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I understand that a series in the last year of its run usually cuts corners galore....but this was a sorry presentation indeed.

The script....the sets.....the waste of some fine actors....everything about this episode was tawdry and dull.

Given the presence of Carol Rossen, and the one-armed man, I thought it would at least have a bit of class and real tension. Instead, weak script and dull dull dull.

Would of liked this a series opener, to remind viewers old and new of Kimble's plight. Lot of action here and a good cast, especially liked the old gangster guy. The only thing missing is Lieutenant Gerard ,that would have mixed things up even more.

The doc's travels take him to Clark City, a place kinda like the alternate universe Hill Valley, run by Biff Tannen. Kimble is stopped by two cops right off, not because he's wanted, but because he's not. They beat him up and tell him to get out of town. Now, instead of just kicking him out of town, it seems like they could just have arrested him for being Richard Kimble, since they knew he was. Odd choice by them. Anyways, Dick is helped by a woman who has no reason to help him, but she offers to take him to the hospital anyway. Kimble has to avoid hospitals because he has no insurance and owes millions in medical bills. He's in town because he thinks he saw one arm somewhere, but he's not sure because the usually disheveled bum is looking like a million bucks, nice suit, slick back razor haircut, smooth shave and even a manicure since he can get them at half price. He is living the high life, has his own handicapped parking spot, and is even going to sit at Mel Torme's table and be the guest of honor at the Americans with disabilities dinner. It was one arm, going by the name Cosmo Kramer, who had the cops rough up Kimble. What's going on here? That's what Kimble wants to know. He asks a cabbie, "who controls local gambling?" and is told where to go and who to see. So he sees the guy, a Mr Enright, and tells him two cops beat him up. He proves it by exposing his hairy chest and horrible bruises, too gruesome to show on 60's TV. They must be really bad if you can see them under all that hair. Some other stuff happens, including Kramer paying a hit man to rub Kimble out (he misses, of course), until Kimble and Cosmo get into a fight, which Kimble wins due to his superior fighting skills. Kimble then drags Kramer into the police station, admits that he's Richard Kimble and that Kramer killed his wife. The cops are not too eager to see justice done and eventually take everyone involved to a palatial estate. The boss of bosses then appears, Don Vito. He's the real power in the town. Kimble tells him he hopes he can turn Kramer over to the Indiana state police. The don tells Kimble, I can't remember the last time you invited me over for a cup of coffee. But I understand, you never wanted a friend like me. You went to the police. Kimble responds, he killed my wife. No one believed me. I thought the judge would suspend my sentence. Suspend my sentence. Instead he sentenced me to death. I was saved only because the train crashed. The don says he knew that. His friend Luca pushed the train off the tracks. But you come here today not in friendship. You don't even think to call me Godfather. Kimble pauses. Be my friend.....Godfather. Kimble then kisses the don's hand and whispers into his ear. That I can not do. I can not turn anyone over to the police. I can have him killed, if that helps. No, thanks anyway, says Kimble.

So then Enright gives Cosmo 24 hours to leave before Kimble is allowed to go after him. Cosmo says, "Giddyup" and drives off with the top down. Kimble promises he will wait, but crosses his fingers behind his back. He steals Enright's car and doesn't know which way Kramer went, but soon catches him anyway. Enright calls the state police but also breaks his promise and doesn't tell them who Kimble really is. The cops bring Kimble back to Enright's office and he says he could just kill Kimble for lying to him. Kimble then picks up a gun, at which point Enright tells him to leave the gun and take the cannoli. Dick does that, as he loves cannoli. Kimble leaves, thinking he will never see one arm again. He thinks wrong.

Richard Kimble (actor David Janssen), on escape after being wrongly convicted for the murder of his wife, arrives in Clark City, a lively town where gambling, alcohol, and adult entertainment are served up to tourists. Two policemen approach Kimble but instead of arresting him, they beat him and order him to get out of town. Kimble does not want to leave town because he believes he saw Fred Johnson (the one-armed man Kimble saw running from the scene of the crime). Kimble seeks out the head of the gambling syndicate, Ollie Enright, to ask for help.

Kimble was right. Fred Johnson (actor Bill Raisch) is in town, using the name Cramer, and works for the gambling syndicate as a bag man, giving payoffs directly to the Chief of Police. He is now prosperous and well dressed. He paid the officers to run Kimble out of town.

Enright is unaware of Johnson's plotting. He does not like people giving orders to police on their own, and wants things in the town to go smoothly so the income can keep coming in. Enright puts out the word to the police to stop the harassment, causing the police to refuse to cooperate with Johnson. He also puts Kimble on the payroll as a bartender, to keep an eye on him, and to catch the people responsible for Kimble's beating.

Kimble and Johnson maneuver against each other. In a dramatic scene, Kimble captures Johnson and drags him to the police station, insisting they call Lieutenant Gerard. However, circumstances work against Kimble.

Actor Eduardo Cianelli masterfully plays the part of elderly gangster Victor Luchek.

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Close...but no cigar. Such was this episode of "The Fugitive". In recent episodes, the one-armed man began appearing more often and "A Clean and Quiet Town" marks the closest Richard Kimble would come to bringing the murderer in for justice...an, in fact, he DOES bring him to the police. But considering it's early in season four, viewers realize that Kimble cannot yet clear himself...so something has to intervene. That something is a hellishly corrupt town...where gambling and other vices run rampant and the police are bought and paid for by the mob.

Because he comes so close to finally ending his search, this makes for a tense and exciting episode...sort of like an appetizer before the ultimate series finale later in the season. Well worth seeing....and more opportunity for Bill Raisch (the one-armed man) to act.