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This episode has Dr. Kimble falling in love with a coworker (played by Janice Rule) at a truck freight company. However, the coworker is unable to go out on evening dates with Dr. Kimble because she is a day time parolee who has to report back to the prison at night. Kimble asks her to meet him in the Pacific Northwest area for a romantic getaway as he has a truck route to that region. The parolee decides not to report back to prison and to go to meet Kimble. They spend a weekend together, but her parole officer and employer discovers that she did not report back to the prison. They find that she has taken off with Kimble and later on discover Kimble's past history after his work references have been proved to be false. The parolee pleads to Kimble to cross into Canada with her. Kimble decides to return back to Oregon to allow her to avoid being a fugitive just like him. He also knows that the truck would have been stopped at the border and he would have been discovered. The parolee is taken back to have her case reviewed since she can help her own case by making it appear that she was being "held" by Kimble and tried to get away from him. Kimble gets away as he leaves his lover to drive the truck and get stopped by the police.

The doc is a truck driver in Bigfoot country when he gets romantic with a dispatcher. He doesn't know she's on work release and she doesn't know he's, you know, a fugitive. She skips going back to lock-up for the weekend and sneaks off to meet up with Dr K at a cozy resort, where they hang up the "Do not disturb" sign. Meanwhile, the cops uncover Kimble's identity and tell his girlfriend that the man she is with is Richard Kimble, he killed his wife and he dyes his hair. She just wants him to take her to Canada, or anywhere, but he says he can't. They get back to Portland where the cops are waiting and he tells her to take credit for bringing him in, but then runs away. So the cops stop her and don't even look for him. Go figure. Kimble is just three episodes and two weeks in real time from being cleared, and he has no thought of looking up this woman he is in love with. I wonder how many paternity suits Twitchy Dick is going to be hit with when all these women know where to find him.

The plot has been well covered by others so a few quick comments. The strongpoint in this excellent outing is the love affair between Kimble and Barbara Wells (Janice Rule). Unlike other episodes where the love affair is fleeting and mostly one sided, you actually believe this one and that it is mutual. Janice Rule is a great actress and well suited for this role as you can see her and David Janssen as a couple.

Steve Ihnet and Tige Andrews add their talents which are considerable. Ihnet as the parole agent seems hardcore at first but he has Barbara's interests at heart and helps her out. He had too short a life. Tige as Barbara's employer also is on her side.

As pointed out by Hafer, the Janice Rule character would have been an obvious additional character to add to the series finale coming in a couple of weeks but the writers/producers came up with a whole new love interest. For being so in love, Kimble moved on in a hurry. Of course, in TV land, characters always recover from gunshot wounds and love affairs quickly. What can you do?

A good episode. Do see it.

Kimble finds another true "love" while on the run--this time a WA DOC FEMALE "Work Release" Inmate (played by Janice Rule-then a "hot" & "rising" Hollywood starlet (!!)). The question then arises: Why not act on her plan to flee to Canada? Naturally, Kimble *resists*-and *Rule is ultimately returned to what appears to be Purdy Women's Reformatory (still in business in 2016!), for "aiding" a fugitive*. WA Residents will enjoy this one, despite some inaccuracies other reviewers have noted (I-5 apparently had not yet been completed, back in 1967, so the Trucking Company sends Kimble, as a driver, "North" on "RT 99" (old US 99 north of Seattle-now a two-lane highway). Funny when the Trucking Co. boss has to tell investigating law-enforcement officers: "I don't check my employees, before entrusting them with a $75,000 truck!!"--obviously, this was long before computers, background checks, etc. Apparently, the final two "regular" Fugitive episodes (before the August series finale), were both set in the Pacific Northwest.

Kimble and his co worker Barbara work at a trucking company and are already truly, madly, deeply in love. The audience isn't privy to how this serious and deep relationship between them came about, but we're just expected by the writers to accept that we've entered in the middle of the romance and the two characters have this deep, all consuming relationship. Please.

How is the viewer supposed to be invested or care for this relationship when it's force fed them so quickly? I would've liked to have seen how they met, seen the relationship progress and build up a little so I could have at least some feeling for it and root for the two of them. As it was, I just couldn't because I wasn't buying any of it.

This really should have been a two part episode like the excellent "Never Wave Goodbye" from season 1 was where we had the chance to see Kimble fall in love with a woman over the course of two episodes, rather that just start the story in the middle of the relationship like here. In fact had this been a two part episode, I believe the story as well as the romantic relationship could have been fleshed out much more and may have even elevated it to "Never Wave Goodbye" (which is one of my favorite of this series).

As it was, I couldn't have cared less what happened to Barbara and was hoping Kimble would've gone to The Jug with Sheree North and started dating her instead while Barbara went back to the slammer. She even offered to buy the beer...You don't let a gal like that get away lol. But seriously, at least then we'd have seen the relationship from the beginning and gradually build up from there...and Barbara was kind of a wet rag type character imo that could've been written and fleshed out a little better than she was.

I enjoyed Janice Rule in season three's "Wife Killer", so it's not the actress, but the character that fell flat for me here. I just didn't see what Kimble fell so madly in love with in her character because she just came off like a bore with little personality or appeal.

I feel everything in this episode was much too hastily done for me to care what happened, but this whole season 4 in general has been an incredible letdown so I can't say i'm all that upset because i've come to have low expectations at this point in the series.

I see that the next episode was directed by Barry Morse so i'm excited to check that one out, and then the 2 part series finale and it's finished. I'm just hoping i'll like those final 3 episodes enough to rate them at least a 5 or above. This steaming pile of an episode gets a 1 from me, and that's only for the nice cinematography shots of Washington state and the lovely Sheree North who I think should've been in the lead role of Barbara and have Janice Rule be the diner waitress.

I think I would've enjoyed that a whole lot more because I think Sheree North has a hard edge about her so you believe she's seen the inside of prison walls whereas Janice Rule in comparison looked like she never set foot inside a prison in her life except as maybe a visitor. Yeah, the more I think about it, those roles should have definitely been reversed imo and I probably would've bought the story a lot more.