One of the deputy officers, Shagbag Martin (Timothy Scott) radioed on a portable walkie-talkie that the suspect was attempting o cross the Mississippi River from the state of Mississippi into Arkansas, to escape local jurisdiction.That""s an edge, brother.Without an edge, there ain""t no tough guy.[The implication is that Bannister""s wealth ("bankroll in (his) pocket") provides him with most of his edge, something hat Michael will soon find out.The film concludes with Charlotte""s lavishing of attention on his young, emotionally-unstable teenage daughter Tina (caused by another domineering mother) (an uncredited Janis Wilson) - her motherly love serves as a remote substitute for the couple""s own romantically-complicated love.(The film waits until its climax to provide the typical catharctic bloody violence of most traditional horror films - and with restraint - only one murder!)The film""s source material from science-fiction/horror author Stephen King""s 1977 best-selling novel (his third novel under his own name) by the same name, bears little resemblance to Kubrick""s creation.