英语学习：肖申克的救赎英文剧本对白Shawshank Redemption CD2

1 Six wardens have been through here in my tenure, and I've learned... 2 ...one immutable, universal truth: 3 Not one born whose asshole... 4 ...wouldn't pucker up tighter than a snare drum when you ask for funds. 5 -The budget's stretched thin as it is. -I see. 6 Maybe I could write the state senate and request funds from them. 7 They have only three ways to spend the taxpayers' money for prisons: 8 More walls, more bars, more guards. 9 I'd like to try, with permission. A letter a week. 10 -They can't ignore me forever. -Sure can. 11 But you write your letters if it makes you happy. 12 I'll even mail them for you. How's that? 13 So Andy started writing a letter a week... 14 ...just like he said. 15 And like Norton said... 16 ...Andy got no answers. 17 The following April, he did tax returns for half the guards at Shawshank. 18 Year after that, he did them all... 19 ...including the warden's. 20 Year after that, they rescheduled the intramural season... 21 ...to coincide with tax season. 22 The guards on the opposing teams all remembered to bring their W-2s. 23 So Moresby Prison... 24 ...issued you a gun, but you paid for it. 25 Right. The holster too. 26 That's tax-deductible. You can write that off. 27 Yes, sir! Andy was a regular cottage industry. 28 In fact, it got so busy at tax time, he was allowed a staff. 29 Could you hand me a stack of 1 040s? 30 Got me out of the wood shop a month out of the year, and that was fine by me. 31 And still, he kept sending those letters. 32 It's Brooks. 33 Watch the door. 34 Please, Brooks. 35 -Calm the fuck down. -Stay back! 36 -Stay back, goddamn it! -What's going on? 37 One second he's fine, then out come the knives. 38 We can talk about this, right? 39 There's nothing to talk about. I'll cut his fucking throat. 40 What's he done to you? 41 It's what they done! 42 I got no choice. 43 You won't hurt Heywood. We all know that. 44 -Right, Heywood? -Sure. 45 He's a friend of yours, and Brooks is a reasonable man. 46 Right, guys? 47 So put the knife down. Look at me. 48 Put the knife down. 49 Look at his neck, for God's sake. 50 Look at his neck. He's bleeding. 51 It's the only way... 52 ...they'd let me stay. 53 This is crazy. You don't want to do this. 54 Put it, put it down. 55 Take it easy. 56 You'll be all right. 57 Him? What about me? 58 Crazy old fool damn near cut my throat! 59 You've had worse from shaving. 60 What did you do to set him off? 61 Nothing. I come in here to say farewell. 62 Ain't you heard? His parole's come through. 63 I just don't understand what happened in there. 64 Old man's crazy as a rat in a tin shithouse. 65 That's enough out of you. 66 -Heard he had you shitting your pants. -Fuck you. 67 Knock it off. 68 Brooks ain't no bug. 69 He's just institutionalized. 70 "Institutionalized," my ass. 71 The man's been in here 50 years, Heywood, 50 years! 72 This is all he knows. 73 In here, he's an important man... 74 ...an educated man. 75 Outside, he's nothing. 76 Just a used-up con with arthritis in both hands. 77 Probably couldn't get a library card if he tried. 78 You know what I'm trying to say? 79 I do believe you're talking out of your ass. 80 You believe whatever you want. 81 But I tell you these walls are funny. 82 First you hate them. 83 Then you get used to them. 84 Enough time passes... 85 ...you get so you depend on them. 86 That's "institutionalized." 87 Shit. 88 -I could never get like that. -Oh, yeah? 89 Wait till you've been here as long as Brooks. 90 Goddamn right. 91 They send you here for life... 92 ...that's exactly what they take. 93 Part that counts, anyway. 94 I can't take care of you no more, Jake. 95 You go on now. 96 You're free. 97 You're free. 98 Good luck, Brooksie. 99 Dear fellas: 100 I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. 101 Watch it, old-timer! Want to get killed? 102 I saw an automobile once when I was a kid... 103 ...but now they're everywhere. 104 The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. 105 The parole board got me into this halfway house... 106 ...called "The Brewer"... 107 ...and a job... 108 ...bagging groceries at the Food-Way. 109 It's hard work and I try to keep up... 110 ...but my hands hurt most of the time. 111 Make sure your man double-bags. 112 Last time, the bottom near came out. 113 Make sure you double-bag like the lady says. Understand? 114 Yes, sir. Surely will. 115 I don't think the store manager likes me very much. 116 Sometimes after work, I go to the park and feed the birds. 117 I keep thinking... 118 ...Jake might just show up and say hello. 