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Introducing Fred Johnson
In several episodes of the series, Richard Kimble is not the center of dramatic focus. Occasionally Kimble has to share center stage with Lieutenant Gerard. In SEARCH IN A WINDY CITY, it is Fred Johnson, the one-armed man, who leaps into the collective psyches of the audience. Although Johnson's existence had been alluded to in prior episodes, it is only here that he appears for the first time as a major character. In the opening short vignettes that begin each show, Kimble nearly runs his car into Johnson, who has just run out of Kimble's house. For the briefest of moments, Kimble's headlights catch Johnson's face in the glare. As Kimble looks into his brutal face, that brief glance tells the audience all they need to know about the kind of man he is.
In SWC, Kimble learns that Johnson may be in Chicago, and asks the help of newspaper reporter Mike Decker, played with the usual intensity of Pat Hingle. Decker, at first, thinks that he can nail Johnson, exonerate Kimble, and win a Pulitzer at the same time. Unfortunately, his plan fails so he reluctantly resorts to a backup plan. He contacts Lieutenant Gerard and both plot a trap, using Johnson as bait, to catch Kimble. The plot fails, and both Johnson and Kimble leave Chicago.
Bill Raisch, as Johnson, steals the show with his gritty presentation of a character, however loathesome, that sets the rules by which he lives. Johnson is the polar opposite of Kimble. Johnson is twisted in both mind and body, but the ferocity of his demented character dominates each scene that he is in. One wishes, perversely enough, that the producers had managed to place the spotlight more on a twisted man, who by his very savagery, could more clearly point out the virtues of a man that the law declared the psychological equal of his own.