- Narrator: [Act One Opening Narration. Viewers see Richatd Kimble, now working in an orange grove] Encinas County, California: for the common laborer, a haven of perpetual harvest. For Richard Kimble, a sanctuary. But here, on this fertile land where the miracle of life stands in rich abundance, Kimble has watched the hand of Death reach out and twist Fate to its own purpose.
- Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble, suitcase in hand, walking along a railroad track, beside a train] Death brings with it a jolting shock of reality. No man can live or die in this world without in some way affecting the lives of others. Richard Kimble flees the aftermath of tragedy, a tragedy of which he was not the maker, but of which he will share the guilt. This is the burden of a Fugitive.