《THE SHAWSHANK REMDEMPTION(肖申克的救赎英文版)》第27章

　　By all means, please add

　　a life term to my sentence!"

　　ANDY It wouldn't matter. With Tommy's testimony, I can get a new trial.

　　NORTON That's assuming Blatch is even still there. Chances are excellent he'd be released by

　　now. Excellent.

　　ANDY They'd have his last known address. Names of relatives...

　　(Norton shakes his head)

　　Well it's a chance. isn't it? How can you be so obtuse?

　　NORTON What? What did you call me?

　　ANDY Obtuse! Is it deliberate? The country club will have his old time cards! W-2s with his name

　　on them!

　　NORTON (rises)

　　Dufresne, if you want to indulge this fantasy, that's your business.

　　Don't make it mine. This meeting's over.

　　ANDY Look, if it's the squeeze, don't worry. I'd never say what goes on in here. I'd be just as

　　indictable as you for laundering the money!

　　NORTON Don't you ever mention money to me again, you sorry son of a bitch!

　　Not in this office, not anywhere!

　　(slaps intercom) Get in here! Now!

　　ANDY I was just trying to rest your mind at ease, that's all.

　　NORTON (as GUARDS enter)

　　Solitary! A month! Andy gets dragged away, kicking and screaming:

　　ANDY What's the matter with you? It's my chance to get out, don't you see

　　that? It's my life! Don't you understand it's my life?

　　193 EXT -- PRISON YARD -- DAY (1966) 193

　　Mail call. Men crowd around as names are called out. Red and the boys are parked on the

　　bleachers.

　　FLOYD A month in the hole. Longest damn stretch I ever heard of.

　　TOMMY

　　It's my fault.

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　　RED

　　Like hell. You didn't pull the trigger, and you didn't convict him.

　　HEYWOOD

　　Red? You saying Andy's innocent? I mean for real innocent?

　　(Red nods)

　　Sweet Jesus. How long's he been in here?

　　RED

　　Since '47. Going on nineteen years.

　　MAIL CALLER

　　Thomas Williams!

　　Tommy raises his hand. The envelope gets tossed to him. He stares at it. Red peers over his

　　shoulder.

　　RED

　　Board of Education.

　　TOMMY

　　The son of a bitch mailed it.

　　RED

　　Looks that way. You gonna open it or stick your thumb up your butt?

　　TOMMY

　　Thumb up my butt sounds better.

　　He gets hemmed in by the older men. Red snatches the letter.

　　TOMMY

　　C'mon, just throw it away. Will you please? Just throw it away?

　　Red rips it open, scans the letter. Expressionless.

　　RED

　　Well, shit.

　　194 INT -- VISITOR'S ROOM -- DAY (1966) 194

　　Tommy makes his way through the chaos, finds Beth and the baby

　　waiting behind the thick plexi shield. He sits, doesn't pick up the phone. Just stares at Beth. She

　　doesn't know what to make of it.

　　He presses a piece of paper against the glass. A high school diploma. Her face lights up, blinking

　　back tears.

　　195 INT -- SOLITARY WING -- NIGHT (1966) 195

　　LOW ANGLE on steel door. Somewhere behind it, unseen, is Andy,

　　A rat scurries along the wall. FOOTSTEPS approach slowly.

　　196 INT -- SOLITARY -- NIGHT (1966) 196

　　Andy listens in darkness. The FOOTSTEPS pause outside his door. The slot opens. An ELDERLY

　　GUARD peers in.

　　ELDERLY GUARD

　　Kid passed. C-plus average. Thought you'd like to know.

　　The slot closes. The FOOTSTEPS recede. Andy smiles.

　　197 INT -- PRISON CORRIDOR -- NIGHT (1966) 197

　　We find Tommy on evening work detail, mopping the floors with

　　bucket and pail. Mert Entwhistle comes into view.

　　MERT

　　Warden wants to talk.

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　　198 EXT -- PRISON -- NIGHT (1966) 198

　　A steel door rattles open. Mert leads Tommy outside to a gate,

　　unlocks it. Tommy looks around.

　　TOMMY

　　Out here?

　　MERT

　　That's what the man said.

　　Mert swings the gate open, sends Tommy through, turns and heads back inside. Tommy proceeds

　　out across a loading-dock access for the shops and mills. Some vehicles parked. The place is

　　deserted. He stops, sensing a presence.

　　TOMMY

　　Warden?