The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Brooks packs his few possessions and writes to his prison friends.

Scene 95 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 54 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 95

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 92
Brooks feeds pigeons and hopes Jake might return.
Scene 93
Brooks wakes frightened from a bad dream in his unfamiliar room.
Scene 94
Brooks imagines robbing the Foodway so he can be sent back to prison.
Scene 95
This scene

95INT -- BROOKS' ROOM -- DAY (1954)

Brooks is packing his worldly possessions into the carry bag. Undershirts, socks, etc.

BROOKS (V.O.)

But I guess I'm too old for that

sort of nonsense anymore.