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A man.

A thought.

A trick.

A trick to break the laws of Troy.

Common gods.

Respect their art.

Save it from the waves.

Take it to Athena's temple.

The war is over.

I love Odysseus. Why do you entertain snoopers in his house right after night?

In this world, the man does what he chooses.

I do what I can.

I am a man.

I'm not alone.

I'm not alone.

Break through this wall and see what they give you and what you can make of

it.

I've already lost a husband.

I don't want to lose a son.

Dad's coming back.

And where is he?

Eight years since Troy fell.

Almost 20 since he left us. Where is he?

We have to welcome him like we welcomed all of you.

He comes second.

I'm saying you can welcome him. Three years.

We've only enjoyed your hospitality for so long.

Because your mother wants you.

He's already there.

He thinks he's dead.

What do you know about my dad?

You know he's got a training cabinet.

You know the lesson in the first two weeks?

I know he never came home.

He's not good.

You're pining for a daddy you didn't even know.

I think he's definitely mad.

I don't think none of us should really know who our fathers are. Just don't

think that I'm lying.

But I did know him.

It's Boyd.

We watched him hunt.

I tried to volunteer to protect Mr.

Boyd. He told me to stay here.

To keep an eye on him.

We can't see much anymore, but that doesn't

stop committing travelers to death in exchange for lies about my father.

Too fast.

You don't need eyes to hear a hasty combination.

Mentor, put your head down.

Too fast.

It's funny, isn't it?

The only exit to your father.

Where'd he get him from?

Isn't that right here?

Ah.

Oh, boy.

Ah.

I'll take him.

For your boy?

You're a hunting dog.

Damned if he wasn't right.

Hold still.

How bad a scar do you want?

Why do you always pluck your bow?

It's only fair.

Who won your bread?

To fight with honor.

You weren't fighting, you were hunting.

Hunting's nothing. Fighting with stealth.

Clever. Clever, but your cleverness is going to get you in trouble.

Try again.

This time, not as fast or precise. You can't win with a perfect defense.

Draw the attack.

Hesitate. Open your belly to your opponent's blade. Their attack becomes

yours.

He teach my father that?

No, no, he taught me.

He said, you're not always going to be the strongest or the fastest, so be the

smartest.

But what do you do, huh?

He came back here to find all these suitors in his house. Doctor, I can't

even let myself imagine what he did to them.

There are so many.

Cut a couple down, the others cave.

Bullies and cowards.

Most of them are old enough to go to Troy Boney's, so I can them not sail.

Any of you who have been on this world would take many years and many lives.

So you made this army by lottery?

Name? Draw.

No. Name?

Draw.

Yes. By lot?

Antinous told me he volunteered.

Your boy's trying to take Sinan's place.

I'm not going to let him. He needs to stay here and take care of his family.

You can watch for your boy, too. Of course.

Me?

The boy didn't intend to look after me. No, no, no.

But his wife sensed it. Tell Father Shane.

He tells all these fathers.

You and your mother meant more to him than promises of glory.

So he knew it would be years.

Did he tell my mother?

That's a question for her. He meant, is he ever coming back?

I hardly think so.

Never known a dog reach 20.

But he's long outlived his master.

I didn't mean to stop you.

I'm in no hurry.

The elders decreed when I finish your grandfather's burial shroud, it'll be

time to remarry.

Why?

From what?

People from the... I'm just proud of this tale.

All we know is the world is trapped in its chances. That's how we found out

Troy had fallen.

Now they all tell stories of attacks by people from the sea.

And who are the people from the sea?

No one knows, but the elders wanted the good people there.

Prepared. Part of the greatest civilization ever known.

Look at this great house.

Stones of old knowledge.

And the mercy of some greedy, unwanted guests.

The structures do nothing without people's respect for its needs.

Zeus is wrong.

They treat others as they would be treated.

And they abuse that. They destroy everything.

So how could you think of marrying one of them?

Because a long time ago, your father asked me to.

Agamemnon is her king.

And the Trojan took his brother's wife. Or she ran away with him.

Either way, it was.

Troy is said to be impregnable.

He won't sit outside that great city, trying to draw them into battle.

As the years go by, and Telemachus grows, and you learn life without me,

then Aeneas will give up on Helen.

