Watching "The Fugitive." Yanno, really sloppy police work.

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Of course Kimble's fingerprints were all over the lamp, the gun, and the bullets. All of them belonged to him. And why would Kimble be dumb enough to use a gun registered to himself to murder his wife?

And Kimble's demeanor: I'm sure an experienced homicide detective would have picked up that something was not right, and would have noticed that the motive, a life insurance policy, was rather dubious in this case.

Helen's 911 call is another problem: if Kimble was really the murderer, he would never have allowed her to make it. And she said, "There's someone in the house," as if she didn't recognize the person. Wouldn't she have said something like "My husband is trying to kill me" if Kimble was the murderer?

A detective should also have noticed that all Kimble's friends and family were completely baffled by the crime, as they must have been since it seemingly came out of the blue.

A one-armed man? If Kimble was going to murder his wife, he would have come up with a better story than that. Sykes told Gerard that the cops had questioned him about the murder: why did they never show Kimble a photo of him? Kimble recognized him when he saw the photos in Sykes's apartment.

And Nichols's biggest mistake? He concocted a scheme to get rid of Kimble that was simply too complicated. It was like a machine with too many moving parts -- too many chances for something to go wrong. But then, this Hollywood after all.