119 But he never does. 120 I hope, wherever he is, he's doing okay and making new friends. 121 I have trouble sleeping at night. 122 I have bad dreams like I'm falling. 123 I wake up scared. 124 Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am. 125 Maybe I should get a gun and rob the Food-Way so they'd send me home. 126 I could shoot the manager while I was at it. Sort of like a bonus. 127 I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense anymore. 128 I don't like it here. 129 I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided... 130 ...not to stay. 131 I doubt they'll kick up any fuss... 132 ...not for an old crook like me. 133 "l doubt they'll kick up any fuss, not for an old crook like me. 134 P.S. Tell Heywood I'm sorry I put a knife to his throat. 135 No hard feelings. Brooks." 136 He should have died in here. 137 What the fuck have you done? 138 It's a goddamn mess, I'll tell you that. 139 -What's all this? -You tell me. They're addressed to you. 140 Take it. 141 "Dear Mr. Dufresne: 142 In response to your inquiries... 143 ...the state has allocated the enclosed funds for your library project." 144 This is $200. 145 "In addition, the library district has generously responded... 146 ...with a donation of used books and sundries. 147 We trust this will fill your needs. We now consider the matter closed. 148 Please stop sending us letters." 149 Clear all this out before the warden gets back. 150 Yes, sir. 151 Good for you, Andy. 152 Wow! 153 It only took six years. 154 From now on, I'll write two letters a week instead of one. 155 I believe you're crazy enough. Get this stuff out... 156 ...like he said. 157 I've got to pinch a loaf. 158 When I come back... 159 ...this is all gone, all right? 160 Do you hear that? 161 Dufresne! 162 Andy, let me out! 163 I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. 164 Truth is, I don't want to know. 165 Some things are best left unsaid. 166 I like to think it was something so beautiful... 167 ...it can't be expressed in words... 168 ...and makes your heart ache because of it. 169 I tell you, those voices soared... 170 ...higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. 171 It was like a beautiful bird flapped into our drab cage... 172 ...and made those walls dissolve away. 173 And for the briefest of moments... 174 ...every last man at Shawshank felt free. 175 It pissed the warden off something awful. 176 Open the door. 177 Open it up! 178 Dufresne, open this door! 179 Turn that off! 180 I am warning you. Turn that off! 181 You're mine now. 182 Andy got two weeks in the hole for that little stunt. 183 On your feet. 184 -Hey, look who's here. -Maestro! 185 You couldn't play something good, huh? Like Hank Williams? 186 They broke the door down before I could take requests. 187 -Was it worth two weeks? -Easiest time I ever did. 188 -No such thing as easy time in the hole. -A week in the hole is like a year. 189 -Damn straight. -I had Mr. Mozart to keep me company. 190 So they let you tote that record player down there, huh? 191 It was in here. 192 In here. 193 That's the beauty of music. They... 194 ...can't get that from you. 195 Haven't you ever felt that way about music? 196 Well, I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. 197 Lost interest in it, though. 198 Didn't make much sense in here. 199 Here's where it makes the most sense. 200 You need it so you don't forget. 201 Forget? 202 Forget that there are... 203 ...places... 204 ...in the world that aren't made out of stone. 205 There's something... 206 ...inside... 207 ...that they can't get to... 208 ...that they can't touch. 209 That's yours. 210 What are you talking about? 211 Hope. 212 Hope. 213 Let me tell you something, my friend. 214 Hope is a dangerous thing. 215 Hope can drive a man insane. 216 It's got no use on the inside. 217 You'd better get used to that idea. 218 Like Brooks did? 219 Sit down. 220 Says here that you've served 30 years of a life sentence. 221 You feel you've been rehabilitated? 222 Oh, yes, sir. 223 Without a doubt. 224 I can honestly say I'm a changed man. 225 No danger to society here. 226 God's honest truth. 227 Absolutely rehabilitated. 228 Thirty years. 229 Jesus, when you say it like that.... 230 You wonder where it went. 231 I wonder where 1 0 years went. 232 Here. 233 A little parole rejection present. 234 Go ahead and open it. 235 Went through one of your competitors. 236 I hope you don't mind. I wanted it to be a surprise. 237 It's very pretty. 238 Thank you. 239 You going to play it? 240 No. 241 Not right now. 242 Roll in! 243 Lights out! 244 Andy was as good as his word. 245 He wrote two letters a week instead of one. 246 In 1959, the state senate finally clued in to the fact... 247 ...they couldn't buy him off with just a $200 check. 