Escape

Trivia Contributor
The actress portaying Kimberly (Lori Hallier) was in Initiation as Marilyn Blake.
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The actor who portrayed Tom Marker (Simon Williams) was Carstairs in Sunday at the Hotel with George.
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The actor portraying Mac was in a Canadian TV show called Street Legal. He was one of the leads, a character named Rabinowitz. CP guest starred on that series in a very intense episode. He was pitted against Rabinowitz.
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John Saxon ( Straker) is a martial artist, who appeared in Bruce Lee's last film Enter the Dragon.
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Script differences  
The original (white) script for this episode was originally set in Kuwait. Rather than Peter and Caine going after Kermit, it is Peter and Caine who are caught - along with Kimberly Sinclair. Pop and Pete are in Kuwait journeying to stand among the ruins of Troy in Greece.
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The tease of this script starts off with Kermit reading a postcard from Peter. He exclaims that it's the fourth one he's gotten. "Only Peter Caine would want to tour the oil fields of Kuwait on his vacation."

Kermit explains to Strenlich and Jody why Peter and Caine are there. "Homer! The Iliad! The ruins of Troy! Schlieman found Troy, four cities down below the Roman town of Ilium. Homer describes the wind blowing ceaselessly through the long grasses and the tiny stunted oak trees. Caine wants to stand among those ruins."

Strenlich: "And they're driving through Kuwait to get there?"
Kermit: "Gulf War's over."
Jody: "Does Saddam Hussein know that?"
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Peter is driving them through the desert. He complains that it's hot and how they could be fishing instead. Caine reminds him of their last fishing trip. Peter goes on to say how long it'll take them to get to their destination, when Caine tells him to turn off. And, as in the episode, they come across Kimberly Sinclair changing her tire.

She blames the blowout on her losing control of her car (a volvo) when the sand obscured her view. When the men show up from the prison camp, they end the tease there.
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The characters in the prison camp are the same as in the episode, but some of the names are different. Mackensie is there. A man named Crenna is saying Kermit's lines.
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When Caine, Peter and Kimberly get off the truck, Peter spots Crenna and recognizes him from a photo Kermit carries. He keeps talking. Without warning he is hit on the side of the head with a rifle butt. This is when Caine and Peter start fighting. It ends the same as in the episode.
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In the barracks, Peter also has to change clothes.
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When Kimberly says her speech about getting the Secretary of State there in 48 hours, Peter tells her that it won't work. He describes how he noticed that most of the prisoners were Americans. "I looked into some of the faces of the prisoners. Or maybe I just felt their pain. The acceptance of their fate. They've been here for a long time."

When Peter tells her there's no prison that can hold Caine, she asks sardonically, "Is that right? He's Superman?"

Peter: "He's a Shambhala Master and you don't have to understand what that means except that for him fences and barbed wire don't exist."
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Hammadi (Straker) tells Caine that the prisoners are political ones. That the Bagdad prisons are overflowing and that this compound is an internment camp.

Hammadi tells Caine that he, and Peter entered the country illegally, and that's why they were brought there. When Caine tells him that thewoman was in "distress", Hammadi replies, "Who also entered without a visa. Whom your son professes not to know, yet there is an obvious relationship between them." (with irony) "He makes friends so quickly?"

Caine: (without irony) "It is one of his better qualities."

Hammadi is a bit surprised that Caine has no identification. He asks why he shouldn't believe Caine is a spy. Caine replies with, "Because in your heart ou know that is not the truth."
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The chat with the Markers is with Caine and Peter, as well as Kimberly. Tom works for the British Consulate in Dhahran. He is wearing his tennis whites.
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When Gregg and Peter have it out, and Peter says, "I don't like being shoved," Gregg comes back with "Spoil your hair?"

After they lock Gregg in solitary, Peter turns to Crenna (who has most of Kermit's lines in this) and says softly, "You know a man named Kermit? Kermit Griffin? Thought I saw you in a photograph he carries."

Crenna: (also soft) "And where would you have seen that?"
Peter: "Police precinct in the states. I'm a cop. So's Kermit. He used to be a mercenary. Like you?"
Crenna: "I'm a wildcatter. Cap burning oil wells. Got picked up in a Bahrah brothel one night in Kuwait too drunk to know what was happening. Only Kermit I know is a frog on Sesame Street (as he moves away) "Unless he wears green glasses at all times."
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In the barracks, as Peter talks to Caine about escaping he says, "I was thinking of the odds we've faced. Fighting the Dark Warrior in Shambhala. The marauders that we formed a Dragonswing against. Shadow Assassins. Warlords. The Sing Wah. Why do I feel this time the odds against us are too high?"

