Kimble hops onto a freight train and finds himself in the company of three escaped convicts (two of whom are wounded during their escape). One of the convicts dies from his wounds while the second one, a brutal murderer named Neil Pinkerton, forces Kimble to treat his leg wound. Pinkerton decides to keep Kimble as a hostage as a safeguard against the police. Pinkerton, Kimble, and the other prisoner, named Matt Mooney, seek refuge in a farmhouse owned by widow Mona Ross and her mother, who recognize all of them and treat Kimble, Mooney and Pinkerton as their celebrity guests.