The Shawshank Redemption
your wife the night she was murdered.
Mr Dufresne, describe the confrontation you had
It was very bitter.
with
sneaking around.
She said she was
glad
I knew, that she hated all
And she said that she wanted a divorce in Reno.
the
one.
- What was your response? - I told her I would not grant
"I'll see you in hell before I see you in Reno."
according to the testimony of your neighbors.
Those were the words you used, Mr
If they say so.
Dufresne,
I really don't remember. I was upset.
What happened after you argued with your wife?
She packed
She packed a bag to go and stay with Mr Quentin.
Club whom you had discovered was your wife's lover.
Glenn Quentin, golf pro at the Snowden Hills Country
Did you follow her?
I went to a few bars first.
weren't home.
Later, I drove
I parked in the turnout and waited.
to his house to confront them. They
With what intention?
I'm not sure.
I was confused
drunk.
I think mostly I wanted to scare them.
murdered them.
When they arrived, you went up to the house
No.I was sobering up.
and
I got back in the car and I drove home to sleep it off.
Royal River.
Along the way, I stopped and threw my
I feel I've been very clear on this point.
gun into the
up the following morning and finds your wife in bed with her
Well where I get hazy where the cleaning woman shows
lover riddled with point 38-caliber bullets.
Dufresne,
Does
Yes, it does.
that
or is it just me?
strike you as
a fantastic coincidence, Mr
before the murders took place.
Yet you still maintain you threw your gun into the river
That's very convenient.
It's the truth.
gun was found
The police dragged that river for three days, and nary a
gun
the victims.
and
So there is no comparison could be made between your
the
And that also is very convenient. Isn't it, Mr Dufresne?
bullets
taken from the bloodstained corpses of
Since I am innocent of this crime
never found.
So I find it decidedly inconvenient
that the gun was
You know all the facts.
Ladies and
gentlemen, you've heard all the
have footprints. Tire tracks.
We have the accused
evidence.
at the scene of the crime. We
Bullets scattered on the ground bearing his fingerprints.
A broken bourbon bottle, likewise with fingerprints.
And most of all
dead in each other's arms.
We have a beautiful young woman and her lover lying
They had sinned.
But was their crime so great
as to merit a death sentence?
While you think
think about this
A revolver holds six bullets, not eight.
passion.
I submit that this
That at least could be understood, if not condoned.
was not a hot-blooded crime of
No.
nature.
This was revenge of a much more brutal, cold-blooded
Consider this
Four bullets per victim.
Not six shots fired, but eight.
stopped to reload
That means that he fired the
gun empty and then
so that he could shoot each of them again.
An extra bullet per lover
right in the head.
Mr Dufresne.
You strike me as a particularly icy and remorseless man,
It chills my blood just to look at you.
By the power vested in me by the state of Maine
back-to-back
I hereby order you to serve two life sentences
one for each of your victims. So be it!
Sit.
sentence?
We
see
by your file you've served years of a
- Yes, sir. - You feel you've been rehabilitated?
life
Oh yes sir. Absolutely, sir.
I mean, I learned my lesson.
I can honestly say that I'm a changed man.
I'm no longer a danger to society.
That's God's honest truth.
Hey, Red.
How'd it go?
Same old shit, different day.
Yeah, I know how you feel.
I'm up for rejection next week.
Yeah, I got rejected last week.
It happens.
Hey, Red, bump me a deck.
already.
Get out of my face, man! You're into me for five packs
Four! Five!
There must be a con like me in every prison in America.
I'm the guy who can get it for you.
Cigarettes, a bag of reefer, if that's your thing
graduation.
a bottle of brandy to celebrate your kid's high
school
Damn near anything within reason.
Yes, sir! I'm a regular Sears and Roebuck.
So when Andy Dufresne came to me in
for him
and asked me to smuggle Rita Hayworth into the prison
I told him, "No problem."
Andy came to Shawshank Prison
banging.
in early for murdering his wife and the
fella she was
Portland bank.
On the
outside, he've been vice president of a large
Good work for a man as young as he was
Hey, Red
You speak English, butt-steak?
You follow this officer.
all my life.
I never seen such a sorry-Iooking heap of maggot shit in
Hey, fish! Come over here!
Tak'in bets today, Red?
Smokes or coin? Bettor's choice.
Smokes. Put me down for two.
All right, who's your horse?
That little sack of shit. Eighth.
- Eighth from the front He'll be first.
- Oh bullshit! I'll take that action.
- yeth, me too.
You're out some smokes, son. Let me tell you.
Oh Heywood, If you're so smart, you call it.
I'll take that chubby fat-ass there.
deck.
The fifth one from the front. Put me down for a quarter
Fresh fish today!
We're reeling them in!
on him.
I admit I didn't think much of Andy first time I laid eyes
Looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over.
That was my first impression of the man.
What do you say? Red
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That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass.
That guy? Never happen.
-
All right, Who's gonna prove me wrong?
cigarettes. - That's a rich bet.
Heywood? Jigger?
Skeets?
Floyd!
Four brave souls.
Return to your cellblocks for evening count.
All prisoners, return to your cellblocks.
Turn the right!
Eyes front.
This is Mr Hadley. He's the captain of the guards.
I'm Mr Norton, the warden.
You are convicted felons.
That's why they've sent you to me.
Rule number one
No blasphemy.
I'll not have the Lord's name taken in vain in my prison.
The
you'll figure out as you go along. Any questions?
When do we eat?
You eat when we say you eat!
say you piss.
You shit when we say you shit, and you piss when we
You got that, you maggot-dick motherfucker?
On your feet.
I believe in two things
Discipline and the Bible.
Here, you'll receive both.
Put your trust in the Lord.
Your ass belongs to me.
Welcome to Shawshank.
Unhook them.
Turn around.
That's enough.
Move to the end of the cage.
Turn around. Delouse him.
Turn around.
Move out of the cage. Pick up your clothes and Bible.
Next man up!
To the right.
Right. Right. Right.
Left.
The first night's the toughest. No doubt about it.
They march you in naked as the day you
they put on you,
skin burning
and when they put you in that cell
and half-blind from that delousing shit
and those bars slam home
that's when you know it's for real.
Old life blown away in the blink of an eye.
it.
Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about
Most new fish come close to madness the first night.
Somebody always breaks down crying.
Happens every time.
The only
who is gonna be?
It is as good a thing to bet on as any, I guess.
I had my money on Andy Dufresne.
Lights out!
I remember my first night.
Seems like a long time ago.
Hey, fish.
Fish! Fish! Fish! Fish!
What are you, scared of the dark?
Bet you wish your daddy never dicked your mama!
Piggy! Pork! I want me a pork chop.
The boys always go fishing with first-timers.
And they don't quit till they reel someone in.
Hey, Fat Ass.
Fat Ass!
Talk to me, boy.
I know you're there. I can hear you breathing.
Don't you listen to these nitwits, you hear me?
This place ain't so bad.
Tell
I'll introduce you around, make you feel right at home.
