“Stop that man!” Vernon shouted. “He has a bomb!” Everywhere, passengers were   21   there feet and screaming. Guerrero stopped with his   22   to the toilets. “  23   away from me!” he shouted.

“Guerrero, listen to me!” Vernon   24   him over the heads of the others. There was a silence as Guerrero   25   back at him.

“We know who you are,” Vernon went on. “And we know   26   you’re trying to do. We know all about the insurance(保险) and the bomb. That   27   that the insurance is no   28  . Do you understand? It’s worth nothing. If you die you’ll die for nothing and your family will get nothing.   29   than that, they’ll be blamed and made to   30  . Think of that, Guerrero.”

Guerrero hesitated. Vernon kept talking and hoped that Guerrero would   31   him.

“…”

A man came out of one of the   32   behind Guerrero. At the   33   of the door opening, he   34  .

“Get the guy with the case! He’s got a bomb!” somebody shouted.

Guerrero   35   past the man and ran into the toilet. He had not really understood   36   that had happened in the last few minutes, but he understood that,   37   so many things in his life, his great plan had   38  . His life had been a failure, and now his   39   would be a failure be a failure too.

As he pulled the string(导火索), he wondered   40   whether the bomb would be another failure. In the last second of his life he learned that it was not.