The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Andy calculates the profits behind Norton’s corrupt contracts.

Scene 131 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Red
Andy
Norton

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:09 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 131

After a banker is wrongly imprisoned for murder, he uses patience, expertise, and friendship to survive Shawshank and build a path to freedom.

Scenes 1–8
Andy’s former life and conviction frame a banker whose apparent control has vanished.
Scenes 9–10
Inside prison, Andy needs a way to survive without surrendering the inner self he is trying to protect.
Scenes 11–30
Andy enters Shawshank and confronts its violence, hierarchy, and rules.
Scene 31
Andy and Red begin the friendship that will carry the film’s argument about hope and connection.
Scene 51
Andy tells Red that prisoners retain an inner life and hope, though Red warns hope can be dangerous.
Scene 112
Andy broadcasts Mozart; the whole prison experiences a brief freedom of mind, revealing what hope can still do.
Just before
Scene 128
A reporter interviews a road gang about the program while guards supervise.
Scene 129
Heywood sits alone in solitary; the inmates were excluded from the press story.
Scene 130
The road gang works in mud as Red explains how Norton skims money from the program.
Scene 131
This scene

131INT -- NORTON'S OFFICE -- NIGHT (1965)

ANGLE on Maisie's pie. Several pieces gone.

RED (V.O.)

And behind every shady deal, behind

every dollar earned...

TILT UP to Andy at the desk, munching thoughtfully as he totals up figures on an adding machine.

RED (V.O.) (CONT'D)

...there was Andy, keeping the

books.

Andy finishes preparing two bank deposits. Norton hovers near the desk, keeping a watchful eye.

ANDY

Two deposits, Casco Bank and New

England First. Night drop, like

always.

Norton pockets the envelopes. Andy crosses to the wall safe and shoves the ledger and sundry files inside. Norton locks the safe, swings his wife's framed sampler back into place.

He cocks his thumb at some laundry and two suits in the corner.

NORTON

Get my stuff down t'laundry. Two

suits for dry-clean and a bag of

whatnot. Tell 'em if they over-

starch my shirts again, they're

gonna hear about it from me.

(adjusts his tie)

How do I look?

ANDY

Very nice.

NORTON

Big charity to-do up Portland way.

Governor's gonna be there.

(indicates pie)

Want the rest of that? Woman can't

bake worth shit.