Mad Max 2 Page #11

MAX goes back to work, putting the finishing touches to

the ramp.

GYRO CAPTAIN:

Men, too, if that's your

inclination. Jesus! All we've got

to do is get away from that

Humungus. With you driving the

tanker, we can do it! I know you

can. I saw you out there. Stay

with us Max. Drive the tanker.

MAX gets up, shaking his head.

MAX:

I haven't got time to explain. Just

believe me - I've got everything I

want.

The CAPTAIN starts to interrupt but MAX cuts him short.

MAX:

Good luck tomorrow. I hope you make

it.

MAX puts out his hand.

The CAPTAIN, a little surprised, shakes hands with him.

GYRO CAPTAIN:

Thanks. Thanks a lot.

The CAPTAIN walks back towards the GROUP watching from

Pappagallo's tent. He shrugs his shoulders.

MAX opens the door of the black-on-black.

107. OUTSIDE THE COMPOUND. BRIDGE OF CARS. NIGHT.

MAX eases the black car onto the metal plates.

The wide wheels rumble slowly across the makeshift

bridge.

MAX revs the motor to get over the last hump, the plugs

in the exhausts muffling the sound of the big engine.

The Humungus's bizarre ravings continue to boom across

the wasteland.

106. THE WASTELAND NEAR THE COMPOUND. NIGHT.

The black-on-black eases away from the compound.

The DOG is edgy, growling. MAX takes hold of his

shotgun.

There is a thump! Something lands on the roof.

The DOG flies at the window snarling. MAX jams the

barrel against the roof.

A face appears, leaning over the windscreen, peering in

at MAX. It's the FERAL KID.

He grins and tumbles through the passenger's window.

He grabs hold of MAX'S hand, shaking it.

The FERAL KID laughs, settling in to the seat.

The car continues to roll forward.

MAX:

Get out. Scat! Go back.

The FERAL KID looks at him, puzzled, then throws his

head back, howling.

MAX stops the car, looking around, nervous.

The first light of dawn appears on the horizon.

MAX turns to the FERAL KID:

MAX:

You're a fine kid, but you can't

come. You've gotta learn - don't

get close to people. It can churn

you up ...

The KID can't understand a word, so just grins.

MAX thrusts his hand into his back pocket and produces

the hurdy-gurdy.

He shoves it into the FERAL KID'S hands, opens the door

and pushes him out.

109. THE WASTELAND. DAWN.

As the FERAL KID gets to his feet the black-on-black

accelerates away, surging up the rise towards the

Humungus encampment.

The rapid burst of power fires the four plugs out of the

exhausts. The big engine roars.

110. THE RISE ABOVE THE COMPOUND. DAWN.

WEZ springs to his feet. His face covered in a white

war paint. His eyes searching out the darkness. He

starts running... towards the Humungus machine.

A GAYBOY BERSERKER is running with him. As they climb

into the vehicle, the HUMUNGUS - sitting on a rock near

the VICTIMS on the poles - gets to his feet.

He bellows with rage as WEZ drives the vehicle off in

pursuit of Max. The TWO VICTIMS, still strapped to the

front, lift their heads.

111. THE HUMUNGUS MACHINE. DAWN.

From the Humungus machine WEZ sees six other vehicles

stream across the landscape in pursuit of the

black-on-black (One tow truck, two dune buggies, two

street cars and a bike).

The TOADIE emerges bewildered from where he has been

sleeping under the fuel tanks of the Humungus Machine.

112. A ROAD NEAR THE COMPOUND. DAWN.

The black-on-black achieves the road...

The DOG is looking back through the passenger window as

we see the first of the pursuing vehicles rumble onto

the road ...

MAX hits the supercharger switch ...

The big engine whines up.

Once again, the DOG climbs down under the seat.

The Humungus machine rockets onto the road... and

begins to overtake the other six Marauder vehicles one

by one ...

WIPE.

113. THE HIGHWAY. EARLY MORNING.

MAX is giving the black-on-black all its got ...

In the Humungus machine WEZ, the GAYBOY BERSERKER, and

the TOADIE have left the rest of the Marauders well

behind ...

The big machine seems to be encroaching on the black-

on-black.

WEZ shouts instructions to the GAYBOY BERSERKER who

comes to his side.

The GAYBOY BERSERKER slides behind the wheel as WEZ

clambers forward onto the front of the vehicle.

The GAYBOY BERSERKER reaches down. His hand rests on a

toggle switch next to three gas bottles marked:

NITROUS OXIDE:

At the front of the vehicle WEZ grabs a huge exhaust

pipe jutting into the air. In spite of the heat, he

tears the pipe off the mounting. He signals to the

GAYBOY BERSERKER.

The GAYBOY BERSERKER flicks down the toggle switch:

there is a mighty roar matched by a massive surge of

power in the Humungus machine...

The TWO VICTIMS on the front scream... MAX is

bewildered by the massive acceleration.

The Humungus machine leaps alongside the black-on-black.

WEZ swings the chrome pipe down through the front

windscreen - into MAX'S face.

114. A CURVE IN THE HIGHWAY. MORNING.

The black-on-black takes out a guide post and leaves the

road ... rolling over and over.

Inside the car MAX - his face bloodied - and the DOG are

slammed around inside the cabin of the black-on-black.

It continues rolling, over and over again, into a

gully...

115. THE CREEK BED. MORNING.

What is left of the car comes to rest, upside down,

among the boulders of a dry creek bed. MAX is slumped,

dangling in his harness - his face and body bloodied and

broken. Something moves ... it's the DOG pulling

himself out of the wreckage. He licks and paws at MAX'S

face. One eye flickers open.

116. ROADSIDE. MORNING.

WEZ stands looking down into the gully. Another vehicle

has arrived. TWO GAYBOY BERSERKERS and the TOADIE

scramble down towards the wreck carrying Jerry cans.

WEZ:

Don't waste him. If he's alive...

I want him.

117. THE CREEK BED. MORNING.

By an enormous force of will, MAX frees himself from the

harness and pulls himself through the window of the

wreck.

He falls to the ground, dragging his crippled body into

the shadow of a large boulder, hiding there.

The DOG confronts the MARAUDERS, snarling, standing

between them and the wreck.

One of the GAYBOY BERSERKERS rises his crossbow...

MAX watches, grim-faced, as the DOG falls dead.

The THREE MARAUDERS run to the vehicle.

While the TOADIE prepares to siphon off the gas, the

other two peer into the crushed cabin.

Perplexed, they examine the wreck more closely, looking

for MAX ...

ONE of them sees the drag marks, leading down the creek

bed.

He signals to the OTHER MARAUDER... MAX prepares to

defend himself ... the TOADIE prises the cap off the

black car's fuel tank.

The booby trap fizzles and explodes... the petrol

ignites... the THREE MARAUDERS are engulfed by a giant

fireball.

MAX looks past the flames, staring up at WEZ, not taking

his eyes off him...

118. ROADSIDE. MORNING.

WEZ and the OTHER MARAUDERS watch the great pillar of

smoke rise up into the sky.

They return to their vehicles.

119. INSIDE THE COMPOUND. MORNING.

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