Jaws: The Revenge

On Amity Island, Martin Brody, famous for his deeds as the police chief, has died from a heart attack. Martin's widow, Ellen, still lives in Amity, close to her younger son, Sean, and his fiancée, Tiffany. Sean works as a police deputy, and when he is dispatched to clear a log from a buoy a few days before Christmas, a great white shark appears and kills him. Martin's older son, Michael, his wife, Carla, and their five-year-old daughter, Thea, come to Amity for the funeral. Michael works in the Bahamas as a marine biologist, and on his arrival, Ellen demands he stop his work. Having just received his first grant, Michael refuses. Thea convinces Ellen to return to the Bahamas with them. The pilot of their small plane, Hoagie Newcombe, takes an interest in Ellen. Ellen begins spending time with him. Michael introduces his mother to his colleague Jake McCay and his wife Louisa, and they spend Christmas and New Year's together. A few days later, Michael, Jake and their crew encounter the shark, which followed the family from Amity. Jake is eager to research it because great white sharks have never been seen in the Bahamas due to the warm water. Michael asks him not to mention the shark to his family. Ellen has nightmares of being attacked by the shark. She is able to sense when the shark is about to attack. Jake decides to attach a device to the shark that can track it through its heartbeat. Using chum to attract it, Jake stabs the device's tracking pole into the shark's side. The next day, the shark ambushes and chases Michael through a sunken ship, and he narrowly escapes. Thea goes on an inflatable banana boat, and the shark attacks the back of the boat killing another passenger. Ellen boards Jake's boat to track down the shark, intending to kill it. After hearing about what happened, Michael confesses he knew about the shark, infuriating Carla. Michael and Jake are flown by Hoagie to search for Ellen and find the shark in pursuit of their boat. During the search, Hoagie explains to Michael about Ellen's belief that the shark that killed Sean is hunting her family. When they find her, Hoagie lands the plane on the water, ordering Michael and Jake to swim to the boat as the shark drags the plane and Hoagie underwater. Hoagie escapes from the shark, and Jake and Michael hastily put together a device that emits electrical impulses. Jake is then mauled by the shark, but manages to get the device into the shark's mouth before being dragged underwater. Michael begins blasting the shark with the impulses. It repeatedly jumps out of the water, roaring in pain. Ellen steers the sailboat towards the shark, while thinking back to the shark's attack on Thea and also imagining Sean's death, and Martin defeating the first shark. As the shark is rearing up, she rams the broken bowsprit of the boat into it. In the original version of the film that was screened in the U.S., the shark bleeds out and dies after being impaled. In the revised ending (for international theaters and DVD release), the impaling causes the shark to immediately explode, and its corpse sinks to the bottom of the ocean (footage from the ending of the first film is used to show this). Jake dies in the original cut, but in the revised ending, Michael hears Jake calling for help, seriously injured but still alive. A short time later, Hoagie flies Ellen back to Amity Island.