 Luke challenges God during the rainstorm on the road , telling him to do anything to him . Later , while he is digging and filling trenches and confronted by the guards , an inmate performs the spiritual " No Grave Gonna Keep my Body Down . " Toward the end of the film , Luke speaks to God , evoking the conversation between God and Jesus at the Garden of Gethsemane , depicted in the Gospel of Luke . Following Luke 's talk , the film depicts Dragline as a Judas , who delivers Luke to the authorities , trying to convince him to surrender . In the final scene , Dragline eulogizes Luke . He explains that despite Luke 's death , his actions succeeded in defeating the system . The closing shot shows inmates working on crossroads with the repaired photo of Luke and the two women superimposed . 
