His father (William Daniels) finds his son upstairs and wonders if anything is wrong.Inarticulately, Ben tells his father that he is rudderless - he has no plans or direction o his life and is worried about his future:Ben: I""m just.McClane was forced to drop his gun and admit "You got me," but got into a laughing fit with Gruber (and his thug assistant Eddie (Dennis Hayden)) to distract them.Those little slices of Death.How I loathe them."Under the credits, in close-up, a young girl (at 1:20 am in her bedroom) stirred up a paper mache mixture, dipped a newspaper clipping into it, and applied the wet paper to a surface.The drab, gritty black and white cinematography of the expressionistic film emphasized the menacing, warping, and harrowing power of alcohol, as some of the booze-soaked scenes were shot through or in the presence of numerous whiskey bottles and shot glasses.