This is Agamemnon's excuse to break Troy's control of the trading routes.

he sacrificed his own daughter for favorable winds the

power of the sacrifice is in the cost of the

person making it

Is it all?

Where have you been?

You just passed the ship.

The brightest crew.

The hope for the right.

Held hands on deck as we rode west and...

Love's not a sacrifice.

Of course it is.

I don't want you to make it. It's up to you.

Promise me.

Promise me you'll come back.

He said only he could string this bow.

He was happy to let others try.

and that bleeding has dried so you'll be forced to choose one of them before I

can claim the throne myself.

The traveler told me Menelaus returned years ago.

They've all returned.

All who survived.

Maybe he is dead.

And if he is, then this is my house.

We need to know.

I have to go to Menelaus to find out the truth.

Don't let this... These tutors mean no harm. You think I don't know that?

Every night they push me to give them the excuse they need. And now they're on

the sea.

On the road.

They're on these stickers here and you just won't come back.

You don't want me to claim the throne myself.

You just want to keep me in my place so that you can stay Queen of Ithaca. I've

had enough of being Queen of Ithaca without my king.

Without your king.

Or a king.

Where's your spurs in the palace? You're a cowherd, not a horse. And you're a pig

farmer. I know you to talk. We are that.

And the servant dog has the left in charge of his herdsmen.

The master has long gone blind or full.

And you're not as welcome here as that dog is.

Argus!

Argus!

Argus! Argus!

Sir, he didn't do anything.

So that stink is you?

Keep the old dog alone.

This one?

Both of us.

What did you say, little slave? He just got carried away. Argus is my father's

hunting dog.

Your hunting dog?

Put him in bed, man.

Get it out of here.

Don't touch it. He's in pain.

Okay.

Now put it out. It's a mystery.

Leave him alone!

Show some mercy.

I'll take care of him.

My father's hunting, Doc.

He's only living to see. This is his return.

Bye. I'll put him on the dung heap out front so he can greet his master a

little sooner.

This is it.

The soldiers will never know that.

They will never think it back up. What do you want me to tell

your mother?

You

haven't

even asked me where we're going yet.

Where are we going?

Find my dad.

He's alive.

I can feel it in the wind and the waves. He's out there somewhere wandering,

injured, lost.

I don't know.

But he's alive.

in God's speech and ways we understand.

Who doesn't want to still remember the fire, the child's smile, good heart?

You hide yourself from us.

Look.

There's no more cloud.

There's no more birds.

There's no more water.

We're really talking to them.

A feeling came to me again.

It was telling me to remember.

Believe.

Why would you believe?

We have everything we need.

How long have I been here?

I have a home somewhere.

Someone out there.

How do you know?

I don't know.

But we have your good luck forever.

Forever is for gods.

Are you a god?

You want to remember, but what if remembering destroys your happiness?

Then it wasn't real.

No. No more. But I love it.

Stop eating the lotus.

Tell me what you remember.

Amen.

Ted Hughes on this fucking beat.

Let's go home.

Remember who we leave here.

Do we have enough provisions?

We've taken enough from Floyd.

Another stop or two won't kill us.

We'll raise the sail, follow the southerly wind.

Yes, sir.

Agamemnon's going west on the known provisions route.

He's got more mouths to feed.

We'll find places to land.

I'm sure it's a risk.

Let's follow Agamemnon long enough.

With a luck and a right wind, we'll see some of the world.

They'll be home before Agamemnon.

Just keep the bear on the right.

Look at this!

Land!

See?

Lucky bastard.

We're down to our last supplies.

Assemble a landing party, go in the water, and up the three-wing.

What if they won't give it?

How badly do you want to get home?

Get your weapons ready!

Asking why they abandoned their village instead

of welcoming us.

No.

We're Greeks.

From Ithaca.

Maybe you heard of our victory at Troy.

We're headed west on the southern ridge.

Since if we go that way, we're going to like things a lot.

After years of war, no one could stand it.

Let's call out.

Very good.

There's a lot of it. We should leave.

We brought nothing to trade with you.

Deuces law.

I don't know if we're a volunteer that's heard of the deuces law, or the deuces

of that matter.

Everyone's heard of deuces law.

Get the fire going.

We'll welcome the owner back.

Can't wait to be fired.

Spread the word.

