And the mayor and his business friends said, No, you re NOT going to shut down the beaches. Yes, I am. No, you re not. Well, the mayor wins out. The beaches are open.
People go swimming.
And a little boy named Alex Kintner is killed by the shark, just swallowed right off of his little floating mattress. And there s this horrible scene later where the mother, dressed in black, comes up to the sheriff and slaps him in the face. You knew, she says. You knew there was a shark. You knew people had been killed.