01x18 - Where the Action Is

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Dr. Richard Kimble.

death row, state prison.

Richard Kimble is innocent.

Proved guilty,

what Richard Kimble
could not prove

was that moments
before discovering

his m*rder*d wife's body,

he saw a one-armed man

running from the vicinity
of his home.

Richard Kimble ponders his fate

as he looks at the world
for the last time...

and sees only darkness.

But in that darkness,
fate moves its huge hand.

ANNOUNCER:

Starring David Janssen
as the fugitive.

With guest stars,

Telly Savalas,

Joanna Frank...

Don Keefer.

ANNOUNCER:

Reno:

the biggest little city
in the world.

A town for all seasons.

A town for all tastes.

Dude ranch, divorce or dice,
take your pick.

For every purse, for every age,

Reno has something
for everyone.

For Richard Kimble, fugitive,

another name,

another job.

Come on, Jimbo.

Walk. Come on.

Come on, Jim.

Come on.
Come on. Come on.

Come on. For Yale,
for country.

Come on.

Whoo!

The old college try.

It's all right.
We needed

reinforcements
anyway,

all around.

That's bad luck,
isn't it?

To drop a martini
with your right hand?

Now, if any of you clowns
get out of line again,

I'm gonna have to ask you
to leave. All right?

Oh, you're
kidding.

Try me.

You heard
Big Brother.

Hey, mister.

This any better?

Watch.

That's a lot better.

Practice on the other side,
will you, son?

It's amazing how
he listens to you.

His father can't
do anything with him.

Here, doggy, doggy. What?

Come on.

Come on. Come on. Come on.

Attaboy. Hey.

I told you, no clowning.

Big Brother says,
"No, no, no. "

No, no, no.
No clowning.

No, no.
Now, stop clowning,

you clowns.
Hey.

Walter.

I must have smacked
his head. I...

I'm sorry.

I'll talk to you
when I come out.

Come on.

Hey.

Hey, you almost
kicked yourself

out of the pool,
didn't you? Ha.

Darling, are you
all right?

Huh? Sweetie.

Now, let's have
a look at you.

Come up. Sit up.

It's those kids today.

They have absolutely
no respect for anybody.

Boy, I'm gonna
talk to that girl.

You'll have to
stand in line.

You feel
dizzy, son?

Come on. You're all right.

I don't know how to thank you.

That's all right.

It's part of the job.

Well, but...

you were quick...

sure and nice. Hm.

I'm gonna talk to
the management about you.

Come on,
darling, hm?

Let's find Daddy.
It's near dinnertime.

Okay.
Come on.

Mr. Gaines forgets everything
when he's gambling.

She leave?

I guess she did.

Well, when your father
owns a joint-

She's Dan Polichek's kid?

He lets her get away with it?

Wait till you've been around
for a while.

Polichek.
Yes, I wanna see him.

You have the release?

Come back soon
and...

don't go near
the water.

I'll get you
a taxi.

Mrs. Gaines.

Oh, she's in a hurry.

She just stole
a thousand dollars.

For injury to her son.

The boy was fine
when he left the pool.

Well, he couldn't hold
his dinner tonight.

Look, uh, if it's
a concussion,

a thousand buys us off cheap.

Mr. Polichek,
it wasn't a concussion.

She knew it wasn't.

When she left the pool,
she was relieved, very grateful.

Well, that was without
benefit of counsel.

Her husband's
a lawyer.

Dropped on the wheel,
saw a chance to recoup.

Dad, I'm gonna need some money.
You'll have to wait.

I'm busy.

Now, look...

the reason I sent for you...

Boy's mother said
some fresh young kids-

You get their names?

No, sir, I didn't.

Well, did you ask?

I was too busy
with the boy.

I thought
he might be hurt.

When I came out,
they'd gone.

They hurt a boy
and just walked off?

What a cheap trick.

It's just what
you'd expect, I guess.

What kind of people are they?

"Fresh young kids. "

You ought to run them out.

Well, if they come
back, I will.

I'm Chris
Polichek...

if my father ever
remembers his manners.

Yeah. Jerry Shelton.

The new man at the pool.

I'll have to start
swimming again.

Remember...

be careful.

That's what
this whole business is.

Ten percent
smart...

the rest is being careful.

All right, that's all.

Where did you buy that?

Now don't try any funny stuff
like with the last one.

Just stay away from him
and leave him alone.

Money.

One silver dollar
for your thoughts.

Or do you always put
your money on Don't Pass?

