Mad Max 2 Page #4

The road racer slides through a 180 degrees, rolls,

smashes through a road sign and hits a power pole.

The pole thuds to the road as MAX throws a handbrake "U"

turn and skids to a halt in the middle of the

intersection.

MAX, carrying a jerry can, gets out of the black car.

He looks down the highway.

9. A RISE OVERLOOKING THE INTERSECTION. DAY.

WEZ is stopped on the crest of the road, looking down on

the intersection. The arrow is still in his arm.

We see the GOLDEN YOUTH clearly for the first time: he

is strikingly beautiful.

10. THE INTERSECTION.

MAX, unfazed , hurries to the wreck of the dune buggy,

crushed beneath the road rig. Fuel streams from its

ruptured tank.

From inside the wreck we hear the moans of the injured

driver.

MAX puts the jerry can under the escaping fuel and -

tearing a bandana from his neck - mops up the gasolene

lying on the bitumen.

Suddenly, there is a shrill whistle.

MAX looks up at the crest of the road.

11. THE RISE OVERLOOKING THE INTERSECTION. DAY.

WEZ grins as he pulls the arrow slowly out of.his arm.

His eyes never leave MAX.

He holds up the arrow and WEZ mouths the words:

For you!

With that he puts the arrow back into his quiver and

guns the motor. He reals the font wheel, hangs there a

moment, then spins the bike around and roars back to the

wasteland.

12. THE INTERSECTION.

MAX, examines the road rig: most of the tyres have been

punctured with arrows, the rear doors torn off and its

contents pillaged.

MAX taps the.fuel tank - empty.

He reaches up to open the door of the cabin ...

There is an anguished scream. MAX turns.

The hand of the dying driver emerges from the twisted

metal of the dune buggy.

The fingernails score deeply into the paintwork, a rush

of dark blood pours out of the wreck. Then, silence.

MAX opens the cabin door ...

A figure drops down, crashing onto his shoulders. As

MAX struggles from its grasp we see that it is the

bloated putrefying corpse of the rig's driver. Two

crossbow bolts are buried in its neck.

MAX stoops and picks up a toy hurdy-gurdy which has

fallen from the dead man's hand.

As he walks back towards the black-on-black he turns the

handle, playing the first few notes of "Happy Birthday".

He stops next to the vehicle, in the middle of the

intersection. He looks from one direction to another

... undecided ... and then sees the smashed road sign.

He picks up a fragment which reads:

ONE TREE HILL:

And throws it into the air.

It lands at his feet, pointing north.

He gets into the car and drives off in that direction.

FADE TO BLACK.

13. DESERT ROAD. NEXT MORNING.

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