Probably Unanswerable Questions
Vaughn’s reelection, Quint’s missing decades and a possible sequel
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- The mayor probably loses reelection, though a joking campaign defense stresses the rest of the tourist season and shared recovery.
- Quint’s intervening decades are imagined through heavy drinking, trauma and shark hunting.
- The barrel-and-harpoon plan is questioned and compared with the novel’s ending.
- The status of Jaws 2 is disputed, leading to a forty-years-later proposal in which the youngest Brody is police chief and Alex Kintner’s younger brother is a vengeful mayor. — Bill Simmons
- Hooper is imagined as mayor or head of an oceanographic institute, with a joke about adopting the mast-dare behavior.