248 Appropriations Committee voted an annual payment of $500... 249 ...just to shut him up. 250 And you'd be amazed how far Andy could stretch it. 251 He made deals with book clubs, charity groups. 252 He bought remaindered books by the pound.... 253 Treasure Island. 254 Robert Louis-- 255 Stevenson. 256 Fiction, adventure. 257 What's next? 258 I got here Auto Repair... 259 ...and Soap Carving. 260 Trade skills and hobbies. Under "Educational," behind you. 261 Count of Monte Crisco. 262 That's "Cristo," you dumb shit. 263 By Alexandree... 264 ...Dum-ass. 265 Dumb ass. 266 Dumb ass? 267 Dumas. Know what that's about? 268 You'd like it. It's about a prison break. 269 We ought to file that under "Educational" too, oughtn't we? 270 The rest of us did our best to pitch in when and where we could. 271 By the year Kennedy was shot... 272 ...Andy had transformed a storage room smelling of turpentine... 273 ...into the best prison library in New England... 274 ...complete with a fine selection of Hank Williams. 275 That was also when Warden Norton... 276 ...instituted his famous "Inside Out" program. 277 You may remember reading about it. 278 It made the papers and got his picture in Look magazine. 279 It's no free ride... 280 ..but rather a genuine progressive advance... 281 ...in corrections and rehabilitation. 282 Our inmates, properly supervised... 283 ...will be put to work outside these walls... 284 ...performing all manner of public service. 285 These men can learn the value... 286 ...of an honest day's labor and provide a service to the community... 287 ...at a bare minimum of expense to Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Taxpayer. 288 Of course he didn't tell the press... 289 ...that "bare minimum of expense" is a fairly loose term. 290 There are 100 different ways to skim off the top. 291 Men, materials, you name it. 292 And oh, my Lord, how the money rolled in! 293 At this rate, you'll put me out of business. 294 With this pool of slave labor, you can underbid any contractor in town. 295 We're providing a valuable community service. 296 That's fine for the papers, but I've got a family to feed. 297 We go back a long way. 298 I need this highway contract. I don't get it and I go under. That's a fact. 299 You have some of this fine pie... 300 ...my missus made for you. You think about that. 301 I wouldn't worry too much about this contract. 302 I already got my boys committed elsewhere. 303 You be sure and thank Maisie for this fine pie. 304 And behind every shady deal... 305 ...behind every dollar earned... 306 ...there was Andy, keeping the books. 307 Two deposits. 308 Maine National and New England First. Night drops as always, sir. 309 Get my stuff to the laundry. Two suits for dry-clean and a bag of whatnot. 310 If they over-starch my shirts again, they'll hear from me. 311 How do I look? 312 -Very nice. -Big charity to-do up Portland way. 313 Governor will be there. 314 You want the rest of this? 315 Woman can't bake worth shit. 316 Thank you, sir. 317 He's got his fingers in a lot of pies, from what I hear. 318 He's got scams you haven't even dreamed of. Kickbacks on his kickbacks. 319 A river of dirty money running through here. 320 Sooner or later, he'll have to explain where it came from. 321 That's where I come in. 322 I channel it. Filter it. Funnel it. 323 Stocks, securities, tax-free municipals. 324 I send it out into the real world, and when it comes back.... 325 -Clean as a virgin's honeypot, huh? -Cleaner. 326 By the time Norton retires, I'll have made him a millionaire. 327 If they ever catch on, he'll wind up in here wearing a number himself. 328 I thought you had more faith in me than that. 329 I know you're good, but all that paper leaves a trail. 330 Now anybody gets curious, FBI, IRS... 331 ...whatever. 332 It'll lead to somebody. 333 Sure it is, but not to me, and certainly not to the warden. 334 All right, who? 335 Randall Stevens. 336 Who? 337 The "silent" silent partner. 338 He's the guilty one, the man with the bank accounts. 339 It's where the filtering process starts. 340 They trace anything, it'll just lead to him. 341 But who is he? 342 He's a phantom, an apparition. Second cousin to Harvey the Rabbit. 343 I conjured him... 344 ...out of thin air. 345 He doesn't exist, except on paper. 346 You can't just make a person up. 347 Sure you can, if you know how the system works. 348 It's amazing what you can accomplish by mail. 349 Mr. Stevens has a birth certificate... 350 ...driver's license, Social Security. 