Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

Graham Greene: Joe Lambert

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• Ricky Walsh : [in the police van, bring down to Harlem as Simon instructed them to]  Next, fourteen dumptrucks stolen from a yard in Staten Island. Fourteen! Jesus! Somebody starting a construction company?

  Joe Lambert : No, it was John's landlady, gonna clean his apartment.

• Dr. Schiller : They want you to know who's doing it to you. So this name Simon is probably not an alias. It's probably Simon or some variation.

  Joe Lambert : [reading a rap sheet]  Simon, Robert E. Busted in '86. Extortion. Kidnapping. 10 to 15. Did 7 years for good behavior. Released on a state work furlough two months ago.

  Inspector Cobb : Check it.

  John McClane : [Rick tosses something to John]  Thanks, Rick. Bob Simon was a bankrupt businessman who kidnapped his partner's daughter. He's a fuck-up, not a psycho. The guy we're looking for is nuts.

• Joe Lambert : Bonwit Teller. Who the hell would wanna blow up a department store?

  Connie Kowalski : Did ya ever seen a woman miss a shoe sale?

• Connie Kowalski : [tailing John and Zeus]  Okay, they made it to the phone, but there's a problem.

  Inspector Cobb : Oh, what do you mean? How big a problem?

  Joe Lambert : Oh, about 300 pounds.

• Joe Lambert : [after a bomb detonates near Wall Street]  We got a shitload of cuts and bruises, a couple of concussions, some old guy's pacemaker stopped, and a pregnant girl's water broke. And that's all. How you doin', John?

  John McClane : I still can't hear too good.

  Joe Lambert : Well, it's a miracle you're still alive. It's a goddamn miracle.

  John McClane : Yeah, that's the problem, Joe.

  Joe Lambert : What?

  John McClane : The miracle part. What are the odds of us making it down here on time?

  Zeus Carver : [checking his glasses]  Zip.

  John McClane : That bomb was gonna go off no matter what. He wanted it to go off right down here.

  [to an EMT tending his injuries] 

  John McClane : Take this off me, Dave.

  Joe Lambert : Well, what's so special about this place?

  John McClane : I dunno. Something just doesn't add up.

• Inspector Cobb : Kowalski! Lambert! You know where to find McClane?

  Joe Lambert : Well, I kinda doubt you're gonna find him in church.

  Inspector Cobb : Well, you better find out what rock he's under and kick it over.

• Joe Lambert : What's up?

  Inspector Cobb : McClane was mentioning something about the Federal Reserve Building. Isn't that right near that Wall Street bomb site we just left?

  Joe Lambert : Yeah.

• Charles Weiss : [finding the school bomb]  Well... I'd say you could call off your search.

  Inspector Cobb : Can you stop it?

  Charles Weiss : I shouldn't even touch it. Who knows what kind of booby traps this thing's got. What about the code?

  Inspector Cobb : No word.

  Joe Lambert : When do we evacuate?

  Inspector Cobb : Simon says he sees one kid leave the building, boom!

  Joe Lambert : Fine, there's a chance that somebody's still watching, but we can't stand here with our thumb up our ass waiting for this freaking thing to blow up!

• Dr. Schiller : This guy wants to pound on you 'til you crumble. He wants you to dance to his tune, and then...

  John McClane : Put on a dress and fuck me?

  Dr. Schiller : I was going to say kill you. He's sitting on an awful lot of rage, and it could be manifested physically if he's stressed.

  Inspector Cobb : Someone he arrested? Somebody he pissed off?

  Joe Lambert : That could be one hell of a long list.

  John McClane : Fuck you, Joe.

• Inspector Cobb : [after Charlie demonstrates the binary liquid bomb]  That stuff has gotta be pretty rare. We oughta be able to find out if any of it's missing somewhere.

  Joe Lambert : Already did. Livermore Labs theft over the weekend.

  John McClane : He got enough to make another one, Joe?

  Joe Lambert : About 2,000 pounds.

  Inspector Cobb : Of that?

  Charles Weiss : The detonating mechanism could be anything; radio, electrical. Hell, you could use a beeper and phone it in.