"Past Perfect"
Kimble enters a Tulsa, Oklahoma bar looking for work. He spots a dreadful familiarity with the other patrons: Badges, Handcuffs. He's walked into an off duty cop bar. One of them eyes him suspiciously. He eases his way to the back when a voice calls his name. Recognized, Kimble runs out the back door as two cops follow. He races down a dead-end alley, passing an open manhole with two Municipal workers lunching nearby. The cops round the corner and Kimble is gone. They look toward the open manhole and enter. Kimble runs through the dark tunnel and sees a ladder leading to another cover. As flashlight beams approach, the cover gives and Kimble escapes. He replaces the cover as the traffic signal changes, leaving the cops stranded below.
Gerard introduces himself to members of the Fugitive Task Force he is now in charge of. Among them is Eve Hilliard, who by all rights was next in line for Gerard's position. He examines the headlines from an Oklahoma newspaper, and it comes as no surprise that the first case to be tackled is Kimble. They believe Kimble to be communicating through personal ads in the USA Today, referring to a cryptic message from his one-time cellmate, Steve Dalkowski. Dalkowski is serving a life sentence for murder in Joliet.
In the prison yard, Dalkowski listens to a story about a one-armed man named Charnquist, supposedly dead for years, but as the inmate says, there is a picture of him from a 1999 New Years celebration in a Tavern outside of Chicago. Steve is quick to relay this to Kimble via the personal ads with a message to call Steve's mom. Kimble calls Delores Dalkowski, who insists that she get the picture herself, but Kimble says it's too risky. However, she is indebted to him since Kimble once saved her son from committing suicide in his prison cell.
Gerard's cell phone rings. It's Kimble, who explains the new evidence proves Charnquist was alive when Helen was murdered. Gerard is unconcerned and tells Kimble to call his lawyer. Before hanging up, Kimble tells Gerard that Abe Eisenberg has died. Another task force member enters, Eddie Miles. He is the "inmate" with the Charnquist story. Gerard smiles to his colleagues, saying "Kimble took the bait."
Sitting on a bus headed for Aurora, Kimble recalls the night he escaped. A series of memories from the accident, to the ensuing chase, and his injured leg. He makes his way to the home of Delores Dalkowski who willingly takes him in, gives him a meal and change of clothes. She later drives him across the border into Iowa, Kimble hidden away in the back of her truck to evade roadblocks.
Back in Joliet, Steve is curious as to what happened to the inmate with the Charnquist story. An older, wiser prisoner tells him that if he's been shipped out he was probably a plant spreading misinformation to set somebody up. Dalkowski realizes that he's put Kimble in jeopardy.
Gerard and his surveillance team wait patiently outside the tavern for Kimble to arrive. But as tensions rise, the team begins to call it off. Eve is determined to stick it out with Gerard.
Kimble is in a cab now, closing in on the tavern and the evidence that may free him. He reflects on Gerard's behavior, and how he is uncharacteristically not following the evidence. Growing cautious of a possible set up, he flags down a kid on a razor scooter.
With Gerard in the bathroom, the boy enters the tavern, buys a bag of chips, takes a look around and exits. He reports to Kimble that there's only a woman inside, and that the picture with Charnquist is in fact there.
Gerard and Eve finally decide to call it. Outside the bar is an old pick up truck, a nervous woman inside. Gerard suddenly recognizes this woman from a roadblock on the night Kimble escaped. They order her from the truck and inside the bar. She denies knowing Kimble, but Gerard realizes that the setup was exposed; she was there to warn Kimble. Even with the promise of lightening Steve's sentence, Delores doesn't give up Kimble. She watches through a window as Richard edges closer to the entrance. Gerard follows her eyes and senses something. He runs outside, but there is no one. If Kimble was there a moment ago, he's gone now.
At a lonesome railyard, Kimble looks up toward the morning sun, remembering a similar scene when he last saw Delores. As they said goodbye, she asked him if her son had really been guilty of murder. Kimble, who could not break this kind woman's heart with the truth, assured her that her assumptions were correct. Her son was innocent.
-Warner Bros.