Escape
Escape verb - To get free from a dangerous or confining situation.
Fold
Fold verb - To lay one part over or against another part of.
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- The serial killer detonates a grenade, which damages the hyperspace fold drive, thus causing the fold drive to disappear when it is first used to escape the Zentraedi.
Source: External Retcon - Subverted with Joker and Janga, for as much as they escape, for them its mostly a case of Know When to Fold 'Em.
Source: Video Game / Namco × Capcom - Averted in "Wolf In the Fold", when Kirk explicitly refuses the suggestion that he help Scotty escape the planet on which he had been charged with murder.
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