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Background



Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, for the first time, finds himself on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.
Director: John Moore, Writers: Skip Woods, Roderick Thorp (certain original characters by).


Quotes


-John McClane: [mocking his son] The 007 of Plainfield, New Jersey. Very nice.

-John McClane: Need a hug?

-Jack McClane: We're not a hugging family.

-John McClane: Damn straight!

-John McClane: Me and my boy here, we're gonna put a whuppin' on ya!

-Jack McClane: Certain death.

-John McClane: Like your mother's cooking.

-Alik: Do you know what I hate about the Americans?
 Everything. Especially cowboys.

-Komarov: [from trailer] You're crazy.

-John McClane: A little bit.

-Jack McClane: [looking out the window] John!

-John McClane: What do you got?

-Jack McClane: A big old bird!

-Jack McClane: Hang on, John!

-John McClane: [as they gear up] You got a plan?

-Jack McClane: Not really. I kinda thought we would just wing it, you know. Running in, guns blazing! Make it up as we go.

-John McClane: [during a shoot out] You remember the last time we talked just before you went away?

-Jack McClane: Ah no. No! No, no, you're not gonna open up to me before we die. That's not your thing, John.

-John McClane: What's my thing?

-Jack McClane: Fucking killing bad guys, that's your thing!

-John McClane: [preparing to return fire] You're not gonna die today.

-John McClane: The shit we do for our kids. Yippie-kai-yay, motherfucker.

-John McClane: Let's go kill some motherfuckers!

-Komarov: Goddamn Americans. You think you're so smart.

-John McClane: No, I'm not that smart. I'm just on vacation.

-John McClane: Safe house, my ass.

-Lucy: Dad? Just try... try not to make an even bigger mess of things.

[repeated line]

-John McClane: I'm on fucking vacation!

-John McClane: [punching a Russian motorist after an argument] D'you think I'd understand a word you say?

-John McClane: [gets into car; sarcastically] Jesus Christ. It's OK, I'm fine, thanks.

[last lines]

-Jack McClane: Hey, lemme ask you something. Do you go looking for trouble, or does it always find you?

-John McClane: You know, after all these years, I'm still asking myself the same question.

-Komarov: I don't want my life back.

[last lines]

-John McClane: So we're not going to grow any third arms or anything are we?

-Jack McClane: Nah. You might loose your hair.

-John McClane: Ha! Laugh it up kid. This is your five years from now.

-Jack McClane: It's rain water and fire. Besides, it's hard to kill a McClane.

-John McClane: *Now* you're a McClane?

-Jack McClane: Yeah, I'm a McClane. John McClane.

-John McClane: John McClane, Junior.

-Jack McClane: Well, that makes you a Senior.

-John McClane: That's right. Try not to forget it. I'm your father. Have some respect for your father.

-Jack McClane: Let me ask you something. You lookin' for trouble, or does it always seem to find *you*?

-John McClane: You know, after all these years, I still ask myself the same question.


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Background




When someone hacks into the computers at the FBI's Cyber Crime Division; the Director decides to round up all the hackers who could have done this. When he's told that because it's the 4th of July most of their agents are not around so they might have trouble getting people to get the hackers. So he instructs them to get local PD'S to take care of it. And one of the cops they ask is John McClane who is tasked with bringing a hacker named Farrell to the FBI. But as soon as he gets there someone starts shooting at them. McClane manages to get them out but they're still being pursued. And it's just when McClane arrives in Washington that the whole system breaks down and chaos ensues.
Directed by: Len Wiseman, Writing credits (WGA): Mark Bomback (screenplay), Mark Bomback (story) and David Marconi (story), John Carlin (article "A Farewell to Arms"), Roderick Thorp (certain original characters).


Quotes


-Matt Farrell: Have you done stuff like that before?

-John McClane: Stuff like what?

-Matt Farrell: Like killing people?

-John McClane: Yeah. But not for a long time.

-Matt Farrell: [upset] So, who were those guys? Huh? Why were they trying to kill you? Why'd they blow up my goddamn apartment?

-John McClane: They were there to kill you.

-Matt Farrell: Why would they wanna kill me?

-John McClane: You tell me, kid. You're the criminal.

-Thomas Gabriel: You know, John, I feel like we've gotten off on the wrong foot. And because of that, you think I'm the bad guy. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm the good guy here. I told them this could happen if they didn't prepare. Did I get a "Thank you"? No, I got crucified. But, they wouldn't listen.

-John McClane: You got their attention now, don't you?

-Thomas Gabriel: That's right. I am doing the country a favor.

-John McClane: By tearing it apart?

-Thomas Gabriel: Better me than some outsider. Some religious nut job bent on Armageddon. Nobody wants to see that happen. Everything I've broken can be fixed if the country is willing to pay for it.

-John McClane: Ah, bullshit. It's always been about the money.

-Thomas Gabriel: What, I shouldn't get paid for my work? I'm working my ass off here, John.

-John McClane: Well, just sit tight, asshole. I gotta check for you.

[from trailer]

-Matt Farrell: Shouldn't we call for backup or something?

-John McClane: Makes too much sense.

[from trailer]

-Matt Farrell: [running to a bleeding John McClane] You okay?

-John McClane: [pause, panting] I'll let you know in a minute.

-Matt Farrell: You just killed a helicopter with a car!

-John McClane: I was out of bullets.

[after McClane flings Rand from his car]

-Matt Farrell: Did you see that?

-John McClane: Yeah I saw it, I did it!

[first lines]

-Mai Lihn: Well?

-Clay: I'm sending you the code.

-Mai Lihn: Yes, I see that. Thank you.

[last lines]

-Lucy McClane: [referring to Farrell] So, um, did he say anything about me?

-John McClane: Jesus, Lucy.

-Lucy McClane: What? I-I'm so- I'm sorry. I'm just asking.

-John McClane: I'm in enough pain already.

[to medic]

-John McClane: Hospital.

-John McClane: [about to jump out of a speeding car] This is not a good idea!

[from trailer]

-The Warlock: [to Matt] Why did you bring a cop to my command center?

-John McClane: [laughs] Command center? It's a basement.

-The Warlock: [angrily] Who is this man?

-John McClane: Damn hamster!

-Matt Farrell: [to Lucy] Wow, I know that tone. It's just weird hearing it come from someone... with hair.

-Matt Farrell: Awww, great! There goes the cell phone.

-John McClane: They knocked the satellites out of the skies, now?

-Matt Farrell: No, your battery ran out.

-Slacker Kid: Hey, Farrell. Sully just P.D.L.'d a new copy of the, uh, Kill Zone 9, the one that ain't out yet. You wanna come check it out?

-Matt Farrell: No, thanks though, man. And good luck at the bad timing awards.

-Thomas Gabriel: On your tombstone it should read, "Always in the wrong place at the wrong time".

-John McClane: How about, "Yippi-kay-ay, motherfu - "

[gunshot]

-Thomas Gabriel: You're very impressed with yourself, aren't you?

-John McClane: I have my moments.

-Lucy McClane: Daddy, you're out of your mind.

-John McClane: What're you talkin' about?

-Lucy McClane: You shot yourself!

-John McClane: [groaning] It seemed like a good idea at the time.

[from trailer]

-Thomas Gabriel: Officer McClane, you have no idea what I'm capable of!

-John McClane: You sound like a very scary guy.

-John McClane: [pissed off] All you gotta do is go pick up a kid down in New Jersey, and drive him down to D.C. How hard can that be, huh? Can't be that hard, no, can it? No, gotta be a senior detective. A thing like a traffic jam, throwing a car at me's gonna stop me?

-John McClane: [acrobatic mercenaries attack John and Matt] Jesus, is the circus in town?

-John McClane: [covering the webcam] You think you can, uh, find a track where he is?

-Thomas Gabriel: Detective, covering the camera with your hand does not turn off the microphone.

-John McClane: Mai? Oh, yeah. Little Asian chick, likes to kick people? I don't think she's gonna be talkin' to anybody for a really long time. Last time I saw her she was at the bottom of a elevator shaft with an SUV rammed up her ass.

-Lucy McClane: Who are you?

-Matt Farrell: Matt Farrell.

-Lucy McClane: Lucy McClane.

-Matt Farrell: I thought your name was Gennero. Lucy Gennero?

-Lucy McClane: Not today.

-Thomas Gabriel: I can't talk this guy. You talk to him. See if you can get him to focus.

[hands cell phone to Lucy]

-Lucy McClane: Dad?

-John McClane: Hi, baby.

-Lucy McClane: Now there are only five of them.

-Matt Farrell: When was the last time you remember turning on the radio and listening to popular music? Or, just give me a decade. The 70's? I'm guessing - was, was Michael Jackson still black? Pearl Jam - I'll go back ten years with you. Ten years - 20 years, The Cure? Nothing?

[Matt is cringing while listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival on the radio]

-John McClane: You don't like Creedence?

-Matt Farrell: This is like having a pine cone shoved in my ass.

[John turns the volume up louder]

-John McClane: That's enough of this Kung-Fu shit.

-The Warlock: What, like, you a big fan of the Fett?

-John McClane: [standing next to a stand-up cardboard cut-out of Boba Fett] No. I was always more of a Star Wars guy.

-John McClane: [Matt's showing interest in Lucy] After all we've been through, I'd *hate* to have to beat you to death.

-Matt Farrell: Seriously, uh, you probably shouldn't antagonize them, since they have all the loaded guns, and whatnot.

-Lucy McClane: Listen, will you just take a minute and dig deep for a bigger set of balls, 'cause you're gonna need 'em before we're through

[recognizing female terrorist's voice over the police radio]

-Matt Farrell: That's her!

-John McClane: "Her" who?

-Agent Johnson: What're you talking about?

-Matt Farrell: It's them.

-John McClane: Are you saying it's "them" them?

-Matt Farrell: I *swear* to you, I know her! I would know her voice anywhere!

[McClane picks up handset]

-Matt Farrell: Don't say anything! Don't...

-John McClane: Just keep your mouth shut for a minute.

[to terrorists over radio]

-John McClane: Hey, Metro, how's your day goin' over there? Yeah, you gotta be pretty, uh, crazy over there, what with all those 5-87's, huh?

-Mai Lihn: Yes, sir, we've had to dispatch all units.

-John McClane: Yeah, you had to dispatch all units for all the naked people walkin' around?

[after the presidential montage]

-Casper: That was creepy.

-Trey: I tried to find more Nixon.

-Agent Johnson: Special Agent Johnson. I'll take the sedan

-John McClane: Agent Johnson?

-Agent Johnson: That's right.

-Thomas Gabriel: [whispering, after discovering that the Warlock was hacking into his network] Fat bastard.

-John McClane: I'm gettin' too old to jump out of cars.

-John McClane: Another day in paradise.

-Matt Farrell: I'm not a doctor but-but you look like you're hurt.

-John McClane: Sexy, right?

-Matt Farrell: No.

-John McClane: Are you Matt Farrell? Matthew Farrell?

-Matt Farrell: No, he, uh, actually does not live here anymore.

-John McClane: Of course not. Who are you?

-Matt Farrell: My name is Daisy Duke. Got a lot of shit for it when I was a kid. Please don't add to it.

[choking Mai with cables]

-John McClane: [sarcastic] That's not too tight, is it?

-John McClane: You know what you get for being a hero? Nothin'. You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah, blah, blah, attaboy. You get divorced. Your wife can't remember your last name. Your kids don't want to talk to you. You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me, kid, nobody wants to be that guy.

-The Warlock: Thomas Gabriel's the guy who shut down NORAD with a laptop just to prove a point, and you think I'm scared of you?

-Thomas Gabriel: [about McClane] You're a Timex watch in a digital age.

-John McClane: You're shooting at the wrong guy!

-John McClane: Hey, hey, hey. Calm down. Just calm down, big boy!

-The Warlock: You calm down! This is MY house!

-John McClane: You're gonna tell me what I wanna know, or I'm gonna beat you to death in your own house.

-Thomas Gabriel: McClane? I thought I killed you already.

-John McClane: I get that sometimes.

-John McClane: I know I'm not as smart as you guys with all this computer shit. But, hey... I'm still alive, ain't I? I mean, you've *got* to be running out of bad guys by now, right? Huh? Gabriel? Honestly, you can tell me. I mean, how does that work? Got some kind of service or something? Some kind of 800 number? 1-800-HENCHMEN? Oh, you know what? I bet you're still on hold with, "Can I get another dead Asian hooker bitch over here right away?"

[from the unrated version]

-Matt Farrell: You just killed a helicopter with a car!

-John McClane: Hundreds of thousands of people get killed by cars every year. That's just like four more.

[Farrell is trying to lock his door to prevent terrorists from entering]

-John McClane: Are you nuts?

-Matt Farrell: Jesus Christ. It's a fire sale.

-John McClane: What?

-Matt Farrell: It's a fire sale.

-Deputy Director Miguel Bowman: Hey! We don't know that yet.

-Taylor: Yeah, it's a myth anyway. It can't be done.

-Matt Farrell: Oh, it's a myth? Really? Please tell me she's only here for show and she's actually not in charge of anything.

-John McClane: Hey, what's a fire sale?

-Matt Farrell: It's a three-step... it's a three-step systematic attack on the entire national infrastructure. Okay, step one: take out all the transportation. Step two: the financial base and telecoms. Step three: You get rid of all the utilities. Gas, water, electric, nuclear. Pretty much anything that's run by computers which... which today is almost everything. So that's why they call it a fire sale, because everything must go.

[after Lucy struggles and shoots Emerson in the foot]

-Thomas Gabriel: Jesus Christ. You got her?

[Emerson nods]

-Thomas Gabriel: You're sure? It's a nice effort, though.

-Robert Russo: [referring to Lucy] This bitch is a handful.

[Lucy punches Russo, and he slaps her back]

-Thomas Gabriel: [sarcastically to Russo] Are you gonna be all right?

[to Lucy]

-Thomas Gabriel: Hey, behave, or I will hurt you.

-Lucy McClane: Oh, yeah? Let's step outside, just you and me. We'll see who hurts who.

-Thomas Gabriel: [smiling] You really are his daughter.

-John McClane: [in unrated version] Yippie-kai-yay, motherfucker!

-Lucy McClane: Dad! Stop it! I mean it!

-Jim: Dad? You said your dad was dead!

-John McClane: What? You told this jerk-off I was dead? You actually said that?

-Lucy McClane: I may have exaggerated a little bit.

-John McClane: I could come and find you, kick your ass and throw you out of your own party. What do you think about that, dickhead?

-John McClane: [after being in a car accident] You alright?

-Matt Farrell: No, I'm not alright!

-John McClane: [gets out of the car amused] Just stay in the car. You'll be alright.

-Matt Farrell: What are we doing?

-John McClane: It's a little thing they invented back in the sixties called 'jogging'. You're gonna love it. Come on.

-Matt Farrell: Do we have anything, like, resembling a plan, or anything?

-John McClane: Find Lucy, kill everybody else.

-Matt Farrell: I mean, more like a plan, like, a way to do that.

-Matt Farrell: [to McClane] If that guy knew half the shit that I know, his fuzzy little head would explode.

-Thomas Gabriel: Launch the downloads!

-John McClane: You know, chicks dig scars.

-Matt Farrell: [looks at Lucy] Really?

-John McClane: Not that one.

-John McClane: It's not a system, it's a country!

-John McClane: Hey, thanks for saving my daughter's life.

-Matt Farrell: [shrugs] What was I going to do?

-John McClane: That's what makes you "that guy."

-Matt Farrell: [smiles] Yeah.

-Mai Lihn: [twisting Matt's right hand up his back] Undo everything you just did!

-Matt Farrell: [panicking] Ok. Ok.

[after a moment's beat]

-Matt Farrell: You know I could do it a lot faster if I have my right hand... I'm a righty! I need my right hand!

-John McClane: But seriously, all that kicking aside, that skinny little ninja chick... she was smoking hot. A new one of those is going to be real hard to come by... right?


-John McClane: You know what you get for being a hero? Nothin'. You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah, blah, blah, attaboy. You get divorced. Your wife can't remember your last name. Your kids don't want to talk to you. You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me, kid, nobody wants to be that guy.

-Matt Farrell: Then why you doing this?

-John McClane: Because there's no body else to do it right now, that's why. Believe me, if there were somebody else to do it, I'd let them do it, but there's not. So we're doing it.

-Matt Farrell: Ah. That's what makes you that guy.

-John McClane: It's Creedence.

-Matt Farrell: Creedence?

-John McClane: Creedence Clearwater Revival? Classic Rock?

-Matt Farrell: I know what it is. It's OLD rock. That doesn't make it classic. What sucked back then still sucks today.

-John McClane: You don't like Creedence?

-Matt Farrell: This is like having a pine cone shoved in my ass. McClain turns the music louder Really? That's mature!

-Thomas Gabriel: We are leaving in three minutes.

[pushes computer towards Matt]

-Thomas Gabriel: You have one.

-Matt Farrell: The rules haven't changed, man. You're gonna kill me the minute I unlock it.

[Thomas shoots Matt in the leg]

-Thomas Gabriel: [Thomas grabs Lucy and puts the gun to her head] Matthew. Matthew! I really need you to pay attention. The rules can always change.

-Matt Farrell: Okay, wait a minute.

-Thomas Gabriel: I'm gonna shoot her in ten seconds.

-Matt Farrell: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

-Thomas Gabriel: Nine.

-Matt Farrell: I can't.

-Thomas Gabriel: Eight.

-Matt Farrell: I can't.

-Matt Farrell: [Thomas shoots the air twice] Okay! Okay, okay.
Thomas Gabriel: Six.

-Matt Farrell: Okay, stop, stop! Stop. I'm doing it. I'm doing it!

[starts to unlock it]

-Thomas Gabriel: Think of them as hardware, to your software.

-Matt Farrell: It's an e-bomb!




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Handguns




SIG-Sauer P220R





Detective Lieutenant John McClane's (Bruce Willis) main sidearm throughout the film is a SIG-Sauer P220R (nowadays, this model is simply known as the standard P220). During the confrontation with Mai Linh (Maggie Q) in the power plant, she takes the P220 and holds it on Matthew Farrell (Justin Long). After McClane hits her with an SUV, she loses the gun and it is never seen again; McClane later takes a Beretta Px4 Storm from Russo (Yorgo Constantine), which becomes his weapon for the rest of the movie.