I know a couple of big old bull queers that'd just
Iove to make your acquaintance.
Especially that big, white, mushy butt of yours.
God!
I don't belong here!
- We have a winner! - I want to go home!
And it's Fat Ass by a nose!
Fresh fish!
I want to go home!
I want my mother!
I had your mother! She wasn't that great!
What the Christ is this happy or shit?
He took the Lord's name in vain! I'll tell the warden.
You'll tell him with my baton up your ass!
Let me out of here!
spunk?
What is your malfunction,
you fat barrel of monkey
Please! I ain't supposed to be here.
Not me!
one.
I ain't gonna count to three. and Not even to count the
You'll shut up fuck up or I'll sing you a lullaby!
Man. Shut up
You don't understand. I'm not supposed to be here.
Open that cell.
Me neither! They run this place like a fucking prison!
Son of a bitch!
Captain, take it easy!
night
If I hear so much as a mouse fart in here the rest of the
infirmary.
I swear by God and Sonny Jesus, you will all visit the
Every last motherfucker in here.
infirmary.
Call the trustees. Take that tub
of shit down to the
packs of cigarettes.
His first night in the joint, and
He never made a sound.
Dufresne cost me two
Tier
Tier
Tier
north, clear count!
north, clear count.
Prepare to roll out.
south, clear.
Roll out!
Are you going to eat that?
I hadn't planned on it.
Do you mind?
That's nice and ripe.
Jake says thank you.
Fell out of his nest over by the plate shop.
I'm going to look after him until he's big enough to fly.
Oh, no no, Here he comes.
Morning, fellas.
Fine morning, isn't it?
You know why it's a fine morning, don't you?
up in a row
Come on, send them down. I wanna see them all lined
just like a pretty little chorus line.
yeth, Look at that.
- I can't stand this guy. - Oh, Lord!
Yes! Richmond, Virginia.
Smell my ass!
After he smells mine.
coming in last and all.
Gee Red. That's a terrible shame about your
know.
But I sure do love
horse
him.
I
believe
that winning horse of mine, you
I owe that boy a big sloppy kiss when I see
Lucky fuck!
Why don't you give him some of your cigarettes instead?
Hey, Tyrell.
You pull infirmary duty this week?
How's that horse of mine doing anyway?
Dead.
Hadley busted his head pretty good.
Doc had already gone home for the night.
Poor bastard lay there till this morning.
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By then, there was nothing we could do.
What was his name?
What'd you say?
I was just wondering if anyone knew his name.
What the fuck you care, new fish?
Doesn't fucking matter what his name was. He's dead.
Anybody come at you yet?
Anybody get to you yet?
Hey, we all need friends in here.
I could be a friend of you.
Hard to get.
I like that.
Andy kept pretty much to himself at first.
I guess he had a lot in his mind
trying to adapt to life on the inside.
his mouth to say more than two words to somebody.
Wasn't until a month went by before he finally opened
As it turned out
that somebody was me.
I'm Andy Dufresne.
Wife-killing banker.
Why'd you do it?
I didn't, since you ask.
You're fit right in, then.
Everybody in here's innocent
Lawyer fucked me.
- Heywood! What are you in
Didn't you know that?
here for? - Didn't do it.
Rumor has it you're a real cold fish.
right?
You
What do you think?
think your shit smells sweeter
than
most. Is that
I tell you the truth, I haven't made up my mind.
I understand you're a man that knows how to get things.
I'm known to locate certain things from time to time.
What?
I wonder if you might get me a rock hammer.
A rock hammer.
, --> ,
- What is it and why? - What do you care?
a price.
For a toothbrush, I wouldn't ask questions. I'd just quote
But a toothbrush is a non-lethal object, isn't it?
Fair enough.
A rock hammer is about six or seven inches long.
- Looks like a miniature pickax. - Pickax?
- For rocks. - rocks
Quartz?
And some mica,
, --> , Quartz
limestone.
So?
So I'm a rock hound.
limited bases.
At least I was in my old life. I'd like to be again on a
skull.
Or maybe
you'd like to sink your toy into somebody's
No, I have no enemies here.
No? Wait a while.
Word gets around.
The Sisters have taken quite a liking to you.
Especially Bogs.
homosexual.
Don't suppose it
would
help if I told them
Neither are they.
I'm not
You have to be human first. They don't qualify.
understand.
Bull queers take by force. That's all they want
or
If I were you, I'd grow eyes in the back of my head.
- Thanks for the advice. - Well, that's free.
You understand my concern.
If there's any trouble, I won't use the rock hammer, ok?
maybe.
Then I guess you want to escape. Tunnel under the wall,
Did I miss something? What's so funny?
You'll understand when you see the rock hammer.
What's an item like this usually go for?
Seven dollars in any rock-and-gem shop.
My normal markup's
But this is a specialty item.
percent.
Risk goes up, price goes
up.
Let's make it an even
bucks.
Ten it is.
Waste of money, if you ask me.
Why's that?
Folks around this joint love surprise inspections.
They find it, you're going to lose it.
If they catch you, you don't know me.
Mention my name, we never do business again.
Not for shoelaces or a stick of gum. Now you got that?
I understand.
Thank you, Mr...
Red.
Name's Red.
Why do they call you that?
Maybe it's because I'm Irish.
I could see why some of the boys took him for snobby.
He had a quiet way about him
a walk and a talk that just wasn't normal around here.
world.
like a man in the park without a care or a worry in the
from this place.
Like he had on an invisible coat that would shield him
I think it would be fair to say
I liked Andy from the start.
Let's go! Some of us got a schedule to keep.
Move it! Come on, move it!
Red
How you doing? How's the wife treating you?
, --> ,
Andy was right.
I finally got the joke.
It would take a man about
to tunnel under the wall with one of these.
years
- Book? - Not today.
- Book? - No
Delivery for Dufresne.
, --> , hey, Brooks
Dufresne
Thanks.
, --> , Dufresne
, --> , Here's your book.
up some.
We're running low on hexite. Get on back and fetch us
This will blinds your eyes
Honey, hush.
That's it. You fight!
Better that way.
I wish I could tell you Andy fought the good fight
and the Sisters let him be.
I wish I could tell you that
but prison is no fairy-tale world.
He never said who did it.
But we all knew.
Things went on like that for a while.
Prison life consists of routine
and then more routine.
Every so often, Andy would show up with fresh bruises.
The Sisters kept at him.
Sometimes he was able to fight them off.
Sometimes not.
And that's how it went for Andy.
That was his routine.
him.
I do believe those first
two years were the worst for
And I also believe that if things had gone on that way
this place would have got the best of him.
But then, in the spring of
the powers that be decided
The roof of the license-plate factory needs resurfacing.
I need a dozen volunteers for a week's work.
As you know
special detail carries with it special privileges.
It was outdoor detail
outdoors.
and May is one damned
fine month to be working
Stay in line there.
More than a hundred men volunteered for the job.
Wallace E. Unger.
Ellis Redding.
Wouldn't you know it?
Me and some fellows
I
know were among the names
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called.
