The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Leonard hides Andy’s package in the laundry stream.

Scene 35 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 35

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.
Just before
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
A laundry truck delivers dirty bags; one package is marked for Leonard to conceal.
Scene 35
This scene

35INT -- PRISON LAUNDRY -- DAY (1947)

Bags are being unloaded. We find Leonard working the line.

RED (V.O.)

When they check you into this

hotel, one of the bellhops bends

you over and looks up your works,

just to make sure you're not

carrying anything. But a truly

determined man can get an object

quite a ways up there.

Leonard slips a small paper-wrapped package out of the laundry bag, hides it under his apron, and keeps sorting...