On February 28, 2002, a manhunt is launched in the north of Montreal. The suspect vehicle is driven by Stéphane Boucher, a 24-year-old criminal with a long police record. In the ensuing shooting, police officer Benoît L'Ecuyer is fatally shot, and Boucher takes the opportunity to run away.

In March 2014, a bullet-riddled corpse is found in a car. All indications point to Elizabeth Barrer, a drug trafficker actively sought by US authorities.

Daniel Gendron is a very violent drug addict who has run away several times. During his various escapes, he provoked hostage-taking and exchanges of gunfire with the police.

In May 1989, the psychopath Allan Legere, nicknamed "the monster of Miramichi”, returns to sow terror in his native New Brunswick. During his escape that will last six months, he brutally murders four persons.

In October 2013, a Chateauguay resident named Jim Blevings decides to help police catch a dangerous pedophile who fled to Canada to escape U.S. authorities.

Tyrone Conn's many successful breakouts earned him the nickname “Houdini”. In 1999, he achieved a feat that no inmate has accomplished in 40 years: escape from the legendary Kingston Penitentiary in Ontario.