The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Red and Andy discuss the kickbacks and schemes Norton runs.

Scene 133 of 249 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act two

Red
Andy

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:10 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 133

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 130
The road gang works in mud as Red explains how Norton skims money from the program.
Scene 131
Andy calculates the profits behind Norton’s corrupt contracts.
Scene 132
Andy carries Norton’s laundry and a pie box through the prison.
Scene 133
This scene

133INT -- LIBRARY -- DAY (1965)

TILT UP FROM PIE to find Red munching away as he helps Andy sort books on the shelves.

RED

Got his fingers in a lot of pies,

from what I hear.

ANDY

What you hear isn't half of it.

He's got scams you haven't dreamed

of. Kickbacks on his kickbacks.

There's a river of dirty money

flowing through this place.

RED

Money like that can be a problem.

Sooner or later you gotta explain

where it came from.

ANDY

That's where I come in. I channel

it, funnel it, filter it...stocks,

securities, tax free municipals...

I send that money out into the big

world. And when it comes back...

RED

It's clean as a virgin's whistle?

ANDY

Cleaner. By the time Norton

retires, I will have made him a

millionaire.

RED

Jesus. They ever catch on, he's

gonna wind up wearing a number

himself.

ANDY

(smiles)

I thought you had more faith in me

than that.

RED

I'm sure you're good, but all that

paper leaves a trail. Anybody gets

too curious -- FBI, IRS, whatever --

that trail's gonna lead to

somebody.

ANDY

Sure it will. But not to me, and

certainly not to the warden.

RED

Who then?

ANDY

Peter Stevens.

RED

Who?

ANDY

The silent, silent partner. He's