The creature cranes its neck up in fear (possibly having learned that this is an appropriate way to greet a stranger from his first meeting with Elliott." The dam burst from the explosion, unleashing a torrent of water at McClane, who steered his truck in the opposite direction, and then climbed atop his truck to grab an escape hatch ladder on the roof of the tunnel to avoid being drowned.There""s something about the dead silence of an office building at night.Not quite real.The traffic down below was something hat didn""t have anything to do with me.(He casually placed his revolver on his desk top).Suddenly, a brooding appearance of a towering apparition was mirror-reflected in Marlowe""s office window-pane." He was not intent on killing the two escapees who had a 12-hour lead, and was often in conflict with over-zealous, brutish police Captain Frank Gibbons (Charles McGraw) who wished to capture them either alive or dead.