The Gyro Captain successfully bargained for his life as he kept exclaiming:"Gas! Fuel! Gasoline! Thousands of gallons of it! As much as you want!.Wilks: I""m the one that gets the pressure calls from upstairs.I""m the one that has to explain.You don""t keep an office like this very long stepping on a lot of corns.Bannion: Do you want me to go upstairs and explain?Wilks: Not you.You""re a corn-stepper by instinct."A corn-stepper by instinct," Bannion is not able to understand why he is ordered to lay off the case and "stop pestering the widow," since he now realizes that Lucy told the truth: "She talks to me just once - (he clicks his finger) - like that, she""s dead...You ain""t nothing").When Apollo moaned: "He""s getting killed," Paulie differed with him: "Oh, no, no, no.He""s not getting killed.He""s getting mad." Confused and psyched out, Lang fell into Rocky""s trap and wasted his power and energy, allowing Rocky to come back and overpower his exhausted opponent with blow after blow." Jake knowingly states that there is really "no such hing" as a pure "tough guy" without "an edge":What""s a tough guy?.Showering in the locker room (nude from a profile or side view), Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) was praised by trainer Tony "Duke" Evers (Tony Burton) for winning and for avenging Apollo""s death.