Chapter 11: Our Town/Tractor Stampede

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Lightning McQueen: Wow! What is this place?

Sally Carrera: Wheel Well. Used to be the most popular stop on the mother road.

Lightning McQueen: [Our heroes then see a few gas pumps, and then look at some old cans and parts with flies flying and crawling.] This place? [The screen shows a  closeup of the flies buzzing around and crawling. The car-ified bugs beep their horns. The camera then zooms out.]

Sally Carrera: [sighs] Yeah, imagine...Oh, imagine what it must have been like to stay here.

Lightning McQueen: [to Sally] You know, I don't get you. How does a Porsche wind up in a place like this?

Sally Carrera: Well, it's really pretty simple. I was... [drives into the motel, while our heroes follow her in.] ...an attorney in LA living life in the fast lane, and.

Lightning McQueen: Ah, you were, were you? Were you rich?

Sally Carrera: What?

Precious: Just... clues to the puzzle.

Sally Carrera: Yeah, okay. Well, that was my life. And you know what? It never felt...happy.

Lightning McQueen: Yeah. I mean...really?

Sally Carrera: [Then, Sally Carrera sings her version of the song "What More Is Out There" to McQueen and explaining her contemplating her place at LA, living life in the fast lane and also lamenting that she feels trapped at California with all the other rich cars and cannot find somewhere she truly belongs. While all our heroes listen to Sally, McQueen sings to himself in his mind about his racing life in the past and now in the present but now realizes somehow, he's lacking and missing something very important in his life, but he couldn't figure out what it is.] Yeah. So, I left California. Just drove and drove and finally broke down right here. Doc fixed me up, Flo took me in. Well, they all did. And I never left. [Sally then drives out of the motel as the screen shows from behind one of the windows with a few flies crawling on it, along with a dead one being upside down. Our heroes then follow Sally outside.]

Rocky: Yeah. You know, I understand. You need a little R & R. Recharge and old batteries. But you know, after a while, why didn't you go back?

Sally Carrera: [Inhales deeply] I fell in love.

Lightning McQueen: Oh.

Sally Carrera: Yep.

Lightning McQueen: Corvette?

Sally Carrera: No. [drives to the cliff with small logs as barriers, as McQueen and the gang follow her] I fell in love with this. [The screen then changes to show the wonderful view of Ornament Valley and Radiator Springs.]

Lightning McQueen: Whoa. [seeing the mountain where the road led up to] Look at that. [sees some traffic driving on the Interstate 40 in the distance] Look, they're driving right by. They don't even know what they're missing! ["Our Town" starts to play.]

Sally Carrera: Well, it didn't used.

Rubble: Oh, yeah?

Sally Carrera: Yeah. 40 years ago, that Interstate down there didn't exist.

Lightning McQueen: [The screen shows the Interstate again as it does an illusion of the Interstate fading and the hills joined up.]

Sally Carrera: Yeah. Back then, cars came across the country a whole different way.

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