McClaine

McClaine was a police sergeant in the episode "The Trap".

Early Life

McClaine intervene when the coroner Billy Paloma call the police for to signalized the murder of his brother Lou presumed by a thief. In reality, it was a swindle. Lou fake his own death for collect his half a million dollar life insurance policy, helped by Billy and his wife Irene. The police comes, notice the poker that Billy recuperate, frightened that they find his DNA and pretend to analyze it himself. The sergeant was also present during the funeral. Closing his coffin for the incineration, Lou unconsciously listen his wife and his brother make love on his coffin. Accidently, Irene activates the crank of the travelator. They are interrupted by Lou's mother hysterical, escorted by McClaine and persuaded that Lou is living. She listen noises knocked by Lou for to open the coffin. However, Billy interrup the machine for to securize Lou and make believe to the policemean that his mother was insane. Watering the success of their plan with champagne, Lou expresses to obtain the check of the insurance, to leave to Brazil and change his face head. Irene say that it was not has good idea to leave with him, prtending that it was not realist for a widow and promise falsely to rejoin him months later, with Billy's help. Once in Brazil, Lou, with a new head, tried many gtimes to call Irene, falling every time on the answering machine. Six month later, Lou return at his home. Expressly, Irene simulate don't know him, and say him to speak with her husband Billy who don't know him, accusing him to be an insane impostor. Angry, Lou tried to agress his brother. Ironically, his brutality was provocated expressly for that he was arrested by the police. Lou admits his machination. However, McClaine n don't recognize him, persuaded that he had really seen the dead body the "real Lou Paloma". During the process, Linda and Billy lied perfectly and the only hope for Lou, his mother was becoming totally insane and illogical, pretending to be herself Josephine de Bauharnais. the lawyer conclude that the "impostor" was also Lou Paloma's murderer. Lou was executed in a electric chair. Irene and Billy celebrate their success in Brazil.

Behind the Scenes

• He was portrayed by James Tolkan.
• James Tolkan was well-known for portray James Strickland in the trilogy Back to the Future, with Michael J. Fox (Prosecutor) Lea Thompson (Sylvia Vane), Mary Ellen Trainor (Elizabeth Kamen), Lindsey Whitney Barry (Carrie-Ann Kamen) and Al White (Unidentified policeman) , realised by Robert Zemeckis.,