4l INT -- PRISON LAUNDRY EXCHANGE -- DAY (1947) 41

Red deposits his dirty bundle and moves down the line to where
the clean sheets are being handed out.

RED (V.O.)
That's how Andy joined our happy
little Shawshank family with more
than five hundred dollars on his
person. Determination.

Leonard catches Red's eye, turns and grabs a specific stack of
clean sheets. He hands it across to Red --

TIGHT ANGLE

-- and more than clean laundry changes hands. Two packs of
cigarettes slide out of Red's hand into Leonard's.

42 INT -- RED'S CELL -- DAY (1947) 42

Red slips the package out of his sheets, carefully checks to
make sure nobody's coming, then rips it open. He pulls out the
rock-hammer. It's just as Andy described. Red laughs softly.

RED (V.O.)
Andy was right. I finally got the
joke. It would take a man about six
hundred years to tunnel under the
wall with one of these.

43 INT -- CELLBLOCK FIVE -- 2ND TIER -- NIGHT (1947) 43

Brooks Hatlen pushes a cart of books from cell to cell. The
rolling library. He finds Red waiting for him. Red slips the
rock-hammer, wrapped in a towel, through the bars and onto the
cart. Next comes six cigarettes to pay for postage.

RED

Dufresne.

Brooks nods, never missing a beat. He rolls his cart to
Andy's cell, mutters through the bars:

BROOKS
Middle shelf, wrapped in a towel.

Andy's hand snakes through the bars and makes the object
disappear. The hand comes back and deposits a small slip of
folded paper along with more cigarettes. Brooks turns his cart
around and goes back. He pauses, sorting his books long enough
for Red to snag the slip of paper. Brooks continues on,
scooping the cigarettes off the cart and into his pocket.

44 INT -- RED'S CELL -- NIGHT (1947) 44

Red unfolds the slip of paper. Penciled neatly on it is a
single word: "Thanks."

45 INT -- PRISON LAUNDRY -- DAY (1947) 45

We are assaulted by the deafening noise of the laundry line.
Andy is doing his job, getting good at it.

BOB
DUFRESNE! WE'RE LOW ON HEXLITE!
HEAD ON BACK AND FETCH US UP SOME!

Andy nods. He leaves the line, weaving his way through the
laundry room and into --

46 INT -- BACK ROOMS/STOCK AREA -- DAY (1947) 46

-- a dark, tangled maze of rooms and corridors, boilers and
furnaces, sump pumps, old washing machines, pallets of
cleaning supplies and detergents, you name it. Andy hefts a
cardboard drum of Hexlite off the stack, turns around --

-- and finds Bogs Diamond in the aisle. blocking his way.
Rooster looms from the shadows to his right, Pete Verness
on the left. A frozen beat. Andy slams the Hexlite to the
floor, rips off the top, and scoops out a double handful.

ANDY
You get this in your eyes, it
blinds you.

BOGS
Honey, hush.

Andy backs up, holding them at bay, trying to maneuver through
the maze. The Sisters keep coming, tense and guarded, eyes
riveted and gauging his every move, trying to outflank him.
Andy trips on some old gaint sugglies. That's all it takes.
They're on him in an instant, kicking and stomping.

Andy gets yanked to his feet. Bogs applies a chokehold from
behind. They propel him across the room and slam him against
an old four-pocket machine, bending him over it. Rooster jams
a rag into Andy's mouth and secures it with a steel pipe, like
a horse bit. Andy kicks and struggles, but Rooster and Pete
have his arms firmly pinned. Bogs whispers in Andy's ear:

BOGS
That's it, fight. Better that way.

Andy starts screaming, muffled by the rag. CAMERA PULLS BACK,
SLOWLY WIDENING. The big Washex blocks our view. All we see
is Andy's screaming face and the men holding him down...

...and CAMERA DRIFTS FROM THE ROOM, leaving the dark place
and the dingy act behind...MOVING up empty corridors, past
concrete walls and steel pipes...

RED (V.O.)
I wish I could tell you that 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.

WE EMERGE into the prison laundry past a guard, WIDENING for
a final view of the line. The giant steel "mangler" is
slapping down in brutal rhythm. The sound is deafening.

RED (V.O.)
He never said who did it...but we
all knew.

PRISON MONTAGE: (1947 through 1949)

47 Andy plods through his days. Working. Eating. Chipping and 47
shaping his rocks after lights-out...

RED (V.O.)
Things went on like that for a
while. Prison life consists of
routine, and then more routine.

48 Andy walks the yard, face swollen and bruised. 48

RED (V.O.)
Every so often, Andy would show up
with fresh bruises.

49 Andy eats breakfast. A few tables over, Bogs blows him a kiss. 49

RED (V.O.)
The Sisters kept at him. Sometimes
he was able to fight them off...
sometimes not.

50 Andy backs into a corner in some dingy part of the prison,
wildly swinging a rake at his tormentors.

RED (V.O.)
He always fought, that's what I
remember. He fought because he knew
if he didn't fight, it would make
it that much easier not to fight
the next time.

The rake connects, snapping off over somebody's skull. They
beat the hell out of him.

RED (V.O.)
Half the time it landed him in the
infirmary...