Real-life incidents similar to our thriller

Woman Kills Her Mother Inspired by Breaking Bad

Kuntal Patel had often fantasised about killing her mother after she had been forbidden her to marry her boyfriend Niraj. She had then contacted a poison dealer on the dark web and claimed that she needed a deadly toxin to get her mother out of the way. When the poison arrived, she claimed it was simply supposed to knock her out but it ended up killing her. She did all this because she felt like she was a Mexican drug warlord similar to the main characters of the television series Breaking Bad. Currently, she is saying that she had nothing to do with it and the only reason that she was doing it was to fulfil her fantasies. This relates to our thriller because the main antagonist Sebastian Giles is using a toxin to get Sean Finch to do what he wants which in this case is forcing him to kill the people on his list.

Russian Spy Killed by Poison Umbrella

On September 7th 1918, Russian Spy Georgi Markov was stabbed on his back thigh with a poison umbrella, which at that point was no more painful than an insect bite. However as time progressed, the area that was stabbed was clearly showing a bruise and it was continuing to get larger. Over the course of the following week he became progressively sicker until he eventually died on September 11th 1918. This incident relates to our thriller because Sean Finch has also been injected with a toxin that is set to kill him extremely painfully in 36 hours and what happened with Markov is that he had also died a painful death as a result of a toxin being injected into his bloodstream.