I don't gamble.

Smart.

You can't b*at
the house.

And you're
the house.

If you told my father
about this afternoon,

he'd have screamed at me
and fired you.

And I wouldn't want you
to be fired.

Do you like martinis?

It all depends.

You're right.

You're absolutely
percent right.

You shouldn't
drink martinis...

any old time.

Just before dinner.

And during dinner.

And after dinner.

You're reading
my teapot.

Go get some glasses.

You don't like me.

On account of the boy?

Well, he could have been
hurt this afternoon.

But he wasn't.
He was sick tonight.

I sent him
a box of candy.

Now, will you take off your halo
and get some glasses.

All right.

Vital statistics.

Chris.

Not Christine, just Chris.

- - .

no legal barriers.

finishing school.

You name them,
they finished me.

Jerry Shelton.

Married?

Nope.

Involved?

What is this, an inquisition?

Ooh. College man.

Well, what are you doing here?

I don't think
you'd be interested.

Try me.

How many of those
you had since dinner?

Who counts after five?

The Chris Polichek special.

Six-to-one. You think
that's too dry?

For me.

We could wet them down.

Let's wet them down,
old Shelly.

From the outside.

The pool is closed.

Only to guests.

No, the pool is closed
to everyone.

No.

Look, I like this job.
I wanna keep it.

And no rude, drunken brat's
gonna spoil it for me.

Go back where you belong

and tell your father
to wipe your nose.

Oh. Thank you.

Yes?

Oh, they brought it back
from the cleaners.

Would you hang it up
for me, please?

Did you wear this dress
last night?

Yes, I did.

Mm-hm.

That's what I thought.

Ticket said,
"Received at a. m. "

Isn't that kind of late
for a valet call?

You advertise
-hour service.

What's this doing here?

What?

This.

Oh, that.

I wore it up from
the pool last night.

Why?

Well, I had to
wear something.

I wanna know what happened?

All right.

All right, I'll tell you
exactly what happened.

I had a few drinks...

and I went for a swim.

I just forgot to take
my dress off, that's all.

And that new lifeguard
came in after me

and dragged me out
and slapped my face,

and gave me his robe
and sent me home.

And that's exactly
what happened.

Now, you can think
anything you want.

It's not what I wanna think.

It's what you make me think.

Get out.

Please.

Come on in.

Oh, you had your breakfast
sent down, huh?

They told me
I could.

Of course.

Except that most
pool men we've had

couldn't wait to get up
to the action.

I wanna talk to you.

Put on your robe
and come outside.

I haven't got a robe.

Well, you should have.

The hotel supplies them.

Ah... some of the pool men
we've had

were pretty sensitive
to the sun.

Well, I'm not.
I like the sun.

I'm glad to hear that.

I had the feeling that you'd be
more at home in the dark.

You're talking about
last night, huh?

Yes.

I'm talking about
last night.

She came down to the pool...

had a few martinis...

jumped in the pool
with all her clothes on.

I fished her out,
put my robe around her

and sent her home.
That's all.

She said you slapped her face.

She had it coming.

Oh. I wouldn't be surprised.

Hello.

Shelly, it's me.

I'm sorry, uh, ma'am,

the pool doesn't
open till : .

Listen, I want to
talk to you.

I don't make
the rules, ma'am.

Shelly, will you listen?

No, ma'am.

Last pool man we had
was pretty ambitious.

Good-looking.

She thought she was
in love with him.

Cost me $ ,
to buy him off.

You, uh-?

You making me an offer?

No. You've only
been here one day.

She can't be
that involved.

Nah. All I gotta do
is fire you,

boot you out
and forget it.

Except that
I wanted you to stay.

Any man who's got sense enough
to slap her down, well-

You don't like her
much, do you?

The point is...

don't you.

WOMAN
Operator.

Miss Polichek, please.

Thank you.

Hello.
Shelly?

When you called, your father
was standing right here.

I thought he might be.

I wanted to tell you that-

Yeah, do me a favor,
will you?

No calls, no conversations,
nothing.

You got playmates,
go and play with 'em.

Thanks, Julie.

She called him
a few minutes ago.

I know. Hi.
I was there.

He fluffed her off.
Doesn't even like her.

He just
called her back.

Fire him.
I don't wanna be around.

She'll tear
the place apart.

Dan, she'll pull out.

Are you ready to
write her off?

Maybe you could
sell him on leaving.

There's always something
you could hang it on.

Maybe.

Now go down to Personnel
and get me his file.

