This film was both more somber and dark, and also left the viewer with a ""cliffhanger"" ending; however, it had a very complex and sophisticated plot involving time-travel.Eric was fascinated by her power, while Charles asked: "The question is, will you control that power or let it control you?"The next scene was set "ten years ago.I am," inferring that she was taking insane revenge for his accidental drowning death, due to negligent camp counselors engaged in a romantic tryst.]Taxi Driverhas been acknowledged as consciously influenced by John Ford""sThe Searchers (1956)- he story of another angry war veteran and social outcast who becomes obsessed during a search and rescue of his young niece from a long-haired Comanche chief named Scar.Enos urged Annie to "quit now" and then told her that two kids had been brutally murdered there in 1958, a young boy had drowned there in 1957 (both unsolved cases), and there were unexplained fires.