American Detective: Starting as a Rookie Cop in an American TV Show

Chapter 1484 Controllable and Uncontrollable Explosions
Anyone who frequently defuses bombs knows that any middle school student of normal intelligence, after learning embedded systems for a few weeks, can concoct a bomb that explodes if any wire is cut.

Therefore, bomb disposal is never the typical movie trope of picking one of the two wires (red and blue) to detonate a bomb. Instead, it involves finding ways to move the explosive to an open and safe place for detonation.

There are some differences between military and police bomb disposal. The sole purpose of military bomb disposal is to safely detonate the explosives, while police bomb disposal is more complicated.

Because of the need to preserve evidence or provide clues for solving cases, sometimes the police bomb disposal process involves scenes of wire cutting, similar to those depicted in movies and TV shows.

But that's about it; manually cutting the wires is always the last resort. These days, any bomb disposal team has remote-controlled robots as standard equipment.

Moreover, under normal circumstances, what is being cut is not the so-called lead wire or wire, but the detonator, which is why Clay personally packed the toolbox beforehand.

The toolbox he carried contained various tools needed to deal with bomb vests, including but not limited to those that Jack had seen at a glance, as well as strong acids, high-pressure disintegrators, and even a small canister of liquid nitrogen.

Reese had been wearing the bomb vest for almost the entire day, so it's impossible that he hadn't figured out how to take it off, but as he said, Kara Stanton was an expert in that area as well.

He and Mark Snow had spent a long time examining each other's equipment and discovered that all the straps used for securing the device contained wires that formed a simple circuit, which would trigger the fuse when the power was cut off.

The detonator leads and other triggering devices were completely wrapped up with multiple layers of tape and C4, making it impossible to see what was inside. The conclusion was that without the right tools, it would be impossible to remove the device in a short time.

Therefore, after Kara Stanton started the timer, the two made drastically different choices.

Mark Snow wanted to rush to the nearby CIA safe house to try his luck, where there should be the right tools and perhaps it was still possible to dismantle the structure.

The problem was that this was the most bustling area of ​​Manhattan, and with only 15 minutes left after the countdown started, just as Jack had predicted, Reese, unaware that they had arrived, instinctively wanted to take Mark Snow to the rooftop of the building.

The lab wasn't just occupied by the researcher who had just fled. Besides the two Delta Force security guards who had been silenced by Kara Stanton, other researchers had also gone into hiding when they sensed something was wrong.

The two men then broke into the monitoring room where several security guards had been knocked unconscious. With the amount of C4 they carried, destroying half a floor would have been more than enough. Going to the rooftop would have been the most effective way to avoid harming innocent people.

So, while Jack and Clay were climbing the stairs, a conflict broke out between them. Mark Snow ambushed Reese and escaped into the backup elevator. Reese fired a shot to try to stop him, but it was too late.

The three exchanged bomb disposal plans briefly. Jack then used the radio to notify Jubal and the others downstairs to further evacuate the surrounding area and keep an eye out for suspicious individuals.

But don't act rashly, lest Kara Stanton or Mark Snow, armed with explosives, resort to desperate measures.

Just as the three were about to go up to the rooftop to carry out bomb disposal operations, the safety door behind them made a sound again, and Finch, panting heavily, appeared there dragging his limping leg.

"Looks like I'm not late." Even though he was clearly out of breath, he still tried to maintain his usual nonchalant gentlemanly demeanor.

Although deeply moved, Rither's attitude was quite different: "Shouldn't I have guessed this would happen? Shouldn't you have kept your distance at a time like this?"

He pulled a hard drive from his suit pocket and placed it on the ground. "Take this hard drive and get out of here quickly. Find out what's inside and stop it. Kara seems to know about the 'machine,' and I suspect what she uploaded was specifically designed to deal with it."

This is a result of my past, it has nothing to do with you, so get out of here.

Ignoring his own labored breathing, Finch bent down to pick up the hard drive from the ground, trying to catch up with the three as they headed up to the rooftop. "Actually, this whole thing started because of me. I won't stand by and watch you get hurt, John (Reese). I may not be able to defuse bombs, but I do understand some basic principles."

Perhaps I can find a way to freeze the phone, or disassemble the microcontroller circuitry.

Before he could finish walking up the steps, Jack, who was at the back, interrupted the two best friends' sweet talk, "Do what you're really good at, Finch. Kara Stanton is gone, Mark Snow is gone. Help Alice locate them. That's important."

Oh, by the way, the elevator has a backup power supply; you can use it when you go down.

After leaving those words, Jack closed the iron gate leading to the rooftop, locking Finch inside.

Although the series of actions and dialogues had already covered most of the chapter (?), less than 3 minutes had actually passed. And from the time the three of them went up to the rooftop to when Clay helped Rither take off his bomb vest, it also took less than 3 minutes.

Since there are live wires on the straps securing the bomb vest, all we need to do is connect a bridging wire to ensure a circuit, then cut the straps. The rest is up to Jack.

After securing the safety rope that had been brought up and fastening the rappelling device, Jack, holding the bomb vest with four minutes left on the countdown in one hand and the figure-eight ring in the other, rappelled from the rooftop to the ground in less than 30 seconds.

A member of the bomb disposal team, who was already dressed in a bomb suit and waiting, took the bomb vest from Jack, attached the detonator that had been prepared beforehand, and then staggered towards the huge bomb container with bear-like steps.

The explosive device was carefully placed into the explosion-proof container, and another police officer, also wearing an explosion-proof suit, began frantically cranking the handle to close the container.

"Two minutes left!" Jack shouted, looking at his watch.

"Prepare to detonate!" someone shouted on the police channel almost simultaneously.

Although everyone except the bomb disposal team members was moved to a safe distance and asked to take cover behind cover, some people still couldn't resist peeking out or sticking out their phones to try to take pictures.

With a muffled thud, a wisp of white smoke simultaneously emerged from the three pressure relief valves of the explosion-proof container, and the danger was finally averted.

"So, there's another bulletproof vest that will explode in one minute, and we can't stop it anymore, is that right?" Jubal walked towards Jack with a worried expression. He had already learned the general outline of what had happened through the radios that Jack and Clay carried.

"That's probably it. Has the traffic at the surrounding intersections been cleared? Has the sniper team made any discoveries?"

Jack looked around. After all, this was located in the most bustling area of ​​Manhattan, next to the SoHo district. Although the NYPD had been trying to control traffic at several key intersections in the area.

However, the building where the incident occurred is not a standalone building; it is connected to surrounding buildings and has a large number of shops, making it easily accessible from all directions.

Since the sniper teams deployed in the vicinity and Hannah's group have not sent back any reports, it means that they have probably not been able to find the whereabouts of Mark Snow or Kara Stanton either.

This also means that an uncontrollable explosion could no longer be prevented.

(End of this chapter)