“why not leave it up to the professionals?”

It’s supposed to take place in a small town, there aren’t too many “professionals”, however, as insurance for everybody’s safety, he agreed not to involve anybody else.

I think ‘infiltrate’ has a more surreptitious meaning behind it, breaking in while trying not to be discovered – kind of thing. ‘Raid’ to me indicates a violent act.

I guess ‘Die Hard’ would be close, but I’m looking at more of an ‘Ash’ from Evil Dead I/II, where he begins quite timid and grows into the loud-mouth antihero of ‘Army of Darkness’, but perhaps not quite as “larger than life”.

As far as McClane’s reason for being in the Nakatomi building, it was just as simple as that’s where his wife was. Not a very strong motivation at all, at least not until the shooting starts.

I guess also, paternal instinct may not be seen as a strong motivation for my character, at least not for anybody who doesn’t have children.