Marshal Samuel Gerard We got a gopher.
Most-quoted character in The Fugitive (1993): in 24 of its 34 quotes
Most scenes with: Dr. Richard Kimble (4), Marshal Bobby Biggs (3), Cosmo Renfro (3)
Listen up, ladies and gentlemen. Our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground barring injuries is 4 miles an hour and that gives us a radius of six miles. What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive's name is Doctor Richard Kimble. Go get him.
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Marshal Samuel Gerard Where are you, Desmondo?
Marshal Samuel Gerard So he showed up not dead yet. Let that be a lesson to you, boys and girls. Don't ever argue with the Big Dog, because the Big Dog is always right.
Marshal Samuel Gerard Dr. Richard Kimble! There's no way out of here, Richard! The entire building is locked down! Give it up Richard, you don't have any time, Chicago police department thinks you're a cop killer, they WILL shoot you on sight! Richard, I know you're innocent! I know about Frederick Sykes! I know about Dr. Charles Nichols! Richard, he borrowed your car the night of your wife's murder, he had your keys! No forced entry, Richard! He telephoned Sykes from your car, Richard! Richard, give it up! Richard, I'm either lying or I'm gonna shoot you, what do you think? Give it up, Richard. It's time to stop running.
Marshal Samuel Gerard [On the phone receiving a dressing down from his superior that he was supposed to capture and interrogate Copeland, not kill him]
What can I tell you, sir? Mr. Copeland was a bad man. He was going to kill one of my kids. Well, sir you can blame me, I mean I'm the one who shot him.
Marshal Samuel Gerard Richard?!
Marshal Samuel Gerard Stop that Man!!!
Scenes with Marshal Samuel Gerard
15 scenes Gerard Robert?
Yo!
Gerard Type that blood, match it against all four prisoners. Renfro?
Yo!
Gerard Get a fax ID on Kimble to every local hospital. And follow with the troopers. Newman?
Newman Yes?
Gerard What are you doing?
Newman I'm thinking.
Gerard Well think me up a cup of coffee and a chocolate donut with some of those little sprinkles on top, will you? As long as you're thinking?
Sam!
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard What?
We just got a call from Harris Community Hospital. The wounded guard swears he saw Kimble outside the emergency room.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Well, that's hot.
And an ambulance is missing.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Where's he going in an ambulance?
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Shut up, Cosmo.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard The guy did a Peter Pan right off of this dam, right here.
What?
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Yeah. BOOM.
Holy shit. Can we go home now?
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard No.
Gerard I wanna see a helicopter come over here, 100 feet off this river--make him aware of these wires...
Sam, what are you, out of your mind? He's dead!
Gerard That ought to make him easy to catch. I want hounds on both banks of this river for two miles upstream and downstream. You've got a search-and-rescue team? Get them down here and drag the bottom of this spillway. Why isn't the goddamn water turned off?
Cooper
Somebody from County's working on it.
County Sheriff
Only one person in a million could survive that fall. The guy is fish food.
Marshal Samuel Gerard OK, get a cane pole. Go catch the fish that ate him.
Oh, my god, Richard!
How are you, Charlie?
Jesus, you're back.
I need some money.
Sure, sure. Get in.
No, I can't. Just whatever you got on you. You're hot, pal. If not now, you will be.
Have you got a place to stay? I mean, how can I help you?
It's hinky, Sam. I mean, this guy is a college graduate. He became a doctor. I mean, he ain't gonna go through here with all this security. Hinky.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Biggs, what does that mean, hinky?
I don't know. Strange. Weird
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Well, why don't you say strange or weird? I mean hinky, that has no meaning.
Well, we say hinky.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard I don't want you guys using words with no meaning. I'm taking the stairs
I didn't kill my wife!
Gerard I don't care!
Gerard I don't. [They begin laughing] Don't tell anyone, will you?
Old Prison Guard
[Gerard and the sheriff are interviewing the prison guard who survived the bus wreck and train derailment]
...the bus rolls over several times before it settled at the bottom of the hill here. I don't know if I passed out or what, but, when I looked up, the train was bearing down on us. Fast. I don't know how, uh, it's-still kinda hazy, but, somehow I grabbed him and---and I pushed him out of the bus.
Sheriff Rollins
You're a brave man. You could've both been killed.
Old Prison Guard
Yeah, I know! But, hell, he's my partner. He would have done the same for me.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Excuse me, sheriff, I'm United States Marshal Samuel Gerard. I'd like to talk to you-
Sheriff Rollins
[sincerely]
Uh, I'll be with you in just a minute. [turns his attention back to the guard]
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard OK.
Sheriff Rollins
One more time. Just for the record, uh, these three are dead? [He shows the guard photos of Carlson, Copeland and Pernilla]
Old Prison Guard
Yeah.
