Kaos (2024) s01e04 Episode Script
Episode 4
1
[Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons:
Summer" playing]
- [wings flap overhead]
- [bird calls]
[intense strings building]
- You! Yes, Mr. Nervous.
- [ball boy 1 shudders]
Did you take it?
No, sir!
[Zeus] Do you know who did?
- [hesitates] No, sir.
- [Zeus] Uh, okay.
Pull!
[breathing shakily]
I said, "Pull!"
[takes a deep breath]
- [rifle fires]
- [Mr. Nervous thuds]
[exhales deeply]
Bingo.
Uh, Roman Nose.
Yeah. Did you take it?
- No, sir.
- [Zeus] You know who did?
He did.
He'll fly away with those big ears.
Pull!
- [gunshot]
- [gasps, groans]
[Roman Nose thuds]
[sighs]
[Hera] We have a problem.
- [Poseidon] Oh, yeah?
- Did you take Zeus's watch?
- Of course not.
- [sighs] Well, we need to find it.
What? Why?
Because he's started a war room,
and he's killing the ball boys.
- [rifle fires]
- [ball boy screams, thuds]
- [Poseidon] What?
- Yeah, I just had to make my own coffee.
- What do you mean, "a war room"?
- I'm standing in it.
There are two phases, from what I can see.
And I'd call it
quite a serious escalation.
What's wrong with him?
Well, I think he was slightly disappointed
with your punishment of the Trojans.
Oh yeah. He told me.
- [Hera] Anyway, look, Poseidon.
- I've got to be the rifleman.
He clearly needs to let off some steam.
But he says he can't start
until he finds his watch.
So try the boy.
- What boy?
- Dionysus.
- Leave it to me.
- [call disconnects]
- [Zeus] I said, "Pull!"
- [rifle fires]
[scoffs]
[tempestuous classical strings fade]
[birds calling]
[Prometheus] A long time ago,
and I mean a long time ago,
I was a free man.
Free to experience life
and love like anyone else.
- And, my god, did I love someone.
- [sighs]
[softly] How's the knee?
- Oh, fucked.
- [Charon] Hmm.
Well, I've started waking up
in the night to piss.
[Prometheus chuckles]
Yeah.
[chuckles softly]
Been a long time, Charon.
No shit.
Leave it this long again, I might be dead.
I missed you.
[Charon] Hmm?
[kisses]
- [sighs]
- I love you.
[Charon] Mm.
I know. [chuckles]
[takes a deep breath] I mean it.
What's happened?
- Zeus?
- [Prometheus sighs deeply]
He's comin' for me.
- I wish you'd tell me why.
- Well, I can't.
I need you to promise me something.
Anything.
[Prometheus sighs]
You're gonna meet someone.
Might be a few years from now.
You must help them.
- How?
- [Prometheus] Keep them safe.
You'll know by the mark.
Mm-hmm. What mark?
I I might need a bit more than that.
Just promise me.
This matters more than anything.
Please?
[Charon inhales sharply]
Swear it.
Of course.
You swear?
I swear it.
Thank you.
And sorry.
For what?
[groans, gasping]
Try not to hate me.
[Charon choking]
["Sleeping on the Blacktop"
by Colter Wall playing]
[raw, gritty country tune continues]
Sunshine beatin' on the good times ♪
Moonlight raisin' from the grave ♪
String band playing
Worn-out honky-tonk ♪
Pretty young thing
Goin' dancing in the rain ♪
[Prometheus] The greater good
always comes at a personal cost.
Always.
Mm-hmm-mm ♪
Less'n my sense catches up with me ♪
- ["Sleeping on the Blacktop" fades]
- It's really through there?
Through a bin?
This isn't a joke?
It's discreet.
Always been discreet.
And you are on thin ice,
so just shut the fuck
Okay. Okay. Sorry. Sorry.
[clears throat] Sorry.
[mother] Good luck.
Bring him back.
[softly] I will.
I love you.
[takes a deep breath, grunts]
[reverberations echo]
[Orpheus sighs, chuckles nervously]
Thank you for everything.
I'm gonna do it.
I know you will.
We've got nothing to lose.
Please help him.
Help Anatole.
Look after each other.
- We will.
- We have a lot to lose.
Understood.
- [grunts]
- [Poly] Mm.
[grunts softly, exhales]
Oh. Ah, Dennis!
The kitten. Our kitten, he needs feeding.
Can you do that?
Uh
Yeah. Okay. Sure.
There's wet food
under the sink and dry in the
[screams]
[scream echoes]
Well, where's the dry food, Poly? Hmm?
[Poly grunts]
Uh
Take care of that, please.
Oh, this? Uh, yeah.
[Atropos] Don't worry.
We won't tell your daddy.
- [Lachesis] Okay. Show's over, kids.
- [Atropos cackles]
- Go on, Orpheus.
- [Fates exclaim]
- [intense, somber music playing]
- [indistinct chatter]
They don't fit.
You get what you get.
And you do what you're told.
[sighs] Fuck you, Orpheus.
[Orpheus screams]
[groans]
You hurt?
You're not meant to be here.
[Orpheus sighs]
And you took your wife's coin.
Yeah, I did.
Because it was the only way
I could think of to be with her again.
I know that's fucked up,
but I love her. Truly.
Look. I promised your wife
I'd look out for you.
I was really moved
by what you did at the bar, the puppet.
I'm sorry about your son.
Look, please.
[hesitates] We're alone here.
[sighs] Shall we at least
try to trust each other?
Thank you.
We need to cross the Styx.
Okay, let's go.
[rhythmic, percussive music playing]
[Prometheus] Orpheus is useful.
An ego like that has no trouble
accepting the notion of a cosmic purpose.
And no suspicion
that the purpose might be co-opted.
[energetic music peaks, fades]
[Prometheus] Others require
much more help.
[woman on PA] Additional training
will be given this evening at 6:00 p.m.
[dogs barking and whining]
Fotis.
[Fotis whines, barks]
Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh!
Sit. Sit. Sit.
Fancy a walk?
[dog barks nearby]
[Fotis whining]
[Caeneus] I'm not letting you
off the lead.
[sighs] Okay. Okay.
But you have to promise me, yeah?
[softly] Fine.
[Fotis barking]
Fotis! Fotis!
[phone ringing]
- [phone ringing]
- [Zeus] Watches don't just disappear.
Somebody's got it.
Pull!
- [shot echoes]
- [ringing continues]
- [answering machine clicks]
- [Zeus] Ah, this is Zeus. Real busy.
[answering machine beeps, whirs]
[hesitating] Zeus, it's Persephone.
I need to tell you something.
There's a problem in the underworld.
Okay, a soul has escaped from the Nothing.
- [Hades] What are you doing?
- [Persephone] No, Hades!
- [machine whirs, beeps]
- [automated voice] Message deleted.
You need to tell him
what's happened, Hades. You have to.
No, I'll sort it out myself.
[Persephone] Something is wrong,
and you know it.
How, Hades? How does a soul disappear?
How is that even possible?
And what if it's not just one?
What if it's the start of something?
It's not the start of something.
It's just a reminder, a kick up the ass.
Zeus put me in charge of the underworld.
It's my fault.
- It's not your fault.
- [Hades] It is my fault.
I've sat back.
I've not been monitoring the Nothing.
I've let things slide.
So let's see this as an opportunity.
We'll find the soul.
