Editing Die Hard with a Vengeance (section)

== Plot ==
The [[Bonwit Teller]] department store in [[New York City]] is blown up by a bomb during the [[Commuting|morning commute]]. A man identifying himself as "Simon" telephones the [[New York Police Department]] (NYPD) and claims responsibility. Making demands in the form of a '[[Simon Says]]' game, he threatens to detonate another bomb unless Police Lieutenant [[John McClane]] is sent to [[Harlem]] wearing an intentionally provocative [[sandwich board]] with a [[racial slur]] written on the board. The NYPD comply and send McClane to Harlem, where he is confronted by an electrician and shop owner named Zeus Carver. McClane explains his situation before a group of gang members also confront McClane over his sign. Carver intervenes and saves McClane, and they escape in a taxi.

They arrive at [[1 Police Plaza]], where Simon demands that the pair follow a timed challenge or he will set off more bombs. They agree and McClane eventually boards the [[3 (New York City Subway service)|3 train]] heading towards the [[Wall Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)|Wall Street station]] in order to defuse a bomb that Simon planted on it. Carver arrives at the station before McClane finds the bomb and throws it on the tracks just as it explodes. McClane and Carver regroup with the NYPD and meet some [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] and [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agents, who initially inform the pair that Simon is "Peter Krieg", a [[mercenary]] and former [[colonel]] in the [[National People's Army]]. They then reveal that Krieg's real name is Simon Peter Gruber, the brother of [[Hans Gruber (character)|Hans Gruber]], who McClane killed years earlier in [[Los Angeles]].{{Efn|As depicted in ''[[Die Hard]]'' (1988).}}

Simon then places another call to the NYPD, informing them that he has planted an explosive in one of the city's [[Primary school|elementary school]]s which is set to explode once class ends and can be triggered by the same radio frequencies utilized by law enforcement. Simon offers to give the authorities the school's location if McClane and Carver follow another timed challenge, warning that he will detonate the explosive if any evacuation attempts are carried out. While the pair solve Simon's next challenge, the NYPD begin to search all elementary schools in the city. McClane realizes that Simon is attempting to distract the NYPD away from [[Wall Street]], which has no schools, and travels to the [[Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building]]. He discovers that Simon's men have stolen $140 billion of [[Precious metal#Bullion|gold bullion]] from its vault using [[dump truck]]s. He follows the trucks into the under-construction [[New York City Water Tunnel No. 3]] while Carver continues Simon's challenges.

Simon blows up a [[cofferdam]] to flood the tunnel, but McClane escapes and reunites with Carver. Surviving a car chase with Simon's men, the pair find all the men were carrying exactly enough money to pay a [[Toll bridge|bridge toll]]. The pair sneak aboard a [[Tanker (ship)|tanker]] docked in the [[Long Island Sound]], but Simon's associates capture them and tie them up next to a bomb. Simon explains that his school threat was fake and broadcasts a message claiming that he is planning on destroying the tanker filled with the bullion to destabilize the [[Western world]]'s economy. After he leaves, Carver and McClane free themselves and escape the tanker just before the bomb detonates. As McClane and Carver are debriefed by the NYPD, McClane informs them that none of the bullion Simon's men stole was in the tanker's [[Hold (compartment)|cargo hold]], having deduced that Simon had intended to keep all of it for himself, using his knowledge of the Gruber family's ''[[modus operandi]]''.

While attempting to place a call to his estranged wife Holly, McClane glances at a bottle of [[aspirin]] given to him by Simon onboard the tanker and notices that it was purchased at a [[truck stop]] in [[Quebec]] on the [[Canada–United States border]]. McClane informs the NYPD of his discovery, and joins them and Carver as they rush towards a warehouse near the truck stop where Simon and his men are redistributing the bullion and planning their escape. The rest of Simon's men are quickly apprehended by law enforcement personnel, though Simon and his girlfriend Katya attempt to escape in a helicopter, attacking McClane. McClane shoots at an overhead power line which falls onto the helicopter, causing it to crash and explode, killing Simon and Katya. While they are celebrating their triumph, Carver persuades McClane to place another call to Holly.