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

Chas orders Royal to stay away from his children; Royal finds the missing stuffed boar’s head under a closet shelf.

Scene 82 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Chas
Royal

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Begins 1:10 into a 1:59 film

The story so farBefore scene 82

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 79
Royal encourages Ari over the intercom to be more reckless than his safety drills allow.
Scene 80
Royal tells Ari that Pagoda once stabbed him in Calcutta while working as a hired assassin.
Scene 81
Chas sees blood on Uzi’s forehead after the boys return with Royal, then pulls Royal into the closet.
Scene 82
This scene

82INT. CLOSET. DAY.

Chas closes the door and turns on the light. There are hundreds of board games, most of which are about thirty years old, in shelves up to the ceiling.

CHAS

Stay away from my children. Do you

understand?

ROYAL

(looking around)

My God. I haven’t been in here in

years.

CHAS

(screams)

Are you listening to me?

ROYAL

Yes, I am. And I think you’re having a

nervous breakdown. I don’t believe

you’ve recovered from Rachael’s death.

I think --

Chas turns off the light, goes out of the closet, and closes the door. Royal stands alone in the dark. He switches the light back on and looks down at the floor. He smiles.

ROYAL (CONT’D)

There you are.

The stuffed boar’s head is under the bottom shelf, in the corner, covered with dust.