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"Poker Face", Way to Die #194, is the second death featured in "Sudden Death", which aired on December 22, 2010.

Plot[]

An inmate on death row named Floyd receives a deck of playing cards from a friend by the name of Mickey to use in building a pipe bomb as part of an escape plan. He breaks a metal leg from his bed, packs it with torn-up cards and water, seals it with a piece from a broom he broke, and sets it on his cell's heater. After waiting some time for it to explode, Floyd picks it up only to have it detonate in his hands, due to the sudden mixing of the water and the cards' flammable nitrocellulose coating. Floyd dies from shrapnel injuries to his face.

"Did he forget something? Floyd checked the device. That's when his escape plan... blew up in his face."

Transcript[]

([] is playing, the prison guard secures the cage with a nightstick)

Narrator: If you stroll down cellblock D of this notorious prison in the 1930s, you would pass the temporary home of Floyd O'Maley.

(The guard's away, Floyd pretended to be asleep, gets up, [] is playing)

Narrator: A lone wolf Chicago hitman.

(Floyd calls a friend of him in the next cell)

Floyd: (Whispers) Mickey!

Narrator: Floyd knew his way around the deck of cards.

Mickey: Yeah?

Floyd: (Whispers) Did you get the stuff?

(Mickey gives Floyd the poker cards, Death Throughout History is playing)

Mickey: It didn't get in from me.

Narrator: But he wasn't thinking about poker.

(Floyd tears the playing cards, planning something)

Narrator: Floyd knew that playing cards will coded with nitrocellulose. A reactive plastic that when mixed with water, produces the highly volatile nitric acid. In other words: he could turn a simple deck of cards...into a bomb.

([] is playing, after Floyd torn all the cards, he snatches the bed leg, stuffing the torn up cards in, uses the cup full of water, pours in the tube)

Narrator: He took a hollow bed leg, stuffed it full of torn up cards, and filled it with water.

(Floyd then breaks the bloom, inserts in the tube, Caffeine Death is playing)

Narrator: The homemade bomb was primed and placed on the space heater situated right next to the wall.

(Floyd carefully puts the bomb on the space heater)

Narrator: As soon as the water and card mixture heated up,

(After Floyd put the bomb, he takes cover with the rotated bed)

Narrator: the ensuing chemical reaction would blow up in a hole to freedom.

(Floyd thought the bomb will blow up under a second, but no explosion is heard)

Narrator: But nothing happened.

(Floyd peeks on the malfunctioned bomb)

Narrator: Did he forget something? Floyd checked the device. That's when his escape plan... blew up in his face.

(As that, when Floyd picks the bomb up, it blows up, replay, Plot Twist is playing)

Narrator: When Floyd picked up his crude card bomb, he gave it to final stir ignited to properly mix...

(The explosion is heard again, Alibi Rooms is playing)

Narrator: and detonate.

(The guard heard the explosion, Floyd is dead with some shrapnel in his face; replay of Floyd puts the bomb on the space heater, Future Heartbeats is playing)

Jason Romero: In this situation, we have shrapnel from the metal of the pipe bomb, that's gonna be imbedded into skull an-and his brain,

(CGI pipe bomb shows the playing card's texture melts to the water, the human picks it up, blows up to the face)

Jason Romero: we also have the shrapnel from the plain cards, that'll gonna do a-a lot of tissue damage themselves, imbedding pieces and...within the... the chest, and the head, it's gonna be somewhat like a wound to a gunshot one.

(Epic Rock Piece is playing)

Floyd: (Whispers) Did you get the stuff?

(Mickey gives Floyd the poker cards)

Narrator: If Floyd's plan had worked, it would've been an escape for the ages.

(Floyd picks the bomb up, it blows up)

Narrator: But it just... wasn't in the cards.

Segment Description[]

  • Description as seen on Spike TV's website
  • "A convict attempts a prison break by blowing out the wall of his cell but dies when the homemade bomb accidentally explodes in his face."

Trivia[]

  • This is also based on the death of William Kogut but Kogut only created the bomb to commit suicide, not as a device to escape prison.
  • This is also one of the deaths a person tries to escape to find freedom, but ends up dying instead. The others are Goon Interrupted and Chain Gang Banged.
  • Robert L. Greene also portrayed Logan Granfield in Cross Bown'd.
  • Floyd's death is similar to that of Petunia's injury in Happy Tree Friends web series episode, "From A to Zoo".

Goof[]

  • Character Error: Floyd can be seen breathing even though he's dead (right before the close-up).

Cast and Interviewees[]

Foreign names[]

  • Cara de Poker / Cara de Póquer (Poker Face) - Latin American and Spanish dubs
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