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[[Witness Protection]] is boring. If it's done right, there's no opportunity for adventure. So when the protagonist is asked to hole up in a cheap motel until he can testify at the trial, odds are he won't comply. Perhaps he needs to save someone else in danger. Maybe he needs the freedom to catch the real bad guy. Or maybe he just [[Too Dumb to Live|doesn't believe he's in as much danger as the police say he is]]. Whatever the reason, he'll take the first opportunity to lose his bodyguards and strike out on his own, leaving the police to track him down before [[The Mafia]] assassins do.
Compare [[Unsafe Haven]]. An all-too-common source of headaches for anyone on a [[Live Action Escort Mission]], or any Secret Service agents trying to protect [[The
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Played With]] in the ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]'' album ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)/Recap/The Calculus Affair|The Calculus Affair]]'', while staying in Borduria as supposed "guests" of the state, Tintin and Haddock get their "bodyguards" drunk so that they can escape.
* In the recent ''[[Batman]]'' storyline, "Bruce Wayne: The Road Home", Vicki Vale does this in just about every early chapter, thinking she isn't in too much danger ''[[To Dumb To Live|just because]]'' she wants to reveal the secret identities of the entire Bat-Family. It isn't until a disguised Bruce Wayne Batman is able to snatch her away and tell her the severity of the situation is she able to settle down slightly.
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* ''[[Romeo Must Die (Film)|Romeo Must Die]]'': Trish rather easily evades her bodyguard Maurice when he's distracted chatting up a female at the record store.
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_City_<!-- 28film29 Wicked City]]'' (1987). Giuseppi Mayart escapes from his bodyguards Taki and Makie at the hotel they're staying at. -->
* The whole plot of ''Chasing Liberty'' proceeds from [[The
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