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Script three : The Great Train Chase

INT. stands for INTERIOR, which means the scene is inside. EXT. stands for EXTERIOR, which means the scene is outside. Next to it is the name of the place where the scene happens and next to this is the time at which the scene takes place, for example DAY or NIGHT.

EXT. HOUSE. NIGHT. Wearing a lampshade for a crash helmet, GROMIT is clinging to the speeding toy train.

WALLACE Don’t worry, Gromit! I’m – whoa! – right behind you! Standing in the tender of the toy steam train, Penguin lowers a gun and fires a shot. Wearing the mechanical trousers Wallace swerves on to another track. WALLACE Wooaah! Hang in there, Gromit, everything’s under control! Wallace comes alongside Penguin and snatches the gun. WALLACE I’ll have that if you don’t mind.

Wallace sees the wall in front of them approaching fast! WALLACE Huh? Wallace flies through the serving hatch in the wall. WALLACE Oooooaaarrrgh!

Wallace lands on a trolley and zooms away. Gromit throws off his helmet and begins to inch his way up the train towards Penguin. Wallace comes up alongside the train on the trolley. He is holding a butterfly net. Script three Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers The Great Train Chase

WALLACE Tally ho! Leave him to me! I’ll get the bounder!

Wallace’s net catches on a stag’s head on the wall and he is pulled off the train.

WALLACE Woooaaaaaaarrrgh! Get him, Gromit! Penguin throws a lever and sends Wallace and Gromit on to another stretch of track.

WALLACE Gromit! We’re doomed! The track they are on is running out! Right in front of some glass doors! Gromit snatches up a box of SPARE TRACK… and frantically starts laying it down in front of the speeding train.

WALLACE Ooooh! Mind the table, Gromit! They swerve underneath and through the table.

WALLACE Ooh! Ah! Ooh! Ah! Ooh! Penguin thinks he has made his escape. But Wallace comes the other way and snatches what he thinks are the stolen goods. But all he has in his hands is the toy steam engine.

WALLACE Huh? All yours, Gromit! Gromit, still laying spare track in front of the train, comes alongside Penguin.

Up ahead the mechanical trousers are walking into position to block the line and Penguin’s escape route. Script three Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers The Great Train Chase

The train hits Wallace’s metal boot and Penguin flies through the air. Gromit is watches Penguin him as he continues to lay track.

Gromit bashes into a cupboard. A milk bottle falls from it and lands in Gromit’s hands. Penguin falls right into the bottle – and is captured!

WALLACE Attaboy, Gromit, lad! Well done! We did it! Ah ha!