Mr .Dufresne, describe the confrontation you had with your wife the night she was murdered .
It was very bitter .
She said she was glad I knew, that she hated all the sneaking around .
And she said that she wanted a divorce in Reno .
- What was your response? - I told her I would not grant one .
"I'll see you in hell before I see you in Reno .
" Those were your words,according to your neighbors .
If they say so .
I really don't remember .
I was upset .
What happened after you argued with your wife? She packed a bag .
She packed a bag to go and stay with Mr .Quentin .
Glenn Quentin, golf pro at the Snowden Hills Country Club whom you had discovered was your wife's lover .
Did you follow her? I went to a few bars first .
Later, I drove to his house to confront them .
They weren't home .
I parked in the turnout and waited .
With what intention? I'm not sure .
I was confused drunk .
I think mostly I wanted to scare them .
When they arrived, you went up to the house and murdered them .
I was sobering up .
I got back in the car and I drove home to sleep it off .
Along the way, I threw my gun into the Royal River .
I've been very clear on this point .
I get hazy where the cleaning woman shows up the following morning and finds your wife in bed with her lover riddled with .
38-caliber bullets .
Does that strike you as a fantastic coincidence, or is it just me? Yes, it does .
Yet you still maintain you threw your gun into the river before the murders took place .
That's very convenient .
It's the truth .
The police dragged that river for three days, and nary a gun was found so no comparison could be made between your gun and the bullets taken from the bloodstained corpses of the victims .
And that also is very convenient .
Isn't it, Mr .Dufresne? Since I am innocent of this crime I find it decidedly inconvenient that the gun was never found .
Ladies and gentlemen, you've heard all the evidence .
We have the accused at the scene of the crime .
We have footprints .
Bullets on the ground bearing his fingerprints .
A broken bourbon bottle, likewise with fingerprints .
And most of all we have a beautiful young woman and her lover lying dead in each other's arms .
They had sinned .
But was their crime so great as to merit a death sentence? While you think about that think about this: A revolver holds six bullets, not eight .
I submit that this was not a hot-blooded crime of passion .
That at least could be understood, if not condoned .
No .
This was revenge of a much more brutal, cold-blooded nature .
Consider this: Four bullets per victim .
Not six shots fired, but eight .
That means that he fired the gun empty and then stopped to reload so that he could shoot each of them again .
An extra bullet per lover right in the head .
You strike me as a particularly icy and remorseless man, Mr .
Dufresne .
It chills my blood just to look at you .
By the power vested in me by the state of Maine I hereby order you to serve two life sentences back-to-back one for each of your victims .
So be it! Sit .
We see you've served - Yes, sir .
- You feel you've been rehabilitated? 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 .
Get out of my face, man! You're into me for five packs already .
Four! 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 bottle of brandy to celebrate your kid's high school graduation .
Damn near anything within reason .
Yes, sir! I'm a regular Sears and Roebuck .
So when Andy Dufresne came to me in 1949 and asked me to smuggle Rita Hayworth into the prison for him I told him, "No problem .
" Andy came to Shawshank Prison in early 1947 for murdering his wife and the fella she was banging .
On the outside, he'd been vice president of a large Portland bank .
Good work for a man so young .
You speak English, butt-steak? You follow this officer .
I never seen such a sorry-looking heap of maggot shit in all my life .
Hey, fish! Come over here! Taking 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 .
He'll be first .
- Bullshit! I'll take that action .
You're out some smokes, son .
If you're so smart, you call it .
I'll take that chubby fat-ass there .
The fifth one .
Put me down for a quarter deck .
Fresh fish today! We're reeling them in! I admit I didn't think much of Andy first time I laid eyes on him .
Looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over .
That was my first impression of the man .
What do you say? That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass .
That guy? Never happen .
-10 cigarettes .
- That's a rich bet .
Who's going to prove me wrong? Heywood? Jigger? Skeets? Floyd! Four brave souls .
Return to your cellblocks for evening count .
All prisoners, return to your cellblocks .
Turn to the right! Eyes front .
This is Mr .
Hadley .
He's 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 other rules you'll figure out as you go along .
Any questions? When do we eat? You eat when we say you eat .
You shit when we say you shit, and piss when we say you piss .
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 .
Left .
The first night's the toughest .
No doubt about it .
They march you in naked as the day you were born skin burning and half-blind from that delousing shit .
And when they put you in that cell and those bars slam home that's when you know it's for real .
