The Royal Tenenbaums · written by Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson · 2001

Royal arrives at the house in a bathrobe and greets Pagoda, preparing to face the family.

Scene 48 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Last scene of act one

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Begins 39 min into a 1:59 film

The story so farBefore scene 48

After losing his hotel room, Royal claims he has only weeks to live so he can move back in with his estranged family; as the truth unravels, he must find a way to be useful and earn a place in their lives.

Scenes 1–39
Royal is absent from the children’s adult lives, and their family remains shaped by his betrayals and abandonment.
Scenes 40–47
Royal wants a path back to Etheline and the children, and claims impending death will give him one.
Just before
Scene 45
Richie comes ashore and reunites with Margot at the pier after fans remember his tennis career.
Scene 46
Richie returns to the family home and is welcomed by Etheline, Pagoda, Henry and the children; Chas watches from above.
Scene 47
At dawn, Richie frees Mordecai from the rooftop coop and eats breakfast while reading Margot’s plays.
Scene 48
This scene

48EXT. STREET. EVENING.

Royal gets out of a gypsy cab in front of the Tenenbaum house. He is dressed in a white bathrobe, white pajamas and red bedroom slippers. He carries a cane, but walks across the sidewalk quickly and energetically.

Pagoda waits for him at the top of the steps. They shake hands. Silence.

ROYAL

OK.

Pagoda opens the front door.