I believe you're crazy enough. You better get this stuff downstairs like the Captain said. I'm gonna go pinch a loaf. When I get back, this is all gone, right?

Andy nods. Wiley disappears into the toilet, Jughead Comix in hand. Alone now, Andy starts going through the boxes like a starving man exploring packages of food. He doesn't know where to turn first. He gets giddy, ripping boxes open and pulling out books, touching them, smelling them.

He rips open another box. This one contains an old phonograph player, industrial gray and green, the words "Portland Public School District" stenciled on the side. The box also contains stacks and stacks of used record albums.

Andy reverently slips a stack from the box and starts flipping through them. Used Nat King Coles, Bing Crosbys, etc. He comes across a certain album -- Mozart's "Le Nozze de Figaro." He pulls it from the stack, gazing upon it as a man transfixed. It is a thing of beauty. It is the Grail.

INT -- BATHROOM -- DAY (1955)

Wiley sits in one of the stalls, Jughead comic on his knees.

INT -- GUARD STATION/OUTER OFFICE -- DAY (1955)

Andy wrestles the phonograph player onto the guards' desk, sweeping things onto the floor in his haste. He plugs the machine in. A red light warms up. The platter starts spinning.

He slides the Mozart album from its sleeve, lays it on the platter, and lowers the tone arm to his favorite cut. The needle HISSES in the groove…and the MUSIC begins, lilting and gorgeous. Andy sinks into Wiley's chair, overcome by its beauty. It is "Deutino: Che soave zeffiretto," a duet sung by Susanna and the Contessa.

INT -- BATHROOM -- DAY (1955)

Wiley pauses reading, puzzled. He thinks he hears music.

WILEY

Andy? You hear that?

INT -- GUARD STATION/OUTER OFFICE -- DAY (1955)

Andy shoots a look at the bathroom…and smiles. Go for broke. He lunges to his feet and barricades the front door, then the bathroom. He returns to the desk and positions the P.A. microphone. He works up his courage, then flicks all the toggles to "on." A SQUEAL OF FEEDBACK echoes briefly…

INT/EXT -- VARIOUS P.A. SPEAKERS -- DAY (1955)

…and the Mozart is suddenly broadcast all over the prison.

INT -- BATHROOM -- DAY (1955)

Wiley lunges to his feet, pants tangling around his ankles.

INT/EXT -- SHAWSHANK PRISON -- VARIOUS LOCATIONS -- DAY (1955)

Cons all over the prison stop whatever they're doing, freezing in mid-step to listen, gazing up at the speakers.

THE STAMPING MACHINES IN THE PLATE SHOP ARE SHUT DOWN…

THE LAUNDRY LINE GOES SILENT, GRINDING TO A HALT…

THE WOOD SHOP MACHINES ARE TURNED OFF, BUZZING TO A STOP…

THE MOTOR POOL…THE KITCHEN…THE LOADING DOCK…THE EXERCISE

thru yard… the numbing routine of prison life itself… all grinds thru

TO A STUTTERING HALT. NOBODY MOVES, NOBODY SPEAKS. EVERYBODY

just stands in place, listening to the MUSIC, hypnotized.

INT -- GUARD STATION -- DAY (1955)