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I'm working on a script for a web series that was inspired by the recent collar-bomb scare in Australia (it's not really based on that incident, other than that the bomb turns out to be fake, but that's what got me thinking about this).
Basically, a girl wakes up in a strange motel with a bomb strapped to her waist. She has no idea how she got there, or who might be responsible for this. There's a note, but it doesn't really provide any clues, and basically dares the police to even try to disarm it.
Now, in the end, the bomb is a fake, but it looks realistic enough (the guy who created it was a former military explosives expert) that they're not taking any chances.
So, I guess I need to know what the procedure would be for dealing with this kind of thing. First, it's not set in a big city, but more of a large town, so it's not like the bomb squad sees a whole lot of action (also, they're coming in from all over the region, it's not like there's a single bomb squad unit based in one location; that part is based on the way the bomb squad is set up in my state). The main guy in the story is also former military, and dealt with explosives in Iraq. So he knows what he's doing, but the rest of the guys on the bomb squad have little to no real-world experience with anything even close to this sophisticated (other than standard training).
As it stands now, I've basically got it where the motel has been evacuated, and the bomb squad guy is in the room. What would he do next? I'm guessing he'll try to take a close look at the device without actually touching anything. Or would he even go in by himself if the ETA for any other bomb squad members was an hour or two?
So he checks out this device, and is having a very hard time figuring out where to even start with disarming it. At some point, though, he's going to start to suspect that this device is fake (also, any help in something that might tip him off to this without being obvious right away would be helpful). What would he do at that point? I mean, if it turns out to be fake, then he can just remove it. But what if he's wrong? What would the procedure be at that point?
Any insight at all (or even direction toward resources/books/websites/etc.) would be really helpful at this point. Thanks in advance!
Basically, a girl wakes up in a strange motel with a bomb strapped to her waist. She has no idea how she got there, or who might be responsible for this. There's a note, but it doesn't really provide any clues, and basically dares the police to even try to disarm it.
Now, in the end, the bomb is a fake, but it looks realistic enough (the guy who created it was a former military explosives expert) that they're not taking any chances.
So, I guess I need to know what the procedure would be for dealing with this kind of thing. First, it's not set in a big city, but more of a large town, so it's not like the bomb squad sees a whole lot of action (also, they're coming in from all over the region, it's not like there's a single bomb squad unit based in one location; that part is based on the way the bomb squad is set up in my state). The main guy in the story is also former military, and dealt with explosives in Iraq. So he knows what he's doing, but the rest of the guys on the bomb squad have little to no real-world experience with anything even close to this sophisticated (other than standard training).
As it stands now, I've basically got it where the motel has been evacuated, and the bomb squad guy is in the room. What would he do next? I'm guessing he'll try to take a close look at the device without actually touching anything. Or would he even go in by himself if the ETA for any other bomb squad members was an hour or two?
So he checks out this device, and is having a very hard time figuring out where to even start with disarming it. At some point, though, he's going to start to suspect that this device is fake (also, any help in something that might tip him off to this without being obvious right away would be helpful). What would he do at that point? I mean, if it turns out to be fake, then he can just remove it. But what if he's wrong? What would the procedure be at that point?
Any insight at all (or even direction toward resources/books/websites/etc.) would be really helpful at this point. Thanks in advance!