"I don't know how escape will help," Schuldig replied dubiously. "Unless you mean escape the institute entirely, which would be all but impossible to pull off during the day. If he ran away, he could just as easily be dragged back, and probably sedated for his trouble - assuming he was willing to run away at all. He's rather stubborn and prideful, and it's all the more important to him that he holds onto that in the face of Muraki. Anyway, escape would only be a temporary solution at best - he'd still be at risk the next time his therapy session came up, and the therapy session he missed might even be rescheduled rather than simply skipped over so it might not even buy him more than a few hours' respite. Either we need to get Renji transferred to another doctor somehow - not much of a solution, as it'd save Renji but leave the rest of Muraki's patients open to whatever he might choose to do to them, would probably just encourage him to turn his attention to someone else - or we find a way to get rid of Muraki for good. The one good aspect of my plan is that, assuming it worked exactly as meant, it could get Muraki fired...the problem is that it's not a reliable plan as it is."