1:26:00
Thought I might try for
my high school equivalency.
1:26:04
Hear you helped
a couple of fellas with that.
1:26:07
I don't waste time with losers, Tommy.
1:26:11
I ain't no goddamn loser.
1:26:15
- You mean that?
- Yeah.
1:26:19
You really mean that?
1:26:21
Yes, sir, I do.
1:26:23
Good. Because if we do this...
1:26:25
...we do it all the way,
a hundred percent, nothing half-assed.
1:26:29
Thing is, see...
1:26:32
...I don't read so good.
1:26:35
"Well."
1:26:38
You don't read...
1:26:40
...so well.
1:26:44
We'll get to that.
1:26:50
So Andy took Tommy under his wing.
1:26:52
Started walking him through his ABC's.
1:26:57
Tommy took to it pretty well too.
1:26:59
Boy found brains he never knew he had.
1:27:05
Before long, Andy started him
on his course requirements.
1:27:08
He really liked the kid.
1:27:10
Gave him a thrill to help a youngster
crawl off the shit heap.
1:27:14
But that wasn't the only reason.
1:27:17
Prison time is slow time.
1:27:20
So you do what you can to keep going.
1:27:23
Some fellas collect stamps.
1:27:25
Others build matchstick houses.
1:27:28
Andy built a library.
1:27:31
Now he needed a new project.
1:27:34
Tommy was it.
1:27:36
It was the same reason he spent years
shaping and polishing those rocks.
1:27:41
The same reason he hung
his fantasy girlies on the wall.
1:27:45
In prison...
1:27:47
...a man will do most anything
to keep his mind occupied.
1:27:51
By 1966, right about the time Tommy
was getting ready to take his exams...
1:27:56
...it was lovely Raquel.