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When this episode begins, once again Richard Kimble has settled in to a new identity and someone has come to love him like a brother. In this case his it's his boss, Gus (Gilbert Roland). But when Kimble finds Gus on the verge of suicide Gus spills his guts...he's dying AND knows that his good friend Johnny is Kimble. But he knows Johnny isn't the sort to murder anyone and although Gus is dying he wants to help. He comes up with an odd plan to convince Girard that Kimble has run away to Greece--thereby taking the heat off him and allowing him to look for the one-armed man without so much fear of being caught. There's just one big monkey wrench in this plan...Sophie (Madlyn Rhue). While Gus thinks she's his girlfriend, she's an evil, conniving person...and she, too, now knows that Johnny is Richard Kimble!

This is a most unusual episode of "The Fugitive"...not bad at all but unusual. Worth seeing...just like all the rest.

Kimble works at a warehouse where he forms a close relationship with Gus Priamos, an older Greek immigrant played by actor Gilbert Roland. Gus is the boss, and thinks of "Johnny" (Kimble) as being his "little brother."

Gus has a few problems. He has a girlfriend Sophie, played by actress Madlyn Rhue, who is young, sexy, and not entirely faithful. He learns that he has only 6 months to live. He worries he has not done a single truly great thing in his life.

Knowing the identity of Kimble, Gus presents him with a plan for Gus to return to Greece under circumstances designed to make Lieutenant Gerard think it was Kimble who went.

Great to see the noted silent film actor Gilbert Roland, still very much in his prime in this 1964 episode.

The international airport featured here is really the Burbank--Los Angeles Airport, now called Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California, which I've flown out of many times. It was an early regional airport, and while it now flies solely domestically it never was an international hub. David Janssen must have been a frequent customer, although he was also an avid private pilot himself. The airport has since been expanded, but it is still quite recognizable today (2021).

Kimble has befriended his latest employer, Gus Priamos, (Gilbert Roland), who is dying of a heart condition and is planning to go back to his homeland of Greece. Gus conceives of a scheme to help Kimble. Kimble will use his passport to get tickets on a flight to Greece but Gus will call Gerard and report that it was stolen. Kimble will give Gus the passport back and ticket and Gus will fly off to Greece to die while Kimble will escape, leaving Gerard to think he's fled the country. But Gus's girlfriend, a cold-hearted chick named Sophie, (Madlyn Rhue), has already called Gerard in. She doesn't want Gus getting away with the money he's saved. She wants that for herself.

A key moment comes when Sophie suggests to Gerard that Kimble may have killed Gus and Gerard seems dubious. He seems to recognize it's not in his character to do so- but then he has to dismiss the thought because it might suggest Kimble is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted.

The doc is working at a warehouse, Konstantine brothers, but oddly it's owned by Gus Priamos, a good guy with a rotten girlfriend and a terminal illness. Gus finds out he has 6 months to live. It's never 5 or 7, it's always 6. Only in his case, it's like a day. Gus has always known Kimble's identity because he likes to read detective magazines. He wants to do one great thing, and decides that thing should be to throw Gerard off Kimble's tail for good. So he hatches a scheme to change his passport picture with Kimble's and go back to Greece to die and have everyone think that it was the doc who went instead and disappeared. But before he can call Gerard to have him find what he wants him to find, his girlfriend beats him to it. Seems she thought she was going to marry old Gus and soon inherit his fortune, 8k, and when she sees the doc leaving she thinks Dick killed Gus and took the loot. She recently learned of the doc's identity and thinks the worse. So Gerard beats Gus and Kimble to the airport and the two of them narrowly avoid getting pinched. Gus, whose health has taken a dramatic turn for the worse in the last few minutes, gives the girlfriend his fortune for the promise of keeping her trap shut about which way Kimble went, and then dies. And the girlfriend does her one great thing and keeps her promise. Turns out the scheme wouldn't have worked anyway, as Gus wouldn't have survived the flight and Gerard would have known that it wasn't Kimble who boarded the plane.