During a scene in which two inmates are discussing their legal situations, one of the inmates comments that he doesn't know what the prosecutor expects him to tell her when the truth will send him to jail for ten years. Another inmate responds by saying that once you're in the system, you simply need to do your best to get out of the system. The other inmate says he isn't sure what the truth is and that the only truth he knows is that he hates being in jail. Steve then comments, "Truth is truth. It's what you know to be right" (Myers 224). Steve understands truth has to do with one's morals and conscience. One of the inmates responds by saying truth is something that he gave up on the street. When you're on trial for your life, truth is simply surviving to see the outside world again. Steve apparently takes the inmate's advice because he lies about being in the drugstore and having anything to do with the robbery.