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Sinners · written by Ryan Coogler · 2025
Scene 104 of 110 · ≈ 4 min on screen · 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.
Smoke, Sammie, and Pearline flee into the rafters, where Remmick attacks and Stack turns on Smoke.
Sammie escapes through the window to the river while Remmick pursues him through the night.
Stack overpowers Smoke on the catwalk, but Smoke's protected mojo bag stops the bite and forces the brothers' final choice.
This scene
Sammie runs like a storm wind. Hurdling through the blackness, his steps chewing up dirt, then mud, then water. His stake in one hand and his guitar in his other.
Behind him in silhouette against the sky, we see Remmick float into the air in pursuit.
CRASH! Remmick lands in front of Sammie.
REMMICK
This has taken long enough.
Sammie jabs his stake at Remmick, who rips it out of his hands.
And stri kes him across his face with his claws.
Sammie falls into the water. His blood blooms into the river waters. He stays under, mouthing words.
Remmick licks the blood from his nails- sweet nectar then grabs Sammie by his throat, pulling him out of the water with inhuman strength.
REMMICK (CONT’D)
(beat)
Oh you little vessel...
Sammie spits up water.
REMMICK (CONT’D)
I want your stories. I want your
songs. And you will have mine.
SAMMIE
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done
on earth as it is in Heaven. Give
us this day...
Remmick listens to this, as if remembering something and decides to join in.
SAMMIE (CONT’D) REMMICK
Our daily bread. And Our daily bread. And forgive us out trespasses, forgive us out trespasses, as we forgive those who as we forgive those who trespass against us. And trespass against us. And lead us not into lead us not into temptation, but deliver us temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. from evil. Amen.
REMMICK (CONT’D)
Long ago, the men who stole my
fathers’ land forced these words
upon us. I hated those men. But
the words still brought me
comfort.
The other vampires, former patrons from the mill start to creep down the riverbank. They watch as a parish might observe a riverside baptism.
Remmick strokes Sammie ’s face.
REMMICK (CONT’D)
Lies can be warm. Lies can be
comforting.
Remmick suddenly slams Sammie into the water, baptizing him.
REMMICK (CONT’D)
The truth can be like cold water
to the face. Those men lied to
themselves. Then lied to us. Told
stories of a God above and a devil
below.
He dunks Sammie again. The Patrons surround the two, watching closely, rapt by Remmick’s words.
REMMICK (CONT’D)
And lies of a dominion of man over
beast and earth. Hierarchy of man,
woman, and groups of kin.
Slams him again into the water. Sammie gasps for air. Remmick pulls him close.
REMMICK (CONT’D)
You will taste the sweet pain of
death. And you will awaken to the
truth. We are earth, and beast,
and God. We are woman and man. We
are connected, you and I, to
everything. Not me above and you
below but one. And we will make
beautiful music together.
Remmick bares his teeth to bite Sammie when BLAM, Sammie swings his guitar into Remmick’s face, the wood shattering around him, but the met al face cutting into Remmick’s face! It’s silver, not white gold. And it surprises Remmick with the damage it causes him. He pulls the resonator out, and smoke and blood flows from the gash.
The other vampires on the riverbank grab their heads and moan in agony.
Remmick tosses the resonator into the river, and moves towards Sammie.
REMMICK (CONT’D)
Sammie...
He grabs him by his face and prepares to bite h im when...
SCHOOCT- A STAKE TIP bursts through Remmick’s chest. He gasps... then falls to his knees revealing a battle ravaged Smoke behind him.
The other Vampires react and wail in pain, as if they have been stabbed. Clutching their chests and writhing in pain.
Smoke sloshes over and checks Sammie’s neck frantically.
SMOKE
Did they get you? You okay? I’m
gon get you home.
The sun breaks further and crests the horizon and the other vampires begin to howl in agony and crawl their way towards the juke. Their bodies sizzling. They fall to the ground and burst into flames.
Remmick’s body begins to sizzle and smoke. As he burns he transforms into an older more decayed version of himself. He then turns to the sun, smiles and EXPLODES into a PILLAR OF FIRE.
The pillar swirls into a vortex, and then dissipates... silence.