Raven : Mr . Gates is still eating his peppermints . That ’ s my business .
Graham : Why don ’ t you stop thinking about yourself for a minute ?
Raven : Who else is gonna think about me ?
“ This war is everybody ’ s business . Yours too .” But Raven does not see it that way , and refuses Graham ’ s appeal to patriotism even after she reveals that Gates is an executive by day at Nitro Chemical , the company doing business with Japan . As morning dawns , Graham agrees to help Raven escape on condition that he kill no one else . Raven reluctantly kills a police officer while taking advantage of Graham ’ s diversion , and escapes the dragnet by jumping on a train from a bridge . Raven heads for Nitro Chemical headquarters to find Gates .
The movie winds down quickly from here . Motivated by revenge , Raven takes down the traitorous industrialist and shoots Gates for trying to kill the blonde . He carries out a request from Graham first , however , by extracting a signed confession from Brewster and Gates . He chooses not to shoot Graham ’ s fiancé , Crane , when he has the chance , and dies in the shootout with police . Dying , he asks Graham , “ Did I do all right for ya ?” She nods .
Raven served his country ’ s interests , albeit unintentionally , by pursuing his personal revenge agenda . The lines blur to some extent because of his connection to the blonde , but in the end , he did the right thing for her and for America . In the moral universe of the film , men who knew how to handle guns , such as urban gangsters , needed to have their guns trained on the enemy instead of other Americans . There are larger issues at stake than
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