The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Red uses the laundry exchange to retrieve the clean bundle carrying Andy’s package.

Scene 36 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 24 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 36

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 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
Leonard hides Andy’s package in the laundry stream.
Scene 36
This scene

36INT -- PRISON LAUNDRY EXCHANGE -- DAY (1947)

Red deposits his dirty bundle and moves down the line to where the clean sheets are being handed out.

RED (V.O.)

That's how Andy joined our happy

little Shawshank family with more

than five hundred dollars on his

person. Determination.

Leonard catches Red's eye, turns and grabs a specific stack of clean sheets. He hands it across to Red --

TIGHT ANGLE

-- and more than clean laundry

changes hands.

Two packs of cigarettes slide out of Red's hand into Leonard's.