"Gotterdammerung"
Part 1 of 3
Ben Charnquist sits at the stage of a Las Cruces, New Mexico strip club where he meets a man named Louie Q. Charnquist hands the man a leather satchel. He opens it, approves of the cut diamonds inside, and exits. Charnquist then goes into the men's room and enters a stall. As he closes the door, it is slammed back open. A figure strikes him in the face, overpowers him and throws him to the floor. Charnquist looks up to see Richard Kimble standing over him, pulling the cap off a syringe needle. He leans down and plunges it into the One-armed man's neck.
A few days prior to that event, Kimble sits in the office of high profile defense attorney Walter Dinwiddie. After describing a recurring nightmare in which he is captured and put to death, Kimble says he's tired of running. Dinwiddie tells Kimble that he "can simply disappear" until a solid case has been built. Kimble exits the office, revealed to be Dinwiddie's yacht, while Dinwiddie considers his case. Waiting on deck is Becca Ross who hands Richard a stack of money and tells him to go to Zurich until his defense is ready. Dinwiddie emerges and tells Kimble that he'll take the case.
In Chicago Gerard begrudgingly scans the headlines describing Kimble's new lawyer as new task force member Dennis Gagomiros enters. He introduces himself as a temporary replacement for Eve Hilliard, who's been reassigned. Charnquist approaches a run down trailer home. Hearing the sound of a couple making love, he enters, rattling the lovers from their bed and shaking the man, Marvin, down for something he says he doesn't have. He then eyes the diamond on the engagement ring on Sally Sue's finger. "Take it off," Charnquist says, pulling out a knife, "or I will."
Kimble finds a document forger at the back room of a muffler repair shop. There he is given his passport to freedom along with the name Gary Curtis.
Gerard and Gagomiros pick up Becca Ross after a wiretap reveals she was setting up a Swiss bank account for Kimble. When Dinwiddie questions the legality of the tap, Gerard reveals his trump card; the Judge assigned to the case was an old friend of Dinwiddie's...until Dinwiddie stole his fiance.
At a Phoenix, Arizona resort, Kimble's brother-in-law Jonathan Hume relaxes in a pool with his two children. Charnquist approaches the elder son, Stuart, leaving behind an ominous note.
Kimble phones Dinwiddie from the airport to tell him that he's about to leave for Switzerland when Dinwiddie gives him the bad news; Becca's been arrested and all her accounts have been frozen. Knowing the police are on to him, Kimble quickly exits the airport as police cars pull alongside the curb. Seeing a chauffeur awaiting a pick-up, Kimble jumps inside the limo and escapes.
At his office, Dinwiddie tells Kimble that without Becca's funds he can't continue to represent him. As Kimble pours himself a scotch, he is given the rest of the bad news. Charnquist is threatening to harm Stuart Hume unless Kimble turns himself in. As Kimble decides his next move, Dinwiddie hands him a file. A private investigator has confirmed sightings of the One-armed man around certain Las Cruces strip clubs. Using what's left of his money, Kimble picks up a used car from the muffler/passport shop and heads west. Along the way he enters at a clinic where he breaks into the medical supply cabinet, removing two vials of medication and syringes. Finally reaching New Mexico he visits a pawnshop, purchasing handcuffs and a cop's badge.
Back to the opening scene, Louie Q exits with the satchel of diamonds and Charnquist enters the bathroom. Kimble kicks in the door, they skirmish, Charnquist goes down, and the needle goes in. The One-armed man fearfully asks Kimble what he just gave him. Kimble replies, "Lethal Injection."
To Be Continued
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