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7/10
Kimble meets up with a VERY unpleasant and awful lady from his past.
planktonrules30 March 2017
When the episode begins, Richard Kimble is living in Florida and operates a boat for someone. With a hurricane coming, he has no intention of going anywhere in the boat. But soon a woman arrives with her no-good boyfriend. They are crooks and have stolen $25,000--and want Kimble to take them to one of the Keys (the island chain at the bottom of Florida). When Marcie recognizes it's Kimble and knows he's a wanted man, she uses that to force him to cooperate. And, if that doesn't work, the pair are armed...and Kimble has no choice.

On the very bumpy and dangerous ride, the boyfriend starts panicking and his panic results in him being washed overboard to a certain death. But she's no pussycat and she would gladly shoot Kimble if he doesn't continue the voyage. Once there, fortunately, he's able to get the gun away from her...but then they are both stuck in a house that is slowly being torn apart by the storm. You then learn her backstory and how she came to know Kimble...and through it all, she shows strong evidence that she's a sociopath and has little in the way of conscience. What's next?

This is generally a very good episode...with one dumb exception. When the storm is at its worst, the pair embrace and share a passionate kiss...which really makes no sense---at least for Kimble. This happens at the end as well. Still, if you can overlook these it's well worth seeing and exciting.
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7/10
The Sleeping Beauty wanting for Price Charming!!
elo-equipamentos10 February 2024
In Stormy Center our hero faces his destiny when he randomly meets an old distasteful acquaintance Marcie King (Bethel Leslie) from his free past as doctor, concerning he did not make her an abortion at its time, in seeking another doctor she ends up in tragic event, she lost the child and became infertile, henceforth Marcie blamed Dr. Kimble for her misfortune, by recognizing him at harbor on Florida she threats him call the police if he doesn't take her by boat together with her fiancé Montjoy (Dennis Patrick) to a nearby island, Montjoy stolen a large amount of money, however a warning of hurricane ongoing there stop all boats at harbor, upon such menace Dr. Kimble has to take the risk.

Sadly during the sailing on stormy weather at dark night Montjoy on the deck accidently is taken by strong waves going overboard and doomed to die, soon they dock at island, in the house the complainer lady starts annoy Kimble at all coast, thus it didn't find echo on the wary doctor, then Marcie retelling her sad background story as poor child, left by a mobster father and a buzzer mother and so on, trying underpin her wicked behavior.

By taken and keep the stolen money Kimble will assures that she won't betray him, wrong at first opportunity the scheming girl call the local Sheriff by boat radio to arrest Kimble soon the hurricane back off, in the meantime Kimble discovers that Marcie actually was a mid-class girl, falling apart all that cheap victimhood, appalled she changes declaring herself in fact she falling in love for so kindly Doctor, however the time is running out...

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9/10
Boy scout vs. bad girl
MissClassicTV20 September 2015
This episode reminds me of a play. There's great one-on-one dialog between the two characters, Richard Kimble and Marcie King, and great acting by David Janssen and Bethel Leslie. Not a lot of action in this one, no chase scenes, and the storm sequences look fake by today's standards. Instead, it's a showcase for their acting chops. I love that Richard Kimble in this episode doesn't keep his eyes downcast all the time, trying to hide, trying to be someone else. In this episode, he is himself, a confident, cool, self-assured man.

His contemporaries always said that David Janssen had a very dry wit. Some of the exchanges here really show Janssen's charm and timing. He's sarcastic, sometimes disdainful, and kind of funny.
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9/10
Plot summary
ynot-163 November 2006
This is one of Kimble's hottest romances. The chemistry between Kimble and Marcie King, played by actress Bethel Leslie, burns up the screen, though Kimble has mixed emotions about her.

Kimble is working in the Florida Keys, tying up his boss's boat as a hurricane approaches. Marcie and her boyfriend, running from police because of a stock swindle, are looking for a boat to take them out to a small island where she has a house. Kimble at first refuses because of the storm, and because it is not his boat. Unfortunately, Marcie and Kimble have met before, and she forces Kimble to take them in the storm.

Marcie and Kimble are left alone on the island as the hurricane rages. She has hated Kimble for years since he refused to give her an abortion, leading her to seek a back alley abortionist who left her unable to have children. She gains more reason to hate Kimble as they weather the storm. They are highly suspicious of each other and come into frequent conflict, but ultimately fall into each other's arms. Circumstances destroy a plan (more hers than his) for them to run away together.
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4/14/64: "Storm Center"
schappe123 April 2015
Kimble is working for the owner of a fishing boat in Florida who leaves the boat in his care as a hurricane approaches. Also approaching are Dennis Patrick and Bethel Leslie, crooks who have stolen some securities and who have a large bank account in Brazil. They also have a gun and Leslie knows Kimble from before: She once sought him out for an abortion. They force him to take them to an island where she owns a house where a ship bound for Brazil will pick them up. But Patrick panics in the storm and gets blown overboard. Kimble and Leslie make it to the island where she hatches a plan to go to Brazil with him. He can impersonate Patrick and get the money from the bank.

The rest of the episode is a one-on-one between two very good actors, David Janssen and Bethel Leslie. She's duplicitous but vulnerable. He's skeptical but drawn to her. The house they are in seems to belie her claims to poverty and the need to get the money to finally get what she wants from this world. It also seems to belie the idea that a hurricane is ranging outside. It's an obvious studio set and there are no sounds of winds whipping the building, except when a flat gives way with a wind machine going on outside.
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10/10
Night of the hurricane
Christopher37016 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I love this episode so much. It plays like an old 1940's film noir and I think Bethel Leslie gave an outstanding performance as the cynical, scheming, only out for herself Marcie.

At the start of the episode I really despised her, but as the show progressed, I began to feel for her the same way that Kimble eventually did. She turned out not to be the evil heathen I originally thought she was. I think she was always a good person deep down, but needed someone like Kimble to bring it to the surface.

I still don't know if she was being genuine and sincere when she asked Kimble to go to Mexico with her though. Part of me wanted to believe her, but the other part suspected that she only wanted to use him to get her hands on dead Harry's half million dollars down there and then she would have split on him. Who knows?

But the final scene did reveal that Kimble HAD changed her in some way during their night together in the storm because when the police says she was lucky that she didn't wind up a dead woman with that Kimble guy, she muses to herself it was actually just the opposite.

So perhaps she is a changed woman now and will stop hating the world and feeling sorry for herself. As the eternal optimist, i'd like to think she found her peace after that night and used her 25 thousand dollars to get herself together and lived a good life.

The actress reminded me of a young Geena Davis and I really enjoyed her performance as well as David Janssen's here. It's definitely another favorite of mine that I can watch again and again.

Some may say the hurricane looked fake but for it's time I think they did a heck of a job creating the storm on a sound stage and I for one loved every second of it. I give a solid 10 stars all the way for this gem of an episode.
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