1. Mr. Dufresne, describe...Copy !req
2. the confrontation you had with
your wife the night she was murdered.Copy !req
3. It was very bitter.Copy !req
4. She said she was glad I knew,
that she hated all the sneaking around.Copy !req
5. And she said that she wanted
a divorce in Reno.Copy !req
6. - What was your response?
- I told her I would not grant one.Copy !req
7. "I'll see you in hell
before I see you in Reno."Copy !req
8. Those were your words,
according to your neighbors.Copy !req
9. If they say so.Copy !req
10. I really don't remember. I was upset.Copy !req
11. What happened after you argued
with your wife?Copy !req
12. She packed a bag.Copy !req
13. She packed a bag to go
and stay with Mr. Quentin.Copy !req
14. Glenn Quentin, golf pro
at the Snowden Hills Country Club...Copy !req
15. whom you had discovered
was your wife's lover.Copy !req
16. Did you follow her?Copy !req
17. I went to a few bars first.Copy !req
18. Later, I drove to his house
to confront them. They weren't home.Copy !req
19. I parked in the turnout...Copy !req
20. and waited.Copy !req
21. With what intention?Copy !req
22. I'm not sure.Copy !req
23. I was confused-..Copy !req
24. drunk.Copy !req
25. I think...Copy !req
26. mostly I wanted to scare them.Copy !req
27. When they arrived, you went up
to the house and murdered them.Copy !req
28. No, I was sobering up.Copy !req
29. I got back in the car
and I drove home to sleep it off.Copy !req
30. Along the way, I threw my gun
into the Royal River.Copy !req
31. I've been very clear on this point.Copy !req
32. I get hazy where the cleaning woman
shows up the following morning...Copy !req
33. and finds your wife in bed
with her lover...Copy !req
34. riddled with.38-caliber bullets.Copy !req
35. Does that strike you as a
fantastic coincidence, or is it just me?Copy !req
36. Yes, it does.Copy !req
37. Yet you still maintain
you threw your gun into the river...Copy !req
38. before the murders took place.Copy !req
39. That's very convenient.Copy !req
40. It's the truth.Copy !req
41. The police dragged that river for
three days, and nary a gun was found...Copy !req
42. so no comparison could be made
between your gun and the bullets...Copy !req
43. taken from the bloodstained corpses
of the victims.Copy !req
44. And that also...Copy !req
45. is very convenient.
Isn't it, Mr. Dufresne?Copy !req
46. Since I am innocent of this crime...Copy !req
47. I find it decidedly inconvenient
that the gun was never found.Copy !req
48. Ladies and gentlemen,
you've heard all the evidence.Copy !req
49. We have the accused at the scene
of the crime. We have footprints.Copy !req
50. Bullets on the ground
bearing his fingerprints.Copy !req
51. A broken bourbon bottle,
likewise with fingerprints.Copy !req
52. And most of all..-Copy !req
53. we have a beautiful young woman
and her lover...Copy !req
54. lying dead in each other's arms.Copy !req
55. They had sinned.Copy !req
56. But was their crime so great...Copy !req
57. as to merit a death sentence?Copy !req
58. While you think about that...Copy !req
59. think about this:Copy !req
60. A revolver holds six bullets, not eight.Copy !req
61. I submit that this was not
a hot-blooded crime of passion.Copy !req
62. That at least could be understood,
if not condoned.Copy !req
63. No.Copy !req
64. This was revenge...Copy !req
65. of a much more brutal,
cold-blooded nature. Consider this:Copy !req
66. Four bullets per victim.Copy !req
67. Not six shots fired, but eight.Copy !req
68. That means that he fired
the gun empty...Copy !req
69. and then stopped to reload...Copy !req
70. so that he could shoot
each of them again.Copy !req
71. An extra bullet per lover...Copy !req
72. right in the head.Copy !req
73. You strike me as a particularly icy
and remorseless man, Mr. Dufresne.Copy !req
74. It chills my blood just to look at you.Copy !req
75. By the power vested in me
by the state of Maine...Copy !req
76. I hereby order you to serve
two life sentences back-to-back...Copy !req
77. one for each of your victims. So be it!Copy !req
78. Sit.Copy !req
79. We see you've served
20 years of a life sentence?Copy !req
80. - Yes, sir.
- You feel you've been rehabilitated?Copy !req
81. Oh, yes, sir. Absolutely, sir.Copy !req
82. I mean, I learned my lesson.Copy !req
83. I can honestly say
that I'm a changed man.Copy !req
84. I'm no longer a danger to society.Copy !req
85. That's God's honest truth.Copy !req
86. Hey, Red. How'd it go?Copy !req
87. Same old shit, different day.Copy !req
88. Yeah, I know how you feel.Copy !req
89. I'm up for rejection next week.Copy !req
90. Yeah, I got rejected last week.Copy !req
91. It happens.Copy !req
92. Hey, Red, bump me a deck.Copy !req
93. Get out of my face, man!
You're into me for five packs already.Copy !req
94. - Four!
- Five!Copy !req
95. There must be a con like me
in every prison in America.Copy !req
96. I'm the guy who can get it for you.Copy !req
97. Cigarettes, a bag of reefer,
if that's your thing...Copy !req
98. a bottle of brandy to celebrate
your kid's high school graduation.Copy !req
99. Damn near anything within reason.Copy !req
100. Yes, sir. I'm a regular Sears and Roebuck.Copy !req
101. So when Andy Dufresne
came to me in 1949...Copy !req
102. and asked me to smuggle
Rita Hayworth into the prison for him...Copy !req
103. I told him, "No problem."Copy !req
104. Officers
to main gate. Officers to main gate.Copy !req
105. Secure main gate.Copy !req
106. Andy came to Shawshank Prison...Copy !req
107. in early 1947 for murdering his wife
and the fella she was banging.Copy !req
108. On the outside, he'd been Vice president
of a large Portland bank.Copy !req
109. Good work for a man so young.Copy !req
110. Hey, Red.Copy !req
111. You speak English, butt-steak?Copy !req
112. You follow this officer.Copy !req
113. I never seen such a sorry-looking
heap of maggot shit in all my life.Copy !req
114. Hey, fish! Come over here!Copy !req
115. Taking bets today, Red?Copy !req
116. Smokes or coin? Bettor's choice.Copy !req
117. Smokes. Put me down for two.Copy !req
118. All right, who's your horse?Copy !req
119. That little sack of shit.Copy !req
120. - Eighth. Eighth from the front. He'll be first.
- Oh, bullshit! I'll take that action.Copy !req
121. - Yeah, me too.
- You're out some smokes, son.Copy !req
122. If you're so smart, you call it.Copy !req
123. I'll take the chubby fat-ass there.Copy !req
124. The fifth one.
Put me down for a quarter deck.Copy !req
125. Fresh Fish!Copy !req
126. Fresh fish today!Copy !req
127. We're reeling them in!Copy !req
128. I admit I didn't think much of Andy
first time I laid eyes on him.Copy !req
129. Looked like a stiff breeze
would blow him over.Copy !req
130. That was my first impression of the man.Copy !req
131. What do you say?Copy !req
132. That tall drink of water
with the silver spoon up his ass.Copy !req
133. That guy? Never happen.Copy !req
134. - Ten cigarettes.
- That's a rich bet.Copy !req
135. Who's going to prove me wrong?Copy !req
136. Heywood? Jigger?Copy !req
137. Skeets?Copy !req
138. Floyd!Copy !req
139. Four brave souls.Copy !req
140. Return to your cellblocks for evening count.Copy !req
141. All prisoners, return to your cellblocks.Copy !req
142. Turn to the right! Eyes front.Copy !req
143. This is Mr. Hadley.
He's captain of the guards.Copy !req
144. I'm Mr. Norton, the warden.Copy !req
145. You are convicted felons.Copy !req
146. That's why they've sent you to me.Copy !req
147. Rule number one:Copy !req
148. No blasphemy.Copy !req
149. I'll not have the Lord's name
taken in vain in my prison.Copy !req
150. The other rules...Copy !req
151. you'll figure out as you go along.
Any questions?Copy !req
152. When do we eat?Copy !req
153. You eat when we say you eat.Copy !req
154. You shit when we say you shit,
and piss when we say you piss.Copy !req
155. You got that,
you maggot-dick motherfucker?Copy !req
156. On your feet.Copy !req
157. I believe in two things:Copy !req
158. Discipline and the Bible.Copy !req
159. Here, you'll receive both.Copy !req
160. Put your trust in the Lord.Copy !req
161. Your ass belongs to me.Copy !req
162. Welcome to Shawshank.Copy !req
163. Unhook them.Copy !req
164. Turn around.Copy !req
165. That's enough.Copy !req
166. Move to the end of the cage.Copy !req
167. Turn around. Delouse him.Copy !req
168. Turn around.Copy !req
169. Move out of the cage.
Pick up your clothes and Bible.Copy !req
170. Next man up!Copy !req
171. To the right. Right. Right. Right.Copy !req
172. Left. Left.Copy !req
173. The first night's the toughest.
No doubt about it.Copy !req
174. They march you in
naked as the day you were born...Copy !req
175. skin burning and half-blind
from that delousing shit.Copy !req
176. And when they put you in that cell...Copy !req
177. and those bars slam home...Copy !req
178. that's when you know it's for real.Copy !req
179. Old life blown away
in the blink of an eye.Copy !req
180. Nothing left but all the time
in the world to think about it.Copy !req
181. Most new fish come close to madness
the first night.Copy !req
182. Somebody always breaks down crying.Copy !req
183. Happens every time.Copy !req
184. The only question is...Copy !req
185. who's it going to be?Copy !req
186. It's as good a thing
to bet on as any, I guess.Copy !req
187. I had my money on Andy Dufresne-Copy !req
188. Lights out!Copy !req
189. I remember my first night.Copy !req
190. Seems like a long time ago.Copy !req
191. Hey, fish.Copy !req
192. Fish, fish, fish, fish, fishy.Copy !req
193. What are you, scared of the dark?Copy !req
194. Bet you wish your daddy
never dicked your mama!Copy !req
195. Piggy! Pork! I want me a pork chop. Oh, yes!Copy !req
196. Poke your ass out, give me a first look!Copy !req
197. Shh! Keep it down.Copy !req
198. The boys always go fishing
with first-timers.Copy !req
199. And they don't quit
till they reel someone in.Copy !req
200. Hey, Fat Ass.Copy !req
201. Fat Ass!Copy !req
202. Talk to me, boy.Copy !req
203. I know you're there.
I can hear you breathing.Copy !req
204. Don't you listen to these nitwits,
you hear me?Copy !req
205. This place ain't so bad.Copy !req
206. Tell you what...Copy !req
207. I'll introduce you around,
make you feel right at home.Copy !req
208. I know a couple of
big old bull queers that'd just...Copy !req
209. love to make your acquaintance.Copy !req
210. Especially that big, white,
mushy butt of yours.Copy !req
211. God!Copy !req
212. I don't belong here!Copy !req
213. - We have a winner!