We'll put everything right.
There's nothing that can't be fixed
if I put my mind to it.
Trust me.
And there's absolutely no need
to tell Zeus.
[unsettling music playing]
[Caeneus] Fotis.
Fotis.
Fotis!
- [music grows ominous]
- [Nax gasps]
[shuddering]
[Caeneus] Hey. Okay.
Hey, are you all right?
[crying softly]
We have to help them.
Help who?
All of them. In there.
[sobs]
In where?
I got put there
because of the monument, didn't I?
[inhales sharply] The shit,
what I said about the gods
It was my fault. It was all my fault.
Let me help you.
You need to go through the Frame.
I've been through the Frame.
What?
[Charon] Caeneus!
Uh Stay there, okay?
Are you the reason
there's a dog on the loose?
Oh. You've got him? Oh good.
No, not good.
He's just pissed on the fax machine.
I'm sorry. He's He's overexcited.
It's my fault.
I I took him out for a walk.
I missed him.
But it's it's just, I I saw this, um
- Uh
- What?
Uh
Uh nothing.
Well, congratulations.
What?
No one's ruined my day off
this early before.
Get the fuck back to work!
Yeah.
[somber music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[man] You all right?
Uh, yeah. Yeah.
- Actually
- [in singsong] Morning!
Sorry, what?
No, it's [scoffs]nothing.
Uh, can I sit here?
- Uh, yeah. Yeah. Sure.
- Oh, you didn't know.
We're all divers here.
Uh, well, actually, I am a diver.
They just made me one.
But that's impossible.
[inhales sharply] Well, clearly not.
No, you need
to have worked here for years.
I don't know. It was a recruitment drive.
They need more divers.
What are divers?
Oh, dear god.
[sighs]
Is that sugar?
Uh, salt.
Why?
So you can taste it.
Almost.
But why do we do anything that we do?
Eat, sleep, shower. We're dead.
Yes, but we're not savages.
It's routine.
Makes us feel normal.
[Riddy takes a deep breath]
Normal, right.
- But why
- You ask a lot of questions, don't you?
In my experience,
people who ask questions get into trouble.
Okay. Sorry. [scoffs]
- Two hundred years.
- [man] Mm.
It'll fly by.
- [Prue] Are you coming tonight?
- What's tonight?
Did you not get the flyer?
Adrian!
[quietly] Oh, um
[grunts]
Oh, she can have one too.
- Thank you. Thanks.
- [Adrian] Sorry.
So, will you come?
[clicks tongue] Yeah. Yeah. Of course.
How 'bout you?
Um
Can I see how I feel?
- Certainly.
- [funky, percussive music playing]
Dennis!
Dennis?
Don't fuck with me, Dennis.
[Dennis meows]
There you are.
[clicks tongue]
[Dennis meowing]
[Dionysus chuckles softly]
Okay. See ya.
[Dennis meows]
- ["Know the Ledge" playing]
- Sip the juice ♪
I got enough to go around
And the thought takes place uptown ♪
I grew up on the sidewalk ♪
Where I learned street talk
Then taught to hawk New York ♪
Go to Queens for queens
To get the crew from Brooklyn ♪
Make money in Manhattan
And never been tooken ♪
Go Uptown and the Bronx
To boogie down ♪
[phone ringing insistently]
Build my juice back up ♪
[loud, impatient ringing continues]
Enough!
- [payphone rings]
- [Dionysus groans]
[Dennis meows]
- You're right.
- [shrill ringing]
- [song continues on boombox]
- You said you wouldn't do this anymore.
It's me, not your pa.
Oh, well, that's definitely not allowed.
- Um, now, if you'll excuse me, I am
- Did you take his watch?
- [scoffs] What watch?
- Don't be cute.
- Meet me at the aquarium now.
- Ah
[call disconnects]
Stay alert and on P's
And I do work with these, like Hercules ♪
- Switch to southpaw ♪
- [Dionysus grunts]
'Cause I don't like y'all ♪
[sighs] Okay.
[Poseidon humming]
There you go.
Hey. Bring it in.
Come on.
Aww.
- [hesitates] Okay, careful now.
- Hello!
- Hello.
- [Dennis meows]
- [hushes]
- [Dionysus grunts]
Why'd you take the watch?
You keep behaving like a child,
he's gonna treat you like one.
I actually think
you've got real potential.
I've said as much.
- Oh, really?
- Mm-hmm. Yeah.
- But not when you're
- 'Cause you're right.
[whispering] I've actually done something
pretty big.
Oh, yeah? What have you done?
I got a mortal into the underworld.
He failed the test.
I forced the Fates to open the door.
He's gonna be the first human
to bring someone back from the dead.
When that happens
I imagine I'll be shown some respect.
You're fuckin' kidding me, right?
[Dennis meows]
- What?
- You better pray that doesn't work out.
A mortal defies death
and breaches the fabric of the universe?
If the mortal succeeds
and brings someone out of the underworld,
Zeus will destroy you.
He'll try and destroy us all.
But it's okay. No, it's okay.
Your guy's not gonna make it,
but don't feed your father's paranoia.
Give him his watch back.
Tell him you found it somewhere. Anywhere.
That's the only thing
that's gonna calm him down.
Okay.
Yeah. Uh Uh
I I, uh
I can't.
Why not?
I gave it to, uh [sighs]someone.
So? It's not your virginity, is it?
Get it back.
Ugh.
[huffs]
We used to have fun.
[whimsical, buoyant music playing]
- [answering machine beeps]
- Ah, this is Zeus.
- Real busy.
- [answering machine beeps]
Hello, Zeus.
Are you there?
Right, well
It's me, uh, Hades, obviously.
Um, just wanted to let you know
that we have recruited
an array of new divers.
They're all trained, and, uh
very good.
Not yet.
Well, the underworld
can deal with whatever comes its way,
so lay it on us
if you want.
- Goodbye.
- [answering machine beeps]
[playful music fades]
[bright instrumental music playing]
[man] Renewal!
[Caeneus] Happy Renewal.
- [woman 1] It's about time.
- [woman 2] Thanks.
What?
I just I don't get it.
Why are divers necessary?
[Caeneus] We help people
through the Frame.
We guide them.
Yeah, but why did they need more?
They're just Renewing.
What's the rush?
Do you know
why I stopped asking questions?
[sighs] Because you got into trouble?
Because I never got any answers.
It's the underworld. It is what it is.
Count yourself lucky.
I wish I could go through. I'm unresolved.
So, what do you do?
[sighs] Just help 'em, I guess.
- Um, listen.
- Hmm.
[clicks tongue] What a stand-up guy.
How old are you, anyway?
You look about 12.
I'm Well, I'm technically almost 40.
If you count the death years. [chuckles]
[Prue] Keep moving.
Hiya.
Oh no.
No, no, no. We were on the same ferry.
How are you doing?
I can't swim.
I dedicated my whole life
to a good Renewal.
I lived to die, as they say,
vero, but now I'm thinking
of all the things I didn't do.
It's okay.
But it's hard, isn't it?
Giving yourself up.
This self.
Oh god, just go.
Sorry?
Just go through the Frame, please!
Do Do you have any idea
how lucky you are?
[scoffs] It's you. From the ferry.
You said you insulted the gods
before you died.
Well, I suppose you're paying for it now.
- Hey, listen
- You pious piece of shit.
