The Bridge Between The First Film and This Sequel:The narration re-introduced Mad Max, and the environment was described (with mostly black-and-white 20th century documentary footage from the previous original film - including the murder of Max's wife and child by a biker gang) - making oblique references o a Cold War between "two mighty warrior tribes" (the US and USSR ?) that led to a grim world of nuclear holocaust survivors:"My life fades, the vision dims.He boyishly picks up a rock and throws it into a vacant field.In a hospital sickbed, the man who suffered he seizure - Mr.Tom Beaumont (Jack Harvey) is hospitalized.Unable o speak, he is connected to a oxygen-mask breathing device (a foreshadowing!) and his head is held perfectly still and incapacitated [in sexual erms - he is emasculated]." After a vicious struggle, a shirtless and muddied Riggs was able to subdue Joshua with another scissors-leg choke-hold, but declined to break his neck: "It's not worth it.Michael passed by patient Harold's room (where he was studying up on Ted Bundy in aDetectivemagazine), and approached Laurie's room with his bloody knife.