- Police drag in Kimble when a co-worker robs the liquor store the fugitive's clerking in. Some police suspect Kimble's involved, but their chief knows he's not - because his alienated son is the stick-up man. To repair their relationship the desperate father needs to get his son off. Will he feed Kimble to his wolves to do so ?—David Stevens
- Sheriff Corby walks down the street in a small California town and into a liquor store that Dr. Kimble is working in. While Kimble is restocking shelves, the policeman and his son Larry argue about Larry not coming home for three nights. Larry lies and says he's been staying with Kimble. After the sheriff leaves, Kimble asks Larry to leave him out of it next time. Larry apologizes.
Larry's girlfriend shows up at the store. They're planning a trip. She mentions the 11:00 flight and being all packed. Larry says he'll pick her up at 9:30. After she leaves, Kimble says, "Looks serious," to which Larry responds, "We're getting married tomorrow."
Later that evening, while Kimble is counting the money and closing up the store, a masked robber with a gun enters via the back door and motions for Kimble to fill his sack with the money. From the back office, the manager sees this and calls the sheriff's office, then grabs a gun and shoots the robber as he's getting in his car. The money bag is dropped but the robber drives away. The sheriff, tired of waiting on his son to get home, had driven to the store and pulls up just as the robber is fleeing. We see that Larry is the robber and he crashes the car. The sheriff, seeing that it's Larry, puts him in the back of his own car and says he'll take him to the hospital. But Larry says, "Just take me home. I don't want to go to jail. They got their money. Nobody was hurt. My gun wasn't even loaded."
At the store, the deputies are questioning the store owner and Kimble (using the alias Jim Parker). Then they bring Kimble in for more questioning at the sheriff's office and even fingerprint him. The deputy thinks that Kimble was in on the robbery and left the back door open. The deputy calls the sheriff at home. Once Larry finds out that Kimble is being held, he tells his dad that he has to get Kimble off the hook because he had nothing to do with it. He also insists on no hospitals. So the sheriff decides to go to the office to find out what's going on and to get some medicine and first aid for his son.
After the sheriff leaves, Larry's girlfriend calls him at home; but he passes out before he gets to the phone.
Kimble tells the sheriff that the robber was young but that he couldn't see anything through the ski mask. Although the deputy wants to hold Kimble as "he could have been the inside man," the sheriff says, "Let him go. We can't hold him any longer without charging him." Larry calls his dad at the office and says, "You gotta get me a doctor."
Having been released, Kimble heads home to pack and leave. Back at the sheriff's office, the fingerprint match comes back to Kimble. Sheriff says, "Stake out the railroad and bus depot. Set up a roadblock." And then tells the deputy to take over because he doesn't feel well. But since he knows where Kimble is staying, the sheriff heads over there. They struggle and the sheriff is able to get Kimble in his car. They're seen by another resident of the rooming house, who phones in a "disturbance" to the sheriff's office. The sheriff brings Kimble to his house to treat Larry. When Kimble sees the gun shot wound, he says it's bad and that Larry needs a hospital. The sheriff says, "You save him and I'll let you go free."
So Kimble takes the bullet out, but cautions the sheriff that with the internal damage, Larry is still not well. Larry's girlfriend comes over and the sheriff blames her for Larry holding up the liquor store. Kimble tries to slip away during their argument but the sheriff sees him. The sheriff also tells him that there's no way Kimble can get away anyway because of the stakeouts and roadblocks. The sheriff's house is the only safe place for him.
Under questioning by the deputy, the store owner says that Kimble and Larry were friendly. When the deputy calls the sheriff's house, the sheriff says that Larry isn't home. The deputy goes to the Supplies room and checks the medical cabinet inventory.
Larry's girlfriend also wants Larry to go to a hospital but the sheriff doesn't want his son to end up in jail. Larry reveals that she's pregnant. And he stole because he needed money to get married and take care of his baby. By morning, Larry is in a coma. Kimble tells the sheriff that he's dying and if he dies, the sheriff will have to live with the fact that he could have saved him. The sheriff finally calls for an ambulance.
The sheriff follows the ambulance through the roadblock with Kimble in the trunk, then lets Kimble out some distance away. The deputy, still suspicious about the liquor store holdup and the sheriff's strange behavior, asks about the disturbance at the rooming house. He suspects that the sheriff had Kimble help Larry before he was brought to the hospital. But the sheriff admits only to harboring a fugitive - what does it matter whether it was one or two. He has resigned as sheriff and will face whatever charges come his way.
Richard Kimble walks down the street, a free man for now.
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