Andrew Dufresne.
It only cost us a pack of smokes per man.
I made my usual
Texas.
So this big-shot
lawyer
percent, of course.
calls me long-distance
from
I say, "Yeah?"
died."
He
says, "Sorry
to inform you, but your brother just
was an asshole.
- Oh, damn, Byron, I'm sorry to hear that. - I'm not. He
Ran off years ago. Figured him for dead anyway.
So this lawyer fellow says to me
to a million bucks.
"Your brother died a rich man."
Oil wells ,shit,
close
A million bucks?
Jeez-Louise! You gonna see any of that?
- Fucking incredible
how lucky some assholes get. -
Thirty-five thousand. That's what he left me.
Dollars?
sweepstakes.
Holy shit!
That's great! That's like winning
Isn't it?
the
with me?
Dumb shit, what do you think the government gonna do
Take a big wet bite out of my ass is what.
Poor Byron.
Terrible fucking luck, huh? Crying shame.
Some people really got it awful.
Andy, you nuts?
Keep your eyes on your mop man! Andy!
You'll pay some tax, but you'll still
then what?
Oh Yeah Yeah, maybe
I got to pay tax on the car.
enough to buy a new car, and
a ride all the time.
maintenance, got the kids pestering you to take them for
your own pocket.
Then if you figure your tax wrong, you get pay out of
I tell you, Uncle Sam!
it'
He puts his hand in your shirt and squeezes your tit till
- Getting himself killed. - Keep tarring.
Some brother, Shit!
Mr Hadley
Do you trust your wife?
Oh, that's funny.
You look funnier that suckin' my dick with no teeth.
back?
What
Try to hamstring you?
I mean is, do you think
she'd go behind your
an accident.
That's it! Step aside, Mert. This fucker's havin' himself
Oh, he'll push him off
If you do trust her, there's no reason you can'
....that ,.
- What did you say?
- Thirty-five thousand.
Thirty-five thousand?
- All of it.
- All of it?
- Every penny.
- You'd better start making sense.
If you want to keep that money, give it to your wife.
up to $ ,.
The IRS allows a one-time-only gift to your spouse for
- Bullshit. Tax-free? - Tax-free.
IRS can't touch one cent.
You're the smart banker what kill his wife or shit.
can end up in here with you?
Why should I believe a
smart
banker like you? So I
thing.
It's perfectly legal. Go ask the IRS. They'll say the same
have
Actually
I feel stupid telling you this. I'm
banker
Yeah
investigated the matter yourself.
sure you'd
to tell me where the bear shit in the buckwheat.
fuck you I don't need you
smart wife-killin
tax free to give you.
Of course not. But you do need someone to set up the
That'll cost you. A lawyer for example.
A bunch of ball-washing bastards!
some money.
I suppose I could set it up for you. That would save you
You get the forms, I'll prepare them for you
nearly free of charge.
co-wrkers.
I'd only ask three beers
a piece for each
Co-workers. get him that's rich, Gee
of my
A man working outdoors feels more like
if he can have a bottle of suds. That's only my opinion
Sir
What are you jimmies staring at? Back to work!
Let's go! Work!
And that's how it came to pass
that on the second-to-last day of the job
spring of
the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the
wound up sitting in a row at
hardest screw
drinking icy-cold Black Label
in the morning
beer courtesy
of the
that never walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison.
Drink up while it's cold, ladies.
magnanimous.
The colossal
prick even
managed to sound
like free men.
We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt
houses.
We could have been tarring the roof of one of our own
We were the lords of all creation.
As for Andy
he spent that break hunkered in the shade
a strange little smile on his face
watching us drink his beer.
Want a cold one, Andy?
No, thanks. I gave up drinking.
guards.
You could argue he done it to
curry favor with the
Or maybe make a few friends among us cons.
Me?
I think he did it just to feel normal again
if only for a short while.
King me
- Chess. Now there's a game of kings. - What?
Civilized. Strategic.
And a total fucking mystery. I hate it.
May be let me teach you someday.
Sure.
I've been thinking of getting a board together.
things, right?
You're talking to the right man. I'm the guy
can get
pieces myself.
We might
do business on a board, and I'll carve the
think?
One side in
alabaster, one in soapstone. What do you
I think it'll take years.
Years I got. What I don't have are the rocks.
Pickings are pretty slim in the yard.
Pebbles, mostly.
Andy, we're getting to be kind of friends, aren't we?
Yeah, I guess.
Can I ask you something?
Why'd you do it?
I'm innocent, Red.
Just like everybody else here.
What are you in for?
Murder. Same as you.
Innocent?
Only guilty man in Shawshank.
Where's the canary?
How did you know?
- How did I know what?
- So you don't know.
Come.
This is where the canary is.
Johnny?
Quite a surprise to hear a woman singing in my house,
That's quite a
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surprise
Red
Wait, wait, wait
Here she comes.
I like this part when she does that shit with her hair.
yeah I know. I've seen it three times this month.
Gilda, are you decent?
Me?
God, I love it.
I understand you're a man that knows how to get things.
What do you want?
I'm known to locate certain things from time
- Rita Hayworth. - What?
to time.
Can you get her?
So this is Johnny Farrel. I've heard a lot about you.
- Take a few weeks. - Weeks?
of my pants right now, sorry to say.
Oh yeah Andy, I don't have her stuffed down the front
But I'll get her.
Relax.
Thanks.
- Take a walk - I got to change the reels!
I said fuck off!
Ain't you going to scream?
Let's get this over with.
He broke my fucking nose!
Now
I'm going to open my fly
and you'll swallow what I give you to swallow.
Rooster's.
And when you swallow mine, you goona swallow
You done broke his nose,
so he ought to have something to show for it.
Anything you put in my mouth, you gonna lose it.
No, you don't understand.
ear.
You do that I'll put all eight inches of this steeling your
injury
All right, but you should know that sudden serious brain
causes the victim to bite down hard.
In fact, I hear the bite reflex is so strong
they have to pry the victim's jaws open
with a crowbar.
Where do you get this shit?
I read it.
You know how to read, you ignorant fuck?
Honey!
You shouldn't!
Bogs didn't put anything in Andy's mouth.
And neither did his friends.
What they did do is beat him within an inch of his life.
Andy spent a month in the infirmary.
Bogs spent a week in the hole.
Time's up, Bogs.
It's your world, boss.
Return to your cellblocks for evening count.
All prisoners report for lock down.
What?
- Where's he going? - Grab his ankles.
Help!
Two things never happened again after that.
The Sisters never laid a finger on Andy again.
And Bogs would never walk again.
upstate.
They transferred him to a minimum-security
hospital
To my knowledge, he lived out the rest of his days
drinking his food through a straw.
of the infirmary.
Andy could use a nice welcome back when he gets out
Sounds good to us.
I figure we owe him that much for the beer.
The man likes to play chess.
Let's get him some rocks.
Guys!
I got one.
I got one. Look!
either.
Heywood,
that isn't
soapstone! And it ain't alabaster
What are you, a fucking geologist?