Danny, how are you?
Ha. Nice to see you.

Taxi?

I'm waiting for
the hotel car.

Oh, I'm a lot
faster into town.

I'm off till tomorrow.

And more comfortable.

I'll rough it.

Get in.

Or should I tell my father
you got out of line?

Going into town
to meet somebody?

Um, pick up a few things
before the stores close.

You gonna visit a sick friend?

The flowers.

A friend?

Hm. Our hotel grows
more flowers than it can use.

Like everything else
about my father, too much.

Too much daughter.

He talked about me this morning.

Uh-huh.

Warned you to
stay away from me.

Well-

He's right.

I'm poison.

Now where can I drop you?

Maybe I'm going
off the deep end,

but it just seemed
a little too convenient.

Him standing there,
her picking him up.

His file show anything?

Yeah, some pretty
fancy references.

Hermitage,
White Sulphur Springs,

Camelback in Phoenix,

Royal in Quebec.

Hm.

No picture.

Personnel's supposed to
make a picture.

I'll check it out.
Mm-hm.

We'll start with Phoenix.

I know the manager.

She was very young.

So was I.

She used to sing in the morning

when she brushed my hair.

She was beautiful.

And happy and full of life.

And she's dead.

He'll tell you
she k*lled herself.

She didn't.

He k*lled her.

With his jealousy
and suspicion,

and his stupid pride.

He k*lled her. Nobody else.

Chris.

Chris, wait.

Come in.

I got Winters from Personnel

at home.
And...?

The reason they didn't
get a picture:

Shelton broke the appointment,
said he was busy.

Promised to come in
as soon as he could.

Mm-hm.

I just talked to Quebec.

Like the rest?
Like the rest.

They never heard of him.

Gonna tell Chris?

Yeah.

When I catch up with her.

Oh, I'm... sorry.

It's-
It's crowded in here.

For pigs and people
who eat too much.

Hey, what do you wanna do?
Start a brawl?

I just don't
like pigs.

Who put that there?

Oh, that comes
with the cover charge.

I don't like
roses either.

Somebody emptied
my glass.

You.

Don't be silly.

If it were me, I would
have ordered another.

Three more, please.

You know who empties out
people's glasses?

Who?

The same little fink

that empties their lives.

Come off it, Chris.
We came to watch the show.

You watch.

She's kidding.

You'd think she was
stripping off a mustard plaster.

I could peel an apple-
Chris!

with more effect.

Why not?

Take it off, Chris.

Come on. I dare you.

Come on, come on,
come on.

Come on,
get down there.

If you were mine, so help me
I'd give you a lesson,

you wouldn't sit down
for a week.

Barney, how vulgar.

Pulling a stunt like this
on your father.

Trying to make a patsy
out of me.

Isn't it tough enough
trying to

make a few bucks
in this joint

without having Dan Polichek
on my back?

Now, come on.

Come on. You too,
young lady. Come on.

Come on.

All bets down.
All bets down.

All right, no more bets.

Place your bets.

Number one, red.

New sh**t's coming out now.

Uh, no lose.
Dice are rolling.

Seven.
Eight.

Five. Five is your number.
Mark five.

Uh-

Miss Polichek
been around?

Uh... I haven't
seen her.

Sorry.

Ben Haddock.

Maybe you remember me.

The other night
with Mrs. Gaines.

Oh, yes. Of course.

I'm sort of an assistant
to Mr. Polichek.

No title on the door,

no carpet
on the floor.

Sort of unofficial,

if you know
what I mean.

Yeah, I know
what you mean.

Five hundred
dollars.

Traveling money.

Am I traveling?

Tomorrow morning,

L.A., : plane.

Let's go down
and pack.

Is it the girl?

You'll have to ask the boss.
I'd like to.

He's not available.

Like I said...

let's go down
and pack.

You waited up for me.

Well, I am deeply touched.

Just got a call from Barney
at the Swing Shift.

He's cute.

The kind of call
a father loves to get.

Telling him
his beloved daughter

is advertising
her rottenness

all over town.

It's late.
I'm going to bed.

What are you trying
to do to me?

What did she ever
do to you?

Now, look, I've got
something here.

Position, respect.

Nobody handed them to me.

It took years out of my life.

And you're not gonna
turn it into nothing.

I keep hoping.

I don't know why.

I keep telling myself
you'll change.

Marcie?

Will you get me
the pool?

Hello.

Shelly? You asleep?

No, I'm just
cleaning up.

You must have thought
I was a kook.

