The intriguing, over-wrought film is a tragic, coming-of-age melodrama from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright William Inge""s original screenplay - it was Inge""s first story written directly for the screen and he received a nomination (and the film""s sole Oscar) for the Best Original Story and Screenplay for his work (one of the film""s two Academy Award nominations).Before he was captured and knocked out by the Master of Lake-town, Bard entrusted his last arrow to his son Bain ("Keep it safe.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." He then asked: "The Rabbit""s Foot, what is it?" Brassel replied: "Promise me you""ll stay, I""ll tell you." The crime of statutory rape put him into jail:But Doc, she was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and, uh, she told me she was eighteen and she was, uh, very willing, you know what I mean.