Sinners · written by Ryan Coogler · 2025

Gambler Two is found dead and bleeding, so Smoke and Sammie drag his body outside before it can wake.

Scene 90 of 110 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Sammie

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Begins 1:39 into a 2:07 film

The story so farBefore scene 90

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 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
The survivors learn what vampires are, accept that Stack cannot be restored, and promise to resist the night together.
Scene 89
The group gathers stakes and garlic while Annie asks Smoke to free her if she is bitten.
Scene 90
This scene

90EXT. LUMBER MILL - NIGHT

Sammie and Smoke drag Gambler #2’s body outside. They shift him and quickly place him on the ground. Sammie and Smoke look around, no one is around until Sammie sees-

SAMMIE’S POV

A JUKE PATRON walking off into the distance.

Sammie watches with curiosity as the Patron joins up with a MASSIVE GROUP made up of all the former Juke Patrons. Sammie hears something in the distance.

SAMMIE

They’re playing music..?

Smoke hears this too, and grabs Sammie, pulling him back into the Mill.