While in a scientific debate with two men, Dr. Charles Ransome and Alfred Fielding, Augustus, "The Thinking Machine", insists that nothing is impossible when the human mind is properly applied.
To prove this, he agrees that he will take part in an experiment in which he will be incarcerated in a prison for one week and given the challenge of escaping.
[4] The story was adapted for television by Arthur A. Ross in 1962 as part of the U.S. series Kraft Mystery Theater.
The story was directed by Sasha Yevtushenko and starred Paul Rhys as Professor Van Dusen.
On the NBC series The Blacklist, specifically the episode aired January 18, 2019 titled "The Pawn Brokers", main character Raymond Reddington established contact outside prison with an identical rat-and-thread technique.