The Fugitive

CUT TO: INT. MARSHAL'S OFFICE HALLWAY - MORNING
Gerard is moving down the hall with a cup of coffee when the Secretary appears at a door.
SECRETARY: It' s Kimble on line three.
Gerard moves quickly down the hall, mobilizing his troops as he runs...
GERARD: Renfro, Biggs...
They follow him into...

INT. MEDIA ROOM - MORNING
Gerard moves to phone as TECHNICIAN gives him nod he's ready. Gerard answers the phone and the trace begins. Renfro supervises.
GERARD: This is Gerard.
KIMBLE (V.O.): (beat) Do you remember what I told you in the tunnel?
GERARD: You told me, you didn't kill your wife.

INTERCUT WITH: INT. SYKES' APARTMENT - CLOSE ON KIMBLE - MORNING
KIMBLE: Remember what you said to me?

INT. MEDIA ROOM - MORNING
Gerard is calm.
GERARD: I remember you were pointing my gun at me.
KIMBLE (V.O.): You said, 'I don't care.'
ON TRACING EQUIPMENT
The numbers rush down. Technician reads the first set to Renfro.
TECHNICIAN: (a whisper) He's on the southside.
ON GERARD
GERARD: That's right, Kimble... I'm not trying to solve a puzzle here. I'm just the poor working man that's paid to hunt you down.
The room is filling up with deputies. Poole, Biggs, Stevens, Newman. Gerard watches the numbers as the second digit locks in.
RENFRO: (low) He's in Pullman area... Fifteen seconds for location.

INT. SYKES' APARTMENT - CLOSE ON KIMBLE - MORNING
KIMBLE: Well, I am trying to solve the puzzle, Gerard and I just found a piece.
Kimble takes the phone and bangs it down onto a table and we realize he is in Sykes' kitchen.

INT. MEDIA ROOM - MORNING
The sound startles Gerard.
TECHNICIAN: Three seconds

INT. SYKES' APARTMENT - MORNING
GERARD (V.O.): Kimble?
Kimble leaves the phone on the table and walks out.

INT. MEDIA ROOM - MORNING
GERARD (into phone): You can't control this thing, Kimble... Kimble?
He thinks he hears FOOTSTEPS over the phone, realizes Kimble has not hung up. What's Kimble doing?
GERARD (to Renfro): Where is he?
Renfro looks up from the address to Gerard, stunned.
RENFRO: (incredulous) Holy shit. We've got a car there right now.
He picks up a phone.

EXT. SYKES' APARTMENT - ANGLE - POLICE CAR - MORNING
The two cops receive a radio report about Kimble and quickly exit their car. They rush toward Sykes' building.
ANGLE - BACK ALLEY
While they move into the apartment, we see Kimble, fully aware of them, slip away down the alley.

INT. EL TRAIN - MORNING
CLOSE ON LIS ffb T: Sykes. Lentz. Devlin-Maegregor.- RDU90. Lines draw connections.

MEMORY HIT - INT. OPERATING ROOM - NIGHT OF MURDER
Kimble and Chief Resident work feverishly to save patient.
KIMBLE: This an R.D.U.90 patient?
Kimble looks up at the Resident as we...

CUT TO: INT. SYKES' APARTMENT - DAY
CLOSE ON TELEPHONE RECEIVER. It BUZZES off the hook.
POOLE (V.O.): Name is Fredrick Sykes. 45. Ex cop.
A hand comes INTO FRAME ant replaces the receiver on the cradle. We WIDEN to find: Gerard. We see technicians dusting room for prints. A FORENSIC TECH approaches Gerard.
FORENSIC TECH: Inspector, we're ready for you to look at this.
The Forensic Tech sits at desk.
FORENSIC TECH: Kimble's prints are all over the apartment, but the concentration is here.
The Tech takes out the check stubs, some papers; the pack of photos.
INSERT - PHOTOS
The Tech flips through the pack, stops on the Lentz/Sykes photos.
FORENSIC TECH: He flips through the pack but paused here.
He hands the Lentz/Sykes photo.
GERARD: Let me see the negatives.
The Tech hands him the strip of negative film. Gerard holds it up to the light.
GERARD: One's missing.
Gerard stares at the photo as his RADIO SQUAWKS.
BIGGS (V.O.): (on radio) Here he comes...

CUT TO: EXT. SYKES' APARTMENT - SIDEWALK - DAY:
Fredrick Sykes, the one-armed man, comes down the sidewalk. He passes a car and hears the door open behind him. Biggs climbs out of the car and falls into step behind him. Sykes hears the footsteps but moves on up the stoop and starts to enter his apartment, notices the front door already open. Cops and Marshals in his house. Processing a crime scene.
SYKES: What the hell's going on here? Who are you people?

