Shadow of the Swan

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.

"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.

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.