Old life blown away in the blink of an eye .
Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it .
Most new fish come close to madness the first night .
Somebody always breaks down crying .
Happens every time .
The only question is who's it going to be? It's 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 .
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 you what I'll introduce you around, make you feel right at home .
I know a couple of big old bull queers that'd just love 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 horseshit? He blasphemed .
I'll tell the warden .
You'll tell him with my baton up your ass! Let me out! What is your malfunction, you fat barrel of monkey spunk? Please! I ain't supposed to be here .
Not me! I won't count to three .
Not even to one .
You shut up, or I'll sing you a lullaby! Shut up, 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! If I hear so much as a mouse fart in here tonight I swear by God and Jesus, you will all visit the infirmary .
Every last motherfucker in here .
Call the trustees .
Take that tub of shit down to the infirmary .
His first night in the joint, Dufresne cost me two packs of cigarettes .
He never made a sound .
Tier 3 north, clear count! Tier 2 north, clear count .
Tier 3 south, clear .
Prepare to roll out .
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! Here he comes .
Morning, fellas .
Fine morning, isn't it? You know why it's a fine morning, don't you? Send them down .
I want them lined up just like a pretty little chorus line .
Look at that .
- I can't stand this guy .
- Oh, Lord! Yes! Richmond, Virginia .
Smell my ass! After he smells mine .
That's a shame about your horse coming in last and all .
But I sure do love that winning horse of mine, though .
I owe that boy a big kiss when I see him .
Why don't you give him some of your cigarettes instead? Lucky fuck! Hey, Tyrell .
You pull infirmary duty this week? How's my horse doing anyway? Dead .
Hadley busted his head up pretty good .
Doc had gone home for the night .
Poor bastard lay there till this morning .
By then, there wasn't nothing we could do .
What was his name? What'd you say? I was just wondering if anyone knew his name .
What the fuck do 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 to you .
Hard to get .
I like that .
Andy kept pretty much to himself at first .
I guess he had a lot on his mind trying to adapt to life on the inside .
Wasn't until a month went by before he opened his mouth to say more than two words to somebody .
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 going to fit right in .
Everybody in here's innocent .
Didn't you know that? - What you in here for? - Didn't do it .
Lawyer fucked me .
Rumor has it you're a real cold fish .
You think your shit smells sweeter than most .
Is that right? What do you think? To 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 .
I wonder if you might get me a rock hammer .
A rock hammer .
- What is it and why? - What do you care? For a toothbrush, I wouldn't ask .
I'd quote a price .
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 .
Quartz? And some mica, shale limestone .
So? So I'm a rock hound .
At least I was in my old life .
I'd like to be again .
Or maybe you'd like to sink your toy into somebody's skull .
No, I have no enemies here .
No? Wait a while .
Word gets around .
The Sisters have taken quite a liking to you .
Especially Bogs .
Don't suppose it would help if I told them I'm not homosexual .
Neither are they .
You have to be human first .
They don't qualify .
Bull queers take by force .
That's all they want or understand .
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 trouble, I won't use the rock hammer .
Then I'd guess you want to escape .
Tunnel under the wall, maybe .
What did I miss? 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 20 percent .
But this is a specialty item .
Risk goes up, price goes up .
Let's make it an even 10 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 .
.
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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 .
He strolled like a man in the park without a care or a worry in the world .
Like he had on an invisible coat that would shield him from this place .
I think it'd 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! How you doing? How's the wife treating you? Andy was right .
I finally got the joke .
It would take a man about 600 years to tunnel under the wall with one of these .
- Book? - Not today .
Book? Delivery for Dufresne .
Here's your book .
Thanks .
We're running low on hexite .
Get on back and fetch us up some .
This will blind you .
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 .
I do believe those first two years were the worst for him .
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 1949 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 and May is one damned fine month to be working outdoors .
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 called .
Andrew Dufresne .
It only cost us a pack of smokes per man .
I made my usual 20 percent, of course .
So this big-shot lawyer calls me long-distance from Texas .
I say, "Yeah?" He says, "Sorry to inform you, but your brother just died .
" - I'm sorry to hear that .
- I'm not .
He was an asshole .
Ran off years ago .
Figured him for dead .
So this lawyer fellow says to me: "He died a rich man .
" Oil wells and shit .
Close to a million bucks .
A million bucks? - Incredible how lucky some assholes get .
- You going to see any of that? Thirty-five thousand .
That's what he left me .
