Sharon Washington credited as playing...
Officer Jane
- Simon Gruber: This, gentlemen, as they say, is where the plot thickens. I have put 2,400 pounds of explosive in one of the 1,446 schools in greater New York. It is fitted with a timer set to explode at exactly 3:00 p.m. Thank you. Your silence says I'm understood.
- Inspector Cobb: Did you say 2,400 pounds?
- Simon Gruber: Yes, but please don't interrupt again. Simon says, if you attempt to evacuate schools, the bomb will be detonated by radio; and gentlemen, someone will be watching. Repeat, one school will be dismissed at 3:00 p.m., permanently, unless...
- Inspector Cobb: Unless what?
- Simon Gruber: Unless John McClane and his new best friend complete the tasks I set them. John, are you listening?
- John McClane: Yeah.
- Simon Gruber: The pay phone beyond Hope Tompkins Square Park. Twenty minutes. Go by foot; no rush. If you're really clever, you'll learn the location of the bomb and the code to disarm it. Oh, and by the way, gentlemen, we got something of a bargain on radio detonators. The only problem is the darn things seem to respond to police and FBI frequencies. So if I were you, I'd keep off your radios.
- Inspector Cobb: Simon, wait.
- [Simon hangs up]
- Inspector Cobb: 2,400 pounds of that liquid stuff. My god. Get me the commissioner.
- Officer Jane: He's doing a press conference. He's supposed to be here in half an hour.
- Inspector Cobb: All right, Ricky, get every senior officer on the site and get 'em here right away. You're not gonna give me any jurisdictional nonsense on this?
- FBI Agent Andy Cross: I got two kids in the school on 64th Street. What can I do to help you?
- Inspector Cobb: How many men have you got?
- FBI Agent Andy Cross: 75. But if I push the panic button, I can get 500 from Washington.
- Inspector Cobb: When?
- FBI Agent Andy Cross: 2:30, 3:00.
- Bill Jarvis, from Another Organization: Between now and then...
- Inspector Cobb: We're gonna have to do this all by ourselves.