The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Bill Bolender: Elmo Blatch

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• [Tommy and Red are talking about Andy] 

  Tommy Williams : What's he in here for, anyway?

  Red : Murder.

  Tommy Williams : [Impressed]  The hell you say!

  Red : Yeah, you wouldn't think it to look at the guy. Caught his wife in bed with some golf pro. Greased 'em both.

  [pause, Tommy looks shocked] 

  Red : What? What is it?

  [cut to a later scene with Andy present] 

  Tommy Williams : About four years ago I was up in Thomaston on a two to three stretch. Stole a car. It was a dumb-fuck thing to do. About six months left to go, I get a new cellmate in. Elmo Blatch. Big, twitchy fucker. Kind of roomie you pray you don't get, you know what I'm sayin'? Six to twelve, armed burglary. Said he'd pulled hundreds of jobs - hard to believe, high-strung as he was, you cut a loud fart he'd jump three feet in the air. Talked *all the time*, too, that's the other thing, he never shut up. Places he'd been, jobs he'd pulled, women he fucked. Even, people he killed. People, gave him shit. That's how he put it. So one night like a joke, I say to him, I say, "Yeah, Elmo, who'd you kill?" So he says:

  Elmo Blatch : [in flashback]  I got me this job one time, busing tables at a country club, so I could case all these big rich pricks who come in. So I pick out this guy, go in one night, and do his place. He wakes up, and gives me shit, so I killed him. Him and this tasty bitch he was with!

  [laughs] 

  Elmo Blatch : And that's the best part. She's fuckin' this prick golf pro but she's married to some other guy! Some hot-shot banker! And he's the one they pinned it on!