He's right. It ain't.
- What the hell is it then? - It's a horse apple.
- Bullshit! - No, horseshit.
Petrified.
Damn!
style.
Despite
And by the weekend
a
few hitches, the boys came through in fine
And by the weekend he was due back
rapture.
we had enough rocks saved up to keep
him busy till
Also got a big shipment in that week.
...
...
...playing cards with naked ladies on them. You name it.
And of course, the most important item:
Rita Hayworth herself.
Heads up. They're tossing cells.
Heads up. They're tossing cells!
On your feet.
Face the wall.
Turn around and face the warden.
Pleased to see you reading this.
Any favorite passages?
"Watch ye, therefore, for you know not
when the master of the house coming."
Mark :.
I've always liked that one.
But I prefer
"I am the light of the world.
Ye that followeth me shall have the light of life."
John, chapter , verse .
I hear you're good with numbers.
How nice.
Man should have a skill.
Explain this.
rocks.
It's called a rock blanket. It's for shaping and polishing
A little hobby of mine.
It's pretty clean.
over.
Some contraband
here, but
I can't say I approve of this.
nothing to get in a twist
But
exceptions can be made.
Lock them up!
I almost forgot.
I'd hate to deprive you of this.
Salvation lies within.
Yes, sir.
Tossing cells was just an excuse.
Truth is
Norton wanted to size Andy up.
My wife made that in church group.
Very nice, sir.
You enjoy working in the laundry?
No, sir. Not especially.
Perhaps we can find something more
befitting a man of your education.
Hey, Jake. Where's Brooks?
Andy?
I thought I heard you out here.
I've been reassigned to you.
I know, they told me.
Ain't that a kick in the head?
Well, I'll give you the dime tour.
Come on.
Well, here she is.
The Shawshank Prison Library.
National Geographics
Reader's Digest condensed books
and Louis L'Amour.
Look magazine.
Erle Stanley Gardners.
Every evening I load up the cart and make my rounds.
I enter the names on this clipboard here.
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Easy, peasy, Japanese.
librarian?
- Any questions? - Brooks, How long have you been in
I come here in ', and they made me librarian in .
And in all that time have you ever had an assistant?
No. Not much to it, really.
Why me? Why now?
I don't know.
change.
But it'd be nice
to have some company down here for
Dufresne
That's him. That's the one.
I'm Dekins.
I was
for my kids' educations.
thinking about maybe setting up some kind of trust fund
I see.
Why don't we have a seat and talk them.
Brooks, Do you have a piece of paper and a pencil?
Thanks.
So
Mr Dekins
And then Andy says, "Mr Dekins
do you want your sons to go to Harvard or Yale?"
He didn't say that!
As God is my witness!
Dekins just blinked for a second
Andy's hand.
then laughs his ass off. Afterward,
he actually shook
- My ass! - Shook his hand.
I tell you, I near soiled myself!
on his desk
All Andy needed was a suit and tie and a jiggly hula gal
he'd have been "Mr Dufresne," if you please.
Make a few friends, Andy?
I wouldn't say "friends."
planning.
I'm a convicted murderer who provides sound financial
It's a wonderful pet to have.
Got you out of the laundry, didn't it?
It might do more than that.
in there?
How about expanding the library, Get some new books
If you ask for something, ask for a pool table.
How do you expect to do that? I mean
get new books in here, "Mr Dufresne, if you please."
Ask the warden for funds.
tenure, and I've learned
Son, six wardens I've
been through here in my
one of a immutable, universal truth:
Not one of them born
drum yes when you ask for funds.
whose asshole wouldn't
pucker up tighter than a snare
- The budget's stretched thin as it is.
- I see.
funds directly from them.
Perhaps I could write to the State Senate and request
taxpayer's hard-earned
Perhaps they have
More walls, more bars, more guards.
when it come to prisons.
only three ways to spend the
week.
Still, I'd like to try, with permission. I'll write a letter a
- They can't ignore me forever. - Sure can.
But you write your letters if it makes you happy.
I'll even mail them for you. How's that?
So Andy started writing a letter a week
just like he said.
And just like Norton said
Andy got no answers.
the guards at Shawshank.
The following April,
Year after that, he did them all
Andy did tax returns for half
including the warden's.
intramural season
Year after that, they
rescheduled
the start of the
to coincide with tax season.
bring their W-s.
The guards
on
the opposing
teams all remembered to
So Moresby Prison
issued you a gun, but you actually had to paid for it.
Damn right, the holster too.
See that's tax-deductible. You can write that off.
Yes, sir! Andy was a regular cottage industry.
In fact, it got so busy at tax time, he was allowed a staff.
Hey, Red! Could you hand me a stack of s?
and that was fine by me.
Got me out of the wood shop a month out of the year,
And still, kept sending those letters.
Red, Andy
It's Brooks.
Watch the door.
Please, Brooks, just
- Calm the fuck down. - goddamn it! Stay back!
- Stay back, goddamn it! - What's hell going on?
the knives shit.
You tell me, just One second he's fine, now coming
Brooks! We can talk about this, right?
I'm gonna cut his fuckin' throat!
Nothing left to talk about! Dman it's
all talked
Heywood? Why? What's he done to you?
out!
It's a paid time!
I got no choice.
even Heywood knows that
Brooks, you not gonna hurt Heywood. We all know that,
- Right, Heywood? - I know that sure.
of yours, and Brooks is a reasonable man.
You know you not gonna hurt him because He's a friend
Right, guys?
So put the knife down. Brooks, just look at me.
Put the knife down.
Brooks
Look at his neck, for God's sake.
Brooks, look at his neck. He's bleeding.
It's the only way
It's the only way they'd let me stay.
Come on, this is crazy. You don't wanna do this.
Come on, put it down.
Hey, come on
Take it easy.
You'll be all right.
Him? What about me?
Crazy old fool guy damn near cut my throat!
Oh, shit, Heywood.
What the hell did you do to set him off anyway?
You've had worse from shaving.
I do nothing. I come in here to say fare-thee-well.
Ain't you heard? His parole's come through.
all.
I just don't understand
Old man's crazy as a rat in a tin shithouse is what.
what happened in there, that's
Oh, Heywood, That's enough out of you.
- Heard he had you shitting your pants. - Fuck you.
Aren't you knock it off?
Brooks set no bug.
He's just institutionalized.
"Institutionalized," my ass.
The man's been in here
This is he only knows.
years, Heywood,
years!
In here, he's an important man
an educated man.
Outside, he's nothing.
Just a used-up con with arthritis in both hands.
Probably couldn't get a library card if he tried.
You know what I'm trying to say?
Red, I do believe you're talking out of your ass.
You believe whatever you want, Floyd
But I tell you these walls are funny.
First you hate them.
Then you get used to them.
Enough
you get so you depend on them.
That sense "institutionalized."
Shit.
- I could never be like that. - Oh, yeah?
Sit till you've been here as long as Brooks.
Goddamn right.
They send you here for life
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that's exactly what they take.