351 You're shitting me. 352 If they trace any accounts, they'll wind up chasing... 353 ...a figment of my imagination. 354 Well, I'll be damned! 355 Did I say you were good? 356 Shit, you are Rembrandt. 357 The funny thing is... 358 ...on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. 359 I had to come to prison to be a crook. 360 Ever bother you? 361 I don't run the scams. I just process the profits. 362 A fine line, maybe... 363 ...but I also built that library... 364 ...and used it to help guys get their high school diploma. 365 Why do you think he lets me do all that? 366 Keep you happy and doing the laundry. 367 Money instead of sheets. 368 Well, I work cheap. That's the tradeoff. 369 Tommy Williams came to Shawshank in 1965... 370 ...on a two-year stretch for B and E. 371 That's breaking and entering to you. 372 Cops caught him sneaking TV sets out the back door of a JC Penney. 373 Young punk. 374 Mr. Rock 'n' Roll... 375 ...cocky as hell. 376 Come on, old boys. Moving like molasses! 377 Making me look bad. 378 We liked him immediately. 379 I'm backing out the door and I got the TV like this. 380 A big old thing. I couldn't see shit. Then I hear this voice. 381 "Freeze, kid, hands in the air." 382 I was standing there, holding onto that TV. Finally the voice says: 383 "You hear what I said, boy?" I say, "Yes, sir. I did. 384 But if I drop this, you get me on destruction of property too." 385 You done some stretch in Cashman, right? 386 Yeah, that was an easy piece of time, let me tell you. 387 Weekend furloughs. Work programs. 388 Not like here. 389 Sounds like you done time all over. 390 I've been in and out since I was 1 3. 391 Name it, chances are I've been there. 392 Perhaps you should try a new profession. 393 What I mean is... 394 ...you're not a very good thief. You should try something else. 395 Yeah, what the hell you know about it, Capone? 396 What are you in for? 397 Me? 398 A lawyer fucked me. 399 Everybody's innocent in here. Don't you know that? 400 As it turned out, Tommy had himself a young wife and a new baby girl. 401 Maybe he thought of them on the streets... 402 ...or his child growing up not knowing her daddy. 403 Whatever it was... 404 ...something lit a fire under that boy's ass. 405 Thought I might try for my high school equivalency. 406 Hear you helped a couple of fellas with that. 407 I don't waste time with losers, Tommy. 408 I ain't no goddamn loser. 409 -You mean that? -Yeah. 410 You really mean that? 411 Yes, sir, I do. 412 Good. Because if we do this... 413 ...we do it all the way, a hundred percent, nothing half-assed. 414 Thing is, see... 415 ...I don't read so good. 416 "Well." 417 You don't read... 418 ...so well. 419 We'll get to that. 420 So Andy took Tommy under his wing. 421 Started walking him through his ABC's. 422 Tommy took to it pretty well too. 423 Boy found brains he never knew he had. 424 Before long, Andy started him on his course requirements. 425 He really liked the kid. 426 Gave him a thrill to help a youngster crawl off the shit heap. 427 But that wasn't the only reason. 428 Prison time is slow time. 429 So you do what you can to keep going. 430 Some fellas collect stamps. 431 Others build matchstick houses. 432 Andy built a library. 433 Now he needed a new project. 434 Tommy was it. 435 It was the same reason he spent years shaping and polishing those rocks. 436 The same reason he hung his fantasy girlies on the wall. 437 In prison... 438 ...a man will do most anything to keep his mind occupied. 439 By 1966, right about the time Tommy was getting ready to take his exams... 440 ...it was lovely Raquel. 441 Time. 442 Well? 443 Well, it's for shit. 444 I wasted a whole year of my time with this bullshit. 445 It's probably not that bad. 446 I didn't get a thing right. It might as well have been in Chinese. 447 Let's see how the score comes out. 448 I'll tell you how the goddamn score comes out. 449 Two points, right there! 450 There's your goddamn score! 451 Goddamn cats crawling up trees, 5 times 5 is 25.... 452 Fuck this place! 453 Fuck it! 454 I feel bad. 455 I let him down. 456 That's crap, kid. 457 He's proud of you. 458 We're old friends, I know him as good as anybody. 459 Smart fellow, ain't he? 460 Smart as they come. He was a banker on the outside. 461 What's he in here for anyway? 462 Murder. 463 The hell, you say. 464 You wouldn't think it to look at the guy. 465 Caught his wife in bed with some golf pro. Greased them both. 466 What? 467 About four years ago... 468 ...I was in Thomaston on a two-to-three stretch. 469 I stole a car. 470 It was a dumb-fuck thing to do. 471 About six months left to go... 472 ...I get a new cellmate in. 473 Elmo Blatch. 