The Fugitive (TV Series)

Home Is the Hunted (1964)

William Conrad: Narrator

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Narrator : Home is the sailor home from the sea, and the hunter home from the hill. But for Richard Kimble, not yet... not yet.

• Narrator : [Act I Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble, suitcase in hand, disembark from a cross-country bus at night and begin walking down the street]  Always, there is the hunter, the hunted, and the trap. Traps are of many kinds: of wood, of steel, of words. But this time, the trap is... a city. Dr. Richard Kimble, two years a Fugitive, is about the enter the trap.

  [Kimble pauses to observe a large Welcome to Stafford sign] 

  Narrator : Why is Stafford, Indiana a death trap for Richard Kimble? Because here, a thousand people know him. This city is where Richard Kimble lived for 33 years.

  [Kimble walks down a residential street] 

  Narrator : This is the neighborhood which Richard Kimble knew as a child,

  [Kimble approaches a house] 

  Narrator : here the house in which he grew up.

  [Kimble observes a realty sign on the front lawn, which reads "For Sale by Owner. Call Dr. John Kimble, KL5-2498." Richard Kimble retreats and leaves] 

  Narrator : Now in time of desperate trouble for him, a stopping place within a city of danger. A city of danger

  [Viewers see a large, public building] 

  Narrator : because here, also, is the headquarters of Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.