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Richard Kimble is working at the Evergreen Fish Hatchery in Wisconsin. He has a run-in with the local sheriff, who becomes suspicious and finds out who Kimble is. While on a road trip with his son, Lt. Gerard is notified. When he and the sheriff go to apprehend Kimble, Phil Jr. hides in the back seat of the car so he can watch the takedown. However, Kimble outsmarts them and takes the sheriff's car, with Phil still hiding in the back of the station wagon. Kimble and Phil Jr. end up camping in the mountains all day and night. Phil Jr. keeps leaving clues for his dad to pick up his trail.

It's really a fine episode. A 13-year old Kurt Russell is great as Phil Jr. He believes Kimble is guilty because that's what his dad has told him. And he spends a lot of effort trying to help his dad catch Kimble. But in spite of it all, he grows to like Kimble. It's a common theme. Kimble's innate goodness draws people to him. Phil Jr. and Richard Kimble are on opposite sides, but Kimble stops to heat up canned soup for Phil, he stays with him when Phil says he's scared of the dark, he helps Phil when Phil steps on a trap, and every time Kimble catches him trying something new, Kimble doesn't get angry at him. Phil is his dad's son, and he does spend all his time thinking up ways to capture Kimble, but he also recognizes that Kimble is a good person.

This episode features really, really good interactions between David Janssen and Kurt Russell. They're great together.

This is a great episode with a clever set up. Gerrard's son( a teenage Kurt Russell) is kept hostage, by accident, by Doctor Kimble. But he's in no real danger, other than his own making, as Kimble takes a fatherly approach to his young captive. Feeding him and giving him shelter, and helping him when he's trapped. There's a great cast, including Russell's real life father Bing, and the location filming is beautiful. Enjoy.

The incredible workaholic, Lt Girard, has accrual lay taken some time off work. Coincidences abound with what follows. First, Richard Kimble just happens to be working nearby. Second, soon Girard is following a trail that leads to Kimble. But Kimble manages to escape and steals the Lieutenant's car---not realizing that Phillip Girard Jr is in the back. But this is a very bright cop's kid and he makes Kimble's escape all the more difficult. The kid is much like a chip off the old block--and uses his head to repeatedly try to get Kimble caught.

This episode is a very good one. Sure there are some huge coincidences but the writing still is quite good. It also helps that Kurt Russell was amazingly nature as a child actor-- very convincing and effective. Well worth seeing.

The writers imaginations were really working overtime with this one: Kimble is working at a fishery in the Wisconsin woods and Lt. Gerard and his son just happen to have gone there for a fishing trip. (Of course their home town was initially supposed to be in Wisconsin: if they kept it that way this might have made more sense). When the local sheriff spots Kimble, Gerard joins in in a very inept man-hunt which winds up with Kimble stealing their car with Phil Gerard Jr. in the back seat.

The episode then becomes mostly a two actor show between David Janssen and Kurt Russell, age 13 at the time and one of the best child actors I've seen. Both are playing smart characters and it's a battle of wits between them and Phil Jr. tries to warn his father where they are by various means and Kimble, who doesn't want to leave him alone in the woods and tries to convince him of his innocence. The two actors manage to show that their characters grow fond of each other as they continue to joust. Eventually Phil Jr. gets his foot stuck in a bear trap. Kimble risks capture to free him and Phil has a decision to make.

I was close to Phil Jrs.' age at the time and like him was a Cleveland Browns fan. Those are my heroes as well as his whose cards he's throwing out the window. I know how he must have felt. And that's Kurt Russell's Dad Bing Russell playing the hapless game warden Kimble kayos in his escape. My own father was a communications officer in the Marines and always grimaced when somebody on TV said "Over and Out", as Gerard does here several times. Basically, it means "You can talk but I'm not going to listen to you." Very rude….

