The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

A laundry truck delivers dirty bags; one package is marked for Leonard to conceal.

Scene 34 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 23 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 34

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.
Just before
Scene 31
Andy approaches Red in the yard, introduces himself, and asks him to obtain a rock hammer.
Scene 32
Andy slips Red a folded note at breakfast.
Scene 33
Red finds ten dollars in Andy’s note and later learns Andy smuggled in much more.
Scene 34
This scene

34EXT -- LOADING DOCK -- DAY (1947)

Under watchful supervision, CONS are off-loading bags of dirty laundry from an "Eliot Nursing Home" truck.

RED (V.O.)

Years later, I found out he'd

brought in quite a bit more than

just ten dollars...

A certain bag hits the ground. The TRUCK DRIVER shoots a look at a black con, LEONARD, then ambles over to a GUARD to shoot the shit. Leonard loads the bag onto a cart...