thankyou to all contributors,, if I missed a 'like' ,do forgive, I damn well read it, though!... and liked it, I just got 'liked' cramp.
I think they are dead... Basically, I think that was the idea from the start, but it has now been 120 hours since a last sighting, and that sighting was only of the burning car in Gillam. They would need tremendous luck to hang in there this long.. no reports of any further ammo being purchased, and no food, either, only $20 of gas... perhaps they burned themselves up. This sounds bizarre, but it has the kind of mythical Phoenix like thought that this whole barnstorming trip has consisted of.
And one has to suppose their health is perfect. No coughs, no colds, no allergies, that they can operate without food, with no history of being marksmen of any note, clipping a duck on the fly, no. None of that.
And that their interaction with each other is able to withstand this extreme tension and terror, because they know the end game, and there is only two endings, capture or death. This would put a strain on any partnership, but add in hunger, fear, cold, despair, horror, and out of all of those, hunger is their biggest danger, it causes a lack of safety procedure and security watchfulness, one is consumed by hunger more than fear, despair, etc.