The sarcastic Tatum couldn""t contain his feigned excitement over he ""hick"" assignment to get out of the claustrophobic office:A rattlesnake hunt." Michael""s selfish older sister Judith wouldn""t take him trick-or-treating, and he sat outside his house watching other kids having fun - the soundtrack played he tune "Love Hurts" (sung by Nazareth) as his mother stripped in the local bar/lounge for clients." Judith is stunned and denies the reality of the situation with repression: "Suppose we just don""t talk about it anymore." He was not intent on killing the two escapees who had a 12-hour lead, and was often in conflict with over-zealous, brutish police Captain Frank Gibbons (Charles McGraw) who wished to capture them either alive or dead.