The Incredible Hulk/No Escape

No Escape
Season 2, Episode 19
Airdate	March 30, 1979
Written by	Ben Masselink
Directed by	Jeffrey Hayden
Produced by	James G. Hirsch
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The Incredible Hulk — Season Two

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No Escape is the nineteenth episode of the second season of The Incredible Hulk, and the thirty-first episode overall.

Starring: Bill Bixby (David Banner)

Also Starring: Jack Colvin (Jack McGee)

and Lou Ferrigno (The Hulk)

Guest Stars: James Wainwright (Tom Wallace), Mariclare Costello (Kay Wallace), Skip Homeier (Dr. Robert Scanlon), Thalmus Rasulala (Deputy Chief Harry Simon)

Special Guest Star: Sherman Hemsley (Robert)

Co-Starring: Tom Lowell (Mathews), Howard Brunner (1st Officer)

with Lynne Randall (1st Reporter), George J. Cooper (2nd Reporter), Jerry Fitzpatrick (2nd Officer), Chris Petersen (Steve), Andy Enberg (Jimmy)

Uncredited: Jack Kirby (Sketch Artist)

Plot Overview

While sleeping on a park bench near a beach one night, David is arrested for vagrancy by a police officer and put in a paddy wagon with Tom Wallace, a mentally unstable escapee from a psychiatric hospital who believes he is Ernest Hemingway. After a few moments of rambling incoherently along with memory flashes of his time spent in the hospital (where he evidently received electroshock therapy for his condition, which is later revealed as a false memory), Tom suddenly attacks and assaults David, causing David to turn into the Hulk, who then forces Tom to back off before he smashes out the paddy wagon's doors and gets out, then overturns the wagon before running off. When David later learns that the Hulk's actions resulted in Tom escaping custody, he sets out to make amends by looking for Tom and, with help from Tom's friend Robert, tries to convince him to turn himself in.

Arc Advancement

Characters

• David assumes the alias of David Baron in this episode