"Carol""s insanity and withdrawn nature intensified after Helen and Michael left.At work, Carol listened as Miss Balch (Renee Houston) angrily complained about men:There""s only one way to deal with men, that""s treat hem as if you don""t give a damn about them!.It appeared that an elite band of armed, hired terrorist mercenaries, led by former U.S.Army Special Forces Colonel Stuart, were converging on the airport and awaiting Esperanza""s arrival.McClane was also awaiting the arrival of his wife""s inbound plane from Los Angeles, about a half hour late in landing.We should come up right between his legs." The group talked about the gruesome process of mummification: the removal of the brain (through the nostrils) and other organs, and their placement in jars...This was all preordained thousands of years ago." How things would end was still not pre-determined.Inthe camp at Karnak, Alex was chained at the ankle to a pole to prevent him from escaping again.While no one was watching him, he spilled his water onto the sand, creating mud.Then he constructed a sand castle replica of the Temple Island of Philae.When the dirigible arrived at Karnak the next morning, the cultists had fled, but Alex""s sand-castle (prominently indicated by his necktie pointing downward at it from a nearby statue) gave his parents a clue to his next location.The devastated writer replies: "That was last year.This year, I""m trying to earn a living."Joe leaves Sheldrake""s office after he is turned down for a financial loan of three hundred bucks and drives to Schwab""s Pharmacy [a re-created interior of Schwab""s Drug Store where young, ight-sweatered Lana Turner was purportedly discovered], his "headquarters.