- I want to go home!Copy !req
214. And it's Fat Ass by a nose!Copy !req
215. Fresh fish! Fresh fish! Fresh fish!Copy !req
216. I don't belong here.Copy !req
217. I want to go home!Copy !req
218. I want my mother!Copy !req
219. I had your mother!
She wasn't that great!Copy !req
220. What the Christ is this horseshit?Copy !req
221. He blasphemed. I'll tell the warden.Copy !req
222. - You'll tell him with my baton up your ass!
- You gotta let me out!Copy !req
223. What is your malfunction,
you fat barrel of monkey spunk?Copy !req
224. Please! I ain't supposed to be here.Copy !req
225. Not me!Copy !req
226. I won't count to three. Not even to one.Copy !req
227. You will shut up,
or I'll sing you a lullaby!Copy !req
228. - Shut up, man. Shut up!
- There's been a mistake.Copy !req
229. You don't understand.
I'm not supposed to be here.Copy !req
230. Open that cell.Copy !req
231. Me neither! They run this place
like a fucking prison!Copy !req
232. Son of a bitch!Copy !req
233. Captain, take it easy!Copy !req
234. If I hear so much as a mouse fart
in here tonight...Copy !req
235. I swear by God and Jesus,
you will all visit the infirmary.Copy !req
236. Every last motherfucker in here.Copy !req
237. Call the trustees. Take that
tub of shit down to the infirmary.Copy !req
238. His first night in the joint,
Dufresne cost me two packs of cigarettes.Copy !req
239. He never made a sound.Copy !req
240. Tier 3 north, clear count!Copy !req
241. - Tier 2 north, clear.
- Tier 2 south, clear.Copy !req
242. - Tier 3 south, clear.
- Tier 1 north, clear.Copy !req
243. - Tier 1 south, clear.
- Tier 4 south, clear.Copy !req
244. Prepare to roll out.Copy !req
245. Roll out!Copy !req
246. Are you going to eat that?Copy !req
247. I hadn't planned on it.Copy !req
248. Do you mind?Copy !req
249. That's nice and ripe.Copy !req
250. Jake says thank you.Copy !req
251. Fell out of his nest
over by the plate shop.Copy !req
252. I'm going to look after him
until he's big enough to fly.Copy !req
253. Oh, no, no! Here he comes.Copy !req
254. Morning, fellas.Copy !req
255. Fine morning, isn't it?Copy !req
256. You know why it's a fine morning,
don't you?Copy !req
257. Come on, send them down.
I want them all lined up...Copy !req
258. just like a pretty little
chorus line.Copy !req
259. Yeah, look at that.Copy !req
260. - I can't stand this guy.
- Oh, Lord!Copy !req
261. Yes! Richmond, Virginia.Copy !req
262. Smell my ass!Copy !req
263. After he smells mine.Copy !req
264. Gee, Red, that's a shame about your horse
coming in last and all.Copy !req
265. But I sure do love
that winning horse of mine, though.Copy !req
266. I believe I owe that boy a great big
sloppy kiss when I see him.Copy !req
267. Why don't you give him some of your
cigarettes instead? Lucky fuck!Copy !req
268. Hey, Tyrell.Copy !req
269. You pull infirmary duty this week?Copy !req
270. How's that horse of mine doing anyway?Copy !req
271. Dead.Copy !req
272. Hadley busted his head up pretty good.Copy !req
273. Doc had gone home for the night.Copy !req
274. Poor bastard lay there
till this morning.Copy !req
275. By then, there wasn't nothing
we could do.Copy !req
276. What was his name?Copy !req
277. What'd you say?Copy !req
278. I was just wondering
if anyone knew his name.Copy !req
279. What the fuck do you care, new fish?Copy !req
280. Doesn't fucking matter
what his name was. He's dead.Copy !req
281. Hey.Copy !req
282. Anybody come at you yet?Copy !req
283. Anybody get to you yet?Copy !req
284. Hey, we all need friends in here.Copy !req
285. I could be a friend to you.Copy !req
286. Hey.Copy !req
287. Hard to get.Copy !req
288. I like that.Copy !req
289. Andy kept pretty much
to himself at first.Copy !req
290. I guess he had a lot on his mind...Copy !req
291. trying to adapt
to life on the inside.Copy !req
292. Wasn't until a month went by
that he finally opened his mouth...Copy !req
293. to say more than two words
to somebody.Copy !req
294. As it turned out...Copy !req
295. that somebody was me.Copy !req
296. Officers Russell
and Berwell, report to duty officer.Copy !req
297. Russell and Berwell, report to...Copy !req
298. I'm Andy Dufresne.Copy !req
299. Wife-killing banker.Copy !req
300. Why'd you do it?Copy !req
301. I didn't, since you ask.Copy !req
302. You're going to fit right in.Copy !req
303. Everybody in here's innocent.
Didn't you know that?Copy !req
304. - What you in here for?
- Didn't do it. Lawyer fucked me.Copy !req
305. Rumor has it you're a real cold fish.Copy !req
306. You think your shit smells
sweeter than most. Is that right?Copy !req
307. What do you think?Copy !req
308. To tell you the truth,
I haven't made up my mind.Copy !req
309. I understand you're a man
that knows how to get things.Copy !req
310. I'm known to locate certain things
from time to time.Copy !req
311. I wonder if you might get me
a rock hammer.Copy !req
312. - A what?
- A rock hammer.Copy !req
313. - What is it and why?
- What do you care?Copy !req
314. Well, if it was a toothbrush, I wouldn't ask.
I'd quote a price.Copy !req
315. But then a toothbrush
is a non-lethal object, isn't it?Copy !req
316. Fair enough.Copy !req
317. A rock hammer is about
six or seven inches long.Copy !req
318. - Looks like a miniature pickax.
- Pickax?Copy !req
319. - For rocks.
- Rocks.Copy !req
320. Quartz?Copy !req
321. Quartz.Copy !req
322. And some mica, shale...Copy !req
323. limestone.Copy !req
324. So?Copy !req
325. So I'm a rock hound.Copy !req
326. At least I was in my old life.
I'd like to be again on a limited basis.Copy !req
327. Or maybe you'd like to sink your toy
into somebody's skull.Copy !req
328. No, sir. No, I have no enemies here.Copy !req
329. No? Wait a while.Copy !req
330. Word gets around.Copy !req
331. The Sisters have taken
quite a liking to you.Copy !req
332. Especially Bogs.Copy !req
333. Don't suppose it would help any
if I explained to them I'm not homosexual.Copy !req
334. Neither are they.Copy !req
335. You have to be human first.
They don't qualify.Copy !req
336. Bull queers take by force.
That's all they want or understand.Copy !req
337. If I were you, I'd grow eyes
in the back of my head.Copy !req
338. - Thanks for the advice.
- Well, that's free.Copy !req
339. You understand my concern.Copy !req
340. If there's any trouble,
I won't use the rock hammer, okay?Copy !req
341. Then I'd guess you want to escape.
Tunnel under the wall, maybe.Copy !req
342. Did I miss something? What's so funny?Copy !req
343. You'll understand
when you see the rock hammer.Copy !req
344. What's an item like this usually go for?Copy !req
345. Seven dollars in any rock-and-gem shop.Copy !req
346. My normal markup's 20 percent.Copy !req
347. But this is a specialty item.Copy !req
348. Risk goes up, price goes up.
Let's make it an even 10 bucks.Copy !req
349. Ten it is.Copy !req
350. Waste of money, if you ask me.Copy !req
351. Why's that?Copy !req
352. Folks around this joint
love surprise inspections.Copy !req
353. They find it, you're going to lose it.Copy !req
354. If they do catch you with it,
you don't know me.Copy !req
355. You mention my name,
we never do business again.Copy !req
356. Not for shoelaces or a stick of gum.
Now you got that?Copy !req
357. I understand.Copy !req
358. Thank you, Mr...Copy !req
359. Red.Copy !req
360. - Name's Red.
- Red.Copy !req
361. Why do they call you that?Copy !req
362. Maybe it's because I'm Irish.Copy !req
363. I could see why some of the boys
took him for snobby.Copy !req
364. He had a quiet way about him...Copy !req
365. a walk and a talk that just
wasn't normal around here.Copy !req
366. He strolled...Copy !req
367. like a man in the park without a care
or a worry in the world.Copy !req
368. Like he had on an invisible coat
that would shield him from this place.Copy !req
369. Yeah, I think it would be fair to say-..Copy !req
370. I liked Andy from the start.Copy !req
371. Let's go! Some of us
got a schedule to keep.Copy !req
372. Move it! Come on, move it!Copy !req
373. How you doing?
How's the wife treating you?Copy !req
374. Keep it moving.Copy !req
375. Red.Copy !req
376. Andy was right.Copy !req
377. I finally got the joke.Copy !req
378. It would take a man about 600 years...Copy !req
379. to tunnel under the wall
with one of these.Copy !req
380. - Book?
- Not today.Copy !req
381. - Book?
- No.Copy !req
382. Hey, Brooksie.Copy !req
383. Delivery for Dufresne.Copy !req
384. - Book?
- Pass.Copy !req
385. Book?Copy !req
386. Dufresne, here's your book.Copy !req
387. Thanks.Copy !req
388. Dufresne, we're running low on hexite.
Get on back and fetch us up some.Copy !req
389. This will blind you.Copy !req
390. Honey, hush.Copy !req
391. That's it. You fight!Copy !req
392. Better that way.Copy !req
393. I wish I could tell you
that Andy fought the good fight...Copy !req
394. and the Sisters let him be.Copy !req
395. I wish I could tell you that...Copy !req
396. but prison is no fairy-tale world-Copy !req
397. He never said who did it.Copy !req
398. But we all knew.Copy !req
399. Things went on like that for a while.Copy !req
400. Prison life consists of routine..-Copy !req
401. and then more routine.Copy !req
402. Every so often, Andy would show up
with fresh bruises.Copy !req
403. The Sisters kept at him.Copy !req
404. Sometimes he was able
to fight them off.Copy !req
405. Sometimes not.Copy !req
406. And that's how it went for Andy-Copy !req
407. That was his routine.Copy !req
408. I do believe those first two years
were the worst for him.Copy !req
409. And I also believe
if things had gone on that way...Copy !req
410. this place would have
got the best of him.Copy !req
411. But then, in the spring of 1949-..Copy !req
412. the powers that be decided that:Copy !req
413. The roof of the license-plate factory
needs resurfacing.Copy !req
414. I need a dozen volunteers
for a week's work.Copy !req
415. As you know...Copy !req
416. special detail carries with it
special privileges.Copy !req
417. It was outdoor detail...Copy !req
418. and May is one damned fine month
to be working outdoors.Copy !req
419. Stay in line there.Copy !req
420. More than 100 men
volunteered for the job.Copy !req
421. "Wallace E. Unger.Copy !req
422. Ellis Redding."Copy !req
423. Wouldn't you know it?Copy !req
424. Me and some fellows I know
were among the names called.Copy !req
425. "Andrew Dufresne."Copy !req
426. It only cost us
a pack of smokes per man.Copy !req
427. I made my usual 20 percent, of course.Copy !req
428. So this big-shot lawyer
calls me long-distance from Texas.Copy !req
429. I say, "Yeah?"Copy !req
430. He says, "Sorry to inform you,
but your brother just died."Copy !req
431. - I'm sorry to hear that.
