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Cora!

MAN: You love your sister?

You make any noise, you know what happens.

Good morning, Estelle.

OLD MAN: How am I looking, Paul? - That’s better. That’s better.

HECTOR: Morning, Mr. Edgecomb.

Some Danish this morning?

No, just two pieces of dry toast, Hector. Thanks.

Leftover’s fine.

• Dry and cold, same as always. - Cold is better.

Especially on those long walks.

Am I right?

Don’t let Nurse Godzilla catch you. She’ll raise holy hell.

We’re not supposed to let you wander off.

Where do you go every day? What do you do up in those hills?

Just walk.

I like to walk.

You try not to fall down, bust a hip.

I don’t wanna be in no damn search party.

I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you.

whether you want it to or not It’s silly.

Was it the film? It was, wasrt it?

I haven’t spoken of these things for a long time, Ellie.

Over 60 years.

Paul, I’m your friend.

I ever tell you that I was a prison guard during the Depression?

You’ve mentioned it.

Did I mention that I was in charge of death row?

That I supervised all the executions?

Usually, death row is called “The Last Mile.”

We called ours “The Green Mile.”

The floor was the color of faded limes.

We had the electric chair.

“Old Sparky,” we called it.

Oh, I’ve lived a lot of years, Ellie.

.but 1935, that takes the prize.

That year, I had.

.the worst urinary infection of my life.

It was.

It was also the year of.

.John Coffey.

.and the two dead girls.

Put me through to E Block.

E Block.

Yeah.

Right.

You should’ve took the day off to see the doctor.

With a new arrival? You know better.

Besides

it’s not as bad as it was. I think it’s clearing up.

Let’s look alive, Dean. - Yes, sir.

Damn.

They’re riding on the axle.

What’d they do?

They bust the springs?

Dead man!

Dead man walking!

-We got a dead man walking here!

Jesus, please us, what is he yelling about?

Pau?

.you might reconsider getting in the cell with this guy.

He’s enormous.

Can’t be bigger than you.

PERCY: Dead man!

Dead man walking!

Dead man!

Dead man walking!

Dead man walking here!

Dead man!

We got a dead man walking here!

Dead man walking!

• We got a dead man walking here! PAUL: Percy.

That’s enough.

Am I gonna have any trouble with you, big boy?

Can you talk?

Yes, sir, boss. I can talk.

Move your ass. Let’s go.

Come on.

Percy.

.they’re moving house down in the infirmary.

Why don’t you go see if they could use some help.

They got all the men they need.

Why don’t you just go and make sure.

I don’t care where you go.

.as long as it’s not here at this very moment.

All right.

God, you bust my finger.

I wiped that grin off your face, didn’t I?

Goddamn it, Percy, get the hell off my block!

Fuck you, Percy.

We’ll get that looked at, Del. In the meantime, you stay quiet.

Yeah.

I let Harry take those chains off you.

.you gonna be nice?