Sheriff Rollins
And, uh, this one? [shows the guard a sheet with Kimble's mugshot; the guard looks at it closely]
Old Prison Guard
Well, everything happened so fast. Uh.... no, I don't think he made it. [The sheriff turns back to Gerard]
Sheriff Rollins
Well, looks like you came a long way for nothin'.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard With all due respect, uh, Sheriff Rollins, I'd like to recommend checkpoints on a fifteen mile radius at I-57, I-24, and over here on Route 13 east of Chester-
Sheriff Rollins
Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa, wait a minute: uh, the prisoners are all dead. The only thing checkpoints are gonna do is get a lot of good people frantic around here and flood my office with calls.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Well, shit, Sheriff, I would really hate to see that happen, so I guess I'll take over your investigation. [Rollins looks at him incredulously]
Sheriff Rollins
[scoffs]
On what authority?
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Governor of the State of Illinois, United States Marshal's Office, Fifth District, Northern Illinois. [pause]
Sheriff Rollins
All right, fine. Uh, you want jurisdiction over this mess? [hands the file over to Gerard] You got it. [to his deputies] Okay boys, gather around here and listen up! Uh, we're shuttin' it down, Wyatt Earp's here to mop up.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard That's funny. "Wyatt Earp". [Biggs shoulders his way through the crowd]
Excuse me. Sam! Sam! [Gerard looks at what's in Biggs' hands]
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Oh, wow, gee whiz! Look here! [dangles a set of unshackled leg irons in front of the guard] You know, we're always fascinated when we find leg irons with no legs in them! Who held the keys, sir?
Old Prison Guard
Me.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Where are those keys at?
Old Prison Guard
I don't know.
Deputy Erin Poole
Care to revise your statement, sir?
Old Prison Guard
What?
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Do you want to change your bullshit story, sir? [Poole shows the photo of Kimble to the guard]
Old Prison Guard
[after looking at it for a few seconds]
He mighta got out.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard "He mighta got out"?
Sheriff Rollins
What the hell is this?! A minute ago you're telling me was part of the wreckage! Now he might have gotten out?!
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Listen up, ladies and gentlemen! Our fugitive has been on the run for 90 minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground barring injuries is 4 miles per hour and that gives us a radius of... 6 miles. What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive's name is Doctor Richard Kimble. Go get him.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard I don't care!
State Police Captain
Marshal, I do not want to tell you how to do your job, but only one person in a million could survive that fall! The guy is fish food!
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard OK, get a cane pole, go catch the fish that ate him.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard [Gerard is on the phone in his office]
What can I tell you, sir? Mr. Copeland was a bad man. He was gonna kill one of my kids. [listens] Well, sir, you can blame me, I mean I'm the one who shot him. [sets down the receiver and hands the file on Copeland over to another agent, then heads into a conference room where his other deputies are listening to the tapped phone call Kimble made to his lawyer] So he showed up not dead yet. [closes the doors behind him] Let that be a lesson to you, boys and girls. Don't ever argue with the big dog. The big dog is always right. [Biggs barks like a happy dog; Gerard leans back in his chair]
Deputy Poole Yeah you've been right before. [Gerard laughs dryly]
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard All right. [The techs play the phone call from the beginning; as the conversation plays, we hear a bell ringing in the background; at the point where Walter asks Kimble for his location, the rumbling of a train passing overhead can be heard]
Marshal Henry
I might be crazy, but that train sounds like an 'L'.
Deputy Bobby Biggs
St. Louis doesn't have an elevated train.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard How do you know it's an elevated train?
Marshal Stevens
You know, I think he's right. I lived under an 'L' for twenty years.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard [sarcastically]
Oh, then you can explain the difference in the sound of an elevated train as opposed to a train that's running along the ground. Play that back. I wanna hear the sounds of an elevated train.
All right, now wait a minute. Now What cities have 'L's? uh, New York's got an 'el'.
Deputy Poole Philly.
Deputy Bobby Biggs
We do.
We got an 'el', Milwaukee's got an 'el'.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Hold it right there! When the lawyer says that he sounds guilty, there's bells in the background, there's a guy on a PA. I wanna drop everything but the guy on the PA. Can you do that?
Technician
Yeah, I'll try it. Hold on. [presses a few buttons, rewinds the tape, and presses play; at the point where Walter asks Kimble "Why did you run?" a distinguishable P.A. voice comes on]
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Yeah Right there.
PA Announcer on tape
[unintelligible]
Next stop...
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard What's he saying? Something like "Next," uh, "stop"? It sounds like "Next stop". Do that again. [The tech rewinds, presses a few more buttons, and replays that portion of the clip; this time, the announcer is more clearly audible]
PA Announcer on tape
Next Stop: Merchandise Mart.
Deputy Poole [repeating the announcer's words]
"Merchandise Mart".
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Son-of-a-bitch, our boy came home.
[realizing]
That bell, That bell is the bell on the Wells Street Bridge. It's six blocks away.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard I knew that was an elevated train.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Doctor Nichols, you really want to help him? You really want to be his friend? Then you'll help us bring him in, unharmed.
Why? So he can go back to prison? [clicks his tongue] If you want help, gentlemen, you've come to the wrong man. Richard is innocent and you'll never find him. He's too smart.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Yeah, what about us?
Last time I looked.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard Yeah, we're smart. We are. I mean, how smart could he be, really? Is he as smart as you are?
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