- I'm not. He was an asshole.Copy !req
432. Ran off years ago.
Figured him for dead.Copy !req
433. So anyway, this lawyer fellow says to me:Copy !req
434. "Your brother died a rich man."
Oil wells and shit. Close to a million bucks.Copy !req
435. - A million bucks?
- Yeah.Copy !req
436. - Incredible how lucky some assholes get.
- You going to see any of that?Copy !req
437. Thirty-five thousand.
That's what he left me.Copy !req
438. - Dollars?
- Yep.Copy !req
439. Holy shit, that's great!
That's like winning the sweepstakes.Copy !req
440. Isn't it?Copy !req
441. Dumb-shit, what do you think
the government is gonna do to me?Copy !req
442. Take a big wet bite
out of my ass is what.Copy !req
443. Poor Byron.Copy !req
444. Terrible fucking luck, huh?
Crying shame.Copy !req
445. Some people really got it awful.Copy !req
446. Andy, are you nuts?Copy !req
447. Keep your eyes on your mop, man! Andy.Copy !req
448. You'll pay some tax,
but you'll still end up—Copy !req
449. Yeah, yeah, maybe enough to buy
a new car, and then what?Copy !req
450. I got to pay tax on the car. Repair...Copy !req
451. maintenance, kids pestering you
to take them for a ride all the time.Copy !req
452. Then if you figure your tax wrong,
you pay out of your own pocket.Copy !req
453. I tell you! Uncle Sam!Copy !req
454. He puts his hand in your shirt
and squeezes your tit till it's purple.Copy !req
455. Andy. Andy. Andy.Copy !req
456. - Getting himself killed.
- Keep tarring.Copy !req
457. Some brother. Shit!Copy !req
458. Hey!Copy !req
459. Mr. Hadley...Copy !req
460. do you trust your wife?Copy !req
461. Oh, that's funny.Copy !req
462. You'll look funnier
sucking my dick with no teeth.Copy !req
463. What I mean is, do you think
she'd go behind your back?Copy !req
464. Step aside, Mert. This fucker's
having himself an accident.Copy !req
465. He'll push him off!Copy !req
466. Because if you trust her, you can keep...Copy !req
467. that 35,000.Copy !req
468. - What did you say?
- Thirty-five thousand.Copy !req
469. - Thirty-five thousand.
- All of it.Copy !req
470. - All of it?
- Every penny.Copy !req
471. You better start making sense.Copy !req
472. If you want to keep it,
give it to your wife.Copy !req
473. The IRS allows a one-time-only gift
to your spouse for up to $60,000.Copy !req
474. - Bullshit. Tax-free?
- Tax-free.Copy !req
475. IRS can't touch one cent.Copy !req
476. You're that smart banker
what killed his wife, aren't you?Copy !req
477. Why should I believe a smart banker?
So I can end up in here with you?Copy !req
478. It's perfectly legal. Go ask the IRS.
They'll say the same thing.Copy !req
479. Actually, I feel stupid telling you this.
I'm sure you would have investigated.Copy !req
480. I don't need you to tell me
where the bear shit in the buckwheat.Copy !req
481. Of course not. But you do need
someone to set up the tax-free gift for you.Copy !req
482. That'll cost you.
A lawyer, for example.Copy !req
483. A bunch of ball-washing bastards!Copy !req
484. I suppose I could set it up for you.
That would save you some money.Copy !req
485. You get the forms,
I'll prepare them for you...Copy !req
486. nearly free of charge.Copy !req
487. I'd only ask three beers apiece
for each of my coworkers.Copy !req
488. "Coworkers." That's rich, ain't it?Copy !req
489. I think a man working outdoors
feels more like a man...Copy !req
490. if he can have a bottle of suds.
That's only my opinion...Copy !req
491. sir.Copy !req
492. What are you jimmies staring at?Copy !req
493. Let's go! Work!Copy !req
494. And that's how it came to pass...Copy !req
495. that on the second-to-last
day of the job...Copy !req
496. the convict crew that tarred
the factory roof in the spring of '49...Copy !req
497. wound up sitting in a row
at 10:00 in the morning...Copy !req
498. drinking icy-cold beer,
courtesy of the hardest screw...Copy !req
499. that ever walked a turn
at Shawshank State Prison.Copy !req
500. Drink up while it's cold, ladies.Copy !req
501. The colossal prick even managed
to sound magnanimous.Copy !req
502. We sat and drank with the sun
on our shoulders and felt like free men.Copy !req
503. Hell, we could have been tarring
the roof of one of our own houses.Copy !req
504. We were the lords of all creation.Copy !req
505. As for Andy-..Copy !req
506. he spent that break
hunkered in the shade...Copy !req
507. a strange little smile on his face...Copy !req
508. watching us drink his beer.Copy !req
509. Hey. Want a cold one, Andy?Copy !req
510. No, thanks. I gave up drinking.Copy !req
511. You could argue he'd done it
to curry a favor with the guards.Copy !req
512. Or maybe make a few friends
among us cons.Copy !req
513. Me?Copy !req
514. I think he did it
just to feel normal again...Copy !req
515. if only for a short while.Copy !req
516. King me.Copy !req
517. - Chess. Now there's a game of kings.
- What?Copy !req
518. Civilized. Strategic.Copy !req
519. And a total fucking mystery. I hate it.Copy !req
520. Let me teach you someday.Copy !req
521. Sure.Copy !req
522. We could get a board together.Copy !req
523. You're talking to the right man.
I can get things, right?Copy !req
524. We might do business on a board,
and I'll carve the pieces myself.Copy !req
525. One side in alabaster, the opposing side
in soapstone. What do you think?Copy !req
526. I think it'll take years.Copy !req
527. Years I got.
What I don't have are the rocks.Copy !req
528. Pickings are pretty slim in the yard.Copy !req
529. Pebbles, mostly.Copy !req
530. Andy, we're getting to be
kind of friends, aren't we?Copy !req
531. Yeah, I guess.Copy !req
532. Can I ask you something?Copy !req
533. Why'd you do it?Copy !req
534. I'm innocent, Red.Copy !req
535. Just like everybody else here.Copy !req
536. What are you in for?Copy !req
537. Murder. Same as you.Copy !req
538. Innocent?Copy !req
539. Only guilty man in Shawshank.Copy !req
540. Perimeter check. North wall.Copy !req
541. Where's the canary?Copy !req
542. How did you know?Copy !req
543. - How did I know what?
- So you don't know.Copy !req
544. Come.Copy !req
545. This is where the canary is, Johnny.Copy !req
546. Quite a surprise to hear
a woman singing in my house, eh?Copy !req
547. That's quite a...Copy !req
548. surprise.Copy !req
549. - Red?
- Wait, wait.Copy !req
550. Here she comes.Copy !req
551. This is the part I really like,
when she does that shit with her hair.Copy !req
552. Oh, yeah, I know. I've seen it
three times this month.Copy !req
553. Gilda, are you decent?Copy !req
554. Me?Copy !req
555. - Oh!
- Oh.Copy !req
556. God, I love it.Copy !req
557. I understand you're a man
that knows how to get things.Copy !req
558. Yeah, I'm known to locate certain things
from time to time. What do you want?Copy !req
559. - Rita Hayworth.
- What?Copy !req
560. Can you get her?Copy !req
561. So this is Johnny Farrell.
I've heard a lot about you.Copy !req
562. - Take a few weeks.
- Weeks?Copy !req
563. Yeah, I don't have her stuffed down the front
of my pants right now, sorry to say.Copy !req
564. But I'll get her.Copy !req
565. Relax.Copy !req
566. Thanks.Copy !req
567. It was. You should'Ve seen his face.Copy !req
568. Sit down.Copy !req
569. Did you tell him what I'm...?Copy !req
570. Down in front.Copy !req
571. - I wanted to save that as a surprise.
- Hang on to your hat.Copy !req
572. Gilda is my wife.Copy !req
573. - Take a walk!
- I got to change the reel!Copy !req
574. I said fuck off!Copy !req
575. Ain't you going to scream?Copy !req
576. Let's get this over with.Copy !req
577. He broke my fucking nose!Copy !req
578. Now...Copy !req
579. I'm going to open my fly...Copy !req
580. and you'll swallow
what I give you to swallow.Copy !req
581. Then you'll swallow Rooster's.
You broke his nose.Copy !req
582. I think ye ought to have
something to show for it.Copy !req
583. Anything you put it in my mouth,
you'll lose it.Copy !req
584. No, you don't understand.Copy !req
585. Do that and I'll put all eight inches
of this steel in your ear.Copy !req
586. All right, but you should know
that sudden, serious brain injury...Copy !req
587. causes the victim to bite down hard.Copy !req
588. In fact, I hear the bite reflex
is so strong...Copy !req
589. they have to pry
the victim's jaws open...Copy !req
590. with a crowbar.Copy !req
591. Where do you get this shit?Copy !req
592. I read it.Copy !req
593. You know how to read,
you ignorant fuck?Copy !req
594. Honey.Copy !req
595. You shouldn't!Copy !req
596. Bogs didn't put anything in Andy's mouth.Copy !req
597. And neither did his friends.Copy !req
598. What they did do is beat him
within an inch of his life.Copy !req
599. Andy spent a month in the infirmary-Copy !req
600. Bogs spent a week in the hole.Copy !req
601. Time's up, Bogs.Copy !req
602. It's your world, boss.Copy !req
603. Return to
your cellblocks for evening count.Copy !req
604. All prisoners report for lockdown-Copy !req
605. What?Copy !req
606. - Where's he going?
- Grab his ankles.Copy !req
607. No! No! Help me!Copy !req
608. Two things never happened again
after that.Copy !req
609. The Sisters never
laid a finger on Andy again.Copy !req
610. And Bogs never walked again.Copy !req
611. They transferred him
to a minimum-security hospital upstate.Copy !req
612. To my knowledge,
he lived out the rest of his days...Copy !req
613. drinking his food through a straw.Copy !req
614. Andy could use a nice "welcome back"
when he gets out of the infirmary.Copy !req
615. Sounds good to us.Copy !req
616. I figure we owe him that much
for the beer.Copy !req
617. The man likes to play chess.Copy !req
618. Let's get him some rocks.Copy !req
619. Guys!Copy !req
620. I got one.Copy !req
621. I got one. Look!Copy !req
622. Heywood, that isn't soapstone!
And it ain't alabaster either.Copy !req
623. What are you, a fucking geologist?Copy !req
624. He's right. It ain't.Copy !req
625. - What the hell is it then?
- It's a horse apple.Copy !req
626. - Bullshit!
- No, horseshit.Copy !req
627. Petrified.Copy !req
628. Oh, Jesus.Copy !req
629. Damn!Copy !req
630. Despite a few hitches,
the boys came through in fine style.Copy !req
631. And by the weekend
he was due back...Copy !req
632. we had enough rocks saved up
to keep him busy till rapture.Copy !req
633. Also got a big shipment in that week.Copy !req
634. Cigarettes.-.Copy !req
635. chewing gum...Copy !req
636. sipping whiskey...Copy !req
637. playing cards with naked ladies
on them. You name it.Copy !req
638. And, of course, the most important item:Copy !req
639. Rita Hayworth herself.Copy !req
640. - Okay, look alive!
