The main plot involves Doctor Kimble meeting a young woman who seems very emotionally unstable, manipulative, and possessive. The lady (played by Joanna Pettet) tries to endear herself with a carnival worker as well as Doctor Kimble. She had previously got tangled with a former coworker who got fired for stealing (apparently was framed by her). The lady lost her parents at a young age and was raised by her retired uncle from the police force. There are many indicators of the lady who appears innocent enough, but harbors a strong need to get affection and approval from others. Her character includes professing lies to place the blame on others. She is later connected to an arson attempt on the carnival worker and his wife. She tries to run away with Doctor Kimble who cannot allow for anyone to accompany him, so she becomes vengeful towards him. Near the end, her uncle then realizes that his niece may have been responsible for the death of her parents by arson. The character portrayed by Joanna Pettet closely resembles the evil child in the "Bad Seed" story. At the end of the episode, a former coworker and friend of the uncle tells him that sometimes people turn out mentally sick.
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Plot summary
ynot-1626 April 2009
Kimble, using the name Paul Keller, meets Tina Anderson (actress Joanna Pettet) by a lake near a carnival. Kimble is freeing a goldfish he won, while Tina is contemplating a swan. Tina had recently been flirting with a carnival worker (actor Don Quine) and had plans to meet him after work. Tina forgets those plans when she gets Kimble a job at the veterinary clinic where she works.
Tina is an attractive but troubled young woman who lives in a fantasy world. She takes Kimble to the carnival after work, leading to a fight between Kimble and the carny worker. Kimble is injured, and she takes him home where he meets her stepfather, Harry Anderson (actor Andrew Duggan). Harry was fired from the police force for using excessive violence against a suspect, but still thinks of himself as a policeman, and he believes he recognizes "Paul" (Kimble).
Harry's quest to find out who Paul is, and Tina's confused and obsessive actions, lead to danger for Kimble and others.
Tina is an attractive but troubled young woman who lives in a fantasy world. She takes Kimble to the carnival after work, leading to a fight between Kimble and the carny worker. Kimble is injured, and she takes him home where he meets her stepfather, Harry Anderson (actor Andrew Duggan). Harry was fired from the police force for using excessive violence against a suspect, but still thinks of himself as a policeman, and he believes he recognizes "Paul" (Kimble).
Harry's quest to find out who Paul is, and Tina's confused and obsessive actions, lead to danger for Kimble and others.
Dick gets involved with another crazy woman
jsinger-5896918 March 2023
Dick is on vacation checking out a rag bag carnival. He wins a goldfish by displaying his 95 mph fastball and knocking over some cans. Having no use for the goldfish, he takes in to the pond and feeds it to some ducks. Also at the pond is Tina, the nut job who was moments ago flirting with some Carney trash. She befriends Dick and gets him a job at a vet's office. They then go back to the Carney, where the previously seen trash attempts to rape Tina. Dick, of course, defends her honor but is injured by trash guy. Tina takes Dick home where she lives with her uncle, retired cop hacksaw Andy Duggan. When Dick sees the guy's badge, he gets a very nervous, guilty look about him, so old hacksaw's cop senses get activated. He finds out who Dick really is and tells Tina, who lies about not knowing where he is. Tina then goes to see Dick and tells him her uncle knows, but Dick for some reason hangs around for a while. He finally gets on a bus but gets off at the carnival, where Tina has found out that trash man is married and sets fire to their trailer and locks them in. So her craziness has been taken up a notch. Kimble, Tina and hacksaw all wind up at the pond, where Tina blames everything on Dick, but hacksaw starts to realize that the fire that killed Tina's parents may not have been an accident. Hacksaw accidentally shoots Tina, in much the way he shot Barbara Barrie in The End is But The Beginning, except this shot is fatal. Dick walks away in the aftermath and remains.....a fugitive.
