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【场景再现】
RED: He's got his fingers in a lot of pies, from what I hear.
ANDY: What you hear isn't half of it. He's got scams you haven'tdreamed of. Kickbacks on his kickbacks. There's a river of dirty moneyflowing through this place.
RED: Can be a problem having all that money. 'Cause sooner or later you're gotta have to explain where it came from.
ANDY: That's where I come in. I channel it, filter it, funnelit...stocks, securities, tax-free municipals...I send that money outinto the real world. And when it comes back...
RED: Clean as a virgin's honeybunch?
ANDY: Cleaner. By the time Norton retires, I will have made him a millionaire.
RED: If they ever catch on him, he's gonna wind up here wearing a number himself.
ANDY: Oh Red, I thought you had a little more faith in me than that.
RED: I know you're good, but all that paper leaves a trail. Nowanybody gets curious, FBI, IRS, whatever. It's going to lead tosomebody.
ANDY: Sure it is. But not to me, and certainly not to the warden.
RED: All right, who?
ANDY: Randall Stevens.
RED: Who?
ANDY: The "silent" silent partner. He's the guilty one, your Honor.The man with the bank accounts. It's where the filtering processstarts. They trace anything, it's gonna lead to him.
RED: But who is he?
ANDY: He's a phantom, an apparition. Second cousin to Harvey theRabbit. (off Red's look) I conjured him out of thin air. He doesn'texist...except on paper.
RED: Andy, you can't just make a person up.
ANDY: Sure you can, if you know how the system works, and where thecracks are. It's amazing what you can accomplish by mail. Mr. Stevenshas a birth certificate, driver's license, social security number.
Red: You're shitting me.
ANDY: If they ever trace any of those accounts, they'll wind up chasing a figment of my imagination.
RED: Well, I'll be damned! Did I say you were good? You're Rembrandt.
ANDY: The funny thing is on the outside, I was an honest man. Straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.
