"The Pilot"

- the complete plot -

A SCENE BY SCENE SUPER SUMMARY

by Mitch Nozka

**********FADE IN**********

Dr. Richard Kimble wakes up startled inside a van.

Lt. Gerard is unconscious. Kimble uses Gerard's key to uncuff himself and takes Gerard's gun. Gerard awakens and urges Kimble to stop. Kimble holds the gun to Gerard, throws it away, and then runs off.

As he is running, we see flashbacks of Helen's murder. And then Richard and Helen jogging, talking, in a happy mood. They speak about having a baby. And then in Kimble's house at night. A man with a prosthetic arm assaults Kimble. Helen is mortally wounded in the bedroom.

Aftermath. The crime scene. The sound of camera taking pictures. Gerard questioning Kimble about money. Kimble explaining about the one-armed man and that he couldn't save Helen. Gerard explains that no other forensic evidence was found, other than Kimble's. They believe Kimble is guilty. The Miranda rights are read. And then forward to the courtroom. Guilty. Being escorted to Joliet in a police van. On the highway, a car spins out of control, causing a chain reaction of other accidents. A trailer loaded with many new cars starts to spin, causing the highway to be blocked, and it hits the police van. It flips down a hill and stops overturned.

Running. Flashbacks. Gerard now in pursuit on foot. Onto the highway, Kimble jumps off an overpass onto a tractor trailer. His foot is lodged in the car, bleeding and he struggles to get it out and jump to hang off the side of the truck before a low overpass highway sign can hit him.

**********OPENING CREDITS*********

Kimble dyes his hair black in a lavatory on a coach bus. Later, he is in an internet cafe in Cleveland, on a computer searching for wanted one-armed men. Passing by a newsstand, Kimble's picture is on the front cover of a paper. Searching through files at a hospital. Outside, Kimble sees a police cruiser pull up near him and gets apprehensive, but the running cops pass him by.

Kimble finds a match on the internet. A man named Fred Johnson was involved in an incident in Miami. Kimble goes there on a coach bus. He goes to the Camelot Inn, a run-down motel and speaks with the owner, Basquera. Kimble questions him about Fred Johnson, who had stayed there. Johnson left, but he will be coming back on Friday. Kimble gets a room, then asks him for work, and is directed to go to a street corner, to attempt to get a day-jobber construction job. After accidentally bumping into a man at the corner, Kimble is selected as one of eight of a small crowd. It pays $100 a day in cash.

At the construction site, Kimble is joining two metal beams together. Meanwhile, the man who bumped into Kimble, a plumber, is watching America's Most Wanted, which is reporting on Richard Kimble.

At the motel, Kimble wants the owner not to tell Fred Johnson that he is there, so he can surprise him as a friend. Basquera knows that he is lying, but says he will not tell Johnson for $50 a day. Kimble complies.

At the construction site, a female site-inspector shows up with reports that he is using too many day-jobbers. She goes up on an elevator to check out the levels after speaking with the foreman.

In Chicago, Gerard is organizing a search for Kimble after the plumber called about spotting Kimble. Gerard and a team heads to Miami.

At the construction site, the inspector gets injured from a falling ladder, and punctures her lung. Kimble yells for someone to call 911, and then works on her, cutting her to drain the blood from her lung. He saves her.

Gerard is in Miami, talking with the plumber at the street corner. He notices an ATM machine, which has a camera that may have recorded Kimble.

At the site, the foreman, Rainer, warns Kimble to keep quiet about the accident, and pays him his $100 for the day, showing his gun as his shirt opens up slightly.

At the motel, Basquera tells Kimble that Johnson called, won't be arriving until Monday, and is waiting for a package.

Gerard and his men see Kimble on the ATM tape. They now have a manhunt.

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Kimble visits the construction inspector, Laura Chereaux in a hospital. She'll be out in a few days. Kimble warns Laura about Rainer and Steve Beech, Rainer's assistant. Kimble says he saw nails loose from the ladder, and Beech was standing near it. Laura offers to cook him dinner after she gets out on Friday. At the dinner, Kimble plays with his food, entertaining her seven year-old daughter, Carrie.

Gerard sees a special wrench that Rainer held while talking to Kimble on the corner on the ATM tape. He puts out a search for metal beam construction sites.

Back at the dinner, Laura speaks of her near-death experience at the site, and how she would miss her daughter if she had died. She then tells him that she knows he is not a construction worker, and that she thinks he is in trouble.

Police officers are questioning people at construction sites.

At Kimble's site, Laura finds out illegalities the foreman is doing, buying low-grade steel and logging down higher-grade price to pocket the money. A building he built before with low-grade steel had collapsed. Laura wants Kimble to move on, while the foreman is being tracked by the D.A.

Laura and Kimble get into an elevator lift with Beech. He notices the steel-purchase receipt in her shirt pocket. A police cruiser pulls up below, and Gerard steps out.

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The lift stops on the ground. Beech steps out, and Kimble promptly closes the lift and goes back up with Laura. Gerard questions a worked who identifies Rainer, saying to ask him about Kimble. Gerard goes up on a lift.

Beech calls up Rainer on a cell phone, and warns him that Gerard is coming up. Rainer tells him to get a truck ready so he can drive away.

Laura helps Kimble to escape while Gerard is near them. Rainer confronts Gerard and pulls out a gun, but Kimble hits Rainer in the head before he can shoot, and the gun drops to Laura below. Gerard holds a gun to Kimble. Kimble says the man who killed his wife is in Miami; Gerard doesn't care and tells Kimble to drop the wrench.

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Gerard radios Lt. Bob Katzman. Laura then holds Rainer's gun to Gerard. Kimble takes Gerard's gun and tells Laura to go. He handcuff's Gerard to a pole and takes the keys and the phone. Kimble runs with Laura. Gerard takes out his backup weapon and shoots the handcuffs. A chase ensures. Kimble tells Laura to get away from him, and goes a separate way. Gerard holds a gun to Kimble and orders him to drop Rainer's gun, and does so. Kimble jumps off the level and lands on a safety net, which then begins to give away. A helicopter arrives, blowing dust in Gerard's face. Kimble swings onto a level, and then runs off down a street.

Rainer is arrested. Gerard talks to Laura and asks her if she helped him. (Gerard saw her reflection in his watch). She does not give a straight answer.

Kimble calls Basquera at the motel. Fred Johnson was just there and picked up his package. He tells Kimble he had a bus ticket.

Kimble goes to the bus station and sees Fred Johnson board a bus #696. But the police are very close, looking for him. Kimble is unable to confront Johnson.

At night, Kimble walks down railroad tracks. Laura sits with her daughter. A dog walks up to Kimble, hungry. Kimble feeds him part of his snack. The dog walks away, as does Kimble.

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