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On your return to the main street you see Sergeant Haskell in the distance, beckoning you over to a used car lot near the middle of Rodeo. You hurry across the highway and enter the lot, which specialized in commercial and recreational vehicles before ‘The Day’. The faded billboards boast that ‘only the best vehicles are to be found here’, but sadly this claim is long out-of-date. Most of the trucks and RVs are totally wrecked, and nearly all have tyres and batteries that perished during the post-holocaust years. All, that is, save one.

Captain Frankland has discovered a battered Toyota pick-up truck that still has four good tyres. He has lifted the hood and, as you enter the lot, he asks you to take a closer look at the engine. Apart from a dead battery and lack of fuel, you soon realize that this pick-up is in remarkably good condition.

‘Well, we’ve found some gas,’ says Knott, raising the fuel can, ‘so that solves one problem.’

‘That’s fine,’ replies the captain, ‘but we’ll still need some electrical power to get this engine started.’

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