Richard Kimble, the original Fugitive, was an innocent man, hounded across the American landscape by his pursuer, Det. Philip Girard, for killing his own wife. \u00a0Kimble didn’t flee in a world of Amber Alerts where the entire Hive stands ready with a cellphone keyed to 911. \u00a0I can’t recall anyone lasting 24 hours after the Alert was posted on freeway signs with descriptions of car and license. \u00a0I can’t recall anyone eluding capture whatsoever. \u00a0Richard Kimble, the TV fugitive, wouldn’t have made it past the Pilot, much less through a series.<\/p>\n
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Oddly, the last Amber Alert of recent memory ended in a capture on Camano Island by the same Sheriff’s Department that never caught the Barefoot Bandit in years of trying. \u00a0The Kid never had a car. \u00a0Or a driver’s license. \u00a0Never had his own cellphone or credit card. \u00a0Never shopped in town and swiped a Haggens card.If you wondered why he became an internet hero, this is why. \u00a0He was digitally invisible. \u00a0A cyberspace cypher. \u00a0A ghost in the machine. \u00a0He was the bat in a world of bits and bytes. \u00a0 He was the 21st century fugitive.<\/p>\n
I’m not the Kid. \u00a0But I’m trying. \u00a0I abandoned my truck next to the woods by our woodsheds, keys in it, CD in the player, White Rabbit on pause. \u00a0I’m moving cross country, but I’m not stealing planes en route. \u00a0The rest I can’t tell you. \u00a0I can’t trust anyone now. \u00a0If you knew me pre-Flight, you don’t now. \u00a0Nothing personal. \u00a0The hunted don’t have the luxury of friends. \u00a0Or family. Or even a past. \u00a0No postcards. \u00a0No phone calls. \u00a0No memories.<\/p>\n
The Kid should’ve holed up on Camano. \u00a0Or Orcas. \u00a0Maybe he was looking for the Grand Gesture. \u00a0He taught himself to fly so by God fly he would. \u00a0I’m guilty of entering my own country illegally. \u00a0What grand gesture can I make commensurate with a crime so heinous? \u00a0No way would Kimble make that mistake. \u00a0But then, unlike the Kid and me, he was actually innocent. \u00a0If there IS such a thing anymore….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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