I mean, at the cemetery.

No. Don't worry
about it.

Shelly, can I come down?

It's late.

In the morning?

I won't be here
in the morning.

Why not?

Ask your father.

Shelly?

Shelly?

Didn't have to check.
He's doing his job.

What did
she want?

I asked you a question.

What did she want?

What difference
does it make?

Hm, not much. You'll
be gone in ten minutes.

She'll want some answers.

She'll
get them.

Like she did before?

Before is none of
your business.

But now is, Mr. Polichek.

I'm getting a pretty
fast shuffle, you know.

Mm-hm. You're getting
everything you're entitled to.

And more.

That's on account of me.

No, you're wrong.
He gave me

a phony set of references.

I have to let him go.

With a $ bonus.

Well, call it
severance pay.

Severance from what?

From me!

Did you give him
a chance to explain?

He doesn't
have

the slightest
interest in me.

I told you
this morning.

Mm-hm. And
this afternoon...

he was waiting for you.

And you took him
for a ride, huh?

He's always had
a filthy mind.

You've always given me
good enough reasons.

With anything that came along,
like an alley cat.

You've got it all figured,
haven't you?

Well,
all right.

Go ahead.
Run him out.

But if you do...

you're running
me out too.

Now, look.

I'm not running you out.
You wanna leave.

I do?

Mm-hm.

When a man gives me
a set of phony references,

it's a thousand-to-one
he's hiding something.

Now, I don't know what
it is, but I can dig it out.

You stay,
and I promise you

I'll dig out
the truth.

Otis can drive him
into town

with
the house car.

You'll lose her.

Well, the odds
are with the house.

She must mean
an awful lot to you.

Get him out of here.

Why don't you tell her
sometime.

Yes?
Oh, I'm-

I'm sorry to get you up
this late,

but I've got to
talk to Mr. Shelton.

Shelton?
Yes, I'm Mrs. Shelton.

And I've got to see him

before he leaves.

Ain't nobody named Shelton
signed in here.

He's got to be here.

He came in about
an hour ago in a car

from the Rainbow.

You mean Mr. Wilkerson?

Yes, that's him.

I'm positive.

I...if you'll just tell me
which room.

Well, it's all right.
I'm Mrs. Wilkerson.

You just said
your name was Shelton.

Well, it is.

That's our real name, Shelton.

Well, you see...

we had a quarrel
this evening and, um-

Well, he was flying out
in the morning anyhow,

so he came over here and
used another name, and-

Well, I...it's the first quarrel
we've ever had.

Cabin across the court.

And see you don't
wake up nobody else.

Shelly?

Shelly?

Shelly?

It's polite to
ask a lady in.

A lady wouldn't be
standing out there.

Please?

Now, don't you ever
think of anyone else?

You know what your father
would do to me

if he knew
you were here?

You're scared.
Yeah, scared.

Cut me up in about
million pieces,

scatter 'em
all over the state.

You get it through
your head. I'm running.

You wouldn't have to anymore.

Shelly, let's go wake up
some sleepy old judge.

Judge?

You're very attractive
I'll admit,

but I didn't drive
all the way out here

to suggest a sordid
little adventure.

I'm proposing a decent
and honorable marriage.

Why?

I told you.

You're attractive,
you're nice, and I like you.

And you wanna hurt your father.

Now, h-have you ever taken
a good look at yourself?

I mean, you're
overindulged,

you're overprotected.
That's not so.

There isn't anything
you wouldn't do,

anyone you wouldn't use,
to get your hooks in him

and rip him apart.

Thank you very much.
Thank you.

But just leave me
out of it, will you?

I got enough trouble
of my own.

Am I so hard to take?

I didn't say that.

I've got a nice figure.

I read a lot.

Most men
even think that I...

I'm not most men.

I know. That's
why I thought

that perhaps we could
help each other.

Look, Chris, just
forget it, will you?

It's no good. It's not
even what you want.

Suppose you're wrong, the way
you feel about your father.

Uh, now,
it happens.

Uh, people do funny things.

They, um, build up one emotion

to hide another.

There's nothing to hide.

I hate him.

And you think he hates you.

Ask him.

I have.

Yeah, I have.

You wanna know something?

You're his whole world.

I'm sure.
He tells me every day.

When's the last time
you gave him a chance?

Chris, don't run from him.
Don't run from yourself.

Take a little advice from me.
I'm an expert on running.

Sure, he's big and he's tough,

and he doesn't give an inch.