- Open all tiers.Copy !req
641. Heads up. They're tossing the cells.Copy !req
642. Heads up. They're tossing the cells!Copy !req
643. 119.Copy !req
644. 123.Copy !req
645. On your feet.Copy !req
646. Face the wall.Copy !req
647. Turn around and face the warden.Copy !req
648. Pleased to see you reading this.Copy !req
649. Any favorite passages?Copy !req
650. "Watch ye, therefore,
for ye know not...Copy !req
651. when the master
of the house cometh."Copy !req
652. Mark 13:35.Copy !req
653. I've always liked that one.Copy !req
654. But I prefer:Copy !req
655. "I am the light of the world.Copy !req
656. Ye that followeth me
shall have the light of life."Copy !req
657. John, chapter 8, verse 12.Copy !req
658. I hear you're good with numbers.Copy !req
659. How nice.Copy !req
660. Man should have a skill.Copy !req
661. Wanna explain this?Copy !req
662. It's called a rock blanket.
For shaping and polishing rocks.Copy !req
663. A little hobby of mine.Copy !req
664. It's pretty clean.Copy !req
665. Some contraband here,
but nothing to get in a twist over.Copy !req
666. I can't say I approve of this.Copy !req
667. But I suppose...Copy !req
668. exceptions can be made.Copy !req
669. Lock them up!Copy !req
670. I almost forgot.Copy !req
671. I'd hate to deprive you of this.Copy !req
672. Salvation lies within.Copy !req
673. Yes, sir.Copy !req
674. Tossing cells was just an excuse.Copy !req
675. Truth is...Copy !req
676. Norton wanted to size Andy up.Copy !req
677. My wife made that in church group.Copy !req
678. Very nice, sir.Copy !req
679. You enjoy working the laundry?Copy !req
680. No, sir. Not especially.Copy !req
681. Perhaps we can find something more...Copy !req
682. befitting a man of your education.Copy !req
683. Hey, Jake. Where's Brooks?Copy !req
684. Andy. I thought I heard you out here.Copy !req
685. I've been reassigned to you.Copy !req
686. I know, they told me.Copy !req
687. Ain't that a kick in the head?Copy !req
688. Well, I'll give you the dime tour.Copy !req
689. Come on.Copy !req
690. Well, here she is.Copy !req
691. The Shawshank Prison Library.Copy !req
692. National Geographics-..Copy !req
693. Reader's Digest condensed books...Copy !req
694. and Louis L'Amour.Copy !req
695. Look magazine.Copy !req
696. Erle Stanley Gardners.Copy !req
697. Every evening I load up the cart
and make my rounds.Copy !req
698. I enter the names
on this clipboard here.Copy !req
699. Easy, peasy, Japanese-y.Copy !req
700. - Any questions?
- Brooks, how long have you been librarian?Copy !req
701. Oh... I come here in '05,
and they made me librarian in 1912.Copy !req
702. And have you ever had an assistant?Copy !req
703. No. Not much to it, really.Copy !req
704. Why me? Why now?Copy !req
705. I don't know.Copy !req
706. But it'd be nice to have
some company down here.Copy !req
707. Dufresne!Copy !req
708. That's him. That's the one.Copy !req
709. I'm Dekins.Copy !req
710. I was...Copy !req
711. thinking about setting up some kind of
trust fund for my kids' educations.Copy !req
712. Oh. I see.Copy !req
713. Well, um...Copy !req
714. Why don't we have a seat
and talk it over.Copy !req
715. Brooks, do you have a piece of paper
and a pencil?Copy !req
716. Thanks.Copy !req
717. So...Copy !req
718. Mr. Dekins...Copy !req
719. And then Andy says, "Mr. Dekins...Copy !req
720. do you want your sons
to go to Harvard or Yale?"Copy !req
721. He didn't say that!Copy !req
722. As God as my witness!Copy !req
723. Dekins just blinked for a second...Copy !req
724. then he laughed
and actually shook Andy's hand.Copy !req
725. - My ass!
- Shook his hand.Copy !req
726. I tell you, I near soiled myself!Copy !req
727. All he needed was a suit and tie
and a jiggly hula gal on his desk...Copy !req
728. he'd have been
"Mr. Dufresne," if you please.Copy !req
729. Making a few friends, huh, Andy?Copy !req
730. I wouldn't say "friends."Copy !req
731. I'm a convicted murderer
who provides sound financial planning.Copy !req
732. It's a wonderful pet to have.Copy !req
733. Got you out of the laundry, though.Copy !req
734. It might do more than that.Copy !req
735. How about expanding the library.
Get some new books.Copy !req
736. If you ask for something,
ask for a pool table.Copy !req
737. - Right.
- How do you expect to do that? I mean...Copy !req
738. get new books in here,
"Mr. Dufresne, if you please."Copy !req
739. I'll ask the warden for funds.Copy !req
740. Son, son, son, six wardens have been
through here in my tenure, and I've learned...Copy !req
741. one immutable, universal truth:Copy !req
742. Not one of them born whose asshole...Copy !req
743. wouldn't pucker up tighter than
a snare drum when you ask for funds.Copy !req
744. - The budget's stretched thin as it is.
- I see.Copy !req
745. Perhaps I could write the state senate
and request funds directly from them.Copy !req
746. They have only three ways to spend
the taxpayers' money for prisons:Copy !req
747. More walls, more bars, more guards.Copy !req
748. Still, I'd like to try, with permission.
A letter a week.Copy !req
749. - They can't ignore me forever.
- Sure can.Copy !req
750. But you write your letters
if it makes you happy.Copy !req
751. I'll even mail them for you. How's that?Copy !req
752. So Andy started writing
a letter a week...Copy !req
753. just like he said.Copy !req
754. And, just like Norton said...Copy !req
755. Andy got no answers.Copy !req
756. The following April, Andy did tax returns
for half the guards at Shawshank.Copy !req
757. Year after that, he did them all-..Copy !req
758. including the warden's.Copy !req
759. Year after that,
they rescheduled the intramural season...Copy !req
760. to coincide with tax season.Copy !req
761. The guards on the opposing teams
all remembered to bring their W-2s.Copy !req
762. So Moresby Prison issued you a gun,
but you actually paid for it.Copy !req
763. Damn right. The holster too.Copy !req
764. See, that's tax-deductible.
You can write that off.Copy !req
765. Yes, sir.
Andy was a regular cottage industry.Copy !req
766. In fact, it got so busy at tax time,
he was allowed a staff.Copy !req
767. Could you hand me
a stack of 1040s?Copy !req
768. Got me out of the wood shop
a month out of the year, and that was fine.Copy !req
769. And still, he kept sending those letters.Copy !req
770. Red. Red. Andy.Copy !req
771. It's Brooks.Copy !req
772. Watch the door.Copy !req
773. Please, Brooks.Copy !req
774. - Calm the fuck down.
- Stay back!Copy !req
775. - Stay back, goddamn it!
- What's going on?Copy !req
776. You tell me. One second he's fine,
then out come the knife.Copy !req
777. Brooks. We can talk about this, right?Copy !req
778. There's nothing to talk about.
I'll cut his fucking throat.Copy !req
779. What's he done to you?Copy !req
780. It's what they done!Copy !req
781. I got no choice.Copy !req
782. Brooks, you won't hurt Heywood.
We all know that.Copy !req
783. - Right, Heywood?
- Sure. I know that.Copy !req
784. He's a friend of yours,
and Brooks is a reasonable man.Copy !req
785. - Right, guys?
- Yes.Copy !req
786. So put the knife down.
Brooks, look at me.Copy !req
787. Put the knife down. Brooks.Copy !req
788. Look at his neck, for God's sake.Copy !req
789. Look at his neck. He's bleeding.Copy !req
790. It's the only—Copy !req
791. It's the only way they'd let me stay.Copy !req
792. Come on, this is crazy.
You don't want to do this.Copy !req
793. Put it— Put it down.Copy !req
794. Hey. Hey. Take it easy.Copy !req
795. You'll be all right.Copy !req
796. Him? What about me?Copy !req
797. Crazy old fool damn near cut my throat!Copy !req
798. You've had worse from shaving.Copy !req
799. What did you do to set him off?Copy !req
800. Nothing. I come in here to say farewell.Copy !req
801. Ain't you heard?
His parole's come through.Copy !req
802. I just don't understand
what happened in there, that's all.Copy !req
803. Old man's crazy as a rat
in a tin shithouse.Copy !req
804. Oh, Heywood, that's enough out of you.Copy !req
805. - Heard he had you shitting in your pants.
- Fuck you.Copy !req
806. Knock it off.Copy !req
807. Brooks ain't no bug.Copy !req
808. He's just—Copy !req
809. He's just institutionalized.Copy !req
810. "Institutionalized," my ass.Copy !req
811. The man's been in here 50 years,
Heywood, 50 years!Copy !req
812. This is all he knows.Copy !req
813. In here, he's an important man...Copy !req
814. an educated man.Copy !req
815. Outside, he's nothing.Copy !req
816. Just a used-up con
with arthritis in both hands.Copy !req
817. Probably couldn't get a library card
if he tried.Copy !req
818. You know what I'm trying to say?Copy !req
819. I do believe
you're talking out of your ass.Copy !req
820. You believe whatever you want, Floyd.Copy !req
821. But I tell you these walls are funny.Copy !req
822. First you hate them.Copy !req
823. Then you get used to them.Copy !req
824. Enough time passes...Copy !req
825. you get so you depend on them.Copy !req
826. That's "institutionalized."Copy !req
827. - Shit. I could never get like that.
- Oh, yeah?Copy !req
828. Wait till you've been here
as long as Brooks.Copy !req
829. Goddamn right.Copy !req
830. They send you here for life...Copy !req
831. that's exactly what they take.Copy !req
832. Part that counts, anyway.Copy !req
833. I can't take care of you no more, Jake.Copy !req
834. You go on now.Copy !req
835. You're free.Copy !req
836. You're free.Copy !req
837. Bye. Joe?Copy !req
838. Good luck, Brooksie.Copy !req
839. Take care of yourself, Brooks.Copy !req
840. Dear fellas:Copy !req
841. I can't believe how fast things move
on the outside.Copy !req
842. Watch it, old-timer! Want to get killed?Copy !req
843. I saw an automobile once
when I was a kid...Copy !req
844. but now they're everywhere.Copy !req
845. The world went and got itself
in a big damn hurry.Copy !req
846. The parole board
got me into this halfway house...Copy !req
847. called "The Brewer"...Copy !req
848. and a job...Copy !req
849. bagging groceries at the Food-Way.Copy !req
850. It's hard work and I try to keep up...Copy !req
851. but my hands hurt most of the time.Copy !req
852. Make sure your man double-bags.
Last time, the bottom near came out.Copy !req
853. Make sure you double-bag
like the lady says. Understand?Copy !req
854. Yes, sir. Surely will.Copy !req
855. I don't think the store manager
likes me very much.Copy !req
856. Sometimes after work,
I go to the park and feed the birds.Copy !req
857. I keep thinking...Copy !req
858. Jake might just show up
and say hello.Copy !req
859. But he never does.Copy !req
860. I hope, wherever he is, he's doing okay
and making new friends.Copy !req
861. I have trouble sleeping at night.Copy !req
862. I have bad dreams, like I'm falling.Copy !req
863. I wake up scared.Copy !req
864. Sometimes it takes me a while
to remember where I am.Copy !req
865. Maybe I should get me a gun and rob
the Food-Way so they'd send me home.Copy !req
866. I could shoot the manager while
I was at it. Sort of like a bonus.Copy !req
867. I guess I'm too old
for that sort of nonsense anymore.Copy !req
868. I don't like it here.Copy !req
869. I'm tired of being afraid all the time.
I've decided...Copy !req
870. not to stay.Copy !req
871. I doubt they'll kick up any fuss.-.Copy !req
872. not for an old crook like me.Copy !req
873. "I doubt they'll kick up any fuss,
not for an old crook like me.Copy !req
874. P.S. Tell Heywood I'm sorry
I put a knife to his throat.Copy !req
875. No hard feelings. Brooks."Copy !req
876. He should have died in here.Copy !req
877. What the fuck have you done?Copy !req
878. It's a goddamn mess,
I'll tell you that.Copy !req
879. - What's all this?
