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Sinners · written by Ryan Coogler · 2025
Scene 31 of 110 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act one
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.
Sammie and Delta Slim busk for a crowd as Stack advertises the juke and Mary confronts him about their past.
Smoke visits Annie's shack, mourns their dead baby at the grave, and asks Annie to join the juke.
Smoke and Annie argue over roots, blood money, and their loss before rekindling their relationship.
This scene
Stack drives with Delta Slim riding shotgun and Sammie in the backseat. They chat as they drive.
SAMMIE
So that lady back there... you
really put your mouth on her...
you know.
Stack hesitates to answer. Delta Slim cracks up.
DELTA SLIM
What’s going on over there Stack?
Never known you to be shy.
STACK
Nah it’s just. Last time I saw
this little nigga he was barefoot
and had a snotty nose... now he
as king me shit like this.
DELTA SLIM
You better educate the man. How he
supposed to be a bad blues
musician if he don’t know the
proper way to treat a woman?
STACK
Man... how bout ya’ll talk music.
SAMMIE
C’mon Stack we gon talk music all
night!
DELTA SLIM
Help the boy. His daddy a Preacher
and ain't no verses in the Bible
about eating kitty.
STACK
Add that to the list of reasons
why that book ain’t worth the
paper it’s printed on.
Stack sneaks a look at Sammie from the road. He sighs.
STACK (CONT’D)
Every cooze got a button on it.
Towards the top. Find it, lick
that. Not too hard. Not too soft.
You ever had a scoop of that ice
cream downtown?
Sammie nods.
STACK (CONT’D)
Bout the same pressure you put on
that. Like it taste good, but you
don’t want it gone too quick, you
understand?
Sammie nods, smiling.
STACK (CONT’D)
(beat)
can wet her hand and do that
herself. You want to keep a woman,
remember to do these five things.
Tell her she beautiful. Tell her
she smart. Feed her good food.
Make her laugh. Make her feel
safe.
Sammie thinks deeply on this.
STACK (CONT’D)
That’s it. Anything more I gotta
charge you.
Stack slows down to see a CHAIN GANG, of African American men clearing grass in a field, supervised by WHITE OFFICERS.
They sing a FIELD HOLLER.
DELTA SLIM
Ya’ll hold ya heads now!
Delta Slim lifts his fist at them as some of the men hear this and look over at the passing car. Some look back.
CHAIN GANG
Aye Slim!
BANG! An Officer fires his shotgun.
T he Chain Gang falls back in line.