Mad Max 2 Page #15

It begins to move...

153. OFF ROAD. THE FERAL KID IS RESCUED. DAY.

The FERAL KID runs.

WEZ streams in behind the MARAUDERS in the bike and

street car.

They are bearing down fast...

When a rope drops from above, swinging past the KID.

The KID grabs it and is hauled up just as the vehicles

pass under him. The gyrocopter banks away...

The FERAL KID flies through the air.

A GAYBOY BERSERKER in a road racer looks up to see the

gyrocopter and the KID...

He swings a 4-pak around on its axis and fires.

Three of the four arrows hit the gyrocopter in its

under-belly...

The aircraft makes a terrible noise and dips radically,

dropping down towards the tanker.

The KID clings desperately to the rope... looking up

and then down at the rapidly approaching tanker.

154. THE TANKER CABIN. DAY.

MAX struggles to free himself from the bear claws and

tries to reload the gun...

The GAYBOY BERSERKER scrambles over the bull bar

reaching for the crossbow...

MAX lets go of the wheel and grabs the rear view mirror,

tearing it free and throwing it at the GAYBOY BERSERKER.

He slips back behind the bull bar...

155. THE SIDE OF THE TANKER. DAY.

While the GYRO CAPTAIN struggles to keep his machine in

the air, the KID reaches out - trying to grab hold of

the tanker's exhaust stacks.

He can't reach...

The gyro drops again...

The KID grabs the barbed wire but can't hold it...

156. THE TANKER CABIN. DAY.

MAX is struggling to. pull the bear claw.out of his.

shoulder when he sees the FERAL KID fly past the missing

driver's door.

MAX throws his arm out as far as it will go... grabbing

hold of the KID, hauling him-into the tanker.

MAX and the KID look out as the gyrocopter bucks wildly

and crashes into the ground.

As the Marauders swarm around the tanker, a SMEGMA CRAZY

shoots out yet another tyre.

A MOHAWK BIKER fires... exploding another tyre.

158. THE TANKER CABIN. DAY.

MAX shouts at the FERAL KID, indicating the cartridges

rolling around on the floor...

The KID recovers the cartridges, MAX hands him the

gun...

The GAYBOY BERSERKER has crawled back onto the bonnet

and is reaching for the crossbow.

The KID tries to insert the first cartridge upside

down...

MAX:

No! The other way!!

The KID slips in the first cartridge, then the second...

He snaps the gun shut and tries to aim it at the GAYBOY

BERSERKER... but can't find the trigger.

The GAYBOY BERSERKER raises the crossbow...

MAX grabs the gun and fires...

The GAYBOY BERSERKER disappears over the side...

MAX rams the barrel into the left arm pit of the BEAR

CLAW BIKER.

He fires...

The BEAR CLAW BIKER falls away... leaving his arm and

crossbow gauntlet embedded in MAX'S shoulder.

159. THE REAR OF THE TANKER. DAY.

Bellowing through his loudspeakers, the HUMUNGUS

organizes the destruction of the tanker.

The 4-pak street car surges forward and discharges its

arrows...

Two more tyres shred away...

The tanker shudders.

The FERAL KID looks out of the passenger window. MAX

struggles to control the tanker.

The FERAL KID climbs through the smashed windscreen and

onto the bonnet...

MAX watches as he picks up the crossbow lying on the

bonnet...

MAX:

Get back! For Chrissakes!

The KID doesn't understand...

He clambers onto the roof before MAX can grab him.

The tanker shudders again as another tyre is blown out.

MAX watches through the rear window as the KID jumps

from the cabin to the top of the tanker and then

disappears from view.

161. TOP OF THT TANKER. DAY.

The KID tries to load the crossbow as he clambers along

the top of the tanker...

The bow string is too powerful for him to drag back.

162. REAR OF THE TANKER. DAY.

Another tyre is shot...

Then another. One bogie falls down on the wheel rims...

163. TOP OF TANKER. DAY.

The tanker lurches... the KID slips down into the

wire... the crossbow clatters onto the road...

164. BEHIND THE TANKER. DAY.

PAPPAGALLO has got the Lone Wolf machine back onto the

road... starting to overhaul the pack, heading for the

right and side of the tanker.

Up ahead on the left, we see Wez's tow truck drawing

alongside the tanker.

Pieces of tyre are flailing everywhere... the tanker is

down on one side... slowing...

165. THE SIDE OF THE TANKER. DAY.

The KID is trying to climb back onto the top of the

tanker. Wez's tow truck comes into view.

WEZ fires...

The KID is pinned by his dogskins to the side of the

tank...

He tries to free himself... he tears his dogskin off

the arrow and reaches up once more to the top of the

tanker.

WEZ fires again.

The arrow pierces the KID'S arm, pinning him to the

tank...

166. THE FRONT OF THE TANKER. DAY.

MAX is fighting to bring the crippled tanker under

control... he changes down, wrestling with the wheel,

slewing across the road.

PAPPAGALLO draws alongside his doorway, yelling:

PAPPAGALLO:

Jump! It's finished. Jump!

MAX turns around, looking for the KID...

The tanker leaves the road and ramps up on the

embankment, rolling to a stop.

PAPPAGALLO:

Jump!

MAX:

The Kid?!

PAPPAGALLO:

Forget it! Jump!

MAX hesitates.

As the MARAUDERS swarm on top Of the tanker, PAPPAGALLO

guns the engine... spraying dust.

MAX leaps. the arm of the BEAR CLAW BIKER still

embedded in his shoulder He grabs the rear roll bar of

the Lone Wolf machine, fighting to swing his feet

clear... and finds a foothold as the vehicle roars

away...

167. THE CRIPPLED TANKER. DAY.

The HUMUNGUS draws up to the crippled tanker. WEZ and a

SECOND MOHAWKER are on top.

WEZ pulls open a hatch...

The SECOND MOHAWKER plunges in his hand and lets out an

anguished cry...

He pulls out a handful of sand.

Below the HUMUNGUS has opened the outlet hose... Sand

pours out onto the road.

Above him, the KID is hanging by his arm. Despite the

pain... he grins.

SECOND MOHAWKER:

All this and no guzzolene.

WEZ, pale with fury, speaks softly:

WEZ:

I know where there's guzzolene.

WEZ whirls around and fires his crossbow...

The arrow buries itself in the HUMUNGUS'S mask...

The big man crumbles to the ground, dead.

The rest of the HORDE are arriving. As their vehicles

screech to a halt TWO SMEGMA CRAZIES and TWO GAYBOY

BERSERKERS leap out, waving their Jerry cans in the air.

WEZ, the SECOND MOHAWKER and TWO OTHERS open fi re.

The FOUR MARAUDERS crumple.

168. THE HUMUNGUS VEHICLE. DAY.

MAX makes his way over the back engine of the speeding

vehicle towards PAPPAGALLO. He tears the bear claw arm

out of his shoulder...

Through the screaming motor we bear pappagallo laughing,

almost hysterical.

As MAX eases himself down into the cockpit...

PAPPAGALLO turns:

PAPPAGALLO:

We've done it! I thought it'd be

impossible. But we've done it!!

MAX yells:

MAX:

What about the Kid?!

PAPPAGALLO:

We've won! Don't you see? The fuel

was with the others. It's already

at Powder River.

MAX reaches across and cuts the engine... the vehicle

rolls to a stop...

MAX grabs PAPPAGALLO.

MAX:

What happened to the boy?!

PAPPAGALLO:

We've gotta keep going. It's our

only chance.

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