When the trio accepts Caribe's invitation to have dinner and spend the night at his place, things take a definite turn for the worse.  Caribe rapes Terry and puts a knife through Art's gut.  When Jim tries to escape with Terry, she's captured and he's left for dead in a burning building..

Caribe bests Jim in a fight.  As he is about to inflict the coup de grace with his machete, Terry appears with his rifle.  They exchange looks as she shoots him dead.  The ending brings back Caribe's statement that he tastes the soul of every animal he kills.

When Caribe has the final fight with Jim, he is inexplicably wearing a sling on his arm  One assumes there were some scenes cut out of the movie which would have explained it.  But no.  Actually, William Smith, who displayed skill with knives in a number of his roles dating back to Laredo, apparently has not mastered the art of opening very small cans with very big knives.  A craving for Vienna sausage coupled with the absence of a Swiss army knife with its handy can opener, led to a deep gash in his left forearm when the knife he was using slipped.  At the time this happened, they were well away from medical care.  Bill said that Tom Simcox probably saved his life by applying pressure to his arm during the boat ride to the doctor.   The emergency treatment Peter Brown offered was a bottle of whiskey.  If you look closely at the night scenes which precede the morning fight scene, you can see that the left arm is not being used at all.

The Sling

The sling made for a disappointing fight scene - the only one we know of between Peter and Bill.  (They were partners on Laredo.  As enemies in Chrome & Hot Leather Bill's fight was with Tony Young's stunt double while Peter took out about a dozen of the others.)  Of course, scrappy and feisty as Peter has always been, we wouldn't bet anything valuable on his being able to do serious damage to William Smith  who is bigger, stronger and well-acquainted with martial arts.  And within the context of Piranha, Piranha, Caribe was clearly the tougher character.  But with the sling on Bill's arm (and with a fresh, still painful gash) the fight looked unusually awkward.  They basically had to choreograph it with Peter's character doing those dumb things that make getting stomped inevitable.  (E.g. when Bill manages to push Peter off the little bridge walkway, Peter slowly, deliberately hauls himself up right into Bill's waiting boot instead of going around to meet him standing face to face.)

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