The Fugitive1993

[Gerard is on the phone in his office]

Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard:
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.

Marshal Cosmo Renfro:
All right, now wait a minute. What cities have 'L's? New York's got an 'el', Philly-

Deputy Bobby Biggs:
We do.

Marshal Cosmo Renfro:
We got an 'el', Milwaukee's got a-

Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard:
Hold it right there! When the lawyer says he's guilty and 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:
Right there.

PA Announcer on tape:
[unintelligable] 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-b*tch, our boy came home.

Marshal Cosmo Renfro:
[realizing] That bell! That bell's the bell on the Wells Street Bridge. It's six blocks away.

Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard:
I knew that was an elevated train.

Marshal Bobby Biggs:
[standing up] Oh yeah, big dog, you're never wrong.