Live Free or Die Hard Page #3

Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Len Wiseman
Production: 20th Century Fox
  3 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
PG-13
Year:
2007
128 min
$134,500,000
Website
3,019 Views


It is a three step systematic attack

on the entire national infrastructure.

ok Step 1 :
Take out all

the transportation

Step 2 :
The financial base and telecoms

Step 3 :
Get rid of all the utilities.

Gas, Water, Electricity, Nuclear....

Basically everything that is

controlled by a computer.

Which nowadays is almost everything.

So that's why they call it a Fire Sale

because everything must go.

Hey, listen,

what's your name?

Farrell?

Keep your voice down OK?

Nobody here is talking about a Fire Sale.

Not unless you are telling me

you helped plan one.

No man, I'm just saying...

We appreciate the concern, we

know what we are doing, thank you.

What?

- What?

- Nothing, I said I understand.

Hey, they didn't send the

girl scouts to get this kid.

They sent professional guys,

full tactical gear,

they blew the whole joint up.

Now look, I don't know this kid...

and, frankly, I don't give a sh*t.

No offence.

But somebody wants this kid dead.

And obviously, it's got something

to do with what's going on here.

Humler is taking over

the interrogations,

of the hackers that we are bringing in.

I will get you an escort over there.

Right? Molina, get this kid

to the front of the line.

- I want to know what he knows.

- Right.

If he knew about half of what I know,

his fuzzy little head would explode.

Special agent Johnson.

I will take you there.

- Agent Johnson?

- That's right.

Right this way.

- So is any of what you were saying possible?

- Possible?

OK look, I will tell you again.

If you take away any one thing, no problem,

but if you take it down all at once,

the system crashes, and...

look around, man!

Come on, the government has got to have

dozens of departments dedicated to that sh*t.

It took FEMA 5 days to get

water to the superdome.

How long until we get to

the Dept. of Homeland Security?

Lauflin, get on the police band and get

them to clear a route to the D.H.S.

DC Metro, this is the

F.B.I., requesting you to...

Farrell just resurfaced on the grid.

The feds are taking him to Homeland.

Good, close that loop now.

Isolate the frequency.

Locate the vehicles and get

me John McClane's file.

i Brad, we just found Farrell.

Stand by for location.

I don't mean to harp guys but

but have just passed another

snack bar and I am starving.

- Shut up.

- I need to eat.

- Shut up.

Shut up. You have 14 minutes

to tell me why you lied to me back there.

Did I lie to you?

What are you talking about?

The pictures on the wall.

You knew those guys, right?

- I, wha..., I ...

- Kid, don't lie to me.

I am a cop, I can tell you are

lying. Who are they?

OK, OK OK...

They were my competition.

Make the next right onto Concord.

They said they were a software firm

that had developed some kind of

a new algorithm

and they just wanted to see

if it could be cracked.

That's what I do,

I do math based security.

Here's the thing,

the thing that I've been thinking is

that if you can do something this massive

you need tons of start-up guys

to write the software

but only a few black hats

to actually implement that stuff

so then the start-up guys

who haven't really done anything

like me...

-End up as pictures on a wall

I swear to God McClane

I had no idea I was gonna be

an accessory to Armageddon

i Take the next left at Lexington.

and that's a sexy voice.

What is she taking us this way for?

- Oh, my God!

i Unit this is dispatch

i clear a route for two F.B.I. vehicles...

i F.B.I. we have cleared a path.

- That's her!

- Her who?

What are you talking about?

It is them.

- Are you saying it's "them" them?

- I swear to you, I know her.

I would know her voice anywhere.

- Don't say anything.

- Keep you mouth shut for a second.

Hey Metro,

how's your day going over there?

Gotta be crazy over there

with all these 5-87s, huh?

Yes, Sir, we had to

dispatch all units.

Yeah you had to dispatch all units,

for all the naked people walking around?

Cut the bullshit honey

and just put your boss on.

i Lauflin, we are getting off this route

make a left here on 14th street..

- Officer McClane.

- That is Detective McClane, a**hole.

Don't worry though, we will have

plenty of time to get to know each other...

when I come visit you in prison.

But, John, I already know

so much about you.

Your address in Brooklyn...

the payments on your mortgage,

how long you have been in the NYPD

and how is Holly?

That's sad, you are divorced.

Was that tough on little

Jack and Lucy?

After thirty years, I would have thought

you had a better pension plan.

Oh and it gets worse...

Your 401k no longer exists

Tell you what, let me

make it up to you.

-Box them in at that intersection.

Shoot Mr Farrell in the head,

and drive away

by the time you get to the end

of the next block,

all your debts will

be wiped clean...

and your children

will be set for life.

That really is tempting,

especially that last part.

But I think I'll pass, Jerk off.

John, you are a Timex

watch in a digital age.

You are gonna lose.

Yes, well the other thing that can

happen, it is that I can come and find you...

kick your ass and throw you

out of your own party.

- What do you think about that d*ckhead?

- Hold your position.

He is not responding.

Down, get down!

Officers down at the corner

of Main with Constitution.

I repeat, officers down.

Come on, come on,

get out let's go!

God Damn It!

Stay down!

Get down, just hold on!

We have a squad car under fire

we need backup.

i I Repeat, we need backup!

This is base, we are

sending backup.

Hang on, hang on.

Hang on.

Hold on.

- We lost ....

- Stay with them.

OK take the tunnel, left left left!

Give me the schematics

of that tunnel.

The tunnel!

Open the gates on the North side entrance.

Redirect traffic,

occupy all lanes.

- Open the other side.

- What?

Move!

Hang on to something!

Hey, don't get out of the car!

Hey!

Stop!

Run!

Oh God!

Don't ever hesitate

like that again.

Are you alright?

- Stay here, don't move.

- What?

You've been here before John.

Get over to the wall, Sir.

The feds called in a favour.

All you gotta do is pick

up a kid in Jersey...

drive him down to DC.

How hard can that be, huh?

It can't be that hard can it?

No, gotta be a senior detective

think that a traffic jam

or throwing a car at me

Will stop me, huh?

- Red, get in there and get it done.

- It won't be necessary, he is leaving.

This is not a good idea!

- Don't touch me!

- OK OK alright...

Are you OK? Oh my God!

- Pretty lucky shot, huh?

- Oh yeah lucky!

Jesus, you just killed a

helicopter with a car.

I was out of bullets.

How you doin'?

I skinned my knee and my

asthma is acting up....

Whatever, yeah I'm fine.

i Red, check in.

i The helicopter is destroyed.

What about Farrell and McClane?

- They are both dead.

- Come back in.

OK we are moving on,

begin Stage 3.

I have just spoken to Emmerson.

The teams are arriving

at Woodlawn now.

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Mark Bomback

Mark Bomback (born August 29, 1971) is an American screenwriter, originally from New Rochelle, New York. Bomback is a graduate of Wesleyan University, where he studied English Literature and Film Studies. more…

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