Dollars? That's great! That's like winning the sweepstakes .
Isn't it? Dumb shit, what do you think the government will do to me? 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, are you nuts? Keep your eyes on your mop, man! You'll pay some tax, but you'll still end up- Yeah, maybe enough to buy a new car, and then what? I got to pay tax on the car .
Repair maintenance, kids pestering you to take them for a ride all the time .
Then if you figure your tax wrong, you pay out of your own pocket .
I tell you! Uncle Sam! He puts his hand in your shirt and squeezes your tit till it's purple .
- Getting himself killed .
- Keep tarring .
Some brother .
Shit! Mr .
Hadley do you trust your wife? Oh, that's funny .
You'll look funnier sucking my dick with no teeth .
What I mean is, do you think she'd go behind your back? Step aside, Mert .
This fucker's having himself an accident .
He'll push him off! If you trust her, you can keep that 35,000 .
- What did you say? - Thirty-five thousand .
All of it .
- Every penny .
- You better start making sense .
If you want to keep it, give it to your wife .
The IRS allows a one-time-only gift to your spouse for up to $60,000 .
- Bullshit .
Tax-free? - Tax-free .
IRS can't touch one cent .
You're that smart banker that killed his wife .
Why should I believe you? So I can end up in here with you? It's legal .
Ask the IRS .
They'll say the same thing .
I feel stupid telling you this .
I'm sure you would have investigated .
I don't need you to tell me where the bear shit in the buckwheat .
Of course not .
But you do need someone to set it up for you .
That'll cost you .
A lawyer .
A bunch of ball-washing bastards! I suppose I could set it up for you .
That would save you some money .
You get the forms, I'll prepare them nearly free of charge .
I'd only ask three beers apiece for each of my coworkers .
"Coworkers .
" That's rich! A man working outdoors feels more like a man if he can have a bottle of suds .
That's only my opinion sir .
What are you jimmies staring at? Let's go! Work! And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job the convict crew that tarred the factory roof in the spring of '49 wound up sitting in a row at 10:00 in the morning drinking icy-cold beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison .
Drink up while it's cold, ladies .
The colossal prick even managed to sound magnanimous .
We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men .
We could have been tarring the roof of one of our own houses .
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? No, thanks .
I gave up drinking .
You could argue he done it to curry favor with the guards .
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 .
Let me teach you someday .
Sure .
We could get a board together .
You're talking to the right man .
I can get things, right? We might do business on a board, and I'll carve the pieces myself .
One side in alabaster, one in soapstone .
What do you think? 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 .
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 .
Quite a surprise to hear a woman singing in my house, eh? That's quite a surprise .
Wait, wait .
Here she comes .
I like this part when she does that shit with her hair .
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 .
I'm known to locate certain things from time to time .
What do you want? - Rita Hayworth .
- What? Can you get her? So this is Johnny Farrel .
I've heard a lot about you .
- Take a few weeks .
- Weeks? I don't have her stuffed down the front of my pants right now, sorry to say .
But I'll get her .
Relax .
Thanks .
- Get out! - I got to change 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 .
Then you'll swallow Rooster's .
You broke his nose .
He ought to have something to show for it .
You put it in my mouth, you lose it .
No, you don't understand .
Do that and I'll put all eight inches of this in your ear .
All right, but you should know that sudden, serious brain injury 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 .
They transferred him to a minimum-security hospital upstate .
To my knowledge, he lived out the rest of his days drinking his food through a straw .
Andy could use a nice welcome back when he gets out of the infirmary .
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! Heywood, that isn't soapstone! And it ain't alabaster either .
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! Despite a few hitches, the boys came through in fine style .
And by the weekend he was due back we had enough rocks saved up to keep him busy till rapture .
Also got a big shipment in that week .
Cigarettes chewing gum sipping whisky 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 ye know not when the master of the house cometh .
" Mark 13:35 .
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 8, verse 12 .
I hear you're good with numbers .
How nice .
Man should have a skill .
Explain this .
It's called a rock blanket .
It's for shaping and polishing rocks .
A little hobby of mine .
It's pretty clean .
Some contraband here, but nothing to get in a twist over .
I can't say I approve of this .
But I suppose 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 the laundry? No, sir .
Not especially .
Perhaps we can find something more befitting a man of your education .
Hey, Jake .
Where's Brooks? 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 .
Easy, peasy, Japanese-y .
