The next day they were at Big Bentley and on their way to London.
When they got there a little farther away Big Bentley's big hand clicked ahead another minute.
"We came as soon as you called." Sally said when they got to Lightning's pit.
Sally flanked by Red, Flo and Ramone, are in front of Lightning and the rest of the team.
"I called to talk to Mater. It never occurred to me that he wouldn't be there." Lightning said.
"Sheriff is talking to Scotland Yard right now." Ramone said.
"And Sarge is in touch with his friends in the British military." Flo said.
"You just need to focus on the race." Sally said looking at him and gave him a kiss.
"I know, but Sal, with everything going on I'm not sure I should-" Lightning started but was cut off by a horn.
Someone entered the pit and everyone parted, revealing Miles.
"Sir Axlerod." Lightning said.
"I'm sorry to interrupt." Miles said.
"No, no, it's all right."
"I just wanted to come down here and personally thank you. Because after Italy, I was finished. And then you gave me one last shot."
"Listen, I -"
"And I probably shouldn't be saying this at all but... I hope you win today. Show the world that they've been wrong about Allinol."
Lightning took this in and looked at Sally.
"Mater would want you to race." she said.
"All right. For Mater."
"And me." Doc said.
"And you."
Moments later he was at the starting grid. Their tires squealed.
Lightning, Francesco and the other racers PEEL OUT -
The lemonheads were watching from a VIP box.
Lightning lead Francesco as they approached Big Bentley... Then he sped past Big Bentley, unharmed. Oblivious to what was supposed to have just happened.
At the pit row track side Mater burst through the security gate with aplomb, tears through the pits and stops at Lightning's.
"Mater!" Luigi sais surprised.
"Everybody get out! Get out now! Y'all gotta get out the pits!" he said.
Everyone at Radiator Springs was there now.
"Hey, what are you guys doing here?" he asked.
"We're here because of you, Mater." Sally said.
"Is everything okay?" Flo asked.
"No! Everything's not okay! There's a bomb in here! Y'all gotta get out! Now!"
"- A bomb? - Huh? - Woah." everyone said.
Back at Lightning pit continuously Mater pulled up his pocket and saw the explosive device attached to him. Then he looked up:
An Allinol container hung ominously over his head.
"Uh-oh." Mater said.
"Mater! There you are!" Lightning said.
Mater turned around as Lightning entered pit row, 100 yards away and closing in fast.
"Stop right there!" he said.
"Oh man, I've been so worried about you!" Lightning said as he headed to his pit continuous.
"Don't come any closer!" Mater said and walked backwards.
"Are you okay?" Lightning asked when he got out of his car.
"No, I'm not okay. Stay away from me!"
"He's right Lightning!" Doc said while Mater walked out backwards out onto the track.
"No, wait. Wait!"
There was footage of Lightning chasing Mater on TV.
"Hold everything. A man has just raced onto the track. And he's walking backwards!" Brent said.
At Lightning's pit Lightning was trying to stop Mater.
"Mater, wait!" he said and hoped back onto his car.
He breezed right through his pit, and went after Mater.
"Lightning!" Doc said.
"Normally an emergency vehicle on the track means there's been an accident." Dave said.
"Wait, wait. Lightning McQueen is chasing him!" Brent said.
At the track Mater ran up the track. Lightning gained, fast. Because Mater was running and backwards, they're face-to-face but still with some distance between them so Lightning doesn't run over him.
"Mater, wait!"
"Stay back! If you get close to me, you gonna get hurt real bad!"
"I know I made you feel that way before, but none of that matters because we're best friends!"
"And McQueen seems to be having a conversation with the tow truck!" Brent said while they watched him chase Mater on the TV.
"I don't know who that man is, Brent. But I'll tell you what, he's gotta be the world's best backwards walker." Darrell said.
On the track Lightning gained on Mater.
"McQueen, you don't get it. I'm the bomb!"
"Yes, Mater! You are the bomb! That's what I'm trying to say here. You've always been the bomb! And you'll always be the bomb."
"Stay away!"
"No! Never!"
He's had enough screwing around so he sped up a little.
"I'm not...letting you..."
He was going to catch him now.
"...get away again!" he said and jumped forward in an attempt to grab Mater-
"Gotta keep away from McQueen." Mater said to himself.
Lightning grabbed Mater with his bumper just as-
"Request acknowledged." Mater's computer said.
Turbine rockets slide out of Mater.
"Oh my gosh!" Lightning said shocked and got out of his car.
BAWHOOOOOOM! Mater jolts forward with a rocket blast and disappeared, taking Lightning with him.
"LITGHTNING!" Doc yelled worried.
Farther up the track Francesco sped along. ZHWAAAAAP! Mater and Lightning zing past him with a red blur.
"What is happening? It's a bad dream." Francesco said.
Now even farther up the track Mater took a turn, SMASHES THROUGH A FENCE and skids around a corner out of sight. A white, smoky JET TRAIL is all that remains.
In Lightning's pit all of Radiator Springs watched the television monitors, dumbfounded.
"Please be careful son." Doc said quietly.
