- Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see two assailants beating up Jesse Stransel in an alley] Tracton, New Jersey. A small industrial town where a passerby has summoned the police to a mugging in a dirty alley.
- [Viewers see Richard Kimble driving an approaching delivery truck labeled "Savano Auto Parts]
- Narrator: But this senseless beating is about to take on a far more significance to a man not even a witness to it, a man named Richard Kimble.
- Narrator: [Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble hop aboard a moving train] For each of us there is an occasional moment of fantasy, a search for a straw man of our own. But Richard Kimble can only hope that the memory of a face caught once in the glare of headlights is made of something other than straw.
- Jesse Stransel: Wife told me to invite the new man home for dinner. You interested?
- Dr. Richard Kimble: You sure that's what she said?
- Jesse Stransel: [smiling] What difference does it make? All I gotta do is give her a call and she'll throw another potato into the pot. I'll call right now!
- Jesse Stransel: [to his son, who just jumped into Kimble's arms] Hey that's no way to treat a guest.
- Dr. Richard Kimble: [laughing] That's all right.
- Johnny Stransel: But I like him.
- Dr. Richard Kimble: [smiling] Yeah, he likes me.