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In the near future of a bleak, dystopian and Impoverished Australia that is facing a breakdown of civil order primarily due to widespread crude oil shortages. (This is not explained in this film but in the sequel, Mad scoop 2 The Road Warrior. ) Central to the plot Is a poorly-funded national jurisprudence unit called the Maln Force Patrol (MFP, derogatorily called The Bronze by their enemies), which struggles to protect the Out prats fewer remaining townspeople from violent motorcycle clusterings. The MFPs top pursuit composition Is a young police offcer, max Rockatansky (Mel Gib give-and- view), badge umber MFP4073.A part of one of the motorcycle gangs, Crawford Montazano (nicknamed Nightriderl escapes from police custody by killing an military officer and stealing his vehicle. goo pursues Nightrider in a full(prenominal)-speed chase, which results in Nightriders death in a fiery car crash. After the redoubted chase (which results In Injuries to a number of officers), the police chief warns Max that Nightriders gang will be out for him now because of Nightriders death. Nightriders gang, which is led by Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne), plans to avenge Nightriders death by killing MFP officers.Meanwhile, they vandalize property, steal fuel. and force the citizenry. patch chewing up a town where the the Nightriders remains arrived by train, the gang brutalizes a civilian oppose that tried escaping to the road the couple is overtaken, then both of them ar raped and the car is wrecked. Max and his tight friend and fellow officer, Jim Goose (Steve Blsley), are informed about the hazard and go to the crime scene. They find Toecutters young proteg, Johnny the Boy (Tim Burns), and the fille of the couple in the midway of the wreckage.Johnnys medicine-fueled rantings reveal him as a extremity of Nightriders gang Goose looks on Johnny with particular disdain, as his leg was broken during the Nightrider pursuit. However, they do not kill Johnny, but view as him and drag him away In chains. Johnny is held at the MFPs dilapidated Halls of referee pending a visit from the Court. However, when the attorneys arrive, Johnny Is ordered released the Judge has lop Johnny free because no witnesses showed up for the trial. (Without the testimony of witnesses, no charges could be filed the courts declared no contest for the case.A shocked Goose attacks Johnny and must be physically restrained both Goose and Johnny visit threats of revenge at each other. The second-in-command of the biker group, Bubba Zanetti (Geoff Parry) arrives at the courthouse to pick up Johnny, on orders from the Toecutter. Bubba does so begrudgingly, because he hates Johnny for his rowdiness and lack of style, and hates the Toecutters favoritism towards Johnny. briefly thereafter, Johnny the Boy sabotages Gooses MFP motorcycle while Goose is attending a show at the Sugartown Cabaret.His rear wheel locks up at gamey speed the next day, throwing Goose from the b ike Goose, however, survives without even Unfortunately, Johnny throws a brake drum through the utes windshield, causing Goose to roll the vehicle over and gas leaks from the fuel tank, soaking the ground around the motortruck Johnny, at the belligerent urging of the Toecutter himself, then chars him alive in the wreckage. Goose survives, but after seeing his charred body in the hospitals burn ward, Max becomes angry and disillusioned with the police force nd resigns from the MFP with no intention of returning.He takes a road trip with his wife and infant son in the relatively peaceful coastal area north of their habitation. While on holiday, Maxs wife, Jessie, (played by Joanne Samuel) runs into Toecutters gang, who harass her. She escapes, but the gang manages to track her to the home where she and Max are staying. While attempting to escape from the gang again, Jessie and her son are run down by the gang, who leave their crushed bodies in the middle of the road. Max arrives to o late to intervene. His son is pronounced dead on he scene, while his wife suffers massive injuries. It is revealed in Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior that she later died from her injuries. ) Filled with obsessive rage, Max in one case again dons his police outfit, straps on his sawn- off shotgun, and steals a supercharged unrelenting Pursuit Special to pursue the gang. He methodically hunts down and kills the gang members several gang members are forced Offa bridge at high speed Max shoots and shoots Bubba off his cycle with his shotgun (Bubba shoots Max in the leg with a pistol first, though, giving Max a hinderance hat is consistent throughout the series, then runs over his exposed arm).Max struggles back into his car and pursues the Toecutter into a forbidden area. Max forces the gangs leader into the path of a speeding tractor trailer and he crushed in a frontal collision. Max later finds Johnny the Boy taking the boots off a dead driver at the scene of a crash. Johnny urgently t ries to convince Max that the man was dead when he found him and that his drug addiction has made him mentally unbalanced. Max doesnt listen and durance Johnnys ankle joint to the wrecked, overturned vehicle with a uptured petrol tank.Max lights a crude time-delay liquify and gives Johnny a hacksaw, leaving him the choice of sawing through either the handcuffs (which will take 10 minutes) or his ankle (which will take 5 minutes), and then drives off into the desolate outback. Ignoring Johnnys frantic ramblings, Max drives away. The tv camera shows Maxs car from the front, with a large and fiery explosion in the length behind it, leaving Johnnys fate unknown. Max blankly continues to drive in a rainstorm into the Outback, a shell of his former self.