Why wasn't Miles Dyson disarmed?
In Terminator 2, they break into Miles Dyson's workplace (can't remember the name of it) and begin to plant explosives in order to destroy all the work he had been doing
When the police get to the scene a small team eventually break into the building and work their way upstairs. Arnie and the guys escape leaving the badly injured Miles Dyson with the detonator for the explosives.
When the team of police find Dyson, he is sat up against a counter of some sort holding a heavy weight above the detonator trigger. The policemen see this and after Dyson says, "I don't know how much longer I can hold this", the officer in charge rather assertively says "MOVE OUT! MOVE OUT!" and they try and make their exit.
They're clearly not fast enough as the building blows up a few seconds (if that) later. So my question is: why did they not try and take the detonator or heavy weight off of Dyson? You can tell by the size of the building that they had no chance of getting out in time and he was in no state to resist them.
I understand they might not have been able to react fast enough to him dropping the weight, but it surely makes more sense to try and do something or at least try and talk him out of doing it. Instead they leave (slowly I might add) even when it's plain that they won't make it.
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Dyson is threatening to blow up the building with an improvised dead man's switch. If the police try to disarm him, he's guaranteed to drop the weight and set off the explosives. They have no chance of success in disarming him. He is giving them a chance of getting out of the building by telling them he doesn't know how much longer he can hold the weight. A small chance is better than no chance, so the officer in charge gives the order to move out. It's only obvious that they don't have enough time after the fact.
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The situation that they were in was that he was clearly dying, and struggling to hold the weight up. He was resigned to dying there. Therefore, it is unlikely that they could reason with him before he tripped the explosive either intentionally or not.
Hence, they have two choices which are either attempt to take the detonator off him and make the IED safe themselves or run.
The police captain would have looked at the distance between him and Miles, and determined that he would not be able to reach him before detonation.
Therefore, he chose to move outside, and hope that Miles lived long enough for at least some of his men to escape. For all he knew, Miles might be able to hold it for another 30 seconds, or the explosives might not be as powerful as they looked.
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