Part that counts, anyway.
I can't take care of you no more, Jake.
You go on now.
You're free.
You're free.
Good luck, Brooksie.
Dear fellas:
I can't believe how fast things move on the outside.
Watch it, old-timer! Want to get killed?
I saw an automobile once when I was a kid but
now they're everywhere.
The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.
The parole board got me into this halfway house
called "The Brewer"
and a job
bagging groceries at the Food-Way.
It's hard work and I try to keep up
but my hands hurt most of the time.
Make sure your man double-bags.
came out.
Last time, he didn't double-bags and
the bottom near
Understand?
Make
sure you double-bag like the lady says.
Yes, sir. Surely will.
I don't think the store manager likes me very much.
birds.
Sometimes
I keep thinking
after work, I go to the park and feed
the
Jake might just show up and say hello.
But he never does.
friends.
I hope, wherever he is, he's doing okay and making new
I have trouble sleeping at night.
I have bad dreams like I'm falling.
I wake up scared.
Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am.
they'd send me home.
Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the Food-Way so
a bonus.
I could shoot the manager while I was at it. Sort of like
I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense anymore.
I don't like it here.
I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I'
...not to stay.
I doubt they'll kick up
...not for an old crook like me.
like me.
"I doubt they'll kick up any fuss,
not for an old
P.S. Tell Heywood I'm sorry I put a knife to his throat.
crook
No hard feelings. Brooks."
He should have died in here.
What the fuck have you done?
It's a goddamn mess, I'll tell you that.
addressed to you.
- What's all this? - You tell me. Fucks,
they're all
Take it
"Dear Mr. Dufresne:
In response to your repeating inquiries
library project."
the state has allocated the enclosed
funds
for your
This is $ .
responded
"In addition,
the library district has generously
with a charitable donation of used books and sundries.
matter closed.
We trust this will fill your needs. We now consider the
Please stop sending us letters."
I want all this cleared out before the warden gets back
Yes, sir.
Good for you, Andy.
Wow!
It only took six years.
one.
From
now on, I'll write
two letters a week instead of
stuff out
I believe you're crazy enough. Now you'd better get this
like the captain he said.
I've got to pinch a loaf.
When I come back
this is all gone, all right?
Andy, do you hear that?
Dufresne!
Andy, let me out!
were singing about.
I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies
Truth is, I don't want to know.
Some things are best left unsaid.
beautiful
I like to think they were singing about something
it can't be expressed in words
so
and makes your heart ache because of it.
I tell you, those voices soared
dream.
higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to
little cage
It was
and made those walls dissolve away.
like
some beautiful bird flapped into our drab
And for the briefest of moments
every last man at Shawshank felt free.
It pissed the warden off something awful.
Open the door.
Open it up!
Dufresne, open this door!
Turn that off!
I am warning you. Dufresne. Turn that off!
Dufresne
You're mine now.
Andy got two weeks in the hole for that little stunt.
On your feet.
- Hey, look who's this. - Maestro!
Williams?
You couldn't play something good,
huh? Like Hank
They broke the door down before I could take requests.
- Was it worth two weeks? - Easiest time I ever did.
hole is like a year.
- No such thing as easy time in the hole. - A week in the
company.
- Damn straight. - I had Mr Mozart to keep me
So they let you tote that record player down there, huh?
It's in here.
In here.
That's the beauty of music. They
can't get that from you.
Haven't you ever felt that way about music?
Well, I played a mean harmonica as a younger man.
Lost interest in it at all.
Didn't make much sense in here.
Here's where it makes the most sense.
You need it so you don't forget.
Forget?
Forget that
...
...in the world that aren't made out of stone.
There'
...
...that they can't
...that they can't touch.
That's yours.
What are you talking about?
Hope.
Hope.
Let me tell you something, my friend.
Hope is a dangerous thing.
Hope can drive a man insane.
It's got no use on the inside.
You'd better get used to that idea.
Like Brooks did?
Sit down.
Says here that you've served
You feel you've been rehabilitated?
years of a life sentence.
Oh, yes, sir.
Without a doubt.
I can honestly say I'm a changed man.
No danger to society here.
God's honest truth.
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Absolutely rehabilitated.
Thirty years.
Jesus, when you say it
You wonder where it went.
I wonder where
Here.
years went.
A little parole rejection present.
Go ahead and open it.
Had to go through one of your competitors.
I hope you don't mind. I wanted it to be a surprise.
It's very pretty.
Thank you.
You gonna play it?
No.
Not right now.
Roll in!
"A new girl for your
Andy was as good as his word.
Lights out!
years Anniversary" Red
He wrote two letters a week instead of one.
In , the state senate finally clued in to the fact
they couldn't buy him off with just a $
$
Appropriations Committee voted an annual payment of
check.
just to shut him up.
And you'd be amazed how far Andy could stretch it.
He made deals with book clubs, charity groups.
He bought remaindered books by the pound
Treasure Island.
Robert Louis
Stevenson.
Fiction, adventure.
What's next?
I got here Auto Repair and
Soap Carving.
Stack right behind you.
Trade skills and hobbies, those go Under "Educational,"
The Count of Monte Crisco. (from France)
That's "Cristo," you dumb shit.
By Alexandree
Dumass.
Dumb ass.
Dumb ass?
Dumas, you Know that's about?
You'd like it. It's about a prison break.
we?
We ought to file that under "Educational" too, oughtn't
we could.
The rest of us did our best to pitch in when and where
By the year Kennedy was shot
turds and turpentin
Andy had transformed a storage
room smelling
into the best prison library in New England
of rat
complete with a fine selection of Hank Williams.
That was also the year Warden Norton
instituted his famous "Inside Out" program.
You may remember reading about it.
magazine.
It made
It's no free ride
all the papers and got his
picture in Look
but rather a genuine progressive advance
in corrections and rehabilitation.
Our inmates, properly supervised
will be put to work outside these walls
performing all manner of public service.
These men can learn the value of
while providing a valuable service to the community
an honest day's labor
John Q. Taxpayer.
and at a bare minimum of expense to Mr.
Of course Norton failed to mention to the press
And Mrs.
that "bare minimum of expense" is a fairly loose term.
There are
Men, materials, you name it.
different ways to skim off the top.
And oh, my Lord, how the money rolled in!
This keeps up, you gonna put me out of business.
contractor in town.
With this pool of slave labor, you gonna underbid
We're providing a valuable community service here.
any
That's fine for the papers, but I've got a family to feed.
Sam, we go back a long way.
under. That's a fact.
I need this highway contract.
I don't get it and I go
Now you taste some of this fine pie
that.
my missus baked specially for you, and you think about
I wouldn't worry too much about this contract.
elsewhere.
Seems to me I've already got my boys committed
You be sure and thank Maisie for this fine pie.
And behind every shady deal
behind every dollar earned
there was Andy, keeping the books
Two deposits.
always, sir.
Maine National and New England First. Night drops as
a bag of whatnot.
Get my stuff to the laundry. Two suits for dry-clean and
gonna hear about it from me.
