bustin' loose

 

Jailbreak:  Love On The Run is a Netflix documentary telling the true story of a real-life jailbreak that occurred in 2022, in Florence, Alabama.

Casey White is a guy who was in jail in Florence.  It's not a prison, it's "a holding facility."

The woman who helped him escape and ran away with him was Vicky White.

(They have the same last name, but are not related.)

She was not a detainee in the jail; she was in charge of the place - second to one other person.  She had a good salary and a lot of responsibilities.

So, to begin with, he needed to escape, but she did not need to escape, she worked there.  However, once she helped him get out, she too became a fugitive.

        The charge against Casey White was capital murder.  As the law viewed it, Vicky White had turned a dangerous criminal "loose on the public."

        By the time Casey White and Vicky White ran, they had been professing love for each other via phone conversations and in-person conversations for almost two years.

Part of the enjoyment of watching this documentary is hearing the Southern accents.

I adore accents; I swim in them.

I love language, and it's infinitely interesting to me, hearing the variety of ways people use the language.

At one point in the film, a speaker said, "We realized Tom was of the essence..."

And I was thinking, Wait, Vicky White, Casey White - who's Tom?  What did I miss?

Later - maybe in a re-watch, I realized he was saying, "time was of the essence."

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