In the morning, when it lets out its flock, we'll rush to the entrance.

Maybe. But what?

The block.

It'll notice.

Grab the thin end, put it in the fire.

How much rope do we have?

I think it's a block. A couple dozen, maybe.

That's too many of us.

When it comes back, two of us have to get out. Or at least get killed.

Run low through the flock towards the entrance, then split wide.

We can only grab one of them?

Right. Four of us are meant to run.

Two and two.

Why is there so many more of them?

There ain't two on the left side.

We'll only have the two before he sleeps.

you

We should be prepared to run.

That fool for that thing?

We honor our dead with his.

He died helping us escape. We'll honor him by escaping.

He can talk.

Why didn't he talk before?

Do you know what they're in for?

Should we reach them with it?

I think we're back then.

that beast.

Yeah, and that beast is the son of Poseidon.

What? When he put his eye out, they heard him crying his name.

That thing was a monster.

They heard it too.

So now the saints are against us.

There's no way we're going to get home with Poseidon against us.

We can't live by omens and sacrifices.

Do you know how many times I've heard you leaping, praying to Athena since we

left Koi?

Couldn't you have shown some mercy?

Take this.

Wear it.

Remember those who couldn't bury.

The gods help those who help themselves.

From that moment, every rough sea or headwind, both the crew were cursed.

But where is my crew?

When will you let me see my men?

If I could just talk to them, they'd help me remember that I have a wife,

children, maybe a son.

How long have I been here?

A long time.

If I had a son,

how old would he be now?

I don't know how to speak to the king.

Be quiet.

He didn't know you.

If anyone asks, we're traitors from Crete.

We'll figure out how to approach the chain.

demands. Let her out so she tells me who you are.

Pick the right day to arrive.

She's at my daughter's wedding.

Tomorrow she leaves to start a new life.

You look like a beggar.

Let her know who I am.

At my last, the son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon, husband of

Helen.

Perhaps you've heard of Helen.

Face.

Watch the thousand ships.

Or maybe not in this 500.

So many left in the battlefields of Troika that I face.

Well, your brother is not efficient.

This one looks familiar.

I don't miss him as much as one

particular warrior.

He's smart as a saw.

Thank you.

We're inside.

We were in here for days.

We squeezed inside before the ships had sailed.

This is you. No one can tell that we're inside. Nothing is in. So do we look

behind.

First two tides of men drown right in front of us.

We try to move this guy.

The gods granted our righteous victory, but did not bless our voyages.

It took me years to get home.

We did.

Some did, and wish they had.

Tell him.

Tell him about your brother.

About the faith the gods bestowed on him after your fright.

No. About his hero's welcome? No. About how Agamemnon made it all year?

No. Tell him how he was welcomed by his king, my twin sister Clytemnestra.

No. Tell him how... No!

He does not want to hear about my... I'm not supposed to be his father.

I know nothing of Odysseus.

Since Troy... Nothing.

Not from any of your men.

Where Agamemnon's for traders and travelers.

Some for separatists and gods.

You're in the right place.

Anyone want to spin a story about Odysseus?

Some say he's rich, some say poor.

Some say he perished, some say he's in prison. What say you? In prison?

What kind of prison?

An old man like that.

Tell me what you do remember.

And that became more and more convincing that I defended Poseidon.

by storm after storm, all pushing us off course until we were truly lost.

Hello.

We're here in peace.

We just need some food.

We need food.

Can't you understand that? It's a child.

If that's a child, what about its parents?

It's okay.

No, no, no.

We need to get as far away as possible.

We don't have spots for a blind cross.

We've lost our way.

We need to find food and get our bearings.

Sir, report.

It's a landing morning.

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

There's someone with the standards.

We think you should stay.

We? All of us.

She's still alive.

You just amuse me, and I'll be here.

Give me your boat. I'll make sure we eat tonight.

No matter what you find.

No one is going to hurt you.

My name's Eurylochus. What's your name?

Cersei. Cersei, we need food badly.

We have food.

You let me?

Your weapon. Your armor.

Put it out with that.

You like winning?

What? Do you have so much?

You never know when strangers will come.

This one was supposed to happen right now.

With your weapons at the door, enjoy the hospitality of Zeus.

Grab a hog. You can slaughter it for your dinner.

I'm not a farmer.

Here.

