The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Rory crawls through the tunnel toward the vertical shaft.

Scene 182 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act three

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Begins 1:33 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 182

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.
Scenes 31–154
He adapts through Red’s help, builds the library, and slowly earns trust while preparing for freedom.
Scenes 155–156
Tommy reveals that another inmate confessed to the murders, offering Andy a route to prove his innocence.
Scenes 157–166
Norton refuses to help and has Tommy killed, costing Andy the legal hope he had found.
Scene 176
The morning count reveals Andy is gone, confirming that the hidden plan worked.
Just before
Scene 179
Norton orders a prison-wide search and has Red seized.
Scene 180
Norton berates the guards for failing to notice Andy’s disappearance.
Scene 181
Young guard Rory is lowered into Andy’s tunnel to search for him.
Scene 182
This scene

182INT -- ANDY'S CELL -- MINUTES LATER (1966)

RORY TREMONT, a guard barely out of his teens, tries not to look nervous as they lash a rope around his chest. He's getting instructions from six different people at once.

RED (V.O.)

They got this skinny kid named Rory

Tremont to go in the hole. He

wasn't much in the brains

department, but he possessed the

one most important qualification

for the job...

(they slap a flashlight in his hands)

...he was willing to go.