Hunted C4

[AlbusPercival]

Will anyone be watching tonight?

it looks great, but not sure if i will be able to sleep afterwards!

Surely phoning her son's father is obvious and a stupid thing to do. If she can't live without contacting her son, then she shouldn't have taken part in the challenge.

I know Zebra, straight in for a snatch? At least buy her a drink first.

One of those brothers looks familiar too. Have these people all been on TV?

Actually Email looks a bit familiar, and that thing about her dancing.... I reckon she's been on a really chappy late night C5 typeshow before too.

Never mind pink things on heads standing out etc, surely the cameraman 2 feet behind you stands out more. DP says he'd hide in the loft for a month.

My neighbour's house is empty at the moment. I reckon i could find a way in and hide out there.

Actually being a MNer would be a great help. Just realised with 200 pounds I could buy a chicken which would last me for food for a month!

are they the same people?

Don't be so ridiculous G1ve. A chicken doesn't last you a month.

It lasts you, 3 children, a husband and the nanny a month.

She HAS to stop phoning home - stupid woman!

The bloke is getting a bit cocky

I'm sure I could find a friend who would let me hide in their loft for a month.

A live chicken for eggs or a dead chicken for meat?

I think id go rural. Wales, Lakes, Northumbria. Small tent, and hole up. Maybe with some live chickens and eat omlette every day. Chickens are £5 each. You could buy ten chickens and get ten eggs a day which is enough to live off. Some blackberries and stream water and you're fine for a month. The chickens would have to be hobbled.

And Id double bluff on my internet search history. Id spend the month before researching Dartmoor.

Emily shouldn't have phoned her mum wtf! I get the impulse and desire but as ultimately this is just a game show if she can't bear to be away from her son she shouldn't have gone on. Man she's annoying. No stop bloody calling everyone! If you REALLY must leave messages for them with other people you're not directly connected to!!

The resources yes they wouldn't be employed for your average missing person - but if you're considered 'subversive' they would be and don't be under any illusion that only applies to terrorists. Just talk to ANYONE involved in campaigning against the govt. CND, animal rights activists, welfare rights activists, anyone with communist/anarchist sympathies...

They'll tell you they have experience of their phones being tapped, mail going missing, friends and family realising at a later point they told a stranger at the bus stop/library/supermarket something about you that could be compromising/misconstrued/make you vulnerable.

I agree rural is best option. Either with or without a network but with my personal life experiences I would go NC with everyone! Ultimately the only person I really trust is my daughter. Re rural v urban the other problem with urban is other people!! Lots of witnesses!

If it was real life and I needed to do this:

Destroy all electronic equipment, don't leave them for the hard drive to be recovered.

As I said total NC with everyone

Head somewhere rural where I have no connections/history. If real life different country. In fact several different countries. Some are easier to get into than others but people do get into even USA illegally so clearly it can be done.

Not use the money unless absolutely necessary. If rural bartering services for food especially at farms. Make use of wild fruits and veg.

You don't even need a tent. It's possible to make a shelter from branches etc or use a natural one like a cave.

Source freshwater.

Remove my birthmark (unfortunately I have one on my face so difficult to hide.

Disguise self as a man.

I haven't though about this much honest guv

I'm sure others will have ideas to contribute too.

"If you had all those resources looking for Emily and the other one, then they would have the helicopter up in case they did a runner over the fields." True

Think any of them will remember that northern Ireland is part of the UK and therefore fair game?

"And Id double bluff on my internet search history. Id spend the month before researching Dartmoor." Absolutely!

Also who was it that left all their electronics, passwords, passports etc hidden together in a sodding wardrobe!

And what the hells in the rucksacks? Wear layers, what else do you need apart from clothes? You don't need a mobile phone, keys, purse...

Yes I thought about NI. But then it's ferry/ports/cctv to get there? It's a risk.

There's also random places like IoW, Isle of Man.....but if they realise you're on the island it will be harder to run!

Would it be a bad idea to go somewhere like Tepee Valley in Wales? Or will that be being closely watched as a matter of course?

I think TeePee valley would be good. And if they did track you there it would be like Battle of the Beanfield if they tried doing a snatch.

Just somewhere like that where alternative people hang out, would be full of people who would help you if you have no food.
Although if I ever become hunted, I can't go to Tepee Valley now.

Probably the best way to go missing is have connections to lots of rich people so someone very rich can smuggle you out of the country in their private boat or jet.

The resources yes they wouldn't be employed for your average missing person - but if you're considered 'subversive' they would be and don't be under any illusion that only applies to terrorists. Just talk to ANYONE involved in campaigning against the govt. CND, animal rights activists, welfare rights activists, anyone with communist/anarchist sympathies.

And yet non paying NRPs simply cannot be found. Baffling.

Think any of them will remember that northern Ireland is part of the UK and therefore fair game?

Yes i wondered if the man headed to scotland was planning that. I am in NI and very near the coast. I have lots of people could get me on a boat if needs be.

Don't get me started on nrp's! Govt are shit at dealing with them!

Yea to the person saying ferry needed to go to NI not necessarily, there's plenty of fishing and private boats go between NI and 'mainland' UK all the time.

I was so looking forward to this but what a disappointment! Load if staged shite! The contestants are eejits! My favourite characters so far have been the deer leaping about Glen Coe

i LOVED it

great family show if you have teens too

Thought provoking and fun viewing, but obviously staged and carefully edited to create drama. But that's typical TV. I knew someone who was asked to appear on that Sarah Beany property show, but he declined when they told him he'd have to ignore her advice so she could slag him off to the camera! He said the money he'd get wouldn't compensate for being made to look like an idiot on national TV. It's likely Emily has been told to play a certain role and to make phonecalls home so she can look dozy and a liability to Lauren.

It's a fantastic programme. I'm rooting for Ricky the GP.

Despite being quite silly, Emily actually had a great strategy before she started ringing home and giving the game away. Getting all the cash out locally before scarpering, hitching, staying in holiday places where strangers are commonplace, doing live in jobs. Poor Lauren, saddled with that liability! If it weren't for the phone calls, I don't think they would have left a trail at all.

My strategy would be to get a live in job somewhere my accent wouldn't attract attention. A care home, or fruit picking or somewhere where they are so keen to get people that they wouldn't wait for references to come in before giving you a job.

Oh yeah, and I laughed at the 'crack team'. One of them looked like a 15 year old work experience boy, and another was virtually in tears after reading Emily's 'emotional' CV ("she's so genuine").

Also, the boss bloke thought he was in an episode of Cagney and Lacey or something, and kept saying, "OK, listen up!" whilst affecting an attempted statesmanlike facial expression. Tee hee! Jane Tennison (the majestic Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect) had no truck with that pseudo-American nonsense. Her fictional copper was more convincing than this (apparently) real one.