- Narrator: [Act I Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble driving a pickup truck] Now ten months after his escape, take Richard Kimble, unjustly convicted of murder, put him down in the Missouri hills, a handyman driving a truck for a local fuel-and-feed company. Once again, he has changed his identity. He has become Jim Fowler, a stranger in town.
- Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble hitching a ride] This is Jim Fowler, about to die. He will last long enough to take the bus out of Hainesville, Missouri and then a new identity will emerge. A new identity to hide the path of his flight and the path of his search for the man whose crime has made Richard Kimble the Fugitive.
- Sheriff McNary: Next town you decide to settle down in, you need some references, you call on me, I'll be proud to oblige you.