"Jenny"
Part 1 of 2
Two bank robbers are the focus of a local news report as a store owner watches on a small television. Jenny Butler enters the Northern California country store in the midst of a downpour. The owner of a Bed & Breakfast, she returns to the vacant inn and discovers the power is out and a window is broken. She hears footsteps of an intruder and wrestles Richard Kimble to the floor. A swift knee to the groin sends him reeling. Kimble apologizes and starts to leave, telling her there was no other place open and he's even left money to pay for the window. Jenny sees money on the counter and knows he was telling the truth. She offers him a place to sleep in the garage.
In the morning she sees that he has completely cleaned the garage. Pleased to have a handyman around, she offers him a couple of weeks work and a room. That night, Jenny embraces a picture of herself with a man and a small child. It appears these are people who are no longer in her life.
Jenny's former in-laws, Jack and Evelyn Butler, arrive the next day, surprised that she has taken in a complete stranger, as if she still belongs to someone else. This overprotective couple does not approve of the new handyman.
A week has passed. Kimble and Jenny are enjoying a night out when she tells him that her husband and son died a few years ago while camping in the Sierras. Kimble empathizes with her loss. As they start to dance, Jenny sees her former in-laws and is concerned that they won't understand. Evelyn tells Jenny she's embarrassing herself being with Kimble. Frustrated, Jenny tells Evelyn she plans to sell the Bed & Breakfast as soon as it is fixed up.
That night, Jenny answers a knock on the door and a young couple stand before her. Donny and Lynette Hennessey push their way inside to "take a peek." Telling them she's closed for renovations, Jenny refuses a generous amount of money, and invites them to come back in the spring when it's reopened. Kimble enters to acknowledge his presence. The wayward couple appear insulted and leave.
The next day, Evelyn apologizes to Jenny. However, Kimble tells her that he must leave soon. Jenny is unwilling to let him go, telling him how she feels responsible for the death of her husband and son because she let them go on their trip, agreeing to meet them the next day. It was that night that a fire swept through their campsite. Richard is understanding. This compels him to share with her the secret he carries with him. Rain begins to pour down as they share an impassioned kiss. Thunder moves them into Jenny's bedroom where lightning captures images of two passionate lovers, lost in each other. Jenny tries to convince Kimble to stay, arguing that they could make a life in the small town, keep the hotel, start over. Lying next to Jenny in bed, his past far behind him, Kimble seriously considers.
The next day, a potential buyer, from Illinois, swears he's met Kimble somewhere before. Jenny insists he's lived in this small town his whole life, but Kimble realizes that there will always be people who recognize him; that he can't put Jenny in that kind of danger. He has to leave.
At the bus stop Jenny tries one last time to convince Kimble to stay. As he moves toward the bus, Jenny turns away, and the bus drives off. She turns back and sees Kimble is still there, wearing a large grin.
Lynette Hennessy sits on a motel room bed, eyes glued to the TV as a narrator explains the series of bank robberies in the Pacific Northwest. Calling to Donny, "Look, we're on TV," the segment is followed with an update on Richard Kimble, and Lynette's eyes light up as she recognizes the man from the Bed & Breakfast.
To Be Continued
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