How could he get past them to the escape hatch?

In the center of the ceiling was an escape hatch.

I have a truck in front to take you to your second escape hatch.

Yet as she looked around at the other homeless families, school seemed her only escape hatch.

There was a way out, an escape hatch, if he got things wrong.

This was Johnson's escape hatch, but he could not take it.

And what about the escape hatch to the old Yugoslavia?

Then he slid back across the floor and hit the escape hatch.

He stepped back to the escape hatch and looked up.

There may be an after escape hatch, I don't know.