Three minutes to ten.
A team member stood against a wall as the crowd passed. Impatient, he checked his watch, looked up, and paled when two men confronted him, aiming pistols.
"Hands up!"
*
"Turn around! Against the wall!" an agent shouted to another team member, this one a block away. "Jay, get the knapsack off him!"
*
"I think it's safe to take the knapsack!" an agent yelled to his partner three blocks away. "If it's a bomb, it doesn't have a manual trigger. Otherwise, he'd have blown himself up by now."
Someone in the crowd overheard. "Bomb?"
"Where?"
"A bomb!"
"Run!"
*
"Keep your hands away from the knapsack!" an agent shouted.
When the team member drew a pistol, the agent protected the knapsack and shot the man in the head.
The dying man fired into the sidewalk, fragments hitting the crowd.
Panicking, a woman tripped. Stampeding, three men fell over her. Screams filled the street.