backwards. they're on top of their game and very good at what they do. i'm sure they had been paying attention to all this. had sweat been caught, they either would have kicked him back across the border or he would have ended up in the extradition procedure, but either way he would have come back. >> when all was said and done, 23 days, it seemed like a long time while it was going on, yet 23 days later david sweat is caught by one adept and very smart state trooper because he was running along, jogging along a road. richard matt was killed on friday as he coughed in the woods and there was reports he had xhol on halcohol on his bre. was it really just a matter of time? >> i think it was. you know, if whatever plan they had in place had gone off without a hitch and if they had gotten the ride they needed and they had made whatever connections they might have had, this could have played out for any length of time. sometimes it takes months, sometimes years to catch up to