"The Fugitive, Pt. 2" is the fifteenth episode in the first season of the NBC family sitcom Family Ties. It originally aired on January 26, 1983, and is fifteenth episode of the series overall.
Synopsis[]
Elyse faces the agonizing choice between helping her brother Ned remain a fugitive or turning him in, and Alex also wonders how to deal with the situation. With the family increasingly involved, Ned considers his options with the FBI.
Plot[]
Ned admits tothe family that he stole the money, but only to stop the unethical merger. Alex drives Ned to the airport to get a flight. Mr Carlyle shows up at the airport to arrest Ned, but he gets away just in time. The president of the Syntram Corporation (played by Woody Eney) shows up to assist in the arrest proceedings. After refusing to make a deal with Syntram, Ned turns himself into the FBI.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Meredith Baxter as Elyse Keaton
- Michael Gross as Steven Keaton
- Michael J. Fox as Alex P. Keaton
- Justine Bateman as Mallory Keaton
- Tina Yothers as Jennifer Keaton
Guest Starring[]
- Tom Hanks as Ned Donnelly
- Richard Venture as Bert Carlyle
- Woody Eney as Rob Peterson
Co-Starring[]
Quotes[]
Trivia[]
- Uncle Ned shows up one more time in "Say Uncle."
- At the beginning of the episode, Mallory is watching CHiPs, a 70s and 80s era TV cop show (a little foreshadowing of the episode, perhaps?)
- Alex likes Uncle Ned because he is the Junior Vice President of the Syntram Corporation, the 12th largest multinational corporation in the world.
- Carlyle reads the family dossier: "Steven and Elyse Keaton, married May 1964. Participated in no fewer than 15 subversive political subversive demonstrations between 1966 and 1973. Arrested three times." Ned reveals that one of those times in jail was during the Democratic Convention in 1968.
- The airline ticket agent is played by Earl Boen, a well-known character and voice actor.
- Ned impersonates a Russian on the phone, but ends the conversation in German: "Danke. Danke. Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" (roughly, "Thank you, thank you. With me, you are beautiful."
- Alex tries to convince Ned to go back to the corporate world with: "Let's face it. You owe it to humanity to make money." (Alex certainly feels the same way about himself.)
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