Kimble is working at a northern Wisconsin fish hatchery when a minor dispute with Sheriff Deebold, played by actor John Doucette, causes the sheriff to examine wanted posters. Lieutenant Gerard is 200 miles away with Phil Gerard, Jr., outstandingly played by 13 year old actor Kurt Russell, when he gets the call.

Phil Jr. is told to stay with Mrs. Deebold while the men go out to capture Kimble. Instead, he hides in the back of the sheriff's station wagon to witness the action. Kimble, desperate to escape, steals the station wagon. He is deep in the woods before he discovers the presence of Phil Jr.

With Gerard's son missing, the police step up their search activities. Kimble must lead the boy to safety, while frustrating the boy's frequent efforts to get him captured.

Actor Slim Pickens does a great job as Corbin, a mountain man Kimble and Phil Jr. run into in their travels.

In "Never Wave Goodbye," Part 1, Gerard's son is named Flip, played by an uncredited child actor who is not Kurt Russell.

Doc is working at a fish hatchery in the mountains of Wisconsin, a perfect job for him according to William Conrad, when he runs afoul of the local sheriff. The guy follows Dick to see where he drops off a bunch of hatchlings so he can fry them up in his pan. Kimble, whose moral code also applies to young fish, tells off the guy before he knows the guy is the law. Sheriff Debo wants to get even, so he looks at old wanted posters and sees one that matches. He calls the beleaguered Captain Carpenter who soon gets a call from Gerard, who just so happens to be taking his son, young Flipper Jr, on a fishing trip in the area. How funny would it have been if Gerard had stopped Kimble while he was relocating the fish? Anyways, Gerard goes to see Debo after telling him not to try to catch Kimble himself. Debo doesn't think half a tank of gas is enough to get them to Kimble, who stays 12 miles from there, but Gerard thinks it's probably enough, and he wants to get there right now, as the chase is causing his hair to fall out at an alarming rate. Phil Jr is told to stay with Mrs Debo, even though he would rather go along to catch Kimble than eat her cookies. He tells her he has to get his beloved Cleveland Browns football cards out of daddy's car, but hides in the back of Debo's station wagon after he gets the cards. The very station wagon that the law then takes to pick up the doc! Debo stupidly leaves the keys in the ignition and Dick steals the wagon while the law is approaching Dick's cabin. Dick soon realizes he has a passenger and who the passenger is. Young Gerard does his darndest to get them captured, including leaving a trail of his cards, even the ultra valuable Jim Brown, for the cops to follow. Dick's legendary patience and kindness is put to the test, as young Kurt Russell proves to be a real pain in the backside. Along the way they meet Slim Pickens, what in the wide, wide of sports is a goin' on around here, and Kurt's real father Bing. Kimble is close to getting away after knocking Bing out with his dynamite right cross when he comes back to rescue Jr, who stepped on a bear trap. Fortunately, young Phil shows no ill effects after being freed. Jr starts to think that Dick really is a good guy, and might not have killed his wife after all. Maybe dad is wrong about him. So he tells Phil Sr that Dick went that that-a-way when he really went this-a-way, and big Phil comes up empty yet again. Richard Kimble, still.....a fugitive, sends young Phil a Johnny Unitas card, as he earlier noticed that Phil's collection was missing that card. Dick, apparently not a big football fan, doesn't know that Unitas didn't play for the Browns.

Nemesis is a strong episode primarily for the storyline as well as exceptional acting by a young Kurt Russell. While Kurt portrays Gerard's son, Phillip, Jr., he is actually the son of Bing Russell. An interesting piece of trivia for Fugitive fans.

The rapport and interaction of both Kimble and Gerard with Kurt adds greatly to the story. It was also interesting to see the football cards Kurt was dropping along the way as Kimble was driving which included NFL stars from that era - Johnny Unitas, for example.

John Doucette, Slim Pickens and Bing Russel are exceptional character actors who round out this quality episode.

And look for that "hat" Kimble wears while driving the truck in the opening sequence. That same hat, sweat stains and all, appears in other episodes.

Really, of all the actors in the world to choose from and the Russells get the gig between them!