The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

On a Mexican beach, Red finds Andy restoring a boat and the friends reunite.

Scene 249 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Last scene of act three

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Andy
Red

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:56 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 249

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.
Scenes 167–218
Andy escapes with evidence and exposes the warden, returning to the outside world on his own terms.
Just before
Scene 246
Red leaves a message beside Brooks’s carving and walks away with his bag.
Scene 247
Red buys a bus ticket to McNary, accepting the risk of violating parole.
Scene 248
Red rides south, hopeful but uncertain whether he will reach Andy.
Scene 249
This scene

249EXT -- BEACH -- WIDE PANORAMIC SHOT -- DAY (1967)

A distant boat lies on its side in the sand like an old wreck that's been left to rot in the sun. There's someone out there.

CLOSER ON BOAT

A MAN is meticulously stripping the old paint and varnish by hand, face hidden with goggles and kerchief mask. Red appears b.g., a distant figure walking out across the sand, wearing his cheap suit and carrying his cheap bag. The man on the boat pauses. Turns slowly around. Red arrives with a smile as wide as the horizon. The other man raises his goggles and pulls down his mask. Andy, of course.

ANDY

You look like a man who knows how

to get things.

RED

I'm known to locate certain things

from time to time.

Red shrugs off his jacket and picks up a sander. Together, they start sanding the hull as we

FADE OUT

THE END