Zeus: He said, "how many were going to St. Ives, " right? The riddle begins, "As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives!" The guy and his wives aren't going anywhere.
John McClane: What are they doing?
Zeus: Sitting in the fucking road! Waiting on the moor! How the hell should I know?
Zeus: I told you 9th Avenue is the quickest way south.
John McClane: Stop all the goddamn yellin'! I know what I'm doing.
Zeus: Not even God knows what you're doing!
Zeus: Didn't I hear you say you didn't even like your brother?
Simon: There's a difference, you know, between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window.
Zeus: Why do you keep calling me Jesus? Do I look Puerto Rican to you?
John: That guy back there called you Jesus.
Zeus: He didn't say Jesus. He said hey, Zeus. My name's Zeus.
John: Zeus?
Zeus: Yeah, Zeus! As in Father of Apollo? Mount Olympus? Don't fuck with me or I'll shove a lightning bolt up your ass?
John McClane: You know this guy Simon we're talking to?
Zeus: Yeah.
John McClane: I threw his little brother off the thirty-second floor of Nakatomi Towers out in L.A. I guess he's a little pissed off about it.
Zeus: Wait a minute. You mean to tell me I'm in this shit 'cause some white cop threw some white asshole's brother off a roof?
Zeus: So what's up with this L.A. Thing? You famous or something?
John McClane: Yeah, for about five minutes.
Zeus: Don't tell me. Rodney King, right?
John McClane: Fuck you.
John McClane: I'll tell you what your problem is, you don't like me 'cause you're a racist!
Zeus: What?
John McClane: You're a racist! You don't like me 'cause I'm white!
Zeus: I don't like you because you're gonna get me killed!
John McClane: Listen, you fail I cover your ass. I fail you cover my ass!
Zeus: And if we both fail?
John McClane: Then we're both fucked!
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?
[John shoots one of the mercs in the ship's cargo hold.]
John McClane: What was that?
[He turns around and gets kicked by Targo.]
Targo: He said don't shoot.
John McClane: Yeah, I'll cut you a deal. Crawl out from that rock you're hiding under and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
Simon: How colorful.
Simon: Why was the phone busy? Who were you calling?
John McClane: The Psychic Hotline!
Simon: I'm a soldier, not a monster. Even though I sometimes work for monsters.
John McClane: Yo, partner! Wait up.
Zeus: Hey, hey, hey, hey, I ain't your partner. I ain't your neighbor, your brother, or your friend. I'm your total stranger.
Zeus: What the fuck are you doin'?
John McClane: Interrogatin' him.
Zeus: Well, what's he gonna tell you, "I'm dead"?
John McClane: Well, I ain't gonna know 'til I ask him, am I?
Zeus: Now, you got about ten seconds before those guys see you. And when they do, they will kill you! You understand? You are about to have a very bad day.
John McClane: Hey, guys. Vicky O'Brien. Aqueduct security. We had a report of a guy coming through here with eight reindeer. Yeah, they say he was a jolly old fat guy with a snowy white beard, cute little red and white suit. I'm surprised you didn't see him.
Simon: Holy toledo, somebody had fun.
Chosen answer: He sees the reflection of his friend's badge number that he remembered from their conversation about the lottery earlier, so knows the badge was taken from his dead friend.
Captain Defenestrator