Since McClane is on suspension from the New York City Police Department, his boss, Inspector Walter Cobb, brought him in since he got a call from a man who bombed the Bonwit-Teller department store known as Simon, who wants McClane to walk into Harlem wearing a racist billboard sign. Cobb, along with fellow detectives, Joe Lambert, Connie Kowalski and Ricky Walsh, are driving McClane to Harlem in the police van. It is revealed that McClane is once again estranged from his wife Holly and has nearly become an alcoholic. Ricky reports that there were three killings in the Redhook section and 14 dump trucks stolen from the yard in Staten Island. McClane asked about yesterday's lottery number and asked Ricky if he still uses his badge number, which was 6991, as his number and Ricky nodded. As t