"And Lightning McQueen just blasted away, hooked to the now rocket- propelled tow truck." Brent said.
Mater and Lightning swerve through the streets of London.
Farther up the track someone thundered past Francesco and out of sight.
"What is happening?!" Francesco said shocked and confused.
Mater, still holding Lightning, rockets around a corner, zips down another street -
"McQueen, let go!" he said.
"Never!"
They passed a Gremlin with a headset.
On Grem and Acer down another side street. They got this message, take off in the opposite direction.
Mater and Lightning, speeding up the street.
"Mater, stop!" the woman from earlier said.
"No way! You could get hurt!" he said.
Then she looked over, caught a glimpse of Gram and Acer, bearing down on them from a side street. They're going to broadside Mater and Lightning.
"Oh no." she said.
Neither Mater or Lightning were aware of the impending impact.
She dropped from the sky , hit the pavement, skid into the path of the AMCs and deflects them. They flipped over she, Finn and Lightning and sail -
The woman, Lightning and Mater were now stopped.
"Mater, we've got to get that bomb off you." she said already scanning the bomb, working away.
"Bomb?" Lightning said confused.
"Yeah, they strapped it to me to kill you as a back-up plan." Mater said.
Back-up plan? Mater, who put a bomb on you?" he asked a mixture of confused and shocked.
"Ahhhhh!" someone yelled.
The man suddenly rolled to a stop next to a now totally freaked Lightning, entangled in grappling hooks care of - Finn, who has him leashed.
"You. Why didn't my death ray kill you?" the man said to Lightning.
"Death ray?" he said even more confused and shocked.
"Turn off the bomb, Zundapp!" Finn said.
"Are you all so dense? It's voice- activated. Everything is voice- activated these days."
"Deactivate! Deactivate!" Mater said.
"Voice denied." the bomb's compute said.
The bomb suddenly transformed into a time bomb, now complete with a countdown mechanism from 4:59... 4:58... Mater gasped.
"Oops. Did I forget to mention that it can only be disarmed by the one who activated it?" the man said.
The woman immediately shoves a GUN in Zundapp's grill.
"Say it!"
"Deactivate." the man said.
"Voice denied." the bomb's computer said.
The bomb timer loses a full minute and goes from 4:48 to 3:48 to 3:47... Mater gasped.
"I am not the one who activated it. Would anyone else like to try?" the man said grinning.
ZZZZZZATTT! The woman shocked him unconscious.
"You read my mind." Finn said to Holley.
"He was getting on my nerves." she said and shrugged.
"What do we do?" Lightning asked
"It's very simple." a man said.
The man blocked the entrance to a side street. He's surrounded by Hugo relatives.
"You blow up." Hugo said.
The four streets surrounding them are now blocked by each of the Lemonheads and their families.
"I'm gonna go out on a limb here. These are the guys that want me dead, correct?" Lightning said to Mater.
"It's nothing personal." someone else said.
"Fellers, listen." Mater started to the lemons. "I know what you're going through. Everybody's been laughing at me my whole life too -"
Lightning turned to Mater - who wasn't expecting that.
The Lemons all eyed each other, considering Mater's words.
" - but becoming powerful and rich beyond your wildest dreams ain't gonna make you feel better." he continued.
"Yeah, but it's worth a shot." someone said.
WHOOM! He was broadsided by a blast of water from O.S.
"It's Red! He's sitting outside an underground entrance, followed by Sally and the rest of the Radiator Springs gang."
'Doc looks worried sick.' he thought.
All out war ensues between the Lemons, Radiator Springs along with Finn and Holley.
Finn attached his four-way cable hooks to the thugs and springs high in the air, crushing the four of them together.
Holley sprouted her wings, and knocked out two men on her side.
Guido pulled some lemon tires off with his air gun. In seconds he has a stack of lugnuts next to him.
"Pit stop." he said.
The two Pacers' fell.
Flo hit Vladimir Trunkov with her high-beams, blinding him. Sheriff boot him.
"Not today, boys!" Sheriff said shaking his head.
"Fire!" Doc said to Guido.
Guido pushed away his tireless thug, yelling at him in Italian.
Mater karate chopped lemons, three and four at a time.
Ramone sprayed paint a lemon's windshield.
"Retreat!" someone said.
A few Lemons turned back the way they came. Blocking their path are a line of British military men clad in digital camo, led by Sarge.
"Thanks for the help, Corporal." he said.
"Anything for one of pop's mates." the British corporal said.
And in the middle of all of this craziness we CUT TO -
- Mater. Wrench bits were strewn all around him as Guido tried wrench after wrench to take the bolts off. No dice. Guido gestured wildly, spits Italian a mile a minute.
"What's he saying?! What's wrong!?" Lightning asked worried about his friend.
"None of his wrenches fit the bolts!" Luigi said.
This is a light bulb moment for Mater. He eyes the bolts.
"I get it. I get it! I know what needs to be done." he said.
"Then do it!" Lightning said.
"What? No, I can't do it. Look, nobody takes me seriously. I know that now. This ain't Radiator Springs."