- Any questions? - How long have you been librarian? I come here in '05, and they made me librarian in 1912 .
And have you ever had an assistant? No .
Not much to it, really .
Why me? Why now? I don't know .
But it'd be nice to have some company down here .
That's him .
That's the one .
I'm Dekins .
I was thinking about setting up some kind of trust fund for my kids' educations .
I see .
Why don't we have a seat and talk it over .
Do you have a piece of paper and a pencil? Thanks .
So .
.
.
Mister 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 as my witness! Dekins blinked for a second then he laughed and actually shook Andy's hand .
- My ass! - Shook his hand .
I tell you, I near soiled myself! All he needed was a suit and tie and a jiggly hula gal on his desk he'd have been "Mr .
Dufresne," if you please .
Making a few friends? I wouldn't say "friends .
" I'm a convicted murderer who provides sound financial planning .
It's a wonderful pet to have .
Got you out of the laundry, though .
It might do more than that .
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 .
" I'll ask the warden for funds .
Six wardens have been through here in my tenure, and I've learned one immutable, universal truth: Not one born whose asshole wouldn't pucker up tighter than a snare drum when you ask for funds .
- The budget's stretched thin as it is .
- I see .
Maybe I could write the state senate and request funds from them .
They have only three ways to spend the taxpayers' money for prisons: More walls, more bars, more guards .
I'd like to try, with permission .
A letter a week .
- 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 like Norton said Andy got no answers .
The following April, he did tax returns for half the guards at Shawshank .
Year after that, he did them all including the warden's .
Year after that, they rescheduled the intramural season to coincide with tax season .
The guards on the opposing teams all remembered to bring their W-2s .
So Moresby Prison issued you a gun, but you paid for it .
Right .
The holster too .
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 .
Could you hand me a stack of 1040s? Got me out of the wood shop a month out of the year, and that was fine by me .
And still, he kept sending those letters .
It's Brooks .
Watch the door .
Please, Brooks .
- Calm the fuck down .
- Stay back! - Stay back, goddamn it! - What's going on? One second he's fine, then out come the knives .
We can talk about this, right? There's nothing to talk about .
I'll cut his fucking throat .
What's he done to you? It's what they done! I got no choice .
You won't hurt Heywood .
We all know that .
- Right, Heywood? - Sure .
He's a friend of yours, and Brooks is a reasonable man .
Right, guys? So put the knife down .
Look at me .
Put the knife down .
Look at his neck, for God's sake .
Look at his neck .
He's bleeding .
It's the only way they'd let me stay .
This is crazy .
You don't want to do this .
Put it, put it down .
Take it easy .
You'll be all right .
Him? What about me? Crazy old fool damn near cut my throat! You've had worse from shaving .
What did you do to set him off? Nothing .
I come in here to say farewell .
Ain't you heard? His parole's come through .
I just don't understand what happened in there .
Old man's crazy as a rat in a tin shithouse .
That's enough out of you .
- Heard he had you shitting your pants .
- Fuck you .
Knock it off .
Brooks ain't no bug .
He's just institutionalized .
"Institutionalized," my ass .
The man's been in here 50 years, Heywood, 50 years! This is all he knows .
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? I do believe you're talking out of your ass .
You believe whatever you want .
But I tell you these walls are funny .
First you hate them .
Then you get used to them .
Enough time passes you get so you depend on them .
That's "institutionalized .
" Shit .
- I could never get like that .
- Oh, yeah? Wait till you've been here as long as Brooks .
Goddamn right .
They send you here for life 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 .
Last time, the bottom near came out .
Make sure you double-bag like the lady says .
Understand? Yes, sir .
Surely will .
I don't think the store manager likes me very much .
Sometimes after work, I go to the park and feed the birds .
I keep thinking Jake might just show up and say hello .
But he never does .
I hope, wherever he is, he's doing okay and making new friends .
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 .
Maybe I should get a gun and rob the Food-Way so they'd send me home .
I could shoot the manager while I was at it .
Sort of like a bonus .
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've decided not to stay .
I doubt they'll kick up any fuss not for an old crook like me .
"I doubt they'll kick up any fuss, not for an old crook like me .
P .
S .
Tell Heywood I'm sorry I put a knife to his throat .
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 .
- What's all this? - You tell me .
They're addressed to you .
Take it .
"Dear Mr .
Dufresne: In response to your inquiries the state has allocated the enclosed funds for your library project .
" This is $200 .
"In addition, the library district has generously responded with a donation of used books and sundries .
