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This is an odd installment of "The Fugitive". As usual, Richard Kimble is hiding out from the law and this time he ducks into a home for the blind and hides out there! Folks mistakenly think he's a social worker from The Good Neighbors and he stays a few days actually helping a lot of people, as he's super-effective. He even helps a guy who is a resident who actually is NOT blind but is pretending to be!! However, despite everything going so well, an old cop who was blinded on the job (Ed Begley) starts to realize that this nice guy is, in fact, a wanted criminal and he decides to bring in Kimble all by himself...a rather crazy proposition if you think about it!

This is a very good episode...well worth seeing. It's also interesting because Richard Anderson guest stars in it...and he has a lot LESS hair then he had in the 1970s when he starred as Oscar on "The Six Million Dollar Man".

Kimble, running from the police, climbs a wall and finds himself in a home for the blind. He is mistaken for a volunteer from the Good Neighbor Society, but one of the residents, former police chief Dan Brady (actor Ed Begley), hears about the manhunt on his radio. He becomes suspicious of Kimble, and begins to investigate.

The interim chief, Barney Vilattic (actor Richard Anderson), is facing a city council vote on whether to make him permanent chief. An unsuccessful hunt for Kimble could jeopardize his chances. Meanwhile, Dan Brady, though blind, feels he is still the best man for the job, and hopes that capturing Kimble will restore him to the chief's position.

Kimble is recognized in another small town and seeks refuge in what turns out to be a home for the blind. At least nobody will recognize him there. He's assumed to be a guy who is sent from time to time from the Goodwill organization to see to their problems. Kimble falls easily into that role, which consists mostly of listening to their problems and urging them toward independence. One lady just stays in her room all the time and he gets her to move around with confidence. Another guy is a bus driver who was blinded in an accident that killed a couple of school children- except he's no longer blind but is pretending to be so to avoid having to 'see' what he's done and take responsibility for it, (he'd had a few too many).

Ed Begley, who opened this season playing a crippled lawyer trying to make a comeback by setting Kimble free, ("Man in a Chariot"), here plays the town's former police chief, blinded by a crook who threw acid in his face, who wants to make a comeback by bringing Kimble in. He knows who he is because he's always listening to what's going on in the outside world through his transistor radio while the others remain cut off from it.

It all sets up a classic ending with Begley proudly bringing in his man with the aid of the bus driver, (whom he has realized isn't blind), and a gun. You won't soon forget it.