While Justice enjoys the idea of capturing and imprisoning the Bandit for all the things he has done to him in the past, in "Smokey and the Bandit Part 3" this changes when he finally captures the Bandit (not knowing it was Cledus "the Snowman" Snow posing as the Bandit in a plan by the Enoses to make Justice lose the bet). Justice proceeds to have an open "heart to heart" conversation with a hallucination of the real Bandit (Reynolds in a cameo), where he finally discovers that he had developed an unexpected fondness for the Bandit and despite the fact he was planning to retire after this run, the memory of his disastrous retirement in Miami Beach at the opening of the film and the idea of living a life with no excitement as the voice of his son overplays in his mind, Justice has second thoughts and lets him go (giving him a five-minute head start) so he can resume chasing him, thus ending the film, and the franchise, in another hot pursuit.