Hans Gruber, meanwhile, invokes this deliberately. Subverted with Gruber, whose prepare involves blowing up all the hostages and escape in the confusion, even with not inflicting avoidable cruelty on the hostages. Subverted with Dick Thornburg. When Dick makes an attempt to interview John and Holly, he gets a nicely-deserved punch in the deal with, courtesy of the latter. Holly, when Hans discovers John is her husband.Hans: Mrs. McClane?