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.
Written by SARSman1793
The line spoken by McClane "Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo" is taken from a song called "Flowers on the Wall" by The Statler Brothers, which also appears in
Pulp Fiction, also featuring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson. Willis is singing along to this song on the radio when he runs into Marcellus Wallace.
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Goofs
Factual errors:
On standard truck winches, like the WARN winch used on the Dodge truck, the manufacturer recommends that at least five complete wraps of wire remain on the drum as the minimum to make a safe winch pull. So if the winch cable "ran out" as it did in the scene, as the truck started to get pulled, the only thing holding the winch cable onto the winch drum is a small bolt. If the weight of the vehicle is applied to that small bolt (versus the other end at a static object), the winch cable would snapped off.
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Quotes
[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. See more »
"Got It Going On"
Written by Ted Silbert and RIC-HARD Performed by Ted Silbert and RIC-HARD Silbert Music (ASCAP) and Hic Town Underground (ASCAP) Produced by Eric Harryman & Ted Silbert
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