Waiter: Who""s gonna raid a funeral?Sergeant: Some people got no respect for the dead.The Parlor is a front for a speakeasy owned by gangster Spats Colombo, known for his white spats [usually, the view of Spats is prefaced by a close-up shot of his spats-wearing feet].In a resulting shootout, one of Cortez"" men killed Escobedo and his henchmen.Ryan was the next to be killed, but Cortez"" henchman was shot by sniper Chavez from a distance.In the final action scene, Cortez blamed "the American" for killing Escobedo, and with his henchmen battled against Ryan, Clark, and Chavez as they successfully rescued the imprisoned hostages in a basement cell ("We""re going home, boys")." The Death Star was only 15 minutes away from firing range.The thirty fighters were small evasive targets, although hey were pummeled by turbo-laser-fire from the station""s defensive owers.The instigator of the cyberplot was menacing, techno-terrorist computer programmer Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant), Mai""s boss and lover, who ordered a helicopter with armed gunmen to trace Farrell""s route as he was driven by McClane into Washington, DC to the FBI building.The film""s hemes include the central importance of the family, the suffering and oppression of the farmers, the hollowness of the American Dream, he display of human dignity and spirit in the face of adversity, and issues of social and economic justice.