“If they ever catch on, though, he'll wind up in here wearing a number himself.”
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In The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding delivers this line during a quiet exchange among prisoners about another man's situation. The line reads like a small, grim observation rooted in the routines of prison life. What makes it memorable is the deadpan delivery and the image it creates of institutional consequence reduced to a number.