[Agatha chuckles smugly]
Shall we get you through the Frame?
[somber, ethereal music playing]
What do we do?
I guess we swim, right?
- Right.
- [energetic, percussive music playing]
[Orpheus clears throat]
[music peaks, fades]
- Ready?
- Yeah.
Hey!
Hey!
- [Anatole] Hello!
- Hello, there!
[Orpheus, echoing] Hey!
Hey!
Over here!
Can you help us?
- Come on. [huffs]
- [Orpheus] Hello!
- [Charon] You came in the cave?
- That's right.
- [Charon] The two of you?
- We were joint winners. [chuckles]
- We were gonna swim, but
- You don't want to do that.
Uh, could you, um
Could Could you take us across?
- Please. Please!
- Uh, please. Yeah.
Okay.
[chuckles]
Put your clothes back on.
- [Carl] Make way!
- [Hippolyta cheers]
- [Carl] Make way for the champions!
- [Hippolyta] Whoo! Yeah!
I want to get back up there!
Let's do this!
- Oh my god.
- [fighters grunting]
- [Carl] Yes!
- What?
- [fighters grunt]
- Let's go!
[tragic violin string playing]
No way.
- No way.
- [Caeneus sighs]
- [Hippolyta] Hey, Caenis!
- [Caeneus sighs]
[mockingly] Ca-Ca-Ca-Caenis!
Hey!
[high-pitched ringing]
- [arrow pierces]
- [groans]
- [gasping]
- [ringing subsides]
Look at me, blasphemer.
- I'm not a blasphemer.
- Yes, you are.
That's why you're here, unable to Renew.
Did Did you
Hmm?
Did you torture her?
Your ma?
[chuckles]
No, she gave you up freely.
Very freely.
See you, Caenis.
[Caeneus sighs]
No, no, no ♪
You don't love me, and I ♪
[shop bell rings]
Hey. I'm lookin' for a watch.
No pets.
What?
Can't you read?
"No pets."
Oh, this isn't a pet.
This is the god of pleasure,
madness, and wild frenzy, Dionysus.
- [Dennis purrs]
- Nice guy.
Get out.
- I'm sorry?
- [shopkeeper] Mm-mm.
What did you say?
[grunts]
- Yeah, louder?
- [muffled scream]
Nope, I'm sorry. Can't understand you.
Oh, any of these? Okay, great. Thanks.
[muffled screams continue]
[joyfully] Oh, that's the one.
Oh, that's the one!
[shopkeeper screams]
[quietly] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
[muffled scream echoes]
- [funky music fades]
- [birds singing]
[Zeus] Somebody better fess up.
Who took it? Who's the klepto?
- Who's the klepto?
- What the fuck?
[Zeus] It was one of you.
Who took my fuckin' watch?
- [Dionysus] Uh, Dad!
- What?
Found this.
By the gate.
Oops.
Why are you wearing a cat?
[Dennis purring]
[Zeus] Well done.
You've got the eagle eye,
I'll tell you that.
So, hey, what are you doing home,
by the way? Hmm?
[hesitates] I just wanted to see you
and have you meet Dennis.
- [Dennis meows]
- Hello, Dennis.
Oh, hey, I know what you could call it
instead of Dennis is "Oedipuss."
With two S's.
[laughs]
I don't get it.
Really? Okay. Uh
- Dennis. You're Dennis.
- Come on.
Uh, guys, clean up this mess,
and bring us a jug of Meander water.
And also milk with a teat
so that puss can suckle.
- Well done.
- There you go.
- [Dionysus] What?
- The watch.
[Zeus] Hey. Where are you going?
You look so fantastic. Where you headed?
Why? Do you want to come?
Oh. Who Who is it?
The guy with, uh who wears the dresses?
I like that guy.
No, it's Perseus,
and he might bring the horse.
- The horse? No, with the wings? Fuck me.
- [Hera] Mm-hmm.
Well, I'm hoping.
- Really?
- [laughs]
- We're busy now, but
- Busy?
- Well, your loss.
- Well Yeah.
[sheepishly] Yeah.
[footsteps fade]
[sighs]
Oh, hello, sweet-sweet.
Oh, you're just a little baby, aren't you?
Just a little baby.
- [static crackles]
- Oh! [chuckles]
- That was spark. We made sparks.
- Careful. Yeah.
Okay, come this way.
Fire and brimstone await.
- [Caeneus breathing shakily]
- [tense music playing]
[Hippolyta] She gave you up freely.
[echoing] Very freely.
[tense music fades]
[upbeat music playing]
[Prue sighs]
It'll get livelier.
Oh!
- Hmm.
- Hey.
Ah, you felt like it, did you?
I did. Is that, um, okay?
Yeah, sure. Sure. Take a seat.
[Adrian sighs]
[upbeat tune playing on radio]
May I?
[quietly] Okay.
[smacks lips] Mm.
- Still tastes of nothing.
- [Prue] Cheers!
Hmm. You want to try smoking.
That's really pointless.
[Prue] Shall we play a game?
Um, I'm really bad at games.
Oh, you'll be fine with this one, Adrian.
It's just telling.
So, what were all our prophecies?
Okay. I'll go first. Mine was
"A dark-haired creature, a winter fall."
"Eyes do not shut, not barely at all."
So mine is all completely true.
So, I had a dark brown pony, Cressida.
Loved her like a sister.
She fell and broke her leg one December.
We had to kill her.
It was dreadful.
And I also had insomnia,
so my eyes didn't shut.
Not really.
[Riddy sighs]
What was yours?
- Uh, no.
- [Prue] What do you mean, "No"?
I mean, no. I It's private.
Oh, is it something to do
with your mother?
I'll see you later.
Oh.
Uh
I'm just gonna
They're very sensitive, the young.
Hey.
Are you okay?
Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine.
Do you know
where I can get one of those, uh,
cigarettes that you can't taste or feel?
[Caeneus chuckles]
- [somber strings playing]
- [boat motor running]
Do you get many like us?
A few.
Love makes people very stupid.
[retches, coughs]
Oh. Oh.
- I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
It's okay.
[slithering]
What was that?
The Scylla.
[engine stops]
Wait.
Why are we stopping?
I can only take one of you across.
That's the rule.
But you you said
you could take both of us.
Yeah, I lied.
Gotta get my kicks somewhere.
Well, go on, then, fight it out.
[chuckles]
Wait.
- [hesitates] Fight?
- No, no.
No, um, we, uh
We made a pact.
Well, then.
We wait.
For what?
One of you to break it. I've got time.
Hmm?
Hmm?
Or I could take you back, both of you.
How 'bout that?
Because it's not worth it, you know?
- My son is worth everything.
- [Charon] Yeah. You say that.
Everyone says that.
But it's bullshit.
Let's say you get him back.
Unlikely, but let's say you do.
You take him home, have a couple years,
then he gets sick again.
Dies again.
What are you gonna do? Come back here?
Keep coming back
like some kind of fucking carousel? Hmm?
Or let's say he lasts.
He's healthy this time.
Who's to say he even likes you?
What if he hates you?
What if he resents
every fiber of your being? Hmm?
What happened to you?
[chuckles]
- Listen, my wife and
- Oh yeah, your wife.
You think she could come back
and live with you again? Hmm?
Love you again?
You sure about that?
Yes.
Prove it, then.
Kill him.
Or you kill him. Whatever.
Like I said, we made a pact.
There must be some
- [grunts]
- [groans]
I'm sorry.
- But you said. It was your idea!
- I know, but it's you or me!
Look, I'm really sorry. [grunts]
[cries out]
[lighter clicks]
- That is, uh, very bland.
- Yeah. Told you.
[Riddy chuckles]
Why'd you do it?
Habit? I don't know. Yeah.
It's like Adrian said, "To feel normal."
And feel more real, more like you were.
If you make the shapes you did.
- You want to feel like you were?
- I do, yeah.
Mm. I don't.
- I didn't do anything in my life.
- I'm sure that's not true.
Mm, it is. I just wasted it.
I didn't have a purpose.
And on the day that
that really dawned on me, I died.
I'm sitting on the ferry,
and I'm thinking, "Mm. Shit, I'm dead."
But gradually, this,
um, calm came over me.
It was okay
because I was going back to the world,
and now I can do everything
better this time.
Hmm.
And now I'm stuck here.
Guess I'll just have
to make peace with that, right?
Maybe.
Can I ask you something?
- I'm not telling you my prophecy.
- I wasn't gonna ask that.
What, then?
How is it that you know an Amazon?
Uh, I was one.
Wow.
So I had to leave.
- Obviously.
- Uh, yeah.
We studied you in school.
What age do they kick boys out? Like, 11?
Yeah. Yeah, uh
I was 15.
I wasn't, like,
officially a boy until a bit later.
That must have been hard.
To leave.
Yeah.
But, uh, you know, being murdered
by them was a little bit harder.
Fuck! I'm I'm sorry.
I'm just trying to raise
your "my husband took my coin" stuff.
Oh, my "stuff"?
Mm. Yeah, I mean, my mom betrayed me,
my people murdered me,
and then they took my coin.
- Come on.
- [chuckles] Okay. Fuck you.
- I'm making the best of it, you know?
- Yeah?
Yeah. Air quality's great.
I'm sleeping well.
I'm dating again.
- People actually do that?
- What?
Date. Here.
[chuckling] Yeah. Yeah.
I think so, sometimes.
Wow. Okay.
- Mm-hmm.
- [chuckles]
Mm. What does kissing feel like?
What?
Well, like, is it like the beer?
- Sorry?
- Like, is it, um
Does it feel like nothing?
Or is it like something
Oh. Uh, yeah, uh I don't know. I mean
I haven't done it. [scoffs]
- Dead. Dead. Uh, yeah.
- Sure.
- Uh, dead.
- Yeah.
[chuckles]
I, um I just
It's something for me to think about,
the next 200 years or so. [sighs]
You know, Prue likes you a lot.
Mm. Well, she's high on the list, so
- Is she? Yeah. [chuckles]
- Very high on the list. [laughs]
[Nax] Help me!
That's him.
- [Nax] Help me!
- That's who?
Please!
- Please!
- [ominous music playing]
[both shouting]
[grunting]
You took your wife's coin, and now
you're trying to take my place! No!
No!
[ethereal music playing]
[Prometheus] You'll know by the mark.
Just promise me.
This matters more than anything.
You fucker.
[Anatole screams]
[Orpheus panting]
[whistles loudly]
[groans, panting]
[low growling]
[gasps]
[intense music swells]
- [gasps]
- [Charybdis growls]
[breathing shakily]
[tense music playing]
[Orpheus] Why did you do that?!
[panting]
Why Why did you save me?
Where did you get that mark?
I
Fate.
A Fate gave it to me.
Oh.
What does it mean?
It It means something is true.
[tense music cuts out]
Mm.
[panting]
This guy?
- Seriously?
- [dramatic orchestral music playing]
[Zeus] Natural disasters, they're good.
'Cause you can make 'em happen
just like that. [snaps fingers]
And, to the mortals, it's a big, big shock
that triggers a spike in worship.
Prayers and and sacrifice.
Uh, 'cause they know that it's our doing.
But what do we need
to make destruction really, really sing?
To make it last?
- Mm, nothing?
- [Zeus] No.
- I thought you wanted a promotion.
- Yeah, I do. I do.
[Zeus] Okay, here. Come Come with me.
Okay. I want to teach you
a thing or two about a thing or two.
And the fir
The first thing I want to tell you is
Thank you.
Thank Thank me?
Thank you, Dionysus,
because you found my watch.
And you brought it back to me,
even though, when last we met,
I was hard on you.
- Aw, yeah, Dad, I
- Hey.
I'm having a bit of a moment here.
My father was, um, hard on me.
Have a seat.
But didn't your dad try and murder you?
Yeah. Yeah, he he, uh
Yeah, he did.
You know, he had his reasons, but, uh
Anyway, you're a good boy,
and I want to give you what you want.
What What do I want?
More power.
Okay.
Cool.
Do I?
Yes. Yes, Dionysus.
That's what a promotion is, more power.
And it also means loyalty.
And that, you got.
I I can see that.
Uh [sighs]
Look, Dad, I I should just
Uh, I need to tell you something.
Tell me what? What do you need to tell me?
- No. Uh, nothing.
- You can tell me anything.
No, it's just that I'm loyal.
Yeah. Um
Yes, so
We are gonna bring these mooks to heel.
We're gonna start with natural disasters.
It's direct. It's simple.
And then we're gonna move on
to something more interesting,
a little more elaborate, rococo,
sophisticated, um, sowing enmity.
Hatred.
Hereafter to be known as phase two.
And it can start
as something real, real small.
Like the rape of one woman,
the death of one child.
Because if you get it right,
it can set families
and countries and continents ablaze.
Okay. Um
Cool.
Yeah, we we uh
You know, some some humans are
What?
Nice.
Yeah, they're nice. They're
They're They're good to be around.
And amongst.
[chuckles] Are they ever.
You know, some of the mothers
of my favorite children are, uh
are human.
But they don't matter.
What matters is our family.
[sighs]
By all means, you can play with humans,
eat with them, make love to 'em,
plait their hair, do whatever you want,
but you must never forget
you are not one of them.
'Kay?
Okay.
Okay, phase one.
We're gonna start tonight.
[automated voice] You have
one new message.
[Zeus] Hey, I got your message.
Actually, perfect timing
because a lot of bodies
are gonna be coming your way.
[phone ringing]
[phone beeps]
Zeus?
[Medusa] Uh, no, sir. It's me.
Oh. Fine, go ahead.
We found the soul, sir.
Celestis ♪
Divinitus ♪
Insania ♪
Vero ♪
Celestis ♪
Divinitus ♪
Insania ♪
Vero ♪
Celestis ♪
Divinitus ♪
Insania ♪
Vero ♪
Celestis ♪
Divinitus ♪
Insania ♪
Vero ♪
Celestis ♪
Divinitus ♪
Insania ♪
Vero ♪
Celestis ♪
Divinitus ♪
Insania ♪
Vero ♪
[exhales]
[eagle cries]
- [epic music fades]
- [Nax] Don't. No. Please.
Please. Please.
[whimpering] No. Please.
[Caeneus inhales sharply]
You want to go in there?
We have to help him.
We're already dead.
How much worse can it get?
[tense music playing]
Hello?
[echoes reverberating]
[gasps] Oh my god.
[dark, sinister music playing]
What's happened to her?
We just sent her through the Frame.
What is this place?
[menacing music rises]
[ominous music continues]
[waves crashing]
[music fades]
[Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons:
Summer" playing]
- [wings flap overhead]
- [bird calls]
[intense strings building]
- You! Yes, Mr. Nervous.
- [ball boy 1 shudders]
Did you take it?
No, sir!
[Zeus] Do you know who did?
- [hesitates] No, sir.
- [Zeus] Uh, okay.
Pull!
[breathing shakily]
I said, "Pull!"
[takes a deep breath]
- [rifle fires]
- [Mr. Nervous thuds]
[exhales deeply]
Bingo.
Uh, Roman Nose.
Yeah. Did you take it?
- No, sir.
- [Zeus] You know who did?
He did.
He'll fly away with those big ears.
Pull!
- [gunshot]
- [gasps, groans]
[Roman Nose thuds]
[sighs]
[Hera] We have a problem.
- [Poseidon] Oh, yeah?
- Did you take Zeus's watch?
- Of course not.
- [sighs] Well, we need to find it.
What? Why?
Because he's started a war room,
and he's killing the ball boys.
- [rifle fires]
- [ball boy screams, thuds]
- [Poseidon] What?
- Yeah, I just had to make my own coffee.
- What do you mean, "a war room"?
- I'm standing in it.
There are two phases, from what I can see.
And I'd call it
quite a serious escalation.
What's wrong with him?
Well, I think he was slightly disappointed
with your punishment of the Trojans.
Oh yeah. He told me.
- [Hera] Anyway, look, Poseidon.
- I've got to be the rifleman.
He clearly needs to let off some steam.
But he says he can't start
until he finds his watch.
So try the boy.
- What boy?
- Dionysus.
- Leave it to me.
- [call disconnects]
- [Zeus] I said, "Pull!"
- [rifle fires]
[scoffs]
[tempestuous classical strings fade]
[birds calling]
[Prometheus] A long time ago,
and I mean a long time ago,
I was a free man.
Free to experience life
and love like anyone else.
- And, my god, did I love someone.
- [sighs]
[softly] How's the knee?
- Oh, fucked.
- [Charon] Hmm.
Well, I've started waking up
in the night to piss.
[Prometheus chuckles]
Yeah.
[chuckles softly]
Been a long time, Charon.
No shit.
Leave it this long again, I might be dead.
I missed you.
[Charon] Hmm?
[kisses]
- [sighs]
- I love you.
[Charon] Mm.
I know. [chuckles]
[takes a deep breath] I mean it.
What's happened?
- Zeus?
- [Prometheus sighs deeply]
He's comin' for me.
- I wish you'd tell me why.
- Well, I can't.
I need you to promise me something.
Anything.
[Prometheus sighs]
You're gonna meet someone.
Might be a few years from now.
You must help them.
- How?
- [Prometheus] Keep them safe.
You'll know by the mark.
Mm-hmm. What mark?
I I might need a bit more than that.
Just promise me.
This matters more than anything.
Please?
[Charon inhales sharply]
Swear it.
Of course.
You swear?
I swear it.
Thank you.
And sorry.
For what?
[groans, gasping]
Try not to hate me.
[Charon choking]
["Sleeping on the Blacktop"
by Colter Wall playing]
[raw, gritty country tune continues]
Sunshine beatin' on the good times ♪
Moonlight raisin' from the grave ♪
String band playing
Worn-out honky-tonk ♪
Pretty young thing
Goin' dancing in the rain ♪
[Prometheus] The greater good
always comes at a personal cost.
Always.
Mm-hmm-mm ♪
Less'n my sense catches up with me ♪
- ["Sleeping on the Blacktop" fades]
- It's really through there?
Through a bin?
This isn't a joke?
It's discreet.
Always been discreet.
And you are on thin ice,
so just shut the fuck
Okay. Okay. Sorry. Sorry.
[clears throat] Sorry.
[mother] Good luck.
Bring him back.
[softly] I will.
I love you.
[takes a deep breath, grunts]
[reverberations echo]
[Orpheus sighs, chuckles nervously]
Thank you for everything.
I'm gonna do it.
I know you will.
We've got nothing to lose.
Please help him.
Help Anatole.
Look after each other.
- We will.
- We have a lot to lose.
Understood.
- [grunts]
- [Poly] Mm.
[grunts softly, exhales]
Oh. Ah, Dennis!
The kitten. Our kitten, he needs feeding.
Can you do that?
Uh
Yeah. Okay. Sure.
There's wet food
under the sink and dry in the
[screams]
[scream echoes]
Well, where's the dry food, Poly? Hmm?
[Poly grunts]
Uh
Take care of that, please.
Oh, this? Uh, yeah.
[Atropos] Don't worry.
We won't tell your daddy.
- [Lachesis] Okay. Show's over, kids.
- [Atropos cackles]
- Go on, Orpheus.
- [Fates exclaim]
- [intense, somber music playing]
- [indistinct chatter]
They don't fit.
You get what you get.
And you do what you're told.
[sighs] Fuck you, Orpheus.
[Orpheus screams]
[groans]
You hurt?
You're not meant to be here.
[Orpheus sighs]
And you took your wife's coin.
Yeah, I did.
Because it was the only way
I could think of to be with her again.
I know that's fucked up,
but I love her. Truly.
Look. I promised your wife
I'd look out for you.
I was really moved
by what you did at the bar, the puppet.
I'm sorry about your son.
Look, please.
[hesitates] We're alone here.
[sighs] Shall we at least
try to trust each other?
Thank you.
We need to cross the Styx.
Okay, let's go.
[rhythmic, percussive music playing]
[Prometheus] Orpheus is useful.
An ego like that has no trouble
accepting the notion of a cosmic purpose.
And no suspicion
that the purpose might be co-opted.
[energetic music peaks, fades]
[Prometheus] Others require
much more help.
[woman on PA] Additional training
will be given this evening at 6:00 p.m.
[dogs barking and whining]
Fotis.
[Fotis whines, barks]
Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh!
Sit. Sit. Sit.
Fancy a walk?
[dog barks nearby]
[Fotis whining]
[Caeneus] I'm not letting you
off the lead.
[sighs] Okay. Okay.
But you have to promise me, yeah?
[softly] Fine.
[Fotis barking]
Fotis! Fotis!
[phone ringing]
- [phone ringing]
- [Zeus] Watches don't just disappear.
Somebody's got it.
Pull!
- [shot echoes]
- [ringing continues]
- [answering machine clicks]
- [Zeus] Ah, this is Zeus. Real busy.
[answering machine beeps, whirs]
[hesitating] Zeus, it's Persephone.
I need to tell you something.
There's a problem in the underworld.
Okay, a soul has escaped from the Nothing.
- [Hades] What are you doing?
- [Persephone] No, Hades!
- [machine whirs, beeps]
- [automated voice] Message deleted.
You need to tell him
what's happened, Hades. You have to.
No, I'll sort it out myself.
[Persephone] Something is wrong,
and you know it.
How, Hades? How does a soul disappear?
How is that even possible?
And what if it's not just one?
What if it's the start of something?
It's not the start of something.
It's just a reminder, a kick up the ass.
Zeus put me in charge of the underworld.
It's my fault.
- It's not your fault.
- [Hades] It is my fault.
I've sat back.
I've not been monitoring the Nothing.
I've let things slide.
So let's see this as an opportunity.
We'll find the soul.
We'll put everything right.
There's nothing that can't be fixed
if I put my mind to it.
Trust me.
And there's absolutely no need
to tell Zeus.
[unsettling music playing]
[Caeneus] Fotis.
Fotis.
Fotis!
- [music grows ominous]
- [Nax gasps]
[shuddering]
[Caeneus] Hey. Okay.
Hey, are you all right?
[crying softly]
We have to help them.
Help who?
All of them. In there.
[sobs]
In where?
I got put there
because of the monument, didn't I?
[inhales sharply] The shit,
what I said about the gods
It was my fault. It was all my fault.
Let me help you.
You need to go through the Frame.
I've been through the Frame.
What?
[Charon] Caeneus!
Uh Stay there, okay?
Are you the reason
there's a dog on the loose?
Oh. You've got him? Oh good.
No, not good.
He's just pissed on the fax machine.
I'm sorry. He's He's overexcited.
It's my fault.
I I took him out for a walk.
I missed him.
But it's it's just, I I saw this, um
- Uh
- What?
Uh
Uh nothing.
Well, congratulations.
What?
No one's ruined my day off
this early before.
Get the fuck back to work!
Yeah.
[somber music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[man] You all right?
Uh, yeah. Yeah.
- Actually
- [in singsong] Morning!
Sorry, what?
No, it's [scoffs]nothing.
Uh, can I sit here?
- Uh, yeah. Yeah. Sure.
- Oh, you didn't know.
We're all divers here.
Uh, well, actually, I am a diver.
They just made me one.
But that's impossible.
[inhales sharply] Well, clearly not.
No, you need
to have worked here for years.
I don't know. It was a recruitment drive.
They need more divers.
What are divers?
Oh, dear god.
[sighs]
Is that sugar?
Uh, salt.
Why?
So you can taste it.
Almost.
But why do we do anything that we do?
Eat, sleep, shower. We're dead.
Yes, but we're not savages.
It's routine.
Makes us feel normal.
[Riddy takes a deep breath]
Normal, right.
- But why
- You ask a lot of questions, don't you?
In my experience,
people who ask questions get into trouble.
Okay. Sorry. [scoffs]
- Two hundred years.
- [man] Mm.
It'll fly by.
- [Prue] Are you coming tonight?
- What's tonight?
Did you not get the flyer?
Adrian!
[quietly] Oh, um
[grunts]
Oh, she can have one too.
- Thank you. Thanks.
- [Adrian] Sorry.
So, will you come?
[clicks tongue] Yeah. Yeah. Of course.
How 'bout you?
Um
Can I see how I feel?
- Certainly.
- [funky, percussive music playing]
Dennis!
Dennis?
Don't fuck with me, Dennis.
[Dennis meows]
There you are.
[clicks tongue]
[Dennis meowing]
[Dionysus chuckles softly]
Okay. See ya.
[Dennis meows]
- ["Know the Ledge" playing]
- Sip the juice ♪
I got enough to go around
And the thought takes place uptown ♪
I grew up on the sidewalk ♪
Where I learned street talk
Then taught to hawk New York ♪
Go to Queens for queens
To get the crew from Brooklyn ♪
Make money in Manhattan
And never been tooken ♪
Go Uptown and the Bronx
To boogie down ♪
[phone ringing insistently]
Build my juice back up ♪
[loud, impatient ringing continues]
Enough!
- [payphone rings]
- [Dionysus groans]
[Dennis meows]
- You're right.
- [shrill ringing]
- [song continues on boombox]
- You said you wouldn't do this anymore.
It's me, not your pa.
Oh, well, that's definitely not allowed.
- Um, now, if you'll excuse me, I am
- Did you take his watch?
- [scoffs] What watch?
- Don't be cute.
- Meet me at the aquarium now.
- Ah
[call disconnects]
Stay alert and on P's
And I do work with these, like Hercules ♪
- Switch to southpaw ♪
- [Dionysus grunts]
'Cause I don't like y'all ♪
[sighs] Okay.
[Poseidon humming]
There you go.
Hey. Bring it in.
Come on.
Aww.
- [hesitates] Okay, careful now.
- Hello!
- Hello.
- [Dennis meows]
- [hushes]
- [Dionysus grunts]
Why'd you take the watch?
You keep behaving like a child,
he's gonna treat you like one.
I actually think
you've got real potential.
I've said as much.
- Oh, really?
- Mm-hmm. Yeah.
- But not when you're
- 'Cause you're right.
[whispering] I've actually done something
pretty big.
Oh, yeah? What have you done?
I got a mortal into the underworld.
He failed the test.
I forced the Fates to open the door.
He's gonna be the first human
to bring someone back from the dead.
When that happens
I imagine I'll be shown some respect.
You're fuckin' kidding me, right?
[Dennis meows]
- What?
- You better pray that doesn't work out.
A mortal defies death
and breaches the fabric of the universe?
If the mortal succeeds
and brings someone out of the underworld,
Zeus will destroy you.
He'll try and destroy us all.
But it's okay. No, it's okay.
Your guy's not gonna make it,
but don't feed your father's paranoia.
Give him his watch back.
Tell him you found it somewhere. Anywhere.
That's the only thing
that's gonna calm him down.
Okay.
Yeah. Uh Uh
I I, uh
I can't.
Why not?
I gave it to, uh [sighs]someone.
So? It's not your virginity, is it?
Get it back.
Ugh.
[huffs]
We used to have fun.
[whimsical, buoyant music playing]
- [answering machine beeps]
- Ah, this is Zeus.
- Real busy.
- [answering machine beeps]
Hello, Zeus.
Are you there?
Right, well
It's me, uh, Hades, obviously.
Um, just wanted to let you know
that we have recruited
an array of new divers.
They're all trained, and, uh
very good.
Not yet.
Well, the underworld
can deal with whatever comes its way,
so lay it on us
if you want.
- Goodbye.
- [answering machine beeps]
[playful music fades]
[bright instrumental music playing]
[man] Renewal!
[Caeneus] Happy Renewal.
- [woman 1] It's about time.
- [woman 2] Thanks.
What?
I just I don't get it.
Why are divers necessary?
[Caeneus] We help people
through the Frame.
We guide them.
Yeah, but why did they need more?
They're just Renewing.
What's the rush?
Do you know
why I stopped asking questions?
[sighs] Because you got into trouble?
Because I never got any answers.
It's the underworld. It is what it is.
Count yourself lucky.
I wish I could go through. I'm unresolved.
So, what do you do?
[sighs] Just help 'em, I guess.
- Um, listen.
- Hmm.
[clicks tongue] What a stand-up guy.
How old are you, anyway?
You look about 12.
I'm Well, I'm technically almost 40.
If you count the death years. [chuckles]
[Prue] Keep moving.
Hiya.
Oh no.
No, no, no. We were on the same ferry.
How are you doing?
I can't swim.
I dedicated my whole life
to a good Renewal.
I lived to die, as they say,
vero, but now I'm thinking
of all the things I didn't do.
It's okay.
But it's hard, isn't it?
Giving yourself up.
This self.
Oh god, just go.
Sorry?
Just go through the Frame, please!
Do Do you have any idea
how lucky you are?
[scoffs] It's you. From the ferry.
You said you insulted the gods
before you died.
Well, I suppose you're paying for it now.
- Hey, listen
- You pious piece of shit.
[Agatha chuckles smugly]
Shall we get you through the Frame?
