Sinners · written by Ryan Coogler · 2025

In the sedan, the twins puncture Sammie's dream of northern freedom by describing Chicago's racism in another form.

Scene 16 of 110 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act one

Stack
Smoke
Sammie

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 14 min into a 2:07 film

The story so farBefore scene 16

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.
Just before
Scene 13
Sammie approaches the praise house angry, then steadies himself before going inside.
Scene 14
Jedidiah makes Sammie rehearse church music and a sermon, warning that the blues will bring the devil home.
Scene 15
Smoke and Stack collect Sammie outside the church while Jedidiah watches his son leave with wounded pride.
Scene 16
This scene

16I/E. SMOKE AND STACK’S SEDAN - DAY

Smoke drives while Stack rides shotgun and Sammie sits in the backseat with a wondrous grin on his face.

STACK

Look at you all grown up! You get

you a little girlfriend yet? Maybe

a few?

Smoke whacks Stack on his shoulder.

SMOKE

You been okay?

SAMMIE

I can’t complain. Work is what it

is.

SMOKE

Yo Daddy doing right by you?

Sammie nods but Smoke doesn’t see it.

SMOKE (CONT’D)

He not putting his hands on you is

he?

SAMMIE

Nah man. Nothing too much.

Smoke relaxes.

SMOKE

The little ones?

SAMMIE

Only when they deserve it. Ma

usually hands out the whoopings.

SMOKE

Good. Uncle Jed was always good.

SAMMIE

Tell me about Chicago. I heard

everybody up north wears a

pinstripe suit, that true?

STACK

Nah. But a lot of folks do.

Especially downtown.

SAMMIE

Heard it get cold too.

STACK

As a hooker’s heart.

Sammie smiles at this.

SAMMIE

Is it colder than New York?

STACK

Sure is.

SAMMIE

What about over in France when

ya’ll was giving them Huns what

for?

SMOKE

It was warm when we were there.

Sammie nods and thinks deeply on this.

SAMMIE

I heard it ain’t got Jim Crow up

there. A Black man can go where he