Randy (Gunning the engine):  “I’m gonna…”

Jesse (Interrupting):  “Wait!  Wait!  I have a better idea!”

Randy:  “What?  Make it fast!”

Jesse:  “Gas!  We need gas, and lots of it!”

Randy (understanding instantly):  “Ernie’s place!  The `Gas n’ Go’!”

Dan (from the back seat): “Do we have time?”

Randy:  Guns the car and throws it in reverse.  He speeds backwards down the street, not taking the time to turn around.  We follow the car in its mad race, and see it splatter through a dozen lurching cactus people, splashing the car with vegetative spray.

They get to the gas station just ahead of a mass of cactus people.  Dan, Curt, Jesse and Randy all leap out of the car, each to one of the four pumps at the station, and they begin filling gas cans.

Ernie and EJ meet up with them – their house is behind the gas station.

Ernie:  “What is all the…”

Dan:  “Cactus things!  They’re attacking us, everybody…”

Ernie and EJ see what is happening with unbelieving eyes.  They begin to help the boys pump gas.  They accompany the teenagers through the rest of the movie.

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