As for me, I didn't expect that he will ran away because at first he is very confident about his agenda and he is kind a powerful or influential to face courageously the charges that is being thrown at him.
he has ran away before (australia drama 2014)
he is not a confident man, he is a con man. there is a difference
he has no power or courage, he is not even a 'self made man' he can only survive economically based on delusions of others of his false grandeur
when someone cant code an integer correctly but entertains his victims that he is king of coders. that is not confidence, that is not power or courage. that is delusions
he and those around them only have the delusions of grandeur, and when their delusions come to light they run