He steps INT. SYKES' APARTMENT - DAY
... sees Gerard in the kitchen. Gerard stares at Sykes.
GERARD: You had a break-in, Mr. Sykes.
SYKES: You a cop?
GERARD: My name is Gerard. U.S. Marshal's Office.
Sykes is caught off guard.
GERARD: This morning a fugitive named Richard Kimble made a call from your apartment.
Sykes is dumbfounded.
SYKES: Richard Kimble... I don't know a Richard Kim -
Poole produces a photo of Kimble.
SYKES: Wait a minute... This is the doctor who killed his wife... He claimed the killer had a prosthetic limb. You telling me he's coming after me?
GERARD: Would he have a reason to?
SYKES: What the hell's that supposed to mean? Because I have this?
He lifts his prosthetic arm and stares at Gerard. Gerard holds his look.
SYKES: Look, a year ago some people came to see me. They asked me questions about the night of the murder and I'll tell you the same thing I told them. I wasn't even in town then. I was on a business trip.
Gerard continues moving around the apartment.
GERARD: What kind of business are you in, Mr. Sykes?
SYKES: Security.
GERARD: Independent?
SYKES: No, I work for a pharmaceutical company. I handle security for its top executives.
Gerard holds up one of the fishing photographs with Lentz.
GERARD: Any idea why Kimble would be interested in these?
SYKES: No. Just some doctors on a company junket.
Gerard puts the photos down with the one of Lentz on top. Sykes eyes it.
SYKES: (annoyed) Look, you mind if I talk to the cops to see if anything's missing?
GERARD: By all means.
Sykes moves off and Gerard pockets the Lentz/Sykes photo.

CUT TO: EXT. SYKES'S APARTMENT - DAY
Gerard crosses the street with Renfro and Biggs.
RENFRO: He's pulling our chain, Sam. If this was the guy Kimble was looking for, why call us?
GERARD: Kimble said he's putting together a puzzle. We don't need to put it together too, we just need to be there when he gets to the next piece.
Gerard ffb stops and looks back at Sykes' apartment.
GERARD: Keep somebody on him. If he moves I want to know.

CUT TO: INT. MEDICAL LIBRARY - DAY
Kimble moves through large medical library and turns into area marked: PHARMACOLOGY.
CUT TO: CLOSE ON PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL
Pages turn as we get CLOSER on headings: DRUGS PENDING FDA APPROVAL... Experimental and commercial names MOVE PAST us... and at the end of the list we find: PROVASIC (RDU90) Developed by Devlin-Macgregor Pharmaceuticals.
SECOND PERIODICAL - BUSINESS PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL
Kimble opens to article entitled: "DEVLIN-MACGREGOR EXPECTS PAYDIRT WITH PROVASIC." "Pharmaceutical company plans to go public on introduction of new drug, Provasic (RDU90)."
Kimble looks up. Now he knows why someone tried to kill him. He gathers more Devlin Macgregor information including a prospectus, and leaves.

CUT TO: INT. DOCTOR'S PHONE SERVICE - DAY
An OPERATOR answers a call.
OPERATOR: (into phone) I'm sorry sir, Dr. Nichols is at a medical conference at the Hilton.

INTERCUT WITH: INT. CHICAGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL LIBRARY - PAY PHONE - DAY
KIMBLE: It's very important I reach him.

INT. HILTON HOTEL HOSPITALITY SUITE - DAY
A meeting is underway around a board room table. An ASSISTANT moves around the table and gives Nichols a message with a number and URGENT written on it.
ASSISTANT: I'm sorry, sir, they said it was an emergency.
Nichols excuses himself from the table.

EXT. MEDICAL LIBRARY PAY PHONE - DAY
Kimble answers a pay PHONE when it RINGS.
KIMBLE: (urgent) Can you talk?

INTERCUT WITH: INT. HILTON HOTEL HOSPITALITY SUITE - DAY
Nichols on phone at the other end of the suite. The meeting continues behind him. As soon as he hears Kimble's voice, Nichols reacts.
NICHOLS: (low) Richard. Yes... I'm on a hotel phone. What's going on?
He eyes the group in the other room, moves around the corner for more privacy. As he does we notice several of the men watching. They exchange glances.
KIMBLE: I found him, Charlie. I found the guy that killed Helen.
NICHOLS: (shocked) What?
KIMBLE: It's all about a drug, Charlie. They tried to kill me because of a drug.
NICHOLS: Who?
KIMBLE: Devlin-MacGregor and Lentz. Lentz was supervising the R.D.U.90 protocol. He knew I'd found out the drug had problems. It's Lentz.
NICHOLS: Richard Lentz is dead. He died in an auto accident last summer.
Kimble is stunned.
NICHOLS: Can you prove this about the drug?
KIMBLE: I need your help. Call Mr. Roosevelt and tell him I'm coming in.

