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(seagulls caw)

(water splashes)

(intense music)

(gentle music)

(huffing)

Whew!

I thought I'd never find my way out of that wood.

(laughs) Sometimes you just have to keep going.

You're right.

That's exactly how I got out.

I kept putting one foot in front of the other.

(pensive sigh)

Do you think dad ever loses his way?

Yes, but like you, he just keeps on going.

(mysterious music)

(sighs) I don't know why, but this maze of rocks

looks familiar.

Hard to starboard!

Are you sure?

(grunts)

(people shout)

(loud grind)

(people shout)

Now port, hard to port!

I can't see a thing.

Just do it!

(grunting)

Good call, captain.

Was that just a lucky guess?

Oh no, (nervous laugh) I know exactly where we are.

Hmm.

Exactly where?

My home island of Crete. (nervous laugh)

[Cretan Coast Guard] Foreign vessel!

Heave to and prepare to be boarded.

Huh?

(nervous moaning)

(water lapping)

Welcome, I'm your pilot.

I will guide you to shore.

Please, be my guest.

Dates, why aren't you glad to be home?

I had a shipwreck and lost a cargo belonging

to King Tauros.

(yelling)

(water rushing)

(intense music)

And you've never been back since?

No, that's why I did away with the beard.

If anyone here recognizes me, I'm a goner.

What about that then?

Um, deep down inside I'm still a Cretan.

I couldn't bring myself to shave it right off.

Hmm, I can understand that, my friend.

Why, Dates, that's quite a dilemma you're in there.

Please don't mind me if I make your predicament

even more of a sticky one.

(grandiose music)

(humming)

- [Poseidon] Psst! Huh?

King Tauros.

Ah, Poseidon.

What ill winds bring you here?

I fear it's not a social call.

A band of spies working for your worst enemy

have come to gather information for an invasion.

Huh, King Peloponnesus?

He has dared to send spies?

If I were you, I would amuse myself at their expense

for awhile and then, naturally, eliminate them.

(hums)

Hmm.

Your Majesty, King Tauros.

I present the new arrivals.

Ulysses, Nisa, and her owl.

Diomedes, Zephyr, Titan.

(groans)

Huh?

Oh.

And, what do you say your name is?

Uh, Date, uh, (clears throat) Tesda (laughs nervously).

Yes, Tesda is my name.

Hmm?

I don't like the look of that Tesda nor the one

with the horns.

I bet they're fake.

Welcome, my dear guests.

Your presence here is a great joy for my kingdom.

We are much honored.

Laying it on a little thick, wouldn't you say?

I'm just on my way out to the Bull Arena.

Perhaps you'd like to join me?

Oh?

Hmm.

Well?

We'd be delighted.

(Dates groans) Hmm.

Please Tesda, won't you sit down?

Uh, actually, I was going to sit over here.

Bull dancing is our national sport and this young man

is one of our best.

Hmm, if your goatee was any bigger, one would almost say

you were Cretan, dear Tesda.

(painful sigh)

A real man should always possess a fine beard like my own.

(calm music)

Yay!

Wow!

I love this game.

You see it's a national custom that favored guests,

such as yourselves, try their hand with our bulls.

Sire, I would be delighted to dance, but--

I'm sure you will perform outstandingly.

Cheer up, Philo.

It's gonna be fun.

Yeah, lots of fun.

(calm music)

(yells)

Yay!

Hey!

Ta-da!

(impressed laugh)

Wonderful, Nisa.

Wow!

King Tauros, that's what I call fun!

Bravo.

I must say you have quite a gift for the sport.

Not bad for a spi, for a foreigner.

Now it's my turn.

(bull growls)

Maybe you should let me go first.

Nonsense!

(galloping)

(Diomedes yells)

(bull growls)

Now that's more like it.

(yells)

This one mine.

(Diomedes yells)

(growling)

Hmm, yeah!

(yells)

(upbeat music)

Help!

Help, help!

(yells)

Don't worry, men!

I've got it under control.

(yells)

(bull growls)

(men laugh)

I think we've fulfilled the requirements

for being good guests, don't you?

Ugh, quite so.

Bravo.

You have proved your worth.

Now I owe you a favor.

King Tauros.

What we want more than anything is to get back to Ithaca.

So be it.

I shall help you get back home.

(water splashes)

I'm afraid you're wrong there, Ulysses.

On this island, the only good guest is a dead guest.

I present you my country's pride and joy.

(everyone gasps)

Oh no, anything but the maze.

At the center of the labyrinth is an oracle.

Find it, and it will show you the way to Ithaca.

Thank you, King Tauros, but--

A maze is amazing to enter, but even more amazing

is returning from a maze's center.

Your path out will be lead by lengths of golden thread.

Just unravel them.

They will take you to the exit.

Here is the entrance to the labyrinth.

Please do excuse me, I cannot accompany you.

I have urgent business to attend to.

Let's go.

- [Zephyr] Which one shall we take?

If we split up, we're more likely to find that oracle.

Zephyr, Dates, come with me.

We'll take the left entrance.

The rest of you, take the right entrance.

Don't lose the thread, my friends.

- [Titan] Follow me.

Wait for us, Titan!

Hmm. (laughs)

- [Titan] Titan says we go right.

- [Philo] Without meaning to sound bossy or anything,

I say we take a left.

(laughs) Excellent.

They haven't figured out that it's a trap.

- [Zephyr] So, you know the way then, Dates?

Well, actually, my grandfather helped build this thing,

but he never really said anything about, uh.

(Owl hoots)

Hmm.

We're going straight on.

