The Fugitive (TV Series) The Evil Men Do (1966) User Reviews

Well, that's one way to help Richard Kimble....

[planktonrules · 8/10 · 19 May 2017]

Arthur Brame (James Daley) is a rich and well respected man. However, he holds a secret...earlier in life he was a paid assassin! So, when Richard Kimble saves his life, Brame insists on paying Kimble back....but how? Well, Kimble wants nothing....so Brame decides to help his 'friend' by murdering Lieutenant Girard!!! But, as well all know, Kimble is at heart a decent man and when he realizes that's what Brame is planning, he cannot let the killing take place. And, as usual, Girard is a total jerk and seems to little appreciate, once again, Kimble helping him of all people!

This is an exciting episode and should have convinced Girard once and for all that he should give up his search for Dr. Kimble...should. But Girard is a determined foe and the show must go on. Well made and interesting.

Finally Gerard doubts begin!

[kennyp-44177 · 8/10 · 4 November 2021]

This is a fantastic episode with some great performances. But the highlight is all about Gerard's doubt beginning over Kimble's conviction. After Kimble saves him again, he comments that the doctor is different to Brame, he has done the one murder he will ever do. Maybe he hasn't murdered any one Lieutenant...

Kimble And Gerard Must Work Together

[stp43 · 9/10 · 17 July 2018]

This is a pivotal episode in the series as for almost the first time Richard Kimble and Lt. Gerard must actively work together against a common enemy.

Gerard has been brought to the Pocono Mountain area by a Pennsylvania State Policeman who recognized Kimble driving a local truck. Kimble indeed has driven such a vehicle in his employ at the farm of Arthur Brame. When a horse breaks free and nearly tramples Brame, Kimble saves him. For this Brame swears that Kimble's debt will be repaid, no matter what.

The reason for this is the code of honor Brame holds - as a retired member of the Syndicate. When Brame learns that Gerard is looking for Kimble, he realizes he can repay Kimble for saving his life.....by shooting Gerard. He thus sends Gerard on a false chase to a warehouse where he sets up an ambush.

When Kimble learns of this he presses Brame's reluctant wife Sharon to help him. They drive to the warehouse where Kimble shoves Gerard away from Brame's gunfire. Here we see the strongest expression yet of the genuine respect the two men have for each other, as Gerard recognizes Kimble's basic humanity.

Indeed this subtheme of the series is displayed in the epilogue where Gerard differentiates between Brame - a professional killer - and Kimble, who's "done the one murder" he'll ever do, but when Gerard states this there is little conviction on his part that Kimble in fact has ever killed anyone, and Gerard all but concedes Kimble's innocence when he concludes that Kimble for now is no menace to anyone but himself.

All four protagonists - David Janssen, Barry Morse, James Daly, and Elizabeth Allen - completely command the episode, and there is a genuine sense of integrity in all four even with Arthur Brame as a criminal - his sense of honor compels him to do what he believes is the right thing, and the viewer winds up feeling genuine sympathy for him even though he is a criminal.

12/27/66 "The Evil Men Do" (spoilers)

[schappe1 · 16 February 2016]

James Daly returns, this time as a tycoon who used to be a gangster and began as a gunsel for other gangsters. He's living the life of a country gentleman but he still keeps his hand on the trigger by being a big game hunter. Kimble goes to work on his estate, not knowing anything about the man's background. He saves his employer from an angry horse, (without too much effort). Daly is the type that doesn't like to owe anybody anything. He becomes obsessed with returning the favor. When the local Sheriff discovers who Kimble is and summons Lt. Gerard, Daly decides to kill Gerard to return the favor.

It results in a show-down in a factory where Kimble, (as Ed Robertson notes) saves Gerard's life for the 5th time in the series. Naturally Gerard is grateful and he doesn't think that Kimble set him up because it's not his style. But it still doesn't change his determination to bring his man in. The ending is something of a disappointment, as predictable as it obviously is. Gerard somehow shoots more accurately with a pistol than Daly does with his rifle. And Kimble manages to sneak away rather easily while he's doing it.

Great episode

[Christopher370 · 8/10 · 13 April 2023]

This was a fun episode that had the feel of the first three seasons, nicely blending both drama and action together. My favorite episodes of this series are the ones where Kimble and Gerard are together like in season two's "Corner of Hell" and season three's "Ill Wind".

Here they're together again but only towards the end of the episode, though their scenes together are riveting and well worth the wait. Once again, Kimble saves Gerard's life, but he still wants to strap Kimble into the electric chair in return. Can this man ever be swayed?! What on earth would it take to at least plant seeds of doubt into his thick skull?

I guess it's part of the fun for the viewer to hate Gerard, and it will make the series finale all the more sweeter when he finally has to accept the truth when it's revealed to him, but my God this man won't even budge an inch even after Kimble goes out of his way to save his life.

I loved how Kimble just scurried away once he knew Gerard was able to protect himself. I'd like to see him finally begin to have some doubts of Kimble's guilt as the final season moves along and we actually start seeing him digging for the truth himself.

But if that doesn't happen then i'll just hope for more episodes with these two men together because I believe it's when the show shines the most. This is definitely a stand out favorite of a mainly disappointing season for me (so far).

A menace to no one but himself

[jsinger-58969 · 9/10 · 29 March 2023]

At least, that's Gerard's lame excuse for shooting someone else at the end of this one. It starts off with Dick working in the Poconos for a rich guy. The guy, a former mafioso named Brame, welcomes his new, sleek horse, Khartoum. Brame is careless and the horse gets the drop on him and is about to trample him when Kimble runs up on him saying "ha, ha, ha". The horse doesn't know what's so funny and backs off while he ponders the joke. Brame now owes Kimble, and a hit man never forgets. Meanwhile, Gerard is checking out a witness ID and tracks Dick to the Brame mansion. Brame recognizes a way to pay his debt. He considers cutting off Khartoum's head and putting it in Gerard's bed as a way to intimidate him, but then decides to just kill Gerard instead. Kimble gets wind of the plan, and Dick is bound to save lives, even Gerard's. After all, he's saved his life numerous times before, so here he goes again. The three of them wind up at a warehouse in Pittsburgh, where Brame, missing his former life, is enjoying stalking Phil. Dick runs away while Gerard is dealing with Brame, and eventually shoots him dead. Now comes the part when Gerard explains to Brame's hirlfriend that he shot Brame because Kimble has probably done the only murder he'll ever do, and that he's a menace to no one but himself. Well, yeah, plus the fact that Brame was trying to kill him. Made it kinda easy to choose who to shoot. And yeah, Gerard is starting to realize that Dick is really a great guy, and maybe didn't really kill his wife, but that doesn't matter to him. He would have taken Dick in even after he knew that Lloyd Chandler witnessed Helen's murder if Chandler hadn't finally admitted that. So it's a good thing Brame was shooting at him, or this might have been the finale.

Lt. Philip Gerald was the main reason I highly enjoyed "The Evil Men Do" ep of "The Fugitive"

[tonyvmonte-54973 · 10/10 · 4 May 2024]

Having recently discovered these eps of "The Fugitive" were on MeTV, I knew I had to tape and watch them. I especially was anxious to watch the ones in which Barry Morse as Lt. Philip Gerald appeared as he does in this one. He and Dr. Richard Kimble are in Pennsylvania where Kimble is working on a horse farm. He manages to save the life of the farm's owner when one of those horses almost kills him so the owner now feels he owes Richard but the doc only wants whatever payment he's earned. But then Gerald comes by and blows Richard's cover...This was thrilling from beginning to end and Gerald's explanation for doing what he did at the end made it all worth it as well as the exchanges between him and Richard when they were stuck together briefly. Well worth seeing!