Sinners · written by Ryan Coogler · 2025

Smoke arms himself with wartime weapons and destroys Hogwood's armed crew when they arrive to reclaim the mill.

Scene 106 of 110 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act three

Hogwood
Smoke
Annie

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:58 into a 2:07 film

The story so farBefore scene 106

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.

Scenes 1–15
The legend and prologue frame Sammie's segregated Delta life under his father's church and the twins' shadow.
Scenes 16–18
Sammie wants the freedom, recognition, and musical life he imagines beyond the plantation.
Scenes 19–46
He leaves the plantation with the twins, enters the wider Delta, and helps build their juke joint.
Scenes 47–58
Sammie learns the blues is sacred, meets the room's people, and tries to claim a place among musicians and lovers.
Scene 59
His performance unites the juke with ancestral music and gives him the belonging and voice he wanted.
Scenes 60–100
The music attracts Remmick's vampires, who take the juke's people and force Sammie to pay for the freedom he tasted.
Just before
Scene 103
Stack overpowers Smoke on the catwalk, but Smoke's protected mojo bag stops the bite and forces the brothers' final choice.
Scene 104
At the river, Sammie uses the silver guitar resonator to wound Remmick before Smoke stakes him at sunrise.
Scene 105
Smoke and Sammie return to the mill in daylight, and Smoke sends Sammie home with the broken guitar neck.
Scene 106
This scene

106EXT. LUMBER MILL - DAY

Three cars drive down the road towards the mill, in formation. They park and 15 passengers exit, HOGWOOD first among them.

Some are armed, but most hold cleaning supplies.

HOGWOOD

Club Juke, huh? Grand opening,

grand closing. Alright boys, open

it up-

BOOM! PFFT! Hogwood falls to the ground, hit by bullet fired by an unseen assailant.

One of HOGWOOD’S HENCHMEN turns to open fire but is cut down as well.

We reveal the source of the volley - Smoke, dick in the dirt behind the Browning, firing it until empty.

SIX OF HOGWOOD’S HENCHMEN try to load into the TRUCK.

Smoke moves to the Thompson, picks it up, and walks them down firing.

The Driver tries to start the truck up while another Henchman shoots at Smoke.

Smoke takes a SHOT to the belly. Falls to a knee. He watches as the truck starts up, c old fire in his eyes. He stands, grabs a GRENADE from his pocket. Pulls the pin. Hurls it sidearm towards the truck, and takes cover...

BOOM!

The truck EXPLODES.

Smoke turns back towards Hogwood, who is still breathing, holding his wound.

Smoke limps over to him and looks down.

SMOKE

You got a cigarette?

HOGWOOD

Go to hell Nigger!

Smoke stares at him for a long, unblinking beat.

HOGWOOD (CONT’D)

Left pocket.

Smoke bends down and pulls a pack of cigarettes from Hogwood’s left pocket.

SMOKE

Matches?

Hogwood motions to his chest pocket with his chin. Smoke lights a cigar ette, takes a drag and shakes the match