He""s Hans Gruber""s brother" - the psychopathic brother of terrorist Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), whom McClane killed at the Nakatomi Towers in LA in the first film set in 1988.Rather than traveling westward on horses as the frontiersmen did, the two modern-day cowboys - long-haired bikers - travel eastward from Los Angeles - the end of the traditional frontier - on decorated Harley-Davidson choppers on an epic journey into the unknown for the ""American dream"".Smith (ABC-TV), John Chancellor (NBC-TV), Walter Cronkite (CBS-TV), and a fictional fourth-place network, the Union Broadcasting System (UBS-TV), with silver-haired, veteran news anchor Howard Beale (Peter Finch).Picard reached the dying Kirk; and assured him that they had "made a difference"; Kirk""s final words were: "(The) least I could do.