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

The Maid points Heartless Woman down the corridor; David tranquillises her, and he and the Maid carry her to the transformation room.

Scene 59 of 123 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Maid
Female V.o.

Act oneAct two

Begins 46 min into a 1:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 59

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.
Scene 52
Heartless Woman stages a choking fit; David stays still, and she declares they are a match. The double room follows in scene 53.
Scene 55
Heartless Woman reveals she killed Bob; David’s fabricated partnership turns openly dangerous.
Just before
Scene 56
David kicks Heartless Woman in the stomach and escapes by lift while she runs after him.
Scene 57
Heartless Woman enters a room and finds a woman engaged in sex with three waiters.
Scene 58
Heartless Woman calmly leaves the room and continues searching the upper floors for David.
Scene 59
This scene

59INT. HOTEL SECOND-FLOOR CORRIDOR - EVENING

Heartless Woman sees the Maid in the middle of the corridor holding a tray with a glass of Campari and soda.

MAID

I saw a man running back that way.

He looked frantic.

As soon as Heartless Woman turns back, David emerges from one of the rooms with a tranquilliser gun and shoots her. The Maid leaves the glass of Campari next to Campari Man, who is also unconscious inside the room, and then helps David lift Heartless Woman.

FEMALE V.O.

At first he wanted to kill her in

some horrible and painful way, like

the death she had inflicted on his

brother. He thought about kicking

her in the stomach over and over

again and then stabbing her in the

same spot, in the stomach. But then

he thought that there wouldn’t be

much point because she was already

unconscious and so she wouldn’t

feel any pain from the kicks or the

knife.

David carefully carries Heartless Woman through the hotel with the help of the Maid. They meet no one in the corridors. He takes her to the room where they transform people into animals. The Maid unlocks the door.