Whether you're going to war with a foreign country, hooking up with a girl you probably won't respect in the morning, or knocking over an LA high rise with a team of anonymous henchman, it's ALWAYS a good idea to have a way out.
Hans Gruber's plan to flee the scene of the crime was both brilliant in nature and incredibly short-sided. Let's imagine for a moment, that everything goes according to plan. They jack the vault, blow the roof, and make their getaway in the ambulance stashed away in the back of their cargo truck. Genius, really, unless you're one of Gruber's gunmen. I can't believe that during the ride to Nakatomi, when Gruber's crew was crammed into the truck with said ambulance, not a one of them thought to ask: "How the hell are we all going to fit in this thing?" I mean how many bodies does your typical ambulance hold? Six, maybe? And how many terrorists were there? That's right - TWICE that many.
If I know Gruber like I think I do, he was well aware of this. He doesn't seem like the type to watch his henchmen pile into a tiny ambulance like it's some sort of clown car or Mexican transport. No, it's my contention that Hans KNEW his numbers would be thinned by the end of the night, and he wasn't planning on bringing the whole gang with him on the way out. So it's actually a good thing McClane started picking off terrorists one at a time. Each one of Gruber's men that bit the dust was a bigger cut of money for the rest of them, and one less he'd have to send up to the roof before it went bang.
Sometimes I wonder how Die Hard 2 would have been different if Gruber and a few of his boys had successfully executed their escape plan. Nothing against Colonel Stewart and his gang of Mercs, but a second round of Gruber vs. McClane would have been AWESOME.
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