The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Andy meets Jake the crow while exploring the storage rooms.

Scene 67 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Andy
Brooks

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 44 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 67

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 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
Norton questions Andy about his church sampler and asks whether he can do taxes.
Scene 67
This scene

67INT -- MAIN BUILDING -- STORAGE ROOMS -- DAY (1949)

A series of bleak rooms stacked high with unused filing cabinets, desks, paint supplies, etc. Andy enters. He hears a FLUTTER OF WINGS. An adult crow lands on a filing cabinet and struts back and forth, checking him out. Andy smiles.

ANDY

Hey, Jake. Where's Brooks?

Brooks Hatlen pokes his head out of the back room.

BROOKS

Andy! Thought I heard you out here!

ANDY

I've been reassigned to you.

BROOKS

I know, they told me. Ain't that a

kick in the ass? Come on in, I'll

give you the dime tour.