The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Tommy plays cards with Andy, Red, and the others, comparing prisons.

Scene 142 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:13 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 142

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 139
Tommy struts through the prison as Red describes his cocky reputation.
Scene 140
Tommy works in the wood shop with Red and the older inmates.
Scene 141
Tommy entertains the men with a story about a botched burglary.
Scene 142
This scene

142INT -- LIBRARY -- DAY (1965)

Poker game in progress. Tommy, Andy, Red and the boys.

HEYWOOD

You did a stretch in Cashman too?

TOMMY

Yeah. That was an easy ride, let me

tell you. Work programs, weekend

furloughs. Not like here.

SNOOZE

Sounds like you done time all over

New England.

TOMNY

Been in and out since I was 13.

Name the place, chances are I been

there.

ANDY

Perhaps it's time you considered a

new profession.

(the game stalls)

What I mean is, you don't seem to

be a very good thief. Maybe you

should try something else.

TOMMY

What the hell you know about it,

Capone? What are you in for?

ANDY

(wry glance to Red)

Everyone's innocent in here. Don't

you know that?

The tension breaks. Everyone laughs.