"Safekeeping"
Kimble lays low in a Topeka, Kansas farmhouse helping out as the handyman for a single father, Nathan Wickes.
In Chicago, Vasick tells Ross that he's got a bead on Kimble; an address for the payphone that Kimble has been calling his lawyer from.
Having to leave town on business, Nathan instructs his teenage daughter Mallory that she is to stay at her friend's house while he is gone. Having full confidence in Kimble, he is not thrilled with how it would look to have his daughter staying at home with the local handyman. She does however convince her father to allow Kimble to take her out driving.
Eisenberg complains to Gerard that his phone's been tapped. Gerard, insisting that he would not go beyond the limits of the law, suspects Karl Vasick and even issues a warning for Kimble to be careful.
As Kimble does his best to teach the basics of parallel parking, he notices a suspicious truck following them. Instructing Mallory with arbitrary lefts and rights, the truck still follows. Becoming more uneasy, he takes over at the wheel, saying "Here's a lesson on how not to drive." A few twists, turns, and screeching corners later, they seem to have lost the tailing vehicle.
After dropping a very impressed Mallory off at her friend's house, the truck reappears and smashes into his car at a traffic signal. A women steps out of the truck - Mallory's mother, whom, according to Mallory, has been dead for two years. Catherine Wickes, a recovering alcoholic, explains to Kimble that she wants to be back with her family. She's been sober for six months, but is still nervous about returning to her husband and daughter, fearing they won't understand her absence.
Gerard slams in the door of a trailer. Inside is Eric Nerney, a timid surveillance geek who comes clean that it was Vasick who hired him to bug the lawyer's phone. He turns over the tapes to avoid arrest.
Vasick shows up at the Wickes home, telling Mallory that he is an old friend of Kimble's. She is immediately suspicious of this character and tells him he left town a couple days ago. Kimble happens to be watching from a safe distance. Kimble tells Mallory that he has to leave, warning her that Vasick is a dangerous man. She is less than sincere when she tells him she is used to people leaving, and Kimble understands why.
Kimble calls Vasick from the train station, hoping to throw him off his trail with misinformation.
Mallory answers the door and sees her mother standing there. It is an awkward moment; Catherine wants to reunite with her daughter, but Mallory is unable to cope with her sudden return.
Vasick waits at the train station for any sign of Kimble. He sees Mallory and knows Kimble must be nearby. Kimble pages her with a message and the two of them escape through a window in the bathroom.
Vasick's car approaches the house. Kimble tells Mallory and Catherine to stay in the storm cellar while he deals with Vasick. He cuts the power, leaving Vasick to stumble through a dark house.
Nerney's tapes have led Gerard to the Topeka Grain and Feed store, where he shows a picture of Kimble that is familiar to the store's owner.
Kimble threatens Vasick with a shotgun, but the bounty hunter is unwavered, telling Kimble that he "know killers. You ain't one." As he reaches the top of the stairs, Kimble swings the butt of the gun into Vasick, knocking him aside. He runs down the stairs and finds himself staring face to face with Gerard. Vasick recovers, turns and then fires, nearly hitting Kimble. Gerard returns a shot and hits Vasick who tumbles down the stairs, holding his stomach in agony. When Gerard turns back, Kimble is gone. Gerard asks the two Wickes women where Kimble may have gone. They offer no information. An ambulance carries Vasick away as Nathan arrives, elated to see that his daughter is safe, and stunned also to see his wife. Unprepared for this new beginning, he takes her hand.
-Warner Bros.