The policeman turns back to offer help and leaves the criminal to escape.Holding onto the creaking and collapsing gutter, the hanging man is frozen by his fear of heights (acrophobia).It was a superior remake of William Wellman""s non-musical, classic 1937 film of the same name starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March." On a TV news broadcast, Ethan learned that Margaret Ethan Hunt (his mother) and her brother-in-law Donald Hunt (his uncle) were arrested by drug-enforcement agents in farmlands of Wisconsin, for allegedly masterminding an international drug ring that manufactured methcathinone, known as "Cat".I really liked hose sequined shirts." When Gruber replied: "Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr.Cowboy?", McClane delivered his most familiar line: "Yippee-kai-yay, motherf--ker."On the radio with Powell throughout the remainder of the siege, McClane (calling himself "Roy") described he tense situation on the 30th floor with hostages, calling the errorists "bad-ass perpetrators.