Sinners · written by Ryan Coogler · 2025

Smoke visits Annie's shack, mourns their dead baby at the grave, and asks Annie to join the juke.

Scene 29 of 110 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Smoke
Annie

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Begins 35 min into a 2:07 film

The story so farBefore scene 29

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.
Just before
Scene 26
Grace bargains over rush signs and flowers, agrees to help, and asks Smoke where Stack is.
Scene 27
Stack brings Sammie to the railroad station, recruits Delta Slim, and offers beer and money for the night's music.
Scene 28
Sammie and Delta Slim busk for a crowd as Stack advertises the juke and Mary confronts him about their past.
Scene 29
This scene

29EXT. ANNIE’S SHOP - DAY

Smoke pulls up in front of a lone shack. He exits the car and takes a deep breath.

Goes around back and looks at a tiny, makeshift grave, a stone painted white, a tiny handprint on it. He bends down, removing his hat, and rubs the stone.

He pulls the FLOWERS he bought from Grace and Bo Chow from his suit jacket, and places them down next to the stone.

We see the DOOR OPEN behind him and a woman exits the shack. This is ANNIE (30s, Black).

SMOKE

How you been?

ANNIE

I been okay. No miseries worth

complainin’ about.

(beat)

You come alone?

Smoke turns toward her, walks over.

SMOKE

Stack on the other side of town.

ANNIE

What ya come back for ?

Annie steps closer to Smoke, there is tension between them, old habits, familiar sadness, lust? Love?

SMOKE

We bought that old saw mill. You

know the one right outside of

Clarksdale?

ANNIE

That run down place?

SMOKE

Yeah we gon' fix it up. Make it

into a juke joint.

ANNIE

A juke joint? This one of Stack’s

ideas?

SMOKE

Yeah. He figure tonight can be the

grand opening.

ANNIE

I thought ya’ll was done wit the

Delta. Last I heard y'all was

northern men.

SMOKE

Nah we done wit Chicago.

ANNIE

Chicago done wit ya’ll?

SMOKE

What you mean?

ANNIE