"Yes it is." Lightning said.
Mater looks at him confused. "It is?"
"You're yourself in Radiator Springs. Be yourself here. And if people aren't taking you seriously, then they need to change. Not you. I know that, because I was wrong before. Now you can do this. You're the bomb."
"Thanks, buddy."
"No no no, you're the actual bomb. Now let's go!"
"Oh, right! Hang on!"
Mater hooked Lightning and they're off.
They shot past Finn, who's in the middle of battling lemons.
"Where's he going?" he wondered.
Mater and Lightning were flying down a side street.
"Computer!" Mater started.
"Yes, Agent Mater." it said.
"I need that thing you done before to get me away from McQueen!"
"Request acknowledged."
Then the rocket thrusters kick in then they head right for a wall.
"Mater..." Lightning said.
"Now I need you to do the chute, the second kind not the first!" Mater said.
"Deploying chute." his computer said.
Mater's chute popped open, catching air and sending them sailing into the air.
He started to steer them the direction he wants. He and Lightning were flying over London. On the balcony of Buckingham Palace the Queen, her attendants, assorted dignitaries were there.
"Who's winning the race?" the Queen asked.
Mater and Lightning dropped from the sky. They landed and skid to a halt just before the Queen's guards who drew their weapons.
"Back up! Back away!" one of the Queen's guards.
"It's Lightning McQueen!" she said star-struck.
"Get back!" one of the Queen's guards said.
"No, no, it's okay! Tell them, Mater. Explain." Lightning said.
"Okay! Somebody's been sabotaging the racers and hurting the cars and I know who. Oh wait... Your Majesty." Mater said.
Mater bowed to the Queen. In doing so, the ticking time bomb angled into view. The clock's at T-minus 1:53.
"- Bomb! - It's a bomb! - Everybody down! - Look out!" the Queen's guards said.
"Hold your fire! He can't disarm it! Flinn said then dove onto the platform and rolls between the Queen and Mater."Mater, I don't know what you're doing but stand down now!"
"This ain't nothing at all like Radiator Springs." Mater said aside to Lightning.
"Mater, just cut to the chase!" Lightnin said getting impatient.
"Okay." he said then turned to Miles Axlerod. "It's him."
"What? Me? You've got to be crazy." he said.
Everyone exchanged confused looks, including Finn and Holley.
"I figured it out when I realized you all attached this ticking time bomb with Whitworth bolts. The same bolts that hold together that old British engine from the photograph. Holley! Show that picture." Matter said.
"O-kay..." Holley said and projected the much discussed photo of the engine.
"And then I remembered what they say about old British engines - "If there ain't no oil under `em, there ain't no oil in `em." Mater said.
"What is he talking about?" Miles asked confused.
"It was your car leaking oil at the party in Japan. You just blamed it on me." Mater said.
"Electric cars don't use oil, you twit." Miles said.
"Then you're faking it. You didn't convert to no electric. We pop that hood we gonna see that engine from that picture right there."
Mater moved toward him to pop his car's hood.
"This lorry's crazy. He's going to kill us all!" Miles said then backed up to the edge of the stage. "Stay away!"
"But Sir Axlerod created the race, Mater. Why would he want to hurt anyone?" Holley said.
"To make Allinol look bad so everybody'd go back to using oil. I mean, he said it himself with that disguised voice." he said.
"Dee-sguised voice?" What are you talking about? You're nuts, you are!" Miles said.
The Queen's guards have had enough. As has the prince.
"This is going nowhere fast. We really should go, Grandmother." he said.
"One moment. I'd like to see where this is going." the Queen said.
"Mater, he created Allinol." Flinn said.
"Yeah, but what if he found that huge oil field just as the world was trying to find something else?"
Mater sticks his ticking bomb-nose into Miles Axlerod's grill.
"What if he came up with Allinol just to make alternative fuel look bad?" he said.
"What if?" You're basing this on a "What if"?!" Miles said.
"Okay, that's it." a guard said.
And the Queen's guards spirit the Queen and Prince Wheeliam She out of there FAST -
"Wait! Somebody save me! The lorry's crazy!"
Now it's just Miles, Mater, McQueen, Finn and Holley.
Miles' shoes slip on the edge of the podium as he was cornered by Mater.
"Keep away, you idiot!"
00:00:08...
"Mater!" Finn said.
Mater!" Holley said.
00:03...00:02...
"Someone do something!" Miles said.
Everyone flinched, ducked or dove for except Lightning, Mater and Axlerod -
"You're insane, you are! Deactivate!" Miles said.
The bomb froze at 00:01.
"Bomb deactivated. Have a nice day, Sir Axlerod." the computer said.
General shock all around. Miles Axlerod realizes what he's done, looks terrified. Police surround him.
Mater flung Miles' hood open with his hook, revealing AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE, oil dripping from all sides. It matched the photo.
"The engine from the photo." Finn said.
"It's a perfect match!" Holley said.
"How did the tow truck figure it out?" Miles asked.
"It's official. You're coming to all my races from now on." Lightning said to Mater.
"Now you're talking!" Mater said.