So I was trying to concoct a plot in which, hero that he is, he saves somebody else — somebody I would have introduced as a new character into the movie.
At the end of the movie, he’d be locked in a jail cell somewhere in Montana or someplace.
And the thing he wanted most to do was escape.
Once I had set about coming up with this movie, for the longest time, I had it in my mind that the thing we wanted most to see was for Jesse to escape.