SIG-Sauer P220R - .45 ACP. This is the screen-used gun that was carried and fired by Bruce Willis in the film.



Detective Lt. John McClane shows Matthew Farrell his SIG-Sauer P220R in his shoulder holster when he accuses him of being fake.


McClane takes aim with his SIG.


McClane shoots a fire extinguisher with his SIG-Sauer P220R in the hallway of Farrell's apartment building and succeeds in launching a terrorist out of the window with the blast. It should be noted this is Hollywood fiction.


McClane drops an empty magazine out of his SIG-Sauer P220R before reloading. For some reason the magazines stick and require vigorous shaking to drop fully. Also note the perfectly penetrated and rather large bullet holes.


McClane's SIG-Sauer P220R is knocked out of reach when a terrorist bumps the door open.


A security guard at the power plant who is shot by a terrorist disguised as an FBI agent is seen holding a SIG-Sauer P220R.


Mai holds McClane's SIG-Sauer P220R on Farrell (showing good trigger discipline) before being hit by McClane in an SUV.



Beretta Px4 Storm




The terrorist Robert Russo (Yorgo Constantine) in the film is seen carrying a Beretta Px4 Storm in several scenes, both with and without a sound suppressor. After killing him, John McClane (Bruce Willis) takes it and uses it in the second half of the film. During the final confrontation with Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant), McClane drops the pistol after being shot by Emerson ( Edoardo Costa), and it is then used by Matthew Farrell (Justin Long) to kill Emerson (Edoardo Costa).



Beretta Px4 Storm - 9x19mm.


Disguised as a Hazmat cleanup crew member, Russo guns down a security guard at the Woodlawn facility with his suppressed Beretta Px4 Storm.






Russo holds his Beretta Px4 Storm on McClane.


McClane speaks to Thomas Gabriel on the radio before being attacked by Rand (Cyril Raffaelli).


McClane fires his Beretta Px4 Storm at Rand as he avoids the shots using his advanced Parkour skills.


McClane kills the semi-truck driver by firing his Beretta Px4 Storm through the door.


McClane kills the last of Gabriel's thugs. Notice his shoulder holster is black and not leather like in the beginning, because he took Russo's shoulder holster when he took the Beretta.


Farrell kills Emerson with McClane's Beretta Px4 Storm.



Beretta 92FS



One of the terrorists is seen using a Beretta 92FS to execute the no longer needed hackers in the semi-truck, including Casper (Andrew Friedman). An interesting note, the particular Beretta used in the film was the same prop gun used by Bruce Willis in Die Hard 2 and Die Hard with a Vengeance. Call it a "cameo" role, if you will. This is also the first film in the Die Hard series in which McClane does not use a Beretta 92 variant as his own sidearm.



Beretta 92FS - 9x19mm. This is the gun carried and used by Bruce Willis in Die Hard 2 and Die Hard with a Vengeance, as well as guest appearing in this film.


A terrorist guns down Casper using the Beretta 92FS of the second and third Die Hard films.




Beretta 92SB



A patrolman in Washington D.C. is seen briefly holding a Beretta 92SB, noted by its rounded trigger guard and ambidextrous decocking safety.



Beretta 92SB - 9x19mm.


A D.C. patrolman holding a Beretta 92SB during the start of the helicopter ambush.





Beretta 92G Elite 1A



Gabriel`s main hacker Trey, (Jonathan Sadowski) is briefly seen holding a Beretta 92G Elite 1A. The same gun is seen used in Mission: Impossible III.



Beretta 92G Elite 1A - 9x19mm.


Trey holding the Beretta 92G Elite 1A on Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead).



Jericho 941 R



Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) uses a stainless steel Jericho 941 R as his sidearm, which he holds on Lucy McClane (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) in the final confrontation and uses to shoot Matthew Farrell (Justin Long) in the leg. Later, he sticks the muzzle of the Jericho into John McClane's (Bruce Willis) gunshot wound, so McClane simply forces him to pull the trigger, causing him to shoot through his pre-existing wound and into Gabriel.



IMI Jericho 941 R with stainless steel finish - 9x19mm. This is the actual gun used by Timothy Olyphant in the film.


Gabriel holds his stainless Jericho 941 R on Lucy when trying to persuade Farrell into undoing his hacking lock.


Gabriel approaches a wounded John McClane while holding his Jericho 941 R.


Garbiel aims his Jericho 941 R at McClane.


Gabriel holds his Jericho 941 R to McClane's head.


Gabriel attempts to revive McClane from his gunshot wound daze by sticking the muzzle of the Jericho 941 R into his wound.


McClane: "How about 'Yippie-Ki-Yay', motherf*-?!" McClane forces Gabriel to shoot himself through McClane's wound.



Glock 22



FBI agents, including Director Miguel Bowman (Cliff Curtis) and some of the Washington D.C. Police officers are seen using Third Generation Glock 22s. They are noted as such by their muzzle diameters and by the fact the FBI actually carries Glock 22s in real life. John McClane (Bruce Willis) at one point takes a Glock 22 off of one of a terrorist disguised as an FBI agent and uses it to kill him.



Glock 22 - .40 S&W.


A D.C. Patrolman fires his Glock 22 at the terrorist helicopter during the ambush.


Close up on the Glock 22 in the terrorist's holster before McClane grabs it and shoots him in the foot through the holster. Note how the trigger is in the fired position, meaning it wouldn't actually fire if McClane pulled the trigger.


McClane shoots the terrorist with his own Glock 22.


McClane holding the Glock 22 after shooting the terrorist.


A Glock 22 is seen in Bowman's (Cliff Curtis) holster.



Heckler & Koch P2000SK



Mai Linh (Maggie Q) uses a suppressed Heckler & Koch P2000SK when she and some of the terrorists infiltrate the power plant.



Heckler & Koch P2000SK - 9x19mm.


A publicity photo of Mai Linh (Maggie Q) with her suppressed Heckler & Koch P2000SK.


Mai kisses Gabriel with her Heckler & Koch P2000SK in her holster before setting off.


"Agent Tovarek" executes one of the computer operators with her suppressed Heckler & Koch P2000SK.


Mai sets down her P2000SK.



Heckler & Koch USP Tactical




During the scene at the power plant, McClane (Bruce Willis) runs into a terrorist who is armed with a Heckler & Koch USP Tactical fitted with a KAC suppressor. McClane fires his SIG-Sauer P220R and the terrorist fires the USP Tactical simultaneously over each other's heads before knocking each other's guns away. McClane eventually gets a Glock 22 out of the terrorist's holster and uses it to kill him.



Heckler & Koch USP Tactical - .45 ACP.


A terrorist tries to shoot McClane with his suppressed Heckler & Koch USP Tactical as seen from McClane's perspective.


The same scene from the terrorist's perspective.



SIG-Sauer P226R



One of the terrorists at the power plant is seen using a SIG-Sauer P226R fitted with a suppressor. When the terrorist is shoved into the elevator shaft by Matthew Farrell (Justin Long), his gun falls into the SUV lodged in the shaft. Mai Lihn (Maggie Q) tries to use the gun to kill McClane, but the car falls to the bottom of the shaft before she can fire off a shot.



SIG-Sauer P226R - 9x19mm.


One of the terrorists at the power plant guns down a security guard with his suppressed SIG-Sauer P226R.


The terrorist watches the SUV zoom by with his SIG-Sauer P226R in hand.




The terrorist fires his SIG-Sauer P226R and shows us how ineffective the Hollywood suppressors are at dampening the muzzle flash.


Mai pulls the SIG-Sauer P226R out from under her back after having fallen on it.


Mai tries to aim the SIG-Sauer P226R at McClane.



Heckler & Koch USP Compact



Emerson's (Edoardo Costa) sidearm is a Heckler & Koch USP Compact which Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) grabs after she knocks the MP7A1 out of his hands and shoots him in the foot with it, but he restrains her and holds it on her.



Heckler & Koch USP Compact - .45 ACP.


An excellent close up of the Heckler & Koch USP Compact in Emerson's holster.


Emerson holds his USP Compact on Lucy.


Emerson tries to shoot McClane but is shot by Farrell first.



Kimber Custom TLE II



Rand (Cyril Raffaelli) carries a Kimber Custom TLE II as his sidearm in the film.



Kimber Custom TLE II - .45 ACP.


Rand tries to fire his Kimber Custom TLE II at McClane.


Rand fires his Kimber Custom TLE II at McClane.


McClane kicks Rand's Kimber Custom TLE II away.



Submachine Guns



Heckler & Koch UMP-45



Many of the terrorists are seen using Heckler & Koch UMP-45s throughout the film. They are all fitted with C-More red-dot sights, Surefire M900A vertical grip/flashlight combinations, and flash hiders. McClane (Bruce Willis) commandeers one after the shootout at Matthew Farrell's (Justin Long) apartment, but never uses it.



Heckler & Koch UMP-45 - .45 ACP. This is a screen used UMP-45 that appeared in the film Live Free or Die Hard and was later used on the set of Iron Man (2008). It is one of many UMP-45s that appeared in both films and is in the same configuration seen in both films.


One of the terrorists fires his Heckler & Koch UMP-45 at McClane.


The terrorist fires his Heckler & Koch UMP-45 through the walls of Farrell's apartment.


The terrorist firing his UMP-45.


McClane picks up the debris covered UMP-45 after the terrorist is killed by the C4 rigged to Farrell's computer.


The UMP-45 sitting in the back seat of McClane's car.


Emerson (Edoardo Costa) holds his UMP-45 on Farrell.



Heckler & Koch MP5A2 Navy



A few of the FBI agents in Washington D.C. are seen carring Heckler & Koch MP5A2 Navy submachine guns.



Heckler & Koch MP5A2 Navy - 9x19mm.


An FBI agent holding a Heckler & Koch MP5A2 Navy.


An FBI agent holding a Heckler & Koch MP5A2 Navy.



Heckler & Koch MP5A3 Navy




An FBI agent is very briefly seen holding a Heckler & Koch MP5A3 Navy in Washington D.C.



Heckler & Koch MP5A3 Navy - 9x19mm.


An FBI agent holding a Heckler & Koch MP5A3 Navy.



Heckler & Koch MP7A1



Emerson (Edoardo Costa) uses a Heckler & Koch MP7A1 to wound John McClane (Bruce Willis) moments before the rescue of his daughter Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) during the final confrontation. Later, Lucy knocks the MP7A1 out of Emerson's hands and tries to kick it to McClane, but Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) intercepts the weapon before it reaches McClane.



Heckler & Koch MP7A1 with Zeiss Z-Point sight - 4.6x30mm.


Emerson points his Heckler & Koch MP7A1 at McClane.


Emerson holding his MP7A1 while struggling with Lucy.


Emerson drops his MP7A1 when Lucy shoots his foot with his own sidearm.



Rifles




Heckler & Koch G36C



Another weapon used by the terrorists are Heckler & Koch G36Cs. Like the UMPs, they have C-More sights and SureFire tactical flashlights mounted on them.



Heckler & Koch G36C - 5.56x45mm.


A terrorist runs through the hallway armed with his Heckler & Koch G36C.


The terrorist fires his Heckler & Koch G36C through the door of Matthew Farrell's (Justin Long) apartment.


The terrorist attempts to indirectly sweep the apartment by firing his G36C through a hole in the door.


A terrorist armed with a G36C.



M4A1 Carbine



M4A1 Carbines are used by the FBI agents being fitted with Rear BUIS, an M68 Aimpoint Red Dot Sight, AN/PEQ-2 lasers, a Vertical Fore Grip, and a TLR-1 weapon light. The security guards at the Woodlawn facility have the same setup except that they have a Surefire M900A light/fore grip instead.



Colt M4A1 - 5.56x45mm.


An FBI agent fires his M4A1 Carbine at the terrorist helicopter.


The FBI agent is shot up while holding his M4A1 Carbine.


Russo holding one of the Woodlawn security guard's M4A1 Carbines.


A rack filled with M4A1 Carbines at the FBI headquarters.


An FBI HRT operator aims his M4A1 Carbine at Matt Farrell (Justin Long).



Mark 12 Mod 0 SPR




The rifle used by Rand (Cyril Raffaelli), first in the shootout at Matt Farell's (Justin Long) apartment, and later during chase scene in Washington D.C., is the Mark 12 Mod 0 SPR (Special Purpose Rifle). This is a little-known AR-15 derivative developed by Crane and is used by U.S. SOCOM personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other hot-spots globally. The Mod 0 uses a PRI carbon fiber handguard where the Mod 1 uses a Knight Armament free-floating aluminum handguard. The weapons in the film are fitted with a Leupold Mark 4 CQ/T Rifle Scope, suppressors, brass catchers, Surefire M900 weaponlight foregrips, as well as AN/PEQ-2 IR designators and are fired on automatic (which suggests that the terrorists simply took the upper receivers/barrels and slapped them on full-auto lowers).



Mark 12 Mod 0 SPR - 5.56x45mm NATO.
Rand (Cyril Raffaelli) fires his Mark 12 Mod 0 SPR at McClane in Farrell's apartment. Here we see how the suppressor is clearly fake as it does nothing to dampen the muzzle flash on the weapon.


Rand scans the room after barraging it with automatic fire, a poor choice for the sniping role.


Rand aiming his Mark 12 Mod 0 SPR.


Del (Chris Palermo) fires his Mark 12 Mod 0 SPR at the police vehicle McClane and Farrell are in. Since the weapon is fitted with a brass catcher (a safety precaution in a helicopter), it is not necessary to use blanks during this scene and instead CGI muzzle flashes are used. They are quite obvious to spot since they are shown as emitting a "star" pattern flash, despite coming out of a flat-tube suppressor.


Rand climbs out of the co-pilot's seat and prepares to fire on the police car in the tunnel. Here we see the brass catchers are attached by electrical tape wrapped all the way around the gun, including the magazine. This completely eliminates the possibility of reloading the weapon...


Rand unloads his Mark 12 Mod 0 SPR on the incoming police car. This is a good view of the PEQ-2 IR laser mounted on the SWAN rail, the Surefire M900a vertical foregrip, and the muzzle detail of the Surefire FA556-212 suppressor.



M16A2



Nation Guardsmen are seen with M16A2s slung over their back while in Washington D.C. They appear to be resin props.



Colt M16A2 - 5.56x45mm.


National Guardsmen with M16A2s slung over their backs. Also note that the African-American extra has his patch on the top flap of his shoulder pocket, rather than the lower part where it should be.



SIG SG-552



A terrorist is briefly seen handling a pair of SIG SG 552 rifles when Gabriel's (Timothy Olyphant) men load up.


SIG SG 552 - 5.56x45mm.




A terrorist handling two SIG SG-552s.



Heavy Weapons



General Dynamics GAU-22/A



At one point in the film, John McClane (Bruce Willis) is forced to face a Lockheed Martin F-35B jet (noted from the F-35A model by its short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) system similar to a Harrier jet). This jet is erroneously outfitted with a pair of GAU-22/A 25mm guns (a four-barrel version of the older GAU-12/U) under the fuselage when the actual F-35B is only outfitted with a single external gunpod; at the time the film was made it was hard to find information on where this was mounted (the final version being a single wedge-shaped gunpod mounted on the centreline hardpoint), so it's possible the filmmakers simply assumed the F-35 used twin external pods like some versions of the Harrier. The guns devastate the semi truck McClane is driving but the pilot recklessly hovers the craft around a demolished cluster of overpasses and eventually crashes when debris falls in the lift fan, causing engine failure.



General Dynamics GAU-22/A - 25mm


The F-35B somehow effortlessly flying around a collection of overpasses while inaccurately firing off two GAU-22/A 25mm Gatling guns. You can tell that this is obviously fake because the car on the left is not even so much as scorched by the high-powered jet exhaust mere feet away.


The F-35B jet demolishes the semi-truck with its erroneous pair of GAU-22/A 25mm Gatling guns.




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Background



John McClane is now almost a full-blown alcoholic and is suspended from the NYPD. But when a bomb goes off in the Bonwit Teller Department Store the police go insane trying to figure out what's going on. Soon, a man named Simon calls and asks for McClane. Simon tells Inspector Walter Cobb that McClane is going to play a game called "Simon Says". He says that McClane is going to do the tasks he assigns him. If not, he'll blow off another bomb. With the help of a Harlem electrician, John McClane must race all over New York trying to figure out the frustrating puzzles that the crafty terrorist gives him. But when a bomb goes off in a subway station right by the Federal Reserve (the biggest gold storage in the world) things start to get heated up.
Director: John McTiernan, Writers: Jonathan Hensleigh, Roderick Thorp (certain original characters).


Quotes


-Simon Gruber: As I was going to St. Ives, / I met a man with seven wives. / Every wife had seven sacks, / Every sack had seven cats, / Every cat had seven kittens. / Kittens, cats, sacks, wives, / How many were going to St. Ives?

-John McClane: Listen, you fail I cover your ass. I fail you cover my ass!

-Zeus Carver: And if we both fail?

-John McClane: Then we're both fucked!

-John McClane: I'll tell you what your problem is, you don't like me 'cause you're a racist!

-Zeus Carver: What?

-John McClane: You're a racist! You don't like me 'cause I'm white!

-Zeus Carver: I don't like you because you're gonna get me *killed*!

-Zeus Carver: Didn't I hear you say you didn't even like your brother?

-Simon Gruber: There's a difference, you know, between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window.

-Zeus Carver: No riddle is gonna stop this motherfucker?

-Simon Gruber: No code, no riddle, no fancy little countdown.

-Zeus: So what's up with this L.A. thing? You famous or something?

-John McClane: Yeah, for about five minutes.

-Zeus: Don't tell me. Rodney King, right?

-John McClane: Fuck you.

-John McClane: [hands Zeus a gun] Here take this.

-Zeus: How's it work?

-John McClane: You don't know how to shoot a gun?

-Zeus: Look, all brothers don't know how to shoot guns, you racist motherfucker.

-John McClane: Sue me.

[McClane and Zeus are speeding through Central Park]

-Zeus: Are you aiming for these people?

-John McClane: No. Well, maybe that mime.

-FBI Agent Andy Cross: [showing pictures] Do you recognize this guy?

-John McClane: No.

