law. Whether the law was right or wrong of convicting him is not my concern. Let others debate and conclude... I obey. But when I begin to doubt, to question... I can't permit it. Others found him guilty, others were about to execute him. I was merely an instrument of the law... and I am.".
In "Never Wave Goodbye Pt. I", he states again, "The law pronounced him guilty, not me." In "Nightmare at Northoak" and "Wife Killer" he states with certainty that the one-armed man doesn't exist and that Kimble is guilty; in "Corner of Hell", even after his own Kimble-like experience, he still scoffs at the existence of the one-armed man ("Still the same fairy tale") and tells Kimble, "The truth is, you're still guilty before the law.".
Contributing to Gerard's obsession with re-capturing Kimble is the personal responsibility he feels for Kimble's escape, which happened while he was under Gerard's custody, as he remarks to an LAPD officer in "The Judgment, Part 1" (the show's penultimate episode), "I've lost a lot of things these past four years... starting with a prisoner the state told me to guard.".
Over time, Gerard also appeared to have gained some doubts about Kimble's guilt. In one episode, when a woman witness remarks that Kimble killed his wife, Gerard simply replies, "The law says he did", with a tone of doubt in his voice; in the episode "Nemesis", the local sheriff states to Gerard about Kimble, "You said he's a killer", to which Gerard sharply replies, "The jury said that.". Gerard's doubts are augmented after Kimble rescues Gerard in episodes such as "Never Wave Goodbye", "Corner of Hell", "Ill Wind", "The Evil Men Do", and "Stroke of Genius". "The Evil Men Do" in particular played on the respect that develops between the two men. In the episode, former Mob hitman Arthur Brame is running a ranch that Kimble's working at and is rescued from a runaway horse by Kimble. After learning about Gerard's pursuit, Brame offers to repay Kimble by getting rid of him. However, Kimble only wanted Brame to scare Gerard while Brame wanted to kill him. Kimble saves Gerard and the two briefly team up to fight Brame. When Kimble escapes from Gerard, the Lieutenant doesn't pursue Kimble, but instead goes after and kills Brame. In the epilogue, Gerard is confronted by Brame's widow Sharon on why he went after her husband and not Kimble. Gerard tells her that he wanted both men, but that Arthur was a career killer and was far more dangerous while Kimble "has done the one murder he'd probably ever do.". Gerard comes close to acknowledging Kimble's innocence when he concludes, "Until I find him, and I will, he's no real menace to anyone but himself.".
There are parallels to be seen between Gerard's pursuit of Kimble and the pursuit of Jean Valjean by Inspector Javert in Les Misérables, though Javert never lets go of his obsession to follow the letter of the law and hunts down his fugitive, even killing himself when he couldn't reconcile his tenets with the mercy Valjean shows him. Gerard, on the...
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Oct 6, 2000 · Adrift in a sea of strangers in strange locations, Ki... Read More. Action. Drama. Mystery. Thriller. Directed By: Jeff Bleckner. Written By: Roy Huggins, John McNamara. The Fugitive.
Oct 20, 2000 · October 20, 2000 43m TV-14. Add Show to Watchlist. Dr. Kimble, now in Manchester, South Carolina, assumes the identity of Raymond Lee Pettiford and gets a job at a bar. In his first day at his new work, a group of high school boys walk in asking for liquor. Kimble says no and everything ends up in a fight.
