[last lines]
Caretaker: [voiceover] It's said that the West was built on legends. And that legends are a way of understanding things greater than ourselves. Forces that shape our lives, events that defy explanation. Individuals whose lives soar to the heavens or fall to the earth. This is how legends are born.
[Johnny transforms into Ghost Rider]
[first lines]
Caretaker: [voiceover] It's said that the West was built on legends. Tall tales that help us make sense of things too great or too terrifying to believe. This is the legend of the Ghost Rider. Story goes that every generation has one. Some damned soul, cursed to ride the earth, collecting on the Devil's deals. Many years ago, a Ghost Rider was sent to the
village of San Venganza, to fetch a contract worth 1000 evil souls. But that contract was so powerful, he knew he could never let the Devil get his hands on it. So he did what no Rider has ever done before: he outran the Devil himself. The thing about legends is... sometimes, they're true.
Caretaker: [to an exhausted Johnny Blaze] Morning, Bonehead.
Mephistopheles: [after Blaze defeats Blackheart] Congradulations, Johnny. You upheld your end of the bargain. It's time I take back the power of the Ghost Rider. You get your life back. The love you've always wanted. You can start a family of your own. There are more deals to be made. More people willing to give their souls for what they desire. Let someone else carry this curse.
You're free now. After all... a deal's a deal.
Johnny Blaze: [looks to Roxanne; points to Mephistopheles, his hand burning as fire flashes in his eyes] No. I'm gonna own this curse... and I'm gonna use it against you. Whenever innocent blood is spilt, it'll be my father's blood... and you'll find me there. A spirit of vengeance... fighting fire with fire.
Mephistopheles: [angered] I will make you pay for this.
Johnny Blaze: You can't live in fear.
Mephistopheles: [shouts] NO!
Caretaker: San Venganza's 500 miles from here. We'd better get going.
[walks on]
Johnny Blaze: [following the Caretaker] We?
[Caretaker whistles and a black horse comes trotting out of the mist]
Caretaker: I've got one last ride left in me.
[the Caretaker mounts the horse, donning a ten-gallon hat, and transforms
into a Ghost Rider]
Johnny Blaze: [grins knowingly] Carter Slade.
[Slade slowly nods his head]
Johnny Blaze: Can YOU keep up?
[Slade's horse transforms into a fiery phantom steed]
Johnny Blaze: Let's ride!
[Johnny mounts his bike, turning into the Ghost Rider]
Blackheart: My name is Legion. For we are
[inhale]
Blackheart: many.
[outside a biker bar; sees Blackheart walking up]
Motorcycle Gang Member: I think you might be lost, boy. You deaf or something?
Motorcycle Gang Member: [steps in front of Blackheart, stops him from entering] Angels only in there.
Blackheart: Angels. Really?
Motorcycle Gang Member: Yeah, really.
[jabs Blackheart in the chest]
Motorcycle Gang Member: You got a problem with that?
Blackheart: As a matter of fact...
[jabs him the same way, slowly turning him into a blackened corpse; after the biker drops]
Blackheart: I do.
[before the big Touchdown Jump, Johnny Blaze and Randall "Mack" Mackenzie stand at the top of the acceleration ramp, overlooking the 300 ft jump]
Mack: Thank God you listened to me, took the cars out. It would've been suicide otherwise This way if you come up short, see, you'll come down on some nice, soft, green... grass?
[Mack looks up at the sound of the stadium
dome being opened. Six Blackhawk helicopters slowly descend towards the field]
X Games Announcer: Ladies and Gentlemen, Johnny Blaze will not be jumping 50 cars today as scheduled; but instead, he will be leaping six UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. Never before has any man attempted such a death-defying stunt.
[Mack turns and glares at Johnny]
Johnny
Blaze: [shrugs] I took the cars out.
Mack: [as the helicopters land on the field] Why? Why JB? Why wouldn't you tell me?
Johnny Blaze: Well, because you would have thrown a fit.
Mack: Call me old-fashioned, I'm funny that way. Human sacrifice makes me uncomfortable. Why, JB? Why helicopters, man?
Barton
Blaze: [a flashback to Barton discussing a new idea for a jump with young Johnny] You know what I've been thinking about? A new stunt. But instead of the cars or the ring of fire, a helicopter.
Johnny Blaze: My dad thought it'd be cool.
Mack: [Mack pauses, and glances down towards the helicopters again, before turning back with a sigh] He
was right.
Caretaker: [Changed back into human, as Johnny is about to head to San Venganza] This is the end of the trail for me. I got nothing left, I could only change one more time and I was saving it for this. God knows I made my share of mistakes. I've been trying to make them right ever since. All I can do is hope he sees fit to give me a second chance.
Johnny
Blaze: Thank you.
Caretaker: No. Thank you, kid.
[Caretaker/Slade tips his hat at Johnny and rides off, disappearing]
Blackheart: [clapping] Looking for someone?
Ghost Rider: [pointing] Back to Hell!
Blackheart: We're not going to have a meaningful conversation now, are we?
Ghost Rider: You're going down!
Blackheart: I don't think so!
Ghost Rider: [to Blackheart] Look into my eyes.
Blackheart: [starts screaming, but then laughs] Your Penance stare won't work on me. I've no soul to burn.