-FBI Agent Andy Cross: How 'bout this one?

-John McClane: Mm-mm.

-FBI Agent Andy Cross: How 'bout you?

[Zeus shakes head]

-FBI Agent Andy Cross: Did you recognize the voice on the phone?

-John McClane: No.

-FBI Agent Andy Cross: Did you, uh, notice any cars following you?

-John McClane: No.

-Bill Jarvis, from Another Organization: Anybody following you at all? Any kind of surveillance, telephone, house, anything unusual at all?

-John McClane: Well, now that you mention it, I have experienced a, you know, like a burning sensation between my toes. I thought it was just some athlete's foot or something.

-Simon: [talking to police on speaker phone] Well, is the ebony Samaritan there, now?

-Zeus: You got a problem with ebony?

-Simon: No, no. My only problem is that I went to some trouble preparing that game for McClane. You interfered with a well-laid plan.

-Zeus: Yeah, well, you can stick your well-laid plan up your well-laid ass.

-Zeus: Now, where you goin'?

-Dexter: School.

-Zeus: Why?

-Raymond: To get educated.

-Zeus: *Why*?

-Dexter: So we can go to college.

-Zeus: And why is that important?

-Dexter: To get es-pect.

-Zeus: RE-spect. Now, who's the bad guys?

-Dexter: Guys who sell drugs.

-Raymond: Guys who have guns.

-Zeus: And who's the good guys?

-Dexter: We're the good guys.

-Zeus: Who's gonna help you?

-Raymond: Nobody.

-Zeus: *So who's gonna help you*?

-Dexter: We're gonna help ourselves.

-Zeus: And who do we not want to help us?

-Dexter, Raymond: White people.

-Zeus: That's right. Now get on outta here. Go to school.

[John drives a taxicab through Central Park]

-Zeus: McClane. McClane!

-John McClane: What?

[jumps the taxi over a hill towards Central Park South]

-Zeus: [shouts] McClane!

-Simon: Is there a detective named McClane there?

-Inspector Cobb: He's on suspension.

-Simon: No, Walter, he's not. Not today.

-Inspector Cobb: Who is this?

-Simon: Call me Simon.

-Inspector Cobb: What do you want?

-Simon: I want to play a game.

-Inspector Cobb: What kind of game?

-Simon: "Simon Says". Simon's going to tell Lt. McClane what to do, and Lt. McClane is going to do it. Noncompliance will result in a penalty.

-Inspector Cobb: What penalty?

-Simon: Another big bang in a very public place.

-Zeus: Don't fuckin' move.

-Simon: [turns around] Oh, the Samaritan.

-Zeus: Gimme the goddamn code.

-Simon: Code?

[realizing what Zeus is talking about]

-Simon: Oh, you mean for the school. I'm sorry, I can't do that.

-Zeus: You call in that code right now. Or I'll blow your sick ass into the next world.

-Simon: If that's what you gotta do.

[Zeus pulls the trigger on his gun and nothing happens, Simon takes the gun from Zeus]

-Simon: You forgot to take the safety catch off.

[shoots Zeus in the leg]

-Zeus: Oh, God!

-Simon: See, that works. Now, where's McClane?

-Zeus: What the hell's all this got to do with killing McClane?
Simon: Life has its little bonuses.

-Simon: Simon says, McClane and the Samaritan will go to the subway station at 72nd and Broadway. I will call you in 15 minutes on the payphone outside the station. No Police. Failure to answer will constitute noncompliance. Do you understand me, John?

-John McClane: Oh, yes, I understand. I understand that you're a fuckin' wacko who likes to play kids' games. That's what I understand.

-Simon: Hardly.

-John McClane: [imitating Simon] Hahdly? Well, then, who are you? Somebody I sent up? What'd you do? Shoplifting? Purse-snatching?

[pauses and puts hand over the receiver]

-John McClane: Cross-dressing? What?

-Simon: You c-c-c-couldn't catch me if I stole your ch-ch-chair with you in it!

-John McClane: My ch-ch-ch-chair with me in it? That's very exciting. Let me ask you a question, bonehead. Why are you trying to k-k-k-k-kill me?

-Zeus: Damn McClane, you know I was just starting to like you.

-John McClane: Yeah, well don't, I'm an asshole.

-Zeus: What are you talking about, now?

-John McClane: I lied to you, Zeus.

-Zeus: About what?

-John McClane: You remember, I said Weiss found that bomb up in Harlem?

-Zeus: Yeah.

-John McClane: They found it down in Chinatown.

-Zeus: Oh. Oh, now that's low, even for a white motherfucker like you. That's low.

-John McClane: I told you I was an asshole.

-Zeus: I told you 9th Avenue is the quickest way south.

-John McClane: Stop all the goddamn yellin'! I know what I'm doing.

-Zeus: Not even God knows what you're doing!

-Charles Weiss: [coming in] A nut who knows a lot about bombs. We found this in a playground. Professional. Very cool stuff. You know...

[thuds the bomb on Cobb's desk]

-Charles Weiss: Boom!

-Inspector Cobb: You think you should slam it around like that, Charlie?

-Charles Weiss: It's unmixed. You can't hurt it. This stuff is cutting edge. It's a binary liquid.

-Inspector Cobb: A what?

-Charles Weiss: Like epoxi. Two liquids.

[puts a dab of the clear liquid on Cobb's desk]

-Charles Weiss: Now, either one by itself,

[hits it with his shoe]

-Charles Weiss: you got nothing. But, mix them...

[swirls a paper clip in both liquids and throws it at a chair, the mixture explodes violently knocking the chair across the room]

-Connie Kowalski: [yelling] Charlie, you're gonna be wearin' that chair up your ass!

-Inspector Cobb: [yelling] Christ almighty, Charlie!

-Charles Weiss: Like I said very cool stuff. Now, with a package  like this, you get a warning. Now, the bomb has to arm itself.
You'll see the red liquid pump into the clear before it detonates.

-John McClane: How long before?

-Charles Weiss: Ten seconds, two minutes, it could be anything. But, once it's mixed, be somewhere else.

-Zeus: Morning.

-John McClane: Good morning.

-Zeus: You having a nice day, sir? You feeling all right? Not to get too personal, but a white man standing in the middle of Harlem wearing a sign that says "I hate niggers" has either got some serious personal issues, or not all his dogs are barking.

[John yawns]

-Zeus: Hey! I'm talking to you! Now you've got about ten seconds before those guys see you, and when they do they will kill you, you understand? You are about to have a very bad day.

-John McClane: Tell me about it.

-Helicopter Pilot: Hang on, we're going down.

-John McClane: Do you see those high-tension wires?

-Zeus: Hey, McClane, what the fuck!

-John McClane: Why me? What does he got to do with me?

-Inspector Cobb: I have no idea, he just said it had to be you.

-John McClane: It's nice to be needed.

-Zeus: Oh, boy... am I glad you talked me out of jumping.

-John McClane: This thing got airbags?

-Zeus: Your side does, I don't know about mi-

[shouts]

-Zeus: McClane!

-Zeus: That's it!

-John McClane: What?

-Zeus: Hillary Clinton. The 42nd President.

-John McClane: Nah, she'd be the 43rd President.

-Zeus: Alright, alright. But who's the 21st President?

-John McClane: I don't know.

-Zeus: You don't know?

-John McClane: No, I don't know! Do you know?

-Zeus: No!

-John McClane: Well?

-John McClane: Listen to me. Hang the fuck on, all right?

-Ivan: [talking to Simon on the phone] He's here.

-Simon: Perhaps you could be a little more specific.

-Zeus: Excuse me, sir, but I'm expecting a call. I need that phone.

-Businessman: Why don't you use the other phone?

-Zeus: Sir, please. I need to use that phone.

-Businessman: Hey, listen, bro, I was here first.

-Zeus: Bro? Get away from the goddamn phone!

[Zeus rushes into the Wall Street subway station and gets held at gunpoint by a transit cop who saw him jump the turnstiles]

-Zeus: [slowly] I have to answer that phone.

-Transit cop: Get 'em up!

-Zeus: Look, if you have to shoot me, then you go ahead and you shoot me! But I have to answer this phone, all right?

-Zeus: [picks up the receiver] I'm here.

-Simon: [on the other line] And McClane?

-Zeus: He's on his way. Uh, you know, he's a little slow. He's kinda outta shape.

-Simon: The rules applied to both of you. I'm afraid this is noncompliance. Goodbye.

[Simon hangs up]

-Zeus: Trust me guys. Duck.

[He immediately takes cover, knowing what will happen. As the train enters the station, McClane tries to smash the door on the last car of the train to throw the bomb out onto the track to minimize the amount of damage. As he does that, the wheels on the firts car hit a trip wire on the left rail that is connected to a remote detonator. It activates the bomb as McClane is throwing it out the window, causing the rear car to slide across the island platform, knocking down signs and columns]

-Inspector Cobb: [to Simon] I can appreciate your feelings for McClane. But believe me, the jerk isn't worth it. He's stepped on so many toes in this department, by this time next month he's gonna be a security guard. His own wife wants nothing to do with him, and he's about two steps shy of becoming a full-blown alcoholic.

-John McClane: [whispering] One step, *one* step.

-Zeus: What the fuck are you doin'?

-John McClane: Interrogatin' him.

-Zeus: Well, what's he gonna tell you, "I'm dead"?

-John McClane: Well, I ain't gonna know 'til I ask him, am I?

-John McClane: She told me to stay on the line.

[laughs]

-Simon: [laughs] Oh, God, I love this country!

-John McClane: You know, your brother was an asshole.

-Simon: [pauses] Ha!

-John McClane: Yeah, he really was an asshole.

-Simon: He was. He was an asshole. You... you got his number.

-John McClane: Yo, partner! Wait up.

-Zeus: Hey, hey, hey, hey, I ain't your partner. I ain't your neighbor, your brother, or your friend. I'm your total stranger.

-Simon: I'm a soldier, not a monster. Even though I sometimes work for monsters.

[Zeus and McClane have just stolen a man's car on the highway]

-Zeus: [to man] Hey! Who was the 21st President?

-Man: Go fuck yourself!

-Dr. Schiller: They want you to know who's doing it to you. So this name Simon is probably not an alias. It's probably Simon or some variation.

-Joe Lambert: [reading a rap sheet] Simon, Robert E. Busted in '86. Extortion. Kidnapping. 10 to 15. Did 7 years for good behavior. Released on a state work furlough two months ago.

-Inspector Cobb: Check it.

-John McClane: [Rick tosses something to John] Thanks, Rick. Bob Simon was a bankrupt businessman who kidnapped his partner's daughter. He's a fuck-up, not a psycho. The guy we're looking for is nuts.

-John McClane: You know this guy Simon we're talking to?

-Zeus: Yeah.

-John McClane: I threw his little brother off the thirty-second floor of Nakatomi Towers out in L.A. I guess he's a little pissed off about it.

Zeus: Wait a minute. You mean to tell me I'm in this shit 'cause some white cop threw some white asshole's brother off a roof?
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[McClane and Zeus are arguing over how to solve the problem]

-John McClane: I'll put my foot up your ass, you dumb, mother...

-Zeus: Say it! Say it!

-John McClane: What?

-Zeus: You were gonna call me a nigger, weren't you?

-John McClane: No I wasn't!

-Zeus: Yes you were! What were you gonna call me?

-John McClane: Asshole! How's that, asshole!

-Simon: Said Simple Simon to the pieman going to the fair, "Give me your pies... or I'll cave your head in."

-Simon: I think he's dead my dear.

[McClane removes his shirt and pants]

-John McClane: You know, you're the first woman since Holly to see me do this.

-Connie Kowalski: I'm honored.

-John McClane: Yeah, so was she.

-John McClane: Hot in here, or am I just scared to death?

[trying to get to one of Simon's destinations on time]

-Zeus: I told you the Park Drive is always jammed.

-John McClane: I didn't say "Park Drive."

[McClane turns the cab and drives through the park]

-John McClane: I said "through the park."

-Zeus: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! I'm not going anywhere.

-Inspector Cobb: Simon says you got to go.

-Zeus: I'm not jumping through hoops for some psycho! That's a white man, with white problems. You deal with him. Call me when he crosses 110th Street.

[after dropping McClane off in Harlem with a sign that says "I hate niggers"]

-Inspector Cobb: We'll be back to pick you up in fifteen minutes.

-John McClane: Take your time. I expect to be dead in four.

-Simon: Money is shit to me. I would not give up McClane for all the gold in your Fort Knox.

-Simon: Where are my pigeons now?

-Inspector Cobb: Pigeons?

-Simon: I had two pigeons, bright and gay, fly from me the other day. Why was it they did go? You cannot tell, you do not know.

-Inspector Cobb: You mean McClane?

-Simon: No, I mean Santa Claus.

[Simon is in one of the dumptrucks driving gold through the unfinished aqueduct]

-Simon: [on a phone] Rear guard, you can close up now.

[pauses, not getting an answer]

-Simon: We've reached the dam, you can come up now.

[pauses again]

-Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?

-John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, fuck-head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys down at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.

-Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's 13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?

-John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Crawl out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.

-Simon: [on the phone] How colorful.

-Zeus: If I hadn't've saved your fuckin' ass, I wouldn't be sittin' here with you about to blow up with 100 billion dollars in fuckin' gold.

-John McClane: Yeah, well, I got some bad news, you're only gonna blow up with me.
Zeus: What?

-John McClane: No gold on this boat.

-Zeus: How do you know that?

-John McClane: Cuz I know the man, I know the family. The only thing better than blowing up 100 billion dollars worth of gold is making people think you did.

[McClane and Zeus break into a car]

-John McClane: You know how to hot-wire this thing?

-Zeus: Of course I can, I'm an electrician. Only problem is...

[Zeus starts the ignition with his pliers]

-Zeus: it takes too fuckin' long.

-Simon: Yesterday we were an army with no country, tomorrow, we have to decide which country we want to buy!

[Referring to The Sign of the Cross]

-Zeus: How do Catholics do their thing?

-John McClane: North, South, West, East.

-John McClane: Say hello to your brother.

-Ricky Walsh: Next, fourteen dumptrucks stolen from a yard in Staten Island. Fourteen! Jesus! Somebody starting a construction company?

-Joe Lambert: No, it was John's landlady, gonna clean his apartment.

-FBI Agent: The name Gruber mean anything to you, lieutenant?

[flashback to Hans Gruber falling from Nakatomi Towers]

-John McClane: It rings a bell, yeah.

[about to call Simon with the answer to another riddle]

-Zeus: No, wait, wait! It's a trick. It's a trick.

-John McClane: What d'you mean?

-Zeus: I forgot about the man.

-John McClane: What man? Fuck the man! We got ten seconds here!

-Zeus: He said, "how many were going to St. Ives," right? The riddle begins, "As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives!" The guy and his wives aren't going anywhere.

-John McClane: What are they doing?

-Zeus: Sitting in the fucking road! Waiting on the moor! How the hell should I know?

[Connie is tending to McClane's wounds]

-Inspector Cobb: How is that?

-Connie Kowalski: Nothing wrong with him a shower wouldn't cure. Beer is normally taken internally, John.

-Dr. Schiller: Yes, I was saying that we're dealing with a megalomaniacal personality with possible paranoid schizo...

-John McClane: Hey, hey! How 'bout we just skip down to the part where you tell me what the fuck this has to do with me, huh?

-Joe Lambert: Bonwit Teller. Who the hell would wanna blow up a department store?

-Connie Kowalski: Did ya ever seen a woman miss a shoe sale?

-John McClane: [to terrorists in a tunnel] Hi, fellas. Mickey O'Brien, aqueduct security. Hey, listen, we got a report of a guy coming through here with, uh, eight reindeer.

[shoots the terrorists]

-John McClane: Yeah, they said he was a jolly, old, fat guy with a snowy, white beard. Cute little red and white suit. I'm surprised you didn't see him.

-John McClane: You know how to pick this lock?

-Zeus: Is this some black-shit again?

-John McClane: Hey will you stop that racial shit? Are you a fuckin' locksmith or not?

-Zeus: Dial 911. Tell the police to get up here quick. Somebody's about to get killed. And get your butts to school, you hear me?

-Raymond: [casually] Yeah.

-Dexter: Yeah.

-John McClane: Hey dickhead! Did I come at a bad time?

-Mischa: [the second guard tries to reach the front desk but instead reaches Simon's henchman who has replaced the real guard] Front desk.

-Federal Reserve Guard #2: Yes, call the police, get your ass down here right now! I'm under attack!

-Mischa: Hey, just relax mate, maybe you'll live through this.

[Not believing this, the guard promptly grabs a shotgun and fires relentlessly at the door. He doesn't see Katya creep up behind him with a knife. She slashes through his neck twice, then stabs him in the chest, causing him to double over. As he doubles over, she stabs him in the back, at which point Simon grabs her, twists her hand and pins her against the wall, restraining her. He glowers disapprovingly at her]

-Simon Gruber: I think he's dead, my dear.

-John McClane: Yippie-kai-yay motherfucker.

-John McClane: I had no idea Canada could be this much fun.

-John McClane: [to Zeus] This guy doesn't care about skin color. Even if you do.

-Simon: [addressing his troops] And remember, this is all due to the g-g-g-g-g-g-gullibility of the New York Police Department!

-Zeus: [helicopter being shot at by Simon] Oh, shit!

-Helicopter Pilot: Oh, shit!

-John McClane: What do you mean, "Oh, shit"?

-Simon: [Simon, disguised as a City Engineer, surveying the damage caused by one of his bombs] Holy Toledo! Somebody had fun.

-John McClane: [opens door of dump truck] You're a truck driver?

-Jerry Parks: No I'm a beautician. Of course I'm a truck driver!

-Zeus: Why you keep calling me Jésus? I look Puerto Rican to you?

-John McClane: Guy back there called you Jésus.

-Zeus: He didn't say Jésus. He said, "Hey, Zeus!" My name is Zeus.

-John McClane: Zeus?

-Zeus: Yeah, Zeus! As in, father of Apollo? Mt. Olympus? Don't fuck with me or I'll shove a lightning bolt up your ass? Zeus! You got a problem with that?

-John McClane: No, I don't have a problem with that.

[Simon and Targo have just learned that McClane killed two of their henchmen at the aqueduct]

-Mathias Targo: I told you not to toy with him!

