Jack Laurence

And Nigel's mind was certainly focused as he comes up with another idea yet again involving that holy book.

As much as Nigel and Amanda were getting their small wins, some sort of semblance of a quiet control, they were always reminded who was truly in control, as Nigel recalls the trauma of having to listen to his friend being tormented and being powerless to help.

Of course, as we know, the pair's ordeal would eventually come to an end.

However, not before threats were made.

That instead of going home, they would in fact be sold to the feared Al-Shabaab.

And going with them could mean almost certain death.

Little did Nigel or Amanda know at the time, but their over 15-month ordeal was about to come to an end.

But in keeping with the chaos of their lives for the past over 400 days, it wasn't going to be a simple handover.

next time on What I Survived.

There are certain stories that have burned themselves into the cultural imagination.

Stories of escape, of the impossible made possible through patience, ingenuity and sheer refusal to accept the walls around you.

Most of us know them through films.

The Great Escape, based of course on a true story as it happens, where allied prisoners of war in a Nazi camp spent years digging tunnels beneath their captors' feet, moving the earth one spoonful at a time.

Shawshank Redemption, fictional but feels so real that generations of people have watched Andy Dufresne crawl through 500 yards of filth and felt something close to joy as he breaks out into the night sky and feels the rain on his face for the first time in years.

And of course, Alcatraz, the island prison in the middle of San Francisco Bay, the one they said was inescapable.

On the night of June 11th, 1962, three inmates, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin, spent six months preparing a breakout.

They tucked papier-mâché heads into their beds and broke out through ventilation ducts and an unguarded corridor and departed the island on an improvised raft.

Of course, no conclusive evidence has ever surfaced about their fate to this day.

No one knows whether they made it.

However, we root for these people every single time, whether we know their story is real or fictional.