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Die Hard 2 (1990): why does John McClane smoke?

Why the plot of Die Hard 2 depends on John McClane being a smoker

Brown leather retro driver's seat with deep shadows from bright sunlight

Whose line is it anyway? Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat explained

The Driver’s Seat and the ‘second narrative’ theory