-Simon: Thank you, that's very helpful.

-Charles Weiss: No guts. No glory.

[McClane and Targo are fighting]

-Mathias Targo: I see you all day, little man. Policeman.

[Targo kicks McClane, who is on the ground]

-Mathias Targo: And you don't go away.

-John McClane: Yeah, I'm that fucking Energizer bunny.

[Weiss is hardwiring the bomb in Chester A. Arthur Elementary School]

-Charles Weiss: Six booby traps, four dead ends, "and a Partridge in a pear tree." Okay, honey. Let's dance.

-Zeus: What the hell's it doing now?

-John McClane: It's mixing.

-Simon: [Simon has just broken into the Federal Reserve] One hundred and forty billion dollars! Ten times what's in Kentucky. Fort Knox? Ha! It's for tourists.

-Kid #1: It's Christmas. You could steal City Hall.

-John McClane: Come on.

[Zeus and John take the kids' bikes]

-Kid #1: My bike?

-John McClane: Let's go. Come on.

-Kid #1: That's my bike!

-Zeus: Yeah, it's Christmas!

[Targo's beaten John up, he scrambles away]

-Mathias Targo: Where are you going, now? You going to arrest me, bunny? Huh?

-John McClane: [sees chain on ground] I don't think I'm gonna arrest-

[grabs chain]

-John McClane: I'm gonna fuckin'-

[uses chain to knock Targo out]

-Raymond: Yo, uncle!

-Dexter: Come look at this!

-Zeus: [looks at watch] It's ten after nine. Why aren't you in school?

-Raymond: Tony wants to sell you this.

-Zeus: Tony? That no-neck dude they call "Bad T"?

-Dexter: He says he found it in a dumpster.

-Zeus: He keeps stealing from people, they're gonna find him in a dumpster.

-Raymond: No, he didn't steal it. He says his uncle gave it to him.

-Zeus: Mm-hm? Hand me that newspaper over there.

[Raymond hands Zeus the paper, and he whaps his nephews' heads lightly]

-Zeus: Don't *ever* let people use you. You're running all over town with stolen property; if you get caught, you get in trouble while he gets to deny the whole thing and walk away.

-Dexter: Y-You mean, you want us to take it back to Tony?

-Zeus: No, I'll take it back to Tony... with a message.

-Principal Martinez: Hi kids. I know you usually have assembly on Fridays, but today's special. Mr. Lambert here is from the fire department and today he wants us to practice a brand new fire drill. So, I want you to divide in half, and I want half of you to go over here - teachers will help them - and line up against the wall. The other half will go in this direction. Please do it very quietly and very quickly, alright? Everybody up please. Teachers, please help them.

-Raymond: Fire drill, my ass. That guy ain't from the fire department.

-Dexter: Maybe it's cuz of the radio.

-Raymond: You mean, like, they're after us? Nah.

-Dexter: Tony squealed on us!

-Raymond: No he didn't.

-Zeus: That guy was pissed.

-John McClane: He'll feel better when he looks in the back seat.

-Zeus: Shit! That was *my* gold bar!

-Simon: Why was the phone busy? Who were you calling?

-John McClane: The Psychic Hotline!

-Gang Member: [in German] Nicht schiessen!

-John McClane: [shoots him] What was that?

-Mathias Targo: [kicks McClane] He said "Don't shoot!"

[first lines]

-Inspector Cobb: Alan, Bomb Squad, Special Services, State Police and the F.B.I. Lt. Jurgensen, you, Plummer, I want you to go to St. John's Emergency in case we got any walk-ins from the street. Kramer, get the City Engineer. I got to find out our damage report.

[last lines]

-John McClane: Oh, shit.

-Zeus: What? *What*?

-John McClane: I left Holly hanging on hold.

-Zeus: Ah, call her back.

-John McClane: Uhh, she's gonna be pissed.

-Zeus: She'll get over it.

-John McClane: I don't know, Zeus. Like I said, she's a very stubborn woman.

-Zeus: She'd have to be to stay married to you.

-John McClane: Think we should call a fire truck?

-Zeus: Aw, fuck 'em. Let 'em cook!

-Inspector Cobb: Have you been drinking, McClane?

-John McClane: No, not since this morning.

-John McClane: [Zeus has picked up a stray gold ingot and attempts to carry it out with him] Put that shit down.

-Zeus: No fuckin' way.

-John McClane: They ain't gonna let you keep it.

-Zeus: Yeah, yeah, we'll see.

[about to jump onto a subway train]

-John McClane: This is a bad idea.

-Inspector Cobb: McClane is a toilet bug.

-John McClane: [puzzled, he whispers] A toilet bug?

-Zeus: [angrily] It's my lucky fuckin' day!

[Simon's last line]

-Simon: [panicking] Get out of here!

-John McClane: [after realizing that all of the city's cops are busy searching schools for Simon's bomb] What is it that Wall Street doesn't have?

-Zeus: What, is this shit catching? You're talking in riddles!

-John McClane: No, man, stay with me, what is it that Wall Street doesn't have?

-Zeus: What?

-John McClane: Schools. And what is it they've got a shitload of?

-Zeus: What?

-Simon: [observing the blast area] Hook, line, and sink.

[His 14 dump trucks trundle up Wall Street towards the area where the station is. They pass Rick Walsh without any regard for his gestures for him to stop]

-Ricky Walsh: Hey, whoa-whoa-whoa!

[Simon, dressed as a businessman, comes up to him and flashes his credentials]

-Simon: Detective! Bob Thompson. City Engineer's office. We'd like to get an idea of the damage.

[Behind him, one of his men jumps on one of the trucks]

-Ricky Walsh: Man, you guys really got here fast!

-Simon: [with a faux-American accent] Well, it's Wall Street, sir. A lot of money here. Lot of opinion majors - the mayor doesn't wanna piss off, you know. Is this it?

[They reach the plaza above the IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line station. Simon pretends shock]

-Simon: Holy Toledo! Somebody had fun.

[turns to Walsh]

-Simon: I'd appreciate if you'd show my associates the way down.

-Ricky Walsh: Yeah - yeah, sure.

[to another cop]

-Ricky Walsh: Jimmy! You got the flashlight? Murphy, come on, you too!

[Two cops are waved over. While Walsh and the two cops lead some of Simon's men down into the wreckage, Simon walks a ways and meets his other associates, who get out of their car. He puts on sunglasses and they then enter the Federal Reserve, where the alarms have been set off by the subway blast]

-Businessman in Taxi: 112 Wall Street.

-Zeus Carver: No wait. This isn't a taxi.
Businessman in Taxi: Your lights are on. Look, I'll make this very simple. 112 Wall Street, or I'll have your medallion suspended. What you don't like white people?

-Zeus Carver: 112 Wall Street? Got it.

-Simon Gruber: [as McClane answers the pay phone] "Birds of a feather, flocked together, so do pigs & swine. As nice as their chance as well as I had mine."

-John McClane: Nice. Rhymes.

-Simon Gruber: Why was the phone busy, who were you calling?

-John McClane: [Sarcastically] The psychic hotline.

-Simon Gruber: I advise you to take this more seriously.
John McClane: Hey, this is public phone. What do you want me to say?

-Simon Gruber: [Slightly annoyed] You can simply say that there was a fat woman on it and it took you a minute to get her off.

[Both McClane and Zeus give shocked faces]

-Simon Gruber: Now, there's a significant amount of explosive in the trash receptacle next to you. Try to run, and it goes off now.

-John McClane: We're not going to run, but I got a hundred people out here.

-Simon Gruber: *That's* the point. Now, do I have your attention? "As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with 7 wives, every wife had 7 sacks, every sack had 7 cats, every cat had 7 kittens, kittens, cats sacks and wives. How many were going to St. Ives? My number is...

-John McClane: [Interrupting] Woah, whoa wait a minute I didn't get all that. Say it again.

-Simon Gruber: Not a chance. My number is 555 and the answer. Call me in 30 seconds or die.


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Handguns






Beretta 92FS




As in Die Hard 2, NYPD Lt. John McClane (Bruce Willis) carries a Beretta 92FS as his sidearm, depite the fact that the Beretta is not an authorized firearm by the NYPD. The Beretta is first seen as it is given back to McClane once he is reinstated. He uses it several times throughout the movie, most notably pulling it when surrounded by Simon's men in an elevator and firing it while driving a Mercedes to kill a pair of pursuing terrorists in a pickup during the film's car chase on the L.I.E. (Long Island Expressway). Katya (Sam Phillips) also uses a Beretta to fire at a helicopter overhead.



A Beretta 92FS configured for left-handed firing - 9x19mm. This is one of the actual Berettas used by Bruce Willis in the film (four identical guns were used on-set) and was sold by Long Mountain Outfitters.


McClane pulls his Beretta 92FS on "Detective Otto" during the elevator fight.


McClane fires his Beretta 92FS during the car chase.


McClane with his Beretta 92FS drawn aboard the ship.


McClane with his Beretta 92FS drawn.


McClane fires his Beretta 92FS.



A production image of John McClane (Bruce Willis) with his Beretta drawn.


NYPD Lt. John McClane (Bruce Willis) rides the dump truck while holding his Beretta.


Katya (Sam Phillips) fires the Beretta 92FS at a helicopter.




Glock 17





A very nervous transit cop draws a Glock 17 on Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) when Zeus jumps the turnstiles (without swiping a MetroCard) in order to reach the pay phone at the Wall Street station. This scene later inspired a similar confrontation between a protagonist and cops in the 2004 animated film The Incredibles.



Glock 17 - 9x19mm


A transit cop nervously holds his Glock 17 on Zeus Carver.


Another view of the patrolman with the Glock.




Glock 19



The federal marshals at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York appear to carry Glock 19's. The terrorists that McClane shoots in the elevator are also armed with Glock 19s.



Glock 19 - 9x19mm


Upon opening the door only to find Simon pointing a gun at his head, the federal marshal dives to the ground and tries to grab his Glock 19.


Detective "Otto" holds a Glock 19 to McClane's chest during the elevator shootout.




Heckler & Koch P9S





In an alternate ending, McClane tracks Simon down in Europe and pulls a Heckler & Koch P9S on him as he forces him to play a game of "McClane Says".



Heckler & Koch P9S - 9x19mm


McClane pulls a Heckler & Koch P9S on Simon in an alternate ending.




Makarov PM



While Simon and his men are at the Federal Reserve, Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons) can be seen armed with a Makarov PM. In an alternate ending, Simon pulls out and throws away his Makarov when confronted by McClane.



Makarov PM - 9x18mm Makarov


One of Simon's comrades tosses a Makarov PM over to him.


In the alternate ending, Simon takes out his Makarov.


Simon throws away the Makarov.




Smith & Wesson Model 36 (Nickel)



In a scene reminiscent of the original Die Hard, a nickel Smith & Wesson Model 36 revolver with Pachmayr grips is taped to back of McClane. Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) steps in and grabs the revolver off McClane's back, using it to intimidate an assembled mob.



Smith & Wesson Model 36 (nickel) .38 Special as used by Bruce Willis in the film.


In a scene reminiscent of the original Die Hard, Detective John McClane with the nickel Smith & Wesson Model 36 taped to his back.


Zeus Carver threatening a mob drawn by McClane's racist sign using the nickel Smith & Wesson Model 36 strapped to McClane's back.




Smith & Wesson Model 36



During the final shootout at the Canadian border, John McClane uses the pilot's standard Smith & Wesson Model 36 revolver while under attack from Simon.



Smith & Wesson Model 36 - .38 Special


McClane loads the remaining two bullets into the Smith & Wesson Model 36 after checking the load and discarding the used cartridges.


McClane looks for a target while holding the S&W.



Walther PPK/S





While preparing to depart the doomed cargo ship, Simon Gruber and Katya (Sam Phillips) are confronted by Mathias Targo, who discovered earlier what was really the cargo on the ship. After Targo accuses Simon of betrayal, Katya draws a nickel-plated Walther PPK/S with pearl grips.



Walther PPK/S - .380 ACP


Katya (Sam Phillips) with the nickel-plated Walther PPK/S with pearl grips.




Shotguns



Mossberg 500




When Simon and his men attempt to enter the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a Federal Reserve Guard can be seen loading shells into a Mossberg 500 fitted with a heatshield. Note that he fires off 12 to 14 rounds without reloading, when a shotgun of this type only can carry a maximum of nine shells.



Mossberg 500 with heat shield - 12 Gauge


A Federal Reserve Guard loads up a Mossberg 500.


The guard opens fire wildly with the Mossberg.




Submachine Guns




Heckler & Koch MP5K



The Heckler & Koch MP5K submachine gun is the most prominent weapon carried by Simon's men. During their infiltration of the cargo ship, John McClane takes one off of a dead terrorist and gives it to Zeus Carver before sending him off to find Simon Gruber. Zeus has trouble with the SMG when confronting Simon.



Heckler & Koch MP5K - 9x19mm


Zeus holds a Heckler & Koch MP5K on Simon.


Simon holds the Heckler & Koch MP5K after pointing out the safety catch was on.


A production image of the same confrontation above.


Simon's men hand out Heckler & Koch MP5Ks toward the end of the film (Note: These are actually Daisy BB replicas of the MP5K).




MAC-10




John McClane lifts a MAC-10 off of a dead cargo ship terrorist after his fight with Targo (Nicholas Wyman).



Ingram MAC 10 - .45 ACP


McClane with a commandeered MAC-10.




Uzi



Another frequently-used weapon by Simon's men is the Uzi sub-machine gun. It is most notably seen in the scene where Targo rigs the dam to blow in an attempt to drown McClane as he's pursuing them.



IMI Uzi - 9x19mm


Targo holds the Uzi in the background as he rigs the dam to blow.


One of Simon's men picks up McClane with an Uzi sub-machine gun in hand after he is captured.




Micro Uzi



One of Simon's men disguised as a maintenance worker pulls a Micro Uzi on a Federal Reserve Deputy Marshal.



IMI Micro Uzi - 9x19mm


One of Simon's men points a Micro Uzi machine pistol on a Federal Reserve Deputy Marshal. The other man in the back wields a MAC-10, although it is not loaded with a magazine making it unclear why he's bothering to work the bolt.




Rifles




Bushmaster XM15E2 S



Just before they blow the dam, one of Simon's men can be seen with what appears to be a Bushmaster XM15E2 of some sort. Bushmaster built the AR15s for the movie and for Bruce Willis' personal collection. A Bushmaster also appears to be the sniper rifle used by one of Simon's men at Yankee Stadium, fitted with a suppressor and a spotter's scope.


One of Simon's Men has an AR-15.


A sniper prepares to use the rifle. Note that the rifle appears to be magazine fed and not a bolt action rifle.


One of Simon's men with the sniper rifle.


Closeup of the sniper rifle.




Other




M60 Machine Gun



During the shootout at the border, Simon Gruber uses an M60 machine gun from the seat of a helicopter to shoot at a nearby chopper carrying John McClane and Zeus Carver.



M60 machine gun - 7.62x51mm NATO


Simon readies the M60 machine gun for his final confrontation with McClane.


Simon looks McClane in the eye with his M60 machine gun in hand.




"Chinese Rocket Launcher"



In an alternate ending to the film, John McClane tracks Simon down in a bar in Europe. McClane then pulls out a Chinese rocket launcher which has the markings removed that indicate which end is the firing one. He then forces Simon to play "McClane Says" and then to point the launcher in the direction he thinks will not harm him. The launcher was custom made for the production out of iron and was hollow on the inside in order to place a special effects charge to simulate firing.



In an alternate ending, McClane pulls out the "Chinese Rocket Launcher".


Simon is forced to press the trigger on the launcher.




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Background



After the terrifying events in LA, John McClane (Willis) is about to go through it all again. A team of terrorists, led by Col. Stuart (Sadler) is holding the entire airport hostage. The terrorists are planning to rescue a drug lord from justice. In order to do so, they have seized control of all electrical equipment affecting all planes. With no runway lights available, all aircraft have to remain in the air, with fuel running low, McClane will need to be fast.
Directed by: Renny Harlin, Writing credits (WGA): Walter Wager (novel "58 Minutes"), Steven E. de Souza (screenplay) and Doug Richardson (screenplay).


Quotes



-Carmine Lorenzo: You are in my little pond now, and I am the big fish that runs it.

-John McClane: [during the fight with Col.Stuart] Motherfuckin' motherfucker!

-Trudeau: Alright, we've got a body in the morgue that seems to have died twice. Assuming it's not a computer error, what do we assume?

-John McClane: That somebody's about to seriously fuck with this airport.

-Trudeau: What the hell is that supposed to mean? I mean, I know we're dummies up here, McClane, so give us a little taste of your brilliant genius! I mean, you talking about a hijacking, a robbery or what?

-John McClane: Look, I'm not sure. All I know, is...

-Carmine Lorenzo: Oh, he's not sure! Well, I'm stunned! I gotta lie down!

-John McClane: The only people that go to this much trouble are professionals, not luggage thieves and not punks!

-Chief Engineer Leslie Barnes: Professional at what?

-John McClane: [holding up the fax] What the fuck do you this is, huh? The safety patrol, here? This is the resume of a professional mercenary! You got the world's biggest drug dealer on his way here, now. What, do you need, a slide rule to figure this out? Or maybe another body in a zipper bag before you start asking questions?

-Carmine Lorenzo: Hey, pal, you're the one that gave us that fuckin' body, remember that.

-John McClane: Yeah, I remember that.

-John McClane: That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me. You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. Dosen't show up on your airport X-ray machines, here, and it cost more than you make in a month.

-Carmine Lorenzo: You'd be a surprised what I make in a month.

-John McClane: If it's more than a dollar ninety-eight I'd be very surprised.

-Al Powell: What's this about?

-John McClane: Oh, just a feeling I have.

-Al Powell: Ouch. When you get those feelings, insurance companies start to go bankrupt.

-John McClane: Hey, Carmine, let me ask you something. What sets off the metal detectors first? The lead in your ass or the shit in your brains?

[under his breath]

-John McClane: Fat fuck.

-John McClane: [McClane is forced to crawl through yet another ventilation system] Just once, I'd like a regular, normal Christmas. Eggnog, a fuckin' Christmas tree, a little turkey. But, no. I gotta crawl around in this motherfuckin' tin can.

