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51EXT -- PRISON YARD -- THE BLEACHERS -- DAY (1949)

Andy and Red play checkers. Red makes his move.

RED

King me.

ANDY

Chess. Now there's a game of kings.

Civilized...strategic...

RED

...and totally fuckin'

inexplicable. Hate that game.

ANDY

Maybe you'll let me teach you

someday. I've been thinking of

getting a board together.

RED

You come to the right place. I'm

the man who can get things.

ANDY

We might do business on a board.

But the pieces, I'd like to carve

those myself. One side done in

quartz... the opposing side in

limestone.

RED

That'd take you years.

ANDY

Years I've got. What I don't have

are the rocks. Pickings here in the

exercise yard are pretty slim.

RED

How's that rock-hammer workin' out

anyway? Scratch your name on your

wall yet?

ANDY

(smiles)

Not yet. I suppose I should.

RED

Andy? I guess we're gettin' to be

friends, ain't we?

ANDY

I suppose we are.

RED

I ask a question? Why'd you do it?

ANDY

I'm innocent, remember? Just like

everybody else here.

Red takes this as a gentle rebuff, keeps playing.

ANDY (CONT'D)

What are you in for, Red?

RED

Murder. Same as you.

ANDY

Innocent?

RED

The only guilty man in Shawshank.