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

Hotel guests get off the coach with torches and tranquilliser guns and begin hunting the loners.

Scene 27 of 123 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Act oneAct two

Begins 21 min into a 1:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 27

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.
Just before
Scene 24
Biscuit Woman is rejected by Heartless Woman and joins Nosebleed Woman’s table; Nosebleed Woman dances with David, then her nose bleeds on his shirt.
Scene 25
David takes his gun from Room 101 and leaves as the dog watches.
Scene 26
David urges Limping Man to use surprise instead of speed; Limping Man accepts the advice with renewed hope.
Scene 27
This scene

27EXT. THE WOODS - EVENING

We see male and female residents of the hotel get off the coach armed with their tranquilliser guns. They run off, holding powerful torches, in different directions to hunt LONERS who live in the woods. Some seem really excited. Others look bored. The waiters get off the coach and stand in front of the vehicle. The driver switches off the coach headlights.