I guess sometimes the past... just catches up with you whether you want it to or not. It's...

Old Paul Edgecomb: [Sitting on a table drinking coffee with Elaine after she takes him aside from the TV room] I guess sometimes the past... just catches up with you whether you want it to or not. It's silly... Elaine Connelly: Was it the film? [pause] Elaine Connelly: It was, wasn't it? Old Paul Edgecomb: I haven't spoken of these things in a long time, Ellie. Over sixty years. Elaine Connelly: [Ellie takes Paul's hand and comforts him] Paul... I'm your friend. Old Paul Edgecomb: Yes. Yes, you are. [long pause] Old Paul Edgecomb: I ever tell you I was a prison guard during the Depression? Elaine Connelly: You've mentioned it. Old Paul Edgecomb: Did I mention I was in charge of Death Row? That I supervised all the executions? [Ellie shakes her head] Old Paul Edgecomb: They usually call Death Row the Last Mile, but we called ours the Green Mile because the floor was the color of faded limes. We had the electric chair then; Old Sparky, we called it. [pause] Old Paul Edgecomb: I've lived a lot of years, Ellie... but 1935 takes the prize. That was the year I had the worst urinary infection of my life. That was also the year of John Coffey and the two dead girls...