while snake is forced to fight in a deathmatch with slag a prisoner brain and maggie kill romero and flee with the president as snake kills slag the duke learns of brains treachery and rallies his gang to chase them snake brain maggie and the president race to the world trade center in an attempt to use snakes glider to escape from manhattan after a group of crazies destroy it the group returns to the street and encounters cabbie who offers to take them across the bridge when cabbie reveals that he has the secret tape having traded it to romero earlier for his hat the president demands it but snake keeps it