That stew smells good.

It's enough for just us.

Who says it's just us?

Who else is here?

Who indeed?

You can only reach this spot by sea.

So, where are your shipmates?

I'm looking for them.

Anyone having to come there, maybe.

But you prepared all this food.

You're questioning me?

You?

A traveler who's clearly starving and having to put the food in front of him.

Claims to be a sailor, or is a great warrior of honor.

I could go tomorrow.

I need a dagger into a suspicious house.

You have sharp eyes.

Sharpened by the gods.

Do they bring you insights?

Truth.

Sometimes.

Would they tell you where I could find my men?

They're men.

That's right.

They would.

Then would you tell me?

Perhaps.

If you give me a dagger.

No, they're not.

They moved on?

Yes.

Leaving their race.

I don't know who this is.

You don't put that knife down.

We're out here to find out.

Family.

Mother.

It is better to turn my men into pigs. I didn't turn our men into anything.

Look at them. This is who they are. Look at them.

Pigs.

Disgusting. I will urge you to devalue this battle. We've been raped and

pillaged across the world for you.

And you think that's against our nature? You think we only did that because you

ordered them to?

We're not true commanders.

We've been savagery. You don't seem that deluded.

You sent them to me here, on my own.

A gang of filthy soldiers with empty bellies and hot blood.

You thought they'd respect me in my home?

Look at them.

Know your own men.

Thank you very much.

Back to the ship. Take all the food you can carry.

Leave the meat.

You're not going to let her live. She's a witch.

Who gave her powers?

Your gods.

Fill the jugs and skins of the stream.

Be ready to sail with Dawn.

Why leave her like that?

We got better than away.

I'm sorry if we offended you.

We can't get back without your help.

We need to know the way to the trade routes.

They're too low.

What do you mean?

Only blind Tiresias can tell you how to go home.

Tiresias? In Hades.

Nobody fills into hell and comes back.

You will.

Ignore the twilight.

and head inland until the river of fire beats the river of ice.

There you look like a trench.

and how you go home.

You.

Not your men.

You'd curse them?

Not curse.

Truth.

Your men don't want you to defy the gods.

The gods say only you make it home.

Then I defy the gods.

It's not.

It doesn't exist.

No.

It doesn't exist.

Then you will hear it. That's it.

I'll kiss you.

Yes.

He lied to everyone.

Did you have to lie to me?

I needed you to believe.

Why did you have to volunteer?

Don't you remember how I came here? I begged to take anything to Mrs. Clips.

He didn't call.

He offered money for your family if you'd take his place.

The Trojans don't let me live.

I never made it home.

Take this back to my father.

Tell him everything I did.

I'll take this.

He'll pay to add this stuff.

You ain't even crossed me with the truth.

You knew I'd die for you.

Dying meant I was the truth I needed you to believe.

I died from your lie on that beach.

I know.

I was there with you. I heard you repeat the lie with your dying breath, winning

the full war.

I was right there, inches from you, smelling your blood. What comfort could

that give me?

Not knowing you were beside that horse until the dead told me.

It's dead.

A lot of veterans of your campaigns walk these shores.

The dead need to lament the living and greet the newly dead.

My father would never hate to find me.

To cover you.

Hates don't cover.

They want word of the living who wronged them.

My father had died in poverty, alone, begging for scraps from people like

Antimus. Antimus cheated you?

As he's no doubt cheating you.

How? Who then has it come looking after your wife?

My wife is of no concern.

Talk to Agamemnon about homecoming.

Agamemnon's here.

You buried me in joy with respect.

Thank you.

It's a fair thought for those who didn't.

It's not always possible.

When you get home, take a ship.

Head into the unknown west till you find land.

And there, give sacrifice and honor your men.

Do you still have the lot?

Of course.

If you make it home, give Antinous back to you.

I will.

How are you here?

We won the war, you're headed to the home.

Good to see you.

Most brilliant of all my generals.

You would never be snared as I was.

You can't be dressed like that.

No. My misfortune was to make it all.

You're welcomed by my beautiful wife.

Made soft.

To learn the hardest lesson.

That left a poison in her heart years before.

Good particle heart it got.

She and her lover had plotted my murder for years.

But this used to be.

Yes.

My son Orestes.

Did he avenge me?

My Lord, how could I know?

