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

The Maid asks David to tranquillise her too; narration says he turns Heartless Woman into an animal and leaves the hotel.

Scene 60 of 123 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Female V.o.

Act oneAct two

Begins 46 min into a 1:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 60

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 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
The Maid points Heartless Woman down the corridor; David tranquillises her, and he and the Maid carry her to the transformation room.
Scene 60
This scene

60INT. ANIMAL TRANSFORMATION ROOM - EVENING

The Maid asks David to shoot her with the tranquilliser gun too, so that no one will suspect her of helping him. He shoots her and she falls down unconscious. David shuts the door behind him.

FEMALE V.O.

And so he decided to turn her into

an animal. A hotel maid helped him

and he never understood why she did

it. I asked him many times what

sort of animal he turned her into,

but he always gave the same answer.

“That’s none of your concern”. That

night he left the hotel, once and

for all.