Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023) s02e04 Episode Script

1
[Tantalus]
Three of you must quest
for the legendary Golden Fleece.
To the Island of Polyphemus.
Steal this powerful treasure,
and restore our borders
to their full strength.
I, Clarisse, daughter of Ares,
will save the camp.
This is your ride.
Ironclad.
Raised her from a watery grave
and amped her up.
[Clarisse] Who are they?
These losers?
Those are your line officers.
Raised them from the grave too.
When you return
to the Underworld,
it won't be to Asphodel.
It won't be to the Fields
of Punishment.
You will be exalted
in the Fields of Elysium.
Who's with me?
- [cheering]
- Aye, Captain!
[Annabeth] Luke poisoned her.
- The tree is a girl?
- [Percy] Was.
Thalia was a hero
who made her last stand
right here.
Luke is here.
[Annabeth] He's not just here.
This is his ship.
They're not gonna fight.
They're smarter than that.
[Annabeth] The Great Prophecy
tells of a child
of the eldest three
that either saves
the Age of the Gods
or destroys it.
Chiron thinks
I might destroy Olympus?
What do you think?
[thunder crashing]
- [clanging]
- [grunts]
[grunts]
- [breathes heavily]
- [thuds]
Still here.
[emotional instrumental music playing]
[water dripping]
[Luke] Annabeth stop! [pants]
[thunder rumbling]
[Luke panting]
We made it.
We're good. We're good.
Just Just let me go first.
Okay?
[Young Annabeth]
Are we sure she'll be okay?
[Luke] She'll be fine.
[Young Annabeth]
But there are three of them.
[Luke] They're Cyclopses.
From what I hear,
they're not that smart.
Just know we're safe here, okay?
Thalia and I have used
this hideout before.
Hopefully no one
has grabbed our stash.
[grate clangs]
[pants] Yes.
It's all still here.
[emotional instrumental music playing]
Hey.
Has she ever let us down?
[thunder rumbling]
Here
put this on.
What is it?
[chuckles]
It's a protection charm.
It's magic.
[Young Annabeth]
Like Thalia's bracelet?
[Luke] Yes, like Aegis.
But this is from
Kelloggia [chuckles softly]
goddess of stealth.
You hide while wearing this,
monsters can't find you.
[thunder booms]
Luke, they've found us.
Positions, now!
- [grunts]
- [groans]
- [grunts]
- [groans, grunts]
- [grunts] Who are you?
- Thalia, wait!
How do you know my name?
My name is Grover Underwood
and I'm your Protector.
- Who sent you?
- Chiron.
He's the activities director
for Camp Half-Blood.
I'm supposed to take you there.
If you come with me,
I can keep you safe.
We can't stay here.
We gotta move.
[music fading]
[seagulls cawing]
Hey. How's the motor looking?
- I fixed it.
- Already?
Dude, you're incredible.
Annabeth's finding supplies,
so we should be ready to go.
Annabeth said you're dangerous.
That you're gonna hurt everyone.
I don't like her talking
about you like that.
You know
Around this time last year,
I was handed a prophecy
that made me afraid
I was gonna lose the person
that matters most to me.
Sally?
But it didn't go that way.
'Cause
sometimes prophecies don't
always mean what you think.
There's something else
I learned too, which is
even more important.
Do you wanna know what it is?
[sighs]
[burps]
- [groans, burps]
- [chuckles]
[burps, groans]
[suspenseful instrumental music playing]
[pants, gasps]
[fire crackling]
Give me the coordinates
to the Sea of Monsters. Now.
Clarisse?
Who are your friends?
And how did you find us?
You think your daddy's
the only one with sea power?
[breathes heavily]
My father can't point me
to the finish line,
but he can point me
to my enemies.
And don't even try to lecture me
on the rules, smart girl.
Tantalus expelled you
for deserting camp
to steal my quest.
Whoa, wait.
We'll give you the coordinates
if you take us with you.
- What?
- What?
The Sea of Monsters is no joke.
You're gonna need all the help
you can get.
I've memorized every legend
about the trials
you'll have to face out there.
[inhales, sighs]
Tyson can work any engine
you got on that ship.
And Percy?
Well, he's the son of Poseidon.
If you want to navigate
the ocean,
there's no one better.
That's Pierre,
naval navigator to Napoleon.
Boris is my engineer
extraordinaire,
whose destroyer sank
in the Battle of Tsushima.
And Canthus is
an honest-to-gods Argonaut
with first-hand knowledge
of the Sea of Monsters.
So, yeah, I think we have
those jobs covered, right?
Aye, Captain!
Now
are you going to surrender
the coordinates?
