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In the epilogue, it is explained that-on the night of October 4, 1975-he successfully crossed the border to Greece, and arrived home three weeks later. He seizes the opportunity to escape by putting on a guard's uniform and walking out of the front door. Fighting back, Billy inadvertently kills Hamidou by pushing him onto a coat hook. Instead, Hamidou takes Billy past the sanitarium to another room-and prepares to rape him. He bribes Hamidou into taking him to the sanitarium, where there are no guards. He says goodbye to Max, telling him not to die and promising to come back for him. Her visit moves Billy strongly, and he regains his senses. Franklin from the bank', hoping Billy can use it to help him escape. She leaves him a scrapbook with money hidden inside as 'a picture of your good friend Mr.

Devastated at what has happened to Billy, she tells him that he has to escape or else he will die in there. In 1975, Billy's girlfriend Susan comes to see him. Ahmet claims to be a philosopher from Oxford University and engages him in conversation to which Billy is unresponsive. He meets fellow prisoner Ahmet whilst participating in the regular inmate activity of walking in a circle around a pillar. Following this breakdown, he is sent to the prison's ward for the insane where he wanders in a daze among the other disturbed and catatonic prisoners. His stay becomes harsh and brutal: terrifying scenes of physical and mental torture follow one another, culminating in Billy having a breakdown. Billy, Jimmy, and Max try to escape through the catacombs below the prison, but their plans are revealed to the prison authorities by fellow-prisoner Rifki. Billy goes along with a prison-break Jimmy has masterminded. In 1974, Billy's sentence is overturned by the Turkish High Court in Ankara after a prosecution appeal (the prosecutor originally wished to have him found guilty of smuggling and not the lesser charge of possession), and he is ordered to serve a 30-years-to-life term for his crime. Believing he is to be released soon, Billy rebuffs Jimmy who goes on to attempt an escape himself he is brutally beaten when he's caught.

Jimmy tries to encourage Billy to become part of an escape attempt through the prison's tunnels. Billy and his father are horrified at the outcome but their Turkish lawyer insists that the term is a very good result. The lead judge is sympathetic to Billy and gives him only a four-year sentence for drug possession.

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Billy is sent to trial for his case where the angry prosecutor makes a case against him for drug smuggling. Jimmy tells Billy that the prison is a dangerous place for foreigners like themselves, and that no one can be trusted-not even the young children.Д«illy meets his father along with a U.S representative and a Turkish lawyer to discuss what will happen to him. He wakes a few days later in SaДџmalcД±lar Prison, surrounded by fellow Western prisoners Jimmy (an American-in for stealing two candlesticks from a mosque), Max (an English heroin addict) and Erich (a Swede) who help him to his feet. Later that night he is rousted from his cell and brutally beaten by chief guard Hamidou for the blanket theft. He sees an opportunity and makes a run for it, only to get cornered and recaptured by the mysterious American.Дuring his first night in holding at a local jail, a freezing-cold Billy sneaks out of his cell and steals a blanket. Billy goes with the police to a nearby market and points out the cab driver, but when they go to arrest the cabbie, it becomes apparent that the police have no intention of keeping their end of the deal with Billy. On questioning Billy tells them that he bought the hashish from a taxicab driver, and offers to help the police track him down in exchange for his release. After a while, a shadowy American (who is never named, but is nicknamed 'Tex' by Billy due to his thick Texan accent) arrives, takes Billy to a police station and translates Billy's English for one of the detectives. He is strip-searched, photographed and questioned. While attempting to board a plane back to the United States with his girlfriend, Billy is arrested by Turkish police on high alert due to fear of terrorist attacks. On October 6, 1970, while on holiday in Istanbul, Turkey, American college student Billy Hayes straps 2В kg of hashish blocks to his chest.

4 Differences between the book and the film.

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