We trust this will fill your needs .
We now consider the matter closed .
Please stop sending us letters .
" Clear all this out before the warden gets back .
Yes, sir .
Good for you, Andy .
Wow! It only took six years .
From now on, I'll write two letters a week instead of one .
I believe you're crazy enough .
Get this stuff out like he said .
I've got to pinch a loaf .
When I come back this is all gone, all right? Do you hear that? Dufresne! Andy, let me out! I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about .
Truth is, I don't want to know .
Some things are best left unsaid .
I like to think it was something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words and makes your heart ache because of it .
I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream .
It was like a beautiful bird flapped into our drab cage and made those walls dissolve away .
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 .
Turn that off! You're mine now .
Andy got two weeks in the hole for that little stunt .
On your feet .
- Hey, look who's here .
- Maestro! You couldn't play something good, huh? Like Hank Williams? They broke the door down before I could take requests .
- Was it worth two weeks? - Easiest time I ever did .
- No such thing as easy time in the hole .
- A week in the hole is like a year .
- Damn straight .
- I had Mr .
Mozart to keep me company .
So they let you tote that record player down there, huh? It was 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, though .
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 there are places in the world that aren't made out of stone .
There's something inside that they can't get to 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? Oh, yes, sir .
Without a doubt .
I can honestly say I'm a changed man .
No danger to society here .
God's honest truth .
Absolutely rehabilitated .
Thirty years .
Jesus, when you say it like that .
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You wonder where it went .
I wonder where 10 years went .
Here .
A little parole rejection present .
Go ahead and open it .
Went 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 going to play it? No .
Not right now .
Roll in! Lights out! Andy was as good as his word .
He wrote two letters a week instead of one .
In 1959, the state senate finally clued in to the fact they couldn't buy him off with just a $200 check .
Appropriations Committee voted an annual payment of $500 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 .
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Treasure Island .
Robert Louis- Stevenson .
Fiction, adventure .
What's next? I got here Auto Repair and Soap Carving .
Trade skills and hobbies .
Under "Educational," behind you .
Count of Monte Crisco .
That's "Cristo," you dumb shit .
By Alexandree Dum-ass .
Dumb ass .
Dumb ass? Dumas .
Know what that's about? You'd like it .
It's about a prison break .
We ought to file that under "Educational" too, oughtn't we? The rest of us did our best to pitch in when and where we could .
By the year Kennedy was shot Andy had transformed a storage room smelling of turpentine into the best prison library in New England complete with a fine selection of Hank Williams .
That was also when Warden Norton instituted his famous "Inside Out" program .
You may remember reading about it .
It made the papers and got his picture in Look magazine .
It's no free ride .
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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 an honest day's labor and provide a service to the community at a bare minimum of expense to Mr .
and Mrs .
John Q .
Taxpayer .
Of course he didn't tell the press that "bare minimum of expense" is a fairly loose term .
There are 100 different ways to skim off the top .
Men, materials, you name it .
And oh, my Lord, how the money rolled in! At this rate, you'll put me out of business .
With this pool of slave labor, you can underbid any contractor in town .
We're providing a valuable community service .
That's fine for the papers, but I've got a family to feed .
We go back a long way .
I need this highway contract .
I don't get it and I go under .
That's a fact .
You have some of this fine pie my missus made for you .
You think about that .
I wouldn't worry too much about this contract .
I already got my boys committed elsewhere .
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 .
Maine National and New England First .
Night drops as always, sir .
Get my stuff to the laundry .
Two suits for dry-clean and a bag of whatnot .
If they over-starch my shirts again, they'll hear from me .
How do I look? - Very nice .
- Big charity to-do up Portland way .
Governor will be there .
You want the rest of this? Woman can't bake worth shit .
Thank you, sir .
He's got his fingers in a lot of pies, from what I hear .
He's got scams you haven't even dreamed of .
Kickbacks on his kickbacks .
A river of dirty money running through here .
Sooner or later, he'll have to explain where it came from .
That's where I come in .
I channel it .
Filter it .
Funnel it .
Stocks, securities, tax-free municipals .
I send it out into the real world, and when it comes back .
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- Clean as a virgin's honeypot, huh? - Cleaner .
By the time Norton retires, I'll have made him a millionaire .
If they ever catch on, he'll wind up in here wearing a number himself .
I thought you had more faith in me than that .
I know you're good, but all that paper leaves a trail .
