Mad Max 2 Page #4

21. CLIFFTOP. DAY.

The GYRO CAPTAIN is becoming more agitated.

GYRO CAPTAIN:

Okay, there it is. If anyone can

get. in, I know it's gonna be you.

Me ... I've gotta feed the snakes.

MAX drops the binoculars.

The CAPTAIN offers his wrists to be unmanacled.

GYRO CAPTAIN:

A man lives by his word, I reckon.

And I've kept mine ...

MAX gets to his feet and hauls the GYRO CAPTAIN to a

nearby tree stump.

GYRO CAPTAIN:

Look! We had a deal: I show you

the gas - You let me go.

MAX starts to chain him to the stump.

MAX:

The contract was I wouldn't kill

you.

The GYRO CAPTAIN turns angry, protesting.

MAX pushes the shotgun close to his face.

MAX:

I reckon you got a bargain... Don't

you?

The CAPTAIN shuts up.

MAX tests the chain. The sounds of the battle continue.

DISSOLVE.

22. CLIFF TOP. LATER THE SAME DAY.

MAX has settled in. He sits under a small camouflage

canopy. His binoculars are fixed on a tripod fashioned

from sticks.

The DOG lies nearby. Further away the GYRO CAPTAIN is

tethered to the tree stump. on a short-leash.

The black car is covered by a camouflage net.

MAX leans back from his binoculars, takes a can of dog

food from a pack and begins to open it.

The DOG pricks up his ears.

The GYRO CAPTAIN watches as MAX unwraps a velvet cloth

to reveal a beautiful silver fork.

The revving of engines wafts up from below.

MAX, spooning the food into his mouth, leans forward to

his binoculars.

23. THE COMPOUND.DAY.

The MARAUDERS have formed a bridge of car wrecks across

the ditch near a less defended section of the compound.

At WEZ'S signal, three bikes ride at the bridge of

wrecks. Two of them are hit almost immediately but the

third rides over the wrecks and attempts to ramp into

the compound.

The bike flies through the air ... and bounces into the

wire. The RIDER sails over the fence into the compound,

where he is set upon by THREE DEFENDERS.

24. CLIFF TOP. DAY.

MAX wolfs down his meal.

The GYRO CAPTAIN and the DOG lick their lips in unison.

MAX tosses the can and its remains to the DOG.

The CAPTAIN groans as the DOG buries its muzzle into the

can. The CAPTAIN inches over towards the DOG.

The DOG snarls ...

WIPE.

25. CLIFF TOP. MAGIC HOUR.

From the cliff top, we see the lights in the compound

come on. A searchlight weaves across the wasteland.

The only sound is the "kachunk! kachunk!" of the huge

oil pump.

The battle has reached a stalemate. The DEFENDERS and

the ATTACKERS watch each-other across "no man's land".

Smouldering wrecks and dead bodies litter the ditch.

The animals in the corral have been slaughtered.

26. CLIFF TOP. ANGLE ON MAX. MAGIC HOUR.

MAX is slumped against a rock.

The DOG is asleep.

The GYRO CAPTAIN rings his finger around the dog food

can and licks it clean.

MAX sits up at the sound of a bugle.

He looks down.

27. THE COMPOUND. MAGIC HOUR.

The MARAUDERS kick over their engines, fanning across

the area under cultivation, tearing up the ploughed

field.

As they pull back to the high ground surrounding the

camp, they set fire to the farm huts and drag off the

carcasses of the dead animals.

The fires blaze fiercely on the darkening plain.

FADE TO BLACK.

28. CLIFFTOP. DAWN.

Tracking close on MAX as he sleeps.

The DOG sitting next to him is on his feet growling at

the sound of vehicles from the plain below.

MAX wakes, alert, looking down.

Below, three compound vehicles are fanning out across

the plain.

The MARAUDERS camped on the rise. rouse themselves ...

climbing aboard their vehicles.

The GYRO CAPTAIN, tethered to the stump, strains at his

chain but cannot get close enough to the edge to see ...

GYRO CAPTAIN:

What's up!!

MAX ignores him, concentrating on the situation below.

The bulk of the MARAUDERS have split into three groups

each chasing a camp vehicle off into the wasteland. The

HUMUNGUS leads one of the groups. Four MARAUDERS,

camped on a pinnacle, keep watch on the camp.

Suddenly another vehicle bursts out of the camp and

speeds across the plain towards MAX'S clifftop. It

passes out of sight around the back of the hill.

MAX hurries from his canopy across the other side of the

hilltop.

29. REAR OF CLIFFTOP LOOKOUT. MORNING.

MAX looks past the black-on-black, to where the lone

compound vehicle has achieved the bitumen.

Suddenly, three Mohawk bikes and a tow truck emerge from

behind a rocky outcrop. Led by WEZ, they fire arrows

into the tyres and smash the windscreen.

The compound vehicle leaves the road, rolling...

As the GYRO CAPTAIN crawls to his side, MAX raises his

binoculars...

30. MAX'S POV BINOCULARS. MORNING.

The bloodied driver is being dragged from the wreck by

TWO MOHAWKERS. The others cannibalize the vehicle and

siphon off its fuel. Another occupant emerges from the

twisted metal and tries to crawl away... It is a YOUNG

WOMAN.

31. REAR OF CLIFFTOP LOOKOUT. MORNING.

The GYRO CAPTAIN sees her and fumbles urgently for

something deep in the pockets of his great-coat.

He produces a large telescope which is attached to his

waist by a leather cord.

32. GYRO CAPTAIN'S POV. TELESCOPE. MORNING.

Through the cracked lens of the telescope we see two of

the MOHAWKERS dragging the woman to the roadside.

33. REAR OF CLIFFTOP LOOKOUT. MORNING.

MAX looks around to see the GYRO CAPTAIN'S telescope and

grabs it. The GYRO CAPTAIN, protesting, picks up the

less powerful binoculars.

MAX lifts the telescope.

34. MAX'S POV. TELESCOPE. MORNING.

The GOLDEN YOUTH is sitting on one of the bikes. The

POV whip pans across the wreck where two MOHAWKERS have

pushed the badly injured driver up to the car panel.

WEZ fires an arrow into the man's shoulder, pinning it

to the panel.

Methodically, he reloads and fires another pin into the

man's other shoulder.

MAX pans the telescope to where the three MOHAWKERS hold

the STRUGGLING WOMAN. At WEZ'S signal they start to

tear the woman's clothes away...

35. REAR OF CLIFFTOP LOOKOUT. MORNING.

Track in as the GYRO CAPTAIN and MAX watch through the

binoculars and telescope.

Camera tightens further to the GYRO CAPTAIN. His face

reacts to the horror below.

MAX drops his head ... his eyes closing momentarily.

The noise of vehicles starting below breaks the moment.

He lifts the telescope and pans to one side.

36. MAX'S POV. TELESCOPE. MORNING.

The Telescope lens finds all the MOHAWKERS except one

back on their vehicles. They ride off led by WEZ ...

37. REAR OF CLIFFTOP LOOKOUT. MORNING.

While MAX has the telescope trained on the departing

vehicles the GYRO CAPTAIN has the binoculars on the

WOMAN.

GYRO CAPTAIN:

Jesus! He's gonna kill her.

MAX whips his telescope around...

38. MAX'S POV. TELESCOPE. MORNING.

The lens finds the remaining MOHAWKER now standing back

from the prostrate girl. He is loading his crossbow...

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