The Fugitive (TV Series)

Fear in a Desert City (1963)

Paul Birch: Captain Carpenter

Quotes 

• Lt. Philip Gerard : Somewhere in here. I'm sure of it.

  Captain Carpenter : What about Mexico? He's near enough.

  Lt. Philip Gerard : Oh, he'd be the yankee, someone different.

  Captain Carpenter : Gerard, when are you due for a vacation?

  Lt. Philip Gerard : I'm not taking my vacation, Captain. Later. I will, later.

  [grabs some reports] 

  Lt. Philip Gerard : East, South, Midwest. Every report verified.

  Captain Carpenter : By the time you arrive...

  Lt. Philip Gerard : One day, he'll be there.

  Captain Carpenter : Phil, from the very beginning, the arrest, all through the trial, the appeals and the accident, why? What is it about Kimble?

  Lt. Philip Gerard : I enforce the law. The law pronounced him guilty, I enforce the law.

  Captain Carpenter : What are you trying to convince yourself of? I remember his defense: a man with one arm, running from the direction of his house. Phil, I'm beginning to think that you believe that there was such a man.

  Lt. Philip Gerard : Oh, I did everything I could to find him.

  Captain Carpenter : Meaning that he didn't exist or that he escaped? And if he did escape, the law made a mistake.

  Lt. Philip Gerard : Captain, whether the law was right or wrong is not my concern. Let others debate and conclude. I obey. But when I begin to question, doubt...

  [takes off his glasses] 

  Lt. Philip Gerard : I can't permit it. Others found him guilty, others were about to execute him. I was merely an instrument of the law, and I am. And Dr. Kimble must be found.