[somber, ethereal music playing]
What do we do?
I guess we swim, right?
- Right.
- [energetic, percussive music playing]
[Orpheus clears throat]
[music peaks, fades]
- Ready?
- Yeah.
Hey!
Hey!
- [Anatole] Hello!
- Hello, there!
[Orpheus, echoing] Hey!
Hey!
Over here!
Can you help us?
- Come on. [huffs]
- [Orpheus] Hello!
- [Charon] You came in the cave?
- That's right.
- [Charon] The two of you?
- We were joint winners. [chuckles]
- We were gonna swim, but
- You don't want to do that.
Uh, could you, um
Could Could you take us across?
- Please. Please!
- Uh, please. Yeah.
Okay.
[chuckles]
Put your clothes back on.
- [Carl] Make way!
- [Hippolyta cheers]
- [Carl] Make way for the champions!
- [Hippolyta] Whoo! Yeah!
I want to get back up there!
Let's do this!
- Oh my god.
- [fighters grunting]
- [Carl] Yes!
- What?
- [fighters grunt]
- Let's go!
[tragic violin string playing]
No way.
- No way.
- [Caeneus sighs]
- [Hippolyta] Hey, Caenis!
- [Caeneus sighs]
[mockingly] Ca-Ca-Ca-Caenis!
Hey!
[high-pitched ringing]
- [arrow pierces]
- [groans]
- [gasping]
- [ringing subsides]
Look at me, blasphemer.
- I'm not a blasphemer.
- Yes, you are.
That's why you're here, unable to Renew.
Did Did you
Hmm?
Did you torture her?
Your ma?
[chuckles]
No, she gave you up freely.
Very freely.
See you, Caenis.
[Caeneus sighs]
No, no, no ♪
You don't love me, and I ♪
[shop bell rings]
Hey. I'm lookin' for a watch.
No pets.
What?
Can't you read?
"No pets."
Oh, this isn't a pet.
This is the god of pleasure,
madness, and wild frenzy, Dionysus.
- [Dennis purrs]
- Nice guy.
Get out.
- I'm sorry?
- [shopkeeper] Mm-mm.
What did you say?
[grunts]
- Yeah, louder?
- [muffled scream]
Nope, I'm sorry. Can't understand you.
Oh, any of these? Okay, great. Thanks.
[muffled screams continue]
[joyfully] Oh, that's the one.
Oh, that's the one!
[shopkeeper screams]
[quietly] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
[muffled scream echoes]
- [funky music fades]
- [birds singing]
[Zeus] Somebody better fess up.
Who took it? Who's the klepto?
- Who's the klepto?
- What the fuck?
[Zeus] It was one of you.
Who took my fuckin' watch?
- [Dionysus] Uh, Dad!
- What?
Found this.
By the gate.
Oops.
Why are you wearing a cat?
[Dennis purring]
[Zeus] Well done.
You've got the eagle eye,
I'll tell you that.
So, hey, what are you doing home,
by the way? Hmm?
[hesitates] I just wanted to see you
and have you meet Dennis.
- [Dennis meows]
- Hello, Dennis.
Oh, hey, I know what you could call it
instead of Dennis is "Oedipuss."
With two S's.
[laughs]
I don't get it.
Really? Okay. Uh
- Dennis. You're Dennis.
- Come on.
Uh, guys, clean up this mess,
and bring us a jug of Meander water.
And also milk with a teat
so that puss can suckle.
- Well done.
- There you go.
- [Dionysus] What?
- The watch.
[Zeus] Hey. Where are you going?
You look so fantastic. Where you headed?
Why? Do you want to come?
Oh. Who Who is it?
The guy with, uh who wears the dresses?
I like that guy.
No, it's Perseus,
and he might bring the horse.
- The horse? No, with the wings? Fuck me.
- [Hera] Mm-hmm.
Well, I'm hoping.
- Really?
- [laughs]
- We're busy now, but
- Busy?
- Well, your loss.
- Well Yeah.
[sheepishly] Yeah.
[footsteps fade]
[sighs]
Oh, hello, sweet-sweet.
Oh, you're just a little baby, aren't you?
Just a little baby.
- [static crackles]
- Oh! [chuckles]
- That was spark. We made sparks.
- Careful. Yeah.
Okay, come this way.
Fire and brimstone await.
- [Caeneus breathing shakily]
- [tense music playing]
[Hippolyta] She gave you up freely.
[echoing] Very freely.
[tense music fades]
[upbeat music playing]
[Prue sighs]
It'll get livelier.
Oh!
- Hmm.
- Hey.
Ah, you felt like it, did you?
I did. Is that, um, okay?
Yeah, sure. Sure. Take a seat.
[Adrian sighs]
[upbeat tune playing on radio]
May I?
[quietly] Okay.
[smacks lips] Mm.
- Still tastes of nothing.
- [Prue] Cheers!
Hmm. You want to try smoking.
That's really pointless.
[Prue] Shall we play a game?
Um, I'm really bad at games.
Oh, you'll be fine with this one, Adrian.
It's just telling.
So, what were all our prophecies?
Okay. I'll go first. Mine was
"A dark-haired creature, a winter fall."
"Eyes do not shut, not barely at all."
So mine is all completely true.
So, I had a dark brown pony, Cressida.
Loved her like a sister.
She fell and broke her leg one December.
We had to kill her.
It was dreadful.
And I also had insomnia,
so my eyes didn't shut.
Not really.
[Riddy sighs]
What was yours?
- Uh, no.
- [Prue] What do you mean, "No"?
I mean, no. I It's private.
Oh, is it something to do
with your mother?
I'll see you later.
Oh.
Uh
I'm just gonna
They're very sensitive, the young.
Hey.
Are you okay?
Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine.
Do you know
where I can get one of those, uh,
cigarettes that you can't taste or feel?
[Caeneus chuckles]
- [somber strings playing]
- [boat motor running]
Do you get many like us?
A few.
Love makes people very stupid.
[retches, coughs]
Oh. Oh.
- I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
It's okay.
[slithering]
What was that?
The Scylla.
[engine stops]
Wait.
Why are we stopping?
I can only take one of you across.
That's the rule.
But you you said
you could take both of us.
Yeah, I lied.
Gotta get my kicks somewhere.
Well, go on, then, fight it out.
[chuckles]
Wait.
- [hesitates] Fight?
- No, no.
No, um, we, uh
We made a pact.
Well, then.
We wait.
For what?
One of you to break it. I've got time.
Hmm?
Hmm?
Or I could take you back, both of you.
How 'bout that?
Because it's not worth it, you know?
- My son is worth everything.
- [Charon] Yeah. You say that.
Everyone says that.
But it's bullshit.
Let's say you get him back.
Unlikely, but let's say you do.
You take him home, have a couple years,
then he gets sick again.
Dies again.
What are you gonna do? Come back here?
Keep coming back
like some kind of fucking carousel? Hmm?
Or let's say he lasts.
He's healthy this time.
Who's to say he even likes you?
What if he hates you?
What if he resents
every fiber of your being? Hmm?
What happened to you?
[chuckles]
- Listen, my wife and
- Oh yeah, your wife.
You think she could come back
and live with you again? Hmm?
Love you again?
You sure about that?
Yes.
Prove it, then.
Kill him.
Or you kill him. Whatever.
Like I said, we made a pact.
