First meeting

The **First meeting** is the first episode in Cars: Mack and Lightning Series

## Plot

### Premise

Lightning Mcqueen is a young race car who ends up near the truck Macks garage and tries in every way to stay but Mack does everything to get rid of the tiresome and careless race car.

### Synopsis

The episode begins in the radiator desert just next to a garage where a red racing car Lightning Mcqueen drives, he becomes curious, runs closer, while the owner of the garage, Mack, gets ready to fetch firewood for the fireplace. Lightning hides near the woodshed while he picks up a stack of firewood, but Lightning hits his head in a wheel capsule and hides when Mack hears it.

Lightning looks for Mack who returns to the garage until he loses a cube of wood on one wheel and screams in pain, but he picks up the cube again and drives in when the coffee pot honks. Lightning looks into the window and gets scared when he sees the fire inside the fireplace and shouts "Help, it's burning, it's burning!" Mack hears him but does not see (because Lightning had hid again). Lightning is baffled when the fire is gone and sees Mack going to paste some pictures into a book. Lightning asks Mack what his name is and Mack is shocked to see him and says that he does not knock on cars through the window in this way. Lightning comes in (even if Mack didn't want to). Lightning dirties the floor with his dirty tires and is curious about a picture of fruit and a book.

Mack gets frustrated with all the dirt and asks Lightning not to move and goes to get a washcloth. When he comes back Lightning touches the camera and accidentally takes a picture of him. Lightning finally gets his name, White Mack but is chased out. Mack washes up dirt and empties the dirty water and finds Lightning on the stairs by the front door, there was dirt there too and he brushes it and Lightning down the stairs. Mack asks Lightning why he came here and Lightning tells him that he was just a car that has skipped around America without travel destinations, but Mack does not care.

Lightning asks Mack if he lives all alone and Mack says he does it because he wants peace and quiet. Lightning accidentally smashes one of Mack's flower vases and Mack strictly orders Lightning to go. Lightning says that he only wants to be friends with Mack but Mack says that no one wants to get to know him because he does not like visits from other cars and tells Lightning that he will surely find decent cars down the road. Lightning says that he has been driving for a very long time and that he is very tired, but Mack insists that Lightning is able to drive a little longer. Lightning is leaving and Mack was about to enter again. But for unknown reasons, the lightning falls upside down and faints right next to the garage. Mack approaches him worriedly and carefully takes him back inside.

Lightning wakes up in Mack's bed and Mack stands next to him and moves to his chair. Lightning is grateful for what Mack did and states that Mack is his best friend but Mack confirms that they are not friends. Lightning strikes a bowl of nuts and it falls to the floor. Mack cleans up angrily and says with a tone "I do not like friends, friends are the worst I know! You mess with everything and bother cars that like peace and no danger!" Even after the hard speeches from Mack, Lightning asks for little food. Mack says to him that after he's got food, he has to leave, Lightning gets it. While Lightning gets bread and water, Mack teaches him folk customs such as: having the front wheels down from the drill, not talking with food in your mouth and not burping loudly when others are present.

Mack tells Lightning that it takes a long time to learn manners, so Lightning insists that he must stay here for quite some time but Mack reminds him of their agreement. Lightning then says that it can take many days before he gets full but Mack does not go for it and says firmly that Lightning will leave now. Lightning asks Mack why he can not stay and Mack tells that he is busy and that the days he is full of things and he can not have Lightning who disturbs him all the time. Lightning asks where the other cars are and Mack explains that there are many of them living in the city but he does not want to live there because he thinks there is a lot of noise, many cars drive around all the time and havent got time for anything.

Lightning realizes he just has to go to town but when he gasps loudly Mack realizes how tired Lightning is. Lightning asks to sleep here tonight, Mack is first against it but he changes his mind and takes Lightning out. Mack shows Lightning his old trailer but Lightning does not want to sleep there and offers to sleep inside with Mack, Mack gives certain choices to Lightning that either he sleeps in the trailer or he will just have to go to town now. Lightning admits he's going to freeze out here. Mack picks up a scarf and a blanket. Lightning finds himself well inside the trailer while Mack enters the garage again, but after a while he begins to think that Lightning should sleep inside with him as well. On the way out, he drives over a nut and hurts his wheel. Lightning hears Mack shout in pain, he does not care and says to the viewers that he will get used to Mack after a while (Which is a small hint at his plans to stay with Mack). Meanwhile, Mack sits back in his chair and changes his mind again, leaving Lightning to sleep in the trailer.

In the Post Credit Scenes, Lightning is seen sleeping in the trailer.

## Voice cast

Owen Wilson as Lightning Mcqueen

John Ratzenberger as Mack