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Sydney Road, laughing.
    It’s so hot the asphalt’s bubbling. Look at all that traffic, will you? It’s so glary. Can hardly see anything.
    WALKER : Taxi! We’ll have to get a tram.
    RYAN : I can’t remember Silver’s number. Three four something. Who cares? We better split up.
    They are weaving in and out of traffic.
    WALKER : Look out for the fuckin’ Tarax truck. He’s trying to run us over. We’ll be as flat as his lemonade. I’m a Boon Spa man. Look out!
    They are in a car.
    RYAN : [ shrieking ] Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
    WALKER : When your battery snuffs it, holler for a Marshall.
    RYAN : Let’s go, Donald Campbell. Take me to Lake Eyre. Just one more time. Go! Go! Go!
    The tremendous blast of the engine.
    Brazil! Brazil! Brazil! Brazil!
    WALKER : I don’t know why more don’t go there. We all need a tan sometime.
    RYAN : New set of points.
    WALKER : Sloppy fanbelt. Good car. Motor’s good.
    RYAN : Not Drummond, that’s North. Go Pascoe Vale way. Do a yooee. There’s coppers. Hey, say hello! Don’t be rude.
    WALKER : I’m going the other way. I’m never rude.
    They wave to police.
    RYAN : Ryan an’ Walker. Gentlemen travellers.
    They laugh loudly. Accelerate through the blazing, hot Melbourne night.
    Short edited machine gun-like bursts of almost incomprehensible un-language to keep tension. The following homicide messages can be performed by RYAN and WALKER at old-fashioned stand-up microphones.
    POLICE RADIO : Message from Coburg Car 150 ambulance required. Report of warder shot outside Pentridge. Need assistance at main gate, Sydney Road. Warder badly shot need escort. Warder has been definitely shot. Two offenders are in red Vanguard PA002. Car was last seen to head west in O’Hea Road. Another person is also shot require another ambulance. It is believed offenders are escapees. Escapees armed now said to be travelling west in Bell Street: car is said to be a blue Vanguard. Car is a green Velox sedan. To all units for information.
    POLICE RADIO : Definitely established car is a blue/grey Vanguard. Not known yet who escapees are. To car 201 take King Street Bridge. To S/C73 Bell Street and Cumberland Road. Description of one offender said to be five feet ten inches and eleven stone. Sandy hair brushed back. Placid features. From motor registration branch: standard sedan. Grey. M. Mullius of 3 Frayer Street, Coburg. Check that address. Car 352 Spencer Street Bridge. To Moonee Ponds CIB for information Essendon Airport. Ronald James Ryan born 21-2-25. Victoria, five foot nine. Medium build. Fair complexion. Brown hair. Green eyes. Peter John Walker. Born 5-5-41 native of England. Brown hair. Blue eyes. Appendix scar and tattoos on left upper arm. Both wearing blue jeans grey coat and a white shirt with red and blue stripes. Armed with a carbine rifle. Here are the roadblocks. Hume Highway at Craigieburn. Warder is dead. To Bourke Street West attend Spencer Street Railway Station. Gaffney Street and Cumberland Road. Grimshaw and Settlement Roads to Frankston: roadblock at the Mile Bridge. To Dandenong: roadblock on two highways.
    WALKER : We’re free. How’s that feel?
    RYAN : We’re cooking with gas now, boy. You beauty!
    WALKER : Where now?
    RYAN and WALKER quarrel in the car.
    RYAN : Up Bell Street, not down it.
    WALKER : I am up it. You go down it.
    RYAN : Is there any gas in it? I said is there any gas in it? Does it say ‘E’ or what? Why don’t you look at the petrol gauge, Peter? Look at the fucking petrol gauge.
    WALKER : You’re the one who’s empty, mate.
    RYAN : Where we going to go to? Who’s going to look after us?
    WALKER : Not even Saint Christopher would accompany us up Nicholson Street now, mate.
    RYAN : Vanguard, is that a Vanguard? Are they a good vehicle? Can you trust a Vanguard?
    WALKER : Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. You’ve got me in enough strife, you dickhead. Where’d you