WEBVTT - Bonus Episode | Halfway Home 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.000 Yesterday, I went out in the afternoon, going out for 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:19.560 my last you know time on the Red Field. It's 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:24.160 so contained and it's so secure, it has to be right. 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:29.480 I mean, it's a high level security institution. You can't 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:33.160 look far without having to look to a fence, steel 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:38.159 bar reinforced glass door, tall twelve foot defences covered in 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:40.800 razor wire. There's something there that's going to remind you 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:46.479 that you're not free, you know, you are confined. My 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:51.040 mind was whirling, you know, thinking about all of what ifs, 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.239 the possibilities, what am I going to do? What's this 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.120 going to be like? Is it really going to happen? 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:57.760 Because I'm going to tell you something. Right up to 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:00.880 the last minute, I was holding my breath waiting for 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:02.000 a hammer to drop. 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:30.480 You. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:39.959 You, my minness, I have to hise my feel. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:43.959 Saw rose deep. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:55.880 Sorry lists in this VALI teas. I want to see 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:14.480 RelA show great rish to the old day stuff. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:20.359 So stop. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:47.079 I know it just upsets everybody, but I saw this coming. 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.320 To be honest with you, I saw this coming. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.160 Kelsey and I are sitting in a hotel room in 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:56.440 Miami along with Scott Cup. Just two weeks earlier, Leo 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:00.520 had been officially granted parole. Since then, I'd been in 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.120 near constant contact with Chrissy and Scott as they coordinated 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.920 plans for Leo's first day out of prison. Here's what 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.840 we were expecting. Leo was scheduled to walk out of 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.600 the gates at Everglade's Correctional Institution at nine AM, where 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.760 a crowd of family, friends and supporters would be gathered 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.360 to cheer him on and witness his first steps of 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:25.560 freedom after spending thirty six years behind bars. Leo's lawyers 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.680 from years past were also planning to attend, and so 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.080 was Jonathan Martin. He's the Florida senator who spoke at 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.639 Leo's parole hearing last year, and it has been in 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:40.000 discussions with Scott Cupp about Leo's prospects for exoneration. Chrissy 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.000 had planned a whole day for him. First, there would 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.320 be a luncheon at the hotel where Leo would say 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.640 some words and play some music. Then he'd get into 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.000 a car and drive with Chrissy to see his daughter, Ashley, 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.720 who had just given birth to his third grandson. Then 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.880 he'd head to the Halfway House in Tampa, where he'd 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.200 unpack and settle in and begin the adjustment to life 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:06.440 outside of prison. Kelsey and I flew into Miami and 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.560 headed over to the Mikasuki Hotel the night before the release. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.400 This hotel is right on the outskirts of Miami and 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.560 less than a mile from where Leo would spend his 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.599 final night in prison. We were feeling pretty excited as 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.480 we headed to the Mikasuki Hotel, but just as we 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.560 were walking up to the front desk to check in, 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:26.320 I got a call from Chrissy. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.400 I feel like I didn't really get the full story 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:30.839 of what she told you on that call. 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.520 Actually, she basically said, this is what I've heard. 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.039 I don't know anything else. I'm on my way over. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:40.000 But they have moved the walkout time to six am, 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.840 number one, number two. Only three people are going Chrissy, Dave, 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.880 and Pam picking up Leo. 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:47.560 No media. 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.240 The other thing they said is, as far as we know, 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.600 no Mikasuki, you can't stop there, got to go straight 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:54.799 to the Noah's house. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:56.920 So yeah, we. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.720 Don't know who issued the orders. Was it the prison 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.600 overwhelmed with the logistics of a high profile release, or 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.960 did this come from higher up in the Florida Department 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.799 of Corrections. There was no way to know, but after 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.400 that phone call from the prison, we did know that 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.240 all of Chrissy's plans for Leo's release were done. 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:19.240 For If they say get in the car and go 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.000 straight to Naas, he better get in the car and 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:26.800 goes straight to Naas because at this point, as upset 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:31.719 as everybody is, if that's what they're telling him to do, better, 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:32.880 he better do it. 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.520 Sitting in the hotel room with Scott Kupp, we tried 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.560 to figure out what to do next. We exchanged a 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.640 few texts with Seth Miller, Leo's lawyer from the Innocents 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.600 Project of Florida. Since he's been through this process many times. 