McClane attempted to circumvent the impending crash by lighting hand-held torches and signaling the plane as it landed, but he failed - everyone was killed on board (Stuart gloated: "That concludes our object lesson for this evening").The husband""s throat was cut (with evidence of "arterial spray" on he wall), and then the killer shot (and then strangled) the wife.The battle ended with theReliantfatally disabled, the death of Joachim, and mortally-wounded Khan setting he Genesis torpedo to detonate within four minutes ("To the last, I will grapple with thee.Soon after, a low-budget British remake directed by Burt Balaban was released titledStranger From Venus (1954, UK)(akaThe Venusianin the US), starring Patricia Neal reprising her original role (but named Susan North).