He cruelly appraises the comeliness and insignificance of his sister as his accompanying servant to Africa, while she tends o his perspiring forehead:Not comely among the maidens, but she too can be a servant in the House of the Lord.As he ordered the other hostages to the roof, Gruber kidnapped Holly as his own personal hostage.After their long struggle, McClane presumably killed Karl by strangling him with a heavy chain, and then charged up to the roof where he:(1) discovered that Holly was missing and had been aken prisoner on the 30th floor, and(2) ordered the hostages o flee downstairs to escape the wired-to-blow roof." On the steps of a garden area, she and the children jump up and down ""musical"" steps - signifying higher and lower notes on the diatonic musical scale.I shouldn""t be here at all.I don""t feel offended.Katczinsky (joking): It don""t apply to tramps like you.Tjaden: Good.Then I can be going home right away...The Kaiser and me...Me and the Kaiser felt just alike about this war.We didn""t neither of us want any war, so I""m going home.He""s there already.Soldier: Somebody must have wanted it.Maybe it was the English.No, I don""t want to shoot any Englishman.I never saw one ""til I came up here.And I suppose most of them never saw a German ""til hey came up here.No, I""m sure they weren""t asked about it.Another Soldier: Well, it must be doing somebody some good.Tjaden: Not me and the Kaiser.Soldier: I think maybe the Kaiser wanted a war.Tjaden: You leave us out of this.Katczinsky: I don""t see that.The Kaiser""s got everything he needs.Soldier: Well, he never had a war before.Every full-grown Emperor needs one war to make him famous.Why, that""s history.Paul: Yeah, Generals too.They need war.A Third Soldier: And manufacturers.They get rich.One of the soldiers compares war to a "fever": "Nobody wants it in particular.And then all at once, here it is.We didn""t want it.The English didn""t want it.And here we are fighting." Katczinsky explains how wars should really be fought:I""ll tell ya how it should all be done.Whenever here""s a big war comin"" on, you should rope off a big field (and sell tickets).Yeah, and, and, on the big day, you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals, put them in he center dressed in their underpants and let ""em fight it out with clubs.