escape plots
Prison exit strategies
Escape plots are schemes devised by prisoners, captives, or those otherwise confined to break free from their confinement.
The term covers both real plans—The POWs developed elaborate escape plots involving tunnels—and fictional narratives centered on such schemes.
In storytelling, escape plots form a genre featuring characters working to flee prisons, kidnappings, or dystopian control.
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- prison breakEscape from custody
- breakoutSudden escape from restraint
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
- dig outUncover by removing material
scheme · getaway · fugitive · on the run · mastermind · inside job · conspiracy · planning · rope · guards · guard tower · walls · accomplice · blueprint · disguise · freedom · safe house · hatch
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- DumasThe Three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, swashbuckling
escape plotssurrender
Cease resistance, yield
capitulation · submission · compliance · giving up · yielding
escape plotssecurity measures
Precautions against threats
manhunts · lockdown procedures · incarceration · roundups · surveillance systems
escape plotsinforming
Conveying facts to another
cooperation · obedience · conformity · snitching · Stockholm syndrome
escape, plots, escapes, escaped, escaping, escapee, escapees, escapism, escapist