- Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble beaten up and lying on the ground in an alley] A man on the run comes to expect neither justice nor mercy. Every hand is against him, every face turns away from his pain. In such moments, the thread of hope, of life itself, stretches to the breaking point.
- Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble get into an elevator as he prepares to leave town] A man on the run must never stop. After every fall he must get up, and push on toward the same elusive goal, a goal so close at times as to be only a heartbreak away.
- Sergeant Weber: [first lines]
- Sergeant Weber: Hold it! Right there. In there.
- [grabs Kimble's arm and pushes him into an alley]
- Sergeant Weber: Put your hands up on the wall there.
- A. L. Hamp: Omnis festinatio est a diabolo; all haste is from the devil. Obscure Latin Proverb, Mr. Kramer.