Ohhh yes, I did load the auto save.
When I walked out the door to start chasing him, it auto saved, and then told me he had escaped and I had to choose a point to load from.
Thinking it would be easiest I chose to load from that point. Before doing that however, I did quick save right before I exited the house and it kept giving me the message "You let him escape" or something along those lines and making me reload from a former point.
I have reloaded from a much earlier state though, and this time around I'm going to proper save before I walk in the house, then if I am presented with the "you let him get away" message, I think i'm going to try the console command "tql" and see if that bypasses it or something.
I'll come back and let you know how it turns out.
Thanks for the help
