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

David tests her sense of touch with a cup and tennis ball; she warns him that their coded fist gesture cannot continue.

Scene 112 of 123 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act three

Shortsighted Woman
David

Act oneAct two

Begins 1:21 into a 1:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 112

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.
Scene 106
The Leader’s deception leaves Shortsighted Woman blind and turns their covert relationship into an exposed crisis.
Just before
Scene 109
The Loner Leader tells David her deputy has died and offers him the deputy role while showing him a truffle-rich place.
Scene 110
In a dreamlike sequence David tests Shortsighted Woman’s compatibility with questions about blood type, food, piano, and German; he wakes terrified before the sequence resolves.
Scene 111
David repeats the compatibility questions about blood type, berries, piano, and German with Shortsighted Woman under the midday sky.
Scene 112
This scene

112EXT. THE WOODS - MORNING

David hands Shortsighted Woman a plastic cup. She feels it with her fingers.

SHORTSIGHTED WOMAN

A plastic cup.

DAVID

That’s right. Very good.

He then hands her a tennis ball.

SHORTSIGHTED WOMAN

A kiwi.

DAVID

That’s right. Ten out of ten,

again.

She smiles.

DAVID (CONT’D)

I’m making a fist behind my back.

Shortsighted Woman now becomes serious.

SHORTSIGHTED WOMAN

That can’t happen. I can’t thank

you enough for keeping me company,

for the games and activities but

you know we can’t do that any more.

Do you want to play another round

of “touch-think-guess-win”?

DAVID

No, that’s enough for today. In any

case, I’ve run out of things to

test you with. Maybe tomorrow, or

one of these days.

SHORTSIGHTED WOMAN

Tomorrow morning?

DAVID

We’ll see.