Or do we have to take them
by force?
[Percy] Force.
- On one condition.
- [Riptide ringing]
Single combat.
Same way I beat your dad.
I win, you give us your ship,
and you and your men stay here.
- Percy.
- Stay back. I got this.
[music intensifies]
- [grunts]
- [grunts]
[grunts, pants]
- [shrieks]
- [grunts]
[shrieks]
[grunts]
[gasps]
You killed them?
They were already dead,
so not really.
- [exhales]
- Want to rethink our offer?
Wait!
Can anyone else here
run the engines?
Carrington?
Ah. Uh [grunts softly]
Mitch?
I just do inventory.
[Annabeth] Clarisse,
we all want the same thing here.
Save camp, save Grover.
I don't care about the satyr.
This is my quest.
And we just want
to help you finish it.
Right?
Aye-aye, Captain.
[exhales]
[exhales]
[music crescendos]
- This is so stupid.
- You're so stupid.
Annabeth, will you decide
who's more stupid?
Why does she get to decide?
- This is my--
- Your quest. We know.
I showed her where we're going,
but she keeps saying
we either have to fight
the Scylla or
- C
- Charybdis.
- I know how to pronounce it.
- Clarisse is right.
[scoffs]
To pass into
the Sea of Monsters,
you have to choose.
To face either
the claws of Scylla
or the whirlpool of Charybdis.
In your face, Jackson.
Okay, but bear with me.
Why don't we just sail around
Scylla and
the thing I know
how to pronounce.
The Sea of Monsters
doesn't work like that.
If you try to sail around them,
they'll appear
in your path again.
Sea of Monsters
doesn't work like that.
What's your plan, Clarisse?
My cannons are loaded
with monster-piercing ammo,
celestial bronze.
Scylla sits up high on a cliff,
so she's out of range,
but Charybdis is a sitting duck
that makes her my prey.
And if that doesn't work,
this ship gets crushed,
and we get eaten.
You got a better idea?
Scylla.
That's what Odysseus chose.
And he made it through.
Though six of his crew didn't.
Each taken by one
of her six tentacles,
keeping her occupied
and allowing him to pass.
- Six.
- [Percy] That's brilliant.
What's brilliant?
You can spare six guys.
Your crew's already dead.
No, I'm not doing that to them.
Why not? I mean,
even if your quest succeeds,
they go back to the Underworld,
right?
You'd just be sending them home
a little early.
I promised them Elysium.
What?
If the quest succeeds,
I told them
that when they return
to the Underworld,
it would be to
the Fields of Elysium.
Only the gods can decide that.
I was gonna ask Ares.
- When we win.
- Clarisse
[tense instrumental music playing]
This trial is about
making hard choices.
The choice of who to sacrifice
to win the battle
should be no problem
for a daughter of Ares.
I never said it was a problem.
I just like my plan.
But if your plan doesn't work,
you lose your quest, your ship,
and all your men.
I'll let you know what I decide.
It's the right choice.
She'll see that.
How do you know?
How do you know
it's the right choice?
Honestly?
Because it's yours.
[gentle instrumental music playing]
[crew member
speaking indistinctly]
[crew member
speaking indistinctly]
[Grover]
This is a satyr hideout.
As long as you stay
in this circle of trees,
they won't find us.
[mysterious instrumental music playing]
[Young Annabeth] What is that?
[chuckles softly]
The rune of Pan,
lost god of the wild.
And nature spirits
like satyrs, nymphs,
- naiads, dryads, hippocampi
- Okay.
You're just making up names now.
There's a lot more to our world
than just monsters.
After what you've been through,
you deserve to see that.
And all we have to do
is join Cult Half-Blood.
Luke and your camp have history.
And I don't want anything to do
with my father's world.
But at camp,
you'd finally get a chance
to rest, to breathe.
We've been doing fine
on our own.
[Grover] So far,
but that's gonna change.
Meaning, the older you get,
the stronger, the smarter,
the more they'll be
drawn to you.
One powerful demigod
is already enough
to attract the attention
of some pretty nasty creatures,
but three? Together?
And-- And one of them,
a child of Zeus?
Is that really the life
you want for yourself?
For her?
Thanks for your help,
but we leave in the morning.
Just the three of us.
I'm gonna get some "rest"
until then.
[Young Annabeth] Don't worry.
We've been through a lot.
How long
have you been together?
Just a little.
Thalia's real strong.
And Luke's real fast.
But I got this.
- Wait.
- What?
Kelloggia's charm. No!
I lost it.
[pensive instrumental music playing]
[Carrington] Can I get a man
on the starboard bow, please?