I'm still trying to get home.

Don't make my mistake.

Don't walk in the front door expecting violence and praise.

Come in disguise.

Take your time.

I know

what I have to do.

I saw what you have to do.

My prophecy is not for their ears.

Back to the ship.

Sail southwest.

Pass the sirens.

There's thawed wood for men under the rock. They'll all die.

I won't let that happen.

I'll block their ears with wax.

Pass the sirens.

You choose between the whirlpool in Calypso and the monster in Scylla. The

whirlpool in the sea takes all of your lives. The monster in the crystal? Only

six. But your determination to not sacrifice any more lives kills all of

them.

I'll do what I have to.

At the end, there's going to be a new piece of evidence. They demand the land

when the Sun God creates his cattle.

They slaughter Apollo's herd.

Zeus kills them for it.

Do you see?

I'll stop them.

Why do you value these men's lives more than those you owe them any more? I can

still save them from the gods.

But not from themselves.

me here, are they coming back?

Did you do something to them?

Did you do something to them?

You told me not to eat the lotus flower.

Just tonight.

Maybe get some sleep.

And tomorrow when you're ready, you'll remember.

You'll remember your crew.

You'll remember.

Strangers don't come in here.

Screen or no screen, after three years of feasting together, we're far from

strangers, Melanie. Are you trying to marry me or ruin my reputation?

Melancholy can be discreet.

I'm actually here out of concern for your reputation.

Oh? Everyone sees how hard you work.

Oh, steady progress.

But every night, you've been unraveling that work.

You can't expect her to be loyal to a master she never even knew.

I expect her to be loyal to me.

Mr. Flippy, are you married to me?

Slaves have no choice but to be loyal to the future.

It's a household waiting for a master, just as Ithaca's a kingdom waiting for a

king.

Ithaca's king is coming back.

No, he's not.

Do you know that other boy tried to go with him to Troy?

He never told me that.

This is refuse to let me. He knew.

You're the Canadian refuse to allow him.

You can't tell me you're not tired.

The weight.

The uncertainty.

I'll take care of all your needs.

My queen.

And my son.

The throne is his.

He and the heir.

Unless we have a child of our own.

Where is Telemachus?

He's gone to Lent.

Father?

I told

you

that dog stays there. Go back to the farm. We need your papers.

You're no longer welcome in this palace, old man.

I answer to my mistress.

Does she even know your name?

Now go.

To Lubbock, I have to come back by the temple at Pylos.

Take your leave and wipe your neck.

What, so you can stay and try and charm the queen?

I don't think so.

You need to die on that road.

You hear it? That's fine.

Hear it!

I need everyone in this part. The dead, the dead, the shrubs are open.

Telemachus and his men will be ready for the bandits who work the road between

here and Pylos.

But if some of them took the temple from the priests before they arrived, then

bring me part of Telemachus' proof.

His nose.

Would you know him only by his nose?

His ears, too.

Father Swineherd?

Swineherd. That's my most loyal servant.

Odysseus left his most loyal servant behind.

He always was the smartest.

Only one Agamemnon ever listened to.

He should have listened harder.

May I ask what happened to your brother?

His wife betrayed him.

Murdered him.

What did you do to him?

He was done arrested. He killed them both.

But he killed his own mother.

Revenge is harder.

You don't have to worry.

Your mother has nothing in common with Piedemestra.

Maybe not.

But the students have convinced the elders it's time she'd be married.

It's not a good time for an empty throne.

But the stories of people from the sea... Have you even read it? Not yet,

but the attacks, they do seem closer.

Sparta's ready.

How about Ithaca?

She'd be able to raise an army and defend herself.

Someone's got to take the throne.

The battle is there, not here.

You'd run into trouble.

Left your mother at the mercy of your suitors.

Should I hire mercenaries?

Go back and kill them all?

Murder rich and powerful guests in your own home.

You'll be exiled.

What then?

You must evict them without violating Houston's law.

I have to take the throne.

I have to know that this is alive.

This has nothing to do with a father you've never known.

You have to lead him, son.

No matter what happens to her, this is.

You need to remember.

No, I don't.

I don't need to know the truth. I'm happy here with you.

Why are you gathering the bones of your old tit to make a raft?

Remember your crew.

Your journey.

I heard the sound of the sirens.