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.039 Yeah, I'm curious, has he ever experienced this before? He 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.080 just told me he's done like thirty walkouts. 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:53.040 Like, what the fuck is going on? 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.760 You know, Jonathan Martin was supposed to be here when 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.240 Leo got out, and now at six am, its kind 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:01.760 of hard for him to leave at three thirty to 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.000 get from Fort Myers or where the hell he's coming from. 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:05.280 So there's a lot of. 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.080 Stuff that's The prison has set these last minute conditions 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.719 for Leo's release and it's final. It seems like just 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.440 one more reminder that walking through that gate might look 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:18.760 like freedom, but parole is still basically prison without bars. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.239 We have records, and we'll see. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:22.880 Who is it. 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:26.839 Dave and Pam, Leo's family from Massachusetts, find their way 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.240 to Gilbert's hotel room, where everyone seems to be congregating. 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:35.000 It's nice to see them at least. This is a 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.039 long and complicated story, but since you haven't really heard 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.800 their voices before, here's some quick backstory to get you 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:44.520 caught up. The woman Leo called mom growing up is 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:48.760 really his stepmother. Cheryl married Leo's dad when Leo was 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:52.240 a toddler, and she raised him. It was never hidden 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.120 from Leo that his biological mother was out there, but 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:59.000 he had never met her until twenty eighteen. That's when Leo, 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.000 with Chrissy's health, finally reconnected with his birth mother, Sandy. 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.640 I can't imagine that it's already nerve racking to reach 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.360 out to a biological parent who you've been separated from 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.280 since you were three, But reaching out to a biological 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.880 parent and saying you're convicted of killing your wife and 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.320 you're innocent, I could see how that might not go 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:22.080 over well, But actually she quickly embraced Leo, and along 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.200 with Sandy, came Dave and Pam. Sandy referred to her husband, 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.040 Dave as the love of her life, and Pam is 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:33.280 the half sister Leo never knew existed. Sandy, Dave, and 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:37.480 Pam traveled down from Massachusetts to visit Leo frequently. They 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.920 had a couple years of family reunions in the Hardy 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.239 Correctional Visitation Park, and then Sandy passed away in April 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:48.240 of twenty twenty. Since then, Dave and Pam have truly 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:52.000 become Leo's family, so much so that Dave has legally 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.960 adopted Leo, his deceased wife's adult son, and Pam and 0:07:56.040 --> 0:08:00.400 Leo are lovingly referred to as the twins because although 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.560 they've spent a lifetime apart, they have so much in common, 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.440 and their shared sense of humor means they are almost 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:12.040 always laughing in each other's presence. So that's Dave and Pam. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.640 And Chrissy was saying that only the three of us 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.880 can pick him up and talk tomorrow morning and take 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:21.400 him away. They wait, way, what the hell the object 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.240 was to have something here? And then take him to 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:31.480 Fort Myers so he can see Ashley, his grandchildren. They 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.920 said to him, you can have a target on your 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:38.440 back because of the notoriety and everything out there. They're 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:44.280 going to be watching it. Be careful, absolutely everything by 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.200 the book, steady on. Whatever you need us to do 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:53.000 will do. So stay focused, get all of the rules 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:53.800 they forgive you. 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:56.000 That's our focus. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:01.920 I'm glad you two are at least included with the. 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:02.640 But how sad is it that. 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:05.280 I'm the one that can go. 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.680 It makes me feel bad just because that's me, and 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.520 I really want to see him walk. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.000 Out of that door, like that's totally what I want 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:13.360 to do. 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.120 But we wanted to see him walk out too. It's 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.720 a moment we've been imagining for five years. But there's 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.360 no time to think about that now. Plans are still 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.800 shifting and it's getting late. There is one thing that 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.040 hasn't changed. The vehicle that Leo will ride in to 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.760 leave prison property Dave's black Tesla. 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.520 I wanted him to ride in my car. I didn't 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.040 want him to ride in some rental car from home mother. 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.760 I want him to ride in my car. My daughter's 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.880 written in my car, my grandkids are written in my 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.080 com My son in law's written my car and I 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:51.640 want my car. 