Probably Unanswerable Questions
Simon’s monitoring and task count; next-day news coverage
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- How many tasks Simon expected McClane to solve, and how he monitored them, remain open questions.
- The next day’s newspaper lead could be the subway crash, multiple attacks, school threat, flood or McClane; New York under attack is a possible umbrella headline.
- A multi-day version would allow ongoing newspaper headlines; filming amid New York’s 1994 sports excitement is recalled.
- Mike and the Mad Dog are imagined delaying discussion of the attacks until after Knicks–Pacers and returning to Rangers coverage; the impression is fictional.