What will you do?

Leap like a gazelle from the balcony and intercept him at the bottom of the staircase

Instead of following down the stairs as the man no doubt expects, you run to the parapet and launch yourself over the railing with all the agility and grace of a giant panda plummeting from a tree, using one hand on the part of the floor that projects beyond the protective barrier to control and slow your descent.

It's only moderately successful and you crash down onto the shoulder of the person you're pursuing. He's predictably surprised by the direction of your arrival, sent sprawling to the ground by your not inconsiderable bulk. Unfortunately, you too are left in a heap and when you try to rise, a twinge from your knee tells you that you haven't made the descent unharmed.

The four women in the quad immediately come over to cluster round the two of you solicitously, but your quarry pushes himself to his feet with a string of vile curses and shoves his way past them, trying to escape.