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.800 We don't even know what Leo knows at this point 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.080 about the change in plans. The prison had already taken 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.680 away as tablets, so we can't get in touch with him. 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:04.480 All we could do was hope that he'd be able 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:14.280 to make a phone call. We meet up with Chrissy 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.679 in her hotel room and watch the sunset from her balcony. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.720 Leo would take his first steps outside the barbed wire 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.960 gate before the sun would rise again. We set our 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.840 alarms for four am and try to get some sleep. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:04.240 Quarter to three, quarter three, I was awake. I didn't 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:05.040 sleep two hours. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.199 It doesn't make sense to get up, now, you know 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:08.840 what I mean, Cause I'm locked in this eight by 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.920 ten cell, my roommates sleeping, and uh, I said, now 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:14.280 I'm gonna just lay here for a minute. 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:15.280 And I lay there and let. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.760 My mind just burn out, you know, think about everything 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.360 I was gonna do. And then like quarter after three, 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.240 I said, man, get out of bed, just get. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:22.560 Out of bed. 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:29.160 And I slowly, you know, got ready, and uh, I 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:34.000 was already dressed in my blues, brushed my teeth. Four o'clock, 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.120 my door rolled open. I knew why it was open, 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:40.600 and the sage came and and uh. I came out 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.839 carry my little blue bag and all that had in 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.520 it was my Bible and the Koran and UH some journals. 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:48.640 And uh. 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:52.800 They brought me to the front and they put me 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.440 in a holding cell by myself at four o'clock in 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.880 the morning. And I knew I was gonna be sitting 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.840 there a while because I'm not leaving till six. My 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.880 wife was giving permission to bring my clothes no earlier 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:07.000 than five forty five, So now I'm gonna be sitting 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:11.320 there and just sitting there from four to five forty five. 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.800 I had my Bible with me, so that was good. 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.840 And I sat in this little cell, locked in a cage, 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.600 and just prayed and waited. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:41.520 All right, I'm about to head downstairs. It's five point 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:48.920 fifteen in the morning, and today is the day Leo's 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.640 gonna walk out of prison. We're not gonna be able 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:55.760 to see it, but it's still gonna happen, and that's 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:57.080 the good thing. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:04.240 We head outside. It's been raining since we got up. 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.960 For Leo's gonna be released in the dark and in 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:09.559 the rain. 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.240 We see Chrissy with Dave and Pam packing up the 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.360 car with all the food that was supposed to be 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.920 spread out in a buffet for guests. She's also packed 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.760 a bag with clothes for Leo to change into since 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.840 he'll have to leave his prison blues behind. 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:25.880 So we're on away. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:26.800 We're gonna go get him. 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.800 Yeah, yeah, I can't wait. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.120 Once Chrissy, Dave, and Pam load up and take off, 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:43.520 we jump in the car and are right behind them. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:44.000 That's them. 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:45.920 We're there right there. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:52.119 Yeah. Oh my gosh, don't. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:59.360 Get like I'm The drive lasts all of two minutes. 0:13:59.600 --> 0:13:59.920 We want. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.800 Dave, Pam and Chrissy drive onto prison grounds in the 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.360 Tesla and I pull over and flip the hazards on. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:11.480 So we turn into the prison property and get around 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.600 a curve and there's like three or four cars with 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:20.240 their lights on and a barricade. So they all come 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.200 running to these officers and they are on walkie talkies 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.320 and they come to the door and they say, we 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.960 roll down the window and they take our driver's license 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.720 and check our names, and then they ask for his clothes. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.120 And I had him in a bag next to me, 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.000 so we open the window and give him the clothes, 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.080 and I hear on the walkie talkie Majors taking the clothes, 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.320 taking the clothes, and then comes back to us and 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:42.280 is following the major. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.560 We're parked on the side of the road across from 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.640 the prison entrance. The shoulder isn't wide enough to keep 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.080 us out of the lane while cars fly past us. 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:55.800 I don't know if there's a fucking spot. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.840 I mean used to have like three feet over there. God, 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:03.880 it's really just. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:06.240 Fully dark out. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.200 I mean, like, how much are we into the lane? 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:20.400 A little bit? So fucking depressing like this, you. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:24.960 Can't believe they're making it do it this way? What 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.480 did the headlights of a tesla look like? 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:32.280 I don't know. 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.680 The night before, we all decided that even if we 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.040 couldn't witness those first steps of freedom, we still wanted 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:41.920 to be as close as we could to the moment. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.040 More cars filled with friends and family members line up 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.560 behind us. We're all peering through the dark waiting for 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.640 the outline of the black tesla to appear. 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.760 And time went by like that, and before I knew it, 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.720 and they bought the clothes to me. I changed out 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:59.480 of everything, and. 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:03.680 Then we go to another checkpoint and there's another guard gate, 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.600 and officers come and they check our driver's license, they 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.600 check the trunk, and then they say go to the 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.960 front pavilion where we normally go for a visit. 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.920 No, I was able to go out the gate. No 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.600 inmates for any reason walk to that gate because that's 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:20.240 the front gate. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:26.280 And so went through there and then they took me 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:26.960 directly out. 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:36.400 So the car stops and I jump out and I 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.240 run up to this pavilion area. It's like a covered 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.800 area and there's two wardens and suits and they're standing 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.320 there and I was kind of We're just kind of 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.040 chit chatting, casual conversation, you know, like just trying to 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:52.520 be polite, and it's still raining, and the intensity is 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.880 just building for me, building, building building. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.000 I'm like, okay, guys, so they're gonna let me go 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:03.200 open front gate. And I went through it. It was incredible. 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:04.360 Yeah. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:11.720 Yeah, And next thing I know, in the rain, in 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.280 the dark, the wardens turned around and there he was, 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:21.080 and I saw him in his clothes and his little 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.240 blue bag, and he just walked really fast to me 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.920 and we just like like the intensity of that hug 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.840 was magical, like we did it, We did it, we 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:32.240 did it. 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.159 So Chrissy was like hugging and crying, and the hugging 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.280 was a great hug and all I'm like, okay, let's go. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.560 Can we hug somewhere else please? You know what I mean? 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.040 These people got guns and I want to go, and 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.040 I want to say, you know what's going fee. 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.320 I want to change my mind. You know, I'm in 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.240 jeans now, we're not going back to those. 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.639 As tighter as these are than those I was wearing. 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:59.800 I'm not putting those back on, never again. And then 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:01.320 the door closes and. 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:09.639 It was just quiet, just quiet. Prisons are utterly noisy places. 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.360 They echo people. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:18.440 Yelling and screaming, laughing, whatever, and it's constant noise, you know. 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:19.960 And it's all day, every day. 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.000 And I've got in that car and uh, you know, 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.240 it's very very quiet. And then started moving and it 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.119 was still quiet, like the car doesn't make any noise. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.240 I mean, it doesn't sound like anything. And he used 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.719 to have like some guy running. I was waiting for him. 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:34.480 We just started moving. 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:54.720 I'm like, what the hell, Yeah. 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:47.240 It comes head lighters. 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:58.639 It's it's a fan with blinkers on. M m no, 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.159 it's that does look like a tesla, though. 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.400 Oh I think that's them? 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:07.480 Is that them? 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:09.960 A car comes out and takes a left. We're not 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.359 sure it's them. It's so dark out. I try to 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:17.680 follow them on no, no, no, I gotta two traffic first. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:26.840 Decline. But what are you doing? 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:28.200 Okay? 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.040 I mean I hope I was them. It looks like 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:33.760 a toss summer. 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:46.439 Oh, by what you said, I can't imagine what Leo's thinking. 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.840 If that is him up ahead. My heart is pounding 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.360 trying to catch up. Something about this moment feels more 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.320 like an escape than a walk out. I just want 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:58.720 to get as far away from this prison as fast 0:19:58.760 --> 0:19:59.400 as possible. 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:06.320 I mean, let me text proceed. I don't know if 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:07.000 she's gonna fly. 