Tell them if
they
over-starch my shirts again, they
How do I look?
- Very nice. - Big charity to-do up Portland way.
Governor gonna be there.
You want the rest of this?
Woman can't bake worth shit.
Thank you, sir.
What you hear isn't half of it.
- He's got his fingers in a lot of pies, from what I hear. -
his kickbacks.
He's got scams you haven't dreamed of.
Kickbacks on
place.
There's
a
river
of dirty money running through this
or later you're gotta have to
Can be a problem having all that money.
That's where I come in.
explain where it came from.
Cause sooner
I channel it. Filter it. Funnel it.
Stocks, securities, tax-free municipals.
I send the money out into the real world,
and
- Clean as a virgin's honeypot, huh? - Cleaner.
when it
millionaire.
By the time Norton retires, I'll have made
him a
wearing a number himself.
Jesus. If
they ever catch
Oh, Red, I thought you had more faith in me than that.
on him, he gonna wind up
I know you're good, but all that paper leaves a trail.
Now anybody gets curious, FBI,
...whatever.
It'll lead to somebody.
Sure it is, but not to me, and certainly not to the warden.
All right, who?
Randall Stevens.
Who?
The "silent" silent partner.
He's the guilty one, the man with the bank accounts.
It's where the filtering process starts.
They trace anything, just only lead to him.
But who is he?
the Rabbit.
He's a phantom, an apparition. Second cousin to Harvey
I conjured him
out of thin air.
He doesn't exist, except on paper.
You can't just make a person up.
where the cracks are.
Sure you can, if you know how the
system
It's amazing what you can accomplish by mail.
works and
Mr. Stevens has a birth certificate
driver's license, Social Security number
You're shitting me.
If they trace any accounts, they gonna wind up chasing
a figment of my imagination.
Well, I'll be damned!
Did I say you were good?
Shit, you are Rembrandt.
The funny thing is
on the outside, I was
an honest man, straight as an
8
arrow.
I had to come to prison to be a crook.
Ever bother you?
I don't run the scams. I just process the profits.
A fine line, maybe
but I also built that library
and used it to help guys get their high school diploma.
Why do you think he lets me do all that?
To keep you happy and doing the laundry.
Money instead of sheets.
Well, I work cheap. That's the tradeoff.
Tommy Williams came to Shawshank in
on a two-year stretch for B and E.
That's Breaking and Entering to you.
a JC Penney.
Cops caught him sneaking TV sets out the back door of
Young punk.
Mr Rock 'n' Roll
cocky as hell.
Come on, old boys. Moving like molasses!
Making me look bad.
We liked him immediately.
like this.
So I'm backing out the door, all right? and I got the TV
voice.
A big old thing. I couldn't see shit. Suddenly, here's this
"Freeze, kid, hands in the air."
voice says:
I was standing there, holding onto that TV. Finally the
"You hear what I said, boy?" I say, "Yes, sir. I sure did.
destruction of property too."
But if I drop this fucking
You done some stretch in Cashman, right?
thing, you get me on
Yeah, that was an easy piece of time, let me tell you.
Weekend furloughs. Work programs.
Not like here.
Sounds like you done time all over New England.
I've been in and out since I was .
Name it, chances are I've been there.
Perhaps It's the time you tried a new profession.
What I mean is
should try something else.
you don't seem
to
be a
Yeah, what the hell you know about it, Capone?
very good thief. Maybe You
What are you in for?
Me?
A lawyer fucked me.
Everybody's innocent in here. Don't you know that?
new baby girl.
As it turned out, Tommy had himself a young wife and a
Maybe it was the thought of them on the streets
or his child growing up not knowing her daddy.
Whatever it was
something lit a fire under that boy's ass.
equivalency.
Thinking maybe I should try for my
high school
Hear you helped a couple of fellas with that.
I don't waste time with losers, Tommy.
I ain't no goddamn loser.
- You mean that? - Yeah.
You really mean that?
Yes, sir, I do.
Good. Because if we do this
half-assed.
we do it all the way, a
hundred
percent,
Thing is, see
nothing
I don't read so good.
"Well."
You don't read
so well.
We'll get to that.
So Andy took Tommy under his wing.
Started walking him through his ABC's.
Tommy took to it pretty well too.
Boy found brains he never knew he had.
requirements.
Before long, Andy started him on
He really liked the kid.
his course
heap.
Gave him a thrill to help a youngster crawl off the shit
But that wasn't the only reason.
Prison time is slow time.
So you do what you can to keep going.
Some fellas collect stamps.
Others build matchstick houses.
Andy built a library.
Now he needed a new project.
Tommy was it.
polishing those rocks.
It was the same
reason
The same reason he hung his fantasy girlies on the wall.
he spent years shaping and
In prison
a man will do most anything to keep his mind occupied.
take his exams
By , right about the time Tommy was getting ready to
it was lovely Raquel.
Time.
Well?
Well, it's for shit.
I wasted a fucking year of my time with this bullshit.
It's probably not that bad you think.
been in Chinese.
It's wrost. I didn't get a thing right. It might as well have
Let's see how the score comes out.
I'll tell you how the goddamn score comes out.
Two points, right there!
There's your goddamn score!
Goddamn cats crawling up trees,
Fuck this place!
Fuck it!
times is
I feel bad.
I let him down.
That's crap, kid.
He's proud of you.
anybody.
We're old friends long
time I know him as
Smart fellow, ain't he?
good as
Smart as they come. He was a banker on the outside.
What's he in here for anyway?
Murder.
The hell, you say.
You wouldn't think it to look at the guy.
them both.
Caught his wife in bed with some golf
pro. Greased
What?
stretch.
Bout four
years ago, I was in Thomaston on a to
Stole a car
It was a dumb-fuck thing to do.
About six months left to go
I get a new cellmate in.
Elmo Blatch.
Big, twitchy fucker.
I'm saying?
Kind of roomie you pray you don't get. You know what
Six-to-twelve, armed burglary.
Said he pulled hundreds of jobs.
fart, he jumped three feet in there
Hard to believe, high-strung as he was. You cut a loud
shut up.
Talked all the time too. That's the other thing. He never
Places he'd been in
jobs he'd pulled, women he fucked.
Even people he killed.
People who "gave him shit."
That's how he put it.
So one night, like
I say to him, "Elmo, who did you kill?"
So he says:
I got
so I could case all these big rich pricks that come in.
me this
job one time, busing tables at a country
So I pick out this guy
go in one night
and do his place.
He wakes up
9
and gives me shit.
So I killed him.
Him and this tasty bitch he was with.
And that's the best part.
She's fucking this prick, see
this golf pro, but she's married to some other guy.
Some hotshot banker.
And he's the one they pinned it on.
I have to say that's the most amazing story I ever heard.
What amazes me most is you'd be taken in by it.
Sir?
It's obvious this fellow Williams is impressed with you.
you up.
He hears your tale of all and naturally wants to cheer
He's young, not terribly bright.
you in.
