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Sinners · written by Ryan Coogler · 2025
Scene 101 of 110 · ≈ 1 min on screen · First scene of act three
In 1932 Mississippi, gifted sharecropper-bluesman Sammie Moore wants to make a life in the blues beyond his preacher father's rules, but the opening night of his cousins' juke joint becomes a siege by a vampire offering the community belonging at the price of its freedom.
The legend and prologue frame Sammie's segregated Delta life under his father's church and the twins' shadow.
Sammie wants the freedom, recognition, and musical life he imagines beyond the plantation.
He leaves the plantation with the twins, enters the wider Delta, and helps build their juke joint.
Sammie learns the blues is sacred, meets the room's people, and tries to claim a place among musicians and lovers.
His performance unites the juke with ancestral music and gives him the belonging and voice he wanted.
The music attracts Remmick's vampires, who take the juke's people and force Sammie to pay for the freedom he tasted.
Remmick's vampires surround the mill and sing to the trapped survivors, with Bo targeting Grace at the window.
Grace breaks free of the others and invites the vampires inside.
The vampires breach the juke; the survivors fight back as Grace and Bo burn, Annie is bitten, and Remmick retreats.
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Smoke, Sammie, and Pearline file up into the dark rafters. Smoke points his rifle towards the stairs.
Smoke opens the balcony door for Sammie.
SMOKE
Ya’ll jump down.
Remmick lands on the balcony, blocking their way. He quickly attacks Sammie, knocking Pearline to the ground.
Stack charges up the stairs and tackles Smoke to the ground.
Sammie holds his guitar, blocking Remmick from his neck. Pearline stabs her stake into Remmick’s back. He winces in pain but turns before it can reach his heart.
He turns to Pearline and bites down on her neck.
PEARLINE
SAMMIE, RUN!
Sammie shoots, the muzzle flare lighting the room. Revealing Remmick, holding Pearline, slurping her blood.
SAMMIE
NO!
REMMICK
Come here Sammie. Save her!
Sammie charges but Stack jumps out, tackling him. Smoke goes for Stack, talking him off of Sammie.
SMOKE
Go!
Sammie jumps out of the window.