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Help the detective finish her dramatic incident report.
The suspect _____________________________ his flight to the Bahamas when we finally caught up with him. He genuinely believed he _________________________ justice entirely. Little did he know, his grand getaway _________________________ in handcuffs before he even reached the duty-free shop!
The correct answers are was about to board, would escape, and was to end.
"Was about to" shows that the boarding was going to happen immediately but got interrupted.
"Would escape" shifts the future intention ("I will escape") into the past because the belief happened in the past ("He believed").
"Was to end" is a narrative device used to talk about an inevitable future event from a past perspective (destiny).