- Lt. Gerard agrees to work with Kimble for 24 hours to prove his innocence, because someone who may have been there when his wife was killed, posted bail for the one-armed man.
- On the train back to Indiana, Kimble convinces Girard to give him one day to track down the one-armed man. Someone in Stafford arranged to have the one-armed man bailed out of jail. It turns out that man was a local war hero who witnessed the killing of Mrs. Kimble. That witness now wants to try to kill the one-armed man. Kimble tries to get to the one-armed man first, hoping to end the running once and for all.—Bill Koenig
- Lieutenant Gerard has Richard Kimble in custody, but he has long possessed doubt about Kimble's guilt and as their train ride to Stafford proceeds, that doubt eats at him more and more, to where he agrees to give Kimble twenty-four more hours to find Fred Johnson, known to be heading to Stafford to find the man who bailed him out of jail in Los Angeles. When they meet Richard's brother-in-law Leonard Taft, they learn that a man phoned his wife Donna claiming Taft was in the house the night of Helen Kimble's murder. It turns out there was indeed someone else in the house that fateful night, and Fred Johnson confronts the man who was also there, demanding a hefty blackmail payment. By good fortune Gerard learns the truth and he and Kimble must confront Fred Johnson at a shuttered amusement park, where a gun battle leaves Gerard injured and leaves Kimble one final chance to defeat Johnson and put an end to years of grief and flight once and for all.—Michael Daly
- On the train to Stafford, IN, Richard Kimble pleads with Lt. Gerard to grant him just 24 more hours to find Fred Johnson, who is known to be on his way to Stafford. Gerard has long been torn by doubt about Kimble's guilt, and his doubts eat at him enough to grant Kimble's request.
The next day city councilman Lloyd Chandler drops off Donna Taft's son Billy from shooting practice. Chandler has been teaching Billy and other kids how to safely handle firearms and he chats with Donna where he mentions the Fred Johnson news story in LA. Donna replies about how, whenever news about her brother breaks, she gets bombarded by crank phone calls, such as one received that morning that was particularly bothersome; a man claiming to have seen Leonard Taft, her husband, at Richard and Helen Kimble's house the night of the murder demands to see Taft at a horse stable that night; to chase him off Donna agreed to this meeting, figuring it would dissuade more such calls.
Lloyd Chandler, however, knows something - the call wasn't a crank, because he had bailed Fred Johnson out of jail in LA using Leonard Taft's name as an alias. He thus goes to the stable and is jumped by Johnson, who takes his gun and holds him at gunpoint. Johnson believes Chandler is Leonard Taft and demands a ransom of $50,000. Chandler doesn't have that kind of money, but Johnson tells him to get it anyway and to meet him at the nearby amusement park the next day at noon sharp; he unloads Chandler's gun - but drops one bullet - and gives it back to Chandler before fleeing.
Richard Kimble and Lt. Gerard, meanwhile, arrive at Donna's house and learn about the crank phone call, so that night - after Chandler had left - they go to the stable and find the stray bullet. They decide to start phoning neighbors of the Kimbles, but find that a couple of phone lines have been disconnected, but with a pending deadline for Kimble there's no possibility of following up.
Jean Carlisle, meanwhile, arrives at Donna's house and is confronted by Gerard, and thus is arrested for aiding and abetting a fugitive. But as the deadline for taking Kimble into custody closes the distraught Donna forces herself to busy herself and thus keep her sanity; she starts cleaning her son's room and when she sorts through his dresser she finds a bullet. When Gerard sees it it matches the one he found the previous night, and both belong to Lloyd Chandler.
Chandler, terrified at the blackmail being demanded by Johnson, mopes around and tries to sell his house hurriedly, but to the persistent questioning of his wife Betsy he finally breaks down - in September 1961, while Betsy was visiting her sister, he received a phone call from Helen Kimble after her fateful argument with Richard; he'd gone over to her house to calm her down amid her heavy drinking, but when a commotion was heard the two went downstairs and were confronted by a robber - Fred Johnson; Johnson tried to escape but was stopped by Helen, and as the two fought and she pleaded for help, Chandler, who'd been a war hero, suddenly froze up, unable to make himself move; eventually Johnson threw Helen to the floor and killed her with a fatal blow to the head with a lamp; he saw the crying Chandler slumped behind the bars of a stair railing - appearing like he was in jail, the metaphorical jail of his own conscience - before fleeing into the night.
Upon hearing Lloyd's confession, Betsy demands he go to the police and tell the truth - the truth he should have told years before. But Chandler, not wanting to destroy his war-hero reputation, decides instead to confront Johnson with a rifle.
When Gerard and Kimble reach Betsy Chandler, she pleads with Gerard, because her husband has gone to the amusement park to confront Fred Johnson. Kimble and Gerard race to the park, where a gunfight has erupted; a shot from Johnson strikes Gerard in the leg and the lieutenant, now realizing to himself that Richard Kimble had been innocent all along, gives Kimble his own gun to go after Johnson, while he and Chandler work to get the bullet out of his leg.
Kimble corners Johnson, but Johnson holds the edge - he knows Kimble can't shoot him because he needs him alive. Johnson flees to the top of an aerial ride, pursued by Kimble, and on top of the ride Johnson attacks Kimble but is beaten bloody and finally confesses to Kimble, but grabs Kimble's gun and is ready to shoot him when Gerard, a cloth tourniquet wrapped around his leg, fires a fatal shot into Johnson, who plunges off the tower to his death - and with his death goes Kimble's chance to prove his innocence before a court of law. However, Chandler suddenly tells Gerard and Kimble that he saw Johnson murder Helen and will testify to that effect in court.
In the final scene, an exonerated Kimble leaves the courthouse and hesitantly shakes Gerard's hand. Kimble and Jean walk off toward his new life. Narrator William Conrad states, "Tuesday, August 29th: The day the running stopped."
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