CUT TO: INT. GERARD'S OFFICE - DAY
The group of deputies and Gerard assemble around Gerard's information board. They've come armed with facts and theories. Gerard orchestrates the information.
RENFRO: If you were Richard Kimble... Why would you hunt for a one-armed man you think killed your wife; find hint then leave him and call us?
POOLE: To throw us off his trail.
RENFRO: Unless... What if you were a well-respected surgeon and wanted to kill your wife? How would you do it?
BIGGS: I'd hire a pro. Sight unseen.
POOLE: Set it up to look like a robbery gone bad.
RENFRO: How would you find him? Look in the phone book?
RENFRO: Through a connection.
POOLE: Maybe through a company you did some business with.
BIGGS: Like a pharmaceutical company. Someone in security
NEWMAN: On the night of his wife's murder, Kimble-attended a hospital benefit sponsored by Devlin-Macgregor Pharmaceutical -- Sykes' company.
Gerard places a Devlin-Macgregor card onto his board.
BIGGS: But Sykes claims he was out of town.
POOLE: And company records support that he was on a business trip.
RENFRO: That's an easy fix. So let's ffb say he was in town. Did the job. Everything goes as planned with one problem.
NEWMAN: Instead of looking like a robbery gone bad, Kimble ends up being the one accused, ...
BIGGS: tried, convicted, ...
POOLE: -- and the hit man gets away clean.
RENFRO: So Kimble returns to hunt for and find the hit man.
NEWMAN: Why? To share the blame? He'd still go to prison.
Gerard moves to the board. He takes down a card.
RENFRO: You're underestimating the power of the good doctor. It would be his word against... Sykes'. Who would you believe?
BIGGS: So what does Kimble do next?
RENFRO: Get help.
Gerard pins the card to the board and looks at Renfro. It says: NICHOLS.
GERARD: Stevens, check phone records for Sykes and Kimble.
Gerard moves to the door and Renfro follows. As he's leaving he hands the photo of Lentz and Sykes to Biggs.
GERARD: Find out who this guy is.
He leaves. Biggs hands the photo to Newman.
NEWMAN: (deadpan) Why do I get all the great jobs?

EXT. CHICAGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - LOADING DOCK - DAY
Kimble enters the hospital through the loading dock.

INT. CHICAGO MEMORIAL - MORGUE - DAY
OL' MR. ROOSEVELT, an ancient research assistant, opens the door to Kimble.
ROOSEVELT: It sure is good to see you again, Dr. Kimble.
KIMBLE: You too, Roosevelt... Been a long time.
Roosevelt closes the door behind them.

INT. TISSUE STORAGE - DAY
Roosevelt brings Kimble a file marked: RDU90.
ROOSEVELT: This is the R.D.U.90 file and samples Dr. Nichols said you needed.
KIMBLE: Thanks, Roosevelt.

CUT TO: INT. UNMARKED POLICE CAR - DAY
A cop stares up at Sykes' house from across the street.

INT. SYKES' APARTMENT - DAY
Sykes watches the cops in the car outside. He moves to the phone and dials number.
EMERGENCY OPERATOR (V.O.): Emergency operator.
SYKES: I want to report a fire...; No, it's not my place, it's a couple doors down.

INT. CMH HALLWAY/DR. WAHLUND'S LAB - DAY
Kimble moves down hall and quietly enters a small research lab in the university. Dr. Wahlund sits behind her microscope and doesn't see him until he touches her on the shoulder.
WAHLUND: (startled) Oh, my God... Richard.
KIMBLE: I loaned you something once, Kath, and I need them back.

INT. SYKES' APARTMENT - DAY
Sykes, dressed in coat and tie, prepares to leave apartment. Somewhere in the distance we hear: FIRE ENGINE SIRENS.

EXT. SYKES' APARTMENT - DAY
The cop stares at Sykes' window when suddenly we hear FIRE SIRENS, and a pair of fire trucks turn onto the street and pull up across the street from the unmarked car -blocking the view of Sykes' house. Firemen climb down and move to a nearby building. The street begins to fill up with people.
The cop stares at the commotion directly behind him. He becomes so engrossed in the action like everyone else that he fails to see Sykes, using the distraction, exit his apartment and walk calmly away from the scene.

INT. U.S. MARSHAL'S OFFICE - DAY
Newman studies the photograph of Lentz and Sykes under a magnifying glass.
INSERT - CLOSE ON PHOTO OF LENTZ
We see the logo on Lentz' shirt says: C M H.

EXT. EL STATION - PHONE BOOTH - DAY
Sykes stands at a phone booth, finishes a call, then moves up the stairs to board an el train.