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When the story begins, Richard Kimble is aboard a bus. It's stopped by police and apparently a criminal (other than Kimble) is there and he threatens to kill one of the passengers with his knife. Soon, he is jumped and he and Kimble are involved in the tussle and Kimble is stabbed. With no hospital nearby and since it is an emergency, he's taken to the nearest place he can get care...the prison infirmary! They still don't realize that Kimble is a fugitive...they just want to save his life and the prison hospital is the best bet.

As soon as Kimble arrives in the prison, one of the prisoners recognizes him from prison in Indiana....and plans to exploit it. Eventually, Kimble receives a note...he's to help smuggle some morphine out of the prison hospital or else he'll be exposed. And, when he does, an innocent prisoner, Mickey (Greg Morris) is assumed to be responsible for the drug theft...and this will cost him his parole. But Kimble is such a decent guy...you know he cannot leave Mickey in this predicament.

This episode does push believability to the limit...and beyond. But, as usual, the writing and acting are so good that it doesn't matter....and is well worth seeing.

Dick gets stabbed by an escaped prisoner while heroically saving a young woman from the crook on a bus. This is somewhat of a change for the doc, who was shot a total of 8 times on the show, but was seldom stabbed. Cops shoot and kill the fleeing criminal and take Kimble to the prison hospital, the last place he wants to go. He's recognized by two cons who hatch a plan to blackmail him into smuggling morphine out of the hospital. There's a trustee who looks like Jackie Chiles Sr who picks up on Dick's nervousness but is upbeat because his parole hearing is coming up. He passes Kimble a note telling him to get the drugs or else. And then he distracts the nurse so Dick can get the morphine and put it in a laundry bag. It's not known how Morris got involved in this, and why would he insert himself into the situation when he is so close to his hearing? Anyways, Dick breaks the seal on the bottle, for reasons that will be revealed later. Doc is pressuring everyone to let him go, he feels all better. He does have amazing recuperative powers, but he just came in that day. The morphine is found, and Jackie Sr is blamed for it. He doesn't rat on doc. Nobody in prison likes a snitch, and he did have a part in it anyway. But Dick can't let guy take the rap, so before he leaves he writes a note to the warden explaining everything apparently, including the fact that he is Richard Kimble, because when the warden reads it, he knows. So it's real tense at the gate, as Dick is trying to get out of there before the guard gets the word and in a huge piece of luck, the girl he saved comes to the gate at that moment. Almost as unbelievable is the fact that she has not fallen in love with him and does not want to run away with him. He jumps in her car and drives off in a hail of gunfire. The girl is a bit confused about why the cops are shooting at them, but she's not upset about it. Dick tells her to drive to the bus station and tell the cops he got a ticket to anywhere. She's not sure what state that's in, but it works out. And about Dick opening the morphine bottle, he flushed the morphine and filled the bottle with water. Because Dick would never smuggle drugs. His conscience is clean, but Richard Kimble remains......a fugitive.

The third season opens with Richard Kimble finding himself exactly where he least wants to be: in prison. He's on a bus that gets stopped by the police. But it turns out they aren't searching for Richard Kimble. Another passenger is an escapee from the local prison. He has a "shiv" and threatens to use it on a young woman. Kimble grabs it from him and gets in a fight with the man. He gets stabbed but the man gets shot. The police congratulate Kimble for being a hero and assure him he'll get the best of care at the nearest hospital- the prison hospital.

They've done him another 'favor' by contacting the local press who want to do a story with picture of the newly minted 'hero'. But that isn't Kimble's biggest problem. Two prisoners have recognized him from when they were in prison in Indiana. And they want him to steal drugs from the prison hospital so they can sell them in the prison- or else they'll squeal on the 'hero'. Kimble dreads helping drug addicts fall off the wagon. But what can he do?

A nice, tight, tense episode to open the third season of this classic series.

The tension level is high from start to finish in this exciting thriller. Kimble is riding on a bus stopped by a police roadblock. An officer boards the bus to check identifications. Before he gets to Kimble, a prison escapee in the back of the bus holds a knife on a young woman to escape. Kimble ends up saving her, but gets stabbed. Against his will, he is taken for treatment to the nearest hospital, at the prison.

At the hospital, Kimble is patched up, but is forced to stay overnight for observation. He and the lady he saved keep pressuring the warden, played by actor Lin McCarthy, to let him go early.

Kimble meets prisoner Mickey Deming, well played by actor Greg Morris (Barney on Mission Impossible), a trustee who works in the hospital ward, and who is concerned about his parole hearing in a couple of weeks. Mickey delivers a note from a prisoner who recognizes Kimble from an Indiana prison. The note demands that Kimble steal morphine and hypodermic needles from the hospital for the prisoners, or they will reveal his identity. Kimble, locked inside the prison, just wants to get out quietly, but he has seen what morphine can do and is reluctant to meet the blackmailer's demands.