An unexpected scene, this is he parole hearings room of maximum-security Shawshank Prison, where a black prisoner/lifer (#30265) named Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman) - the real hero of the story, after serving wenty years of his sentence, receives his cursory annual review [in he year 1947]." They decided to go to "Houston" - "To rule!" when they mistakenly believed that the Houston Space Center transmissions designated the planet""s name - Houston.Wickett""s (Louise Hampton) place just across from the school:A long time ago, yes.A long time.Things are different now.(He hears other voices: "Chips at Brookfield.Discipline, Mr.Chipping, discipline," and the last names of boys during a typical ""call-over."")He remembers how he arrived in 1870 at Brookfield Boys School as a shy, withdrawn 24 year-old Latin master, wearing a bowler hat."At an Irish pub in the US, Ryan met with Paddy O""Neil for a conversation, and demanded to know the location of Miller and O""Donnell, but O""Neil refused to sell out his fellow Irish countrymen ("the day that I sell out my countrymen will be the day that I put a bullet through my own head") even though they weren""t members of the IRA.