If it had been submitted as a storyline for a major Hollywood movie it might have been rejected as too far-fetched.
But the terrorist plot that Christine Connor hatched by posing as a Swedish model to trap vulnerable men into helping her was not only real, it was highly dangerous and chilling.
Connor attempted to murder Northern Ireland police officers in bomb attacks by luring them into an area using fake 999 calls.
The fake 999 call which lured police:
To make the explosives and fund her lone wolf campaign, she enlisted the help of an Englishman and an American through social media accounts using a fake name and photographs of Swedish model Sanne Alexandra Andersson.
Ms Anderson, who had no knowledge her photographs were being used, is engaged to Jacob Josefson, who plays for the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League in the US.
After months of meticulous planning, Connor launched her first attack on officers in north Belfast on May 16 2013. The attack failed but she used it as a trial run for another attack two weeks later on May 28.
On that date, police received a phone call from Connor claiming to be a woman called Gemma who was in danger at her home on the Crumlin Road in Belfast.
In a recording of the 999 call, Connor could be heard telling the call handler: "I need the police. My boyfriend's just come home and he's smashing up the house and I don't know what to do."
When police responded to the emergency, she hid in a nearby alleyway and threw two blast bombs at them.
Luckily the officers escaped injury. Shrapnel from the explosives travelled up to 35 metres and was found lodged in nearby homes.
Christine Connor jailed for 16 years
Following the attacks, a major terror probe involving police in Northern Ireland, West Mercia Police and the FBI, found that Connor had used her false online identity to enlist the help of Stuart Downes, 31, from Meole Brace in Shrewsbury, and Zachary Gevelinger from the United States.
It was discovered that she had communicated with both men via her "United Stuggle" Facebook page which she had created for her one-member organisation.
Police uncovered a video Connor had made of the spot where she planned to launch her attack and her getaway route.
In the video, Connor filmed the walk from her home to the scene of the planned attack.
Warning - video contains strong language
They also found the mobile phone she used to make the hoax 999 calls in the garden of a house in the adjoining alleyway.
When police searched her home mobile phones, laptops and sim cards were discovered hidden inside her mattress. Officers believe she used these to communicate with her co-conspirator Downes.
Downes is believed to have helped source and purchase the explosives for Connor and then shipped them to her in Belfast.
He was arrested and charged with attempted murder, possessing explosives and causing explosions with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury to property on May 16 and May 28.
He died by suicide before he was due to stand trial in June 2016.
Police believe he played a "key part" in the attacks and had found footage on his phone of him testing the explosive mix.
Connor also enticed American man Zachary Gevelinger online using her fake identity.
Gevelinger was arrested and questioned by police after he visited Connor in Hydebank Prison in July 2013.
Detectives found correspondence from him to Connor in her house, as well as cheques he had sent her.
The FBI searched Zachary's house in the US on behalf of the PSNI and seized computer equipment which confirmed the link to Connor.
He died by suicide last month.
After pleading guilty on Tuesday to a number of terrorist acts, Connor has been sentenced to 16 years and four months in jail.
CCTV footage of Christine Connor on the night of the attempted murder of police officers:
