Kaos (2024) s01e01 Episode Script
Episode 1
1
[airy flute intro playing]
My name is Prometheus.
Some of you may have heard of me.
Don't worry if you haven't.
All you need to know
for now is I'm a prisoner.
Why?
Because I know too much
about a certain person.
- This is where he lives.
- [electrifying guitar riff]
["Money for Nothing"
by Dire Straits playing]
[Prometheus] Power can give a man
many things.
Taste is rarely one of them.
Look at that walk.
Extraordinary.
Anyway, his name
Now, look at them yo-yos ♪
[Prometheus] Yeah.
You play the guitar on the MTV ♪
- [whoosh]
- [song cuts out]
Blessed Olympia.
Mortals.
Uh, today is a holy day
upon which you honor me.
Do you do that well?
[dramatic music rises]
[seductively] Yes.
- [chuckles]
- [music halts]
[Prometheus] You do, but you shouldn't.
He's a transcendent, unmitigated bastard.
But don't worry.
There's a plan to bring him down.
The plan involves three humans
and a prophecy.
- The first human lives here on Earth.
- ["Hold On, I'm Comin'" playing]
In Krete, to be exact.
Be sad ♪
- [sirens wailing]
- Lean on me ♪
When the times are bad ♪
- When the day comes ♪
- [radio chatter]
And you are down ♪
In a river of trouble ♪
And about to drown ♪
Just hold on ♪
I'm comin' ♪
Hold on ♪
- I'm comin' ♪
- [kitten purring softly]
[Prometheus] This is Eurydice.
She prefers Riddy.
She has no idea of the part
she has to play in Zeus's downfall.
[whispering] What am I doing, Dennis? Hmm?
What's wrong with me?
[chuckles softly]
You don't give a fuck, do you?
[Prometheus] Right now,
she has other things on her mind.
"Matters of the heart,"
I think you call them.
[intense, rhythmic music playing]
[gulls crying]
- [woman] Can't decide?
- [music subsides]
[Riddy] Uh [chuckles]
No, actually, it's it's not for me.
My husband asked me
for something specific,
but I can't remember what he said.
I wasn't listening to him.
Is that bad?
Am I a a bad person?
You're okay.
[chuckles softly]
But that's not a smile.
- That's a scream.
- [quietly] What?
[PA chimes]
[announcer] This is
a customer announcement.
Toy tridents are now half-price.
[reporter on TV] Welcome
to Olympia Day celebrations in Krete.
First up, the annual human sacrifice.
Vero.
- Following this, President Minos
- [cashier] Excuse me? Ma'am?
Did you want that as well?
The pomegranate?
Yeah. Sorry. Thank you.
Happy Olympia.
- Sure.
- [receipt printer whirring]
- [woman] Get off, please! Get off!
- [guard] Then quit strugglin'!
[woman] Get off me! Let go! Get off me!
Get off! Get off!
- What are you doing?
- She's a thief.
Everyone's a thief.
- What did she take?
- Cat food.
[woman] Everyone steals.
Even the gods steal. Especially the gods.
They're stealing our souls.
- [guard] So you're blaspheming now too.
- [woman] Lies!
- It's my fault. I will pay for that.
- Nobody wants to know!
Why won't anyone listen?
- Can I just I will pay for it.
- I tell you, but nobody listens. [panting]
- Thank you.
- She's all yours.
- [woman] Mm.
- Are you okay?
Nobody believes a word I say,
but it all comes true.
I told them about the horse.
I told them about the men hidden inside.
- I told them.
- [eerie music playing]
[quietly] I told them.
[sighs]
Hey! Hey!
[woman] Stealing our souls.
Who are you?
[breathing shakily]
Today's the day.
What are you talking about?
Every morning, you think,
"Maybe today, maybe today."
And you never do it.
[whispers] But today you will.
Will what?
Leave him.
[Riddy gasps softly]
Your love is dead.
- [thunder rumbling overhead]
- [dramatic strings peak, fade]
[quietly] What the fuck?
["Largo al factotum"
from The Barber of Seville playing]
- [jubilant aria grows to a crescendo]
- [thunder crashes]
"Please, Zeus, water our crops."
- [wind picks up]
- [rain pattering below]
"Please, Zeus, make it rain."
- [thunder booming to rhythm]
- Happy Olympia!
[muttering] You're welcome!
[scatting]
- [dramatic rolling thunder]
- [exuberant opera music fades slowly]
[Zeus] What the
[thunderclap echoes]
[storm subsides]
[birds singing]
[yelps, chuckles]
- Don't do that.
- What are you doing?
[chime dings]
Take a look at this.
Does this look the same to you?
Well, yes.
- No, really look at it. Look at Yeah.
- It
[Prometheus] The Meander
is a divine structure.
- As long as it flows, Zeus reigns.
- [Zeus sighs]
I thought I saw, like, a blip.
It looks completely normal.
- Are you sure?
- Yes.
- Same as it ever was?
- Yes.
- Did you take it in?
- I did.
- Okay. You're sure?
- Yes.
[takes a deep breath]
Breakfast.
[Hera] Mm.
- [peacock calling]
- [Zeus sighs]
- Hey, where is our son, by the way?
- [hypnotic intro playing]
Your son? No idea.
[crowd cheering]
["Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" by ABBA playing]
Half past twelve ♪
And I'm watchin' the late show ♪
In my flat all alone ♪
How I hate to spend the evening
On my own ♪
Autumn breeze ♪
Blowin' outside the window ♪
As I look around the room ♪
And it makes me so depressed
To see the gloom ♪
There's not a soul out there ♪
No one to hear my prayer ♪
- [disco tune fades]
- [chimes jingle]
Do you like your job?
- Very much. [chuckles]
- [Dionysus] Mm.
- I'm bored of mine.
- [vendor] What do you do?
I work for my dad.
But he doesn't take me seriously.
I could do more with the humans.
- Huh?
- The people.
I'm good with them. I like them.
I just want to get more involved.
I want more responsibility.
You mean like moving to HR or something?
HR, exactly. Yes.
Well, tell him how you feel.
Yeah, it doesn't really work
like that with him.
He doesn't really do emotions.
[inhales sharply] Oh shit.
I need to get him a present.
Oh, it's his birthday?
Uh, yeah. Kind of. But what do I get him?
The guy has everything.
You know the most special thing
my son ever gave me?
- Huh?
- What?
A watch.
Because time together is precious. Huh?
- That's beautiful.
- [heavenly harp music playing]
[peacock calls]
- [Prometheus] Dionysus is unusual.
- [chomps]
[Prometheus] His mother was mortal,
but Zeus had made him a full god.
- [Hera] Hmph.
- [Zeus] Oh, you made it.
Well, great.
[Prometheus] Which had irritated people.
- [coldly] Hello.
- [Zeus] Hey.
[Prometheus] In fact, Hera had turned
Dionysus's mother into a bee.
Would you like some honey?
Mm. Hey. Hey, guys.
They're they're just about to unveil
this monument to us in Krete.
- [choir singing]
- [Zeus] Well, after this part.
Oh, I love this part.
[reporter on TV]
And here, we have Agatha of Heraklion,
a consenting human sacrifice,
willing to die in the name of Olympus.
Agatha. [takes a deep breath]
Thank you, Agatha.
Boy, check out Agatha's ugly shoes.
Oh, yeah. [chuckles]
Dad, um I got you a present.
You did?
What?
Oh my golly.
Oh, you dear boy.
- You dear
- Open it, open it, open it.
[Zeus chuckles]
- Oh, it's a watch.
- [pleased exhale]
Yeah, because, uh,
time spent together is precious.
Well put.
Yes, but, you know,
I already have a watch.
And this one's
from our our good pal Hercules.
It's kind of a, you know, a talisman.
Kind of a kind of a lucky charm.
Well, this one's from me, Dad.
So, uh, why don't you try it on?
- [sighs] Try it on?
- [Dionysus] Yeah, try it on.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
Erm um
[clicks tongue] Yeah.
- [quietly] Uh, no.
- [Dionysus] No?
Nope.
[hesitates, chuckles] Sorry.
Um, ball boy?
Yeah, could you, uh,
place this very carefully
next to that marvelous pig
that they just sent from Athens?
[clears throat]
- Don't brood.
- [sighs]
There you go.
They Hey, hey.
Don't do that with your chair.
- Don't do it.
- [chair thuds]
Dad, I need to talk to you.
Yeah, tell me.
- I'm bored.
- Hey. Hang on.
You see this President Minos?
Citizens of Krete, Blessed Olympia
He is a bozo.
You know?
No. No, Dad.
I I'm being serious. I want a promotion.
Just make me the god of love,
or or, uh, war. Wisdom.
I don't know. Something serious.
Something proper with influence.
[Hera scoffs] Mm.
[hesitates] What?
Oh, come on, Dionysus.
There's nothing wrong
with being slightly lightweight.
Everyone has their place.
- Suck a dick.
- [Zeus] Hey. Hey.
You do not tell your mother
to suck a dick.
She's not my mother.
[Dionysus yelps]
Apologize.
[sighs] No.
[groans] Sh
[moans]
- Apologize.
- [Dionysus grunts]
[inhales sharply]
Sorry.
Forgiven.
I give up.
- Don't be a brat. Sit. Sit.
- [Hera] Mm.
Try being a little bit nice.
It's right in your name, "Dio-nice- us."
Look how formal
This is a lovely
This is a lovely affair. Every year.
[Hera] Oh.
[Zeus] I must say,
I'm gettin' choked up.
- Just watching this, it's so sweet
- Hey.
No wonder I'm the only kid
that visits you.
- [glass shatters]
- [Dionysus screams]
[Hera chuckles dryly]
He's a disappointment.
[Hera exhales]
No [sighs]
- Where did I go wrong with him?
- [Hera] Oh, darling, you didn't.
I did. 'Cause he's right.
None of 'em are comin' home.
[gently] Darling, you have me.
[woman on TV] For you know that labor
for them is never in vain.
Here we go. Okay! [sings fanfare]
- A monument dedicated to our gods.
- [Zeus] Come on. Show me.
- Blessed Olympia.
- [drumroll]
[eagerly] Give it to me. Give it to me.
[cymbals crash]
[crowd murmuring]
- [low rumbling]
- [foreboding music rises]
What is that?
- [Minos] Who did this?
- [sternly] Zeus
[Minos] Who did this?!
That's not what I think it is, is it?
- Is that shit?
- [Minos] Who has desecrated the gods?
Who has defied my family?
- "Fuck the gods"?
- [Hera, apprehensively] Zeus
[static crackling]
"Fuck the gods"?
- [inhales sharply]
- [thunder rumbling]
- [exhales] That's blasphemy.
- [Hera] Zeus, calm down.
- Human not today.
- [slams fist, echoes]
- On this day?
- [Hera] Zeus
Oh no.
No, no.
I'm gonna wipe these fuckers
right off the face of the fuckin' Earth
No, you're not.
We have talked about this.
Power is delegation.
These are just a few blasphemers.
It's beneath you.
Just call Poseidon.
- I myself
- No.
Zeus, you're king of the gods.
You're the king of the gods.
Humans are not a threat to you.
[ominous music subsides]
["(Don't Fear) The Reaper"
by Blue Öyster Cult playing]
All our times have come ♪
Here, but now they're gone ♪
- Seasons don't fear the reaper ♪
- [sighs]
- Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain ♪
- [grunts]
We can be like they are ♪
Come on, baby ♪
Don't fear the reaper ♪
Baby, take my hand ♪
Don't fear the reaper ♪
We'll be able to fly ♪
Don't fear the reaper ♪
Baby, I'm your man ♪
La, la, la, la, la ♪
[over car stereo] La, la, la, la, la ♪
[song fades]
- [acoustic guitar strumming]
- [man singing indistinctly]
Bitter life for you ♪
I wanna breathe your every breath ♪
Truth can be ♪
Hey. [sighs]
You okay?
[inhales sharply] Well, do you want
the good news or the bad news?
Bad, always bad.
I think I got the wrong cereal.
- [groans dramatically]
- [Riddy sighs]
But
[Orpheus] What?
The good news is
[gently]this one comes with a toy.
- Okay, that is good.
- [Riddy] Mm.
- [chuckles]
- [Orpheus] Very good.
[laughs]
What song were you playing just now?
Why? Did you like it?
[Riddy] Mm-hmm.
'Cause I think it sent Dennis to sleep.
- [Riddy] Dennis? Where is Dennis?
- [Dennis purring]
[Orpheus] I'm gonna open with it
at the palace.
If they clear the shit
off the monument in time.
- What?
- [Orpheus] Did you not see the news?
The monument at the palace.
That's right. No, I did. I saw it.
They're saying it was the Trojans.
- Mm. Good for them.
- [Orpheus] Yep.
Anyway, I missed you
like crazy this morning.
I don't like it when you're not here.
What's it called?
- The, uh, song.
- What's up, buddy?
- [Dennis purrs]
- Psst.
The song, Orpheus?
"Eurydice."
- [sighs]
- [laughs] What?
My name? I already
- I I did the poster. I
- [Orpheus] I thought you liked the poster.
- Oh shit. You don't like it?
- I No, I
Uh, it's just that
[Orpheus sighs]
What?
I don't know.
Can't you you just love me quietly?
[scoffs] Well
No.
[softly] Uh, is is that so bad?
[quietly] No.
- [Orpheus] Riddy?
- [tender music playing]
Riddy
What's wrong?
[Prometheus] There's no loneliness
quite like that
with someone
you're falling out of love with.
Especially when that person
doesn't know it yet.
Today's the day.
[Prometheus] Riddy doesn't want it
to be the day.
- She isn't brave enough.
- [Riddy sighs]
[Orpheus] Hmm?
[Prometheus] Not yet, anyway.
[ringtone playing]
- Ah. Shit.
- Mm.
- [call connects]
- [Orpheus] Hi. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry.
[laughs] Five minutes.
Sorry. Sorry.
Whoops.
Mm.
[chuckling] Go. Go, go, go.
- [knocking on door]
- [woman] Hello?
Hello? I know you see me here,
standing here.
- [Orpheus] Sorry, Calli.
- Open the door.
- Come on in.
- Thank you. My god.
- When you're late, you bring on my asthma.
- I love you.
- Hey, Cal.
- Hey. There's a car coming for you.
- Um, I'll just get a taxi.
- [Calli] What?
- A taxi?
- Yeah. Do you remember those?
No. No, I already booked it.
- Sorry.
- Oh. Okay.
Uh, you will be there, won't you?
- What?
- Tonight.
- Yes. Of course I will.
- Okay. And, oh yeah.
- I love you.
- [laughs]
Yeah, love you too.
Let's go. That's wonderful.
- So, we're wearing black? That's
- [Orpheus] Yes.
- [Calli] Okay.
- [Orpheus] I like it.
[menacing instrumental music rising]
[sighs]
[Zeus sighs heavily]
[exhales sharply]
Come on, Zeus. Come on.
She's right.
You're the king of the gods.
King of the gods.
King
of the goddamn g
What the
[somber, ethereal vocals rise]
What the fuck is this?
[quietly] The fuck is this?
[gasps]
And so it begins.
- [vocals fade]
- [Prometheus] That's me, by the way.
[eagle screeches]
[Prometheus groaning]
- [whoosh]
- [eagle cries]
- [whoosh]
- Whoa! Hi.
Am I likeable?
He says to the person whose liver
he has pecked out every day by an eagle.
Are you what?
[sighs] Am I likeable?
Do people like me?
Do they not seem to to take to me?
What are you talking about?
Do you remember
that on all Olympia Days past,
we would barbecue?
The whole gang. All of us
would be dancin' around the Meander.
- Yeah.
- The kids would make beautiful toasts.
And I'd be performing
our celestial intercourse,
bathed by moonlight, makin' memories.
Every year.
- What's that, uh
- [Zeus] Do you see this thing here?
- Oh, come on.
- Come on. This prophecy.
- [Prometheus] Zeus
- I think I think it's comin' to pass.
It's happening. Read it.
- I know what it says
- I said read it.
Please.
[Prometheus] "A line appears,
the order wanes,
the family falls, and kaos reigns."
- [Zeus] "A line appears."
- [glasses clatter]
You see this?
You see this wrinkle right here?
That This vertical wrinkle? No, no, no.
- That's the line.
- [inhales sharply]
I discovered it just now.
I'm supposed to be immortal.
What is that? Aging?
- [Prometheus] Zeus
- What's next? A dip in bone density?
- Gum recession?
- Zeus.
A necessity for the daily stewed prune?
"The order wanes," that's what it says.
Oh, my friend, I'm waning. I'm waning.
The humans act like they think so.
They're blaspheming.
They just, um desecrated my monument.
They want to topple me.
This morning,
know what I saw in the Meander?
- What?
- A blip.
I have given the sweat off of my balls
to this family for too many fuckin' years
to just sit by and watch the family fall.
Prometheus, you were there. You know.
You've seen what I've had to go through
with my dad.
That fuckin' psychopath.
- Yeah.
- [Zeus groans]
Should I not be fretting
that this whole family
that I've built may crumble,
that it may be destroyed?
[grunts] Please say something.
- Something.
- Zeus, come on.
You're king of the gods.
Nothing can harm you.
The prophecy cannot come to pass.
Prophecies are for humans.
And that's not a new wrinkle.
The Meander doesn't blip.
The monument is just Poseidon being lazy,
as per, and not keeping his city in order.
[emphatically] You cannot be destroyed.
[hesitates] Thank you.
[sighs, softly] Thank you, sweet friend.
You're very welcome.
[loud pop]
[grunts] An unsavory old coot.
But I love him.
[voice breaking] Uh, he's
he's my only friend in the world.
[sniffles] Isn't that a remarkable thing?
Okay.
- [mischievous music playing]
- [Prometheus] I'm lying to Zeus.
The prophecy can come to pass.
He can absolutely be destroyed.
- If people open their eyes he will be.
- "Lightweight"?
"Lightweight"? How am I lightweight?
How is this lightweight?
[man on megaphone] Anyone found
harboring the Trojan 7 will be arrested.
They're terrorists and blasphemers.
Do not protect them.
- [Trojan groaning]
- [cop 1 grunts]
- [Trojan] Fuck the gods!
- [Dionysus chuckles]
[Trojan] What the fuck?
- [cop 2] Stay down!
- [cop 1] Fuckin' Trojan scum!
- [crowd clamoring]
- [horns honking]
- Do you have any cigarettes?
- I quit.
- Mm. Good for you.
- As should you.
As I will!
You know, I went
to sessions at the temple.
I think I might have a leaflet
Back in a second.
somewhere for you. What?
Hey!
Don't go anywhere!
[sighs] Crazy. He's a crazy person.
Twenty Boreas, please.
That's fine.
[man] Hey!
[aggressively] It's you, isn't it?
[chuckling] Maybe?
[laughing excitedly] Oh shit! Shit.
[chuckles] Shit!
Sign my head, please?
[laughs]
Yeah. Sure.
Mm.
["Kiss My Name"
by Anohni and the Johnsons playing]
[upbeat, cinematic intro building]
I love you. [chuckles]
I love you too.
- [horn honking]
- [Calli] Hey!
Come here!
That's Orpheus! [laughs]
- Fuckin' Orpheus!
- [Orpheus] Oh, oh! Whoa!
- [horn honks]
- [laughs]
[crowd clamoring excitedly]
- [Orpheus] Whoo!
- [horn beeps]
- Life is good, huh?
- Kiss my name ♪
[chuckles] Yeah.
[both laugh]
[Prometheus] It can be cruel,
the gap between perception and reality.
And my tears have turned to snow ♪
Well, I am only a child ♪
Born upon a grave ♪
Dancing through the stations ♪
Calling out my name ♪
Kiss my name ♪
- [crowd cheering]
- Kiss my name ♪
Kiss my name ♪
Kiss my name ♪
Mama, kiss my name ♪
I am trying to be sane ♪
I'm trying to kiss my friends ♪
- [cell phone vibrating]
- When broken, make amends ♪
Kiss my name ♪
The curtain's white ♪
Turtledoves embroider light ♪
- As I lie, murdered in ground ♪
- [song fades out]
Can you stop up here, please?
- Oh, good luck. Huge fan.
- [sounds distort]
[Prometheus] That's Ari. Remember her.
She's important. We'll come back to her.
- Thank you.
- [Ari] Mm.
He doesn't trust me. He doesn't value me.
And that's what this all comes down to.
I'm gonna show him what I'm capable of.
What's your name?
[sighs] Uh um, Julius.
You want my advice, Julius?
Sure.
Find a purpose for yourself,
not your father.
[solemn, pensive piano music playing]
Here.
Hey. Five minutes.
Is Riddy here?
- I need her here, Calli.
- Uh, yeah, yeah. She she just got here.
Right.
[sighs]
[tense strings playing]
- [Riddy] Wait here. I won't be long.
- [driver] I'll pull around.
[entrancing vocals rising]
[vocals fade]
- [Riddy] Excuse me?
- Yeah?
I request a divulgence with the tacita.
Now?
Yeah. Now.
[sighs]
[Prometheus] Humans visit tacitas
to divulge their darkest thoughts
and feelings,
not knowing that their confessions
are kept by Hera.
[melancholic vocals rise]
- [Prometheus] They give her power.
- [man] Forgive me. I have been unfaithful.
[voice breaking] Again.
What's the matter with me? [sighs]
[Prometheus] And they soothe
her absent heart.
[muffled sobbing]
[woman] I hated him. I wished him dead.
[whispered confessions overlapping]
[mournful vocals building]
[anguished voices reverberating]
[Hera breathes a contented sigh] Mm.
[confessors' voices fade out]
[otherworldly vocals subside]
[attendant] Behold, the tacita.
May speech to the wordless
give you comfort.
May the goddess Hera cradle you
in your mortal pain.
Vero.
Vero.
[door rattles closed]
Hi, Mom.
["Future Starts Slow"
by The Kills playing]
[crowd cheering in distance]
You can howl, you can wail
You can swing, you can flail ♪
You can thump like a broken sail ♪
But I'll never give you up ♪
If I ever give you up ♪
My heart will surely fail ♪
[cheering grows louder]
- [exciting lo-fi rock cuts out]
- How are you?
[takes a deep breath]
[scoffs]
Blessed Olympia.
May we submit
to the gods and honor them.
- [all] Vero.
- [crowd cheers]
[feedback squeals]
Controversially, I'm starting
with something completely new.
It's for the person who,
uh who completes me.
Saves me, repeatedly.
She hates it when I say that,
but it's true.
- [crowd applauds]
- She's here somewhere.
[crowd cheers]
Riddy!
- I love you with all my heart.
- [fans cheer]
I don't love Orpheus anymore.
I should, but I don't.
I'm not myself anymore.
I'm his. His wife. His muse.
I need to leave him.
But I can't.
[sniffles]
You know why?
Because of you. [crying softly]
You know, I, um
[haunting strings playing]
I really used to think
you'd change your mind.
When I was small, I, uh
I prayed. [chuckles sadly]
Prayed to Hera to give you back to me.
It took me, what?
Ten years to realize
you were never coming home?
[crying softly]
[haunting tune peaks, fades]
[voice breaking] Did you ever miss me?
Did you?
[exhales shakily, sobs]
Please, can you just tell me what to do?
Please? [inhales sharply]
[pen scratching]
[notepad sheet rips]
[Riddy sniffles]
[laughs contemptuously]
[inhales sharply]
I know my prophecy, Mom.
And I don't want that.
I I want your help.
What I want.
They don't care, you know? The gods.
You gave me up for them.
You cut out your tongue for them,
and they don't care about you.
They don't give a shit about any of us.
So I say fuck them.
Did you hear me? I defy them.
[Riddy] I defy the gods. [echoing]
[Hera] Oh, shut up.
[tender instrumental intro playing]
[takes a deep breath]
[softly] Bye, Mom.
Every hour, every aching moment ♪
Oh, we are bound, bound for Asphodel ♪
Whoa, hand in hand
Pull me through the river ♪
I ♪
Mouth-to-mouth like we're lung-to-lung ♪
[audience cheering]
Is it a little too much ♪
Breathin' the air from your lungs? ♪
Is it a little bit much
Under the weight of this love? ♪
But I, I, I ♪
I want to breathe your every breath ♪
Be the truth and be the myth ♪
Through the days and through the nights
Through the bitter life ♪
Oh, I ♪
'Cause you're my life
And you're my death ♪
[in distance] You score the music
In my head ♪
Through the days and through the nights
Through the bitter life ♪
Oh, through the fires
And the wildest moments ♪
Whoa, oh, I'll be wrapped up
In thoughts of you ♪
Oh, is it a little bit rough ♪
Under the weight of this love? ♪
Is it a little too much
Breathin' the air from your lungs? ♪
But I, I, I ♪
I want to breathe your every breath ♪
Be the truth and be the myth ♪
Through the days and through the nights
Through the bitter life ♪
Oh, I ♪
'Cause you're my life
And you're my death ♪
You score the music in my head ♪
Through the days and through the nights
Through the bitter life, oh ♪
[Orpheus vocalizing]
["Eurydice" fades]
Hey!
- [horn blares]
- [brakes screech]
[onlookers scream]
[quietly] I told you
you'd leave him today.
[shakily] You leave everyone today.
[haunting vocals rise]
[Prometheus] One thing you should know
about prophecies
no two are ever the same.
Supposedly.
[vocals fade]
[Zeus] "A line appears"
[grunts]
Ah. There it is. There it is.
There it isn't.
[under breath] Oh, fuck.
[crowd cheering]
[performing energetic rock song]
[speaking indistinctly]
[feedback squeals]
[cheering dies down]
[song stops]
[stunned silence falls]
- [amps humming]
- [speaking indistinctly]
[Orpheus breathing shakily]
["Darkness Song" by Asaf Avidan playing]
I've taught myself the lies ♪
That will get me through the day ♪
And nothin' ever lasts ♪
But the pain that circulates ♪
- [siren wailing]
- Through the chasms of our past ♪
And the breaths we dare to take ♪
[vocalizing]
Oh, Mama, can't you see? ♪
I've got a darkness shinin' through me ♪
I've got a darkness shinin' through me ♪
[sniffles]
[mournful piano tune fades]
I
[scoffs]
Sorry.
I, um [sighs]
[exhales]
Hades, Lord of Death,
we offer you this charm
[coin clatters]
[Orpheus] Fuck.
[quietly] I can't do this.
Can you? Please. Sorry.
[priest] Hades, Lord of Death,
we offer you this mortal, Eurydice.
Accept her coin and grant her safe passage
through the Frame.
Bless her glorious transition,
the Renewal of all human souls.
May Eurydice's be glorious.
In the name of Olympus, we pray.
Vero.
- [mourners] Vero.
- [gentle strings playing]
[Orpheus crying]
[Prometheus] Dionysus has found
his purpose.
Helping Orpheus.
[somber, ethereal vocals resonate]
[vocals fade]
[Prometheus] Orpheus will do anything
to get Riddy back.
- [Orpheus sniffles]
- [Prometheus] Anything.
[George Jones's "A Picture of Me" playing]
- Imagine a world ♪
- [Dennis meows]
Where no music was playin' ♪
Then think of a church ♪
[Orpheus huffs]
With nobody prayin' ♪
If you've ever ♪
Looked up at a sky with no blue ♪
[Riddy] The good news is
this one comes with a toy.
- Then you've seen a picture ♪
- [prize clatters]
- Of me without you ♪
- [wistful country tune fades]
[cereal box thuds]
[crickets chirping]
[brooding strings playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[Orpheus] I want a gun.
[waves crashing]
[Orpheus sighs]
[sniffles]
Okay, Riddy.
I'm gonna
- I'm gonna come and be with you.
- [gun cocks]
[tense music building]
Hey!
[groans]
[tense music fades]
Oh fuck.
Oh god.
Fuck.
No No!
- [screams]
- The fuck did you do that for, man?
[groans]
This shit stings!
I
[hesitates] Sorry.
Why'd you do that? Why'd you shoot me?
I didn't mean to.
What if I told you you could see
your wife again without dying?
There's a way.
Who are you?
And why aren't you bleeding?
Gods don't bleed.
Celestis ♪
Divinitus ♪
Insania ♪
Vero ♪
Celestis ♪
[Prometheus] The other thing
I should tell you about prophecies
is that only humans receive them.
Zeus wasn't always a god.
He didn't create you.
He used to be one of you.
Which is why he can be destroyed by you.
I've been waiting thousands of years
for the right people to be
in the right place at the right time.
This is our only chance.
A line appears, the order wanes,
the family falls
[sounds distort, fade]
and kaos reigns.
- [ferry horn blasts]
- [gasps]
[breathing shakily]
[ferry horn blasts]
[breeze blows gently]
[quirky guitar intro playing]
["I Know What I Know" playing]
She looked me over
And I guess she thought I was all right ♪
All right in a sort of a limited way
For an off night ♪
She said, "Don't I know you
From the cinematographer's party?" ♪
I said, "Who am I
To blow against the wind?" ♪
I know what I know ♪
I'll sing what I have said ♪
We come and we go ♪
That's a thing I keep
In the back of my head ♪
I know what I know ♪
I'll sing what I have said ♪
We come and we go ♪
That's a thing that I keep
In the back of my head ♪
- I know what I know ♪
- [rhythmic vocalizing]
- I know what I know ♪
- [rhythmic vocalizing]
- I know what I know ♪
- [rhythmic vocalizing]
- I know what I know ♪
- [rhythmic vocalizing]
- [energetic guitar outro plays]
- [upbeat tune fades]
[ominous strings rise]
[foreboding instrumental music fades]
[airy flute intro playing]
My name is Prometheus.
Some of you may have heard of me.
Don't worry if you haven't.
All you need to know
for now is I'm a prisoner.
Why?
Because I know too much
about a certain person.
- This is where he lives.
- [electrifying guitar riff]
["Money for Nothing"
by Dire Straits playing]
[Prometheus] Power can give a man
many things.
Taste is rarely one of them.
Look at that walk.
Extraordinary.
Anyway, his name
Now, look at them yo-yos ♪
[Prometheus] Yeah.
You play the guitar on the MTV ♪
- [whoosh]
- [song cuts out]
Blessed Olympia.
Mortals.
Uh, today is a holy day
upon which you honor me.
Do you do that well?
[dramatic music rises]
[seductively] Yes.
- [chuckles]
- [music halts]
[Prometheus] You do, but you shouldn't.
He's a transcendent, unmitigated bastard.
But don't worry.
There's a plan to bring him down.
The plan involves three humans
and a prophecy.
- The first human lives here on Earth.
- ["Hold On, I'm Comin'" playing]
In Krete, to be exact.
Be sad ♪
- [sirens wailing]
- Lean on me ♪
When the times are bad ♪
- When the day comes ♪
- [radio chatter]
And you are down ♪
In a river of trouble ♪
And about to drown ♪
Just hold on ♪
I'm comin' ♪
Hold on ♪
- I'm comin' ♪
- [kitten purring softly]
[Prometheus] This is Eurydice.
She prefers Riddy.
She has no idea of the part
she has to play in Zeus's downfall.
[whispering] What am I doing, Dennis? Hmm?
What's wrong with me?
[chuckles softly]
You don't give a fuck, do you?
[Prometheus] Right now,
she has other things on her mind.
"Matters of the heart,"
I think you call them.
[intense, rhythmic music playing]
[gulls crying]
- [woman] Can't decide?
- [music subsides]
[Riddy] Uh [chuckles]
No, actually, it's it's not for me.
My husband asked me
for something specific,
but I can't remember what he said.
I wasn't listening to him.
Is that bad?
Am I a a bad person?
You're okay.
[chuckles softly]
But that's not a smile.
- That's a scream.
- [quietly] What?
[PA chimes]
[announcer] This is
a customer announcement.
Toy tridents are now half-price.
[reporter on TV] Welcome
to Olympia Day celebrations in Krete.
First up, the annual human sacrifice.
Vero.
- Following this, President Minos
- [cashier] Excuse me? Ma'am?
Did you want that as well?
The pomegranate?
Yeah. Sorry. Thank you.
Happy Olympia.
- Sure.
- [receipt printer whirring]
- [woman] Get off, please! Get off!
- [guard] Then quit strugglin'!
[woman] Get off me! Let go! Get off me!
Get off! Get off!
- What are you doing?
- She's a thief.
Everyone's a thief.
- What did she take?
- Cat food.
[woman] Everyone steals.
Even the gods steal. Especially the gods.
They're stealing our souls.
- [guard] So you're blaspheming now too.
- [woman] Lies!
- It's my fault. I will pay for that.
- Nobody wants to know!
Why won't anyone listen?
- Can I just I will pay for it.
- I tell you, but nobody listens. [panting]
- Thank you.
- She's all yours.
- [woman] Mm.
- Are you okay?
Nobody believes a word I say,
but it all comes true.
I told them about the horse.
I told them about the men hidden inside.
- I told them.
- [eerie music playing]
[quietly] I told them.
[sighs]
Hey! Hey!
[woman] Stealing our souls.
Who are you?
[breathing shakily]
Today's the day.
What are you talking about?
Every morning, you think,
"Maybe today, maybe today."
And you never do it.
[whispers] But today you will.
Will what?
Leave him.
[Riddy gasps softly]
Your love is dead.
- [thunder rumbling overhead]
- [dramatic strings peak, fade]
[quietly] What the fuck?
["Largo al factotum"
from The Barber of Seville playing]
- [jubilant aria grows to a crescendo]
- [thunder crashes]
"Please, Zeus, water our crops."
- [wind picks up]
- [rain pattering below]
"Please, Zeus, make it rain."
- [thunder booming to rhythm]
- Happy Olympia!
[muttering] You're welcome!
[scatting]
- [dramatic rolling thunder]
- [exuberant opera music fades slowly]
[Zeus] What the
[thunderclap echoes]
[storm subsides]
[birds singing]
[yelps, chuckles]
- Don't do that.
- What are you doing?
[chime dings]
Take a look at this.
Does this look the same to you?
Well, yes.
- No, really look at it. Look at Yeah.
- It
[Prometheus] The Meander
is a divine structure.
- As long as it flows, Zeus reigns.
- [Zeus sighs]
I thought I saw, like, a blip.
It looks completely normal.
- Are you sure?
- Yes.
- Same as it ever was?
- Yes.
- Did you take it in?
- I did.
- Okay. You're sure?
- Yes.
[takes a deep breath]
Breakfast.
[Hera] Mm.
- [peacock calling]
- [Zeus sighs]
- Hey, where is our son, by the way?
- [hypnotic intro playing]
Your son? No idea.
[crowd cheering]
["Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" by ABBA playing]
Half past twelve ♪
And I'm watchin' the late show ♪
In my flat all alone ♪
How I hate to spend the evening
On my own ♪
Autumn breeze ♪
Blowin' outside the window ♪
As I look around the room ♪
And it makes me so depressed
To see the gloom ♪
There's not a soul out there ♪
No one to hear my prayer ♪
- [disco tune fades]
- [chimes jingle]
Do you like your job?
- Very much. [chuckles]
- [Dionysus] Mm.
- I'm bored of mine.
- [vendor] What do you do?
I work for my dad.
But he doesn't take me seriously.
I could do more with the humans.
- Huh?
- The people.
I'm good with them. I like them.
I just want to get more involved.
I want more responsibility.
You mean like moving to HR or something?
HR, exactly. Yes.
Well, tell him how you feel.
Yeah, it doesn't really work
like that with him.
He doesn't really do emotions.
[inhales sharply] Oh shit.
I need to get him a present.
Oh, it's his birthday?
Uh, yeah. Kind of. But what do I get him?
The guy has everything.
You know the most special thing
my son ever gave me?
- Huh?
- What?
A watch.
Because time together is precious. Huh?
- That's beautiful.
- [heavenly harp music playing]
[peacock calls]
- [Prometheus] Dionysus is unusual.
- [chomps]
[Prometheus] His mother was mortal,
but Zeus had made him a full god.
- [Hera] Hmph.
- [Zeus] Oh, you made it.
Well, great.
[Prometheus] Which had irritated people.
- [coldly] Hello.
- [Zeus] Hey.
[Prometheus] In fact, Hera had turned
Dionysus's mother into a bee.
Would you like some honey?
Mm. Hey. Hey, guys.
They're they're just about to unveil
this monument to us in Krete.
- [choir singing]
- [Zeus] Well, after this part.
Oh, I love this part.
[reporter on TV]
And here, we have Agatha of Heraklion,
a consenting human sacrifice,
willing to die in the name of Olympus.
Agatha. [takes a deep breath]
Thank you, Agatha.
Boy, check out Agatha's ugly shoes.
Oh, yeah. [chuckles]
Dad, um I got you a present.
You did?
What?
Oh my golly.
Oh, you dear boy.
- You dear
- Open it, open it, open it.
[Zeus chuckles]
- Oh, it's a watch.
- [pleased exhale]
Yeah, because, uh,
time spent together is precious.
Well put.
Yes, but, you know,
I already have a watch.
And this one's
from our our good pal Hercules.
It's kind of a, you know, a talisman.
Kind of a kind of a lucky charm.
Well, this one's from me, Dad.
So, uh, why don't you try it on?
- [sighs] Try it on?
- [Dionysus] Yeah, try it on.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
Erm um
[clicks tongue] Yeah.
- [quietly] Uh, no.
- [Dionysus] No?
Nope.
[hesitates, chuckles] Sorry.
Um, ball boy?
Yeah, could you, uh,
place this very carefully
next to that marvelous pig
that they just sent from Athens?
[clears throat]
- Don't brood.
- [sighs]
There you go.
They Hey, hey.
Don't do that with your chair.
- Don't do it.
- [chair thuds]
Dad, I need to talk to you.
Yeah, tell me.
- I'm bored.
- Hey. Hang on.
You see this President Minos?
Citizens of Krete, Blessed Olympia
He is a bozo.
You know?
No. No, Dad.
I I'm being serious. I want a promotion.
Just make me the god of love,
or or, uh, war. Wisdom.
I don't know. Something serious.
Something proper with influence.
[Hera scoffs] Mm.
[hesitates] What?
Oh, come on, Dionysus.
There's nothing wrong
with being slightly lightweight.
Everyone has their place.
- Suck a dick.
- [Zeus] Hey. Hey.
You do not tell your mother
to suck a dick.
She's not my mother.
[Dionysus yelps]
Apologize.
[sighs] No.
[groans] Sh
[moans]
- Apologize.
- [Dionysus grunts]
[inhales sharply]
Sorry.
Forgiven.
I give up.
- Don't be a brat. Sit. Sit.
- [Hera] Mm.
Try being a little bit nice.
It's right in your name, "Dio-nice- us."
Look how formal
This is a lovely
This is a lovely affair. Every year.
[Hera] Oh.
[Zeus] I must say,
I'm gettin' choked up.
- Just watching this, it's so sweet
- Hey.
No wonder I'm the only kid
that visits you.
- [glass shatters]
- [Dionysus screams]
[Hera chuckles dryly]
He's a disappointment.
[Hera exhales]
No [sighs]
- Where did I go wrong with him?
- [Hera] Oh, darling, you didn't.
I did. 'Cause he's right.
None of 'em are comin' home.
[gently] Darling, you have me.
[woman on TV] For you know that labor
for them is never in vain.
Here we go. Okay! [sings fanfare]
- A monument dedicated to our gods.
- [Zeus] Come on. Show me.
- Blessed Olympia.
- [drumroll]
[eagerly] Give it to me. Give it to me.
[cymbals crash]
[crowd murmuring]
- [low rumbling]
- [foreboding music rises]
What is that?
- [Minos] Who did this?
- [sternly] Zeus
[Minos] Who did this?!
That's not what I think it is, is it?
- Is that shit?
- [Minos] Who has desecrated the gods?
Who has defied my family?
- "Fuck the gods"?
- [Hera, apprehensively] Zeus
[static crackling]
"Fuck the gods"?
- [inhales sharply]
- [thunder rumbling]
- [exhales] That's blasphemy.
- [Hera] Zeus, calm down.
- Human not today.
- [slams fist, echoes]
- On this day?
- [Hera] Zeus
Oh no.
No, no.
I'm gonna wipe these fuckers
right off the face of the fuckin' Earth
No, you're not.
We have talked about this.
Power is delegation.
These are just a few blasphemers.
It's beneath you.
Just call Poseidon.
- I myself
- No.
Zeus, you're king of the gods.
You're the king of the gods.
Humans are not a threat to you.
[ominous music subsides]
["(Don't Fear) The Reaper"
by Blue Öyster Cult playing]
All our times have come ♪
Here, but now they're gone ♪
- Seasons don't fear the reaper ♪
- [sighs]
- Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain ♪
- [grunts]
We can be like they are ♪
Come on, baby ♪
Don't fear the reaper ♪
Baby, take my hand ♪
Don't fear the reaper ♪
We'll be able to fly ♪
Don't fear the reaper ♪
Baby, I'm your man ♪
La, la, la, la, la ♪
[over car stereo] La, la, la, la, la ♪
[song fades]
- [acoustic guitar strumming]
- [man singing indistinctly]
Bitter life for you ♪
I wanna breathe your every breath ♪
Truth can be ♪
Hey. [sighs]
You okay?
[inhales sharply] Well, do you want
the good news or the bad news?
Bad, always bad.
I think I got the wrong cereal.
- [groans dramatically]
- [Riddy sighs]
But
[Orpheus] What?
The good news is
[gently]this one comes with a toy.
- Okay, that is good.
- [Riddy] Mm.
- [chuckles]
- [Orpheus] Very good.
[laughs]
What song were you playing just now?
Why? Did you like it?
[Riddy] Mm-hmm.
'Cause I think it sent Dennis to sleep.
- [Riddy] Dennis? Where is Dennis?
- [Dennis purring]
[Orpheus] I'm gonna open with it
at the palace.
If they clear the shit
off the monument in time.
- What?
- [Orpheus] Did you not see the news?
The monument at the palace.
That's right. No, I did. I saw it.
They're saying it was the Trojans.
- Mm. Good for them.
- [Orpheus] Yep.
Anyway, I missed you
like crazy this morning.
I don't like it when you're not here.
What's it called?
- The, uh, song.
- What's up, buddy?
- [Dennis purrs]
- Psst.
The song, Orpheus?
"Eurydice."
- [sighs]
- [laughs] What?
My name? I already
- I I did the poster. I
- [Orpheus] I thought you liked the poster.
- Oh shit. You don't like it?
- I No, I
Uh, it's just that
[Orpheus sighs]
What?
I don't know.
Can't you you just love me quietly?
[scoffs] Well
No.
[softly] Uh, is is that so bad?
[quietly] No.
- [Orpheus] Riddy?
- [tender music playing]
Riddy
What's wrong?
[Prometheus] There's no loneliness
quite like that
with someone
you're falling out of love with.
Especially when that person
doesn't know it yet.
Today's the day.
[Prometheus] Riddy doesn't want it
to be the day.
- She isn't brave enough.
- [Riddy sighs]
[Orpheus] Hmm?
[Prometheus] Not yet, anyway.
[ringtone playing]
- Ah. Shit.
- Mm.
- [call connects]
- [Orpheus] Hi. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry.
[laughs] Five minutes.
Sorry. Sorry.
Whoops.
Mm.
[chuckling] Go. Go, go, go.
- [knocking on door]
- [woman] Hello?
Hello? I know you see me here,
standing here.
- [Orpheus] Sorry, Calli.
- Open the door.
- Come on in.
- Thank you. My god.
- When you're late, you bring on my asthma.
- I love you.
- Hey, Cal.
- Hey. There's a car coming for you.
- Um, I'll just get a taxi.
- [Calli] What?
- A taxi?
- Yeah. Do you remember those?
No. No, I already booked it.
- Sorry.
- Oh. Okay.
Uh, you will be there, won't you?
- What?
- Tonight.
- Yes. Of course I will.
- Okay. And, oh yeah.
- I love you.
- [laughs]
Yeah, love you too.
Let's go. That's wonderful.
- So, we're wearing black? That's
- [Orpheus] Yes.
- [Calli] Okay.
- [Orpheus] I like it.
[menacing instrumental music rising]
[sighs]
[Zeus sighs heavily]
[exhales sharply]
Come on, Zeus. Come on.
She's right.
You're the king of the gods.
King of the gods.
King
of the goddamn g
What the
[somber, ethereal vocals rise]
What the fuck is this?
[quietly] The fuck is this?
[gasps]
And so it begins.
- [vocals fade]
- [Prometheus] That's me, by the way.
[eagle screeches]
[Prometheus groaning]
- [whoosh]
- [eagle cries]
- [whoosh]
- Whoa! Hi.
Am I likeable?
He says to the person whose liver
he has pecked out every day by an eagle.
Are you what?
[sighs] Am I likeable?
Do people like me?
Do they not seem to to take to me?
What are you talking about?
Do you remember
that on all Olympia Days past,
we would barbecue?
The whole gang. All of us
would be dancin' around the Meander.
- Yeah.
- The kids would make beautiful toasts.
And I'd be performing
our celestial intercourse,
bathed by moonlight, makin' memories.
Every year.
- What's that, uh
- [Zeus] Do you see this thing here?
- Oh, come on.
- Come on. This prophecy.
- [Prometheus] Zeus
- I think I think it's comin' to pass.
It's happening. Read it.
- I know what it says
- I said read it.
Please.
[Prometheus] "A line appears,
the order wanes,
the family falls, and kaos reigns."
- [Zeus] "A line appears."
- [glasses clatter]
You see this?
You see this wrinkle right here?
That This vertical wrinkle? No, no, no.
- That's the line.
- [inhales sharply]
I discovered it just now.
I'm supposed to be immortal.
What is that? Aging?
- [Prometheus] Zeus
- What's next? A dip in bone density?
- Gum recession?
- Zeus.
A necessity for the daily stewed prune?
"The order wanes," that's what it says.
Oh, my friend, I'm waning. I'm waning.
The humans act like they think so.
They're blaspheming.
They just, um desecrated my monument.
They want to topple me.
This morning,
know what I saw in the Meander?
- What?
- A blip.
I have given the sweat off of my balls
to this family for too many fuckin' years
to just sit by and watch the family fall.
Prometheus, you were there. You know.
You've seen what I've had to go through
with my dad.
That fuckin' psychopath.
- Yeah.
- [Zeus groans]
Should I not be fretting
that this whole family
that I've built may crumble,
that it may be destroyed?
[grunts] Please say something.
- Something.
- Zeus, come on.
You're king of the gods.
Nothing can harm you.
The prophecy cannot come to pass.
Prophecies are for humans.
And that's not a new wrinkle.
The Meander doesn't blip.
The monument is just Poseidon being lazy,
as per, and not keeping his city in order.
[emphatically] You cannot be destroyed.
[hesitates] Thank you.
[sighs, softly] Thank you, sweet friend.
You're very welcome.
[loud pop]
[grunts] An unsavory old coot.
But I love him.
[voice breaking] Uh, he's
he's my only friend in the world.
[sniffles] Isn't that a remarkable thing?
Okay.
- [mischievous music playing]
- [Prometheus] I'm lying to Zeus.
The prophecy can come to pass.
He can absolutely be destroyed.
- If people open their eyes he will be.
- "Lightweight"?
"Lightweight"? How am I lightweight?
How is this lightweight?
[man on megaphone] Anyone found
harboring the Trojan 7 will be arrested.
They're terrorists and blasphemers.
Do not protect them.
- [Trojan groaning]
- [cop 1 grunts]
- [Trojan] Fuck the gods!
- [Dionysus chuckles]
[Trojan] What the fuck?
- [cop 2] Stay down!
- [cop 1] Fuckin' Trojan scum!
- [crowd clamoring]
- [horns honking]
- Do you have any cigarettes?
- I quit.
- Mm. Good for you.
- As should you.
As I will!
You know, I went
to sessions at the temple.
I think I might have a leaflet
Back in a second.
somewhere for you. What?
Hey!
Don't go anywhere!
[sighs] Crazy. He's a crazy person.
Twenty Boreas, please.
That's fine.
[man] Hey!
[aggressively] It's you, isn't it?
[chuckling] Maybe?
[laughing excitedly] Oh shit! Shit.
[chuckles] Shit!
Sign my head, please?
[laughs]
Yeah. Sure.
Mm.
["Kiss My Name"
by Anohni and the Johnsons playing]
[upbeat, cinematic intro building]
I love you. [chuckles]
I love you too.
- [horn honking]
- [Calli] Hey!
Come here!
That's Orpheus! [laughs]
- Fuckin' Orpheus!
- [Orpheus] Oh, oh! Whoa!
- [horn honks]
- [laughs]
[crowd clamoring excitedly]
- [Orpheus] Whoo!
- [horn beeps]
- Life is good, huh?
- Kiss my name ♪
[chuckles] Yeah.
[both laugh]
[Prometheus] It can be cruel,
the gap between perception and reality.
And my tears have turned to snow ♪
Well, I am only a child ♪
Born upon a grave ♪
Dancing through the stations ♪
Calling out my name ♪
Kiss my name ♪
- [crowd cheering]
- Kiss my name ♪
Kiss my name ♪
Kiss my name ♪
Mama, kiss my name ♪
I am trying to be sane ♪
I'm trying to kiss my friends ♪
- [cell phone vibrating]
- When broken, make amends ♪
Kiss my name ♪
The curtain's white ♪
Turtledoves embroider light ♪
- As I lie, murdered in ground ♪
- [song fades out]
Can you stop up here, please?
- Oh, good luck. Huge fan.
- [sounds distort]
[Prometheus] That's Ari. Remember her.
She's important. We'll come back to her.
- Thank you.
- [Ari] Mm.
He doesn't trust me. He doesn't value me.
And that's what this all comes down to.
I'm gonna show him what I'm capable of.
What's your name?
[sighs] Uh um, Julius.
You want my advice, Julius?
Sure.
Find a purpose for yourself,
not your father.
[solemn, pensive piano music playing]
Here.
Hey. Five minutes.
Is Riddy here?
- I need her here, Calli.
- Uh, yeah, yeah. She she just got here.
Right.
[sighs]
[tense strings playing]
- [Riddy] Wait here. I won't be long.
- [driver] I'll pull around.
[entrancing vocals rising]
[vocals fade]
- [Riddy] Excuse me?
- Yeah?
I request a divulgence with the tacita.
Now?
Yeah. Now.
[sighs]
[Prometheus] Humans visit tacitas
to divulge their darkest thoughts
and feelings,
not knowing that their confessions
are kept by Hera.
[melancholic vocals rise]
- [Prometheus] They give her power.
- [man] Forgive me. I have been unfaithful.
[voice breaking] Again.
What's the matter with me? [sighs]
[Prometheus] And they soothe
her absent heart.
[muffled sobbing]
[woman] I hated him. I wished him dead.
[whispered confessions overlapping]
[mournful vocals building]
[anguished voices reverberating]
[Hera breathes a contented sigh] Mm.
[confessors' voices fade out]
[otherworldly vocals subside]
[attendant] Behold, the tacita.
May speech to the wordless
give you comfort.
May the goddess Hera cradle you
in your mortal pain.
Vero.
Vero.
[door rattles closed]
Hi, Mom.
["Future Starts Slow"
by The Kills playing]
[crowd cheering in distance]
You can howl, you can wail
You can swing, you can flail ♪
You can thump like a broken sail ♪
But I'll never give you up ♪
If I ever give you up ♪
My heart will surely fail ♪
[cheering grows louder]
- [exciting lo-fi rock cuts out]
- How are you?
[takes a deep breath]
[scoffs]
Blessed Olympia.