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:08.080 Yeah. 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.600 And so I'm driving down the road a little bit, 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.200 and I said, I think there's some people following us, 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:14.240 and that. 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:16.240 Looks like a Massachusetts plight dinners. 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.919 Get closer because I'm power they're gonna follow us all 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:23.400 the way to the Tampa Okay. 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.600 Kursy said, yes, okay, Oh my god, we're gonna car 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:27.320 behind Leo. 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:31.520 And the rain's letting up a little. And when she 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:33.960 told me it was was you, guys. I was like, okay, okay, 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:35.560 that that made me feel a lot better. 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:38.600 Lea must be freaked out in that car. It's like, 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:40.960 all it is is a big computer screen. 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:42.680 There's no but you know, like. 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.439 Knobs or I mean, I'm freaked out by it. So 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:47.919 I spend thirty six years in persons. 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:54.880 I can't believe he's up there. We head west as 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:58.160 the sun rises behind us. We drive out of the rain. 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.840 As our little caravan cuts across the Tammiami Trail led 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:04.560 by the black Tesla with Leo inside. 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:11.080 The rain stopped and the day brightened as we were driving, 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.400 and the sun came out and the rains just stopped 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:21.920 and we started to breathe. So it was the most 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:27.040 magical moment of my life. 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:30.200 About twenty miles down the road, the Tesla's left turn 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:33.720 signal starts blinking in front of us. Chrissy says she 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:36.320 needs to pull over for a bathroom stop, and we 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:40.600 all stopped too, and everyone gets out. The back door 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:45.480 of the tesla swings open, and suddenly there's Leo standing 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:48.720 in street clothes in a parking lot miles from prison. 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:55.600 No handcuffs, no barbed wire, no guards in sight. It 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:57.679 may not be the walkout from the main gate that 0:21:57.760 --> 0:21:59.960 everyone was imagining, but he's here. 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.160 He's out. 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:12.639 Oh my gosh. Hi mm hmm, hey buddy, mm hmm. 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:16.720 H. 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:26.960 Here come the boys. 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:36.760 Hey, hey, hi, hey buddy, Hey buddy. 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:41.040 Come here, buddy, Hollo you buddy, don't. 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:44.000 You made it? 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:47.480 I want to meet the new one. 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:52.200 Yeah, you got your little Holly Davidson jacket on. 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:55.679 Yeah that's nice. 0:22:57.119 --> 0:22:57.479 Oh. 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:02.360 Leo's family and friends gather around him, hugging and taking photos. 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.680 But it's a quick stop. Leo was anxious to get 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:07.639 back on the road and get to Tampa. 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:14.440 Buddy, okay, all right, yeah, you know I'm still still 0:23:14.480 --> 0:23:15.400 fearing us as hell. 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:16.760 Yeah. 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:19.760 Yeah, I'm not sure what I feel, to be honest, 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:26.120 I just I think once you get there and get 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:28.640 settled exactly, thinks it'd be better. 0:23:29.800 --> 0:23:32.760 Right now, back on the road, we continue to follow 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:35.440 Leo to Noah's house, where he's required to check in. 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:36.200 By the end of the day. 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:42.960 I'm still kind of in shock that I'm in this car. 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:44.119 Test me. 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:49.800 Yeah, I mean, I'm thinking it's count time right now. 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:56.560 That's pretty though, isn't it. 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:01.440 You have no idea, you know, it's you know, it's crazy. 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:06.160 And I imagined this for a long time, many years. 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:10.240 I thought about this is being able to look out 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:13.520 at the horizon and be able to see far without 0:24:13.560 --> 0:24:16.080 having to look through fence or or raise a wire 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:17.600 or you know. 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:22.000 Anything like that. That's just amazing. 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:26.199 There was a time where we were driving across a bridge. 0:24:27.240 --> 0:24:29.399 The water has sew me on the boat. 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:34.440 Wow, that is crazy how far you can see. 0:24:34.880 --> 0:24:37.640 Just to be able to see that far, that far 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:41.800 and not have to look through anything, it was absolutely 0:24:41.880 --> 0:24:47.000 extraordinary that it was amazing and and it made my 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:58.159 heart race, keep waiting to wake up from a dream 0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:07.120 that would not be real, that would really suck. 0:25:11.400 --> 0:25:13.800 The drive from the prison to the halfway house is 0:25:13.840 --> 0:25:17.240 a little over four hours. Inside our car, we spend 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:20.719 time listening to podcasts, of course, but within the tesla, 0:25:20.920 --> 0:25:23.280 Leo was learning how to work his first smartphone. 0:25:23.760 --> 0:25:26.440 And then there's should be a gallery for your pictures. 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:33.440 So Lee had bottom a phone, and before he got 0:25:33.440 --> 0:25:35.080 the phone, before he got out of prison, he's like, 0:25:35.359 --> 0:25:36.879 I don't I don't know why you people are on 0:25:36.920 --> 0:25:39.760 the phone all the time, and I'm just gonna have 0:25:39.760 --> 0:25:41.640