The Tale of the Real Fugitive

Hi everyone! It seems we are all tag teaming in and out of the office, bringing back tales of nearly sunny holidays and fun break times. Meanwhile work continues and we have Vanessa, line producer of Locked Up Abroad and Fugitive back in the office! That’s fantastic, it is like she never left! It is incredible to think how far the documentaries at RAW reach out to…I thought that Vanessa who has been living in New York for the past three months working on the prisoner escape series  ‘The Fugitive’ would probably have a couple of anecdotes that we’d all enjoy, so I asked, and this is too good to be true…

The night before the drama shoot of the last episode Anna Marie Pitman, Field Producer and I returned from a successful late night flit to Walmart (very similar to Woolworths – RIP) to find 3 cop cars in the parking lot of our apartment, 2 cops cars on the street outside and a helicopter hovering over head. We negotiated our way past the cop cars and after some difficulty finding a parking spot, were told by the by-standers that there was a Fugitive on the loose in the grounds of our apartment! The irony was not lost on us. Apparently, the police men were an elite squad of law enforcement officers who had been sent to apprehend the fugitive. We were told they were looking for ’a man in a white t-shirt’.

Text messages were immediately sent to the director and other crew members and we retired for the evening. As we laughed to ourselves and climbed the stairs to the apartment it couldn’t fail to cross our minds (albeit fleetingly) that we would find the fugitive sitting on our sofa, watching Crimestoppers and drinking our beer. Of course this wasn’t the case.

The following morning we awoke at 5 am for shoot day 1 to find that the fugitive was still on the loose and our car had been towed because we were parked in the wrong spot. Fortunately, the remained of our shoot in San Diego was much less eventful and aside from a good number of temperamental action cars we had an excellent experience with a talented cast and crew.

Ness, you should’ve caught him and offered to tell his story! Brilliant!

Fi

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