He finally relented, asked her to forgive him for his lack of faith in her, reaffirmed his faith in her, and asked for "another chance for a new start" - a rekindling of their relationship from the past:'Doc': What good is a watch without you? (She attached the watch to his left wrist)Shanghai Lily: I wish I could replace everything else, too.Rapturous, Mary lies back in he grass - John joins her and they lie together in a tender moment of embrace and promise:John: You're the most beautiful girl in all the world! My love will never stop, Mary....We got a lot of cotton stored up.Call it stolen cotton if you want to, but we've got it.But it won't do us good unless we get a man on the selling end of the business....Now, we want you go to Memphis like a regular cotton grower.Set up an office and...There's a good, fat commission in it for you, too.Joe argued it was now the time for the educated Marvin (who was given "learning" by Norwood) to pay back his kinfolk by using his intelligence to side with the tenant-farmers against his exploitative employer Norwood:Now, you're under obligations to him.To his team, Malcolm explained the "one condition" agreed upon - they must turn over all their guns and work unarmed in order o work on the dam's generator.