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Line 31: The film alternates scenes between John Eastland ([[Robert Ginty\|Ginty]]) and X. Eastland develops a relationship with a dancer named Caroline ([[Deborah Geffner\|Geffner]]). X announces his plans of leading the gang to rule the streets and the city. The gang robs an [[Armored car (valuables)\|armored car]] and shoots down a police helicopter. A [[garbage truck]] passing by driven by Be Gee ([[Frankie Faison\|Faison]]) swerves into the crowd of gangsters, scattering them right before the police can arrive. The gang performs a torch-lit execution of the armored car driver in the [[New York City Subway\|subway]], while X's brother is incinerated by the masked man. Later, the film then follows Eastland and Be Gee, [[Vietnam veterans]], reuniting and driving around town in the garbage truck, visiting the bar where Caroline works, and splitting up as Eastland and Caroline take the garbage truck to Caroline's apartment. Simultaneously, a [[American Mafia\|Mafioso]] visits the gang's lair in another torch-lit ceremony and offers to sell them [[heroin]], the gang tests a sample on a randomly kidnapped victim, and discover the location of Caroline's home by recognizing the garbage truck. On a following day, Eastland and Caroline visit a park. The gang attacks Caroline when Eastland is distracted, beating her badly and breaking a leg. Eastland and Be Gee discuss crime later in that bar. The masked man appears in an alley and incinerates two more gangsters. Later on, Caroline and Eastland fight, and Eastland finally brings up [[Vigilantism#~~Vigilantism_in_the_United_States_of_America~~Vigilantism in the United States of America\|vigilante justice]] with Be Gee. They arm themselves, ambush a group of gangsters in a park, and torture information out of one gangster. Eastland and Be Gee attack one of the gang's warehouses, only to discover that they were interrupting a drug sale between X and the Mafioso. In the ensuing firefight, Be Gee is killed by X, the Mafioso and his crew are blown up along with the money, and Eastland steals the heroin. In retaliation, the gang murders Caroline while Eastland mourns over Be Gee. Vowing revenge, Eastland installs improvised armor on the garbage truck, while strapping machine guns and antitank rockets to the sides and top. A final showdown ensues in a factory, where Eastland kills most of the gangsters with the armored garbage truck, and incinerates the survivors with a flamethrower. X then chases Eastland around the factory, wounding him in the process and capturing the bag of heroin. The bag explodes, killing X, leaving Eastland to walk away alone from the wreckage. Line 55: ''Exterminator 2'' had a very troubled production which included budget problems, heavy re-editing and reshoots, and censorship issues. The Cannon Group studio was not pleased with director Mark Buntzman's original rough cut of the film, so they hired film doctor William Sachs to do extensive reshoots in Los Angeles to improve it. In 2012 interview<ref>{{Cite web \|date=October 22, 2012 \|title=The Hollywood Fixer: ~~“Galaxina”~~"Galaxina" Director William Sachs \|first=Sam \|last=Weisberg \|url=https://hidden-films.com/2012/10/22/the-hollywood-fixer-galaxina-director-william-sachs/ }}</ref> about his work, Sachs talked about the reshoots on ''Exterminator 2''. He was the one who came up with idea of the Exterminator wearing the flame proof mask throughout the movie: {{~~quote~~blockquote\|text=Bob Ginty was supposed to be doing another movie and they wouldn't release him. I said, 'I'll fix it so you don't need him.' I couldn't get any other stars, so that's where I came up with the idea. There's one shot of Ginty with the welding mask working on the garbage truck, and he lifts his mask and has a little torch. So I just used that shot at the end. I turned him into a vigilante with a welding mask for the whole rest of the movie.\|sign=[[William Sachs]]\|source=about working on ''Exterminator 2''}} Because of the budget problems, the movie had to be reshot in Los Angeles: {{~~quote~~blockquote\|text=They started shooting in New York, and they went so far over budget that they moved it to LA. They spent double their budget, it was supposed to be $1.5 million and they got to $3 million and they'd shot like 40 minutes. I had been working on the movie in New York as a co-producer. So I brought it to LA, and I had to ship the garbage truck from New York, because the ones in New York are metal and the ones in LA are fiberglass, because of the weight restrictions. We got permission. We have scenes where [the truck] goes around the corner of one street in New York, and the other's in LA. We threw garbage in the streets and painted the curbs in LA a different color, to make it look like New York.\|sign=William Sachs\|source=about working on ''Exterminator 2''}} Sachs also mentioned that production's initial struggles were probably due to Buntzman's inexperience handling a large film crew: {{~~quote~~blockquote\|text=I was in New York just to watch, and I saw what was going wrong. If you can't make a decision, everyone starts giving you their two cents until it's a committee. Mark Buntzman couldn't make a certain decision, so the script supervisor had an idea and the DP had an idea, and soon there was a meeting going on. A directing lesson: if someone asks 'Where do I point the camera?' you just point. The first thing that comes into your head, you just say "there". Nine times out of ten, it's the right place. And if it's not, you say later, 'Well, I thought about it and it'd be better over here'. But if you don't give an answer, you lose them.\|sign=William Sachs\|source=about working on ''Exterminator 2''}} According to Sachs, the character of X got his name due to more indecisiveness from Buntzman, who could not think of a better name. It was also Sachs' idea to make the character more central. Line 71: Even in post-production, the film met with some troubles. The MPAA made Sachs cut down an early gory scene in which an elderly couple is shot up by the gang: {{~~quote~~blockquote\|text=I'm not really excited about violent stuff. When you're shooting it, it's fun, but something a little more realistic affects people. When we shot that scene, the DP said it was the most realistic thing he ever saw. The squib and the gun went off in the same frame. It was timed perfectly, by luck, and you don't usually see that. We had six shots and ended up with one quick shot.\|sign=William Sachs\|source=about working on ''Exterminator 2''}} In interview Sachs also had a funny anecdote about the casting of Arye Gross, who played gang member Turbo in the movie: "He came in and read for me, and he was talking like Marlon Brando, through his nose. It was fantastic, so I gave him the part. And when we did the scene, he didn't talk like that. I said, 'You're not talking like you did in your reading!' And he said, 'I had a cold'". Line 133: In September 2016, 101 Film released "THE UNCUT" Version of ''Exterminator 2'' on Blu-ray - this version includes all of the previously removed edits for violence and 1 scene removed for their violent content for the UK release but does not change the story. [[Shout! Factory]] released ''Exterminator 2'' as part of a four-film "Action-Packed Movie Marathon" DVD set on March 19, 2013. 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