From the copter, he was dropped onto the 747""s left wing, where Grant emerged ("I""ll do him") and confronted him, resulting in Grant being bloodily sucked into a cylindrical jet engine after a fight with McClane atop the wing.The Scorpion King only awakened once every 5,000 years.The last known expedition to reach the oasis was sent by Ramses the Fourth over 3,000 years ago, and Alexander the Great, Caesar, and Napoleon had also sent troops on unsuccessful searches.Henri excuses his graying hair and older age:Let""s just say I""m old enough to know what to do with my young feelings." [Later, he pessimistically wonders: "Somebody might be sick or something."]Ann teasingly compares her own dignified and sophisticated literature choices with the pulp mysteries that her elderly father reads (Unsolved Crimesis conspicuously under his arm):Ann: Here I am, practically a child, and I wouldn""t read the things you read.