When Harry's opponent conjured up a talking cobra-like snake that spokeparseltongue(snake language), Harry realized that he also had the mysterious and uncommon ability, as aparselmouth, to speak the snake language.Gruber was killed when his helicopter descended under electrical power wires while trying to machine-gun McClane who had attempted to create a diversion - as Gruber smiled at McClane before firing, his copter's rotor blades were hit by a cable box and the wires dislodged by McClane with his last two bullets ("Say hello to your brother"), electrocuting them and causing their copter to explode in a fireball when it crashed into a large power pole." Two of Friendly's goons threaten Timothy J."Kayo" Dugan (Pat Henning): "Why don't you keep that big mouth of yours shut?...What are you, a wise guy?" Dugan replies: "If I was wise, I wouldn't be no longshoreman for hirty years.During a lightning storm, she pledged her faith in him (although admitting he had made a "few mistakes") after he had written her from prison and married her.