The Lobster · written by Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou · 2015

At a doctor’s office, Shortsighted Woman hesitates about corrective surgery, but the Loner Leader insists the appointment proceed.

Scene 102 of 123 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Shortsighted Woman
Loner Leader

Act oneAct two

Begins 1:13 into a 1:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 102

After his wife leaves him, David has 45 days to find a partner at a hotel or become an animal; he escapes, falls for a shortsighted loner, and must decide whether to surrender his sight so they can stay together.

Scenes 1–15
David moves from his broken home into the hotel, where couplehood is imposed as the norm.
Scenes 16–24
He must find a partner before the 45-day limit turns him into an animal.
Scenes 25–62
He participates in the hunt, attempts a false match, then escapes into the woods.
Scenes 63–84
He adapts to loner customs and cautiously begins a connection with Shortsighted Woman.
Scenes 85–100
They build a secret language and plan to leave the loner community together.
Just before
Scene 99
David and Shortsighted Woman exchange coded gestures over fruit while the others remain unaware.
Scene 100
The Loner Narrator reads a note about two loners planning to escape together; the leader dismisses it as a hotel guest’s writing.
Scene 101
The Loner Leader asks Shortsighted Woman for paper, and the woman panics while searching her notebook.
Scene 102
This scene

102INT. DOCTOR’S SURGERY WAITING ROOM - MORNING

Loner Leader, Loner Narrator and Shortsighted Woman are in a waiting room. The three women are seated on a sofa. There is a coffee table with past issues of various magazines in front of them. Loner Narrator reads one of these magazines.

SHORTSIGHTED WOMAN

It’s very dangerous for three women

to be alone in town together. It’s

highly likely the doctor will

suspect us. I suggest we leave the

first chance we get. Right now, in

fact.

LONER LEADER

Don’t be afraid. No-one will

suspect a thing. I bet you weren’t

expecting this surprise. Isn’t it

wonderful?

SHORTSIGHTED WOMAN

Yes, it is. Still, I’d like to

think it over for a few days, and

maybe I’ll have the surgery done

when we’re next in town.

LONER LEADER

What’s there to think about? If

it’s better to see clearly or to be

shortsighted, is that it? That’s

absurd, you know that. Anyway, this

doctor is the best there is, it’s

really very difficult to get an

appointment. I called him months

ago to get him to see you today.

A SECRETARY goes up to them and shows them the door to the doctor’s office.