After all that time chatting, Rust will do some light stretching. Then he’ll take off his belt, take the laces out of his shoes, and unknot his tie. He’ll tie all of this together as securely as possible (he’s very good with knots), attaching his handcuffs to the end, leaving the farthest cuff unlocked. (It’d probably go—belt, which he’d hold in his hand, shoelace, tie, shoelace, cuffs.)

He’ll then try to feed this, uh, rope-like assemblage through the bars in the direction of the desk, the ultimate goal being to snap the cuff around one of the desk’s legs, then pull it toward him. (He’s prepared for a lot of frustration and a lot of time spent wiggling the thing just to get a feel for how it moves, but he'll give up if it's clearly impossible.)