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  • Complete Monster: Juggernaut, real name Sidney Buckland, was once a British bomb technician who saved lives during the Blitz. But feeling his retirement pension too small, Buckland uses his skills to create several time bombs that he places on the Trans-Atlantic ocean-liner Britannic, demanding 500,000 pounds or else he won't tell how to defuse the bombs, and all 1,200 of the ships' passengers, including children, will be blown to bits or drown. Two of the three bombs required to sink the ship detonate, killing several dispatched bomb disposal experts and crewmen. When attempts to pay his ransom fall through and the police don't follow his instructions, Buckland makes good on his threat to break all contact with the authorities, forcing the passengers on the Britannic to flee on lifeboats in treacherous waters, which will kill at least half of them, or stay behind and be blown up. When Buckland is captured, his former comrade Royal Navy Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon, attempts to appeal to their past for knowledge of how to disarm the bombs, but Buckland lies in a last-ditch attempt to kill Fallon and everyone on board.

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