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Please sit down.

Ellis Boyd Redding.

Your files say you’ve served 40 years of a life sentence.

Do you feel you’ve been rehabilitated?

Rehabilitated?

Well, now, let me see.

You know, I don’t have any idea what that means.

Well, it means you’re ready to rejoin society…

I know what you think it means, sonny.

To me, it’s just a made-up word.

A politician’s word so that…

young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie and have a job.

What do you really want to know?

Am I sorry for what I did?

Well, are you?

There’s not a day goes by I don’t feel regret.

Not because I’m in here or because you think I should.

I look back on the way I was then.

A young…

stupid kid who committed that terrible crime.

I wanna talk to him.

I wanna try and talk some sense to him,

tell him the way things are.

But I can’t.

That kid’s long gone.

This old man is all that’s left.

I gotta live with that.

Rehabilitated?

It’s just a bullshit word.

So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time.

Because to tell you the truth,

I don’t give a shit.

Here you go, miss.

Rest room break, boss?

You don’t need to ask me every time you need to go take a piss. Just go. Understand?

Yes, sir.

40 years I’ve been asking permission to piss.

I can’t squeeze a drop without say-so.

There’s a harsh truth to face.

No way I’m gonna make it on the outside.

All I do any more is think of ways to break my parole…

..so maybe they’d send me back.

A terrible thing to live in fear.

Brooks Hatlen knew it, knew it all too well.

All I want is to be back where things make sense,

where I won’t have to be afraid all the time.

Only one thing stops me.

A promise I made to Andy.

Here it is.

Much obliged, sir.