The Fugitive

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Keckler: C+ | 493 USERS: C+
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Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I

A plug-ugly, ice-blue, two-door, low-slung Mercedes (aw, man, pimpin' ain't E-Z) pulls up to the bus station with Hank and Kimble. Hank orders Kimble to make a call to Nettie to tell her he's got a personal emergency and he won't be coming in that day. Hank hands Kimble a quarter and says, "On me," while chawing his gum. Not that I'm pulling for the redneck cocaine-sniffing cop or anything, but wouldn't it be better for Hank's situation if Kimble just left town without a word to anyone? By the way, I'd like to note that it doesn't really seem too plausible that a crooked cop trying to hide the fact that he's crooked would be driving around an ostentatious and obviously expensive car like that. Of course, when Kimble calls, he hears that Adella's hemorrhaging. "Steve, are you there?" Nettie asks when Kimble doesn't say anything. Hank calls out that his bus is waiting. Kimble hangs up the phone. As he's on the bus, he can see Hank insolently waving goodbye from the street. As soon as the bus is out of sight of Hank, Kimble tells the bus driver he has to get off. The driver tells him there are no stops until the airport. Kimble tells him he can't pay the fare. The bus slams to a stop, and Kimble gets off.

Doubling back to the clinic, he arrives In The Nick Of Time. Adella is writhing and crying in pain as her husband looks on with tears streaming down his face. Nettie is about to give Adella something to calm her down, but Kimble tells her that's not a good idea because it could do something bad to her respiration. There's a lot of ER jargon tossed back and forth; the upshot is, her water broke, she's lost a lot of blood, her blood pressure is too low, and because of something with the placenta, she needs a C-section. Kimble orders them to call an ambulance. Nettie hesitates; Kimble tells her Adella could die. Oh, I forgot to mention that in the middle of all this, the tension is building and so is the music. Adella says something in Creole, and the husband translates that the baby is coming. Kimble gets in position by her legs and says to turn her on her side to help the blood flow. "Nettie, you've got to call an ambulance right now!" Kimble shouts. Pop Voodoo shouts back that he will take care of it. Nettie tries to argue, but Kimble needs her help again. Kimble says they have to stop Adella's contractions, but they don't have any Turbutalin, so they won't be able to do that. Kimble notes that the baby's heartbeat is erratic because it's in distress, so they have to deliver the baby now. Pop Voodoo calls Hank and tells him the sitch and says he needs to drive Adella and her husband to the hospital in his car. Hank figures out that Kimble didn't leave town after all, and gets pissed. More turmoil in the clinic, because the baby's shoulder's caught and it's not coming out.

The Fugitive

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