2/8/66 "Shadow of the Swan"
schappe14 November 2015
Warning: Spoilers
This is a melodramatic episode but somehow it works. Kimble befriends a young woman (Joanna Pettet) at a carnival and saves her from a boyfriend who gets rough with her. She gratefully gets him a job and brings him home to meet her Uncle Harry, (Andrew Duggan), who has raised her after her parents died. But Harry, like a couple other characters in previous episodes, (Ed Begley in "Runner in the Dark" and William Shatner in "Stranger in the Mirror"), is an ex-cob unfairly, (in his view) retired from the force who sees bringing in Kimble as a way to make a "big splash" and maybe get back on the force. Pettet turns out to not be the charming young thing she appeared to be. She turns on Kimble when he rejects her advances. She tried to go back to old boyfriend but finds him with another woman and sets fire to their trailer. That makes Duggan wonder because that's how Mommy and Daddy died. It ends with Duggan and Pettet fighting for control of Duggan's gun, never a good idea for non-regular characters in a TV drama.
The title refers to a swan who is beautiful and serene above the water but paddling to stay afloat below it.
The title refers to a swan who is beautiful and serene above the water but paddling to stay afloat below it.
This girl's got issues....
planktonrules26 April 2017
"Shadow of the Swan" is a strange and confusing installment of "The Fugitive"...so much so that I was left feeling dissatisfied by the time it was completed.
When the show begins, Kimble is attending a carnival. On his way home from the place, he stops by the lake and meets a gorgeous young lady, Tina (Joanna Pettet). She takes an instant liking to him and helps him find a job and get on his feet. However, this new benefactor has MANY hidden issues and she takes lots of crazy risks- -and anyone around her is likely to get hurt as she apparently has a history of nutty behaviors.
The problem with this one is that it's hard to imagine ANYONE acting like Tina...anyone. Her behaviors are so convoluted and strange that it works against the episode.
By the way, this episode shows Kimble tossing a goldfish into a lake. NEVER do this, as goldfish tend to take over...destroying the native species and leaving a lake choked with goldfish.
When the show begins, Kimble is attending a carnival. On his way home from the place, he stops by the lake and meets a gorgeous young lady, Tina (Joanna Pettet). She takes an instant liking to him and helps him find a job and get on his feet. However, this new benefactor has MANY hidden issues and she takes lots of crazy risks- -and anyone around her is likely to get hurt as she apparently has a history of nutty behaviors.
The problem with this one is that it's hard to imagine ANYONE acting like Tina...anyone. Her behaviors are so convoluted and strange that it works against the episode.
By the way, this episode shows Kimble tossing a goldfish into a lake. NEVER do this, as goldfish tend to take over...destroying the native species and leaving a lake choked with goldfish.
Doesn't add up.
Wes5419 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
The police say that the trailer blew up 30 minutes ago, when Kimble was still at the boarding house, thus proving that Tina did it.
The problem is that Tina was on the phone with Kimble only 5 minutes before he left the boarding house.
In those 5 minutes, Tina left her Uncle's house, drove to the Carnival, found a place to park, got through the admission gate, found out where the Carny lived, ran to his trailer, talked her way in, made out with him, listened to him argue with his wife, kicked the stove over, exited the trailer, locked the door without a key, and ran to the lake before the trailer exploded (since there's not a mark on her)?
Tina did all that in the 5 minutes she had between hanging up the phone and the time Kimble left the boarding house?
And Kimble's bus was so slow that it took 20 minutes to get to the Carnival, while it took Tina only a minute or two to drive there?
The problem is that Tina was on the phone with Kimble only 5 minutes before he left the boarding house.
In those 5 minutes, Tina left her Uncle's house, drove to the Carnival, found a place to park, got through the admission gate, found out where the Carny lived, ran to his trailer, talked her way in, made out with him, listened to him argue with his wife, kicked the stove over, exited the trailer, locked the door without a key, and ran to the lake before the trailer exploded (since there's not a mark on her)?
Tina did all that in the 5 minutes she had between hanging up the phone and the time Kimble left the boarding house?
And Kimble's bus was so slow that it took 20 minutes to get to the Carnival, while it took Tina only a minute or two to drive there?
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