They ain""t gonna last forever." Adrian shouted back: "He""s done fighting." Duke ended by insulting Rocky: "You are a damn fool! Maybe we ought to sign Mrs.Balboa to fight Cane, huh? Looks like she""s the one with the ""cajones"" in the family."Adrian was working part-time in the pet store, to help make ends meet, although Rocky objected: "Why do you wanna go back to the same place you started from?" He asked her, rhetorically: "Did we ever leave this place?" At his school, Rocky, Jr.The passengers discuss ""Miss Beauchamps"" - one of the tourists on the ocean liner who is tardy arriving for her shore tour to Nassau.Take my word for it, Mr.Emmerich, this is a ripe plum ready to fall...Perhaps you know my reputation.I""ve engineered some very big things.The take of a million dollars worth of jewels will amount to about a half-million dollars "in actual cash" after he rocks are fenced, according to the knowledgeable Emmerich ("because you know as well as I do that in no case will a fence give you more han fifty percent").The film""s morality tale of corruption ends with its ultimate defeat and the saving of the community by a morally-redeemed martyr (a common man with a conscience).The action is narrated, in flashback, by an offscreen character, the local Catholic Father Peter Lonergan (Ward Bond), the priest of the parish who is also a devoted fisherman, as he clears his throat:Now, I""ll begin at the beginnin"".