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

Royal asks Pagoda for money to pay for their room, then accepts that they will have to manage without it.

Scene 95 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Royal
Pagoda

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Begins 1:21 into a 1:59 film

The story so farBefore scene 95

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.
Scenes 51–90
Royal tries to reconnect through schemes, misjudgments and genuine care, learning that affection alone cannot erase old injuries.
Scenes 91–92
Royal admits to Etheline that he hoped to win her back and remove Henry, revealing the motive behind his return.
Just before
Scene 92
As Royal leaves, he tells Chas to take it easy on the boys and says he does not want this to happen to Chas.
Scene 93
Richie and Margot reject Royal on the sidewalk; Pagoda stabs him with a penknife, then helps him into a cab.
Scene 94
Royal and Pagoda arrive at the Y after Royal is expelled from the house.
Scene 95
This scene

95INT. 375TH STREET Y. DAY.

An extremely small room with a low ceiling and a single bed. Royal stands in front of a mirror while Pagoda stitches up the knife-wound in his side. He holds a bottle of iodine in one hand and a box of bandages in the other.

ROYAL

Everyone’s against me.

PAGODA

You can’t blame them, man.

ROYAL

I know. But, dammit, I want to be loved

by this family.

Pagoda pours some iodine on a cotton ball and applies it to Royal’s knife wound. Royal grimaces.

ROYAL (CONT’D)

How much money you got?

PAGODA

I don’t have.

ROYAL

(frowns)

What do you mean? You’re broke?

Pagoda nods. Royal looks furious.

ROYAL (CONT’D)

You got to be kidding me. How’re we

supposed to pay for the damn room?

Pagoda looks up at Royal coldly. Silence.

ROYAL (CONT’D)

All right. We’ll figure something out.