The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

The bank verifies Stevens’s identity and prepares the cashier’s check.

Scene 209 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act three

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:42 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 209

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 206
In the storm, Andy breaks out of the sewer and washes into the creek.
Scene 207
The next morning, the empty tunnel reveals how Andy escaped.
Scene 208
Posing as Randall Stevens, Andy enters the Casco Bank to withdraw Norton’s money.
Scene 209
This scene

209INT -- BANK -- SHORTLY LATER (1966)

The teller is cutting a cashier's check while the MANAGER carefully examines Mr. Stevens' various I.D.s.

RED (V.O.)

He had all the proper I.D. Driver's

license, birth certificate, social

security card. The signature was a

spot-on match.

MANAGER

I must say I'm sorry to be losing

your business. I hope you'll enjoy

living abroad.

ANDY

Thank you. I'm sure I will.

TELLER

Here's your cashier's check, sir.

Will there be anything else?

ANDY

Please. Would you add this to your

outgoing mail?

He hands her a package, stamped and addressed. Gives them a pleasant smile. Turns and strolls from the bank.

RED (V.O.)

Mr. Stevens visited nearly a dozen

banks in the Portland area that

morning. All told, he blew town

with better than 370 thousand

dollars of Warden Norton's money.

Severance pay for nineteen years.