It's not surprising he wouldn't know what a state he put
Sir, he's telling the truth.
Let's say for the moment this Blatch does exist.
it. I confess.
You think he'd just fall to his knees and cry, "Yes, I did
By the way, add a life term to my sentence."
testimony, I can get a new trial.
You know what does the matter
That's assuming Blatch is even still there.
with Tommy's
Chances are, he'd be released by now.
They'd have his last known address. Names of relatives
It's a chance, isn't it?
How can you be so obtuse?
What?
What did you call me?
Obtuse. Is it deliberate?
Son, you're forgetting yourself.
The country club will have his old timecards.
Records, W-s with his name on them.
If you want to indulge this fantasy, that's your business.
Don't make it mine. This meeting is over.
happens here.
Sir, If I would ever got out, I'd never mention
what
I'd be as indictable as you for laundering that money.
sorry son of a bitch!
Don't you ever mention the money to me again, you
Not in this office
not anywhere. Get in here, now!
I just trying to rest your mind, that's all.
Solitary. A month.
What's the matter with you?
Get him out of here.
This is my chance to get out!
It's my life! Don't you Understand?! It's my life!
Don't you see that!
Get him out!
A month in the hole.
That's the longest stretch I ever heard of.
It's all my fault.
Bullshit.
him.
You didn't
pull the trigger you certainly didn't convict
Are you saying Andy is innocent?
I mean, for real innocent?
I looks that way.
Sweet Jesus.
How long has he been here now?
. What is that? Nineteen years.
- Williams, Thomas. - Yeah, over here.
What you got?
Board of Education.
That son of a bitch mailed it.
with thumbing up your butt?
Like you did. You gonna open
it or standing there
Thumb up my butt sounds better.
Skeets, come on. Give me that, you shithead.
Floyd, come on.
Come on, you throw that away, please?
Well, shit.
The kid passed. C + average.
Thought you'd like to know.
Warden wants to talk.
Out here?
That's what the man said.
Warden?
us.
I'm asking
you to keep this conversation just between
I feel awkward enough as it is.
We got a situation here.
I think you can appreciate that.
Yes, sir.
I sure can.
my wind out.
I tell you, son, this thing really came along and knocked
It's got me up nights. That's the truth.
The right thing to do
sometimes it's hard to know
Do you understand?
I need your help, son.
If I'm going to move on this
there can't be the least little shred of doubt.
I have to know
if what you told Dufresne was the truth.
Yes, sir.
Absolutely.
Would you be willing to swear before a judge and jury
with your hand on the Good Book
and take an oath before Almighty God himself?
Just give me that chance.
That's what I thought.
I'm sure by now you've heard.
Terrible thing.
A man that young
less than a year to go, trying to escape.
Broke Captain Hadley's heart to shoot him.
Truly, it did.
We just have to put it behind us.
Move on.
I'm done.
Everything stops.
Get someone else to run your scams.
Nothing stops.
Nothing.
Or you will do the hardest time there is.
No more protection from the guards.
down with the sodomites.
I'll pull you out of that -bunk Hilton
and cast
You'll think you've been fucked by a train.
you
And the library?
Gone
Sealed off, brick by brick.
We'll have us a little book barbecue in the yard.
They'll see the flames for miles.
We'll dance around it like wild Injuns.
You understand me? Catching my drift?
Or am I being obtuse?
Give him another month to think about it.
My wife used to say I'm a hard man to know.
Like a closed book.
Complained about it all the time.
She was beautiful.
God, I loved her.
I didn't know how to show it, that's all.
I killed her, Red.
I didn't pull the trigger
but I drove her away.
That's why she died, because of me
the way I am.
That don't make you a murderer.
Bad husband, maybe.
trigger
Feel bad about it if you want but you didn't pull
No, I didn't.
the
Somebody else did.
And I wound up in here.
Bad luck, I guess.
It floats around.
It's got to land on somebody.
It was my turn, that's all.
I was in the path of the tornado.
I just didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has.
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Think you'll ever get out of here?
Me?
Yeah.
One day, when I got a long, white beard
and two or three marbles left rolling around upstairs.
I tell you where I'd go.
Zihuatanejo.
Say what?
Zihuatanejo.
It's in Mexico.
A little place on the Pacific Ocean.
You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?
They say it has no memory.
That's where I want to live the rest of my life.
A warm place with no memory.
Open up a little hotel
right on the beach.
Buy some worthless old boat
and fix it up new.
Take my guests out
charter fishing.
Zihuatanejo.
get things.
In a place like that, I could use a man that knows how to
I don't think I could make it on the outside, Andy
I'vd been in here most of my life.
I'm an institutional man now.
Just like Brooks was
You underestimate yourself
I don't think so
In here I'm the guy who can get things for you, sure, but
outside all you need is the Yellow Pages just
Hell, I wouldn't know where to begin
Pacific Ocean?
Shit.
Scare me to death, something that big.
Not me.
I ain't shoot my wife and I ain't shoot her lover.
some
Whatever mistakes I
That hotel, the boat
made I've paid for them and then
I don't think that's too much to ask.
Andy
I don't think you ought to be doing
this to yourself,
This is just shitty pipe dreams.
I mean Mexico is the way down there and you're in here
and that's the way it is.
Yeah, right. That's the way it is.
It's down there and I'm in here.
I guess it comes down to a simple choice.
Get busy living
or get busy dying.
If you ever get out of here, do me a favor.
Sure, Andy. Anything.
Buxton is?
There's a big hayfield up near Buxton. You know where
- A lot of hayfields up there. - One in particular.
end.
It's got a long rock walk with a big oak tree at the north
It's like something out of a Robert Frost poem.
It's where I asked my wife to marry me.
We went there for a picnic
and made love under that oak
and I asked and she said yes.
Promise me, Red.
If you ever get out
find that spot.
earthly business in Maine state.
At the base of
that wall, there's a rock that has no
Piece of black, volcanic glass.
Something's buried under it I want you to have.
What, Andy?
What's buried under there?
You'll have to pry it up
to see.
No, I'm telling you. The guy is
He's talking funny.
I'm really worried about him.
Let's keep an eye on him.
himself.
That's fine during the day,
but at night he's all alone
Oh, Lord.
What?
Andy come down to the loading dock today.
He asked me for a length of rope.
Rope?
Six feet long.
And you gave it to him.
Sure. Why wouldn't I?
Jesus! Heywood.
How could I supposed to know?
Remember Brooks Hatlen?
No
Andy never do that.
Never.
I don't know.
Every man has his breaking point.
Lickety-split. Want to get home.
Just about finished, sir.
Three deposits tonight.
Get my stuff down to the laundry.
And shine my shoes.
- I want them looking like mirrors. - Yes, sir.
It's good having you back, Andy
Place wasn't the same without you.
Lights out!
I've had some long nights in stir.
Alone in the dark with nothing but your thoughts
time can draw out like a blade.
That was the longest night of my life.
Give me a count!
Tier
Man missing on tier
south, clear!
Dufresne!
You gets out of the cell before You hold up the show!
south, !
you!
