Mad Max 2 Page #5

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39. REAR OF CLIFFTOP LOOKOUT. MORNING.

MAX has dropped the telescope and is on his feet running

down to the black-on-black. The DOG is at his heels.

GYRO CAPTAIN:

Hey! What about me?!!

The black-on-black roars off ...

40. THE WRECK OF THE COMPOUND VEHICLE. DAY.

We track low past the dead girl's face towards the back

of the MOHAWKER. He is sitting on a wheel, pulling on

his trousers.

Close to his back, the camera stops.

He turns, looking up.

MAX, carrying a pair of bolt cutters is hurrying towards

him.

The MOHAWKER grabs for his crossbow.

MAXIS foot stamps down, pinning his wrist ... Ssswish!

the bolt cutters swing down ... onto the Mohawker's

head.

Tears stream down the COMPOUND MAN'S face.

As MAX walks up to him we see that he is bleeding badly.

His name is NATHAN.

NATHAN:

Thank you. Thank you...

MAX:

Let's get this straight. I'm doing

it 'cos I need fuel.

NATHAN:

As much as you want. Take me back

... don't let me die.

MAX takes the bolt cutters and inserts them between the

man and the panel. He cuts away the first arrow, then

the second.

WIPE.

41. INT. BLACK-ON-BLACK. DAY.

The supercharger screams as MAX races towards the

compound.

NATHAN is slipping into unconsciousness.

MAX grabs him by the shoulder, shaking him.

MAX:

Stay alive! Stay alive!

42. ON FAR SIDE OF PLAIN. ACROSS FROM COMPOUND. DAY.

Angle down on the plain.

The black-on-black approaches the burnt out huts.

A GAYBOY BERSERKER stands up into frame in the extreme

foreground.

He is joined by TWO OTHER MARAUDER8.

The GAYBOY BERSERKER grabs a hand-mirror and flashes a

signal across the wasteland.

From a far hill, we see the answering flash.

43. THE PLOUGHED FIELD. DAY.

Crane down from a high angle on the black-on-black as it

approaches the camp. As the camera achieves a

smouldering hut we see a small animal-like figure

stalking the vehicle.

Tracking closer we see that it is a wild-looking child,

about 8 years old. He is dressed in dog skins and

carries a chrome boomerang. On one hand he wears what

looks like a catcher's mitt: a leather glove reinforced

with steel plates. This is the FERAL KID.

Before we get too close, the boy scurries into a large

rabbit warren.

44. THE CAUSEWAY LEADING TO THE COMPOUND. DAY.

Long low angle on the compound. Its defenders wait on

the barricades, the cracking tower and the catwalk.

The black car stops just outside crossbow range - about

twenty yards short of the compound.

In extreme foreground, the FERAL BOY'S head pops up from

another rabbit hole closer to the compound.

He ducks down out of sight when the car door opens.

High angle on MAX as he steps out of the car with NATHAN

across his shoulders.

MAX carries no weapons and as he steps up to camera, he

raises his arms high ...

A woman on the barricade begins screaming. Her name is

BIG REBECCA.

BIG REBECCA:

Nathan! Nathan! It's Nathan.

A man on the catwalk orders the gate to be opened.

MAX hurries along the causeway ...

The FERAL KID comes out of the rabbit warren and begins

to follow MAX.

A trail of blood drips from the injured man onto the

causeway...

As MAX approaches the camp, the old yellow school bus is

pulled aside.

The WARRIOR WOMAN emerges, crossbow ready, keeping it

trained on MAX.

She is followed by another defender - the MECHANIC'S

ASSISTANT - pulling a strange mechanized crane.

Suspended from the front of this machine is a

paraplegic. He is the MECHANIC.

They pass MAX, heading for the car, revealing BIG

REBECCA distraught, running towards him.

BIG REBECCA:

Nathan! God have mercy.. What a

waste.

She wipes the man's face, caressing him, as MAX walks

on.

She turns and looks straight at the camp's leader,

PAPPAGALLO. He is standing at the gate, surrounded by

anxious defenders.

BIG REBECCA:

Look at your handiwork! They didn't

have a chance ...

One of the group at the gate - a nuggety old man called

the CURNIUDGEON - plays to the crowd, pointing at

PAPPAGALO.

THE CURMUDGEON:

You all heard me. I warned him

didn't I? Madness, I said.

45. THE COMPOUND. DAY.

As the DEFENDERS part to let MAX through we see the

group includes:
a teenage couple - PISMO and ANGIE -

holding each other tight; a woman BUTCHER, holding a

knife and a rabbit; a middle aged man who looks like a

FARMER; and a LUSTY young girl chewing her finger nails.

WARRIOR WOMAN:

Pity your name wasn't pulled out the

hat.

CURMUDGEON:

We can escape, take our petrol, he

said. How? I said. Get a prime

mover, he said ...

He points to NATHAN who is being carried to an old bread

van. The rear door is open, revealing two

hospital-style beds, drip stands and shelves of medical

supplies. An injured camp member occupies one of the

beds.

CURMUDGEON:

... And there's the result!

Madness I said!

PAPPAGALLO ignores him, addressing MAX:

PAPPAGALLO:

Where did you find him?

MAX:

Two, three miles away... left for

dead... next to his car. We made a

deal.

In the background the FARMER starts to work the first

arrow out of NATHAN'S chest.

BIG REBECCA comforts him.

PAPPAGALLO:

Three other vehicles. Did you see

them?

MAX:

Running hard to the south-west. In

heaps of trouble. Listen: he said

if I brought him in, you'd give me

gas. There's no time...

An anxious young man pushes through the crowd, talking

over MAX. This is the QUIET MAN.

QUIET MAN:

There was a woman... in the car ...

MAX looks straight at him.

MAX:

She's dead.

The man struggles to keep hold of his emotions.

QUIET MAN:

How? What did they do?

MAX:

It was quick.

The QUIET MAN bows his head and turns away. NATHAN

groans. ANGIE has the clear plastic mask of an air viva

device over NATHAN'S face. PISMO pumps air into his

lungs.

MAX turns to PAPPAGALLO:

MAX:

I saw a man in trouble and I brought

him in. And now I just want to get

out of here. Give me my gas.

WARRIOR WOMAN:

For all we know, he's one of them.

Give him nothing.

There's an ugly murmur of agreement.

MAX, keeping his temper, talks to PAPPAGALLO:

MAX:

We had a contract...

The FARMER succeeds in removing the first arrow. BIG

REBECCA relaxes.

NATHAN sputters. Blood sprays into the plastic mask.

BIG REBECCA screams. The FERAL KID looks on as the

FARMER feels for a pulse: nothing.

PAPPAGALLO turns to MAX:

PAPPAGALLO:

I don't know who you are, or what

happened. But if you had a

contract, it was with him. And it

died with him.

PAPPAGALLO turns on his heel and walks through the

crowd, back towards his tent.

The WARRIOR WOMAN puts a bow to MAX'S temple and shoves

him towards the gate.

46. COMPOUND. MAX IS MARCHED TO THE GATE. DAY.

THE FERAL KID, following MAX, laughs. The DOG snarls at

the boy.

As the crowd parts, MAX sees that the black-on-black is

being winched through the gate.

The MECHANIC supervises the work.

MAX stiffens, furious ...

WARRIOR WOMAN prods him with the bow:

WARRIOR WOMAN:

Be thankful, you're still alive.

She pushes him past the car.

The DOG trained to protect the vehicle begins to grow.

The MECHANIC turns to MAX:

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