- You tell me. They're addressed to you.Copy !req
880. Take it.Copy !req
881. "Dear Mr.Copy !req
882. In response to your repeated inquiries...Copy !req
883. the state has allocated the enclosed
funds for your library project."Copy !req
884. This is $200.Copy !req
885. "In addition, the library district
has generously responded...Copy !req
886. with a donation of used books
and sundries.Copy !req
887. We trust this will fill your needs.
We now consider the matter closed.Copy !req
888. Please stop sending us letters."Copy !req
889. I want all this cleared out
before the warden gets back.Copy !req
890. Yes, sir.Copy !req
891. Good for you, Andy.Copy !req
892. Wow.Copy !req
893. It only took six years.Copy !req
894. From now on, I'll write two
letters a week instead of one.Copy !req
895. I believe you're crazy enough.
Get this stuff out...Copy !req
896. like he said.
I've got to pinch a loaf.Copy !req
897. When I come back...Copy !req
898. this is all gone, all right?Copy !req
899. Do you hear that?Copy !req
900. Dufresne! Dufresne!Copy !req
901. Andy, let me out!Copy !req
902. I have no idea to this day what those
two Italian ladies were singing about.Copy !req
903. Truth is, I don't want to know.Copy !req
904. Some things are best left unsaid.Copy !req
905. I like to think it was something
so beautiful...Copy !req
906. it can't be expressed in words...Copy !req
907. and makes your heart ache
because of it.Copy !req
908. I tell you, those voices soared...Copy !req
909. higher and farther than anybody
in a gray place dares to dream.Copy !req
910. It was like a beautiful bird
flapped into our drab cage...Copy !req
911. and made those walls dissolve away.Copy !req
912. And for the briefest of moments.-.Copy !req
913. every last man at Shawshank felt free-Copy !req
914. It pissed the warden off
something awful.Copy !req
915. Open the door.Copy !req
916. Open it up!Copy !req
917. Dufresne, open this door!Copy !req
918. Turn that off!Copy !req
919. I am warning you. Turn that off!Copy !req
920. Dufresne.Copy !req
921. You're mine now.Copy !req
922. Andy got two weeks in the hole
for that little stunt.Copy !req
923. On your feet.Copy !req
924. - Hey, look who's here.
- Maestro!Copy !req
925. Hey.Copy !req
926. You couldn't play something good, huh?
Like Hank Williams?Copy !req
927. They broke the door down
before I could take requests.Copy !req
928. - Was it worth two weeks?
- Easiest time I ever did.Copy !req
929. No such thing as easy time in the hole.Copy !req
930. A week in the hole is like a year.Copy !req
931. - Damn straight.
- I had Mr. Mozart to keep me company.Copy !req
932. So they let you tote
that record player down there, huh?Copy !req
933. It was in here.Copy !req
934. In here.Copy !req
935. That's the beauty of music. They...Copy !req
936. can't get that from you.Copy !req
937. Haven't you ever felt
that way about music?Copy !req
938. Well, I played a mean harmonica
as a younger man.Copy !req
939. Lost interest in it, though.Copy !req
940. Didn't make much sense in here.Copy !req
941. Here's where it makes the most sense.Copy !req
942. You need it so you don't forget.Copy !req
943. Forget?Copy !req
944. Forget that there are...Copy !req
945. places...Copy !req
946. in the world
that aren't made out of stone.Copy !req
947. There's something...Copy !req
948. inside...Copy !req
949. that they can't get to...Copy !req
950. that they can't touch.Copy !req
951. That's yours.Copy !req
952. What are you talking about?Copy !req
953. Hope.Copy !req
954. Hope.Copy !req
955. Let me tell you something, my friend.Copy !req
956. Hope is a dangerous thing.Copy !req
957. Hope can drive a man insane.Copy !req
958. It's got no use on the inside.Copy !req
959. You'd better get used to that idea.Copy !req
960. Like Brooks did?Copy !req
961. Sit down.Copy !req
962. Says here that you've served
30 years of a life sentence.Copy !req
963. You feel you've been rehabilitated?Copy !req
964. Oh, yes, sir.Copy !req
965. Without a doubt.Copy !req
966. I can honestly say I'm a changed man.Copy !req
967. No danger to society here.Copy !req
968. God's honest truth.Copy !req
969. Absolutely rehabilitated.Copy !req
970. Thirty years.Copy !req
971. Jesus, when you say it like that...Copy !req
972. You wonder where it went.Copy !req
973. I wonder where 10 years went.Copy !req
974. Here.Copy !req
975. A little parole-rejection present.Copy !req
976. Go ahead and open it.Copy !req
977. Went through one of your competitors.Copy !req
978. I hope you don't mind.
I wanted it to be a surprise.Copy !req
979. It's very pretty, Andy.Copy !req
980. Thank you.Copy !req
981. You going to play it?Copy !req
982. No.Copy !req
983. Not right now.Copy !req
984. Roll in!Copy !req
985. Lights out!Copy !req
986. Andy was as good as his word.Copy !req
987. He wrote two letters a week
instead of one.Copy !req
988. In 1959, the state senate
finally clued in to the fact...Copy !req
989. they couldn't buy him off
with just a $200 check.Copy !req
990. Appropriations Committee
voted an annual payment of $500-..Copy !req
991. just to shut him up.Copy !req
992. And you'd be amazed how far
Andy could stretch it.Copy !req
993. He made deals with book clubs,
charity groups.Copy !req
994. He bought remaindered books
by the pound...Copy !req
995. "Treasure island."Copy !req
996. Robert Louis—Copy !req
997. Stevenson.Copy !req
998. Fiction, adventure.Copy !req
999. What's next?Copy !req
1000. I got here Auto Repair...Copy !req
1001. and Soap Carving.Copy !req
1002. Trade skills and hobbies.
Under "Educational," behind you.Copy !req
1003. "Count of Monte Crisco."Copy !req
1004. That's "Cristo," you dumb-shit.Copy !req
1005. By Alexandree...Copy !req
1006. Dum-ass.Copy !req
1007. Dumb-ass.Copy !req
1008. Dumb-ass?Copy !req
1009. - Dumas. Know what that's about?
- Huh.Copy !req
1010. You'd like it. It's about a prison break.Copy !req
1011. We ought to file that
under "Educational" too, oughtn't we?Copy !req
1012. The rest of us did our best
to pitch in when and where we could.Copy !req
1013. By the year Kennedy was shot...Copy !req
1014. Andy had transformed a storage room
smelling of turpentine...Copy !req
1015. into the best prison library
in New England...Copy !req
1016. complete with a fine selection
of Hank Williams.Copy !req
1017. That was also when Warden Norton...Copy !req
1018. instituted his famous
"inside Out" program.Copy !req
1019. You may remember reading about it.Copy !req
1020. It made the papers
and got his picture in Look magazine.Copy !req
1021. It's no free ride...Copy !req
1022. but rather a genuine
progressive advance...Copy !req
1023. in corrections and rehabilitation.Copy !req
1024. Our inmates, properly supervised...Copy !req
1025. will be put to work
outside these walls...Copy !req
1026. performing all manner
of public service.Copy !req
1027. These men can learn the value
of an honest day's labor...Copy !req
1028. while providing a valuable service
to the community...Copy !req
1029. and at a bare minimum of expense
to Mr. And Mrs. John Q. Taxpayer.Copy !req
1030. Of course he didn't tell the press...Copy !req
1031. that "bare minimum of expense"
is a fairly loose term.Copy !req
1032. There are 100 different ways
to skim off the top.Copy !req
1033. Men, materials, you name it.Copy !req
1034. And oh, my Lord,
how the money rolled in!Copy !req
1035. - You'll put me out of business.
- Ned.Copy !req
1036. With this pool of slave labor,
you can underbid any contractor in town.Copy !req
1037. We're providing
a valuable community service.Copy !req
1038. That's fine for the papers,
but I've got a family to feed. Sam.Copy !req
1039. We go back a long way, Sam.Copy !req
1040. I need this new highway contract.
I don't get it and I go under. That's a fact.Copy !req
1041. You have some of this fine pie...Copy !req
1042. my missus made especially for you.
You think about that.Copy !req
1043. Ned, I wouldn't worry too much
about this contract.Copy !req
1044. It seems to me I already got my boys
committed elsewhere.Copy !req
1045. You be sure and thank Maisie
for this fine pie.Copy !req
1046. And behind every shady deal...Copy !req
1047. behind every dollar earned...Copy !req
1048. there was Andy, keeping the books.Copy !req
1049. Two deposits.Copy !req
1050. Maine National and New England First.
Night drops as always, sir.Copy !req
1051. Get my stuff to the laundry. Two suits
for dry-clean and a bag of whatnot.Copy !req
1052. If they over-starch my shirts again,
they'll hear from me.Copy !req
1053. - Yes, sir.
- How do I look?Copy !req
1054. - Very nice.
- Big charity to-do up Portland way.Copy !req
1055. - Governor will be there.
- Hmm.Copy !req
1056. You want the rest of this?Copy !req
1057. Woman can't bake worth shit.Copy !req
1058. Thank you, sir.Copy !req
1059. He's got his fingers
in a lot of pies, from what I hear.Copy !req
1060. He's got scams you haven't even
dreamed of. Kickbacks on his kickbacks.Copy !req
1061. A river of dirty money
running through here.Copy !req
1062. Sooner or later, he'll have to
explain where it came from.Copy !req
1063. That's where I come in.Copy !req
1064. I channel it. Filter it. Funnel it.Copy !req
1065. Stocks, securities,
tax-free municipals.Copy !req
1066. I send it out into the real world,
and when it comes back...Copy !req
1067. - Clean as a virgin's honeypot, huh?