474 Big, twitchy fucker. 475 Kind of roomie you pray you don't get. You know what I'm saying? 476 Six-to-twelve, armed burglary. 477 Said he pulled hundreds of jobs. 478 Hard to believe, high-strung as he was. You cut a loud fart, he jumped three feet. 479 Talked all the time too. That's the other thing. He never shut up. 480 Places he'd been in... 481 ...jobs he'd pulled, women he fucked. 482 Even people he killed. 483 People who "gave him shit." 484 That's how he put it. 485 So one night, like a joke... 486 ...I say to him, "Elmo, who did you kill?" 487 So he says: 488 I got me this job one time, busing tables at a country club... 489 ...so I could case all these big rich pricks that come in. 490 So I pick out this guy... 491 ...go in one night... 492 ...and do his place. 493 He wakes up... 494 ...and gives me shit. 495 So I killed him. 496 Him and this tasty bitch he was with. 497 And that's the best part. 498 She's fucking this prick, see... 499 ...this golf pro, but she's married to some other guy. 500 Some hotshot banker. 501 And he's the one they pinned it on. 502 I have to say that's the most amazing story I ever heard. 503 What amazes me most is you'd be taken in by it. 504 Sir? 505 It's obvious this fellow Williams is impressed with you. 506 He hears your tale of woe and naturally wants to cheer you up. 507 He's young, not terribly bright. 508 It's not surprising he wouldn't know what a state he put you in. 509 Sir, he's telling the truth. 510 Let's say for the moment this Blatch does exist. 511 You think he'd just fall to his knees and cry, "Yes, I did it. I confess. 512 By the way, add a life term to my sentence." 513 With Tommy's testimony, I can get a new trial. 514 That's assuming Blatch is still there. 515 Chances are, he'd be released by now. 516 They'd have his last known address. 517 It's a chance, isn't it? 518 How can you be so obtuse? 519 What? 520 What did you call me? 521 Obtuse. Is it deliberate? 522 You're forgetting yourself. 523 The country club will have his old timecards. 524 Records, W-2s with his name on them. 525 If you want to indulge this fantasy, it's your business. 526 Don't make it mine. This meeting is over. 527 If I got out, I'd never mention what happens here. 528 I'd be as indictable as you for laundering that money. 529 Don't ever mention money to me, you son of a bitch! 530 Not in this office... 531 ...not anywhere. Get in here, now! 532 I just wanted to put you at ease, that's all. 533 Solitary. A month. 534 What's wrong with you? 535 Get him out of here. 536 This is my chance to get out! 537 It's my life! Understand?! 538 Get him out! 539 A month in the hole. 540 That's the longest stretch I ever heard of. 541 It's all my fault. 542 Bullshit. 543 You didn't pull the trigger or convict him. 544 Are you saying Andy is innocent? 545 I mean, for real innocent? 546 It looks that way. 547 Sweet Jesus. 548 How long has he been here now? 549 1 947. What is that? Nineteen years. 550 -Williams, Thomas. -Yeah, over here. 551 What you got? 552 Board of Education. 553 That son of a bitch mailed it. 554 You going to open it or stand there with your thumb up your butt? 555 Thumb up my butt sounds better. 556 Skeets, come on. Give me that, you shithead. 557 Floyd, come on. 558 Will you throw that away, please? 559 Well, shit. 560 The kid passed. C + average. 561 Thought you'd like to know. 562 Warden wants to talk. 563 Out here? 564 That's what the man said. 565 Warden? 566 I'm asking you to keep this conversation just between us. 567 I feel awkward enough as it is. 568 We got a situation here. 569 I think you can appreciate that. 570 Yes, sir. 571 I sure can. 572 I tell you, son, this thing really came along and knocked my wind out. 573 It's got me up nights. That's the truth. 574 The right thing to do... 575 ...sometimes it's hard to know what that is. 576 Do you understand? 577 I need your help, son. 578 If I'm going to move on this... 579 ...there can't be the least little shred of doubt. 580 I have to know... 581 ...if what you told Dufresne was the truth. 582 Yes, sir. 583 Absolutely. 584 Would you be willing to swear before a judge and jury... 585 ...with your hand on the Good Book... 586 ...and take an oath before Almighty God himself? 587 Just give me that chance. 588 That's what I thought. 589 I'm sure by now you've heard. 590 Terrible thing. 591 A man that young... 592 ...less than a year to go, trying to escape. 593 Broke Captain Hadley's heart to shoot him. 594 Truly, it did. 595 We just have to put it behind us. 596 Move on. 597 I'm done. 598 Everything stops. 