Sinners · written by Ryan Coogler · 2025

The survivors learn what vampires are, accept that Stack cannot be restored, and promise to resist the night together.

Scene 88 of 110 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act two

Grace
Annie
Smoke
Delta Slim
Pearline
Sammie

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:35 into a 2:07 film

The story so farBefore scene 88

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.
Scene 60
Remmick, Joan, and Bert arrive outside the opening-night juke after hearing Sammie's music.
Scene 64
Smoke refuses the drifters entry, turning a suspicious visit into the siege of the juke joint.
Scene 65
The survivors choose to stay inside and let Mary investigate the outsiders, entering the vampire problem on their own terms.
Scene 73
Smoke and Sammie argue over whether music is a respectable calling or the life that makes Sammie feel free.
Scene 76
Smoke catches Mary drinking Stack's blood; she survives his gunfire and declares that the whole room will be killed.
Scene 82
Stack dies in Smoke's arms, and Smoke names him the best thing about himself.
Just before
Scene 85
Smoke locks the mill, announces Stack's death, and watches Bo leave to bring Grace's car around.
Scene 86
Cornbread returns changed, tries to enter without an invitation, and is shot by Smoke when Annie identifies him as a vampire.
Scene 87
Stack's transformed body knocks from the back room, bursts through the door, and escapes after Annie burns him with pickled garlic.
Scene 88
This scene

88INT. JUKE JOINT - LUMBER MILL

Tears well in Grace’s eyes as she argues with the remaining group.

GRACE

Bo’s out there. We gotta go get

him.

The group doesn’t respond.

GRACE (CONT’D)

Then let me go. I’m the one that

sent him out there.

ANNIE

We can’t let you do that.

GRACE

He needs my help.

Annie looks to Smoke.

SMOKE

Bo know how to handle himself. He

wouldn’t want me to let you go out

there.

GRACE

Ya’ll ain't finna keep me from my

husband.

DELTA SLIM

They tryna to keep you alive.

Annie thinks for a bit.

ANNIE

We need wood, garlic, holy water.

(beat)

I only heard stories about them.

Never come across em in my time.

PEARLINE

What stories you heard?

ANNIE

I know how haints work, they

switch places wit the soul of a

man.

SAMMIE

But he moved like Stack, and

sounded like Stack.

ANNIE

That’s cause vampires is

different. Maybe the worst kind.

The s oul gets stuck in the body.

Can’t rejoin the ancestors. Cursed

to live here with all this hate.

Can’t even see the sun.

SMOKE

Can we get him back? Maybe if I

kill the one who made him like

this?

Annie shakes her head.

ANNIE

Ain't no way of bringing nobody

back once they gone, that don’t