The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Norton questions Andy about his church sampler and asks whether he can do taxes.

Scene 66 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Norton
Andy

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Begins 44 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 66

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.
Scene 51
Andy tells Red that prisoners retain an inner life and hope, though Red warns hope can be dangerous.
Just before
Scene 63
At morning count, Andy thanks Red; Red spots the poster covering a hole in the wall.
Scene 64
Norton arrives with guards to search the cells.
Scene 65
Hadley pulls Andy off the laundry line and takes him to Norton’s office.
Scene 66
This scene

66INT -- WARDEN NORTON'S OFFICE -- DAY (1949)

Andy is led in. Norton is at his desk doing paperwork. Andy's eyes go to a framed needle-point sampler on the wall behind him that reads: "HIS JUDGMENT COMETH AND THAT RIGHT SOON."

NORTON

My wife made that in church group.

ANDY

It's very pretty, sir.

NORTON

You like working in the laundry?

ANDY

No, sir. Not especially.

NORTON

Perhaps we can find something more

befitting a man of your education.