Now anybody gets curious, FBI, IRS 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, it'll just lead to him .
But who is he? He's a phantom, an apparition .
Second cousin to Harvey the Rabbit .
I conjured him out of thin air .
He doesn't exist, except on paper .
You can't just make a person up .
Sure you can, if you know how the system works .
It's amazing what you can accomplish by mail .
Mr .
Stevens has a birth certificate driver's license, Social Security .
You're shitting me .
If they trace any accounts, they'll 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 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? 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 1965 on a two-year stretch for B and E .
That's breaking and entering to you .
Cops caught him sneaking TV sets out the back door of a JC Penney .
Young punk .
Mr .
Rock 'n' Roll cocky as hell .
Come on, old boys .
Moving like molasses! Making me look bad .
We liked him immediately .
I'm backing out the door and I got the TV like this .
A big old thing .
I couldn't see shit .
Then I hear this voice .
"Freeze, kid, hands in the air .
" I was standing there, holding onto that TV .
Finally the voice says: "You hear what I said, boy?" I say, "Yes, sir .
I did .
But if I drop this, you get me on destruction of property too .
" You done some stretch in Cashman, right? 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 .
I've been in and out since I was 13 .
Name it, chances are I've been there .
Perhaps you should try a new profession .
What I mean is you're not a very good thief .
You should try something else .
Yeah, what the hell you know about it, Capone? What are you in for? Me? A lawyer fucked me .
Everybody's innocent in here .
Don't you know that? As it turned out, Tommy had himself a young wife and a new baby girl .
Maybe he 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 .
Thought I might try for my high school equivalency .
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 we do it all the way, a hundred percent, nothing half-assed .
Thing is, see 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 .
Before long, Andy started him on his course requirements .
He really liked the kid .
Gave him a thrill to help a youngster crawl off the shit heap .
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 .
It was the same reason he spent years shaping and polishing those rocks .
The same reason he hung his fantasy girlies on the wall .
In prison a man will do most anything to keep his mind occupied .
By 1966, right about the time Tommy was getting ready to take his exams it was lovely Raquel .
Time .
Well? Well, it's for shit .
I wasted a whole year of my time with this bullshit .
It's probably not that bad .
I didn't get a thing right .
It might as well have been in Chinese .
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! I feel bad .
I let him down .
That's crap, kid .
He's proud of you .
We're old friends, I know him as good as anybody .
Smart fellow, ain't he? 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 .
Caught his wife in bed with some golf pro .
Greased them both .
What? About four years ago I was in Thomaston on a two-to-three stretch .
I 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 .
Kind of roomie you pray you don't get .
You know what I'm saying? Six-to-twelve, armed burglary .
Said he pulled hundreds of jobs .
Hard to believe, high-strung as he was .
You cut a loud fart, he jumped three feet .
Talked all the time too .
That's the other thing .
He never shut up .
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 a joke I say to him, "Elmo, who did you kill?" So he says: I got me this job one time, busing tables at a country club so I could case all these big rich pricks that come in .
So I pick out this guy go in one night and do his place .
He wakes up 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 .
He hears your tale of woe and naturally wants to cheer you up .
He's young, not terribly bright .
It's not surprising he wouldn't know what a state he put you in .
Sir, he's telling the truth .
Let's say for the moment this Blatch does exist .
You think he'd just fall to his knees and cry, "Yes, I did it .
I confess .
By the way, add a life term to my sentence .
" With Tommy's testimony, I can get a new trial .
That's assuming Blatch is still there .
Chances are, he'd be released by now .
They'd have his last known address .
It's a chance, isn't it? How can you be so obtuse? What? What did you call me? Obtuse .
Is it deliberate? You're forgetting yourself .
The country club will have his old timecards .
Records, W-2s with his name on them .
If you want to indulge this fantasy, it's your business .
Don't make it mine .
This meeting is over .
If I got out, I'd never mention what happens here .
I'd be as indictable as you for laundering that money .
Don't ever mention money to me, you son of a bitch! Not in this office not anywhere .
Get in here, now! I just wanted to put you at ease, that's all .
Solitary .
A month .
What's wrong with you? Get him out of here .
This is my chance to get out! It's my life! Understand?! Get him out! A month in the hole .
That's the longest stretch I ever heard of .
It's all my fault .
Bullshit .
You didn't pull the trigger or convict him .
Are you saying Andy is innocent? I mean, for real innocent? It looks that way .
Sweet Jesus .
