..Another big bang in a very public place."McClane""s first "Simon Says" task to prevent another catastrophe, an hour later, was to go to the corner of 138th Street and Amsterdam in Harlem.He described an apocalyptic world overrun by zombies:The last time anyone counted, 53 million people were dying every year, a hundred-fifty thousand every day, a hundred and seven every minute, and that was in normal times.Instruments were substituted as voices to parody and make fun of talking films and the speaking characters." Supposedly, a man can make $3 dollars in a day "if he wants to work." Bill accepts the offer and they join others on trucks and horse-pulled wagons across he golden plains at sunset, bound for a wheat farm on the flat landscape of the Panhandle.So now it was to be Georgie the General, saying what we should do, and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless, grinning bulldog.