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Run For Your Life
Starring Ben Gazzara
Episode:
The Dead On Furlough
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Synopsis: Paul accompanies Lisa Sorrow (Ina Balin) on the archaeological dig of her former lover David Navan (Hans Gudegast) in Israel, but jubilation over a find turns into sorrow for everyone. With Ron Feinberg as Hakim, Shlomo Bachar as Aram, Yossi Eichenbaum as Yossi, Dina Van Minnen as Esther, Joe Bernard as the Inspector, Yael Ariel as Rina, Nate Esformes as Shlomo
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Episode 82
Season 3 - #22
First broadcast on
February 21, 1968
Teleplay by James M. Miller
Story by Paul Freeman
Directed by Alexander Singer
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Creative Team
Producer
Robert Hamner
Supervising Producer
Jo Swerling Jr.
Associate Producer
Steve Heilpern
Music
Pete Rugolo
Director of Photography
Walter Strenge A.S.C.
Art Director
Henry Larreco
Film Editor
James Moore
Unit Manager
Donald Baer
Assistant Director
Burt Astor
Set Decorators
John McCartey &
Robert C. Bradfield
Sound
Ed Somers
Color Coordinator
Robert Brower
Color by Technicolor
Editorial Dept. Head
Richard Belding
Musical Supervisor
Stanley Wilson
Costume by Burton Miller
Makeup
Bud Westmore
Hair Stylist
Larry Germain
Links to Other Episodes
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Lisa shows Paul a photo she's just developed
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The Plot
In Israel Paul is reunited with Lisa Sorrow, whom he met when she was employed by the nation's espionage arm. Lisa explains that she has given up her former profession, and is now working as a photographer. In Jerusalem she shows him the sights, and at the University Museum they encounter archaeologist David Navan. He admits that the seemingly chance meeting is not an accident, and that he would like Lisa to be photographer on a first-century BC dig. Paul asks if he may also join, and David says that he will take him along.
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Lisa tells Paul why she didn't marry David
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There is a strong security presence on the archaeological site, and an alert goes out when some Bedouins are observed patrolling in the near distance.
That evening David gives orders for guarding the camp at night. When Paul remarks to Lisa that David would make a good army officer, she reveals that he was quite an Israeli war hero.
Paul suspects that David might be the man she almost married, and Lisa says that it was their careers that came between them.
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Lisa photographs David opening the jar
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When one of the Arabs working for David reports, and takes on his assignment the next day, Paul shows surprise, but Lisa says that the Druze are not really Arabs. Later Paul asks David whether the Bedouins have him worried, and he points out that archaeology can be a lucrative business, and that it was Bedouins who discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Paul takes a break from digging to chat with Hakim about the Druze people, and when he returns to work, Paul digs up a huge terra cotta jar. David opens it, and when the workers see what's inside, they cheer.
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David speculates on the contents of the jar
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David is horrified, pointing out that the Bedouins are watching them, and the exuberance his team have displayed is as good as an advertisement to observers that something valuable has been found. He tells everyone to go about their work as normal, and adds extra watch for the night time.
Lisa asks David if the find is what he'd been hoping for, and he admits that they won't know until the scrolls have been examined in a laboratory, and until then, they need to be handled with extreme care, lest they crumble into powder.
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David expresses a wish to be with Lisa again
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The two meet again that evening, and with difficulty, David attempts to tell Lisa that he would like to resume their former relationship.
He asks if Paul is a rival, and Lisa philosophises on the way Paul lives, how he seems to be running from something with intensity, but not fear. Just as David finally gets around to asking Lisa if there is still a chance for them as a couple, Hakim comes running to spread the word that the camp is about to be attacked. Lisa has no chance to respond to David, and sees Hakim shot before their eyes.
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They mourn a fallen comrade
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After considerable shooting between the Bedouins and the archaeology team, the attackers manage to steal the jar, and take it away in a van. David and some team members follow in their truck, and eventually find the van abandoned. There is more shooting and hand-to-hand combat at this location, and many more casualties. The Bedouins get away, and the archaeologists settle down by their truck. Paul tells Lisa that David will never be able to get the jar back, and the cost in lives is too high to pursue it any further. She agrees, but says that it will be impossible to convince David.
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Paul tells Lisa that David must abandon the jar
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He approaches the pair testily, telling Paul that his position is elsewhere.
They move, then Paul says that they should get out of this place while it's still dark. He emphasizes that David can't afford to lose him, and that he wants to go, but David says Paul is welcome to leave.
David asks Lisa if she wants to go, but she admits that she really doesn't, even though she's expressed her disgust at pursuing the jar at the cost of lives. Paul asks David's plan, and his decision is to shoot at everyone but the man carrying the jar.
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David examines the contents of the jar
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In the morning the archaeology team wait and watch for the thieves to cross the border, guns ready to follow David's orders. More people are killed on both sides in the ensuing battle, and in the end, to David's dismay, the man carrying the jar drops it over a cliff, as he too is shot. The team goes over to the place where the pieces of the jar lie, and Paul finds bits of modern newspapers with a date of 1895. Instead of being millennia-old scrolls, the contents of the jar turn out to be possessions of besieged Zionist settlers, buried when their community was about to be wiped out. With disgust and sadness Lisa and Paul leave David behind.
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Notes & Comments: An interesting theme, and though a little slow for an action episode, a refreshing change from Paul going somewhere and getting beaten up and/or imprisoned.
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Ina Balin as
Lisa Sorrow
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Hans Gudegast
as David Navan
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Ron Feinberg
as Hakim
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Shlomo Bachar
as Aram
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Yossi Eichenbaum
as Yossi
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Joe Bernard as
the Inspector
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Nate Esformes
as Shlomo
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