Caine: "Because we are isolated. Away from all that is familiar. Rescue is an illusion. We have only ourselves to rely upon."

This is when Peter tells Caine he can go get help using his Shambhala skills.
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A dinner siren is heard. Caine departs, saying that he does not need to eat.

Up until now Kimberly has been lying about why she was on that road. She had told people she was on vacation. Peter confronts her about thetruth just before Hammadi's men bust into the barrack and take her to him.

Interestingly enough, a line she says to Hammadi is similar to the line Marilyn Blake said in Initiation. "Touch me and I'll claw your eyesout."
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When they are preparing to go to the meeting, Crenna is much more severe about his ideas of escape than Kermit was. He thinks they should storm the gates. Caine says many would die. Crenna says that the survivors could walk out. Peter says, "And how far would they go before Saddam Hussein's army swooped down with tanks and armored cars and picked them up?"

Crenna: "A few minutes of freedom is all I ask."

This is when Caine disappears once again.
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While Mac is lecturing about the tunnels, Hammadi's men bust in, but not before he covers the diagram with maps of Kuwait. One of the men, Aziz, tells Mac that they know the prisoners are digging the tunnels. Mack denies it, but adds that they will be rescued and that Hammadi and his men will hang. This prompts Aziz to hit Mac. Crenna steps in and he's ordered to go to solitary. It's Crenna that announced that Caine is already there (he must have seen Caine being taken there).
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When Peter is struck in the compound after his outburst about locking Caine up like an animal. Crenna and Mac come to his aid. Kimberly does remind Peter about what he said about his father and prisons.

Crenna: (sotto) "Keep your dignity."
Mac: "Don't let them see your pain. That's what they want."
Peter: (gasping) "You can't treat prisoners like this. There's the Geneva convention."
Crenna: "The Raqs burned that along with the American flag."
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The scene where Hammadi muses about Caine is done in his office. No Kermit, no Crenna. When he asks out loud how Caine can do it, Peter suddenly appears and says, "He's my father." Apparently Hammadi was waiting for him. Peter's reasoning for a morale boosting celebration is that Hammadi had promised them they could celebrate Memorial Day.

At the celebration... Caine steadies himself against a table.

Peter: "Pop...
Caine: "I am all right. But my strength is greatly depleted. As is yours. None of these prisoners will endure the strain of this incarceration much longer."
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After the tunnel is discovered, Hammadi orders Caine into his office, while Gregg and Marker are put in the cooler. He tells Caine that they will be moving to another prison - three of them. "You and your son will be separated..."

After this, Caine shows up in the Kramer tunnel as in the episode.

Rather than break into a truck, Crenna has the explosive in his bunk. He says he's been stealing it piece by piece.
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Before they make their moves, Caine and Peter srand outside the barracks talking.

Caine: "You know what you must do."
Peter: "Where will you be, father."
Caine: (a small smile) "In that moment you sounded just like you did at times in the temple."
Peter: "There were times in the temple when I got real scared. Like now." (cradling his father's face) "See you outside those gates?"
Caine: "Yes."
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Peter leads the distraction by fighting with Hassan (who is the same man he had conflict in as in the episode, but with a different name). The others move past during this. Peter takes out Hassan as the explosions start.
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Crenna is shot and dies in Caine's arms. He hands Caine something to give to Kermit.
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The prisoners happen upon two trucks along a dirt road as they escape from the camp. Kermit jumps down from one, dressed in black. Strenlich jumps down from the other. They had gotten worried when they didn't hear from Peter. Then Caine supposedly sent a message to Kermit to wait outside the compound on that very night.
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In the tag the group is in a cafe. Caine hands Kermit the item Crenna gave him. It is a battered cigarette case.

Caine: "Your friend gave me this. To give to you."
Kermit: "We fought in hellholes all over the Third World. The three of us. Crenna, Blaisdell and myself." (pocketing the case) "Thanks."

There is no dialog about whether Gregg is Kermit's son or not.

The scene ends with Peter and Caine climbing into the jeep.

Peter: "Where's Kermit?"
Caine: "He says goodbye."
Peter: "You think the ruins of Troy are still there?"
Caine: "For two thousand years."
Peter: "Let's go visit."
Caine smiles. Peter drives off. Caine puts his arm around his son's shoulders. Camera pans them down the Kuwait street as we fade out.
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I also have a yellow version of the script that is more like the episode. Interestingly enough, when Peter has his outburst about the cooler, no one hits him. Instead, Kermit restrains him, while Kimberly says her speech about holding on to hope.

When Peter senses Caine's signal to move to the tunnel, Peter says, "Okay! That's his signal!"

Mac: "I didn't see anything."
Peter: (softly) "But I felt it..."
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