Just hours before Parliament is due to be in session, the authorities receive an anonymous warning. The warning tells of a plot by Catholic terrorists to blow up the king and his ministers as they sit through a state opening. Guards are sent to search the cellars, and sure enough a pile of coals hides a huge stash of deadly explosives, enough to blow the Palace of Westminster sky-high. A solitary figure spotted nearby, wrapped in a cape and holding a lantern, is soon arrested. He is unmasked as a mercenary called Guy Fawkes, the plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament is foiled, and a new date is imprinted on a nation's consciousness.

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