Graham Greene credited as playing...
Joe Lambert
- 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.
- 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: Bonwit Teller. Who the hell would wanna blow up a department store?
- Connie Kowalski: Did ya ever seen a woman miss a shoe sale?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.