599 Get someone else to run your scams. 600 Nothing stops. 601 Nothing. 602 Or you will do the hardest time there is. 603 No more protection from the guards. 604 I'll pull you out of that 1 -bunk Hilton and cast you down with the sodomites. 605 You'll think you've been fucked by a train. 606 And the library? 607 Gone. 608 Sealed off, brick by brick. 609 We'll have us a little book barbecue in the yard. 610 They'll see the flames for miles. 611 We'll dance around it like wild Injuns. 612 You understand me? Catching my drift? 613 Or am I being obtuse? 614 Give him another month to think about it. 615 My wife used to say I'm a hard man to know. 616 Like a closed book. 617 Complained about it all the time. 618 She was beautiful. 619 God, I loved her. 620 I didn't know how to show it, that's all. 621 I killed her, Red. 622 I didn't pull the trigger... 623 ...but I drove her away. 624 That's why she died, because of me... 625 ...the way I am. 626 That don't make you a murderer. 627 Bad husband, maybe. 628 Feel bad about it if you want, but you didn't pull the trigger. 629 No, I didn't. 630 Somebody else did. 631 And I wound up in here. 632 Bad luck, I guess. 633 It floats around. 634 It's got to land on somebody. 635 It was my turn, that's all. 636 I was in the path of the tornado. 637 I just didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has. 638 Think you'll ever get out of here? 639 Me? 640 Yeah. 641 One day, when I got a long, white beard... 642 ...and two or three marbles rolling around upstairs. 643 I tell you where I'd go. 644 Zihuatanejo. 645 Say what? 646 Zihuatanejo. 647 It's in Mexico. 648 A little place on the Pacific Ocean. 649 You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? 650 They say it has no memory. 651 That's where I want to live the rest of my life. 652 A warm place with no memory. 653 Open up a little hotel... 654 ...right on the beach. 655 Buy some worthless old boat... 656 ...and fix it up new. 657 Take my guests out... 658 ...charter fishing. 659 Zihuatanejo. 660 In a place like that, I could use a man that knows how to get things. 661 I don't think I could make it on the outside. 662 I been in here most of my life. 663 I'm an institutional man now. 664 Just like Brooks was. 665 You underestimate yourself. 666 I don't think so. 667 In here I'm the guy who can get things for you, sure, but... 668 ...outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. 669 Hell, I wouldn't know where to begin. 670 Pacific Ocean? 671 Shit. 672 Scare me to death, something that big. 673 Not me. 674 I didn't shoot my wife, and I didn't shoot her lover. 675 Whatever mistakes I made, I've paid for them and then some. 676 That hotel, that boat.... 677 I don't think that's too much to ask. 678 You shouldn't be doing this to yourself. 679 This is just shitty pipe dreams. 680 Mexico is way down there and you're in here... 681 ...and that's the way it is. 682 Yeah, right. That's the way it is. 683 It's down there and I'm in here. 684 I guess it comes down to a simple choice. 685 Get busy living... 686 ...or get busy dying. 687 If you ever get out of here, do me a favor. 688 Sure, Andy. Anything. 689 There's a big hayfield up near Buxton. You know where Buxton is? 690 -A lot of hayfields up there. -One in particular. 691 It's got a long rock wall with a big oak tree at the north end. 692 It's like something out of a Robert Frost poem. 693 It's where I asked my wife to marry me. 694 We went there for a picnic... 695 ...and made love under that oak... 696 ...and I asked and she said yes. 697 Promise me, Red. 698 If you ever get out... 699 ...find that spot. 700 At the base of that wall, there's a rock that has no earthly business in Maine. 701 Piece of black, volcanic glass. 702 Something's buried under it I want you to have. 703 What, Andy? 704 What's buried under there? 705 You'll have to pry it up... 706 ...to see. 707 No, I'm telling you. The guy is.... 708 He's talking funny. 709 I'm really worried about him. 710 Let's keep an eye on him. 711 That's fine during the day, but at night he's all alone. 712 Oh, Lord. 713 What? 714 Andy come down to the loading dock today. 715 He asked me for a length of rope. 716 Rope? 717 Six feet long. 718 And you gave it to him. 719 Sure. Why wouldn't l? 720 Jesus! Heywood. 721 How was I supposed to know? 722 Remember Brooks Hatlen? 723 Andy would never do that. 724 Never. 725 I don't know. 726 Every man has his breaking point. 727 Lickety-split. Want to get home. 728 Just about finished, sir. 729 Three deposits tonight. 730 Get my stuff down to the laundry. 731 And shine my shoes. 