The next morning the two of them continue to walk around Burbank!? What was that freight train's route exactly? Just continuous loops around metro Los Angeles, dropping off bales of hay to all those farms downtown? Anyway, Runaway explains to Ann that the dinos have her scent now so she's in danger herself. He proclaims that he'll stay to protect her 'cause the bible says neighbors yada yada yada... but she's all defiant and indifferent. She must not be interested in starting a relationship 'cause she's too busy right now with all that nun-training going on. C'mon, Ann, you gave him jerky and rolled in the hay with him all night, what's a guy to expect?
It looks like they spent the whole entire day wandering around 'cause its night again. Are they just going to loiter around until the cyborgs forget about them? What about Fred and Max? Is Romero dead or alive and if he died was it from the dinosaur or from his 957-cholesterol rating? So many thrilling storylines, I hope it all gets resolved! Runaway sits on a bench reading a newspaper, probably searching in vain for the kickboxing section. Sister Ann tries to make some phone calls, to no avail. She sees Runaway reading and starts spewing misery about all the murders and rapes going on in the world, not to mention the dreadful state of direct-to-DVD films. It isn't every day you see a nun spewing blabber about how the world sucks so badly but I guess that's why she's still in training. He responds with some randomly picked bible quotes. The scene ends so I suppose they'll be camping out in Burbank again.
The next morning the great sci-fi fan and publisher extraordinaire Forrest J. Ackerman makes a cameo. Ackerman proves he's no snob here by agreeing to appear in one of the worst movies ever in his beloved genre. He reads a monster magazine while out for a walk and promptly gets eaten by a dino. Runaway said the dinos are now following Sister Ann's scent, so she and Forrest J. Ackerman must wear the same perfume. Guess what Ann and Runaway are doing now? Walking around Burbank spewing bible theory, you say? How did you guess? If they're still trying to get away from the cyborgs and dinosaurs, maybe they shouldn't move around in circles but rather a straight line. Given how much time they've been wandering, they could be in New Hampshire by now.
Elsewhere, the filmmakers sense our boredom and show us.... two kids playing soccer. Soon enough though, a dino shows up to attack the kids. Somewhere else, oh Jesus no! The warehouse of empty boxes is being attacked again! Some workers barricade themselves behind a door, placing what else? Empty boxes to keep the dinos at bay! Wait a second... weren't these dinosaurs trained, focused trackers? It now looks like they're just randomly attacking people.
Some guy in a puffy homemade 'police' cap answers a phone. On the wall behind him is a world map which looks suspiciously like the world map from Annie's living room. Alongside listening to grunge music and wearing flannel, throwing world maps on your wall must have been the 'in' thing to do in 1994, it passed me by though. Anyhow, for an LA police department I'd have thought a map of the city rather than the world would come in more handy but maybe this precinct has unlimited jurisdiction. Sending squad cars to China must be a bitch, though.
A squad car pulls up in front of Runaway and Annie and picks them up. It appears Fred gave the police a description of them; I can imagine what it was "APB... we're on the lookout for a mismatched couple wearing flannel blabbering random quotes from the bible!" The cop takes them to the box warehouse where poofy-haired Captain Polaris is back and standing around looking confused. A laughable excuse for a news reporter and his cameraman runs over. I... I can't believe that they thought they could pass this off as a TV camera. They taped a frigging camera lens to a CARDBOARD BOX! Holy shit, just when you thought this movie couldn't get more insane! Next, the reporter starts describing the 'animal attack' situation into the microphone, which sports a hand-drawn channel '2' logo. Wow, the actor 'reporting' right now was not born to speak in public. Or even out loud.
The cameraman pans right over to Captain Polaris while he speaks into his police radio. The way it's framed, it looks like the cameraman must be standing just a couple of feet in front of him, so the cops must be either blind or indifferent to TV cameras. The camera guy also picks up the cops talking on their radios, which sound more like audio recorded from cheap toy walkie-talkies, then played back on a cheap toy radio. The Captain orders 'Joey' to lead the tactical team into the warehouse. I don't know what 'team' was being referred to, since Joey is the only guy we see indoors. Joey appears scared to death; after all, he's surrounded by thousands of empty boxes! The Captain decides to head inside and tells Runaway and Ann to follow him?! So they aren't under arrest and aren't being questioned. Why are they here? Did the police draft them?
Eventually, they find Joey's bloody remains. Poor Joey, we hardly knew ye, much less cared. A couple more SWAT guys show up, I guess they were taking a dump when Joey got kacked. A twelve-foot dino busts through a mighty mountain of boxes. The cops aim up at its head but one of the SWAT guys yells not to shoot because he has a guy behind the dinosaur?! Just tell the guy to stop swinging from the ceiling, moron! Runaway says he can kill it with his knife (lenient police out here in Burbank) so Ann perfectly throws her sweater on the dino's face while he runs over and stabs the now 8 foot tall dinosaur in the neck, killing it. Perhaps too busy posing heroically, Runaway doesn't bother to tell anyone to duck or run until the last second before the dino's self-destruct collar explodes. No harm done, though.
The poofy-haired Captain gets a call from the poofy-hat wearing cop in the precinct that more monster sightings have been reported. The Captain orders Runaway arrested while Ann protests. He explains that he wants to ask Runaway some questions. I don't think the police have to arrest someone in order to just ask them some questions but I'm sure the filmmakers had a whole team of folks doing heavy research on police procedures before filming began.
While Runaway is stuck in jail, Annie, who the police for some reason had no interest at all in questioning, sits outside in her car with Fred. Surprisingly, Annie's side of the car isn't suspended in the air. In an effort to do something about the dinosaurs rampaging all over the place, she asks Fred about a street gang she once had connections with. "Can you set up a meeting" with the gang leader she asks. Fred, puzzled, says "What for?" Ann smiles and says "So he can shoot me!" They both share a laugh. Inside jokes are fun... when you're on the inside! In his cell, Runaway starts flexing and punching and kicking the air while we get a flashback montage of all the lunacy that has taken place thus far.
The 12th street gang shows up to their meeting with Annie and we watch them all walking up some stairs in their flannel-clad glory. In a room they encircle and close in on Annie. This comes off looking something like a Busby Berkeley-style musical number, sans money and talent. Evidently, the chunky gang leader's sister died using drugs that were sold by Sister Ann. After a quick "sorry" from her though, it's all water under the bridge; we all know how understanding and forgiving gang leaders are known to be. Annie asks for the gang's assistance in removing monsters from their neighborhood. The gang doesn't seem surprised at the news that dinosaurs are roaming around; maybe they all just got high or something. Anyway, they agree to help Annie in getting these dangerous dinosaurs off the streets so that they'll be able to peacefully resume selling drugs and shooting people.
Outside the police station where Runaway is being questioned, another redneck-looking cyborg scans the area with his fuzzy slop-o-vision. Inside, the Captain doesn't get much of a chance to talk to Runaway since some sunglass-wearing feds walk in. They bring in a doctor who removes a tracking device from Runaway's back. The long-haired Fed, who resembles a long-lost son of Big Enos Burdette, listens to Runaway's story then exchanges some dumb banter with him, such as:
"I apologize for this humiliation; it's my job."
"I have a job too, I'm a tool."
"My life IS my job."
"Mine too."
