..I""d like anything Miss Channing played in...I think that part of Miss Channing""s greatness lies in her ability to pick the best plays."In a classic scene, wet-eyed Eve uses her captivating, acting abilities to tell her dressing room audience the hard-luck, melancholy tale of her life story which began in Wisconsin as an only child." Gruber tossed McClane (with an all-day hangover headache) an aspirin bottle as his last gesture.Zeus was able to pick the lock on McClane""s handcuffs with a splinter from the cable, and after McClane released Zeus"" cuffs, the two escaped moments before the bomb obliterated the tanker.She requested: "Let me tell your story," because she felt that everyone would find out about him eventually, but he refused, citing his father Jonathan""s wishes to not reveal himself until the world was ready: "My father believed that if the world found out who I really was, they""d reject me out of fear....lt means they never let him play the game again.(Later that night, to Annie) My father said he saw him years later playing under a made-up name in some 10th-rate league in Carolina.