] They were interrupted by "Simon""s" phone call to the precinct - the German-speaking, stuttering terrorist demanded to speak to McClane and "ebony samaritan" Zeus, suggesting that he "join the game" too.In his time, Howard Beale had been a mandarin of television, the grand old man of news, with a HUT rating of 16 and a 28 audience share.Reggie and Pam ran to the barn, where she attacked he killer with a chainsaw and sliced his left arm, but then her weapon-tool conked out.Sidney: He probably wants me to break a leg.Sally: No, an arm, he said.I told him you were sure the item would be in Mr.Hunsecker""s column in tomorrow""s paper.Sidney: It isn""t.For five consecutive days, the tough national columnist Hunsecker has frozen out poverty-threatened, go-between Sidney and failed to mention one of his clients.