-Chopper Pilot: [McClane is showing his nervousness while riding in a helicopter] What's the matter, cowboy? Ride too rough?

-John McClane: I don't like to fly.

-Chopper Pilot: Then what are you doing here?

-John McClane: I don't like to lose either.

-Al Powell: You're not pissing in somebody's pool, are you?
John McClane: Yeah, and I'm fresh outta chlorine.

-John McClane: Oh man, I can't fucking believe this. Another basement, another elevator. How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?

-Grant: You're the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time.

-John McClane: Story of my life.

-John McClane: Guess I was wrong about you. You're not such an asshole after all.

-Grant: Oh, you were right. I'm just your kind of asshole.

-Grant: Too bad, McClane. I kind of liked you.

-John McClane: I got enough friends.

-Holly McClane: They told me there were terrorists at the airport.

-John McClane: Yeah, I heard that too.

-Marvin: You like it, huh? How 'bout you give me twenty bucks for it?

-John McClane: How 'bout I let you live?

-Marvin: Man knows how to bargain.

-Carmine Lorenzo: Hey McClane! You get this parking ticket in front of my airport?

-John McClane: Yeah.

-Carmine Lorenzo: [Lorenzo tears ticket up] Ah, what the hell; it's Christmas!

-John McClane: [John can't get out from under his parachute] Where's the fuckin' door?

-John McClane: What do you say, Marv?

-Marvin: I'll be damned if I'm gonna clean up this mess.

-Morgue Worker: [John McClane is taking a dead guy's fingerprints] Hey. You're supposed to do that at the morgue.
John McClane: Not anymore. Got a new SOP for DOA's from the FAA.

-John McClane: Yippie-kai-yay, motherfucker.

-John McClane: [to Al Powell] Take the Twinkie out of your mouth and grab a pencil, will ya?

-Maj. Grant: [Grant and his men have landed in their choppers] Major Grant. We're Blue Light.

-Rollins, Department of Justice Representative: Rollins, Department of Justice.

-Trudeau: Trudeau, Chief of Air Operations.

-Carmine Lorenzo: Lorenzo, Terminal Police. You want something, you got it.

-John McClane: This is it? One fucking platoon?

-Maj. Grant: One crisis, one platoon. Who are you?

-John McClane: John McClane.

-Maj. Grant: McClane, you showed some balls out there, man.
John McClane: Yeah.

-Maj. Grant: Now, show some good sense. Let the pros handle this.

-John McClane: Yeah, well, it looks like the pros are on the wrong team tonight. Isn't Colonel Stuart one of your men?

-Maj. Grant: No, not anymore he's not. Now we're here to take Colonel Stuart down. And we will take him down. You see, I served with him. I taught him everything he knows.

-John McClane: Well, maybe he's learned a few more things since then.

-Trudeau: [after McClane has failed to prevent the Windsor plane crash triggered by Col. Stuart] McClane, I know what you must feel.

-John McClane: I wanted to help those people tonight. I was pretty goddamn useless.

-John McClane: Excuse me, officers. This may sound like a wild goose chase, but, I think I just saw...

-Sgt. Vito Lorenzo: Saw what?

-John McClane: Elvis. Elvis Presley.

-Sgt. Vito Lorenzo: [after McClane leaves, Sgt Lorenzo turns to his partner] Fucking tourists. Oughta be a law.

-Richard Thornburg: No you did not explain anything to me.
 All you did was shove me back here in this cattle car.

-Stewardess: Sir, you were told when you boarded we were overbooked.

-Richard Thornburg: Fine. Done. I accept that. But why in hell can't I get the first class meal my network paid for. Do you know who I am?

-Stewardess: Yes. We've all seen your program. Your episode "Flying Junkyards" was a very objective look at air traffic safety.

-Stewardess: It wasn't nearly as edifying as "Bimbos of the Sky." Was it, Connie?

-Richard Thornburg: You think you're funny. You think you're funny. Fine. I've got your number.

-Stewardess: And I've got yours. So park it, Sir.

-Richard Thornburg: [sits down and sees Holly looking at him] Stewardess!

-Stewardess: Mr. Thornburg, you cannot monopolize my time.

-Richard Thornburg: You cannot put me near that woman.

-Stewardess: Excuse me?

-Holly McClane: He means he's filed a restraining order against me. I'm not allowed within 50 feet of him.

-Richard Thornburg: 50 yards. So by keeping me in the section you are violating a court order. I can sue you and this airline. That woman assaulted me and she humiliated me in public.

-Stewardess: [walks over to Holly and whispers] What did you do?

-Holly McClane: Knocked out two of his teeth.

-Stewardess: Would you like some champagne?

-John McClane: Holly! Here's your fucking landing light. Whoo!

-Rent-A-Car Girl: I close in about an hour. Maybe we can go get a drink?

-John McClane: [shows his wedding ring] Just the fax, ma'am. Just the fax.

-Samantha Coleman: Colonel Stuart, can I have a few words, please?

-Col. Stuart: You can have two: "fuck" and "you".

-Garber: [grabbing the TV Camera] No pictures, you pinko bitch!

-Holly McClane: Honey, it's the '90s, remember? Microchips, microwaves, faxes, *air phones*.

-John McClane: Hey, well, as far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.

-Samantha Coleman: You give me this story and I'll have your baby.

-John McClane: Not the kind of ride I'm looking for.

-Col. Stuart: Happy landings, asshole.

-Holly McClane: [after the terrorist attack] Why does this keep happening to us?

-Holly McClane: Listen Dick. That is your name? Dick. If you're gonna continue to get this close do you think you might consider switching aftershaves?

-Richard Thornburg: Anything else?

-Holly McClane: Stronger mouthwash would be nice.

-Carmine Lorenzo: It's time to kick ass.

-Marvin: Just like Iwo Jima!

[the SWAT team escorting Barnes reaches the moving sidewalk on the Annex Skywalk]

-Chief Engineer Leslie Barnes: [on the phone with Trudeau] We're in the Annex Skywalk. I can see the array. I'll give you a call for protocol tests as soon as it's hot. That's all for now.

[hangs up; we hear Barnes give an instruction to the SWAT team's sergeant. At the other end of the sidewalk, we see Sheldon set down his roller and start to reach for his gun]

-Sergeant: Right, sir. You've got it.

[At the end of the sidewalk, O'Reilly presses the stop button that shuts down the walkway. All six of the men nearly lose their balance; he then turns his back to them]

-Sergeant: What the hell's going on?

[to the worker at the end of the sidewalk]

-Sergeant: Hey! Put that back on!

[as they continue along the walkway, Mulkey and Shockley start to reach for their weapons]

-Sergeant: Hey, asshole! Whadda I look like to you?

[O'Reilly turns around, holding a Glock 17 in his left hand]

-O'Reilly: A sitting duck!

[He shoots the Sergeant in the head, killing him instantly; he then dives for cover as the other officers return fire; McClane hears the gunfire from inside the ventilation shaft]

-John McClane: Shit!

[He draws his Beretta 92FS and checks the slide]

-John McClane: Damnit! I hate it when I'm right!

[He continues crawling along at a much faster speed]

[Kahn comes down from the choir loft and joins Colonel Stuart and Garber]

-Kahn: Sir! We just monitored a call from the chief engineer. Our people took out their SWAT team, *completely*.

-Garber: You were right. They went for the antenna array. We're right on schedule.

-Colonel Stuart: Losing our own team wasn't part of the plan.

[He goes over to the phone and dials; he is heard in the tower and by McClane over Barnes's phone]

-Colonel Stuart: Attention, Dulles Tower. Attention, Dulles Control Tower. Mr. Trudeau, I know you're listening. Unfortunately, you're not obeying.

-Trudeau: [to himself] Draw me face to face. We'll see.

-Colonel Stuart: You were warned not to try to restore your systems. You've wasted lives and precious time on a futile and obvious target. Now you're gonna pay the penalty.

-John McClane: [on the Skywalk, through Barnes's phone] I've got five dead officers down here, Colonel Stuart! Is that penalty enough?

[Lorenzo goes over to the phone]

-Carmine Lorenzo: McClane, you keep out of this! You've been enough of a pain...

[He stops midsentence when he notices Trudeau glaring unhappily at him]

-Colonel Stuart: Oh, McClane. John McClane. The policeman hero who saved the Nakatomi hostages. I read about you in People Magazine. You seemed a bit out of your league on Nightline, I thought.

-John McClane: Hey, Colonel. Blow me! How much drug money is Esperanza paying you to turn traitor?

-Colonel Stuart: I think Cardinal Richilieu said it best: "Treason is merely a matter of dates." This country's got to learn that it can't keep cutting the legs off of men like General Esperanza. Men who have the guts to stand up against Communist aggression.

-John McClane: And Lesson #1 starts with killing policemen? What's Lesson #2, the neutron bomb?

-Colonel Stuart: No. I think we can find something in between. Watch this!

[Hangs up and turns to Thompson]

-Colonel Stuart: Give me a flight number - one that's low on fuel.

[Thompson hands him a slip]

-Thompson: Windsor 114, transatlantic from London. Fuel tanks dry as a martini.

-Colonel Stuart: Activate the ILS landing system. Recalibrate sea level - *minus* 200 feet.

[Thompson rotates a dial and taps his pen on a computer screen to recalibrate the system]

-Controller in tower: Oh Jesus! They've reset ground level minus 200 feet!

-Col. Stuart: [after McClane's snowmobile explodes] So much for the element of chance!

[Stuart's men arrive in their car to pick up Esperanza; Kahn has barricaded McClane in the cockpit]

-Gen. Ramon Esperanza: Where the hell is Colonel Stuart?

-Kahn: Come on, General!

[He helps Esperanza out of the airplane; Stuart runs over to him]

-Colonel Stuart: [noticing Esperanza's shoulder wound] General!

-Gen. Ramon Esperanza: [shoving Stuart's arm away] I'm all right! He said he was a policeman! I thought you had this place secured!

-Kahn: He went in the cockpit.

-Colonel Stuart: He's going to hell!

[raises his voice]

-Colonel Stuart: McClane! I assume it's you, McClane! You're quite a little soldier! You can consider this a military funeral!

[McClane tries to open the cockpit door, which jams against the rescue axe used to secure it. At this point, Stuart, Esperanza, Garber and Kahn open fire on the plane, spraying up the nose of the aircraft with bullets]

-Gen. Ramon Esperanza: [Esperanza has landed the plane and steps outside] Freedom!

-John McClane: [punches him] Not yet!

-John McClane: [draws his gun on Esperanza] You're supposed to stay in your seat until the plane reaches the terminal. No frequent flier mileage for you.

-Gen. Ramon Esperanza: Who are you?

-John McClane: A cop.

-Gen. Ramon Esperanza: A cop?

-John McClane: Yeah. One of the good guys. You see, you're one of the bad guys, and now that I got your sorry ass, I'm gonna trade it for my wife.

-John McClane: If Esperanza gets on that plane and makes it to a country that has no extradition treaties, we're fucked.

-Richard Thornburg: [Thornburg has been grossly distorting and exaggerating the facts about the terrorists to WZDC News over the air-phone] But at least the truth, is *not* among the hostages because I, Richard Thornburg, just happen to be here. To put his life and talent on the line for humanity and country,
[Holly enters the bathroom]

-Richard Thornburg: and if this should be my final broadcast...

-Holly McClane: [zaps him with stun-gun] Amen to that, Dick!

-Col. Stuart: [after triggering an airplane crash; into the radio] That concludes our object lesson for this evening. If the 747 we requested is ready on time and General Esperanza's plane arrives unmolested, further lessons can be avoided. Out.

-John McClane: All right, just stay here and get ready to call the marines.

-Chief Engineer Leslie Barnes: I thought they were the army.

-John McClane: Who gives a fuck, just be ready.

-Trudeau: [after Thornburg has reported that terrorists have taken control of the airport] That stupid, arrogant son-of-a-bitch! It's all over the airport.

-John McClane: [after Col. Stuart caused a plane to crash]
[crying]

-John McClane: Mother fucker.

-John McClane: Oh, we are just up to our ass in terrorists again, John?

-John McClane: [noticing Baker on guard duty] Could be a sentry.

-Chief Engineer Leslie Barnes: And he could just be out for a walk.

-John McClane: Then why is he going over his own footsteps?

-Chief Engineer Leslie Barnes: [an air traffic controller has suggested getting portable lights to direct the planes] And where do we get those big portable lights? Borrow them from Batman?

-John McClane: I'll make you a deal, Marvin. You show me a shortcut out to those runways and I'll get you a liner for that coat.

-Chief Engineer Leslie Barnes: [dryly, while looking at a radio McClane retrieves from one of the Annex Skywalk soldiers] Next time you kill one of these guys, get 'em to enter the code first.

-Marvin: I'm Marv. I thought you was trying to steal my records, that's all.

-John McClane: Holly!... There's your fricken landing-light!

-Holly McClane: Listen, buster, you endangered my children. And you didn't do it for anything as noble as The People. The only time you even see The People is when you look down to see what it is you're stepping on.

-Trudeau: [to all the air traffic controllers] "Alright everyone, let's call all our birds and slow 'em down before we get a parking lot over our heads. The line starts at the Mississippi and they better start taking numbers."

[a TV broadcast on the extradition is shown in Stuart's hotel room]

-Newscaster: Security was tight today at Escalon Airport in the Republic of Val Verde, where government authorities report that deposed general Ramon Esperanza will be delivered for immediate extradition to the United States. Only two years ago, General Esperanza led his country's army in a campaign against Communist insurgents - a campaign fought with American money and advisors. Esperanza's fall from power caused ripples not only in his country's recent election, but closer to home as well, when high-ranking Pentagon officials were charged with supplying him with weapons despite the Congressional ban. But mounting evidence that Esperanza's forces violated the neutrality of neighboring made Congress withhold funds - funds which Esperanza is accused of replacing by going into the lucrative business of cocaine smuggling. Although Esperanza was removed as Commander-in-Chief earlier this year, the agreement to extradite him was not reached until yesterday, and Washington insiders say it was a phone call that made it happen - a phone call from an angry American President.

[Stuart snaps off the TV after the newscaster says "from an"]

-Soldier: Hey Telford! What was *your* chicken-shit outfit doing while we were taking Grenada?

[He and his comrades burst out laughing]

-Maj. Grant: Grenada. Five minutes of firefights, five weeks of surfing!

-Cpl. Telford: I wish I was with you guys for that!

-Maj. Grant: Yeah. Me too, kid.

-Cpl. Telford: Really, sir?

-Maj. Grant: Sure. Or we wouldn't have to do this.

[Grant promptly pulls out a knife and slits Telford's throat. Telford gasps and then falls over, dead. Grant pulls out a radio and punches in the three digit descrambler code]

-Maj. Grant: Eagle Nest, this is Hatchling. We're on schedule, and in position.

[cuts to Colonel Stuart on the other end]

-Col. Stuart: Roger, Hatchling. We are secure here. You have a green light, I repeat, a *green* light.

[Miller reaches the church after escaping from McClane; he passes Baker at the door]

-Baker: Where's Cochrane?

-Miller: He didn't make it.

-Baker: Aw, man.

[He brushes some snow off of Miller's jacket. Inside the church, we see Colonel Stuart marking measurements on a map of the airport. He looks up at Miller's arrival]

-Colonel Stuart: You're late.

-Miller: [sighs] We ran into trouble, Colonel. Some cop... killed Cochrane. I barely got away, sir.

-Colonel Stuart: Did you accomplish your mission?
Miller: Yes, sir. But... Cochrane.

-Colonel Stuart: Well then the damage is minimal.

[turns]

-Colonel Stuart: The *penalty* could be severe.

[He puts a Glock 17 to Miller's head. Miller tenses up as Stuart pulls the trigger. The gun clicks on an empty chamber]

-Colonel Stuart: You fail me again, and the chamber won't be empty. Dismissed.

[He puts his gun away and Miller leaves]

[after finishing a communication with Stuart from a payphone, Garber heads to the bar to meet Cochrane and Miller]

-Garber: That was the Colonel. Everyone's in position.

[to Cochrane, who is listening in on a weather report]

-Garber: How's the weather?

-Sgt. Oswald Cochrane: We've got flurries all along the Virginia coast. New storm front coming in out of the Northeast.

[Garber and Miller grin]

-Garber: God loves the Infantry.

-Sgt. Oswald Cochrane: Amen.

[Garber's grin fades]

-Garber: Carry out your assignments.

[He pulls back his sleeve to check his watch]

-Garber: 15:51. Mark.

[They synchronize watches]

-Sgt. Oswald Cochrane: Check.

-Miller: Later.

[He gets up and leaves]

[Esperanza's plane has appeared; Stuart impersonates the control tower to talk to the plane]

-Col. Stuart: Dulles Tower, Foxtrot Michael One. Dulles Tower, Foxtrot Michael One.

-Pilot (Foreign Military Plane): This is Foxtrot Michael One, Dulles. We read you, over.

-Col. Stuart: Foxtrot Michael One, you are to come in on Runway 1-5. I repeat: 1-5.

[In the back of the plane, Esperanza strangles and kills his guard; cuts to McClane and Marvin in the basement]

-Marvin: [about the radio he lifted from one of Stuart's henchmen] I found it on the floor next to the luggage belt. What the hell are you so excited about?

-John McClane: The code's still punched into this one.
Marvin: You like it, huh? How 'bout you give me twenty bucks for it.

-John McClane: How 'bout I let you live?

-Marvin: Man knows how to barter.

[Cuts back to the pilots of Esperanza's plane]

-Pilot (Foreign Military Plane): This is contrary to our instructions. We are to land at Runway 1-0, where we are to be met by representatives of your Justice Dep...

[He is interrupted by the sound of someone cocking a pistol, and turns around to see Esperanza pointing a gun at his head]

-Gen. Ramon Esperanza: Captain, please tell the tower you will proceed as ordered.

[the pilot looks at his co-pilot, then back at Esperanza, then finally speaks into his headset]

-Pilot (Foreign Military Plane): Roger, Dulles. Proceeding to Runway 1-5.

[the co-pilot immediately grabs for the gun. As he struggles with Esperanza, he is shot in the chest, while another errant shot goes through the cockpit window; the resulting noise startles Stuart in the church and Trudeau in the control tower]

-Col. Stuart: Foxtrot Michael One, come in please.

