Harvey Guillén
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Appearances Over Time
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Let me say that again.
Stephen, who is legally dead, according to the state of Texas, walks into a county jail to visit his boyfriend while impersonating a lawyer.
Think about it, how wild that is.
I spent this whole episode telling you all of the creative ways Steven tries to get out of prison, but now he willingly walks into the place he hates most just to be able to see Phillip for a short time.
I know the internet's favorite catchphrase is, if he wanted to, he would, but this, girl, it's another level.
Stephen's plan works.
He sits across from Philip in the visitation booth.
Philip jokes that he expected to see Stephen dressed as a guard on his prison bus.
Stephen says he wishes he thought of that.
For a few stolen minutes, they're together again.
But someone, we don't know who, tips off the authorities and they start tracking Stephen.
In April 1998, they catch him in Florida at a coffee shop.
After everything Stevens pulled off, after faking his own death and walking out of a maximum security prison and fooling doctors and judges and guards, he gets caught running a simple errand.
Stephen's arrested for the fourth and final time.
And Texas is done.
They're done playing games.
They want to punish him for the escapes, for humiliating them time and time again.
Stephen is sentenced to 144 years.
He's sent to a prison where death row inmates are housed.
Texas wants to make absolutely sure he never embarrasses them again.