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

David meets a swimmer who offers to trade information for hotel days; David says he escaped when his time ran out.

Scene 64 of 123 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

David
Loner Swimmer

Act oneAct two

Begins 48 min into a 1:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 64

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.
Just before
Scene 61
The Hotel Manager finds the dead dog and raises the alarm as narration follows David running toward a painful new life.
Scene 62
David slips down the corridor toward the woods near the hotel.
Scene 63
David drinks from a river and rests in the woods, exhausted and alert to his new role as prey.
Scene 64
This scene

64EXT. THE WOODS - MORNING

David washes his hair in the river with little bottles of shampoo he stole from the hotel. Suddenly, he hears a noise. A LONER MAN is swimming. David goes towards him.

DAVID

Hello.

LONER SWIMMER

Don’t shoot. I can tell you where

the others are hiding. What would

you prefer, one extra day or a

whole extra week, maybe even two

weeks?

DAVID

I’m alone. I just escaped from the

hotel.

LONER SWIMMER

Did your time run out or did you

lie and get caught?

DAVID

My time ran out.

LONER SWIMMER

Okay. I got away about a year ago.

Don’t worry. There’s nothing to be

afraid of now. So long as they

don’t catch you.