Scene 15
- Of course, all is not well. McClane is engaged in a crazy intense gunfight with Gruber's henchmen.
- He takes out a few of them and manages to escape.
- He scrambles his way through the bowels of the building, hoping he can hop on an elevator.
- No dice. He opts, instead, to climb down a ventilation shaft, which has Bad Idea written all over it.
- Using his machine gun as a hold, he swings on the strap, falls, and manages to catch himself on an air duct. We guess he's got the luck of the Irish on his side.
- The air duct's a tight squeeze, and dark as all get-out, so now's a good time for Tony Sweatpants's lighter.
- The flame helps McClane see, of course, but it also clues Karl in to his whereabouts, and he and the others hightail it to a room just below the air duct, which they promptly shoot up.
- McClane, armed with only his Beretta, is saved by the bell, as Gruber calls Karl off and tells him to get back to business. The police are on their way.
Scene 16
- The local LEO has arrived on the scene. He drives slowly around the driveway, while McClane, having ditched the air duct, watches from above.
- The cop says there are no signs of disturbance, but he's gonna go talk to the guard-who's-really-a-criminal-henchman.
- The fake security guard waves him off, and the cop heads back to his car, while McClane and Gruber watch from above.
- McClane's desperate. He hurls a chair at a window, hoping he can signal the cop from above. Of course all the ruckus reveals his location again, and a couple of the gunmen come after him.
- After a bit of a kerfuffle, he manages to take them both out.
- Running to the window, he sees Five-O get back in his cruiser.
- So what's McClane do? He hurls one of the bodies out the window, and it lands smack dab on the cop car windshield. "Welcome to the party, Pal."
- The cop drives like a maniac in reverse, while all the gunmen spray him with bullets from above.
- He reverses right over a wall. But he's okay. We guess he's lucky, too.