Mad Max 2 Page #9

The DOG attacks WEZ, clamping his jaw around his

gauntlet.

WEZ pulls the DOG out the window and flicks his arm.

The DOG sails through the air ...

80. THE APPROACH TO THE CAUSEWAY. DAY.

MAX rams his elbow into WEZ'S face.

The big biker holds on, tightening his grip.

A dune buggy with a machine gun like crossbow - the

4-pak - fires four bolts into the tyres. All but one

tyre on the driver's side blow out.

As the prime mover charges past, we track with the Lone

Wolf, who drives a two-engined assault car.

He yells to other Marauders behind:

LONE WOLF:

The gate's open! Follow me in!

A street car and a dune buggy surge up beside him.

In the background we see the DOG, running along the

road, trying to catch up to the tanker.

81. THE AIRBORNE GYROCOPTER. DAY.

The GYRO CAPTAIN curses and screams.

GYRO CAPTAIN:

Don't lose it now! We need the fuel!

The CAPTAIN grabs whatever he can find - the two jerry

cans and his chains and throws them at the chase below.

82. THE APPROACH TO THE CAUSEWAY. DAY.

Two of the objects fall across the path of the on-

rushing street car ... the third smashes into the

vehicle's windscreen - to no avail, the vehicle

continues in the chase to the Causeway... converging on

the prime mover.

The 4-pak dune buggy surges up to the driver's side

wheels...The SMEGMA CRAZIE has reloaded the crossbow and

is taking aim on the critical last tyre.

83. THE AIRBORNE GYROCOPTER. DAY.

The GYRO CAPTAIN is reaching down into a sack ... He

pulls out two snakes. Clamping their jaws shut, he

kisses them goodbye and hurls them down...

84. THE APPROACH TO THE CAUSEWAY. DAY.

...The snakes land in the 4-pak dune buggy - one of them

between the DRIVER'S legs.. Perplexed, he reaches downn

for it ... pulling it up to look ...

He screams... the snake has its fangs in his hand ...

85. THE CAUSEWAY. DAY.

The 4-pak dune buggy swerves out of control... up and

over the back of the prime mover... and onto the street

car. Locked together, both vehicles tumble down into

the ditch.

In the cabin of the truck MAX smashes the butt of the

shotgun into WEZ'S face, again and again. WEZ just

grins.

86. THE COMPOUND GATE. DAY.

The prime mover thunders through the gate. PAPPAGALLO

and WARRIOR WOMAN take their positions on the

battlements...

As soon as the prime mover clears the gate BIG REBECCA

plants her foot on the accelerator of the school

bus/gate. The Lone Wolf vehicle and the dune buggy just

make it inside.

The DOG scampers through the rapidly closing gap.

A road racer slides up to the gate.

The DRIVER looks up... to see PAPPAGALLO aiming the

flame thrower down at him... He slams the vehicle into

reverse...

87. FROM THE BATTLEMENTS LOOKING OUT. DAY

PAPPAGALLO sends the torrent of flames down on the

retreating vehicle ... as HUMUNGUS and the OTHER

MARAUDERS hover at the entrance of the causeway ...

88. INSIDE THE COMPOUND - THE CATWALK AREA. DAY.88.

The prime mover slides to a halt underneath a catwalk.

As SEVERAL CAMP PEOPLE run towards him, WEZ swings up

onto the roof of the prime mover and onto the catwalk.

The two Marauder vehicles stop in the middle of the

compound.

MAX jumps out of the prime mover, assessing the

situation. In addition to WEZ there are FOUR MARAUDERS

inside the compound: the LONE WOLF, the 'LONE WOLF'S

PASSENGER and TWO SMEGMA CRAZIES.

89. THE BATTLEMENTS. DAY.

Under the direction of the HUMUNGUS - HALF A DOZEN

MARAUDERS come surging up the causeway on foot.