What's the wax in the men's ears?

Not for me. Tie me to the mat.

Why? I want to hear the siren song.

Yeah.

That's a bad idea.

No one's ever heard the song live.

That's why it's a good idea. I'll be the first.

No matter how hard I plead, do not untie me until we're well clear.

Check the men's ears.

A week's rations for the first, yes sir!

What would the sirens tell?

All the things he wanted to be.

Then, all the things he wished he'd ever wished for.

You have delicious hits as you go to scratch.

The find is under the skin, we can't reach it.

So the delicious edge becomes unbearable.

Told you what you most want is what you most can't have.

And what you most can't have is what you already had.

Long above the promises I failed to keep.

And I told me I don't really want to go home.

One warrior ahead!

Corinthians.

A monstrous whirlpool.

It's too narrow.

Make for the whirlpool.

If you see her down the slope, we can make enough way to shoot out the other

side. Don't be afraid. We can do it.

We did it.

You guys.

If I told you, you wouldn't have chosen this way.

And those men would still be alive?

No, we'd all be dead.

You had no right.

I had every right and every responsibility.

The whirlpool would have destroyed the ship and all of us. This way we live.

Sooner or later.

Yes.

What else did Tiresias tell you?

That's the sun god's isle. We need repair.

These men are exhausted.

I want six shipments.

We're going to put in and then rest up on dry land.

You're all going to die.

You ask me what Tiresias told me?

He said you're all going to die.

If you slaughter the sun god's cattle, which graze off that island, you'll all

die.

That's fine.

We'll put in.

We'll cook our own provision.

We'll pick fruit. We'll get water.

Nothing more.

Swear to it.

All of you.

We'll rest up, do the repairs, and set out as soon as the wind changes.

Grab that light.

Did the crew keep their promise?

Yes.

For a long time.

But the wind never changed.

The steady onshore breeze that made it so easy for us to land.

Made it impossible to leave.

And our provisions ran out.

The sun god wouldn't notice.

No, he wouldn't notice.

I'm not the problem.

I want you to live.

Torres told you.

Cersei told you. The gods told you.

You gods, I'm speaking with you. I understand.

Who doesn't understand pain?

Or blood? Or death?

When you watch your men die, do you have a chance to see consequences?

Consequences?

They ran out of food.

That's the pity. My pity.

is what put us on this damn island. I told you what would happen. Yes, you

did.

And we decided we would rather drown than starve.

Well, now's our chance.

The wind is strong!

The wind is strong!

The calm was just long enough to lure us out onto the tidey ocean.

Underneath the sky.

The last thing I remember was the heart pains and sooth.

I don't know what happened to my men.

Yes, you do.

Exactly what you told them would happen.

I washed up on your shore alone.

You washed up on my shore.

With some of your bugs and none of your crew.

Half dead, unconscious.

For days and for weeks, I knew the lotus would ease your awakening

so that your pain was more of the body than the mind.

How long have I been here?

How long could that have been? You were happy.

We were so happy. For years.

your life.

I rebuilt your body. I just couldn't bring myself to rebuild your mind.

You have been happy.

Your heart was just always somewhere else.

And your mind was about to follow eventually.

The lotus clouds the mind. Not well, but it doesn't change who you

are. You weren't ready to go home for whatever reason.

I am now.

As I always do, you would be.

Now. You were clutching something when I found you. Your hand was nothing for me.

You called out.

Nothing to see now.

Get your thumbs up, come on.

Where am I?

Just welcome, you strangers.

How many are you?

Half a dozen.

Need a meal?

I have five.

For the road.

Where are you headed?

We need pigs.

I'm going all the way to Pilo.

Are you pilgrims?

We look like pilgrims.

I don't see well.

As you demand, I offer you a meal, but these pigs aren't mine to sell.

Oh, don't worry.

We're not paying.

Give my greetings to your mother.

Tell her I'm sorry.

I'm sorry for Troy and for everything that has happened in my life.

So I had no news of your father?

No news.

Not where he is, but who he is.

And no more than that for I hope the one they meet.

Where are your watchdogs, old man?

I'm burning their bodies.

Did Zeus offer you food and drink, stranger?

Were you attacked?

The dog saved your farmhand.

No, he burned his brothers first.

What happened to Ithaca?

Darkness.

