Chad Hauer

While in prison, Chad would end up being separated from the Bulgarians and placed in a cell with other foreigners.

Yeah.

And I was going to say, did you get a chance to make any calls?

You might think, why is Chad putting himself through all of this?

Why not just go home to the U.S.

and clear everything up?

Well, initially, this was in fact the game plan.

Yeah, right.

Something really bad was happening.

While stuck inside the prison, Chad is fighting to try and get the Bulgarians to allow him out.

But the U.S.

Embassy, he says, kept pushing back.

Chad is finally out, a step in the right direction.

However, he's still stuck without a passport.

The Bulgarian police were holding his Caribbean one and the US, well, the US had gone a step further.

Chad is now in Bulgaria without a passport and no way to leave, all while the US try and fail to have him extradited.

So you can overstay your visa welcome now.

They won't let you leave.

He's now looking at another arrest and potentially more time stuck in a Bulgarian prison.

So he begins to come up with a contingency plan.