[In the plane, Esperanza trains his gun on the pilot again]

-Pilot (Foreign Military Plane): What are you gonna do now? You gonna shoot me? Then who would fly the plane?

-Gen. Ramon Esperanza: [smiles] Don't worry about it. It's not your problem.

[He shoots and kills the pilot, then takes the pilot's seat. He pulls out a radio transceiver and presses the descrambler code]

-Gen. Ramon Esperanza: Eagle Nest, this is Falcon, Mayday. Eagle Nest, this is Falcon, mayday.

[Hearing Esperanza communicating over the radio instead of over the tower frequency, Garber hands Stuart a radio]

-Col. Stuart: Go ahead, Falcon.

-Gen. Ramon Esperanza: I've lost cabin pressure. Near zero visibility. I must get out of the storm, and land now, on the first accessible runway.

[a van pulls up in front of the church. Baker and Thompson climb out, wearing maintenance workers' uniforms]

-Baker: Grab the tools, will ya?

-Thompson: Got it.

[Inside the church, the custodian is eating some soup and watching a TV broadcast on Esperanza's extradition]

-Newcaster on TV: This is Aimee Nicole reporting live from Escalon Airport, where deposed general Ramon Esperanza has just arrived under heavy guard. Strangely, the deposed dictator's mood seems jubilant.

[Baker knocks on the door]

-Newcaster on TV: He is smiling and waving to the crowd like a man running for political office.

[Baker knocks on the door more urgently; the custodian gets up to answer the door]

-Newcaster on TV: ...thousands of political prisoners in the past decade, including the new president, and there's no doubt that he still has some ardent supporters, both here and abroad. Rumors abound on Capitol Hill that there were others...

[the custodian opens the door]

-Custodian: Yes?

-Baker: Sorry to bother you, sir. We're checking our equipment. Got problems with conduit lines in your backyard.

-Custodian: Gee, I don't know anything about that.

Thompson: Would you mind if we take a look?

-Custodian: Help yourself.

[He shows them into the church as an MD-82 takes off from Dulles on the adjacent runway; the three men walk down the aisle as the broadcast continues in the background]

-Custodian: Don't seem right, somehow, closing down this church! Oh I know the parish is gonna keep on using it, but it won't be the same. Been here a lot of years and I've been right here with it. Yeah, I kinda feel like a piece of me is dying along with this church.

-Baker: Uh, you're right about that.

[Baker promptly pulls out a suppressed Glock 17 from his jacket and empties three rounds into the custodian, knocking his body backwards into a row of pews that overturn. Baker reholsters his weapon while Thompson watches as the custodian dies]

-Newcaster on TV: ...cocaine smuggling, racketeering and bribery of government officials, which he considerably doesn't show. But no matter how high his spirits, they can't hide the fact that America's war on drugs has finally taken its first prisoner.

[Annoyed, Thompson turns off the television and punches the three-digit descrambler code into his walkie-talkie]

-Thompson: This is Buckwheat. The clubhouse is open.

[Cuts to Baker and Thompson shifting the pews aside]

[the SWAT team is serving as Barnes's escort to the Skywalk]

-Chief Engineer Leslie Barnes: This kind of thing wasn't in my job description.

-Sergeant: Don't worry, Mr. Barnes. We'll watch your back.

-Chief Engineer Leslie Barnes: Yeah? Who watches yours?

[Trudeau and Barnes are conversing]

-Trudeau: Great, National just shut down! Totally iced. They're gonna be sending us airplanes!

-Chief Engineer Leslie Barnes: Happy, happy holidays.

[Lorenzo follows Trudeau up the stairs to the control tower]

-Carmine Lorenzo: ...the worst part, Mr. Trudeau, is the press. Oh they were here anyways - crawling all over the Esperanza story - so they got it right on the fucking news, you know, bloodstains and all. Now personally, I'd like to lock every damn reporter out of the airport. But then they'd just pull that "freedom of speech" crap on us and the ACLU would be all over us.

-Trudeau: [goes over to the window and looks out over the airfield] Murder on television. Helluva start to Christmas week.
Chief Engineer Leslie Barnes: What is it? A gang thing like last time?

[McClane comes in]

-John McClane: Only if your gangs get their training at Fort Bragg.

[Deleted scene; a painter's van pulls up to a service area; the two painters climb out]

-Painter: ...busting our ass Christmas week like they're gonna land some extra planes if we finish on time.

[as the painters start to pull equipment out of the back of the van, O'Reilly and Sheldon come up. O'Reilly has a suppressed Glock 17 in his hand]

-Painter: What? Need something?

-O'Reilly: Yeah.

[He shoots the first painter in the head. His partner turns and is immediately shot as well. O'Reilly and Sheldon shove the bodies further into the back and slam the doors shut, then climb in; O'Reilly punches the code into his radio]

-O'Reilly: This is Alice. We're down the rabbit hole.

[McClane leaves the payphones, and nearly collides with Colonel Stuart]

-Col. Stuart: Excuse me.

[Stuart stares coldly at McClane]

-John McClane: Oh you look very familiar to me.

-Col. Stuart: [hesitates] I get that a lot. I've been on TV.

-John McClane: Yeah. You, too.

[They head on their separate ways, though Stuart takes a second look at McClane as he disappears into the crowd]

[Stuart has had Thompson recalibrate the ILS landing system]

-Col. Stuart: [adapting a slight disguise to his voice] Windsor Flight 1-1-4, this is Dulles Approach. Do you copy?

-Pilot (Windsor Flight 114): Dulles Approach, this is Windsor 1-1-4. Where the devil have you been?

-Col. Stuart: Roger, 1-1-4, Dulles Approach. We've been right here all along, old man. Our systems only came back online just this very second. Windsor 1-1-4, you are cleared for ILS approach to Runway Two-Niner. Contact Dulles Tower frequency at the outer marker.

[On the Skywalk, McClane runs over to the windows]

-John McClane: Jesus Christ, he's gonna crash the fucking plane!

-Pilot (Windsor Flight 114): Roger, Approach, it's about time. I've got 230 people up here flying on petrol fumes.

-Col. Stuart: Roger, 1-1-4, understand. Calibrate Dulles Altimeter setting Two-Niner-Niner-Two.

-John McClane: Why are they listening to him?

-Chief Engineer Leslie Barnes: It's our frequency! Why shouldn't they?

[On the plane, the captain speaks into the intercom]

-Pilot (Windsor Flight 114): Ladies and gentlemen, as you've probably noticed, we've started our descent. We're sorry for the inconvenience but we'll all be on the ground in a few minutes.

[the passengers applaud and stewardesses start moving through the cabin doing a seatbelt check]

-Stewardess (Windsor Flight 114): [to one passenger] Oh not to worry, we've made arrangements for your next flight so you won't miss it.

[to a straggler]

-Stewardess (Windsor Flight 114): In your seat, please. Come on, in your seat.

[kneels next to an anxious old woman]

-Stewardess (Windsor Flight 114): Oh, hey. We're just like British Rail, luv: we may be late but we get you there.

[On the Skywalk, Barnes uses a painter's uniform to lower McClane down to the tarmac]

-Chief Engineer Leslie Barnes: Good luck, McClane!

[McClane grabs two pipes and a lighter and heads for the runway. When he gets over there, he puts small pieces of fabric from the uniform onto the ends of the pipes and lights them. On the plane, the outer marker light comes on]

-Pilot (Windsor Flight 114): Dulles, this is Windsor 1-1-4 inside the outer marker.

[Stuart begins communicating with them again, this time using his own voice]

-Col. Stuart: Roger one-fourteen. This is Dulles Tower. We have radar contact and show you on ILS. You're in the glide path and looking good.

[McClane starts waving his improvised torches, as the pilots start landing procedures]

-Pilot (Windsor Flight 114): Approach flaps.

[the co-pilot presses the button to deploy the flaps]

-Co-Pilot (Windsor Flight 114): Approach flaps.

-Pilot (Windsor Flight 114): Approach speed 130.

[the co-pilot copies him]

-Co-Pilot (Windsor Flight 114): Approach speed 130. Altitude 1,000 feet.

[a few seconds later]

-Co-Pilot (Windsor Flight 114): Ref speed +20. 600 feet.

-Col. Stuart: Looking good Windsor. Now watch it - 30 knot crosswinds and the runway is icy. Attaboy, we've got ya. We've got ya...

[McClane waves his torches more aggressively as the plane flies over his head]

-John McClane: Pull up!

[the pilots come out of the fog and suddenly see the runway right underneath them]

-Pilot (Windsor Flight 114), Co-Pilot (Windsor Flight 114): Jesus!

[the plane hits the ground with a slight bank to the right, causing the landing gear to collapse. As the belly of the plane skids down the runway, sparks ignite the ruptured fuel tanks, which explode. McClane dives to the ground. The pilots' screams are audible on Stuart's systems]

-Col. Stuart: We've got ya.

[a fireball engulfs the plane as burning debris hurtles down the runway. As the debris settles, McClane gets to his feet]

-John McClane: Motherfucker!

[Dead silence in the church; Stuart picks up the phone]

-Col. Stuart: That concludes our object lesson for this evening. If the 747 we requested is ready on time and General Esperanza's plane arrives unmolested, further lessons can be avoided. Out.

[One of the flight attendants reaches Holly's row]

-Connie, Stewardess #1: Can I get you another?

-Holly McClane: [looks at Thornburg across the aisle] No thank you. I only have to look at his face for another fifteen to twenty minutes.

[the intercom comes on]

-Pilot (Northeast Airlines plane): Ladies and gentlemen, this is the captain speaking. I've just been informed by Dulles Traffic Control that there's a weather front moving in ahead of us.

[flips a switch]

-Pilot (Northeast Airlines plane): We may be up here a little while longer.

-Holly McClane: On second thought.

[Holly holds out her glass]


Review




Die Harder-1990


Handguns



Beretta 92FS



Instead of the Beretta 92F carried in the original Die Hard, Lt. John McClane (Bruce Willis) carries the Beretta 92FS as his sidearm in this film. The Dulles Airport Police, along with Chief Carmine Lorenzo (Dennis Franz) and Major Grant (John Amos) also carry the 92FS.



Beretta 92FS 9x19mm. This is the actual screen used Beretta carried and fired by Bruce Willis in this film and in Die Hard with a Vengeance.



LAPD Detective Lt. John McClane (Bruce Willis) draws his Beretta 92FS.


McClane loses his Beretta on a luggage conveyor belt during a shootout.


Miller (Vondie Curtis-Hall) holds the Beretta after the shootout with McClane in the luggage handling area. It is possible that this is a continuity error, since he was using a Glock in the shootout.


McClane fires his Beretta 92FS at Stuart's men during the skywalk ambush.


McClane loads a fresh magazine into his Beretta 92FS


Closeup of McClane's Beretta on the floor of the skywalk.


McClane checks the load on his Beretta 92FS before going to intercept Gen. Ramon Esperanza (Franco Nero).


Sgt. Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson) appears to now carry a Beretta as he receives a phone call from McClane.


McClane fires his Beretta 92FS.


Beretta 92FS 9x19mm


An empty Beretta 92FS in the hand of a dead SWAT officer after the Annex skywalk shootout.


Major Grant fires his Beretta 92FS during the shootout at the church.


Carmine Lorenzo (Dennis Franz) checks the load in his Beretta 92FS as he gets his officers ready.


Major Grant (John Amos) searches for McClane on the wing of the 747 with his Beretta 92FS drawn.



Glock 17



Colonel Stuart (William Sadler) and the mercenaries under his command use Glock pistols as their sidearms. This is one of the earliest appearances of the Glock in a major Hollywood film (it had just been featured in 1989's Johnny Handsome). While the handguns seen in the film appear to be the Glock 17 model, in a now-notorious scene early in the film, McClane (Bruce Willis) identifies the handgun to Chief Lorenzo (Dennis Franz) as a "Glock 7," (no such model exists) and recites a string of inaccuracies, describing it as "a porcelain gun made in Germany that doesn't show up on your airport metal detectors and costs more than you make in a month."
The most glaring misconception is that the weapon is undetectable to the X-Ray machines at the airport, while in reality, Glock never produced such a handgun. In fact, 83.7% (by weight) of the Glock pistol is normal ordnance steel and the "plastic" parts are a dense polymer known as "Polymer 2", which is radio-opaque and is therefore visible to X-ray security equipment. In addition, virtually all of these "plastic" parts contain embedded steel not to make the firearms "detectable", but to increase functionality and shooting accuracy. Contrary to popular movies like Die Hard 2, neither Glock nor any other gun maker has ever produced a "porcelain", "ceramic" or "plastic" firearm which is undetectable by ordinary security screening devices. Even if a pistol that was completely undetectable by either X-ray machines or metal detectors were to be developed, the ammunition inside would still be detectable. Another mistake is the claim the Glocks are made in Germany when in reality, they are manufactured in Austria.
When Glock pistols were first introduced to the U.S. market, they were promoted as being because of their extensive use of non-metallic components. This generated controversy from people fearing that this would make them easier to conceal from metal detectors and X-ray devices - hence the scene in the movie. However, as described, the scenario shown in the film is pure Hollywood fiction. Armorer Mike Papac, whose company Cinema Weaponry supplied all of the firearms used in Die Hard 2, has commented, "I remember when we did that scene, I tried to talk them out of it. There's no such thing as a gun invisible to metal detectors, and there shouldn't be, but they wouldn't budge. They had it written into the script and that was that."



A Generation 1 Glock 17 in 9x19mm.






Baker (Tony Ganios) pulls his suppressed Glock on the custodian in the church.


Sgt. Oswald Cochrane (John Costelloe) holds his Glock 17 as he searches for McClane during the confrontation in the baggage handling area.


Colonel Stuart puts his Glock to Miller's head to threaten him for his failure, and pulls the trigger, but the gun clicks empty. Note the milled ejection port, which is part of the blank-fire conversion process.


O'Reilly (Robert Patrick) surprises the SWAT team with his Glock 17.


O'Reilly puts his Glock 17 to Barnes's head while also holding a Heckler & Koch MP5K in his left hand.


In a deleted scene, O'Reilly eliminates some painters with a suppressed Glock. Note the "stovepipe" jam.



M1911A1



General Ramon Esperanza (Franco Nero) is seen with a M1911A1 while onboard the military plane transporting him to the States. He then is seen using it to fire at McClane.



M1911A1 .45 ACP



Esperanza holds an M1911A1 to the pilot's head.


Esperanza picks up the snow-covered M1911A1 before leaving the plane.


Esperanza (Franco Nero) with the empty M1911A1



Smith & Wesson Model 19



Several airport police officers throughout the film carry Smith & Wesson Model 19 revolvers as their sidearms.



Smith & Wesson Model 19 .357 Magnum



An airport police officer pulls a Model 19 on McClane in the baggage handling area.



Submachine Guns




Heckler & Koch MP5A5



Colonel Stuart (William Sadler) uses a Heckler & Koch MP5A5 as his main weapon throughout the movie. ( Blu-ray screen captures indicate that Stuart's MP5 has the 4-position Navy trigger group which characterizes the A5 variant.)



Heckler and Koch MP5A5 - 9x19mm. Same as the MP5A4 but with a telescoping stock. Both the A4 & A5 variants have the additional option for '3 round burst' on the selector.


Colonel Stuart (William Sadler) with his Heckler & Koch MP5A5 on the tarmac after McClane escapes the exploding C-130. Visible in this image is the 4-position Navy lower receiver, the distinguishing feature of the MP5A5.


Colonel Stuart (William Sadler) with his MP5A5 in the church.


Closeup of Stuart's Heckler & Koch MP5A5 after swapping out the magazine.


Stuart observes the fight between Major Grant and John McClane on the plane's wing with his Heckler & Koch MP5A5.




Heckler & Koch MP5A3



Garber (Don Harvey) carries a Heckler & Koch MP5A3 fitted with a scope. Like the other MP5 variants used by Stuart's men, it also has two magazines taped together 'jungle style'. McClane later commandeers Garber's MP5A3 and uses it to fire at Captain Carmine Lorenzo to prove a point about the firefight between Stuart's men and Major Grant's unit. During the film, MP5 magazines filled with live ammunition are seen being switched for magazines filled with blanks.

Note: One cannot switch between blanks rounds and live rounds in an Heckler & Koch MP5A3/MP5K or an M16A1 as seen in the movie. All firearms that 'autoload', i.e. are either semiautomatic or fully automatic, must be blank adapted in order to cycle. This does not apply to revolvers or other manually operated firearms like pump shotguns or lever/bolt action rifles. If a gun, like an MP5 has been firing blanks, one cannot just switch magazines and start firing live rounds. The blank adapter (which restricts the barrel down to anywhere from 50% to 75% of the original barrel interior) would have to be removed or else the first live round would blow up the firearm.



Heckler & Koch MP5A3 9x19mm



Garber (Don Harvey) fires his scoped Heckler & Koch MP5A3 out of the church window.


A closeup of the Heckler & Koch MP5A3 fired by McClane in the airport security office. This is not a recommended method for proving your weapon is loaded with blank ammunition.


A wide shot of McClane with the MP5A3.



Heckler & Koch MP5K



The other weapon used by Stuart's men is the Heckler & Koch MP5K submachine gun. Many of them have two mags taped together 'jungle style' with blank & live ammo, just like the MP5A3's. While not commonly seen in productions during the time period (1989-1990), it's possible that these are not converted Heckler & Koch SP89's (judging from the paddle release seen).



Heckler & Koch MP5K 9x19mm



One of Stuart's mercenaries fires a Heckler & Koch MP5K during the Annex skywalk shootout.


The same mercenary fires a Heckler & Koch MP5K at McClane.


O'Reilly (Robert Patrick) about to finish off Leslie Barnes (Art Evans) with a Glock 17 while also holding an Heckler & Koch MP5K.


A closeup of the cocking handle being racked on a Heckler & Koch MP5K.


Mulkey (Ken Baldwin) takes cover with his Heckler & Koch MP5K.


Kahn (Tom Verica) with a Heckler & Koch MP5K while on the tarmac.


Burke (John Leguizamo) with an Heckler & Koch MP5K.



