Having kept off the Hunters' radar for most of the run, Tony and Kaylie weren't aware that HQ had been honing in on their movements, even going so far as to have multiple ground Hunter teams surveying the houseboat they had spent the night on.
But when the Ground Hunters made their way to investigate the houseboat, they were already too late and Tony and Kaylie had returned to where they were most comfortable: the road.
"We thought we were pretty safe, to be honest," Tony told 10 Play, "maybe that was to our detriment. Kaylie's always on edge with that stuff so she was the one saying we've got to get out of here."
"I was more paranoid about the Hunters being around the corner than Tony," Kaylie agreed, "I think that was a healthy combination at times, he could calm the situation down and allow me to think reasonably."
"And she stopped me from being too blasé as well," Tony added.
Hitting the road, Tony and Kaylie found themselves slightly ahead of schedule so they pulled off to a quiet spot to kill some time before meeting up with their next contact. But the journey had also given the Hunters time to set up auto number plate recognition (ANPR) in the direction they believed the fugitives to be heading.
As they took a brief moment to relax, they watched a car pull up nearby with Tony joking that the Hunters arrived. It took a second, then it clicked that they really had arrived.
"We were very shocked, of all places we didn't think we would be caught there eating chocolate bullets," Kaylie laughed. "It was off the road so we thought we were pretty safe. We had five minutes until we were about to leave and get picked up by our next contact so it was by the skin of their teeth.
"We just left it five minutes too long," Kaylie added.
And while they had hoped to go all the way to the end, Kaylie also admitted that when their time on the run was over, she felt a slight sense of relief.
"I was very excited to go home and see my family," she explained. "I have two little girls, and my husband was working magic with them so I really missed home at that point because we didn't make contact with home."
Tony too had felt a sense of homesickness, having missed his wife's birthday while they were on the run. With emotions running high, Kaylie added that they were both overwhelmed with pride in how each other made it so far into the run.
"Tony and I have been racing together for almost nine years now, and that requires us to leave for periods of time, one to two weeks, and that's usually fine," she explained.
"This is the longest I've ever been away from the girls, so that was really difficult. It pulled at my heartstrings, there were a few nights with some tears but I persevered and was resilient."
The pair are three-time winners of the NSW Rally Championships and used their extensive network and community of rally drivers to their advantage throughout their time on the run.
"We wanted to encourage young people to join rallying by seeing how cool the community is and how we all get along with each other and help each other out," Tony said.
"Even if we're competing against each other, I'll still lend you whatever it is to make your car get to the finish. It's a really cool community and we just wanted to showcase that," he continued.
Their time racing together had also provided them with a unique set of skills that actually came in quite handy when they went on the run.
"We didn't realise how our adaptability, organisation, or ability to form relationships on the run and perform under high pressure transferred," Kaylie said.
"They were really transferrable skills and I think it allowed us to stay on the run for so long because we do have that strong relationship in the car, we've got a lot of trust between us," she continued.
"Just like in a rally, we knew we got ourselves into the mess that is a bank heist, so we kept doing it for the team. Just like in a rally, where things can go wrong, you get back in, keep going and make it to the end."
Hunted continues 7.00 pm Sunday on 10 and 10 Play.
