Doc is left alone in the streets, feeling guilty.Īt the tie-breaker race in Los Angeles, Lightning finds it difficult to concentrate due to reflecting upon memories of his friends. As they leave, Kori Turbowitz thanks Doc for calling them about McQueen's whereabouts, and everyone goes to sleep, with Mater reflecting on how he did not receive the opportunity to say goodbye to him. With a new appearance, Lightning and the Radiator Springs residence enjoy a cruise night, which is interrupted when the press arrive and take McQueen away to the race. However, Lightning arrives and disproves their claims, and Lightning, wanting assistance for his big race, calls upon his friends to help prepare him. Assuming he left, the townspeople reminisce of him. The next morning, the Radiator Springs residents awaken to a completed road, with McQueen nowhere to be found. Mater is followed by a group of tractors that come stampeding through Radiator Springs, and the townspeople attempt to round them up, while Mater is scolded by Sheriff. The next day, when McQueen returns from a drive with Sally in Tailfin Pass, he is greeted by Mater, who hurriedly informs them that is anyone were to ask of their whereabouts the night before, they were out smashing mailboxes. Sally, overhearing their conversations, Sally offers Lightning a place in the Cozy Cone Motel.
He demonstrates this ability by driving around the town and narrowly avoiding a series of obstacles, with assistance from his rear-view mirrors. The two discuss various things, such as Lightning's crush on Sally Carrera, and how Mater claims to be the world's best backwards driver. On the drive home, Lightning talks to Mater and realizes that, for the first time, he has made a friend. The two barely manage to escape the field with their lives, but forget to close the gate. The two laugh until they learn the noise has attracted Frank, the dangerous red combine.
Mater demonstrates how to play the game by tipping tractors one by one, but when Lightning tries, he revs his engine and tips all of the remaining tractors simultaneously. Mater pledges his allegiance, but when night falls, Mater takes Lightning Tractor Tipping. Lightning tears up the road and starts over, and the next day, Sheriff orders Mater to watch the prisoner while he is away. However, McQueen fails to round the final turn, and he speeds off-course and into a cactus patch, which Mater then fishes him out of with his tow hook. Once it starts, however, Mater and the others are surprised when Hudson remains stationary as Lightning speeds off.
Confident in his ability to win, Lightning accepts, and the race takes place. Insulted by the quality of the road, the townspeople scold McQueen, but Doc chooses to settle the matter by challenging Lightning to a one-lap race around Willy's Butte. Mater fishes McQueen out of the cactus patch. Mater excitedly claims to be the first one on the new road, but as he drives along, he bumps up and down, losing nuts and bolts in the process. However, he shortly runs out of gas, and he is returned to the town.Īfter speaking to Mater about his sentence, Lightning finds a loophole, in that the quality requirements of the road were never established, so Lightning rushes the road, creating a bumpy mess. However, Mater removes his parking boot prior to hooking him up, giving Lightning an opportunity to speed away. When McQueen is introduced to Bessie, Mater is ordered to hook McQueen up. Mater volunteers to fill the role, but they do not win the trial, and McQueen is sentenced by Doc Hudson to community service, in which he must repave the destroyed road with a machine called Bessie. McQueen almost succeeds in tricking Mater into releasing him to get to California schmoozing Dinoco as fast as possible, but Sheriff arrives before Mater is able to take McQueen to the courthouse.Īfter McQueen is escorted to his trial, he is required to have a lawyer, but does not have one. In Cars, when Lightning McQueen wakes up after accidentally ripping up the main road of Radiator Springs, he is greeted by Mater. 1.11 Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure.