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En route to Death Row after being wrongly convicted for the murder of his wife, Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) escapes his captor Lt. Gerard (Barry Morse) in a spectacular train crash. For the next four TV seasons, Kimble will live the life of The Fugitive, travelling from town to town, state to state, in search of the "One-Armed Man" who actually murdered Mrs. Kimble. In this first episode of Season One, Kimble, using the alias James Lincoln, lands a job as a bartender in Tucson. Soon he becomes deeply involved in the plight of the bar's piano player Monica Welles (Vera Miles), who is being tormented by her brutish husband Ed (Brian Keith), a wealthy and politically powerful rancher. Establishing the pattern followed by virtually every subsequent Fugitive episode, Kimble places his own freedom (and life) in jeopardy by coming to Monica's rescue.