Caesar's laws smashed to pieces.

A kingdom without a king since my master died.

Your master?

Odysseus. Hero of the Trojan War.

But Odysseus is alive.

No more, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more.

It's time.

It's time.

It's time.

He's in danger and I can't help him. There must be others.

I guess it could.

Help Odysseus' son. The palace is controlled by suitors.

No, we're still loyal to Odysseus.

What about the queen?

Yeah, I have to help him.

Held hostage by the worst men.

Soon to be forced into marriage. What could she do without even her son?

Here, drink.

Give me food for the road.

I know they're a catch-all, but it depends.

If I can get to Bylos before Telemachus arrives, I can warn him.

Why are you helping?

If I tell you, don't be angry.

I served with Odysseus at Troy. Really?

He was a harsh taskmaster.

Oh, but fair.

Fair and worthy of following.

He loved him.

Like a son.

He's not dead.

He's coming home.

Soon.

Bringing it all.

Don't talk.

We don't want people realizing who you are. Well, they didn't shoot in the

front of the bar.

We'll be glad if we didn't. We have trouble on the road.

I can travel far.

Not bad.

You're here to rest for the night.

We're here to make sacrifice to Athena.

And whatever hospitality you can offer might be considered.

Of course.

Get that beggar out of here. He had a message for me.

He made it, didn't he?

I already spared one old man this week, but he was blind.

I won't spare him.

Not bad for a beggar.

No one's born a beggar.

We'll take this priest's robes and put them over your armor.

Help me with his body.

We have to leave him.

No. We have to slip out.

That's not how you honor the dead.

That is how you stay alive.

He was my teacher.

He might have been a fiend or a disguiser. His name was Mentor.

And when you are safe, we'll travel to the unknown west.

And we will honor him.

These men were sent by the suitors.

There will be more of them. We need to get on the road.

By night?

It's safer than staying here.

Ventures at the heart have been seen as old as Temple.

For now, we'll honor him in flame.

I told you. I wasn't always a beggar.

You have wise eyes.

I've seen his eyes. Don't look for gods in men.

You'll just be disappointed.

Well, then tell me who you are.

My name is Sinnok.

I'm an old soldier who fought under your father at Troy.

You mean my father?

I've been taking orders from him for longer than I care to remember.

Wait, he's alive?

He's alive.

Well, where is he?

He's close by.

He sent me ahead to assess the situation.

My mother's not going to believe it. No, you can't tell her.

What, nothing?

Tell her.

Tell her he decided it's time she remarried.

He doesn't need to test my mother. How can he doubt it? He doesn't.

But she has every reason to have forgotten him.

Are there any loyal servants?

Some.

What if he shows himself off?

We need to gather the suitors at the palace.

That's never a problem.

You have gifts for Menelaus?

Yeah, I'll make gifts.

Good.

Come back as a prince.

Call a banquet.

I'll be there.

What will you do with the banquet?

The bag.

The clearest view of a man is from below.

How many suitors are there?

God, if all of his men are like you, then... You don't have any men.

But it's just you?

And you.

I thought we might need to celebrate.

If we have anything left to celebrate with.

Don't worry.

Libra is due to the Sauron's gifts to honor your return.

So glad to see your face, Jaren.

Glad to see you on your feet.

It's about time we took you back to the palace.

The story is from the war, but no one knew what happened to him after he left

Troy.

Sorry, Mom.

Everyone in Sparta is talking about a coming catastrophe.

An age of darkness brought on by people from the sea violated Zeus' law.

Those stories are true.

Our civilization is collapsing.

Menelaus is concerned that we can't raise an army with an empty throne.

So we came up with a plan.

What plan?

one way to get the suitors to leave.

It's time for you to choose.

You want me to remarry?

If you remarry, the other suitors will leave, and then I'm only dealing with

one of them.

I'm almost of age. I'll tell the elders that I learned of a deceased's death in

Sparta.

Menelaus will back me up, and they'll let me assume the throne. So you deny

your father, and I leave my home and go live with one of these snakes. That's

your plan.

Would you have a better one?

Lock the door, set a fire, and burn the bastards.

Do you think if I wait, Mary, life goes back to the way it was?

That world is gone.

And in this one, they're not giving up power to you or Odysseus. If you return

to me, you have to do it.

