In the film adapted from a true story of a blackmailing case, a policeman nicknamed "Old Fish" who has no experience of removing bombs is ordered to defuse the threat of a bomb.

电影根据一起真实的勒索案改编，一名绰号叫做“老鱼”的警察被指派去拆除炸弹，而他没有任何拆弹的经验。

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And near the northern city of Mosul, a policeman was killed and two others were wounded while trying to defuse a car bomb.

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In the end it seems that politicians in all parties preferred to defuse a political time bomb together rather than face the blame on their own for failing to do so or for it blowing up in their faces.

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Senior Republicans say they will be forced to retreat on taxes if President Obama wins a second term in November, clearing the biggest obstacle to a deal with Democrats to defuse a year-end budget bomb that threatens to rock the U.S. economy.

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