732 -I want them looking like mirrors. -Yes, sir. 733 It's good having you back. 734 Place wasn't the same without you. 735 Lights out! 736 I've had some long nights in stir. 737 Alone in the dark with nothing but your thoughts... 738 ...time can draw out like a blade. 739 That was the longest night of my life. 740 Give me a count! 741 Tier 3 south, clear! 742 Man missing on tier 2, cell 245! 743 Dufresne! 744 Come out. You're holding up the show! 745 Don't make me come down or I'll thump your skull for you! 746 Damn it, you're putting me behind! I got a schedule to keep. 747 You'd better be sick or dead in there. I shit you not! 748 You hear me? 749 Oh, my Holy God. 750 I want every man on this cellblock questioned. 751 -Start with that friend of his. -Who? 752 Open 237. 753 What do you mean, "He just wasn't here"? Don't say that to me. 754 Don't tell me that again. 755 But sir, he wasn't. 756 I can see that, Haig! Think I'm blind? 757 Is that what you're saying? 758 -Am I blind, Haig? -No, sir! 759 What about you. You blind? 760 -Tell me what this is. -Last night's count. 761 You see Dufresne's name there? I sure do. Right there. 762 "Dufresne." 763 He was in his cell... 764 ...at lights out. 765 Reasonable he'd be here in the morning. 766 I want him found. 767 Not tomorrow, not after breakfast. Now! 768 Yes, sir. 769 Let's go. Move your butts. 770 Stand. 771 Well? 772 Well, what? 773 I see you two all the time. You're thick as thieves, you are. 774 He must have said something. 775 No, sir, Warden. 776 Not a word. 777 Lord, it's a miracle! 778 Man vanished like a fart in the wind. 779 Nothing left... 780 ...but some damn rocks on a windowsill. 781 And that cupcake on the wall. Let's ask her. 782 Maybe she knows. 783 What say there, fuzzy-britches? Feel like talking? 784 Guess not. 785 Why should she be any different? 786 This is a conspiracy. 787 That's what this is. 788 One big, damn conspiracy! 789 And everyone's in on it! 790 Including her! 791 In 1966... 792 ...Andy Dufresne escaped... 793 ...from Shawshank Prison. 794 All they found was a muddy set of prison clothes... 795 ...a bar of soap... 796 ...and an old rock hammer... 797 ...damn near worn down to the nub. 798 I had thought it'd take a man 600 years to tunnel through the wall with it. 799 Old Andy did it in less than 20. 800 Oh, Andy loved geology. 801 I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature. 802 An ice age here... 803 ...million years of mountain building there. 804 Geology is the study of pressure and time. 805 That's all it takes, really. 806 Pressure... 807 ...and time. 808 That and a big goddamn poster. 809 Like I said... 810 ...in prison, a man will do anything to keep his mind occupied. 811 Seems Andy's favorite hobby was toting his wall out into the exercise yard... 812 ...a handful at a time. 813 I guess after Tommy was killed... 814 ...Andy decided he'd been here long enough. 815 Lickety-split. I want to get home. 816 I'm just about finished, sir. 817 Three deposits tonight. 818 Andy did like he was told. 819 Buffed those shoes to a high mirror-shine. 820 The guards simply didn't notice. 821 Neither did l. 822 I mean, seriously... 823 ...how often do you really look at a man's shoes? 824 Andy crawled to freedom through 500 yards... 825 ...of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine. 826 Or maybe I just don't want to. 827 Five hundred yards. 828 That's the length of five football fields. 829 Just shy of half a mile. 830 The next morning, right about the time Raquel was spilling her secret... 831 ...a man nobody ever laid eyes on before... 832 ...strolled into the Maine National Bank. 833 Until that moment, he didn't exist. 834 -Except on paper. -May I help you? 835 He had all the proper ID... 836 ...driver's license, birth certificate, Social Security card.... 837 And the signature was a spot-on match. 838 I must say I'm sorry to be losing your business. 839 I hope you'll enjoy living abroad. 840 Thank you. 841 I'm sure I will. 842 Here's your cashier's check, sir. Will there be anything else? 843 Please. 844 Would you add this to your outgoing mail? 845 I'd be happy to. 846 Good day, sir. 847 Mr. Stevens visited nearly a dozen banks in the Portland area that morning. 848 All told, he blew town... 849 ...with better than $370,000 of Warden Norton's money. 850 Severance pay for 19 years. 851 Good morning, Portland Daily Bugle. 852 Byron Hadley? You have the right to remain silent. 853 If you give up this right, anything you say can be held against you in court. 854 I wasn't there to see, but I hear Byron Hadley sobbed like a girl... 855 ...when they took him away. 856 Norton had no intention of going that quietly. 