- Cleaner.Copy !req
1068. By the time Norton retires,
I'll have made him a millionaire.Copy !req
1069. If they ever catch on, he'll wind up
in here wearing a number himself.Copy !req
1070. I thought you had
more faith in me than that.Copy !req
1071. I know you're good,
but all that paper leaves a trail.Copy !req
1072. Now anybody gets curious—Copy !req
1073. FBI, IRS, whatever.Copy !req
1074. It'll lead to somebody.Copy !req
1075. Sure it is, but not to me,
and certainly not to the warden.Copy !req
1076. All right, who?Copy !req
1077. Randall Stevens.Copy !req
1078. Who?Copy !req
1079. The "silent" silent partner.Copy !req
1080. He's the guilty one,
the man with the bank accounts.Copy !req
1081. It's where the filtering
process starts.Copy !req
1082. They trace anything,
it'll just lead to him.Copy !req
1083. But who is he?Copy !req
1084. He's a phantom, an apparition.
Second cousin to Harvey the Rabbit.Copy !req
1085. I conjured him...Copy !req
1086. out of thin air.Copy !req
1087. He doesn't exist, except on paper.Copy !req
1088. Andy, you can't just make a person up.Copy !req
1089. Sure you can,
if you know how the system works.Copy !req
1090. It's amazing what you
can accomplish by mail.Copy !req
1091. Mr. Stevens has a birth certificate...Copy !req
1092. driver's license, Social Security number.Copy !req
1093. You're shitting me.Copy !req
1094. If they trace any accounts,
they'll wind up chasing...Copy !req
1095. a figment of my imagination.Copy !req
1096. Well, I'll be damned!Copy !req
1097. Did I say you were good?Copy !req
1098. Shit, you are Rembrandt.Copy !req
1099. The funny thing is...Copy !req
1100. on the outside, I was an honest man,
straight as an arrow.Copy !req
1101. I had to come to prison to be a crook.Copy !req
1102. Ever bother you?Copy !req
1103. I don't run the scams.
I just process the profits.Copy !req
1104. A fine line, maybe...Copy !req
1105. but I also built that library...Copy !req
1106. and used it to help guys
get their high school diploma.Copy !req
1107. Why do you think
he lets me do all that?Copy !req
1108. Keep you happy and doing the laundry.Copy !req
1109. Money instead of sheets.Copy !req
1110. Well, I work cheap.
That's the tradeoff.Copy !req
1111. Tommy Williams came
to Shawshank in 1965...Copy !req
1112. on a two-year stretch for B and E.Copy !req
1113. That's breaking and entering to you.Copy !req
1114. Cops caught him sneaking TV sets
out the back door of a JC Penney.Copy !req
1115. Young punk.Copy !req
1116. Mr. Rock 'n' Roll...Copy !req
1117. cocky as hell.Copy !req
1118. Come on, old boys.
Moving like molasses!Copy !req
1119. Making me look bad.Copy !req
1120. We liked him immediately.Copy !req
1121. I'm backing out the door
and I got the TV like this.Copy !req
1122. A big old thing. I couldn't see shit.
Then I hear this voice.Copy !req
1123. "Freeze, kid, hands in the air."Copy !req
1124. I was standing there, holding onto
that TV. Finally the voice says:Copy !req
1125. "You hear what I said, boy?"
I say, "Yes, sir. I sure did.Copy !req
1126. But if I drop this, you get me
on destruction of property too."Copy !req
1127. Hey, you done some stretch
in Cashman, right?Copy !req
1128. Yeah, that was an easy piece of time,
let me tell you.Copy !req
1129. Weekend furloughs. Work programs.Copy !req
1130. Not like here.Copy !req
1131. Sounds like you done time all over.Copy !req
1132. Yeah, I've been in and out since I was 13.Copy !req
1133. You name it, chances are I've been there.Copy !req
1134. Perhaps you should try a new profession.Copy !req
1135. What I mean is...Copy !req
1136. you're not a very good thief.
You should try something else.Copy !req
1137. Yeah, what the hell
you know about it, Capone?Copy !req
1138. What are you in for?Copy !req
1139. Me?Copy !req
1140. A lawyer fucked me.Copy !req
1141. Everybody's innocent in here.
Don't you know that?Copy !req
1142. As it turned out, Tommy had himself
a young wife and a new baby girl.Copy !req
1143. Maybe he thought of them
on the streets...Copy !req
1144. or his child growing up
not knowing her daddy.Copy !req
1145. Whatever it was...Copy !req
1146. something lit a fire
under that boy's ass.Copy !req
1147. Thought I might try for
my high school equivalency.Copy !req
1148. Hear you helped
a couple of fellas with that.Copy !req
1149. I don't waste time with losers, Tommy.Copy !req
1150. I ain't no goddamn loser.Copy !req
1151. - You mean that?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1152. You really mean that?Copy !req
1153. Yes, sir, I do.Copy !req
1154. Good. Because if we do this...Copy !req
1155. we do it all the way,
a hundred percent, nothing half-assed.Copy !req
1156. Thing is, see...Copy !req
1157. I don't read so good.Copy !req
1158. "Well."Copy !req
1159. You don't read...Copy !req
1160. so well.Copy !req
1161. We'll get to that.Copy !req
1162. So Andy took Tommy under his wing.Copy !req
1163. Started walking him through his ABC's.Copy !req
1164. Tommy took to it pretty well too.Copy !req
1165. Boy found brains he never knew he had.Copy !req
1166. Before long, Andy started him
on his course requirements.Copy !req
1167. He really liked the kid.Copy !req
1168. Gave him a thrill to help a youngster
crawl off the shit heap.Copy !req
1169. But that wasn't the only reason.Copy !req
1170. Prison time is slow time.Copy !req
1171. So you do what you can to keep going.Copy !req
1172. Some fellas collect stamps.Copy !req
1173. Others build matchstick houses.Copy !req
1174. Andy built a library.Copy !req
1175. Now he needed a new project.Copy !req
1176. Tommy was it.Copy !req
1177. It was the same reason he spent years
shaping and polishing those rocks.Copy !req
1178. The same reason he hung
his fantasy girlies on the wall.Copy !req
1179. In prison...Copy !req
1180. a man will do most anything
to keep his mind occupied.Copy !req
1181. By 1966, right about the time Tommy
was getting ready to take his exams...Copy !req
1182. it was lovely Raquel.Copy !req
1183. Time.Copy !req
1184. Well?Copy !req
1185. Well, it's for shit.Copy !req
1186. I wasted a whole year
of my time with this bullshit.Copy !req
1187. It's probably not that bad.Copy !req
1188. Yeah, I didn't get a thing right.
It might as well have been in Chinese.Copy !req
1189. Let's see how the score comes out.Copy !req
1190. Yeah, well, I'll tell you
how the goddamn score comes out.Copy !req
1191. Two points, right there!Copy !req
1192. There's your goddamn score!Copy !req
1193. Goddamn cats crawling up trees,
5 times 5 is 25...Copy !req
1194. Fuck this place!Copy !req
1195. Fuck it!Copy !req
1196. I feel bad.Copy !req
1197. I let him down.Copy !req
1198. That's crap, kid.Copy !req
1199. He's proud of you.Copy !req
1200. We're old friends,
I know him as good as anybody.Copy !req
1201. Smart fellow, ain't he?Copy !req
1202. Smart as they come.
He was a banker on the outside.Copy !req
1203. What's he in here for anyway?Copy !req
1204. Murder.Copy !req
1205. - The hell, you say.
- Hmm.Copy !req
1206. You wouldn't think it
to look at the guy.Copy !req
1207. Caught his wife in bed
with some golf pro. Greased them both.Copy !req
1208. What?Copy !req
1209. About four years ago...Copy !req
1210. I was in Thomaston
on a two-to-three stretch.Copy !req
1211. I stole a car.Copy !req
1212. It was a dumb-fuck thing to do.Copy !req
1213. About six months left to go...Copy !req
1214. I get a new cellmate in.Copy !req
1215. Elmo Blatch.Copy !req
1216. Big, twitchy fucker.Copy !req
1217. Kind of roomie you pray you don't get.
You know what I'm saying?Copy !req
1218. Six-to-twelve, armed burglary.Copy !req
1219. Said he pulled hundreds of jobs.Copy !req
1220. Hard to believe, high-strung as he was.
You cut a loud fart, he jumped three feet.Copy !req
1221. Talked all the time too.
That's the other thing. He never shut up.Copy !req
1222. Places he'd been in...Copy !req
1223. jobs he'd pulled, women he fucked.Copy !req
1224. Even people he killed.Copy !req
1225. People who "gave him shit."Copy !req
1226. That's how he put it.Copy !req
1227. So one night, like a joke...Copy !req
1228. I say to him,
"Yeah, Elmo, who did you kill?"Copy !req
1229. So he says:Copy !req
1230. I got me this job one time,
busing tables at a country club...Copy !req
1231. so I could case all these big
rich pricks that come in.Copy !req
1232. So I pick out this guy...Copy !req
1233. go in one night...Copy !req
1234. and do his place.Copy !req
1235. He wakes up...Copy !req
1236. and gives me shit.Copy !req
1237. So I killed him.Copy !req
1238. Him and this tasty bitch he was with.Copy !req
1239. And that's the best part.Copy !req
1240. She's fucking this prick, see...Copy !req
1241. this golf pro,
but she's married to some other guy.Copy !req
1242. Some hotshot banker.Copy !req
1243. And he's the one they pinned it on.Copy !req
1244. I have to say that's
the most amazing story I ever heard.Copy !req
1245. What amazes me most
is you'd be taken in by it.Copy !req
1246. Sir?Copy !req
1247. Well, it's obvious this fellow Williams
is impressed with you.Copy !req
1248. He hears your tale of woe
and naturally wants to cheer you up.Copy !req
1249. He's young, not terribly bright.Copy !req
1250. It's not surprising he wouldn't
know what a state he put you in.Copy !req
1251. Sir, he's telling the truth.Copy !req
1252. Well, let's say for the moment
this Blatch does exist.Copy !req
1253. You think he'd just fall to his knees
and cry, "Yes, I did it. I confess.Copy !req
1254. Oh, and by the way,
add a life term to my sentence."Copy !req
1255. With Tommy's testimony,
I can get a new trial.Copy !req
1256. That's assuming Blatch is even still there.Copy !req
1257. Chances are, he'd be released by now.Copy !req
1258. They'd have his last known address,
names of relatives. It's a chance, isn't it?Copy !req
1259. How can you be so obtuse?Copy !req
1260. What?Copy !req
1261. What did you call me?Copy !req
1262. Obtuse. Is it deliberate?Copy !req
1263. You're forgetting yourself.Copy !req
1264. The country club
will have his old timecards.Copy !req
1265. Records, W-2s with his name on them.Copy !req
1266. If you want to indulge this fantasy,
it's your business.Copy !req
1267. Don't make it mine.
This meeting is over.Copy !req
1268. Sir, if I got out, I'd never mention
what happens here.Copy !req
1269. I'd be as indictable as you
for laundering that money.Copy !req
1270. Don't ever mention money to me again,
you sorry son of a bitch!Copy !req
1271. Not in this office...Copy !req
1272. not anywhere. Get in here, now!Copy !req
1273. I just wanted to put you at ease,
that's all.Copy !req
1274. - Solitary. A month.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
1275. - What's the matter with you?
