""" McClane replied: "How about...""Yippee-ki-yay, motherfu---!""" as he pulled the trigger, killing Gabriel as he took a bullet through his own body.There was an envelope under the rim of the fountain, suggesting a trip and this complexing question: "What is 21 out of 42?" They were instructed to go to the home team dugout at Yankee Stadium, as McClane deduced: "It""s a wild goose chase is what it is" and realized that they (and all the city""s police) had been deliberately sent away from downtown""s Wall Street area." It meant "no satellite, safe house, support, or extraction." Although Hunt could be returned to Washington to be punished as a "rogue extremist" by the DOD, he would be allowed to escape from government custody - to operate and track down Cobalt on his own.]The film""s sole Academy Award nomination was for Nora Ephron""s Best Original Screenplay - written directly for the screen - it lost to Tom Schulman""s script for director Peter Weir""sDead Poets Society." Not wanting o be seen, she stealthily peers at them through the front door window as they can""t restrain themselves for a goodbye kiss.