Die Hard: With A Vengeance Page #7

Synopsis: 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 set 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.
Director(s): John McTiernan
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
R
Year:
1995
128 min
4,702 Views


Come on!

Oh, sh*t!

What?

Shot the phone.

Aw, too bad.

What's 21 out of 42?

I don't have a clue.

What about Yankee Stadium?

We'll get there,

after we stop him.

Oh,Jesus Christ!

Who do you think you are, lady,

Hillary Clinton?

That's it! Hillary Clinton.

the 42nd president.

She'd be the 43rd president.

All right, all right,

but who's the 21 st?

- I don't know.

- You don't know?

No! Do you know?

No!

Well?

This engine's sh*t.

Step on it!

It's a Yugo.

It's built for economy, not speed.

Whoa! What are you doing?

Getting us

another phone.

Wait, Wait!

Wait, wait, wait!

Who was the 21 st president?

Go f*** yourself!

That guy was pissed.

He'll feel better when he looks

in the backseat.

Sh*t, that was

my gold bar!

This is McClane.

Get me Inspector Walter Cobb.

Where the hell are you?

It's not revenge.

It's a heist.

There's gold

in the Federal Reserve.

They took a shitload of it.

They're headed north

in dump trucks.

Have you been drinking?

Not since this morning.

There's a lot of

dump trucks northbound

on the FDR

at about 7 Oth.

Close the bridge.

Get some helicopters over there.

I couldn't close

a hot dog stand now.

I'm spread all over.

What about this damn bomb?

It's got something to do

with the 21 st president.

John,John, the 21 st what?

Walter!

Sh*t. Goddamn cellular f***in' phones!

Reach Munsen

On the Triborough.

Tell him to close

all the East River bridges

north of 59th street.

Looking for dump trucks.

Dump trucks?

McClane says

there are dump trucks

headed up the FDR

loaded with gold.

They don't allow dump trucks

on the FDR!

- Connie!

- All right!

I won't argue,

no matter how stupid it is.

K-9. Check out

the boiler room.

Find anything, Charlie?

I could spend a week here

with an X-ray machine

and still not find it.

You've got five minutes.

Then we're moving up to 86th street.

Going as fast as we can.

What's up?

McClane was mentioning something

about the Federal Reserve building.

Isn't that near that

Wall Street bomb site?

Yeah.

How long do you want us

to stay here?

The men at the stadium.

Stay or go?

Karl should've

checked in by now.

Moment.

Come on, come on.

Stay where you are.

McClane may still turn up.

Relax, Targo.

If he is still alive...

he won't be talking

to anyone.

It's the next turnoff.

Hi. It's Elvis Duran.

You're on the air. What's up?

First I want to tell you what

a great show you got.

I listen to you

all the time.

Thanks. What's on your mind?

Those cop cars speeding

around everywhere-

you know what

they're up to?

There's a bomb

in a school.

My cousin's a cop.

Somebody put a big bomb

in a school somewhere.

Only they don't know

which one.

so they're searching

all of them.

Shh! Shh!

Every school

in the metropolitan area.

Holy sh*t.

Doris. Annie?

Doris, can you reach my wife?

Turley! Half the goddamn city

just called 911!

They're gone.

What?

They're gone!

Who is this guy,

Houdini?

Down there!

Down there!

This thing got air bags?

Your side does.

I don't know about mi-

McClane!

In the truck!

Let me see the hands!

Put them on the door!

Don't kill me!

Don't shoot me.

Truck driver?

No, I'm a beautician.

Of course I'm a truck driver!

Where you taking

this truck?

The aqueduct.

Why you taking this

to the race track?

No, the aqueduct!

The-the water aqueduct!

Aqueduct?

See? Goes from here

all the way up

to the Catskill Mountains!

What does?

That! The water pipe!

Goes for about 60 miles!

- Hey, you the foreman?

- Yeah.

N.Y.P.D.!

Any extra dump trucks

come through here

the last couple minutes?

I'm writing

those f***in' clowns up!

They better start paying attention

to work orders.

What happened?

A dozen idiots

tore ass up the tube.

We're not loading up there anymore.

We're loading over here.

So much for bridges

and helicopters.

Got a map showing

where this tunnel goes?

Yeah, right here.

We run pretty much

up under the saw mill

till you get up

to the coffer dam.

After that, we've already brought

the reservoir water down.

Any way in or out

of there?

There's vent shafts

every 2 miles.

I mean with a truck.

At the coffer dam.

You can get a truck in there.

Follow saw mill parkway up there.

It's about 20 miles.

I'll meet you right there,

O.K.?

What am I doing?

You're going up

to Yankee Stadium!

McClane!

Go. We got less

than two hours!

Goddammit!

Hey! Is something wrong?

moved so far.

Now, that's 10 times

the Hoover Dam.

Right now, there's 560 feet of rock

above our head.

This part is phase three

of tunnel three.

Planning for it

began back in 1954,

But construction didn't begin

tillJune of 1970.

You know what the most interesting part

of tunnel three is?

What's that,Jerry?

The valves. Each one...

Main departure

from tunnels one and two.

Come on!

What a hell of a place

to break down.

Hold it. Let me have your hard hat.

Got a jacket?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Here.

Wait here a minute.

Wait until he gets

alongside the door.

Hey! Fellas!

Mickey O'Brien,

aqueduct security.

We got a report

of a guy coming through here

with eight reindeer.

Yeah, they said he was

a jolly old fat guy

with a snowy white beard.

Cute red and white suit.

I'm surprised

you didn't see him.

What's with you guys

and these phones?

Give me something.

Holy sh*t.

Is that guy dead?

Yes,Jerry.

I'm afraid he is.

Jesus Christ.

I want you to get ahold

of a guy named Cobb.

walter Cobb. C-O-B-B.

He's the head of my police unit.

Get him down here.

Tell him you were with John McClane.

Tell him to find out

who the 21 st president was.

Chester A. Arthur.

What?

Chester A. Arthur.

Nominated vice president

in 1880.

Did you know he was

Collector of Customs here in New York?

No, I didn't know that,Jerry.

Take care of yourself.

We got to release

these traffic guys.

No. Traffic jams

we can take care of later.

What's wrong with this?

Frequencies are jammed.

What about Ricky?

Can't reach him. Walter.

Federal Reserve.

Yeah?

Biggest gold storage

in the world.

Get a unit

back down there.

Find Ricky. Find out

what the hell is going on.

Walter! You got to hear this!

I thought we were

going in the back way.

This is the back way.

You're about to have

a riot at every school in the city.

Start at the top floor,

Send the other 50 men to the basement

with us. What about McClane?

Not a word. I'm getting nothing.

Busy signal.

This is kind of putting all our eggs

in one basket, isn't it?

What if McClane's wrong?

Walter. This is Principal Martinez.

Inspector Cobb.

How do you do, inspector?

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Jonathan Hensleigh

Jonathan Blair Hensleigh (born February 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director, working primarily in the action-adventure genre, best known for writing films such as Jumanji, Die Hard with a Vengeance, and Armageddon, as well as making his own directorial debut with the 2004 comic book action film The Punisher. more…

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