Don't make me come down or I'll thump your skull for
schedule to keep.
Damn it, Dufresne, you're putting me behind! I got a
You'd better be sick or dead in there. I shit you not!
You hear me?
Oh, my Holy God.
I want every man on this cellblock questioned.
- Start with that friend of his. - Who?
Him!
Open .
that to me.
What do
you mean, "He just wasn't here"? Don't say
Don't say that to me again.
But sir, he wasn't.
I can see that, Haig! Think I'm blind?
Is that what you're saying?
- Am I blind, Haig? - No, sir!
What about you. You blind?
- Tell me what this is. - Last night's count.
there.
You see Dufresne's name there? I sure do. See you right
"Dufresne."
He was in his cell
at lights out.
Thing's reasonable he'd still be here in the morning.
I want him found.
Not tomorrow, not after breakfast. Now!
Yes, sir.
Let's go. Move your butts.
Stand.
Well?
Well, what?
are.
I see you two all the time. You're thick as thieves, you
He must have said something.
No, sir, Warden.
Not a word.
Lord, it's a miracle!
Man vanished like a fart in the wind.
Nothing left
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but some damn rocks on a windowsill.
And that cupcake on the wall. Let's ask her.
Maybe she knows.
What say there, fuzzy-britches? Do you like talking?
Guess not.
Why should she be any different?
This is a conspiracy.
That's what this is.
One big, damn conspiracy!
And everyone's in on it!
Including her!
In
Andy Dufresne escaped
from Shawshank Prison.
All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes
Byron Hadley?
You have the right to remain silent.
If you give up this right to remain silent,
Anything you say will be held against you the part or lot
I wasn't there to see it, but I hear Byron Hadley started
sobbing
like a girl when they took him away.
Norton had no intention of going that quietly.
Samuel Norton.
We have a warrant for your arrest. Open up.
Norton
- Open the door. - I'm not sure which key is.
Make it easy on yourself, Norton!
I like to think the last thing that went through his head
other than that bullet
a bar of soap
and an old rock hammer
damn near worn down to the nub.
through the wall with it.
I remember thinking it'd take a man
years to
Old Andy did it in less than .
tunnel
Oh, Andy loved geology.
I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature.
An ice age here
million years of mountain building there.
Geology is the study of pressure and time.
That's all it takes, really.
Pressure
and time.
That and a big goddamn poster.
Like I said
occupied.
in prison, a
man will do anything to keep his
out into the exercise yard
Turn is out, Andy's favorite hobby
mind
a handful at a time.
I guess after Tommy was killed
was toting his wall
Andy decided he'd been here just by long enough.
Lickety-split. I want to get home.
I'm just about finished, sir.
Three deposits tonight.
Andy did like he was told.
Buffed those shoes to a high mirror-shine.
The guards simply didn't notice.
Neither did I.
I mean, seriously
how often do you really look at a man's shoes?
Andy crawled to freedom through
of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine.
yards
Or maybe I just don't want to.
Five hundred yards.
That's the length of five football fields.
Just shy of half a mile.
spilling her secret
The next morning, right about the time Raquel was
a man nobody ever laid eyes on before
strolled into the Maine National Bank.
Until that moment, he didn't exist.
- Except on paper. - May I help you?
He had all the proper ID
driver's license, birth certificate, Social Security card
And the signature was a spot-on match.
I must say I'm sorry to be losing your business.
I hope you'll enjoy living abroad.
Thank you.
I'm sure I will.
else?
Here's your cashier's check, sir. Will there be anything
Please.
Would you add this to your outgoing mail?
I'd be happy to.
Good day, sir.
area that morning.
Mr Stevens visited nearly a dozen banks in the Portland
All told, he blew town
with better than $, of Warden Norton's money.
Severance pay for
Good morning, Portland Daily Bugle.
years.
best of him.
was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the
Not long after the warden deprived us of his company
I got a postcard in the mail.
It was blank, but the postmark said
Fort Hancock, Texas.
Fort Hancock
right on the border.
That's where Andy crossed.
the top down
When I picture him heading south in his own car with
it always makes me laugh.
Andy Dufresne
who crawled through a river of shit
and came out clean on the other side.
Andy Dufresne
headed for the Pacific.
Hadley's got him by the throat, right?
accident."
He says, "I believe this boy's about to have himself an
Those of us who knew him best talk about him often.
I swear, the stuff he pulled
"My friends could use a couple of beers."
And he got it!
Sometimes it makes me sad, though
Andy being gone.
be caged.
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to
Their feathers are just too bright.
And when they fly away
does rejoice.
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up
But still
that they're gone.
the place you live in is that much more drab and empty
I guess I just miss my friend.
Please sit down.
Ellis Boyd Redding
your files say you've served
You feel you've been rehabilitated?
years of a life sentence.
Rehabilitated?
Well, now, let me see.
I don't have any idea what that means.
It means are you ready to rejoin to society?
I know what you think it means, sonny.
To me it's just a made-up word.
A politician's word so that
young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie
and have a job.
What do you really want to know?
Am I sorry for what I did?
Well, are you?
There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret.
Not because I'm in here or because you think I should.
I look back on the way I was then
a young
stupid kid who committed that terrible crime.
I want to talk to him.
I want to try and talk some sense to him.
Tell him the way things are.
But I can't.
That kid's long gone
and this old man is all that's left.
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I got to live with that.
Rehabilitated?
It's just a bullshit word.
wasting my time.
So you go on and stamp
your forms sonny, and
Because to tell you the truth
stop
I don't give a shit.
Here you go, miss.
Restroom break, boss?
a piss.
You don't need to ask me every time you need to go take
Just go. Understand?
Forty years I've been asking permission to piss.
I can't squeeze a drop without say-so.
There's a harsh truth to face.
No way I'm going to make it on the outside.
All I do anymore is think of ways to break my parole
so maybe they'd send me back.
Terrible thing, to live in fear.
Brooks Hatlen knew it.
Knew it all too well.
All I want is to be back where things make sense.
Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.
Only one thing stops me.
A promise I made to Andy.
There it is.
obliged, sir.
Dear Red:
If you're reading this you've gotten out
further
and if you've come this far maybe you'd
come a bit
You remember the name of the town, don't you?
Zihuatanejo
wheels.
I could use a
good man to help
I'll keep an eye out for you, and the chessboard ready.
me get my project on
Remember, Red
hope is a good thing
maybe the best of things.
And no good thing ever dies.
I will be hoping that this letter finds you
and finds you well
Your friend
Andy
"Get busy living
or get busy dying."
That's goddamn right.
For the second time in my life
I'm guilty of committing a crime.
Parole violation.
Of course I doubt they'll toss up any roadblocks for that.
Not for an old crook like me.
Fort Hancock, Texas, please.
thought in my head.
I find I'm so excited I can
barely
sit still or hold a
I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel.
A free man at the start of a long journey
whose conclusion is uncertain.
I hope I can make it across the border.
I hope to see my friend and shake his hand.
I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.
I hope.
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