Where do you think
you got it from?

One of you's gonna have to
make the first move.

Go back and talk it out
with him.

You can be there before
he knows you're gone.

Just had a hunch.

Thought I'd look in
on her.

Anybody see her
go through the lobby?

Just Gordon.

He took her bags
to the car.

Now what about Otis?

He's on his way up.

Dan, you don't know
she went after Shelton.

You got no proof.

She said she was gonna
run out on me.

Yes?

Did you wanna see me,
Mr. Polichek?

Ben sent a man
into town tonight.

Where'd you take him?

Well, I didn't take him
into town exactly. Uh-

You told me to take him
wherever he wanted to go.

Now, where did
he wanna go?

To the airport.

The airport?

His plane doesn't
leave till morning.

Well, I guess he knew that.

He asked me to drop him
at this motel.

What motel?

The, um... Airway Motel

on Carter Boulevard.

Did you tell anyone
you went out there tonight?

Only Chris.

She came over and asked me.

WOMAN Operator.
Marcie?

Yes, sir.

Get me the Airway Motel.

Shelly.

I'm scared.

I never should have made you
come along.

Nobody held a g*n on me.

I just couldn't have
gone back alone.

Honest.

I know.

Besides, if-

If you're right,
he couldn't possibly be angry.

The police can be angry.
You're doing about .

And I thought
I was just poking along.

You worry about the police.

Was it serious?

I wouldn't wanna get picked up.

It's hard to believe
you did anything wrong.

I didn't.

I just couldn't prove it.

Now, I'll always wonder
about you.

Where you are
and what you're doing.

Well, I can write you
every Fourth of July. Ha.

I'll pull over,
and you get out and run.

They're too close.

Relax.

Remember, I came along
for the ride.

Oh, officer, I'm terribly
sorry. It's just that-

Well, it's so late,
and we were talking,

and I never dreamed

I was speeding.

I didn't say you were.

Well, then why did
you stop me?

Is your name Shelton?

Yes.

Both hands
on the car.

In there.

Oh, you were right.
He had it.

You wanna sign
the complaint now?

No.

Let me have a minute
with him first.

Sure.

Well, you were right,
Mr. Polichek.

The odds are
with the house.

You were stupid
to take the $ .

He didn't take it.
You gave it to him.

You had no right
to go after him.

He wasn't after me.

Go on and tell her.

Go on and tell her that
you couldn't stand losing her,

no matter what
you did to me.

Go on. Tell her
the truth.

Chris, maybe if
we could talk.

There's nothing
to talk about.

Well, there's you
to talk about.

What you're doing
to yourself.

What you're
doing to me.

What you did to my mother
when you kicked her out.

I didn't kick her out.

She walked out.

It's in the court record.

Your record. Your court.

A little country court.

A little country town.

With a closed hearing
behind locked doors,

so nobody would notice
that big Dan Polichek

was buying himself
a little divorce.

Not true.
From a little judge

who took a little extra

and gave him custody
of the child.

He gave you to her.

Who sold you the right and the-

What did you say?

He felt the hotel
might be bad for you.

He thought you should be
with your mother.

You're lying.

You can read it
in the transcript.

My mother didn't take me?

Why?

She didn't want you.

Don't you say that
about my mother.

Don't you talk that way
about my mother.

I won't listen. I won't!
Now, you stay.

You let go of me.
Let go of me.

This is none of
your business.

It's "none of my business. "
You dragged me in here.

Don't suppose it matters to you
what happens to me out there.

It matters to me.

Now, you got me in,
now you get me out.

All she wanted
was her boyfriend.

He was one of my dealers.

He wasn't the first.

They took , cash
when they skipped.

The money lasted
eight months.

The boyfriend lasted
eight months and two days.

I found out what happened
from the San Francisco police.

They called me and told me
what she did to herself.

I... went and
brought her home.

I felt that
if I buried her here...

Why didn't you tell me?

She was your mother.

You loved her.

And you loved me.

You loved me that much.

I'd like to go home now.

Muller.

Yes, Mr. Polichek.

Well, I'm afraid
I loused you up.

This money. It didn't
come from my cash box.

I only use new bills.

He said he knew
all about running.

Yeah.

The dice come up
that way sometime.

Too bad.
A good life wasted.

Not all of it.

Not all of it
wasted.

Some passengers will depart
the Reno Airport today.

Some are flying on business,
some for pleasure,

some for urgent
personal reasons.

One man, as always,

is flying for his life.

Richard Kimble, fugitive.