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

Loner Swimmer gives David clothes, a player, a book, and a knife; David learns that a pair of flirtatious loners were punished with the Red Kiss.

Scene 66 of 123 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

David
Loner Swimmer

Act oneAct two

Begins 49 min into a 1:28 film

The story so farBefore scene 66

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 63
David drinks from a river and rests in the woods, exhausted and alert to his new role as prey.
Scene 64
David meets a swimmer who offers to trade information for hotel days; David says he escaped when his time ran out.
Scene 65
The Loner Leader admits David to the forest community and explains that romance and sex between loners are forbidden.
Scene 66
This scene

66EXT. THE WOODS - MORNING

Loner Swimmer, aided by a BANDAGED LONER with bloodied bandages over his mouth, gives David a waterproof cape, a portable CD player, a pocket-sized game of solitaire, the book “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck and a knife. David realizes that he’s going to be a proper member of this group. As these changes are taking place David acts in a mechanical way, without really thinking where all this will lead him. He looks at Bandaged Loner. There’s fresh blood on his bandages.

DAVID

What’s wrong with your mouth?

LONER SWIMMER

He can’t talk. He was given the Red

Kiss.

DAVID

What’s the Red Kiss?

LONER SWIMMER

We slashed his lips with a razor

and the lips of another loner and

we forced them to kiss each other.

That was a few days ago now but the

cuts were deep and they’re still in

pain. They were flirting, you know.

Check if the portable CD player

works properly otherwise I’ll have

to find you some new batteries.

Davis presses play on the CD player. Music plays. He pushes the stop button.

DAVID

It works just fine.