Furiosa is initially placed inside the vault where The Brides of Immortan Joe are kept, and it’s presumed she’ll also become breeding stock when she’s of age. Planning her escape, she secretly shaves her head while fashioning a wig, allowing her to slip out from the creepy clutches of Joe’s son Rictus Erectus (Nathan Jones), and sneak into service as a Blackthumb mechanic while disguised as a mute boy.
Furiosa grows into an adult, all while the wig she’d used to make her escape sits abandoned atop a branch as it leafs through the years. After being part of the team that has built a new War Rig for transporting supplies through the Wasteland between Gastown and the Bullet Farm, Furiosa makes a move to escape, stowing away onboard the Rig during a supply run. Taking the advice of her late mother, Furiosa uses the stars in the sky to help triangulate her position relative to the Green Place, tattooing a map home on her left forearm.
Unfortunately, the day Furiosa chooses to stow away is when one of Dementus’ underbosses, the Octoboss (Goran D. Kleut), breaks away and raids the Rig with his own men. During the battle, Furiosa is forced to defend the Rig, taking out the Octoboss and his cronies with skill but revealing her true identity to the Rig’s driver, Praetorian Jack (Tom Burke).
Jack (whose outfit resembles Max Rockatansky’s) proves to be his own man, promising to keep Furiosa’s secret and let her escape after she stays on with him and the Rig so that he can teach her the ways of Road War. Furiosa agrees, and her skills sharpen while her relationship with Jack, himself the son of soldiers who died looking for a righteous cause, deepens.
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