>>212830652 (OP)It was mid, and the ending was pretty bad.
It should have been a callback to the "be ready to walk away from everything in 20 seconds". Which he did when he looked sadly at the girl, knowing he would never see her again and probably thinking it wasn't worth the sacrifice.
Or it could have been that the police chose to stay with his stepdaughter at the hospital, thereby missing the chance to get him.