There must be some
- [grunts]
- [groans]
I'm sorry.
- But you said. It was your idea!
- I know, but it's you or me!
Look, I'm really sorry. [grunts]
[cries out]
[lighter clicks]
- That is, uh, very bland.
- Yeah. Told you.
[Riddy chuckles]
Why'd you do it?
Habit? I don't know. Yeah.
It's like Adrian said, "To feel normal."
And feel more real, more like you were.
If you make the shapes you did.
- You want to feel like you were?
- I do, yeah.
Mm. I don't.
- I didn't do anything in my life.
- I'm sure that's not true.
Mm, it is. I just wasted it.
I didn't have a purpose.
And on the day that
that really dawned on me, I died.
I'm sitting on the ferry,
and I'm thinking, "Mm. Shit, I'm dead."
But gradually, this,
um, calm came over me.
It was okay
because I was going back to the world,
and now I can do everything
better this time.
Hmm.
And now I'm stuck here.
Guess I'll just have
to make peace with that, right?
Maybe.
Can I ask you something?
- I'm not telling you my prophecy.
- I wasn't gonna ask that.
What, then?
How is it that you know an Amazon?
Uh, I was one.
Wow.
So I had to leave.
- Obviously.
- Uh, yeah.
We studied you in school.
What age do they kick boys out? Like, 11?
Yeah. Yeah, uh
I was 15.
I wasn't, like,
officially a boy until a bit later.
That must have been hard.
To leave.
Yeah.
But, uh, you know, being murdered
by them was a little bit harder.
Fuck! I'm I'm sorry.
I'm just trying to raise
your "my husband took my coin" stuff.
Oh, my "stuff"?
Mm. Yeah, I mean, my mom betrayed me,
my people murdered me,
and then they took my coin.
- Come on.
- [chuckles] Okay. Fuck you.
- I'm making the best of it, you know?
- Yeah?
Yeah. Air quality's great.
I'm sleeping well.
I'm dating again.
- People actually do that?
- What?
Date. Here.
[chuckling] Yeah. Yeah.
I think so, sometimes.
Wow. Okay.
- Mm-hmm.
- [chuckles]
Mm. What does kissing feel like?
What?
Well, like, is it like the beer?
- Sorry?
- Like, is it, um
Does it feel like nothing?
Or is it like something
Oh. Uh, yeah, uh I don't know. I mean
I haven't done it. [scoffs]
- Dead. Dead. Uh, yeah.
- Sure.
- Uh, dead.
- Yeah.
[chuckles]
I, um I just
It's something for me to think about,
the next 200 years or so. [sighs]
You know, Prue likes you a lot.
Mm. Well, she's high on the list, so
- Is she? Yeah. [chuckles]
- Very high on the list. [laughs]
[Nax] Help me!
That's him.
- [Nax] Help me!
- That's who?
Please!
- Please!
- [ominous music playing]
[both shouting]
[grunting]
You took your wife's coin, and now
you're trying to take my place! No!
No!
[ethereal music playing]
[Prometheus] You'll know by the mark.
Just promise me.
This matters more than anything.
You fucker.
[Anatole screams]
[Orpheus panting]
[whistles loudly]
[groans, panting]
[low growling]
[gasps]
[intense music swells]
- [gasps]
- [Charybdis growls]
[breathing shakily]
[tense music playing]
[Orpheus] Why did you do that?!
[panting]
Why Why did you save me?
Where did you get that mark?
I
Fate.
A Fate gave it to me.
Oh.
What does it mean?
It It means something is true.
[tense music cuts out]
Mm.
[panting]
This guy?
- Seriously?
- [dramatic orchestral music playing]
[Zeus] Natural disasters, they're good.
'Cause you can make 'em happen
just like that. [snaps fingers]
And, to the mortals, it's a big, big shock
that triggers a spike in worship.
Prayers and and sacrifice.
Uh, 'cause they know that it's our doing.
But what do we need
to make destruction really, really sing?
To make it last?
- Mm, nothing?
- [Zeus] No.
- I thought you wanted a promotion.
- Yeah, I do. I do.
[Zeus] Okay, here. Come Come with me.
Okay. I want to teach you
a thing or two about a thing or two.
And the fir
The first thing I want to tell you is
Thank you.
Thank Thank me?
Thank you, Dionysus,
because you found my watch.
And you brought it back to me,
even though, when last we met,
I was hard on you.
- Aw, yeah, Dad, I
- Hey.
I'm having a bit of a moment here.
My father was, um, hard on me.
Have a seat.
But didn't your dad try and murder you?
Yeah. Yeah, he he, uh
Yeah, he did.
You know, he had his reasons, but, uh
Anyway, you're a good boy,
and I want to give you what you want.
What What do I want?
More power.
Okay.
Cool.
Do I?
Yes. Yes, Dionysus.
That's what a promotion is, more power.
And it also means loyalty.
And that, you got.
I I can see that.
Uh [sighs]
Look, Dad, I I should just
Uh, I need to tell you something.
Tell me what? What do you need to tell me?
- No. Uh, nothing.
- You can tell me anything.
No, it's just that I'm loyal.
Yeah. Um
Yes, so
We are gonna bring these mooks to heel.
We're gonna start with natural disasters.
It's direct. It's simple.
And then we're gonna move on
to something more interesting,
a little more elaborate, rococo,
sophisticated, um, sowing enmity.
Hatred.
Hereafter to be known as phase two.
And it can start
as something real, real small.
Like the rape of one woman,
the death of one child.
Because if you get it right,
it can set families
and countries and continents ablaze.
Okay. Um
Cool.
Yeah, we we uh
You know, some some humans are
What?
Nice.
Yeah, they're nice. They're
They're They're good to be around.
And amongst.
[chuckles] Are they ever.
You know, some of the mothers
of my favorite children are, uh
are human.
But they don't matter.
What matters is our family.
[sighs]
By all means, you can play with humans,
eat with them, make love to 'em,
plait their hair, do whatever you want,
but you must never forget
you are not one of them.
'Kay?
Okay.
Okay, phase one.
We're gonna start tonight.
[automated voice] You have
one new message.
[Zeus] Hey, I got your message.
Actually, perfect timing
because a lot of bodies
are gonna be coming your way.
[phone ringing]
[phone beeps]
Zeus?
[Medusa] Uh, no, sir. It's me.
Oh. Fine, go ahead.
We found the soul, sir.
Celestis ♪
Divinitus ♪
Insania ♪
Vero ♪
Celestis ♪
Divinitus ♪
Insania ♪
Vero ♪
Celestis ♪
Divinitus ♪
Insania ♪
Vero ♪
Celestis ♪
Divinitus ♪
Insania ♪
Vero ♪
Celestis ♪
Divinitus ♪
Insania ♪
Vero ♪
Celestis ♪
Divinitus ♪
Insania ♪
Vero ♪
[exhales]
[eagle cries]
- [epic music fades]
- [Nax] Don't. No. Please.
Please. Please.
[whimpering] No. Please.
[Caeneus inhales sharply]
You want to go in there?
We have to help him.
We're already dead.
How much worse can it get?
[tense music playing]
Hello?
[echoes reverberating]
[gasps] Oh my god.
[dark, sinister music playing]
What's happened to her?
We just sent her through the Frame.
What is this place?
[menacing music rises]
[ominous music continues]
[waves crashing]
[music fades]