You want more?"Tina: "Eddie, we can""t.Matt will kill us."Eddie: "F--k him!"Tina: "F--k you."Eddie: "Exactly.F--k me.Come on."After placing a blanket on the ground, they smoked a joint, and then undressed, as they were spied upon from nearby bushes by drifter Raymond.The next day, Maggie again evaluated "John" by questioning him about his dream of a room, house, and a little girl (brown-haired with red ribbons) - also "something about the town from my article," and the water tower.[Its tone resembled previous boxing genre films, includingGolden Boy (1939),Body and Soul (1947),Champion (1949), andThe Set-Up (1949).A career can rest on a trifle.Like - like us sitting here tonight.Or it can turn on somebody saying to you, ""You""re better than that.You""re better than you know."" Don""t settle for the little dream.Go on to the big one...Scared? Scared to take the plunge?He gives her some final words of encouragement before he leaves: "Don""t ever forget how good you are.A title card reads:This is a shocking story.It could never take place in most American towns - but it did in this one.It is a public challenge not to let it happen again.A voice-over narration of the main character introduces he story.As a cautionary prologue, it seems to refer to the hooliganistic, violent behavior of the cyclists, but it also decries the reactions of the townspeople and their repressive, backlashing, vigilante-style behavior toward the narrator""s gang of outlaw outsiders - calling he encounter a "whole mess":It begins here for me on this road.