This podcast covers, among other things, the Three Returns: Diplomatic Extraction, Recovery Locate&Extract and Self Initiated Return Recovery. When the talking does not work the extraction might happen through official or civilian channels, otherwise the "get yourself back" return option is the only one left. Many cases are arrests or detainments to use as human leverage in political&diplomatic gambits for trade of arrested citizens or politically provocative innuendo over diplomatic manipulations perceived. To make a point. Others are for lucrative reasons. The former gets some attention, the latter languishes.