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." [This is the first of many displacements Uncle Charlie makes upon the family, as young Charlie had hoped.As she twists her collar, Annabelle contemptuously rebuffs and spurns Johnnie after he has been rejected as a soldier without allowing him any opportunity to explain."In the 70 year-oldWestern Uniontelegram that Marty had received from "Doc" in the previous film (on the night of November 12, 1955), he learned that "Doc" had become a blacksmith in 1885 while vainly attempting to repair the DeLorean - which was hidden in the abandoned Delgado mineshaft near the old Boot Hill Cemetery outside of town." He was enticed by promises that he animal would fatten up nicely in time for Christmas dinner ("Christmas day.