I will never understand how people can be so stupid, can make such poor choices after seeming to make good choices for most of their life. Work long enough to earn a pension and you just throw away your life’s work, your home and your family for some murdering thug? Good gravy Marie...the stupidity.
How did she possibly see this as ending in any other way than her dying? Either by the creepy dude, by another cop or by her own hand. How many escaped prisoners are ever successful in avoiding being recaptured or shot?
You pose some good questions. It has long interested/dismayed me that the very teachable skills and habits of foresight are almost entirely ignored in what passes for “education”. Imagine how much folly and trouble would be avoided if most people merely considered the consequences of their choices before jumping in.