The Shawshank Redemption1994

Red:
[about Norton] 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't even dreamed of. Kickbacks on his kickbacks. There's a river of dirty money running through this place.

Red:
Yeah, but the problem with having all that money is sooner or later, you're gonna have to explain where it came from.

Andy:
Well, that's where I come in. I channel it, filter it, funnel it. Stocks, securities, tax free municipals. I send that money out into the real world and when it comes back...

Red:
Clean as a virgin's honeypot, huh?

Andy:
Cleaner. By the time Norton retires, I'll have made him a millionaire.

Red:
If they ever catch on, though, he'll wind up in here wearing a number himself.

Andy:
Oh, Red, I thought you had more faith in me than that.

Red:
I know you're good, Andy, but all that paper leaves a trail. Now, anybody gets curious, FBI, IRS, whatever, it's gonna lead to somebody.

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 process starts. They trace anything, it's just gonna lead to him.

Red:
But who is he?

Andy:
He's a phantom, an apparition. Second cousin to Harvey the Rabbit. I conjured him, out of thin air. He doesn't exist, except on paper.

Red:
Andy, you just can't make a person up.

Andy:
Sure you can, if you know how the system works, where the cracks are. It's amazing what you can accomplish by mail. Mr. Stevens has a birth certificate, driver's license, Social Security number.

Red:
You're shitting me.

Andy:
If they ever trace any of those accounts, they're gonna wind up chasing a figment of my imagination.

Red:
[smiles] Well, I'll be damned. Did I say you were good? Sh*t, you are Rembrandt.

Andy:
You know, 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.