857 Samuel Norton. 858 We have a warrant for your arrest. Open up. 859 Open the door. 860 I'm not sure which key. 861 Make it easy on yourself, Norton! 862 I like to think the last thing that went through his head... 863 ...other than that bullet... 864 ...was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him. 865 Not long after the warden deprived us of his company... 866 ...I got a postcard in the mail. 867 It was blank, but the postmark said... 868 ...Fort Hancock, Texas. 869 Fort Hancock... 870 ...right on the border. 871 That's where Andy crossed. 872 When I picture him heading south in his own car with the top down... 873 ...it always makes me laugh. 874 Andy Dufresne... 875 ...who crawled through a river of shit... 876 ...and came out clean on the other side. 877 Andy Dufresne... 878 ...headed for the Pacific. 879 Hadley's got him by the throat, right? 880 He says, "l believe this boy's about to have himself an accident." 881 Those of us who knew him best talk about him often. 882 I swear, the stuff he pulled.... 883 "My friends could use a couple of beers." 884 And he got it! 885 Sometimes it makes me sad, though... 886 ...Andy being gone. 887 I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. 888 Their feathers are just too bright. 889 And when they fly away... 890 ...the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. 891 But still... 892 ...the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. 893 I guess I just miss my friend. 894 Please sit down. 895 Ellis Boyd Redding... 896 ...your files say you've served 40 years of a life sentence. 897 You feel you've been rehabilitated? 898 Rehabilitated? 899 Well, now, let me see. 900 I don't have any idea what that means. 901 It means you're ready to rejoin society-- 902 I know what you think it means, sonny. 903 To me it's just a made-up word. 904 A politician's word so that... 905 ...young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie... 906 ...and have a job. 907 What do you really want to know? 908 Am I sorry for what I did? 909 Well, are you? 910 There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. 911 Not because I'm in here or because you think I should. 912 I look back on the way I was then... 913 ...a young... 914 ...stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. 915 I want to talk to him. 916 I want to try and talk some sense to him. 917 Tell him the way things are. 918 But I can't. 919 That kid's long gone... 920 ...and this old man is all that's left. 921 I got to live with that. 922 Rehabilitated? 923 It's just a bullshit word. 924 So you go on and stamp your forms, sonny, and stop wasting my time. 925 Because to tell you the truth... 926 ...I don't give a shit. 927 Here you go, miss. 928 Restroom break? 929 You don't need to ask me every time you need to go take a piss. Just go. 930 Forty years I've been asking permission to piss. 931 I can't squeeze a drop without say-so. 932 There's a harsh truth to face. 933 No way I'm going to make it on the outside. 934 All I do anymore is think of ways to break my parole... 935 ...so maybe they'd send me back. 936 Terrible thing, to live in fear. 937 Brooks Hatlen knew it. 938 Knew it all too well. 939 All I want is to be back where things make sense. 940 Where I won't have to be afraid all the time. 941 Only one thing stops me. 942 A promise I made to Andy. 943 There it is. 944 Much obliged, sir. 945 Dear Red: 946 If you're reading this, you've gotten out... 947 ...and if you've come this far, maybe you'd come a bit further. 948 You remember the name of the town, don't you? 949 Zihuatanejo. 950 I could use a good man to help me get my project on wheels. 951 I'll keep an eye out for you, and the chessboard ready. 952 Remember, Red... 953 ...hope is a good thing... 954 ...maybe the best of things. 955 And no good thing ever dies. 956 I will be hoping that this letter finds you... 957 ...and finds you well. 958 Your friend... 959 ...Andy. 960 "Get busy living... 961 ...or get busy dying. " 962 That's goddamn right. 963 For the second time in my life... 964 ...I'm guilty of committing a crime. 965 Parole violation. 966 Of course I doubt they'll toss up any roadblocks for that. 967 Not for an old crook like me. 968 Fort Hancock, Texas, please. 969 I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. 970 I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel. 971 A free man at the start of a long journey... 972 ...whose conclusion is uncertain. 973 I hope I can make it across the border. 974 I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. 975 I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. 976 I hope.