- Get him out of here.Copy !req
1276. This is my chance to get out!
It's my life! Don't you understand?Copy !req
1277. Get him out!Copy !req
1278. A month in the hole.Copy !req
1279. That's the longest stretch
I ever heard of.Copy !req
1280. It's all my fault.Copy !req
1281. Oh, bullshit.Copy !req
1282. You didn't pull the trigger
or convict him.Copy !req
1283. Are you saying Andy is innocent?Copy !req
1284. I mean, for real innocent?Copy !req
1285. It looks that way.Copy !req
1286. Sweet Jesus.Copy !req
1287. How long has he been here now?Copy !req
1288. 1947. What is that? Nineteen years.Copy !req
1289. - Williams, Thomas.
- Yeah, over here.Copy !req
1290. What you got?Copy !req
1291. Board of Education.Copy !req
1292. That son of a bitch mailed it.Copy !req
1293. You going to open it or stand there
with your thumb up your butt?Copy !req
1294. Thumb up my butt sounds better.Copy !req
1295. Hey, Skeet, come on.
Give me that, you shithead.Copy !req
1296. Floyd, come on.Copy !req
1297. Hey, Red.Copy !req
1298. Will you throw that away, please?Copy !req
1299. Well, shit.Copy !req
1300. The kid passed. C-plus average.Copy !req
1301. Thought you'd like to know.Copy !req
1302. Warden wants to talk.Copy !req
1303. Out here?Copy !req
1304. That's what the man said.Copy !req
1305. - Warden?
- Tommy?Copy !req
1306. Tommy, I'm asking you to keep
this conversation just between us.Copy !req
1307. I feel awkward enough as it is.Copy !req
1308. We got a situation here.Copy !req
1309. I think you can appreciate that.Copy !req
1310. Yes, sir.Copy !req
1311. I sure can.Copy !req
1312. I tell you, son, this thing really
came along and knocked my wind out.Copy !req
1313. It's got me up nights. That's the truth.Copy !req
1314. The right thing to do...Copy !req
1315. sometimes it's hard to know
what that is.Copy !req
1316. Do you understand?Copy !req
1317. I need your help, son.Copy !req
1318. If I'm going to move on this...Copy !req
1319. there can't be
the least little shred of doubt.Copy !req
1320. I have to know...Copy !req
1321. if what you told Dufresne
was the truth.Copy !req
1322. Yes, sir.Copy !req
1323. Absolutely.Copy !req
1324. Would you be willing to swear
before a judge and jury...Copy !req
1325. with your hand on the Good Book...Copy !req
1326. and take an oath
before Almighty God himself?Copy !req
1327. Just give me that chance.Copy !req
1328. That's what I thought.Copy !req
1329. I'm sure by now you've heard.Copy !req
1330. Terrible thing.Copy !req
1331. A man that young...Copy !req
1332. less than a year to go,
trying to escape.Copy !req
1333. Broke Captain Hadley's heart
to shoot him.Copy !req
1334. Truly, it did.Copy !req
1335. We just have to put it behind us.Copy !req
1336. Move on.Copy !req
1337. I'm done.Copy !req
1338. Everything stops.Copy !req
1339. Get someone else to run your scams.Copy !req
1340. Nothing stops.Copy !req
1341. Nothing.Copy !req
1342. Or you will do the hardest time there is.Copy !req
1343. No more protection from the guards.Copy !req
1344. I'll pull you out of that one-bunk Hilton
and cast you down with the sodomites.Copy !req
1345. You'll think you've been
fucked by a train.Copy !req
1346. And the library?Copy !req
1347. Gone.Copy !req
1348. Sealed off, brick by brick.Copy !req
1349. We'll have us a little
book barbecue in the yard.Copy !req
1350. They'll see the flames for miles.Copy !req
1351. We'll dance around it like wild Injuns.Copy !req
1352. You understand me? Catching my drift?Copy !req
1353. Or am I being obtuse?Copy !req
1354. Give him another month
to think about it.Copy !req
1355. My wife used to say
I'm a hard man to know.Copy !req
1356. Like a closed book.Copy !req
1357. Complained about it all the time.Copy !req
1358. She was beautiful.Copy !req
1359. God, I loved her.Copy !req
1360. I didn't know how to show it, that's all.Copy !req
1361. I killed her, Red.Copy !req
1362. I didn't pull the trigger...Copy !req
1363. but I drove her away.Copy !req
1364. That's why she died, because of me...Copy !req
1365. the way I am.Copy !req
1366. That don't make you a murderer.Copy !req
1367. Bad husband, maybe.Copy !req
1368. Feel bad about it if you want,
but you didn't pull the trigger.Copy !req
1369. No, I didn't.Copy !req
1370. Somebody else did.Copy !req
1371. And I wound up in here.Copy !req
1372. Bad luck, I guess.Copy !req
1373. - Yeah.
- It floats around.Copy !req
1374. It's got to land on somebody.Copy !req
1375. It was my turn, that's all.Copy !req
1376. I was in the path of the tornado.Copy !req
1377. I just didn't expect the storm
would last as long as it has.Copy !req
1378. Think you'll ever get out of here?Copy !req
1379. Me?Copy !req
1380. Yeah.Copy !req
1381. One day, when I got
a long, white beard...Copy !req
1382. and two or three marbles rolling
around upstairs, they'll let me out.Copy !req
1383. I tell you where I'd go.Copy !req
1384. Zihuatanejo.Copy !req
1385. Say what?Copy !req
1386. Zihuatanejo.Copy !req
1387. It's in Mexico.Copy !req
1388. A little place on the Pacific Ocean.Copy !req
1389. You know what the Mexicans say
about the Pacific?Copy !req
1390. - No.
- They say it has no memory.Copy !req
1391. That's where I want to live
the rest of my life.Copy !req
1392. A warm place with no memory.Copy !req
1393. Open up a little hotel...Copy !req
1394. right on the beach.Copy !req
1395. Buy some worthless old boat...Copy !req
1396. and fix it up new.Copy !req
1397. Take my guests out...Copy !req
1398. charter fishing.Copy !req
1399. Zihuatanejo.Copy !req
1400. In a place like that, I could use
a man that knows how to get things.Copy !req
1401. I don't think I could make it
on the outside, Andy.Copy !req
1402. I been in here most of my life.Copy !req
1403. I'm an institutional man now.Copy !req
1404. Just like Brooks was.Copy !req
1405. Well, you underestimate yourself.Copy !req
1406. I don't think so.Copy !req
1407. In here I'm the guy who can get things
for you, sure, but...Copy !req
1408. outside all you need
is the Yellow Pages.Copy !req
1409. Hell, I wouldn't know
where to begin.Copy !req
1410. Pacific Ocean?Copy !req
1411. Shit.Copy !req
1412. Scare me to death, something that big.Copy !req
1413. Not me.Copy !req
1414. I didn't shoot my wife,
and I didn't shoot her lover.Copy !req
1415. Whatever mistakes I made,
I've paid for them and then some.Copy !req
1416. That hotel, that boat...Copy !req
1417. I don't think that's too much to ask.Copy !req
1418. You shouldn't be doing this to yourself.Copy !req
1419. This is just shitty pipe dreams.Copy !req
1420. Mexico is way down there
and you're in here...Copy !req
1421. and that's the way it is.Copy !req
1422. Yeah, right. That's the way it is.Copy !req
1423. It's down there and I'm in here.Copy !req
1424. I guess it comes down
to a simple choice.Copy !req
1425. Get busy living...Copy !req
1426. or get busy dying.Copy !req
1427. Andy.Copy !req
1428. Red?Copy !req
1429. If you ever get out of here,
do me a favor.Copy !req
1430. Sure, Andy. Anything.Copy !req
1431. There's a big hayfield up near Buxton.
You know where Buxton is?Copy !req
1432. - A lot of hayfields up there.
- One in particular.Copy !req
1433. It's got a long rock wall
with a big oak tree at the north end.Copy !req
1434. It's like something
out of a Robert Frost poem.Copy !req
1435. It's where I asked my wife to marry me.Copy !req
1436. We went there for a picnic...Copy !req
1437. and made love under that oak...Copy !req
1438. and I asked and she said yes.Copy !req
1439. Promise me, Red.Copy !req
1440. If you ever get out...Copy !req
1441. find that spot.Copy !req
1442. At the base of that wall, there's a rock
that has no earthly business in Maine.Copy !req
1443. Piece of black, volcanic glass.Copy !req
1444. Something's buried under it
I want you to have.Copy !req
1445. What, Andy?Copy !req
1446. What's buried under there?Copy !req
1447. You'll have to pry it up...Copy !req
1448. to see.Copy !req
1449. No, I'm telling you. The guy is...Copy !req
1450. He's talking funny.Copy !req
1451. I'm really worried about him.Copy !req
1452. Let's keep an eye on him.Copy !req
1453. That's fine during the day,
but at night he's all alone.Copy !req
1454. Oh, Lord.Copy !req
1455. What?Copy !req
1456. Andy come down
to the loading dock today.Copy !req
1457. He asked me for a length of rope.Copy !req
1458. - Rope?
- Six feet long.Copy !req
1459. And you gave it to him.Copy !req
1460. Sure I did. Why wouldn't I?Copy !req
1461. Jesus! Heywood.Copy !req
1462. How was I supposed to know?Copy !req
1463. Remember Brooks Hatlen?Copy !req
1464. No. Andy would never do that.Copy !req
1465. Never.Copy !req
1466. I don't know.Copy !req
1467. Every man has his breaking point.Copy !req
1468. Lickety-split. Want to get home.Copy !req
1469. Just about finished, sir.Copy !req
1470. Three deposits tonight.Copy !req
1471. Get my stuff down to the laundry.Copy !req
1472. And shine my shoes.Copy !req
1473. - I want them looking like mirrors.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
1474. It's good having you back, Andy.Copy !req
1475. Place wasn't the same without you.Copy !req
1476. Lights out!Copy !req
1477. I've had some long nights in the stir.Copy !req
1478. Alone in the dark
with nothing but your thoughts...Copy !req
1479. time can draw out like a blade.Copy !req
1480. That was the longest night of my life.Copy !req
1481. Give me a count!Copy !req
1482. Tier 3 south, clear!Copy !req
1483. Man missing on tier 2, cell 245!Copy !req
1484. Dufresne!Copy !req
1485. Come out. You're holding up the show!Copy !req
1486. Don't make me come down
or I'll thump your skull for you!Copy !req
1487. Damn it, you're putting me behind!
I got a schedule to keep.Copy !req
1488. You'd better be sick or dead in there.
I shit you not!Copy !req
1489. You hear me?Copy !req
1490. Oh, my Holy God.Copy !req
1491. I want every man
on this cellblock questioned.Copy !req
1492. - Start with that friend of his.
- Who?Copy !req
1493. Him.Copy !req
1494. Open 237.Copy !req
1495. What do you mean, "He just wasn't here"?
Don't say that to me.Copy !req
1496. - Don't say that to me again.
- But, sir, he wasn't.Copy !req
1497. I can see that, Haig! Think I'm blind?Copy !req
1498. Is that what you're saying?Copy !req
1499. - Am I blind, Haig?
- No, sir!Copy !req
1500. What about you. You blind?Copy !req
1501. - Tell me what this is.
