Die Hard Scenes 23-24

Scenes 23-24

Scene 23

• Richard Thornburg finally gets his moment to shine. He's reporting from the scene, and Argyle's watching from his limo.
• He hears the words Nakatomi Plaza and turns on his CB radio.
• He can hear the police planning a raid on the building.
• We cut to Powell and Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson arguing over whether or not they should enter the building.
• Powell's not for it. There are innocent hostages up there, after all.
• But Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson won't give him the time of day.
• When McClane sees what's up, he radios Powell and susses out what's really going on.
• He, too, thinks it's just about the worst idea since New Coke.
• While the police close in, the bad guys prepare for the assault. They're ready. This is not going to go well.
• Then a bunch of things happen pretty fast.
• McClane scrambles to see what's going on.
• Argyle frantically cruises around the parking lot, looking for a way out.
• SWAT teams swarm the building.
• The bad guys take their positions.
• Theo hacks into the security feeds and tells the bad guys who's coming in and where.
• Deputy Chief of Police Dwayne T. Robinson tells the SWAT teams to "kick ass," which is exactly what they don't do.
• The raid fails when the bad guys use that rocket launcher McClane saw earlier to blow up the SWAT tank that attempts to bust in the front door.
• As Theo puts it, "The quarterback is toast."
• McClane is pissed. He's gotta do something—anything.
• And by anything, we mean throw a computer tied to a chair and rigged with C4 down the elevator shaft, because why not?
• The ensuing explosion rocks the whole building, blows out a lower floor, takes out two bad guys, and nearly singes off McClane's eyebrows.

Scene 24

• Harry, high on cocaine, has decided to take matters into his own hands.
• He waltzes in to talk to Gruber because he negotiates million dollar deals "for breakfast."
• Harry (who, it's worth mentioning at this point, is also quite hairy) puts on his best yuppie moneymaker talk and tells Gruber he can get rid of McClane.
• How's that? Well, he says he knows the guy, and he can give him to Gruber.