 Things aren t going well for John McClane: his marriage is breaking up, he s been suspended from the force and now the brother of Hans Gruber, the German terrorist he threw off a building a few years back, is threatening to blow up a school if McClane doesn t run around the city solving his demeaning and dangerous puzzles. With the help of Zeus, a Harlem electrician, McClane discovers Gruber s plot to distract the NYPD while he clears the federal bank of billions of dollars of gold.