In this festive episode of Plot Patrol, we put the cuffs on Die Hard—the Christmas action classic that somehow smuggled one of the tightest plots in cinema history into a skyscraper full of broken glass and machine guns. Host Duncan McCauley is joined by retired NYPD detective DelVecchio to assess whether John McClane is a believable New York cop, how realistic the LAPD response really is, and just how many internal investigations would follow a night like this.

Bare feet, bad decisions, excellent structure. Ho ho ho indeed.