Q & A #6 - Fugitive From Justice

The movie ended with a series of frozen text giving brief summaries of the fates of everyone involved. However, since this was the only source showing what happened, there’s no way to verify the portrayal against official reports detailing what really happened. It’s likely there wasn’t a musical score playing while the criminal proceedings were taking place. Due to licensing issues, they weren’t able to claim the rights, so they used a knock-off version immortalized by the classic lyrics:

Flyyyyyy me to Artemis,
Out among the plaaaanets.
Let me show you what life is like
On Zeeeeus and Arrrres.

As a fictional work based on real events, heightened with flair for dramatic effect, any actual authentication of the events portrayed should be taken with a grain of salt. This ties in with the question from Crim Mendel N. Tent who asks:

What happened to the rest of the criminals?

While the fate of the majority of the remainder of the gang who planned the heist remains elusive, one of the members managed to escape. His only hope was to lie low until the statute of limitations ran out, which was a long way away, but laws were changing all the time, and he lived under the hope that the immutable criminal law would change.

He was so worried about being caught as an accomplice that he went on the run, living under multiple aliases. When he could no longer change his face or ID, and couldn’t move across the border, he was forced to stay put in the pit he’d dug himself in. Literally, by hiding away underneath a compost pile for years, never venturing out. He paid an exuberant bribe under threat of death should his location ever be revealed without his knowledge.

It wasn’t until the owner died and the lease changed hands that the new owner found out about the Fugitive tenant hiding underneath his new property that the bribe, which remained at a steady pace, was raised to meet new standards of living under new management, even though no improvements to his deplorable living conditions were made.

When the Fugitive’s funds ran out and he could no longer afford to pay, the new owner alerted the Authorities, not out of greed, but out of fear of being sentenced for harboring a Fugitive. It was a shame to lose him, since he was such a loyal punctual tenant, but there were other potential buyers out there looking for a place to hide. Consequently, after reporting the outlaw, the new owner was arrested for associating with a criminal, and both subjected to the harshest extent of the law.

He was jailed for a month and fined $5.