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Nightmare Fuel / Live Free or Die Hard

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  • Gabriel opening both ends of a one-way tunnel that McClane and Farrell are traveling through, and then shutting the lights off. The man to whom he orders this actually hesitates. The ensuing wreckage likely killed or at least seriously injured dozens of innocent people.
    • Gabriel even berates the man for hesitating - not only does Gabriel see nothing wrong with this level of wanton destruction, he considers not wanting people to die a weakness.
  • Gabriel and his men broadcast their video message to the media, which is made by splicing clips of dialogue from speeches given by every single President from FDR up to George W. Bush. Here's a transcript:
    [We hear "Hail to the Chief" played over an image of an American flag. Suddenly, the music slows down and loses pitch]
    John F. Kennedy: My fellow Americans:
    Ronald Reagan: It is time to
    Harry Truman: strike
    George W. Bush: fear
    George H. W. Bush: into
    Franklin Roosevelt: the minds of
    George W. Bush: the citizenry.
    John F. Kennedy: Ask not what your country can do
    George W. Bush: to avert
    Bill Clinton: this
    Jimmy Carter: crisis. The answer is
    Harry Truman: nothing whatsoever.
    George W. Bush: Our military
    Ronald Reagan: strength
    Richard Nixon: is
    Ronald Reagan: in
    Bill Clinton: this
    George W. Bush: case
    Franklin D. Roosevelt: useless!
    George H. W. Bush: Read my lips:
    Ronald Reagan: The
    George W. Bush: great
    Jimmy Carter: confident
    Richard Nixon: roar
    George W. Bush: of
    Ronald Reagan: the American
    Ronald Reagan: progress
    Lyndon B. Johnson: and
    Gerald Ford: growth
    George W. Bush: has
    Franklin D. Roosevelt: come
    Harry Truman: to
    Richard Nixon: an end.
    George W. Bush: All the
    Harry Truman: vital
    Bill Clinton: technology
    Richard Nixon: that
    George W. Bush: this
    Lyndon B. Johnson: nation
    Gerald Ford: holds
    Franklin Roosevelt: dear -
    John F. Kennedy: all
    Bill Clinton: communication,
    Gerald Ford: transportation,
    Bill Clinton: Internet
    Bill Clinton: connectivity,
    George W. Bush: electrical
    George W. Bush: power,
    John F. Kennedy: critical
    Bill Clinton: utilities -
    Lyndon B. Johnson: Their
    Ronald Reagan: fate
    George W. Bush: now
    Franklin Roosevelt: rests
    Ronald Reagan: in
    Richard Nixon: our
    George W. Bush: hands.
    George W. Bush: We will not tire. We will not falter. And we will not fail.
    George W. Bush: Thank you.
    Richard Nixon: And a
    George W. Bush: happy
    George W. Bush: Independence Day
    Dwight D. Eisenhower: to everyone.
    [the footage ends]
    Casper: [impressed] That was creepy!
    Trey: I tried to find more Nixon.
  • Then there's the message Trey writes, overlapped with an image of the Capitol Building, which then blows up.
  • We see the East Coast shut down. All the lights go out. New York. Baltimore. DC. A hospital goes down. A woman gets trapped in an elevator. Everything is dark everywhere.

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