The Escapist

[reflective acoustic guitar music]

# #

# When they poured

across the border #

# I was cautioned to surrender #

# This I could not do #

[buzzer sounds]

Five minutes.

# I took my gun and vanished #

# I have changed my name so often #

# I've lost my wife and children #

# But I have many friends #

# And some of them are with me #

# An old woman gave us shelter #

# Kept us hidden in the garret #

# Then the soldiers came #

# She died without a whisper #

# There were three of us

this morning #

# I'm the only one this evening #

# But I must go on #

# The frontiers are my prison #

[clock ticking]

[ticking stops]

[buzzer sounds]

End bell.

Where's Frank?

Alarm!

[alarm blaring]

[clock ticking]

Drop.

Drop.

Drop.

[alarm buzzing]

Gate!

[indistinct conversation]

You made yourself a friend.

[whistles]

Best have order.

And we're off!

[all shouting]

There's a handicap!

This one's missing a leg!

I'm good for two on red.

Too late, Frank.

Runners are on the track.

Then give them back.

Sorry, Frank.

You owe the bank.

[laughs]

Transfer?

I'm out, Frank.

Just like that?

All right.

Where's Hedge?

You not see him?

He's out the door.

Is he?

You're next, Lenny.

If they were soft on him,

things look good for you.

I mean, it's not likely

they're going to split up

such a formidable partnership,

now, is it?

Drake!

Get your f***ing hands off me!

Hedges!

Hedges!

Catwalk!

Single file at all times.

Boo!

Hello, brother.

Come on, let's get 'em,

let's get 'em.

You been smoking, Tony?

Let me have one of 'em.

Come on, you have all of them.

Someone's been feeding you.

No.

Course not.

You sure?

Let me have one of them pussies.

Let me have one of them pussies.

Come on. Come on. Come on.

Let me have one.

Let me have one.

Pussies!

[playing silly, upbeat organ music]

# #

[whistles]

Nice!

[men cheering]

Yeah! Yeah!

[laughs]

Pussies!

Pussies!

Pussies!

Pussies!

Yeah, you gorgeous.

You, that's right.

Have a good look, yeah?

Next time I see you,

you'll be against

the f***ing wall, mate.

Against the f***ing wall, yeah?

Pussies!

Pussies!

Pussies!

Pussies!

Pussies!

Pussies!

This is your cell.

This is your bunk.

This is your cell mate.

[buzzer sounds]

James Lacey.

Lockdown.

Lockdown.

[doors clanging]

Perry.

Mail.

Stare at something else.

[footsteps]

Lights out.

[lights clanging]

[faint clanging]

[man whistling]

You thinking about me, p*ssy?

Yeah, I know you are.

[faint pounding]

[indistinct shouting]

[man whistling]

[groans]

[muffled footsteps]

[muffled voices shouting]

Prisoner 24484, Brodie,

absent from cell.

Prisoner 27103, Lacey,

absent from cell.

Prisoner 23410, Perry,

absent from cell.

Prisoner 26423, Drake,

absent from cell.

Prisoner 26135, Batista,

absent from cell.

You come at the wrong time.

Chapel's closed.

Perry.

Aye, it's been a wee while.

I'll be right outside.

This is very hard.

But I just have to see her.

[wood creaking]

[humming]

It's feeding time, Batista.

[buzzer sounds]

Book.

Book.

Magazine.

Give me a card.

Come on, I want a card, Batista.

Just give me one.

Just give it to me.

Go beg your brother.

[buzzer sounds]

Do you good to wait a while.

He's getting cocky, Rizz.

He's laughing at me.

Come on, you know he does it.

You know he does,

you know he f***ing does it.

Get out. You heard me, Tony.

Now, get out.

Batista.

Come with me.

Your choice.

Tony said I was...

- Tony...

- Shh, shh, shh.

[groans]

Checkmate.

That's the first time in 11 years.

Another game, Frank?

[laughs]

Lacey?

Have a wander.

I'm not really in the mood.

Have a wander.

[metal clanging]

[water spraying]

Five minutes.

What?

The air vents in the laundry.

Would they connect to a sewer?

Come again?

The back of the dryers.

Would they connect

to the sewer system?

Frank, what's going on?

My first letter in 14 years...

telling me

our little girl's a junkie.

Her heart's stopped twice.

She's... she's not...

I mean, is she...

No.

Until it happens again.

I got to see her.

I got to make things right.

Frank.

I want out, Brodie.

Not in a month.

Not six.

Now.

The air vents in the laundry,

do they connect?

Frank, now, you're not

thinking straight.

Does it connect?

I'm not asking again.

Yeah.

But the air vent, it'll be capped.

You won't get through

solid steel.

Lenny Drake can.

Lenny Drake?

He's walking in a few.

His parole's been revoked.

Hedges grassed on him

for early release.

Well, suppose you got by

the dryer cap?

I mean, the vent'll only take

you as far as the perimeter.

As soon as you surface,

you'll be picked up.

That's why I'll go deeper.

No, I'm not going back down there.

I'm telling you, you don't have to.

Jesus, Frank, now,

you know why I'm in this dump.

Would you listen?

I want you to tell me,

not take me.

- I can't tell you.

- F***.

I can't even draw you a map.

Is your mind made up?

Frank?

Without me,

you'll be lost in minutes.

Stare at something else.

[men hollering and whistling]

I'm not in the mood

for a chat today.

I can understand that.

C*nt snitched me out.

Well, I tell you,

nobody was more surprised

than I was.

He walks early,

and I get nailed for Gomez?

So I murdered a guard?

But Hedges,

f***er was holding him down.

When I walk out that door...

Suppose I could get you

out the door, Lenny.

Don't f*** with me, Perry.

I told you, I'm not in the mood.

What would you prefer to smack?

That bit of leather,

or your number two?

Smack?

I had something more brutal

in mind.

You walk through walls, Lenny,

and that's useful.

Is it?

Say we talk,

and you're not interested.

Well, it goes without saying,

we never talked.

Yeah, it goes without saying.

[men shouting indistinctly]

Frank.

[approaching footsteps]

Domino.

Three players.

All right.

Barriers?

One.

Two.

Three.

Locks?

Bolt and key.

No chance.

I'm a thief, not a magician.

There is another way.

How?

Shower drain.

Directly above.

It's the same problem above.

And more barriers.

Only one:

chapel wall.

It'll take all night.

Ever considered confessing?

Back of the confessional.

Panel's loose.

And the chapel door?

What about tools?

The Lord...

provides.

[buzzer sounds]

[clock ticking]

[wood clunking]

Domino.

First hammer on tile,

the screws will come running.

Alarms would be louder.

- Who sets them off?

- We do.

When they cotton

onto us missing.

It's an obstacle course as it is.

If they're onto us from the off...

We'll be over the drains

when the alarm goes.

By the time they leave the Spur,

we'll be in the laundry.

How long have we got

before they're in the laundry?

Five minutes, tops.

[sighs]

It's enough.

All right.

Next piece.

The dryer.

- Locks?

- Older than me.

Yeah, but what about the cap

on the vent?

You don't worry about that.

I'll sort my end.

Yeah, yeah, I do worry.

Have you got something

that cuts through steel?

I got whatever it takes.

Lights out.

Lights out.

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