8 fugitives left and 18 days left on the run. Can any of them make the distance?
Episode 1 of Hunted finished with the Hunters converging on Robert and Alex Ayling. They have a drone with a thermal imaging sensor which identifies two heat signals.
And this is where episode 2 picks up. We find that the thermal imaging sensor has actually picked up the heat signal of two deer. This flip-up was enough to allow Robert and Alex to hitch a lift into Staffordshire.
This episode primarily focusses on Jamie Clark and Sandra and Mella, but let's quickly go over the last three fugitives.
Friends Joe and Dan, whom we've seen very little off, have escaped into the Peak District, while deputy Sheffield Mayor Majid has fled into Arndale.
But onto Jamie Clark. As well as being a former police officer, he is a family man with a heavily pregnant wife and young son at home. The Hunters realise this could be his Achilles' heel and dispatch a team to interview Jamie's wife, Lesley.
While she refuses to cooperate, the Hunters determine her due date is imminent and Jamie will not risk missing the birth of his child. Later, when the house is empty, the Hunters break in and search it.
They find Jamie's notebook and notice there are pages that have been torn out. It's explained that when you write on a notebook, you leave faint impressions on the pages that are underneath. These pages can then be treated with an electrical charge and black toner to reveal these impressions.
This is what the Hunters do with Jamie. They discover Lesley's due date and determine what hospital she will be attending.
Meanwhile, we learn that Jamie is still within the North-West, staying in the field of Good Samaritan, Dougie. However, it is obvious that he sorely misses his family and isn't prepared to miss the birth of his child, so he takes the massive risk of going to see them. Dougie has one of his delivery men agree to drive Jamie back home to Dorset, but firstly, Jamie sets a trap.
To make the Hunters think he's still in Manchester, he uses an ATM, making sure the Hunters see him on CCTV. They quickly spot him and dispatch a ground team, but Jamie has already left for the South West.
The last we see of him he has made it to the town of Tiverton and is figuring out his next steps.
From here, we move onto old university friends Sandra and Mella. Just like with Jamie, the Hunters quickly zone in on Sandra's family, interviewing her mother. She remains unhelpful and the Hunters search her home finding a letter addressed to a mysterious Robert Amule.
Previously unknown to the Hunters, they decide to focus on him. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Sandra and Mella and the other fugitives have been on the run for 8 days. Sandra and Mella are obvious city girls, ill-prepared for rough nights in the countryside. From Rochdale, Manchester, we see the girls have hitch-hiked their way to Edinburgh with the intention of staying with Sandra's Uncle Emmett within a block of flats.
The only problem with this plan? The blocks of flats are covered with CCTV cameras. Luckily, the girls have an ingenious solution for this. They cover themselves with bin bags and head for Uncle Emmett's flat. Amazingly, this worked. Seriously, I don't know how the Hunters missed two people walking around in bin bags. But anyway, Sandra and Mella make it inside only for Uncle Emmett to tell them that the Hunters have grilled Sandra's mother, Grace.
Shaken by this news, they decide to leave Edinburgh, but, firstly, they call Grace on a burner phone, so Robert Amule can bring them supplies and money.
Meanwhile, the Hunters have tracked down Robert Amule, who is revealed to be Sandra's brother. Robert doesn't hold up well under the investigation, and the Hunters quickly discover the truth about Sandra's burner phone. Shortly after this, Grace calls Sandra and tells her that Robert has been compromised. The two girls decide to forget their original plan and instead hitchhike to Kent.
However, the Hunters have traced their call to Edinburgh. While they don't have any ground teams in Scotland, they dispatch a ghost operative. A ghost operative is an anonymous agent who can perform surveillance, but can't perform any captures.
Why the Hunters haven't used these ghost operatives before is beyond me, as is why they aren't using any more of them. But, anyway, the Hunters quickly determine that Sandra and Mella will be hitchhiking and decide to have the ghost operative pretend to pick them up and drive them to safety, when in reality he will drive them straight into the hands of the Hunters.
The episode ends with Sandra and Mella supposedly getting into the Ghost's car, but we'll have to wait until next week to see if the two have been truly hunted. Considering it's been eight days and only one fugitive has been caught, the Hunters will be looking very foolish, if they don't catch anyone else soon. And remember, don't comment your plans for going on the run. You never know who's watching.
Top tips for going on the run
1. DON'T PHONE HOME. Why am I always saying this? Even burners can still be traced.
2. Don't use bin bags as a disguise. How Sandra and Mella got away with this is beyond me.
3. Pick your time for going on the run i.e not when your wife is pregnant. How do you expect to fight against this temptation?
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