- Last night's count.Copy !req
1502. Uh-huh. You see Dufresne's name there?
I sure do. Right there.Copy !req
1503. "Dufresne."Copy !req
1504. He was in his cell at lights out.Copy !req
1505. Stands to reason he'd still be here
in the morning.Copy !req
1506. I want him found.Copy !req
1507. Not tomorrow, not after breakfast. Now!Copy !req
1508. Yes, sir.Copy !req
1509. Let's go. Move your butts. Move it!Copy !req
1510. Stand.Copy !req
1511. Well?Copy !req
1512. Well, what?Copy !req
1513. I see you two all the time.
You're thick as thieves, you are.Copy !req
1514. He must have said something.Copy !req
1515. No, sir, warden. Not a word.Copy !req
1516. Lord, it's a miracle!Copy !req
1517. Man vanished like a fart in the wind.Copy !req
1518. Nothing left...Copy !req
1519. but some damn rocks
on a windowsill.Copy !req
1520. And that cupcake on the wall.
Let's ask her.Copy !req
1521. Maybe she knows.Copy !req
1522. What say there, fuzzy-britches?
Feel like talking?Copy !req
1523. Oh, guess not.Copy !req
1524. Why should she be any different?Copy !req
1525. This is a conspiracy.Copy !req
1526. That's what this is.Copy !req
1527. One big, damn conspiracy!Copy !req
1528. And everyone's in on it!Copy !req
1529. Including her!Copy !req
1530. In 1966...Copy !req
1531. Andy Dufresne escaped..-Copy !req
1532. from Shawshank Prison.Copy !req
1533. All they found of him
was a muddy set of prison clothes...Copy !req
1534. a bar of soap...Copy !req
1535. and an old rock hammer...Copy !req
1536. damn near worn down to the nub.Copy !req
1537. I remember thinking it would take a man
600 years to tunnel through the wall with it.Copy !req
1538. Old Andy did it in less than 20-Copy !req
1539. Oh, Andy loved geology-Copy !req
1540. I imagine it appealed to
his meticulous nature.Copy !req
1541. An ice age here...Copy !req
1542. million years
of mountain-building there.Copy !req
1543. Geology is the study
of pressure and time.Copy !req
1544. That's all it takes, really.Copy !req
1545. Pressure...Copy !req
1546. and time.Copy !req
1547. That and a big goddamn poster.Copy !req
1548. Like I said...Copy !req
1549. in prison, a man will do anything
to keep his mind occupied.Copy !req
1550. Seems Andy's favorite hobby was toting
his wall out into the exercise yard...Copy !req
1551. a handful at a time.Copy !req
1552. I guess after Tommy was killed..-Copy !req
1553. Andy decided
he'd been here just about long enough.Copy !req
1554. Lickety-split. Want to get home.Copy !req
1555. I'm just about finished, sir.Copy !req
1556. Three deposits tonight.Copy !req
1557. Andy did like he was told.Copy !req
1558. Buffed those shoes
to a high mirror-shine.Copy !req
1559. The guards simply didn't notice.Copy !req
1560. Neither did I.Copy !req
1561. I mean, seriously...Copy !req
1562. how often do you really look
at a man's shoes?Copy !req
1563. Andy crawled to freedom
through 500 yards...Copy !req
1564. of shit-smelling foulness
I can't even imagine.Copy !req
1565. Or maybe I just don't want to-Copy !req
1566. Five hundred yards.Copy !req
1567. That's the length
of five football fields.Copy !req
1568. Just shy of half a mile-Copy !req
1569. The next morning, right about the time
Raquel was spilling her little secret...Copy !req
1570. a man nobody ever
laid eyes on before...Copy !req
1571. strolled into
the Maine National Bank.Copy !req
1572. Until that moment, he didn't exist.Copy !req
1573. - Except on paper.
- May I help you?Copy !req
1574. He had all the proper ID—Copy !req
1575. Driver's license, birth certificate,
Social Security card.Copy !req
1576. And the signature
was a spot-on match.Copy !req
1577. I must say I'm sorry
to be losing your business.Copy !req
1578. I hope you'll enjoy living abroad.Copy !req
1579. Thank you.Copy !req
1580. I'm sure I will.Copy !req
1581. Here's your cashier's check, sir.
Will there be anything else?Copy !req
1582. Please.Copy !req
1583. Would you add this
to your outgoing mail?Copy !req
1584. I'd be happy to.Copy !req
1585. Good day, sir.Copy !req
1586. Mr. Stevens visited nearly
a dozen banks in the Portland area.Copy !req
1587. All told, he blew town...Copy !req
1588. with better than $370,000
of Warden Norton's money.Copy !req
1589. Severance pay for 19 years-Copy !req
1590. Good morning, Portland Daily Bugle.Copy !req
1591. Byron Hadley?
You have the right to remain silent.Copy !req
1592. If you give up this right, anything you
say can be held against you in court.Copy !req
1593. I wasn't there to see it, but I hear
Byron Hadley sobbed like a little girl...Copy !req
1594. when they took him away.Copy !req
1595. Norton had no intention
of going that quietly.Copy !req
1596. Samuel Norton.Copy !req
1597. We have a warrant for your arrest.
Open up.Copy !req
1598. Norton. Open the door.Copy !req
1599. I'm not sure which key.Copy !req
1600. Norton!Copy !req
1601. Make it easy on yourself, Norton!Copy !req
1602. I like to think the last thing
that went through his head...Copy !req
1603. other than that bullet...Copy !req
1604. was to wonder how the hell
Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him.Copy !req
1605. Not long after the warden
deprived us of his company...Copy !req
1606. I got a postcard in the mail.Copy !req
1607. It was blank, but the postmark said...Copy !req
1608. Fort Hancock, Texas.Copy !req
1609. Fort Hancock...Copy !req
1610. right on the border.Copy !req
1611. That's where Andy crossed.Copy !req
1612. When I picture him heading south
in his own car with the top down...Copy !req
1613. it always makes me laugh.Copy !req
1614. Andy Dufresne..-Copy !req
1615. who crawled through
a river of shit...Copy !req
1616. and came out clean
on the other side.Copy !req
1617. Andy Dufresne..-Copy !req
1618. headed for the Pacific.Copy !req
1619. Hadley's got him
by the throat, right?Copy !req
1620. He says, "I believe this boy's
about to have himself an accident."Copy !req
1621. Those of us who knew him best
talk about him often.Copy !req
1622. I swear, the stuff he pulled...Copy !req
1623. "My friends could use
a couple of beers."Copy !req
1624. And he got it!Copy !req
1625. Sometimes it makes me sad, though...Copy !req
1626. Andy being gone.Copy !req
1627. I have to remind myself that
some birds aren't meant to be caged.Copy !req
1628. Their feathers are just too bright.Copy !req
1629. And when they fly away...Copy !req
1630. the part of you that knows it was
a sin to lock them up does rejoice.Copy !req
1631. But still...Copy !req
1632. the place you live in is that much
more drab and empty that they're gone.Copy !req
1633. I guess I just miss my friend.Copy !req
1634. Please sit down.Copy !req
1635. Ellis Boyd Redding...Copy !req
1636. your files say you've served
40 years of a life sentence.Copy !req
1637. You feel you've been rehabilitated?Copy !req
1638. Rehabilitated?Copy !req
1639. Well, now, let me see.Copy !req
1640. I don't have any idea what that means.Copy !req
1641. It means you're ready
to rejoin society—Copy !req
1642. I know what you think it means, sonny.Copy !req
1643. To me it's just a made-up word.Copy !req
1644. A politician's word so that...Copy !req
1645. young fellas like yourself
can wear a suit and a tie...Copy !req
1646. and have a job.Copy !req
1647. What do you really want to know?Copy !req
1648. Am I sorry for what I did?Copy !req
1649. Well, are you?Copy !req
1650. There's not a day goes by
I don't feel regret.Copy !req
1651. Not because I'm in here
or because you think I should.Copy !req
1652. I look back on the way I was then...Copy !req
1653. a young...Copy !req
1654. stupid kid who committed
that terrible crime.Copy !req
1655. I want to talk to him.Copy !req
1656. I want to try
and talk some sense to him.Copy !req
1657. Tell him the way things are.Copy !req
1658. But I can't.Copy !req
1659. That kid's long gone...Copy !req
1660. and this old man is all that's left.Copy !req
1661. I got to live with that.Copy !req
1662. Rehabilitated?Copy !req
1663. It's just a bullshit word.Copy !req
1664. So you go on and stamp your forms,
sonny, and stop wasting my time.Copy !req
1665. Because to tell you the truth...Copy !req
1666. I don't give a shit.Copy !req
1667. Here you go, miss.Copy !req
1668. Restroom break, boss?Copy !req
1669. You don't need to ask me every time you
need to go take a piss. Just go. Understand?Copy !req
1670. Yes, sir.Copy !req
1671. Forty years I've been asking
permission to piss.Copy !req
1672. I can't squeeze a drop without say-so.Copy !req
1673. There's a harsh truth to face-Copy !req
1674. No way I'm going to make it
on the outside.Copy !req
1675. All I do anymore is think of ways
to break my parole...Copy !req
1676. so maybe they'd send me back.Copy !req
1677. Terrible thing, to live in fear.Copy !req
1678. Brooks Hatlen knew it.Copy !req
1679. Knew it all too well.Copy !req
1680. All I want is to be back
where things make sense.Copy !req
1681. Where I won't have to be afraid
all the time.Copy !req
1682. Only one thing stops me-Copy !req
1683. A promise I made to Andy.Copy !req
1684. There it is.Copy !req
1685. Much obliged, sir.Copy !req
1686. Dear Red:Copy !req
1687. If you're reading this,
you've gotten out...Copy !req
1688. and if you've come this far,
maybe you're willing to come a little further.Copy !req
1689. You remember the name
of the town, don't you?Copy !req
1690. Zihuatanejo.Copy !req
1691. I could use a good man
to help me get my project on wheels.Copy !req
1692. I'll keep an eye out for you,
and the chessboard ready.Copy !req
1693. Remember, Red...Copy !req
1694. hope is a good thing...Copy !req
1695. maybe the best of things.Copy !req
1696. And no good thing ever dies.Copy !req
1697. I will be hoping
that this letter finds you...Copy !req
1698. and finds you well-Copy !req
1699. Your friend...Copy !req
1700. Andy.Copy !req
1701. "Get busy living...Copy !req
1702. or get busy dying."Copy !req
1703. That's goddamn right.Copy !req
1704. For the second time in my life...Copy !req
1705. I'm guilty of committing a crime-Copy !req
1706. Parole Violation.Copy !req
1707. Of course, I doubt they'll toss up
any roadblocks for that.Copy !req
1708. Not for an old crook like me.Copy !req
1709. Fort Hancock, Texas, please.Copy !req
1710. I find I'm so excited I can barely
sit still or hold a thought in my head.Copy !req
1711. I think it's the excitement
only a free man can feel.Copy !req
1712. A free man at the start
of a long journey...Copy !req
1713. whose conclusion is uncertain.Copy !req
1714. I hope I can make it across the border.Copy !req
1715. I hope to see my friend
and shake his hand.Copy !req
1716. I hope the Pacific is as blue
as it has been in my dreams.Copy !req
1717. I hope.Copy !req