Explain This…

.. you make a prison break, with hours to ‘get away’ before anyone discovers you are gone.         you cut through thick pipe, crawl through yards of piping and end up exiting a manhole.    you are 20 miles from the Canadian border.

look at an aerial shot of the prison location it is trees and virtually unpopulated.
you are three weeks on the lam         and you still end up being shot dead by the police.

What went wrong?  If the police shoot them both dead, we will never know.