May we submit
to the gods and honor them.
- [all] Vero.
- [crowd cheers]
[feedback squeals]
Controversially, I'm starting
with something completely new.
It's for the person who,
uh who completes me.
Saves me, repeatedly.
She hates it when I say that,
but it's true.
- [crowd applauds]
- She's here somewhere.
[crowd cheers]
Riddy!
- I love you with all my heart.
- [fans cheer]
I don't love Orpheus anymore.
I should, but I don't.
I'm not myself anymore.
I'm his. His wife. His muse.
I need to leave him.
But I can't.
[sniffles]
You know why?
Because of you. [crying softly]
You know, I, um
[haunting strings playing]
I really used to think
you'd change your mind.
When I was small, I, uh
I prayed. [chuckles sadly]
Prayed to Hera to give you back to me.
It took me, what?
Ten years to realize
you were never coming home?
[crying softly]
[haunting tune peaks, fades]
[voice breaking] Did you ever miss me?
Did you?
[exhales shakily, sobs]
Please, can you just tell me what to do?
Please? [inhales sharply]
[pen scratching]
[notepad sheet rips]
[Riddy sniffles]
[laughs contemptuously]
[inhales sharply]
I know my prophecy, Mom.
And I don't want that.
I I want your help.
What I want.
They don't care, you know? The gods.
You gave me up for them.
You cut out your tongue for them,
and they don't care about you.
They don't give a shit about any of us.
So I say fuck them.
Did you hear me? I defy them.
[Riddy] I defy the gods. [echoing]
[Hera] Oh, shut up.
[tender instrumental intro playing]
[takes a deep breath]
[softly] Bye, Mom.
Every hour, every aching moment ♪
Oh, we are bound, bound for Asphodel ♪
Whoa, hand in hand
Pull me through the river ♪
I ♪
Mouth-to-mouth like we're lung-to-lung ♪
[audience cheering]
Is it a little too much ♪
Breathin' the air from your lungs? ♪
Is it a little bit much
Under the weight of this love? ♪
But I, I, I ♪
I want to breathe your every breath ♪
Be the truth and be the myth ♪
Through the days and through the nights
Through the bitter life ♪
Oh, I ♪
'Cause you're my life
And you're my death ♪
[in distance] You score the music
In my head ♪
Through the days and through the nights
Through the bitter life ♪
Oh, through the fires
And the wildest moments ♪
Whoa, oh, I'll be wrapped up
In thoughts of you ♪
Oh, is it a little bit rough ♪
Under the weight of this love? ♪
Is it a little too much
Breathin' the air from your lungs? ♪
But I, I, I ♪
I want to breathe your every breath ♪
Be the truth and be the myth ♪
Through the days and through the nights
Through the bitter life ♪
Oh, I ♪
'Cause you're my life
And you're my death ♪
You score the music in my head ♪
Through the days and through the nights
Through the bitter life, oh ♪
[Orpheus vocalizing]
["Eurydice" fades]
Hey!
- [horn blares]
- [brakes screech]
[onlookers scream]
[quietly] I told you
you'd leave him today.
[shakily] You leave everyone today.
[haunting vocals rise]
[Prometheus] One thing you should know
about prophecies
no two are ever the same.
Supposedly.
[vocals fade]
[Zeus] "A line appears"
[grunts]
Ah. There it is. There it is.
There it isn't.
[under breath] Oh, fuck.
[crowd cheering]
[performing energetic rock song]
[speaking indistinctly]
[feedback squeals]
[cheering dies down]
[song stops]
[stunned silence falls]
- [amps humming]
- [speaking indistinctly]
[Orpheus breathing shakily]
["Darkness Song" by Asaf Avidan playing]
I've taught myself the lies ♪
That will get me through the day ♪
And nothin' ever lasts ♪
But the pain that circulates ♪
- [siren wailing]
- Through the chasms of our past ♪
And the breaths we dare to take ♪
[vocalizing]
Oh, Mama, can't you see? ♪
I've got a darkness shinin' through me ♪
I've got a darkness shinin' through me ♪
[sniffles]
[mournful piano tune fades]
I
[scoffs]
Sorry.
I, um [sighs]
[exhales]
Hades, Lord of Death,
we offer you this charm
[coin clatters]
[Orpheus] Fuck.
[quietly] I can't do this.
Can you? Please. Sorry.
[priest] Hades, Lord of Death,
we offer you this mortal, Eurydice.
Accept her coin and grant her safe passage
through the Frame.
Bless her glorious transition,
the Renewal of all human souls.
May Eurydice's be glorious.
In the name of Olympus, we pray.
Vero.
- [mourners] Vero.
- [gentle strings playing]
[Orpheus crying]
[Prometheus] Dionysus has found
his purpose.
Helping Orpheus.
[somber, ethereal vocals resonate]
[vocals fade]
[Prometheus] Orpheus will do anything
to get Riddy back.
- [Orpheus sniffles]
- [Prometheus] Anything.
[George Jones's "A Picture of Me" playing]
- Imagine a world ♪
- [Dennis meows]
Where no music was playin' ♪
Then think of a church ♪
[Orpheus huffs]
With nobody prayin' ♪
If you've ever ♪
Looked up at a sky with no blue ♪
[Riddy] The good news is
this one comes with a toy.
- Then you've seen a picture ♪
- [prize clatters]
- Of me without you ♪
- [wistful country tune fades]
[cereal box thuds]
[crickets chirping]
[brooding strings playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[Orpheus] I want a gun.
[waves crashing]
[Orpheus sighs]
[sniffles]
Okay, Riddy.
I'm gonna
- I'm gonna come and be with you.
- [gun cocks]
[tense music building]
Hey!
[groans]
[tense music fades]
Oh fuck.
Oh god.
Fuck.
No No!
- [screams]
- The fuck did you do that for, man?
[groans]
This shit stings!
I
[hesitates] Sorry.
Why'd you do that? Why'd you shoot me?
I didn't mean to.
What if I told you you could see
your wife again without dying?
There's a way.
Who are you?
And why aren't you bleeding?
Gods don't bleed.
Celestis ♪
Divinitus ♪
Insania ♪
Vero ♪
Celestis ♪
[Prometheus] The other thing
I should tell you about prophecies
is that only humans receive them.
Zeus wasn't always a god.
He didn't create you.
He used to be one of you.
Which is why he can be destroyed by you.
I've been waiting thousands of years
for the right people to be
in the right place at the right time.
This is our only chance.
A line appears, the order wanes,
the family falls
[sounds distort, fade]
and kaos reigns.
- [ferry horn blasts]
- [gasps]
[breathing shakily]
[ferry horn blasts]
[breeze blows gently]
[quirky guitar intro playing]
["I Know What I Know" playing]
She looked me over
And I guess she thought I was all right ♪
All right in a sort of a limited way
For an off night ♪
She said, "Don't I know you
From the cinematographer's party?" ♪
I said, "Who am I
To blow against the wind?" ♪
I know what I know ♪
I'll sing what I have said ♪
We come and we go ♪
That's a thing I keep
In the back of my head ♪
I know what I know ♪
I'll sing what I have said ♪
We come and we go ♪
That's a thing that I keep
In the back of my head ♪
- I know what I know ♪
- [rhythmic vocalizing]
- I know what I know ♪
- [rhythmic vocalizing]
- I know what I know ♪
- [rhythmic vocalizing]
- I know what I know ♪
- [rhythmic vocalizing]
- [energetic guitar outro plays]
- [upbeat tune fades]
[ominous strings rise]
[foreboding instrumental music fades]