Shotguns




Ithaca 37



During the shootout on the Annex Skywalk, one of the SWAT officers can be seen carrying an Ithaca 37 shotgun with shell holder on the stock.



Ithaca Model 37 riot version - 12 gauge



An airport SWAT officer armed with an Ithaca 37 fitted with shell holders.


The same SWAT officer lies dead with the shotgun at his side. This is actually an Ithaca 37, identifiable by the barrel retention lug at the magazine tube.



Rifles



M16A1




The M16A1 is used by the Dulles Airport SWAT team and as well as the Special Forces unit sent to deal with the situation. Some of the M16A1s used by the Special Forces unit also appear to have M16A2-style handguards.



M16A1 with 30-round magazine 5.56x45mm


An airport SWAT officer carries an M16A1 during the Annex Skywalk shootout.


The same airport SWAT officer firing an M16A1 during the shootout.



M16A1 with A2-style handguards 5.56x45mm



The soldiers behind Major Grant has an M16A1 with A2 style handguards.



Machine Guns



Browning M2HB Heavy Machine Gun



Browning M2HB .50 BMG


A Browning M2HB is seen on a broadcast that the church custodian is watching when Stuart's men arrive.




Other



M26 Hand Grenade



In attempt to kill McClane after securing Esperanza, Colonel Stuart (William Sadler) and his men throw M26 hand grenades into the cockpit of the plane McClane is in, but luckily for McClane, he manages to escape the cockpit using the pilot's ejector seat before the grenades detonate. The grenades seen in the film (especially in closeup) are in reality dummy training grenades meant to represent the M26 style grenade (as evidenced by the obviously 'rough' cast iron and no MFG markings). In typical Hollywood fashion, the hand grenades create explosions far in excess of their power (mockingly called nuclear hand grenades by some prop masters). Also noteworthy, the M26, at maximum, has a seven second fuse delay, and it takes over half a minute for McClane to eject himself from the time the first grenade enters the cockpit.



M26 High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade


Several M26 hand grenades land near McClane in the cockpit. Note the lack of MFG markings.


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Background




New York City Detective John McClane has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his wife. Unfortunatly, it is not going to be a Merry Christmas for everyone. A group of terrorists, led by Hans Gruber is holding everyone in the Nakatomi Plaza building hostage. With no way of anyone getting in or out, it's up to McClane to stop them all. All 12!
Directed by: John McTiernan, Writing credits (WGA): Roderick Thorp (novel "Nothing Lasts Forever"), Jeb Stuart (screenplay) and Steven E. de Souza (screenplay).


Quotes


[first lines]

-Businessman: You don't like flying, do you?

-John McClane: What gives you that idea?

-Businessman: You wanna know the secret to surviving air travel? After you get where you're going, take off your shoes and your socks then walk around on the rug bare foot and make fists with your toes.

-John McClane: Fists with your toes?

-Businessman: I know, I know, it sounds crazy. Trust me, I've been doing it for nine years. Yes sir, better than a shower and a hot cup of coffee.

-John McClane: Okay.

[the businessman sees John's gun]

-John McClane: It's okay, I'm a cop. Trust me, I've been doing this for eleven years.

-Harry Ellis: Hey babe, I negotiate million dollar deals for breakfast. I think I can handle this Eurotrash.

-Theo: [laughing as a LAPD SWAT armored vehicle is hit with a missile] Oh my God, the quarterback is TOAST!

-John McClane: You throw quite a party. I didn't realize they celebrated Christmas in Japan.

-Joseph Takagi: Hey, we're flexible. Pearl Harbor didn't work out so we got you with tape decks.

-Joseph Takagi: You want money? What kind of terrorists are you?

Hans Gruber: Who said we were terrorists?

-John McClane: [McClane watches fire trucks approach the building] C'mon baby, come ta' papa, I'll kiss ya' fuckin' dalmatian.

-John McClane: [stealing Tony's shoes] Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.

-Supervisor: [as McClane tries to call up police] Attention, whoever you are, this channel is reserved for emergency calls only.

-John McClane: No fucking shit, lady. Does it sound like I'm ordering a pizza?

-Hans Gruber: [Reading what McClane wrote on the dead terrorist's shirt] "Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho."

-Hans Gruber: [Hans' radio turns on] I thought I told all of you, I want radio silence until further...

-John McClane: Ooooh, I'm very sorry Hans. I didn't get that message. Maybe you should've put it on the bulletin board. I figured since I've waxed Tony and Marco and his friend here, I figured you and Karl and Franco might be a little lonely, so I wanted to give you a call.

-Karl: How does he know so much about th...

-Hans Gruber: [silences Karl him with a gesture] That's very kind of you. I assume you are our mysterious party crasher. You are most troublesome, for a security guard.

-John McClane: Eeeh! Sorry Hans, wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy where the scores can really change?

[speaking to dead man about cigarettes]

-John McClane: Whoa, these are very bad for you.

-Hans Gruber: Who are you then?

-John McClane: Just a fly in the ointment, Hans. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the ass.

-Hans Gruber: [on the radio] Mr. Mystery Guest? Are you still there?

-John McClane: Yeah, I'm still here. Unless you wanna open the front door for me.

-Hans Gruber: Uh, no, I'm afraid not. But, you have me at a loss. You know my name but who are you? Just another American who saw too many movies as a child? Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne? Rambo? Marshal Dillon?

-John McClane: Was always kinda partial to Roy Rogers actually. I really like those sequined shirts.

-Hans Gruber: Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy?

-John McClane: Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

-Hans Gruber: "And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." Benefits of a classical education.

-Dwayne T. Robinson: We don't know shit, Powell. If there's hostages, how come nobody's come to us with ransom demands, huh? If there's terrorists in there, where's their list of demands? All we know is that somebody shot your car up. It's probably the same silly son of a bitch you've been talking to on that radio.

-Sergeant Al Powell: Excuse me, sir! But what about the body that fell out the window?

-Dwayne T. Robinson: Well, who knows? Probably some stockbroker, got depressed.

-Sergeant Al Powell: [about McClane] In fact, I think he's a cop. Maybe not LAPD, but he's definitely a badge.

-Dwayne T. Robinson: How do you know that?

-Sergeant Al Powell: A hunch, things he said. Like being able to spot a phony ID.

-Dwayne T. Robinson: Jesus Christ, Powell, he could be a fucking bartender for all we know.

-Hans Gruber: [addressing the hostages] I wanted this to be professional, efficient, adult, cooperative. Not a lot to ask. Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way... so he won't be joining us for the rest of his life. We can go any way you want it. You can walk out of here or be carried out. But have no illusions. We are in charge. So, decide now, each of you. And please remember: we have left nothing to chance.

-Hans Gruber: [during a shootout with McClane, who is barefoot] Karl, schieß dem Fenster

[sic]

-Hans Gruber: [Karl gives Hans a puzzled look. Exasperated, Hans repeats it in English] *Shoot* the *glass!

-Tony: The fire has been called off, my friend. No one is coming to help you. You might as well come out and join the others. I promise I won't hurt you.

-John McClane: [huddled in an air vent, recalls his wife's invitation] "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..."

-John McClane: Let's see you take *this* under advisement, jerkweed!

-FBI Agent Johnson: I'm Agent Johnson, this is Special Agent Johnson.

-Dwayne T. Robinson: Oh, how you doin'?

-FBI Agent Johnson: No relation.

-Hans Gruber: This time John Wayne does not walk off into the sunset with Grace Kelly.

-John McClane: That was Gary Cooper, asshole.

-FBI Special Agent Johnson: Figure we take out the terrorists. Lose twenty, twenty-five percent of the hostages, tops.

-FBI Agent Johnson: I can live with that.

-Holly Gennero McClane: After all your posturing, all your little speeches, you're nothing but a common thief.

-Hans Gruber: I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. McClane. And since I'm moving up to kidnapping, you should be more polite.

-Dwayne T. Robinson: We're gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess.

-John McClane: [while crawling through a narrow ventilation shaft] Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.

-Convenience Store Clerk: [Powell with an armload of Twinkies] I thought you guys just ate doughnuts.

-Sergeant Al Powell: Heh. They're for my wife.

-Convenience Store Clerk: [sarcastically] Yeah.

-Sergeant Al Powell: She's pregnant.

-Convenience Store Clerk: Yeah.

-Sergeant Al Powell: Bag it.

-Convenience Store Clerk: Big time.

-Holly Gennero McClane: I have a request.

-Hans Gruber: What idiot put you in charge?

-Holly Gennero McClane: You did. When you murdered my boss. Now everybody's looking to me. Personally, I'd pass on the job. I don't enjoy being this close to you.

-Theo: [as the SWAT Team closes in]

[over the CB]

-Theo: All right, listen up guys. 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except... the four assholes coming in the rear in standard two-by-two cover formation.

-Hans Gruber: Now, you can break the code?

-Theo: You didn't bring me along for my charming personality.

-John McClane: Welcome to the party, pal.

-Hans Gruber: Touching, Cowboy, touching. Or should I call you, Mr. McClane? Mr. Officer John McClane of the New York Police Department?

-Richard Thornburg: Get on the phone to Harry in New York. Come on, baby, move, move.
Thornburg's Assistant: Got it.

-Sergeant Al Powell: Better get a hold of somebody in dispatch.

-John McClane: Sister Teresa called me Mr. McClane in the third grade. My friends call me John, and you're neither, shit-head.

-Hans Gruber: I have someone who wants to talk to you; a very special friend who was with you at the party tonight.

-Harry Ellis: [Hans hands him the walkie talkie] Hey, John boy.
John McClane: Ellis?

-Harry Ellis: Yeah. Now listen, John, they're giving me a few minutes to try to talk some sense into you. I know you think you're doing your job, John, and I can appreciate that, but, you're just dragging this thing out. Now look, no one gets outta here until these guys can talk to the *LA* police, and that just ain't gonna happen until you stop messin' up the works, capisci?

-John McClane: Ellis, what have you told them?

-Harry Ellis: I told 'em we were old friends and you were my guest at the party.

-John McClane: Ellis, you shouldn't be doin' this.

-Harry Ellis: Tell me about it. Alright, John, listen. They want you to tell them where the detonators are. They know people are listening. They want the detonators or they're gonna kill me.

[pause]

-Harry Ellis: John, didn't you hear me?

-John McClane: Yeah, I hear you.

-Harry Ellis: Hey, John, I think you can get with the program a little, huh? The police are here now, it's their problem. Now tell these guys where the detonators are so no one else gets hurt, you know I'm putting my life on the line for you, pal.

-John McClane: Ellis, listen to me very carefully.

-Harry Ellis: John?

-John McClane: Shut up Ellis, just shut your mouth! Put Hans back on the line.

[Ellis holds the walkie talkie up]

-John McClane: Hans, this shit-head does not know what kind of man you are, but I do. Listen to me!

-Hans Gruber: Good. Then, you'll give us what we want and save your friend's life. You're not part of this equation this time, you realize that.

[presents his gun]

-Harry Ellis: Hey, what am I, a method actor? Hans, babe, put away the gun, this is radio, not television.

-John McClane: [nervously yelling] Hans, this asshole is not my friend, I just met him tonight, I don't know him. Jesus Christ, Ellis these people are gonna kill you, tell them, you don't know me.

-Harry Ellis: John, how can you say that after all these years, huh? John?

[gets no response]

-Harry Ellis: John?

[still gets no response, then laughs slightly, then Hans shoots him in the head]

-Hans Gruber: [he puts the walkie talkie up to the screaming crowd, then yells into the walkie talkie] You hear that? Talk to me, where are my detonators? Where are they, or shall I shoot another one? Sooner or later, I might get to someone you *do* care about!

-John McClane: Go fuck yourself, Hans.

-Karl: No one kills him but me!

-Dwayne T. Robinson: Did you hear that? He just let the guy die, man. He just gave him up. Gimme that headset. That's like pullin' the trigger yourself.

-Sergeant Al Powell: Christ, man. Can't you see what's happening? Can't you read between the lines?

-Dwayne T. Robinson: Cold. This on the right channel?

-Cop: Yes, sir.

-Sergeant Al Powell: He did everything he could to save him. If he gave himself up, they'd both be dead right now.

-Dwayne T. Robinson: Oh, no way, man, no way. They'd be talking to us. Listen, you tell this partner of yours, Powell, to stay the hell out of this from now on, do you hear me? Because, if he doesn't, I'm gonna nail him, boy. I'm really gonna nail his ass, now, believe me.

-Sergeant Al Powell: The man is hurting! He is alone, tired, and he hasn't seen diddly-squat from anybody down here. Now you're gonna stand there and tell me that he's gonna give a damn about what you do to him, *if* he makes it out of there alive? Why don't you wake up and smell what you shoveling?

-Dwayne T. Robinson: You listen to me, Sergeant. Any time you wanna go home, you consider yourself dismissed.

-Sergeant Al Powell: No, sir. You couldn't drag me away.

-Sergeant Al Powell: I shot a kid. He was 13 years old. Ohhh, it was dark, I couldn't see him. He had a ray gun, looked real enough. You know, when you're a rookie, they can teach you everything about bein' a cop except how to live with a mistake. Anyway, I just couldn't bring myself to draw my gun on anybody again.

-Hans Gruber: Nice suit. John Phillips, London. I have two myself. Rumor has it Arafat buys his there.

-Dwayne T. Robinson: [Watching Hans fall to his death from the 30th floor] Oh, I hope that's not a hostage.

-Ginny: [Karl smashes a table of glasses in fury] God. That man looks *really* pissed.

-Holly Gennero McClane: He's still alive.

-Ginny: What?

-Holly Gennero McClane: Only John can drive somebody that crazy.

-Big Johnson: [flying in the chopper to the roof] Just like fuckin' Saigon, hey, Slick?

-Little Johnson: [smiling] I was in junior high, dickhead.

-FBI Special Agent Johnson: [on the phone] This is agent Johnson. No, the other one.

-Hans Gruber: I'm going to count to three, there will not be a four. Give me the code.

-John McClane: [after McClane sets off massive explosion] Is the building on fire?

-Sergeant Al Powell: No, but it's gonna need a paint job and a shit load of screen doors.

[last lines]

-John McClane: Merry Christmas, Argyle.

-Argyle: Merry Christmas.

-Richard Thornburg: [to the camera] Did ya get that?

-Argyle: [Argyle shuts the limo door] If this is their idea of Christmas, I *gotta* be here for New Year's.

-Theo: [Hans, Theo, and Kristoff stare in awe as the vault opens] Merry Christmas.

-John McClane: [after witnessing Mr. Takagi's murder]

[talking to himself]

-John McClane: Why the fuck didn't you stop 'em, John? 'Cause then you'd be dead, too, asshole.

-John McClane: So that's is what this is about, Hans? A fucking robbery?

-Hans Gruber: Put down the gun.

-John McClane: Why'd you have to nuke the whole building, Hans?

-Hans Gruber: Well, when you steal $600, you can just disappear. When you steal 600 million, they will find you, unless they think you're already dead.

-John McClane: You'd have made a pretty good cowboy yourself, Hans.

-Hans Gruber: Oh, yes. What was it you said to me before? "Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker."

-John McClane: [John is fighting Karl] You should have heard your brother squeal when I broke his fucking neck.

-Harry Ellis: [Trying to get the German Terrorist's attention] Hey, sprechen ze talk?

-Takagi: [Hans is threatening to kill Takagi if he doesn't divulge the code to the vault] I don't know it, I'm telling you. Get on a jet to Tokyo and ask the Chairman. I'm telling you, you're just going to have to kill me.

-Hans Gruber: Okay.

[shoots Takagi in the head]

-Hans Gruber: We do it the hard way.

-Dwayne T. Robinson: I've got a hundred people down here, and they're covered with glass.

-John McClane: Glass? Who gives a shit about glass? Who the fuck is this?

-Dwayne T. Robinson: This is Deputy Chief of Police, Dwayne T. Robinson, and I am in charge of this situation.

-John McClane: Oh, you're in charge? Well, I got some bad news for you *Dwayne*, from up here it doesn't look like you're in charge of jack shit.

-Dwayne T. Robinson: You listen to me, you little asshole, I'm...

-John McClane: Asshole? I'm not the one who just got butt-fucked on national TV, *Dwayne*. Now, you listen to me, jerk-off, if you're not a part of the solution, you're a part of the problem. Quit being a part of the fucking problem and put the other guy back on!

-Argyle: Well, why didn't you come with her man? What's up?

-John McClane: 'Cause I'm a New York cop. I got a six-month backlog on New York scumbags I'm still trying to put behind bars. I can't just pick up and go that easy.

-John McClane: [McClane, before jumping from the roof] I promise I will never even *think* about going up in a tall building again. Oh, God. Please don't let me die.

-Hans: [Hans uses McClane's gun and says something in an uninterpreted German on his CB Radio] Put down the gun, and give me my detonators.

-John McClane: Well, well, well... Hans.

-Hans: Put it down now.

-John McClane: That's pretty tricky with that accent. You oughta be on fucking TV with that accent. But what do you want with the detonators, Hans? I already used all the explosives. Or did I?

-Hans: I'm going to count to three...

-John McClane: Yeah, like you did with Takagi?

-John McClane: [Hans pulls trigger] Ooops.

[Hans pulls the trigger a few times more]

-John McClane: No more bullets. What do you think, I'm fucking stupid, Hans?

-Hans: [elevator opens] You were saying?

-Hans: Mr. Takagi, I could talk about industrialization and men's fashion all day, but I'm afraid work must intrude, and my associate, Theo, has some questions for you. Sort of fill in the blanks questions, actually.

-John McClane: Drop it, dickhead. It's the police.

-Tony: You won't hurt me.

-John McClane: Oh, yeah? Why not?

-Tony: Because you're a policeman. There are rules for policemen.

-John McClane: Yeah. That's what my captain keeps telling me.

-John McClane: Geronimo, Motherfucker!

-Hans: The following people are to be released from their captors: In Northern Ireland, the seven members of the New Provo Front. In Canada, the five imprisoned leaders of Liberte de Quebec. In Sri Lanka, the nine members of the Asian Dawn movement...

-John McClane: [listening on the radio] What the fuck?

-Karl: [mouthing silently] Asian Dawn?

-Hans: [covers the radio] I read about them in Time magazine.

