There is a round wooden table in the sitting room which if turned upside down would cover the gap nicely and is thick enough for the needles not to go straight through it.
//And as you are in the sitting room again another spot roll please.
He grabs the table, once again made painfully aware how weak he now is. tries to drag it to the trap. Of course he once again looks around- expecting unpleasant surprises.
He stops and being curious he tries to lift the board up- who knows what might be hidden beneath it? Of course he works fast, knowing well they might run out of time soon, sweat on his brow- and once again he curses his weakness.
Norman finds the floorboard easy to move. He hears something jingle inside of it. He looks down to see a set of keys. Frustratingly one is long and silver it looks like it would fit a safe. The second is short and fat it looks like it would fit a pressure mechanism at the bottom of said safe.
Thist wastes no time in heading upstairs paying no heed to traps or tricks on the stairwell. "No way I'm staying in the prison". Once there, he starts looking inside rooms for a window they can rappel down.