En route, they stop at a remote fuel station and notice something wrong with Charlotte. Soon after they start off for Dallas, they are accosted for the first of several times by Sheriff Justice, but Bandit outwits him and they escape. When Bandit removes a splinter from Charlotte's foot, she takes a liking to him. mascot) which Cledus names "Charlotte" after his aunt. They return late that night to steal it, only to find the "package" is a live elephant (the G.O.P. The three arrive at the pier in Miami only to find out the manifest is quarantined for three weeks. She then trades in Junior's car for a new Trans Am. Though she still has feelings for Bandit, when Carrie arrives she initially intones she is only in it for the money, and she and Cledus work on getting Bandit off the booze and back into shape. Cledus is ecstatic, but Bandit begins to miss Carrie.Ĭledus calls Carrie, who is back in Texarkana and again about to marry Junior when Cledus calls offering her $50,000 to help out she agrees and again becomes a runaway bride.
Cledus accepts on Bandit's behalf, but adds that Big Enos should give them half in advance, to which they agree. Cledus takes the Burdettes to Bandit to make the offer in person, but Bandit has become a heavy drinker since breaking up with Carrie ("Frog"), and is drunk when the Burdettes arrive and double the payoff to $400,000. Burdette schemes to earn the governor's endorsement and have the crate delivered to the convention in his name, and tracks down Cledus "Snowman" Snow and offers him and Bo "Bandit" Darville $200,000 to do the run. After failing to get the outgoing governor's endorsement, Big Enos overhears him on the phone ordering a crate in Miami to be delivered in nine days to the Republican National Convention in Dallas. Big Enos Burdette is in a literal mudslinging campaign against John Conn for Governor of Texas.