…their eyes”. So worried that Rocky’s gangster image will inspire all the youths to a life of crime, Jerry approaches Rocky and begs him to die a coward so that the kids will not follow in his footsteps. Rocky refuses saying he has an image to protect. As an uncompromising and seething Rocky is taken to the electric chair suddenly out of nowhere he begs for mercy and dies a coward. There is a close-up of a teary-eyed Jerry looking up and the last scene is of him talking to the kid…