[6] Fugitives are released from a common location at the start of the hunt, with an overnight bag and $500 ($200 cash and $300 on a debit card).
[6][8] Meanwhile, a team of hunters attempt to locate and capture the fugitives using replicated "powers of the state" such as ANPR and CCTV.
Any fugitives able to evade capture and make it to the extraction point in time win a share of the grand prize of $100,000.
Derek and Courtney enter a taxi to escape the Melbourne CBD, while Brittany and Karen board a train and Kris and Puneet onto a bus.
The hunters rewatch footage of the van drop-off and decide to target Michelle and Angie, who they notice is limping.
Jackie's phone is tracked near Federation Square and Angie is seen on CCTV purchasing a ticket to Box Hill, but the hunters lose her and she goes to her friend Stella's house.
The hunters find a notebook of contact numbers in Michelle's backpack and head to Stella's house, which is the closest to Angie's last known location.
Puneet and Kris are watched withdrawing the remainder of their cash, while the hunters assume that Stathi and Matt plan to hide in rural locations.
Chief Craig takes charge of the interrogation and Carmel tells him that they left for the airport, then gives him her phone number, which allows the hunters to find the location she dropped off Karen and Brittany.
Jake and Rob stay in the countryside, while Derek and Courtney continue to hide in inner Melbourne, using their Aboriginal connections to their benefit.
Karen and Brittany fail to get strangers to take them to Phillip Island, so use a phonebox to get their friend, Ross, to pick them up.
Stathi and Matt travel to the outer suburbs of Geelong in disguise to retrieve help from their friends, Shane and Katherine, who provide them with a kombi van, food and shelter at a church in Newstead.
Aware that Sienna helped them escape, Hunter HQ access her phone records showing calls made to Jackie.
Under pressure, Derek and Courtney hide at a local park until Ray returns to collect them who then drives around the area on the lookout for the hunters.
Confused by their elaborate plans and finding no new information from the occupants of the church, the hunters decide to postpone the hunt for Stathi and Matt.
Fearful that their contacts and their kombi van have been compromised, they abandon their plan to stay at the church and leave on foot.
In Wonthaggi, at a bus stop waiting for ride to Cowes, Karen and Brittany discover wanted posters of them posted around town by the hunters who are now tracking them down.
Also in Ballarat, Jake and Rob find work in a local hair salon to earn some extra money.
They decide to leave their bank card with the landlord, who uses the funds to shout the locals lunch, while they make their escape from Ballarat to draw the hunters away from them.
As the hunters prepare to head to the Western Hotel to interrogate the landlord, they incidentally run into Sonny-Joe and Grace nearby and capture them after a short foot chase.
After identifying their number, the hunters track Jake and Rob to their friend Neville, who lives in St Albans Park.
The hunters begin to descend onto Warragul whilst Nick and Lavinia abandon their ute and stay overnight at a local hotel.
In West Footscray, Jake and Rob make plans to disguise themselves in drag and separate for the final days before the extraction.
With the hunters scrambling to find any information on "Avery", Stathi and Matt make plans with Dean to meet at a laneway behind the Daylesford Hotel.
Stathi continues to lay low after witnessing Matt being chased by the hunters the previous day and gets a lift out of Daylesford.
Hiding near Melton, Jake recruits a driver to take him to a public pay phone whilst in Camberwell Rob disguises himself before making the call for the extraction point.
Concerned about strangers taking him to the extraction point, Jake heads to Cordy's residence in Hawthorn East to hide and get driven to Inverloch the next day.
Believing he is heading to Cordy's home to stay, the hunters are deployed to her address with the plan to intercept Rob.
With nowhere left to hide and the hunters circling, a foot chase across a nearby park ends in Jake's capture.
After an intercepted phone call reveals they are heading to Bendigo, the hunters arrive at their friend Gary's house, and track down his car, which has a random worker inside it.