I do not own Die Hard…..Sadly
"Joseph Takagi." He clarified, and casually went down each step, "Born in Kyoto, 1937," Hans listened. "Family immigrated to San Antonio California, 1939," Hans went on list off all of 's achievements in order with exact dates and locations, eyeing each Asian American man in the room. The rest of the men formed a perimeter around the hostages like wolves around prey.
Penny to, eyed the crowd, her face bearing a mask of fear while internally she studied each and every face in the room. The slime ball who hit on her at the bar was nearly hyperventilating near the center, Mr. Takagi had addressed her before at the bar and she scanned the crowd looking for a familiar face.
Penny nudged Karl and discretely jerked her head toward Mr. Takagi who stood in the middle of the room near the fountain. Karl nodded and pulled her arm into the crowd slowly with the gun still pressed to her head. After a few seconds they caught Hans's eye and nodded to the elderly Japanese man.
Hans seemed to understand and continued to talk as he neared Mr. Takagi, "Vice Chairman on the Nakatomi investment group…."
"Enough." Mr. Takagi intervened, Hans turned quickly, "And Father of five." He finished off, "I am Takagi." The man stated unafraid.
Hans nodded, "How do you do?" the German asked politely, "It's a pleasure to meet you." Karl passed Penny off to Hans and swept the old man off away from the crowd to the protests of several. A young woman glared fiercely at Hans which caught his eye since he turned extremely slowly while keeping his eyes trained on her. Penny felt and white hot flash of some unknown emotion and went stiff until their eyes left each other and they left for the elevator.
In the large elevator, Hans hummed 'Ode to Joy' and Takagi eyed him like one would a mad man, Penny had been released and stood calmly in the middle of the Karl and his younger brother Tony, She assumed they were brothers for they looks so much alike.. "Nice suit." Hans noted randomly, "John Phillips, London."
Penny almost chuckled, Hans always had an eye from the finer things in life, One of the things she would often tease him about when they were younger. "I have two myself."
Without Missing a beat they strode out of the elevator and down a series of halls ways all the way to the end where they were met with a grand red room with several tables scattered around it, at least three had scale models on them of various projects around the world.
"An when Alexander saw the breath of his domain he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer." Hans quoted as he stood before a large model of the Nakatomi building itself and chuckled, "Benefits of a classical education."
They continued into the room and Takagi had figured out that Penelope wasn't really a hostage. "oh, that is…" Hans gasped, happily eyeing the model of a large bridge, "Beautiful." She circled the table with obvious awe in relation to the extreme detail and work men ship put into it. 'Well it's nice to know he's attention span hasn't changed' Penny joked to her self.
"I always enjoyed making models as a boy, the pure attention to every conceivable detail. Beautiful." He explained, bringing back to mind the hundreds of models that were often displayed about his room as a child.
"It that what this is all about?" Tagaki asked incredulously, "our project in Indonesia?"
"Contrary to what you people may think, we have already developed everything with the permission of the locals and the Indonesian government." Takagi defended
"I believe you." Hans assured him, "I read the article in Forbs."
He sighed as if disappointed that their conversation must come to an end, " , I could talk about industrialization and men's fashion all day but I'm afraid work must intrude." The master thief led them into a large conference room, where Theo sat with his computer waiting for them.
"And my Associate here has some questions for you." Hans held the door open as Takagi, Karl, tony and Penny filed into the room, "Fill in the blanks questions mind you." He muttered and walked in after them and took a seat at the end of the table.
Takagi leaned over Theo shoulder and squinted, "You need our code?" he asked shocked, "You came here to access our computer?"
He scoffed, "Any information you could get would be reported to Tokyo and Changed by the morning, you won't be able to blackmail our executives, threaten our profits…."
"Sit down." Hans barked in an irritated manner, then glanced over his shoulder at Penny who stood patiently, "That includes you my dear, it is impolite to hover."
Penny nodded and perched herself on the edge of a table behind Karl and Theo. Takagi glared at the leader but reluctantly took a seat.
"Mr. Takagi I'm really not interested in your computer." He explained, "But I need the code Key because I am interested in the six hundred and forty million dollars in negotiable bearer bonds you have locked up in your vault and the computer controls the vault."
"You want money?" Takagi seemed more confused by the minute, "What sort of Terrorists are you?"
Penny rolled her eyes and Hans chuckled, "Now who said we were terrorists?"
Theo tapped on Penelope's knee, "Hey how much do you want to bet, that Han's is going to have to kill money bags over here and we're have to do it the long way." he whispered, Penny had no doubt in her mind the Takagi was going to end up dead by the end of the night, "ten bucks on yes." She whispered, Theo grinned broadly and went back to his computer unnoticed.
Hans pulled out his pistol and began to unscrew the silencer, "The code please." He asked politely, "it's useless to you." Takagi shook his head, "there are seven safe codes and the key code is only one of them, you will never get it open."
"Then theres no reason not to tell us." Hans reasoned,
"I told you" Theo gloated, "It's not over yet." Karl insisted, Hans eye the trio, Penny grinned sheepishly and waved slightly, then looked down.
Hans turned back to the Japanese man calmly, "That is a very nice suit Mr. Takagi, it would be a shame to ruin it."
'Yep, he's going to die.' Penelope mentally confirmed, "I am going to count to three, there will not be a four. Give me the code." Hans ordered.
"One" He hovered his hand over the pistol on the counter, "two" he waited a second, "Three."
"I am telling you I don't know it, I'm just a chairman, I'm telling you, you're just going to have to kill me." Penny flinched, 'shouldn't have said that.' She thought and looked away slightly
Hans shrugged, "Okay" he raise the pistol without the slightest hesitation and shot the man in the head, sending his entails splattering over the glass door.
"We'll do it the hard was, Tony see if you can dispose of that." He motioned to the now lifeless, and headless, corpse.
Karl sighed bitterly and handed theo a folded up ten dollar bill, "Karl you better go up and check on Heinrich's work in the machine room." Hans ordered.
Karl stood and Penny Couched slightly, "Excuse me." She snapped her fingers and opened her palm, "I believe I won a bet of some kind," she reminded him. He rolled his eyes and cursed in German while opening his wallet, "Ten bucks right?" he asked.
"Fifteen actually." She corrected him, he trust a five dollar bill and a ten dollar bill in her hand. "Much obliged." She grinned and pocketed the cash.
A ruckus from the other room called all of their attentions. Karl and tony drew their weapons and ran into the adjoining room, and Penny stood beside Hans and Theo in the door way.
Karl checked each room, and they remaining three entered the room, "Nothing." Karl reported,
"See to Heinrich." Hans ordered, and the older blonde ran out the room, "Now you can break the code?" he asked.
"You didn't bring me along for my charming personality." Theo said deadpanned, "No Theo, that's what I am here for." Penny patted his shoulder. "Uh Huh, Miss. Fifteen dollars." Theo hummed knowingly, "I haven't the foggiest idea what you're talking about." She said innocently.