The Faygitive is the fourteenth episode of the fifth season of Wings, and the 86th episode overall in the series.
Synopsis[]
Fay feels uneasy when several friends tell her they been getting phone calls asking about her. When a private investigator shows up at the airport, Fay's not sure what to expect. However, Fay is pleasantly surprised when her stalker turns out to be a soldier she mt at the U.S.O. in Syracuse where Fay volunteered back during the Korean War. The soldier had gone off to war owing Fay a dance, and he's finally arrived to get that last dance. Meanwhile, Antonio gets an illegal cable hookup from a friend of Roy and becomes addicted to cable TV.
Credits[]
Main Cast[]
- Tim Daly as Joe Hackett
- Steven Weber as Brian Hackett
- Crystal Bernard as Helen Chapel
- Thomas Haden Church as Lowell Mather
- David Schramm as Roy Biggins
- Rebecca Schull as Fay Cochran
- Tony Shalhoub as Antonio Scarpacci
- Farrah Forke as Alex Lambert
Guest Cast[]
- Larry Brandenburg as Bob the Investigator
- Roy Dotrice as Pete Nash
Quotes[]
- Joe Hackett - "Wait a minute, wait a minute, Fay. Your maiden name was Schlob?"
Fay Cochran - "I'm not ashamed. I come from a long line of Schlobs. In fact, there was a Schlob on the Mayflower."
Brian Hackett - "That's right, 'cause at the first Thanksgiving he was the pilgrim who kept saying, "Pull my finger"."
Fay Cochran - "Well, it just so happens that I come from very humble, hardworking stock."
Joe Hackett - "Yeah, just a bunch of poor Schlobs."
- Antonio Scarpacci - "Ah, Alex. You have to help me. Last night, I'm watching Gone with the Wind and tear the end of the movie Rhett is at the door and he looks back and says, "Frankly, Scarlet" and then suddenly I lost the channel. What does he tell her?"
Alex Lambert - ""I don't give a damn"".
Antonio Scarpacci - "Sorry to have bothered you."
- Roy Biggins - "I got a guy that can fix you up for $50 bucks."
Antonio Scarpacci - "Fifty dollars? Eh, that's a lot of money for me just to watch TV."
Alex Lambert - "Yeah. It's not like you don't have plenty of other things to do."
Antonio Scarpacci - "Send him over."
- Roy Biggins - "What about you Lambert? Everything okay over at your house? I'd be glad to come over and give you whatever you need."
Alex Lambert - "Roy, if you ever set foot in my house the only thing I'll need is an alibi."
- Joe Hackett - "You married a man named Dumbly and took his name?"
Brian Hackett - "Don't forget, she was a Schlob."
Lowell Mather - "That's not a very nice thing to say. I mean, who among us hasn't stood at a salad bar and missed the sneeze guard?"
- Joe Hackett - "DeVay? Your name was DeVay? You're kidding."
Fay Cochran - "No. It was my second husband George's last name."
Brian Hackett - "Well, after Schlob and Dumbly, that's DeVay I'd have gone."
Fay Cochran - "Please don't start. I've heard them all. "Show me DeVay", "Do you go all DeVay?", and my personal favorite " Old soldiers never die, they just Fay DeVay"."
- Helen Chapel - "I mean just because someone is looking for you it could be anything. Maybe, maybe you opened a bank account a long time ago and forgot about it."
Brian Hackett - "That's right, or maybe somebody died and left you a big inheritance."
Lowell Mather - "Maybe a long-lost child you put up for adoption is looking for her birth mother."
Fay Cochran - "If I gave birth to a child, I think I'd know it."
Lowell Mather - "Not necessarily. Adoption agencies are very tight with that information."
- Bob the Investigator - "Excuse me, I'm looking for a Fay Evelyn Schlob Dumbly DeVay Cochran."
Brian Hackett - "I don't know. That's a pretty common name."
- Helen Chapel - "I know, it's ridiculous. Fay's never done anything bad. Me on the other hand, I've done a lot of things that I'm ashamed of."
Joe Hackett - "I wish you'd done some of them while we were dating."
Helen Chapel - "Oh, that right, we dated. There's another thing I'm ashamed of."
- Pete Nash - "That picture saved my life."
Fay Cochran - "It did?"
Pete Nash - "One day, we were under heavy artillery fire. I was so scared and I took out your picture--"
Fay Cochran - "You mean just looking at my face gave you the courage to go on?"
Pete Nash - "No. I took out you picture and dropped it. And I bent down to pick it up--"
Joe Hackett - "And a bullet meant for you whizzed over your head, huh?"
Pete Nash - "No. I bent down to pick it up, I slipped on my canteen, the rifle discharged and I shot myself in the ass."
Brian Hackett - "What kind of a medal do they give you for that?"
Joe Hackett - "And where do they pin it?"
Trivia[]
- The episode title is a play on The Fugitive, a 1993 action thriller film starring Harrison Ford.
- Fay's maiden name ("Schlob") and former married surnames ("Dumbly" and "DeVay") are revealed.
- Fay is revealed to be in her early 60s.