That there are things in this world not carved out of gray stone. That there's a small place inside of us they can never lock away, and that place is called hope.
RED:
Hope is a dangerous thing. Drive a man insane. It's got no place here.
Better get used to the idea.
ANDY:
(softly) Like Brooks did?
FADE TO BLACK:
151 AN IRON-BARRED DOOR 151 slides open with an enormous CLANG. A stark room beyond.
CAMERA PUSHES through. SEVEN HUMORLESS MEN sit at a long table. An empty chair faces them. We are again in: INT -- SHAWSHANK HEARINGS ROOM -- DAY (1957) Red enters, ten years older than when we first saw him at a parole hearing. He removes his cap and sits.
MAN #l It says here you've served thirty years of a life sentence.
MAN #2 You feel you've been rehabilitated?
RED:
Yes sir, without a doubt. I can say I'm a changed man. No danger to society, that's the God's honest truth. Absolutely rehabilitated.
CLOSEUP -- PAROLE FORM
A big rubber stamp slams down:
"REJECTED." 152EXT -- PRISON YARD -- DUSK (1957) 152 Red emerges into fading daylight. Andy's waiting for him.
RED:
Same old, same old. Thirty years.
Jesus. When you say it like that...
ANDY:
You wonder where it went. I wonder where ten years went.
Red nods, solemn. They settle in on the bleachers. Andy pulls a small box from his sweater, hands it to Red.
ANDY:
Anniversary gift. Open it.
Red does. Inside the box, on a thin layer of cotton, is a shiny new harmonica, bright aluminum and circus-red.
ANDY:
Had to go through one of your competitors. Hope you don't mind.
Wanted it to be a surprise.
RED:
It's very pretty, Andy. Thank you.
ANDY:
You gonna play something?
-- Red considers it, shakes his head. Softly:
RED:
Not today.
153INT -- CELLBLOCK FIVE/ANDY'S CELL -- NIGHT (1957) 153 Men line the tiers as the evening count is completed. The convicts step into their cells. The master switch is thrown and all the doors slam shut -- KA-THUMP! Andy finds a
cardboard tube on his bunk. The note reads:
"A new girl for your 10 year anniversary. From your pal. Red." 154INT -- ANDY'S CELL -- LATER (1957) 154 Marilyn Monroe's face fills the screen. SLOW PULL BACK reveals