Before he was sentenced to life, Andy managed to sell off his assets and invest the proceeds under a pseudonym. The documents required to claim Peter Stevens' (Andy's pseudonym) assets and assume his identity are in a safety deposit box in a Portland bank; the key to the box is hidden under a rock along a wall lining a hayfield in the small town of Buxton, not far from Shawshank. In October 1967, after 20 years in prison together, Andy shares the information with Red; describing exactly how to find the place and how one day "Peter Stevens" will own a small seaside resort hotel in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. Andy hints that he could use Red's ability to "get things" in such a place, but Red insists that he's too institutionalized to ever function on the outside.