C., the citizens of Athens, having suffered grievously under a tyrant, managed to depose and banish him.Now there were only five days until Murtaugh""s retirement.During a lunch break at Fast Eddie""s burger joint (to celebrate their reinstatement), while Murtaugh was cooking up "monster" burgers for them, Riggs noticed a nearby gang-member drug deal taking place across the street and in a back roadway.With the power back on, Link (in theNebuchadnezzar) was gravely concerned that the alarm systems would be triggered: "As soon as they open that door, it""s all over.Ellis, by radio, attempted to convince McClane to "stop messing up he works," and asked him to reveal the location of the detonators so that no one else would get hurt.To him it was a metaphor for he decay of contemporary culture.The same lack of individual integrity hat caused so many people to take the easy way out was rapidly turning he town of his dreams in.