-Gail Wallens: Author of "Hostage Terrorist, Terrorist

-Hostage: A Study in Duality." Dr. Hasseldorf, what can we expect in the next few hours?

-Dr. Hasseldorf: Well, Gail, by this time the hostages should be going through the early stages of the Helsinki Syndrome.

-Harvey Johnson: As in Helsinki, Sweden.

-Dr. Hasseldorf: Finland.

-John McClane: Happy trails, Hans.

-Karl: [holding a gun to McClane's head, takes his radio] We are both professionals. This is personal.

[smashes the radio]

-Fritz: They're using artillery on us!

-Hans Gruber: You idiot, it's not the police. It's *him*!

[referring to McClane]

-John McClane: [Tying fire hose around his waist] Oh, John, what the fuck are you doing? How the fuck did you get into this shit?

-John McClane: But, all things being equal, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.

-Hans Gruber: [after bad guys hit police ram with rocket]

[in radio to bad guys]

-Hans Gruber: Hit it, again.

-John McClane: [in radio to Hans] Hans you motherfucker, you made your point! Let them pull back!

-Hans Gruber: [in radio to McClaine] Thank you, Mr. Cowboy, I'll take it under advisement.

[to bad guys]

-Hans Gruber: *Hit it, again.*

-John McClane: [fighting Karl] You motherfucker, I'm gonna kill you! I'm gonna fuckin' cook you, and I'm gonna fucking eat you!

-Argyle: Just remember that when you sign for the tip.

-FBI Agent Johnson: [referring to McClane] He's inside? Who is he?

-Dwayne T. Robinson: Well, he might be a cop. I don't know, we're checking on that.

-FBI Special Agent Johnson: One of yours?

-Dwayne T. Robinson: No. No way.

-John McClane: These guys are mostly European judging by their clothing labels and...

[long pause]

-John McClane: cigarettes. They're well-financed and very slick.

-Sergeant Al Powell: Well, now, how do you know that?

-John McClane: I've seen enough phony ID's in my time to recognize that the ones they got must have cost a fortune. Add all that up, I don't know what the fuck it means, but you got some bad-ass perpetrators and they're here to stay.

-Sergeant Al Powell: I hear ya, partner. And L.A.'s finest are on it.

-Sergeant Al Powell: [after the FBI cuts the power to the building] Well, what are we gonna do now? Arrest them for not paying their electric bill?

-FBI Agent Johnson: We've shut them down. We let 'em sweat for a while, then... we give 'em helicopters.

-FBI Special Agent Johnson: Right up the ass.

-FBI Special Agent Johnson: Authorization? How about the United States FUCKING government? Lose the grid, or you lose your job.

-Harry Ellis: [watching the terrorists in deep discussion] What do you think?

-Holly Gennero McClane: Something's wrong.

-Harry Ellis: Cops?

-Holly Gennero McClane: [pauses] John.

-Harry Ellis: John? Aw, Christ, he can fuck this whole thing up! What does he think he's doing?

-Holly Gennero McClane: His job.

-Harry Ellis: Bullshit! His job's three thousand miles away. Without him, we still have a chance we might be able to get outta here.

-Holly Gennero McClane: Tell that to Takagi.

-Hans Gruber: The circuits that cannnot be cut are cut automatically in response to a terrorist incident. You asked for miracles, Theo, I give you the FBI.

-Hans Gruber: When they touch down, we'll blow the roof, they'll spend a month sifting through rubble, and by the time they figure out what went wrong, we'll be sitting on a beach, earning twenty percent.

-John McClane: Son of a bitch! Fist with your toes.

-John McClane: Who's driving this car, Stevie Wonder?

-John McClane: [cops start coming towards the building] You macho assholes, no, no!

-Theo: [sees LAPD SWAT armored vehicle approaching] Wait a minute, wait a minute. What have we here, gentlemen? The police have themselves an RV. Southeast corner.

-John McClane: [after entering the room where Gruber retains Holly] Hi, honey.

-Cop: Sir, the FBI is here.

-Dwayne T. Robinson: Oh, the FBI is here, now?

-Cop: Yes, sir. Right over there.

-Dwayne T. Robinson: Hold this.

[straightens his jacket]

-Sergeant Al Powell: Want a breath mint?

-Hans: Mrs. McClane. How nice to make your acquaintance.

-John McClane: [upon seeing Marco arrive, suspense music plays] Freeze m*th*rf*cker!

-Marco: [panicking] Oh God! Don't shoot! Don't shoot!

-John McClane: Drop the gun!

-Marco: [starts to do so] Ok! But don't shoot! Don't shoot!

-John McClane: Put it on the ground!

-Marco: [still doing so but very slowly] I know! But don't shoot! Don't shoot!

-Heinrich: [music changes to a climatic theme as Heinrich comes in] Marco duck!

-Marco: [John easily shoots Heinrich but Marco manages to take cover. John then hides under a long conference table]

[after a quick scene change Marco is on the table shooting it as he walks down it]

-Marco: You a dog now. Where you going pal? Soon there will be no more table.

[empties his clip and jams a fresh one in]

-Marco: Next time you have a chance to kill someone, don't hesitate.

[prepares to start shooting again when... ]

-John McClane: [fires upwards several times riddling Marco with bullets. Marco drops dead on the table with bullets and wood splinters in him] Thanks for the advice, pal.

-John McClane: [Getting out a pack of cigarettes] Do you smoke?

-Hans Gruber: [while mimicing a hostage] Yeah.

[McClane hands him the pack of cigarettes]

-Hans Gruber: Thanks. Now, you don't work for Nakatomi, and you're not one of them.

-John McClane: I'm a cop from New York.

-Hans Gruber: New York?

-John McClane: Yeah. I got invited to the Christmas party by mistake. Who knew.

[laughs]

-John McClane: Better being caught with your pants down, huh? I'm John McClane, and you are?

-Hans Gruber: [Quickly thinks of a name which he got from a nearby Bulletin board] Clay. Bill Clay.

-John McClane: [Takes out his handgun] You now how to use a handgun, Bill?

-Hans Gruber: I spent a weekend at a combat ranch. You know where they shoot red paint, but it sounds stupid to you.

-John McClane: Well, time for the real thing, Bill. All you gotta do is pull the trigger.

-Harry Ellis: I hope I'm not interrupting anything.

-Hans Gruber: What does he want?

-Harry Ellis: It's not what I want, it's what I can give you.

[Comes in]

-Harry Ellis: Well, I've watched 60 Minutes, and I'm saying to myself, they're motivated, they're happening, I.E. they want something. Maybe it's because you're pissed off or maybe it's the jockies, it's none of my business.

-Hans Gruber: Very good, you've figured it out already.

-Harry Ellis: Hey, business is business. You use a gun, I use a fountain pen what's the difference? Let's put it in my terms, you're in a hostile takeover, you snatch us up for some green mail, but you're not expecting some poison pill to be running around the building, am I right? Hans, *booby* I'm your white knight.

-Hans Gruber: [Looking puzzled] I must have missed 60 Minutes. What are you saying?

-Harry Ellis: You know that guy that's fucking things up upstairs,

[sits down]

-Harry Ellis: *I* can give him to you.

[Grins]

-Hans Gruber: Due to the Nakatomi Corporation's legacy of greed around the globe, they are about to be taught a lesson in the real use of power. You will be witnesses.

-Hans Gruber: If you'd listened to me, he would be neutralised already.

-Karl: I don't want neutral. I want dead.

[Karl and Theo pull up in their car and come through the revolving door]

-Theo: So Kareem rebounds, right? Feeds Worthy on the break, over to A.C., to Magic, then back to Worthy! Right?

[Karl shoots and kills the desk guard with a perfectly timed aim]

-Theo: BOOM! Two points!

[Theo jumps over the desk and pushes the guard's body down, then grabs his walkie-talkie]

-Theo: We're in.

-John McClane: [after being kissed on the face by a stranger on a party] Jesus! Fuckin' California!

-Sergeant Al Powell: [over radio] Hey, John? John McClane you still with us?

-John McClane: Yeah. But all things being equal, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. Chalk up two more bad guys.

[Begins removing glass from foot]

-Sergeant Al Powell: Well, the boys down here will be glad to hear that. You know we got a pool going on you.

-John McClane: What kind of odds am I getting?

-Sergeant Al Powell: You don't wanna know.

-John McClane: Put me down for twenty, I'm good for it.

[pulls shard of glass from foot]

-John McClane: . Hey pal, you got flat feet?

-Sergeant Al Powell: What the hell you talking about, man.

-John McClane: Something had to get you off the street.

-Sergeant Al Powell: What's the matter? You don't think jockeying papers around a desk is a noble effort for a cop?

-John McClane: No...

-Sergeant Al Powell: I had an accident.

-John McClane: The way you drive, I can see why. What'd you do? Run over your captains foot with the car?

-Sergeant Al Powell: I shot a kid. He was 13 years old. Oh, it was dark, I couldn't see him, he had a ray gun, looked real enough. You know when you're a rookie they can teach you everything about being a cop, except how to live with a mistake. Anyway, I just couldn't bring myself to draw my gun on anyone again.

-John McClane: ...Sorry man.

-Hans Gruber: Theo, are we on schedule?

-Theo: One more to go then it's up to you. And you better be right, because it looks like this last one is going to take a miracle.

-Hans Gruber: It's Christmas, Theo. It's the time of miracles. So be of good cheer... and call me when you hit the last lock.



Review


Die Hard-1988


Handguns



Beretta 92F



The Beretta 92F features prominently in the film as the sidearm of Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis). At one point, Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) is seen holding the Beretta. Karl (Alexander Godunov) gets ahold of it during a fight near the end of the film as well. Another Beretta can also be seen being carried by one of the SWAT officers involved in the ill-fated raid on the Nakatomi Building.



Beretta 92F (9x19mm) used by Bruce Willis in Die Hard. This is the screen-used gun from the film; note the extended mag release and slide release, which were modifications made specifically for Bruce Willis.



In the beginning of the movie, a fellow plane passenger cautiously eyes McClane's 92F in his shoulder holster, but McClane assures him he's a cop.


John McClane (Bruce Willis) holds the Beretta 92F while hiding in the Nakatomi boardrooom.




McClane draws his Beretta 92F when confronted by Hans Gruber's henchmen in the boardroom.

McClane with his Beretta 92F drawn while taking cover from incoming fire from both Hans and Karl. Clearly visible in this image (if enlarged to full-size) is the extended slide release - compare to the picture of the screen-used gun above.

McClane fires over 15 rounds from his Beretta 92F. Two rounds were fired on the terrorist first entering the room, and about 15 were fired through the table.

A SWAT officer with a Beretta 92F.

McClane loads another mag into his Beretta.

McClane pretends to chamber a round into his Beretta. Note his finger is on the slide release so it doesn't lock.

Hans Gruber holds Detective John McClane at gunpoint with McClane's own Beretta 92F.

Karl goes to grab McClane's Beretta during their fight.

"Happy Trails, Hans..." McClane blows away the smoke from the barrel of his 92F.



Heckler & Koch P7M13



Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) carries a hard chrome Heckler & Koch P7M13 as his main weapon, notably using it to threaten Joseph Takagi (James Shigeta) and Harry Ellis (Hart Bochner), and then brandishing it at the climax of the film, holding McClane's wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) at gunpoint. When he first brings out the weapon while threatening Takagi, he is shown removing a matching suppressor from the barrel, thus indicating it's not a P7M13SD because there is no threaded barrel to use a suppressor. According to the script, Hans was supposed to carry a Walther (likely a PPK, but it's not specifically identified) It is assumed that the P7M13 was used in place of this, as it bears resemblance to a Walther PPK.



Hard Chrome Heckler & Koch P7M13 - 9x19mm

Hans Gruber taking the suppressor off his P7M13.

Hans Gruber prepares to use his H&K P7M13. When he fires, the camera smash-cuts to another shot, presumably because, according to director John McTiernan, Alan Rickman could not help flinching.

Closeup of the P7M13.

"How nice to make your acquaintance!" Hans fires his H&K in the air.

Another shot of Hans Gruber holding Holly Gennaro at gunpoint with his Heckler & Koch P7M13.

Holly Gennaro with Hans Gruber's Heckler & Koch P7M13 to her head.

Hans falls from the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Building while still holding his Heckler & Koch P7M13. The look on his face is authentic as Rickman was dropped prematurely when performing the stunt.



Walther P5



The terrorist Heinrich is seen pulling what appears to be a Walther P5 as he and Marco confront McClane in the boardroom.



Walther P5 - 9x19mm


Heinrich pulls his pistol on McClane as Marco tries to get out of the way.



Walther PPK




During the takeover of the Nakatomi Building, Karl (Alexander Godunov) can be seen using a suppressed Walther PPK to kill the security guards at the front desk and by the elevators. He later has it without the silencer when he hears McClane leave following Takagi's death and goes to investigate.



Suppressed Walther PPK - .380 ACP



Karl (Alexander Godunov) takes out the security guard.


Karl (Alexander Godunov) with his suppressed Walther PPK in one hand and a hockey puck flash bang in the other before taking out the second security guard.




Smith & Wesson Model 15





At the end of the film, McClane finally gets to meet Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson) in person and is introducing him to his wife when Powell has to pull his Smith & Wesson Model 15. He is seen firing 5 rounds.



Smith & Wesson Model 15 - .38 Special



Closeup of Powell's Model 15 as he fires.



Sergeant Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson, right) with his Smith & Wesson Model 15.





Submachine Guns




Heckler & Koch HK94 (chopped and converted)



Heckler & Koch HK94 chopped and converted to resemble an MP5A3. Note the lack of a paddle magazine release, a lugged barrel, and a push pin set - 9x19mm



The terrorists arrive at the party wielding Heckler & Koch HK94A3's


Tony Vreski (Andreas Wisniewski) searches for McClane while armed with the HK94.


McClane holds the converted HK94 while attempting to evade Karl and his men.


Closeup of the barrel of the "MP5A3" as McClane uses it to hold back a ventilation fan. Note the lack of barrel lugs; this shows it to be a converted HK94.


McClane uses the converted HK94 as an anchor in the shaft. Note lack of paddle magazine release and push pin set.


"No more Table! Where are you going, Pal? Next time you get the chance to kill someone, don't hesitate!" Note that Marco uses the button release to eject the magazine.


McClane with his HK94 when he talks to Hans Gruber on the walkie-talkie.


Uli (Al Leong) is armed with the HK94 as he prepares to repel the SWAT officers.



Rifles



MGC M-16 Model Gun Corp Replica Rifle




When the SWAT team makes their ill-fated raid on the Nakatomi building, they can be seen carrying MGC M-16 Model Gun Corp Replica Rifles. Furthermore, the SWAT team's M16 rifles despite their power are notably bulky and do not handle easily in CQB. Some M16's can be seen with 20-round magazines, while others appear to have 30-round magazines.



MGC rifle



A SWAT officer with an MGC M-16, as noted by the bolt insert. Note the magazine, which appears to be too long for a 20-round model, but too short for a 30-round.


SWAT officers in the crowd with M16s



Steyr AUG



One of the most unusual weapons in the film, as the writers are contrasting the terrorists' exotic European weapons versus the American weapons used by the LAPD, the Steyr AUG assault rifle's bullpup design enables a decent barrel length in a compact design, and it also has an integrated scope. The AUG is used by Karl (Alexander Godunov) during his personal mission to get revenge against McClane after he killed the first terrorist, who happened to be his brother. In a memorable scene of the film, Karl emerges with his AUG in hand.



Steyr AUG - 5.56x45mm



Karl assembles his Steyr AUG on the elevator.


Karl shoots at the vents with Steyr AUG hoping to hit McClane.



Karl with his Steyr AUG to McClane's head. The AUG appears to be a rubber prop here, as the scope seems to be filled in and no glass can be seen. It is also knocked away soon.




A bloodied Karl wields his Steyr AUG.



Steyr SSG 69





Mistaking McClane for a terrorist shooting hostages, FBI Special Agent Johnson (Robert Davi) is seen taking aim with what appears to be a Steyr SSG 69 fitted with an AN/PVS-3 Starlight night-vision scope.



Steyr SSG 69 - 7.62x51mm NATO


Special Agent Johnson #1 (Robert Davi) readies his sniper rifle.


Special Agent Johnson #1 (Robert Davi) rides in the gunship with his sniper rifle.


Johnson #1 aims his sniper rifle at McClane.


Another shot of Johnson #1 with the sniper rifle as the roof is blown. Note that the rifle appears to have a magazine attached to it.



Machine Guns



M60E3 Machine Gun




Another weapon in the terrorists' arsenal, an M60E3 machine gun is the weapon used by Alexander to turn Sgt. Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson)'s police car into "swiss cheese" after McClane throws Marco out of a window and onto the hood of his car. It is also used to shoot out spotlights during the attempted SWAT raid on the Nakatomi building.



M60E3 machine gun - 7.62x51mm NATO


The terrorist Alexander fires the M60E3 at Powell's police car.



M60 Machine Gun




The gunner on the Huey helicopter carrying FBI Special Agents Johnson and Johnson is seen opening fire on McClane with a full-sized M60 Machine Gun.



M60 machine gun with bipod folded - 7.62x51mm NATO




"Nail that sucker!" Special Agent Johnson #1 (Robert Davi) orders the US Army UH-1 Huey doorgunner to open fire with his M60 machine gun on McClane (whom they thought was one of the terrorists).



Other



"Hockey Puck" Flash Bang



During the takeover of the Nakatomi building, the terrorists use flash-bang grenades shaped like hockey pucks to disorient the guard by the elevators long enough for Karl to kill him. One of these weapons is also used during the gun battle that ensues after McClane and Gruber's first meeting when the terrorists are attempting to pin down McClane by shattering the glass windows surrounding him.



One of the "Hockey Puck" flash-bangs moments before detonating and disorienting a security guard




Custom Rocket Launcher



When the building is surrounded by the police, Hans has his men set up a custom rocket launcher. The launcher is fitted onto a tripod mount that is seen being bolted down before firing. It's fired twice to take out a SWAT APC.



The launcher is seen being taken out.


The launcher is loaded.


Alexander uses the sight to line up the target.



Firing the launcher.


Alexander fires the rocket launcher at the APC a second time. Note that the glass that was shattered by the terrorist's previous shot is shattered again.


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