It's strange that a new show would go right to a two-parter for its 4th and 5th episodes. Normally you want self-contained episode until you've developed a loyal following that will have seen the first episode and will be sure to turn in for the second one. Here Kimble is in Santa Barbara, California, working for a sail maker. He also apparently has some knowledge of boats from his former life. He's fallen for his boss's daughter, Karen, (Susan Oliver), but earned the enmity of another worker, Eric, (Robert Duvall) who also has his eyes on Karen. Kimble is tired of running, (with 115 episodes to go) and would like to settle down. But then he hears that a one-armed man has been arrested in Los Angeles. So has Gerard, who is waiting for him to show up there.
Kimble's fatigue and love for Karen makes the ending, where he can't bring himself to abandon the injured Gerard and thus gives up his potential life with her, particularly poignant. This is not the first appearance of Bill Raisch as the one-armed man as the prisoner in LA is another one-armed man played by Harry Bartell. Ed Robertson's book on the series says that producer Quin Martin preferred the one-armed man to be a more elusive concept, one who may or may not exist.
Kimble's fatigue and love for Karen makes the ending, where he can't bring himself to abandon the injured Gerard and thus gives up his potential life with her, particularly poignant. This is not the first appearance of Bill Raisch as the one-armed man as the prisoner in LA is another one-armed man played by Harry Bartell. Ed Robertson's book on the series says that producer Quin Martin preferred the one-armed man to be a more elusive concept, one who may or may not exist.