Dick, wearing the name Joe Taft, answers an add to drive Suzanne Pleschette to California. Suzanne is a bit flighty, but not in the same way as Kimble. She is recovering from a nervous breakdown caused by the death of her father. They were very close and he was badly injured and eventually died from an accident when she was driving. So she has a phobia about driving, hence the add. She lost custody of her daughter to her X, a research scientist. She picks up her daughter for the weekend, which she can do, but she can't take her to California. So Dick, unknowingly a part of this, drives her old beater. Oh, and just before they leave, the girl takes a cute little bunny from daddy's lab. Unbeknownst to her, but knownst to us, the rabbit has been injected with meningitis. And the rabbit dies, which is news that Dick has heard before, but under different circumstances. Dick finds out about what is going on and takes the girl to a doctor, but the doc, who is the only doc within 100 miles, is out and won't be back for hours. And there's no medicine in the office. So Dick breaks into a nearby drugstore and is spotted by sheriff RG Armstrong and deputy Robert Sorrells, who would go on to be a murderer in real life. Anyways, they go to see the girl and Dick saves her life with penicillin. RG knows that Dick is a doctor on the run, but he lets Dick go because he saved the girl. And maybe because he remembers him from Corner of Hell and knows he's really a good guy. Dick kisses Suzanne goodbye, she gets over her phobia, and Richard Kimble remains..... a fugitive.