Surely if the power supply was removed, the bomb would be disarmed.
She looked to be standing on a switch, not a mortar standing vertically because it showed the charge on the ground under the building.
But I s'pose you aren't meant to look that deeply into it.
Just saying..
Same thing bothered me but from a different angle. Her sandals had about one inch platforms. The bomb squad could have screwed them to the floor through the side with brackets and held the switch down while she got away. Every time they showed her foot I kept thinking that and it broke the 'willing suspension of disbelief'. It's the little things...
shareGreat thinking!
That never occurred to me. :)
I was thinking surely they would have taken her purse from her as she had to run and maybe a little protective gear?
shareYes, this episode featured truly Olympic levels of stupidity.
A foot switch trap - when you have people to help - is trivial to escape.
Laura was wearing sandals. She could have had the kids push the sofa close to her, then knelt down and slipped out of her shoe. Then while holding the shoe down with one hand, put the sofa's leg on top of the shoe with the other hand. Done.
Or, if that seemed too risky, surely once the bomb squad got there, THEY could have held her shoe down, got Laura to safety, then put something heavy onto it.
Or, while crawling around below the floor, they could have clamped/welded the switch down.
At one point the bomb tech says "The fuse is already triggered" or some such nonsense, and that it "could go off at any second". If that was true, the best strategy would have been for everyone, Laura included, to just run like hell, immediately. The absolute stupidest thing to do, of course, is for everyone to stand around crying and hugging for 2-3 minutes.
But okay, fine. Laura's foot is the only thing in the universe that can hold down that switch, and nobody has any clue what will happen when she takes her foot off. Great. Say, here's an idea: why not put one of those cool armored bomb suits onto Laura before you leave her to her fate? They clearly had one handy; a bomb tech is shown wearing one.
But fine, we can't do any of these common-sense things, it'd damp down the drama. So Laura psychs herself up to run for her life and... she just lifts her foot off the switch and stands there for 7-8 seconds, like a *beep* moron. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? RUN YOU GODDAMN IDIOT!!! Taking her foot off the switch and breaking into a run should have been the same movement - waiting and seeing has zero value.
Then, of course, Adam sneaks away from his 3-cop protection detail in hopes of getting some midnight nookie. IMO Karl should say "If the boy is that damned stupid and inconsiderate, TT can have him."
Another good set of options.
I too wondered why she was so slow to START RUNNING.
Then I figures, after all - it is a drama. One shouldn't think too deeply about it. :)
Okay, the bomb could go off at any moment, so no time to put on protective gear, or do anything else to hold the trigger down -- plausible. Also, there was enough explosive to blow up the whole building, so a little protective gear wasn't going to cut it anyway. Her holding still for a second or two could make sense because she had been holding still and terrified for a while -- it would have made more sense for to take a runner's stand and be ready to leap away, but maybe easier said than done.
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lemner said:
Her holding still for a second or two could make sense because she had been holding still and terrified for a while -- it would have made more sense for to take a runner's stand and be ready to leap away, but maybe easier said than done.
What no one seems to consider is, TT could have built the bomb in a way that arms itself when she steps on the trigger and then, thru one of his webcams placed in a corner somewhere, watches til Karl gets there just to be sure Karl will be safe by leaving.
What good would the bomb be if it takes out Karl by accident ??
Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
be kind, rewind...
Had to see this episode to truly understand what went down.
Bottom line: When she stepped on the switch, she activated the bomb. She could have stepped off and walked or ran away at any point and the time til the bomb goes boom is still indeterminate.
The Bomb Squad man even says this. "It could go at any time"
Most IEDs detonate on contact, not release.
But this one We shouldn't even be having this conversation.
Fuse is already tripped.
I've no idea what will happen if you step off...
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- It could be any second now.
It could go off any second, right now.
If that's the case, it means that the position of Laura's foot had no bearing - none at all - on when the detonation would occur.
Which means they were all standing around having a conversation, weeping, and hugging, in a room with a ticking time bomb -- for no reason at all.
Good point.
But I think we are all missing the biggest point: it wasn't in the script. :)