PAPPAGALLO stands up on the very limit of the battlement

and scares them off with a burst of flame.

A MARAUDER fires an arrow...

,..PAPPAGALLO is hit high up in the thigh. He tumbles

backwards, off the parapet and crashes to the ground

below.

90. INSIDE THE COMPOUND - THE CRACKING TOWER. DAY.

Up on the catwalk, WEZ is shouting at the FOUR OTHER

MARAUDERS.

WEZ:

The gate! The gate! Move!!

MAX looks around as the LONE WOLF, the LONE WOLF

PASSENGER and the TWO SMEGMA CRAZIES start to sprint

across the compound towards the gate ...

Thud! The LONE WOLF PASSENGER falls dead - an arrow in

his back...

WEZ spins around to see the QUIET MAN standing on the

cooling tower reloading his bow.

WEZ starts running towards him.

91. INSIDE THE COMPOUND. DAY.

With the help of the DOG, MAX tackles the FIRST SMEGMA

CRAZY who is running towards the gate. They land at the

foot of the pump. The FERAL BOY, bouncing up and down

on top of the pump looks down gleefully, as the FARMER,

the BUTCHER and the CURMUDGEON descend on the MARAUDER.

MAX is on his feet running towards PAPPAGALLO, as the

second SMEGMA CRAZY is bit by the MECHANIC flying on the

end of his lattice-arm contraption. ANGIE and PISMO,

manning the other end, smile with satisfaction.

92. INSIDE THE COMPOUND - THE CRACKING TOWER. DAY.

WEZ confronts the QUIET MAN who has his bow drawn ...

The QUIET MAN fires - WEZ ducks - missed!

WEZ grins. The QUIET MAN is paralysed by indecision.

WEZ is on him... head-butts him - once, twice, three

times.

The QUIET MAN'S face is a torrent of blood as WEZ throws

him off the cooling platform.

The QUIET MAN lands, groaning, badly injured.

93. FROM INSIDE THE BUS. DAY.

The LONE WOLF has made it to the gate and smashes his

way through the window - clawing at BIG REBECCA. She

shoves a boot in his face as WARRIOR WOMAN drops onto

him from the battlement above and buries a knife blade

in his neck.

94. AT THE BATTLEMENTS. DAY.

MAX has picked up PAPPAGALLO'S flame thrower.

PAPPAGALLO watches as he climbs the battlements.

A DOZEN MARAUDERS are charging up the causeway.

MAX appears above them... spraying fire. The MARAUDERS

retreat ...

95. INSIDE THE COMPOUND. DAY.

WEZ grabs a cable and swings from the catwalk across the

cracking tower to Pappagallo's 'dinosaur tent'. He

slides down the tent, leaps onto some tyres, onto a

storage tank and then onto the tanker...

He hesitates a moment looking for some way to get to the

gate ...

The WHOLE CAMP turns to confront him...

He ducks, the gyrocopter swoops down over his head and

lands in the centre of the compound ...

An arrow, and then the Feral Kid's boomerang flies past

WEZ - ... he decides to call it quits.

Running along the top of the tanker, be leaps the barbed

wire fence.

96. THE DITCH. DAY.

WEZ lands in the ditch.

He clambers over a wreck out of the ditch and out of

range.

97. INSIDE THE COMPOUND. THE TANKER. DAY.

The GYRO CAPTAIN is up on the tanker, throwing a stick

and shaking his fist at the MARAUDERS - putting on a

show for the jubilant compound people.

Several people shake bands with the GYRO CAPTAIN.

The FERAL KID watches, puzzled, intrigued by this

strange ritual.

The MECHANIC is already examining the damage to the

prime mover.

PAPPAGALLO is propped up against the base of the

battlement. BIG REBECCA and the WARRIOR WOMAN tend his

thigh wound.

PAPPAGALLO:

OK! OK! Let's go. We leave

tonight!

The MECHANIC lifts his head out of the engine:

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