Like you will.

If I kill them, their families will demand revenge. I'd be exiled.

And without me, the throne would be lost because only a man can sit on it.

Empty throne?

I've been sitting on that empty throne for 20 years.

My knowledge, my years of experience, that throne will not be compared with a

bracelet on your chin.

Where he met?

You're Odysseus.

You're my father.

I'm a beggar.

And you... are the worthy.

It will be so precious.

Put one more beggar in his seat.

wherever it came into position with the elders.

You can't be generous with food. It's not even yours.

You want something from me now?

No.

I have something for you.

You have something for me?

You have something for me?

Look at a filthy old plate maker like you possibly have.

Thank you very much.

Where did he get this from?

Don't turn your back on me!

Continue with this.

You can't train a beggar like that. It's Jesus' law.

It's Jesus' law.

I don't think this is a God.

You think this is a God in disguise?

Are you?

Are you a god?

Quite naked.

No.

I'm a veteran of the Trojan War.

Veteran of the Trojan War.

And what's your name, veteran?

Sennott.

Does that name mean something to you?

No.

I use it to honor.

The greatest young man I ever met.

Finn?

I'm not just Shepard's boy.

I remember that. Yeah, yeah. He wanted you to take his place.

Where did you find this?

Where yours would be.

Not mine!

Hello, traveler.

My queen.

Melancho, have your clay wash the stranger's feet.

That's not necessary.

My husband insisted we honor guests as family.

You know of the disease, my husband?

Of course.

The results?

Of the Detroit, ma'am.

The results probably seem silly.

They make me cry.

For what was lost.

The lives?

And the years.

Everything.

No, I didn't use the droid.

I didn't.

Was there some detail of how he dressed, something he wore?

He wore a strange man.

Beautiful, but out of place.

Describe it.

The figure of Athena encircled by vines.

Did he wear it off?

He never took it off.

You made it home when Odysseus could not.

I'm not home.

Not yet.

Why not?

It's not always an easy thing, a homecoming.

That's as true for Odysseus as for me.

The Odysseus I knew would have found or fought his way back to me no

matter what.

What if the Odysseus you knew fought his way?

in a strange city.

He saw things that made him think the home he knew

couldn't possibly be there anymore.

What if any of us value the Lord?

Anarchy and pain.

But he's not afraid.

One man's idea.

One man's trick.

To break through the wall forever.

We lived in a world of palaces and trade.

Language blind to its beauty.

Until we broke it.

You are the people from the sea.

Yes, my queen.

The breaking of Zeus' law is spreading like clay. Our age of wrongs is

collapsing. And maybe he couldn't bear to see the ruins of what he'd done.

Anywhere. Least of all, his home.

So this is his life.

And he'll be here when you need him more.

I've been living in his room long enough.

Bring the suitors at dawn.

Remove the arms from the hall. In a few hours, one suitor will be happy.

And the rest, angry events will mess.

Ron straws the man also. No weapons at the trial. And the doors will be locked.

I'll marry whoever defeats my challenge.

Even an arm, there are so many of them.

And you won't have a weapon.

Oh, I'll have a weapon.

Your mother said to that.

Gather the servants you trust.

Lock the arms in the other storage room.

Three years.

While my husband's been gone, you've commandeered this palace for your

feasting. Your excuse was, he wants to win my hand in marriage.

I'm going to make you party.

Fight.

Corrupt my person.

And disrespect my home.

I'm not going to let you refuse to return and see all this for yourself.

He never will be.

So, I stand ready to marry anyone here who can string

this hunting bow and shoot an arrow through those 12 axes.

And show me who you are.

You may.

It can't be done by you.

I suppose that this is too much.

Then you do it.

I'll wait my turn.

Why don't you warm the bow and boil it?

I suppose it's been strong in years.

We can't replace these.

Some of us have always known that. Some of us would have followed that great man

to Troy if he'd let us.

We've never been back.

But here's the best of us here.

All of us who failed your death.

I have.

How long can you kill yourself?

How long did I kill you?

Go. And tell Simon.

I gave you back your shame.

We broke the fragile bonds between men.

And for centuries of darkness to fall, the stars of Troy will only be

sun.

Rory, you can't. You can't. No, no, no.

We have to remember those of us who did right.

We don't move right over the door to the room.