Sinners · written by Ryan Coogler · 2025

The survivors gather weapons as Grace argues that waiting will sacrifice her family and the whole town.

Scene 97 of 110 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 1:48 into a 2:07 film

The story so farBefore scene 97

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.
Scene 89
Annie names the weapons and the rule of freeing a vampire's spirit, giving the survivors a plan to fight for one another.
Just before
Scene 94
Smoke opens the door as Annie, Grace, Slim, and Pearline gather behind him.
Scene 95
Cornbread attacks Gambler Two outside while Bo and Remmick use Grace's family to pressure the survivors into inviting them in.
Scene 96
Remmick reveals the mill was meant to be a slaughterhouse and Stack urges Smoke to join the vampires in an eternal family.
Scene 97
This scene

97EXT. LUMBER MILL - NIGHT

Remmick leads the others, Joan, Bert, Bo Chow, Cornbread, Gambler 2, Stack, and Mary in singing Pick Poor Robin Clean, as they surround the mill.

The music is haunting, but Remmick’s voice is beautiful.

Bo Chow circles around to a window visible to Grace and sings to her while making eye contact.