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It doesn't add up for MacBride when the couple he's pursuing for failure to file an income tax return determinedly elude him. The only charge against them won't land them in jail—but fleeing from a Federal marshal will.
Now playingJeff Fahey stars as Winston McBride, a fugitive-chasing Deputy U.S. Marshal who has never let one get away. His quarry in the opener: a one-time radical activist (wanted for a 1970 draft board killing. She has been very good at the art of not existing for 25 years, but McBride catches her easily. Perhaps too easily... (TV Guide)
It doesn't add up for MacBride when the couple he's pursuing for failure to file an income tax return determinedly elude him. The only charge against them won't land them in jail—but fleeing from a Federal marshal will.
When a stripping thief picks up an eccentric crack shot, McBride gives chase. The pair lead him on a merry chase due to the fact that they can't agree where they're going.
A hideously disfigured serial bank robber is a dead ringer for a prison escapee named Lucas Burke. The only trouble is, Burke's supposed to be dead.
MacBride is kidnapped by a chamelionlike hitwoman who says she was framed for the latest killings by a 'Mr. Rorschach' who hired her for other jobs. And, she tells the Marshal, 'I think Rorschach is one of yours.' (TV Guide)
MacBride and fellow Marshal Lester Villa –Lobos serve as part of the protection detail for a judge whose life has been threatened.
"The Beast" escapes prison and McBride is on the case. But each time he gets close, someone else gets there first and scares the murderer away.
Four bodies unearthed in a swampy Idaho park are determined to have been dead for at least five years - but one is identified as a man thought to have been in jail for most of that time.
Tit for tat: MacBride gets his man, a Russian mob boss - but the gangster's sons kidnap the Marshal's partner and demand a trade.
The escape of Leander Booth, a biochemist convicted of espionage, leads MacBride on a twisted trail involving commandos, spies, laser guns, nuclear radiation, orchids, snow globes - and a pie-baking grandmother.
Winston tracks a radical conservationist wanted for the murder of a forest ranger.
McBride has to get "Sonny Boy" Gabianno to testify at a Mafia Don's trial. The mob wants "Sonny Boy" dead and someone is tipping them off.