Twelve new fugitives are on the run all across the UK, and three people who squeal whenever anyone says Bexhill – Anthony, Michelle & I – are back for our much-delayed seventh series to talk about them! Over these six episodes, regardless of how Channel 4 want to release them, we will be diving into everything to do with the seventh UK Hunt, continuing with the fourth episode and capture of Jack.
In our recap:
- Will Civilian Hunted return?
- Anthony’s been keeping secrets.
- We’ve found a new fugitive friend.
- How soon did we realise Jack was done for?
- I almost gave a very good prediction last week.
- Michelle goes on charity watch.
- When is a moor not a field?
- Why is everything still so early?
- How big is a sausage roll?
- A new standard measurement is launched.
- Anthony pre-empts a complaint.
- Someone gets a (small) apology.
- Have we seen something we shouldn’t?
- Why did Jack sit atop the moor?
- Did the camera crew give it away?
- Was Jack ever cut out to be a fugitive?
- Lisa’s edit has definitely softened.
- Who’s getting caught next week?
- I’m being targeted.
- Is Joshua a champion runner too?
- Did Alex know what he was signing up for?
- Daisy earns her salary.
- Are sausage rolls aphrodisiacs?
- Doug has an unironic breakout.
- Michelle tries to rewrite history.
- Have Cathy & Annida travelled the least of any fugitives?
- We have some connections to one of the locations.
- Is Bexhill God’s Waiting Room?
- Anthony & I tag team a joke.
- Did Cathy & Annida nearly get a third banner?
- Would we be up for doing some interviews?
- We teach everyone about continuity.
- Are we due for some rushed days?
- I tell a very old joke.
- Rosalind loses a new friend.
- Michelle reveals an ambition.
- We have an epiphany about the timeline.
- How did the Hunters not find out the timing of the regatta?
- Cathy & Annida have expensive tastes.
- What would our priorities be on the run?
- Canned foods get ranked.
- Anthony gives us a life lesson.
- Did anyone have a hangover on the run?
- Do Cigars and Croissants really go together?
- Where was the Next Time?
- Who will get caught next week?
- And we tout for new sponsors.
We will be back next week as the Hunt continues with Episode 5!
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Warning! Long post alert!
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So, we have confirmation that Jack and Alex split up on Day 2. Then we’re looking at Day 6 footage as the plane lands at the start of this episode, an interrogation of Day 7 or 8, a Day 9 order to go to Scotland and a Day 10 charm offensive. (I think there was at least one Day 12 scene from Alex – the one in the tent at Carlisle). This is incredible considering that it’s halfway through the series and the whole thing is supposed to be at least 3 weeks. Did the Hunters simply have a terrible middle third of the competition?!? The edit’s being set up that way (I fully expect Episode 6 to be the usual “last 48 hours”).
The discrepancies in the pictures are probably the product of B-roll footage.
Jack, you should have walked from that airfield, not done anything that needed a phone call to arrange. (Also, I hope it does not have to be said that going to the toilet only 40% hidden from the main road by a tree is a bad idea at any time, let alone if attempting to hide. Or that talking to the camera when attempting to hide from a hot pursuit is unwise. The camera person could be as still as one likes, but voices from the bush would have been suspicious even if the Hunters had not already been determined to search every leaf anyway).
A sausage roll is a “how long is a piece of string” question. I’ve seen sausage rolls that are the size of a USB stick (they were rubbish) and some that were almost as big as a dinner plate (awesome but impractical on the run). I’d be more concerned for the temperature: those stalls tend to sell hot rolls, which aren’t intended to be kept uneaten for more than a few hours. (Also, don’t buy 5 at a time alone if trying not to be memorable. Even if, as I suspect, this was lunch and snacks as well as breakfast).
Taxi drivers absolutely will stop off on the way to places if you pay them for the standing fee and it’s not a long wait. Especially if you get them a to-go meal at the same time!
The taxi firm absolutely should not have stated the drop-off location to the Hunters – ownership of a phone number counts as personal information under GPDR, and a contracted movement is also personal information. At this point, the GPDR breach is quite clear.
The actual police could be given the information that someone of a particular phone number was dropped off, but only if the police were honest about being police and stated that this was in connection with police business (albeit lost property counts if the phone is in police custody).
Also, if you can see every angle… …every angle can see you.
Finally about Jack and the Hunters… the time to yell at a fugitive that they’re done is not when they are clearly getting away from you. Wait until it is vaguely plausible.
Sade/Cameron split edit! (Also, the Peterborough and Wakefield parts were definitely on different days. Wakefield was Day 9 if the voiceover is accurate, since Nottingham “tomorrow” was Day 10).
Women occasionally manage not to know they are pregnant until labour starts. (Hospitals generally prefer it if the mother-to-be has a bit more notice than that, as this means there’s been no antenatal care whatsoever).
I liked the supermarket trick. That was hilarious!
Judging by the times, it would not surprise me if the Hunters got the location intel for the castle less than an hour before Alex left. As for the flowers, it was probably the fact the Hunters thought to bring anything rather than the value of the supermarket flowers.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought not researching the regatta time was silly.
Rice pudding is excellent eaten cold. Custard also works, although I would want to eat something with it. Bringing a treat is good, but anything in a glass bottle is a risk if needing to run. (Granted, those two are clearly planning a strategy involving walking or getting lifts everywhere). I don’t drink alcohol or fizzy drinks, so I’d be taking fruit squash with some fruit juice for a treat. Also, don’t use the same contact twice! (Or if so, not twice consecutively).
I think Folkestone won’t result in a direct capture but will get good intel that could prove to be Cathy and Annida’s downfall later next episode or at the very start of Episode 6. Which is frustrating as I think they would be great winners. Jaxon and Nicola, I think, have disappeared and will re-emerge near that warehouse. (Unfortunately I think at least one of them exits the warehouse in the company of the Hunters).
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