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Would the storyline be next to impossible in real life?


The only reason Dr. Kimble escaped imprisonment in the first place was when he became one of the only surviving prisoners when the prison bus was hit by a train.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3021175/What-train-wreck-Set-used-famous-scene-Fugitive-cost-1-5m-shoot-North-Carolina-mountains-left-crew-22-years-ago-visit-it.html

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After surviving this unimaginable disaster, the injured doctor is then able to walk a couple of miles to a local medical clinic. Somehow, still in prison clothes, Kimble is able to sneak in and perform full stitchwork on his own deep wounds. After shaving his beard and changing clothes, Kimble then steals an ambulance as his getaway vehicle. Gerard and his team are soon on Kimble’s tail, and they find the ambulance abandoned in a tunnel where Kimble has snuck away under a storm drain.

The U.S. Marshalls are able to chase Kimble down the sewer lines, where Kimble comes to the tunnel opening. Before him is a dam dropping down hundreds of feet. And what does Kimble do right as Gerard is about to arrest him? He high-dives the hundreds of feet down to the spillway below without extra wires or even a life jacket! And mind you, the filmmakers just threw dummies off the spillway instead of real human bungee-jumpers. But the film actually shows Kimble surviving the jump.

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https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87339/13-running-facts-about-fugitive

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Yes he would have been caught pretty quickly in real life i'd say.

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I am pretty sure he would not have survived the jump off the dam or the fall through the skylight in real life. Then again the cop he rescued would probably not have lived in real life either.

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Even if the accident didn't occur it's not like he would have been executed immediately. It's takes years before an execution is carried out before the sentencing. In that time he could have kept in touch with his lawyer and instructed him to do the things like research the type of mechanical arm that the suspect had.

While the accident and his evading of the law are indeed unrealistic, him being found innocent isn't.

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He wasn't in prison clothes when he went into the hospital. He stole coveralls from a truck before he got to the hospital.

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