(CLOSE ON JOKER, tears in his eyes from laughing so hard. He's enjoying it, not trying to get it under control.)
(He looks medicated or maybe even lobotomized. Wearing white institutional clothes.)
(He's sitting across from an overworked hospital doctor.)
(Somehow it's the exact same room Arthur imagined his mother was in some 30 years ago. The room and the doctor also look vaguely similar to the social worker and her office in the opening scene.)
(The doctor just sits there, waiting for him to stop laughing. Finally, Arthur stops himself.)
[Hospital Doctor] What's so funny?
(He takes a deep breath, his eyes are glazed over. His voice is scratchy, like he doesn't use it much.)
[Arthur Fleck] I was just think...
-- just thinking of a joke.
(Bruce Wayne on the alley, in front of his deceased parents) (Joker laughs while thinking of it)
[Hospital Doctor] Do you want to tell it to me?
[Arthur Fleck] You wouldn't get it.
(ANGLE ON JOKER, a smile creeping across his face. And we hear the groovy organ opening to Frank Sinatra's anthem "That's Life"...)
(The doctor looks up at him, confused.)
♪ That's Life ♪
(The doctor looks up at him, confused.)
♪ and as funny as it may seem... ♪
♪ Some people get their kicks... ♪
♪ Stompin' on a dream ♪
♪ But I don't let it, ♪
♪ let it get me down ♪
(Frank Sinatra continues singing in the background) ♪ 'Cause this fine old world; ♪
♪ it keeps spinning around ♪
(Frank continues singing)
(From behind, see Arthur shuffling down the hallway while leaving traces of blood from his shoe.)
(And Arthur does a slide step to the music like he can hear it too... into a skip... and another slide step into a spin... Dancing down the hallway into the sunset...)
(Arthur runs away from hospital staff)
Frank Sinatra: ♪ My, My! ♪ The End
* Send In The Clowns - Frank Sinatra *
Directed by - TODD PHILLIPS
Written by - TODD PHILLIPS & SCOTT SILVER
Produced by - TODD PHILLIPS & BRADLEY COOPER & EMMA TILINGER KOSKOFF