How long has he been here now? Nineteen years .
- Williams, Thomas .
- Yeah, over here .
What you got? Board of Education .
That son of a bitch mailed it .
You going to open it or stand there with your thumb up your butt? Thumb up my butt sounds better .
Skeets, come on .
Give me that, you shithead .
Floyd, come on .
Will 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? I'm asking you to keep this conversation just between us .
I feel awkward enough as it is .
We got a situation here .
I think you can appreciate that .
Yes, sir .
I sure can .
I tell you, son, this thing really came along and knocked my wind out .
It's got me up nights .
That's the truth .
The right thing to do sometimes it's hard to know what that is .
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 .
I'll pull you out of that 1-bunk Hilton and cast you down with the sodomites .
You'll think you've been fucked by a train .
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 .
Feel bad about it if you want, but you didn't pull the trigger .
No, I didn't .
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 .
Think you'll ever get out of here? Me? Yeah .
One day, when I got a long, white beard and two or three marbles 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 .
In a place like that, I could use a man that knows how to get things .
I don't think I could make it on the outside .
I 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 .
Hell, I wouldn't know where to begin .
Pacific Ocean? Shit .
Scare me to death, something that big .
Not me .
I didn't shoot my wife, and I didn't shoot her lover .
Whatever mistakes I made, I've paid for them and then some .
That hotel, that boat .
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I don't think that's too much to ask .
You shouldn't be doing this to yourself .
This is just shitty pipe dreams .
Mexico is 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 .
There's a big hayfield up near Buxton .
You know where Buxton is? - A lot of hayfields up there .
- One in particular .
It's got a long rock wall with a big oak tree at the north end .
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 .
At the base of that wall, there's a rock that has no earthly business in Maine .
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 .
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He's talking funny .
I'm really worried about him .
Let's keep an eye on him .
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 was I supposed to know? Remember Brooks Hatlen? Andy would 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 .
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 3 south, clear! Man missing on tier 2, cell 245! Dufresne! Come out .
You're holding up the show! Don't make me come down or I'll thump your skull for you! Damn it, you're putting me behind! I got a schedule to keep .
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? Open 237 .
What do you mean, "He just wasn't here"? Don't say that to me .
Don't tell me that 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 .
You see Dufresne's name there? I sure do .
Right there .
"Dufresne .
" He was in his cell at lights out .
Reasonable he'd 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? I see you two all the time .
You're thick as thieves, you are .
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 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? Feel 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 1966 Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank Prison .
All they found was a muddy set of prison clothes a bar of soap and an old rock hammer damn near worn down to the nub .
I had thought it'd take a man 600 years to tunnel through the wall with it .
Old Andy did it in less than 20 .
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 in prison, a man will do anything to keep his mind occupied .
Seems Andy's favorite hobby was toting his wall out into the exercise yard a handful at a time .
I guess after Tommy was killed Andy decided he'd been here 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 500 yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine .
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 .
The next morning, right about the time Raquel was spilling her secret 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 .
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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 .
Here's your cashier's check, sir .
Will there be anything else? Please .
Would you add this to your outgoing mail? I'd be happy to .
Good day, sir .
Mr .
Stevens visited nearly a dozen banks in the Portland area that morning .
All told, he blew town with better than $370,000 of Warden Norton's money .
Severance pay for 19 years .
Good morning, Portland Daily Bugle .
Byron Hadley? You have the right to remain silent .
If you give up this right, anything you say can be held against you in court .
I wasn't there to see, but I hear Byron Hadley sobbed 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 .
Open the door .
I'm not sure which key .
Make it easy on yourself, Norton! I like to think the last thing that went through his head other than that bullet was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him .
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 .
When I picture him heading south in his own car with the top down 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? He says, "I believe this boy's about to have himself an accident .
" Those of us who knew him best talk about him often .
I swear, the stuff he pulled .
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"My friends could use a couple of beers .
" And he got it! Sometimes it makes me sad, though Andy being gone .
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged .
Their feathers are just too bright .
And when they fly away the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice .
But still the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone .
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? Rehabilitated? Well, now, let me see .
I don't have any idea what that means .
It means you're ready to rejoin 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 .
I got to live with that .
Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word .
So you go on and stamp your forms, sonny, and stop wasting my time .
Because to tell you the truth I don't give a shit .
Here you go, miss .
Restroom break? You don't need to ask me every time you need to go take a piss .
Just go .
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 i
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