- Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble escaping into the night] Now indeed Steve Younger is dead. But the thin thread which binds Richard Kimble to life, winds back into the fingers of Lt. Philip Gerard who will follow it, and cut it, if he can.
- Narrator: [Further Act One Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble, unconscious, hidden in the brush following a truck accident] The rendezvous with death has been kept. A man burned beyond identification will be buried, and with him, Steve Younger. And with Steve Younger, Richard Kimble, if - if Lt. Philip Gerard can be made to discover that Steve Younger and Richard Kimble are one in the same man.
- John Harlan: Aiemee, he's not for you. Nothing against him; he seems like a nice enough sort of guy. But you know, one foot on the ground, the other on the first bus out of town.
- Aiemee Rennick: John, about these collections...
- John Harlan: Never mind about that now. I'm trying to tell you that Steve...
- Aiemee Rennick: I just went out to give him the invoices. You asked me to!
- John Harlan: I know it's a shock to you, Aiemee. He was really getting to mean something to you.
- Aiemee Rennick: I was being nice to him, that's all. He was all alone.
- John Harlan: Steve liked being alone.
- Aiemee Rennick: Nobody likes it, John.
- Lt. Garlock: Who was driving?
- John Harlan: Name of Steve Younger. About all I know about him. He was a transient. He had his trucker's ticket when I offered him the job.
- Lt. Garlock: How long has he been with you?
- John Harlan: About six weeks.
- Lt. Garlock: Know anything about his kinfolk?
- John Harlan: He never mentioned any.
- Narrator: [Act One Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble fueling a truck identified as "HARLAN FUEL OIL CO] A man who has to run to survive finds respite sometimes in desolate places. For the moment this man is Steve Younger, for the moment a truck driver. Yet today, within the hour, Steve Younger has a rendezvous with death.