(everyone groans)

- [Philo] I tell you, we should have turned right.

As the eldest in this group, I tell you

the right direction is left.

There you go, happy now?

As the only poet here, I can tell you that--

(groans) Now Titan will decide.

We will go left.

(Owl hoots)

You can say that again.

You really think a little stroll in the maze

is going to be enough to get rid of those wretches spies.

You are the epitome of inefficiency.

Oh, don't worry about that.

I personally had a hand in building that maze

and believe me, it has a few surprises in store.

(laughs) Thanks to my oracle, their ticket will be one way.

Oh, I wouldn't be so sure.

Those spy guys are smarter than they look.

Oh well, you have nothing to lose but your kingdom.

Hmm.

(pensive music)

Good, I see that everyone is here.

Now all that we have to do is find that--

(loud shaking)

(Everyone yells)

(gasps)

Wow, some oracle!

Only problem is none of us know how to speak bull language.

Huh?

Leave this to me, child.

I have a way with oracles.

(groans)

Oh, see what I mean?

(fearful groan)

Whoa!

Looks like I spoke too soon.

Help!

(everyone yells)

(Owl hoots)

(bull snorts)

(gasping)

I knew we should never have set foot in this maze.

- [Zephyr] Tell me about it.

Hmm?

Hmm, this is Tauros' doing.

Hmm.

Uh, where to now?

Uh oh.

This way! (gasping)

(groans)

Oh, no.

Oh, that's the third path we've tried.

Some oracle!

I hope the others are out of the woods.

(Philo screaming)

Help! - [Philo] Help!

- [Titan] Help! [Diomedes Help!

You go on.

I'll cover you.

Uh!

Okay, not so convincing.

(bull snorts)

Ah!

(Nisa screams)

You okay, Nisa?

I think so.

Why are you so mad at us, you two?

What's your beef?

(Nisa gasps)

(mysterious music)

Huh?

Look, you see the disk between its eyes?

We've got to touch it somehow.

Oh, no!

Don't ask me to go stroke that phony oracle.

I think we've made enough bulls for one day.

We may not have to touch it.

(everyone moans)

(Ulysses grunts)

(rocks fall)

(everyone cheers)

(Owl hoots)

You got lost, too, huh?

Well done, my friends.

Very clever indeed, but this time, it's curtains.

(rain falling)

(thunder crashing)

In my kingdom, this is where criminals are punished.

In the heart of my maze.

Ah, suitable entertainment, at last.

But Lord Tauros, why?

What have we done?

Are you making a fool out of me?

I know very well that King Peloponnesus is planning

to invade my island and that you are here

on a reconnaissance mission.

What?

Hmm.

Wait a moment.

Who exactly told you we were spies?

A god, that's who, and you can't get more reliable

than that.

Huh, not if that god happens to be Poseidon.

Okay, spies.

It's punishment time.

(everyone screams)

(Owl hoots)

(laughs)

Tauros!

What could you possibly want now?

Apart from kings like me, nobody gets out alive

from my labyrinth.

Catch that, King Tauros.

Trying to buy me off, eh?

Nice try, little spy, but it won't work with me.

Look carefully at the coin.

Hmm.

Hey sailor.

How did you get your face on a gold coin

from the kingdom of Ithaca?

Because, your Majesty, Ulysses is the king of Ithaca.

Hmm?

You're that Ulysses?

You mean the great vanquisher of Troy?

You got that one right.

Then Poseidon was lying to me!

You called for me, you puny double-horned mortal?

Now it's your turn to share the face of Ulysses

and his companions.

(yells)

Poseidon!

Now I recognize his dirty work.

Rise all powers of the ocean.

Let's teach these mortal fools the real price

of offending a god.

(everyone screams)

I think that this time we really are up the creek.

And never mind the paddle.

(roars)

What should we do?

What should we do?

The most important think is not to panic!

Huh?

Wait a minute, I think I've got it.

Blow, Titan and inflate this goat skin.

I'm afraid your king of Ithaca has lost his mind.

Uh, that's what the Trojans though

before he beat them in the Trojan War.

(blowing)

- [Ulysses] Keep going, Titan!

Keep blowing.

(everyone screams)

(laughs)

Huh?

Hmm?

We did it!

We did it.

(growls)

(everyone gasps)

(Poseidon yells)

Poseidon.

Huh?

You know that attacking Ulysses directly

is against the rules and will cause you

to lose our bet immediately.

Athena?

Why is she always looking?

I was so close.

(everyone cheers)

(groans)

(laughs)

Wait a minute.

Do I know you?

Uh oh! Now Dates is finally done for.

Hmm?

Dates?

Is that Dates?

Dates, it's you!

I didn't mean to get shipwrecked and lose your cargo,

your Majesty.

It was all a terrible mistake, honestly.

(groans)

(laughs) It certainly was.

The cargo washed back up on shore the next day

but you, my friend, were gone forever.

You mean, you aren't angry at me?

Of course not!

What's a little shipwreck to the greatest navigator

my kingdom ever produced?

(laughs) Do you hear that?

King Tauros still likes me!

He really likes me!

(everyone laughs)

I wish a safe and successful voyage to one and all.

And with a navigator like Dates, you should be home

before you know it.

It's good to meet another true blue member

of the Brotherhood of the Bull.

Wear your horns proudly.

(sighs)

(bulls moo)

(laughs)

(everyone laughs)

Next time, Ulysses, there will be no goddess

and no horn-wearing freak to save you.

I can't tell you how much I will enjoy watching you

meet your doom!

(hopeful music)