The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Brooks frees Jake through the library window, unable to care for him anymore.

Scene 84 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 52 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 84

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 81
Red explains that Brooks is institutionalized and fears the outside.
Scene 82
Dawn breaks over Shawshank.
Scene 83
Sunlight falls across the Rita Hayworth poster in Andy’s cell.
Scene 84
This scene

84INT -- LIBRARY -- DAWN (1954)

Brooks stands on a chair, poised at the bars of a window, cradling Jake in his hands.

BROOKS

I can't take care of you no more.

You go on now. You're free.

He tosses Jake through the bars. The crow flaps away.