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

Biscuit Woman asks to walk with David and Bob; he says Bob cannot leave the room, then hears her sexual offer and detailed suicide plan.

Scene 37 of 123 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act two

Female V.o.
Biscuit Woman
David

Act oneAct two

Begins 27 min into a 1:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 37

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.
Scene 25
David loads a tranquilliser gun and joins the hotel’s hunt, entering its violent courtship system.
Just before
Scene 34
A hotel performance stages examples of how a partner prevents choking and deters assault; the audience applauds.
Scene 35
David’s parents visit, voice optimism and family updates, then his mother leaves sirloin steak for his dog-brother before they go.
Scene 36
David points out a new woman with a limp, but Limping Man says it is only a sprained ankle; the alarm ends breakfast.
Scene 37
This scene

37INT. HOTEL COACH - MORNING

David sits in a seat and looks out the window.

FEMALE V.O.

One day he sat next to the woman

with the biscuits on the coach. He

gazed out the window, not looking

at anything in particular, just

trying to avoid talking to her.

Biscuit Woman sits beside him.

BISCUIT WOMAN

How’s Bob?

DAVID

He’s fine.

David tries to be polite but the pretence is obvious. Although she bores him, he feels sorry for her for some reason.

BISCUIT WOMAN

I’d give anything to go for a walk

with you and Bob one afternoon.

DAVID

The dog’s not allowed out of the

room, I’m afraid.

FEMALE V.O.

There are some excuses that no-one

can argue with, he thought. Some

excuses are without doubt better

than others. And that was a really

good one.

BISCUIT WOMAN

These biscuits are for Bob. I want

you to give them to him whenever

you want to reward him for

something and tell him they’re from

me.

DAVID

Thank you.

He looks out the window again. She doesn’t give up though.

BISCUIT WOMAN

Can I come to your room sometime

for a chat? I could give you a blow

job or you could fuck me. I always

swallow after fellatio and I have

absolutely no problem with anal

sex, if that’s your thing. My ex-

husband always used to say I had

the most beautiful thighs he’d ever

seen in his life but let’s not talk

about him. I’m in Room 180. My