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

Chas refuses Royal’s offer to take the boys for firecrackers and keeps them occupied with office work.

Scene 77 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Royal
Chas

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Begins 1:07 into a 1:59 film

The story so farBefore scene 77

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.
Scenes 48–50
He returns to the house and openly asks his children for a chance to make things right.
Scene 63
Eli tells Richie that Margot is troubled by his love and reminds him that she is his sister, making the relationship an active family conflict.
Just before
Scene 74
Raleigh asks Margot whether she plans to come home; she cannot give him an answer and he collapses in despair.
Scene 75
Royal accuses Margot of cheating on Raleigh with Eli; she reminds him that she was never a genius.
Scene 76
Raleigh confides that he suspects Margot is having an affair; Richie reacts by smashing a window and asks who the man is.
Scene 77
This scene

77INT. CHAS’ BEDROOM. DAY.

Royal comes down the hallway and looks in the doorway to Chas’ room. There are five computers, four telephones, the Xerox machine and a television and VCR on a cart. Three secretaries make copies and take messages. Chas is on the telephone. A messenger waits for him to sign a document.

Ari and Uzi sit working with a calculator and a ledger pad at a small desk in the corner. Royal says to them:

ROYAL

Let’s go down to Little Tokyo and get

some firecrackers.

Chas covers the receiver with his hand.

CHAS

What do you need?

ROYAL

(hesitates)

Nothing. You got them crunching numbers

for you, huh?

CHAS

Please, don’t come in this room.