[grunts softly]
[intrepid instrumental music playing]
I've never been on a boat
before Monday.
Now I've been on four.
I wonder how close we are
to the Sea of Monsters.
Hundred and thirty
nautical miles.
Hundred and thirty-one,
actually.
How do you know that?
Well, we're moving at 23 knots,
36 degrees, 44 minutes north
Hold up.
How do I know that?
Dad.
You're a son of Poseidon.
I wonder why I can't do it.
Maybe you will.
I mean, I don't know
when it kicked in for me, but
yeah.
I know where I am.
If we're really going that fast,
I better go check
on the boilers.
[sighs deeply]
Thanks.
Tyson.
There's foam
in the boiler tanks.
- Why aren't you in there?
- Hey.
I-- I was just playing
with Rainbow.
How did you even get this?
I
I'll fix the boiler.
[owl hoots]
[Thalia] What do you think
you're doing?
[Luke] Trying to
get yourself killed?
- [gasps]
- Gotcha.
[screams]
[grunts, pants]
[mystical instrumental music playing]
We're gonna lose.
It's just a question of how bad.
The plan is solid.
Clarisse is talking
to her men right now.
It doesn't matter.
The best plan can be undone
by the smallest mistake.
That hideout I brought you to.
The last time I was there,
I lost something.
Something I thought
was important.
I went back for it.
And that put us all in danger.
[thunder crashes]
[ominous instrumental music playing]
[Cyclops growls, screams]
Aegis.
So you messed up.
But she saved your life.
I don't get it.
It wasn't the first time
I slowed them down
and messed up.
But it would be the last.
Because my dumb decision
led to Thalia's fatal one.
That was scary, huh?
What do you say we get off
the road for a little while?
You mean
You're family now.
And we take care of our own.
So if the safest place for you
is this camp,
then that's where
our family's going.
Even if we don't like it.
And we don't.
So you let this Chiron know
that if anyone tries
to hurt this little girl,
they'll have me to answer to.
Let's get out of here.
[Annabeth] What she didn't
realize then was
Thalia had just made
her sacrifice.
Because the closer
we got to camp,
the more monsters chased us.
And
when we finally thought
we'd made it
[shrieking]
the Furies attacked.
[music intensifies]
Go!
[Annabeth] And Thalia
never made it to 16.
She had a target on her back.
The same as you.
You're a forbidden child.
And according to
The Great Prophecy,
that makes you a weapon
like she was.
I wanna believe that if I can
just think six steps ahead,
I can save you.
But it's never gonna be
the big, impossible choice
I have to outthink.
It's all the million
little choices I can't see.
[breathes deeply]
The human choices.
[gentle, somber
instrumental music playing]
[exhales] Like doubling back
for a cheap piece of plastic,
or sacrificing yourself
for a kid you barely know.
- She knew you better than that.
- Two months.
It only took me two days
to see how special you are.
Maybe we can't outsmart fate.
Maybe all we can do is
the right thing
and hope for the best.
We're going in there
to save Grover.
That's the right thing.
That's all we can do.
And I'm not bragging,
but my track record
at surviving impossible odds
is pretty good.
Thanks to you.
So let's go do the impossible.
[music turns hopeful]
Soon we enter
the Sea of Monsters
and face the three trials.
The trial of choice,
a rock and a hard place.
The trial of will,
the Sirens' song.
And finally Polyphemus,
the Cyclops
who guards our prize.
[groaning]
I need six brave men
to man the deck artillery
when we face
the trial of choice.
Scylla, the six-armed beast.
[poignant instrumental music playing]
I warn you, it will be
a highly dangerous duty.
For victory and Elysium,
we will follow you anywhere,
Captain.
Fare thee well,
We wish thee well ♪
We hail,
We sail from Asphodel ♪
Take our tack and easy rum ♪
- [Percy sighs]
- Sailing towards Elysium ♪
Way-ho, way-ho, we fought
without blanket or bed ♪
Way-ho, way-ho, there's never
rest for the dead ♪
[sighs]
Heard you picked the six.
You want half of this?
May be the last time
we ever eat.
How did you do it?
Last year, your quest,
how did you survive it?
[crew singing indistinctly,
cheering in distance]
Barely.
Would have died.
A lot.
If it weren't for my friends.
You got to pick two
for your quest, right?
Who are they?
Ares gave me a crew and a ship.
Didn't need friends.
[Percy] My dad helped me out,
too.
I imagine your dad
must be pretty tough to
have as a dad.
I say that having been
body slammed by him.
Victory means everything to him.
I have to make him proud.
A lot of the stuff we do,
we do because of our parents.
Whether we know it or not.
We're our own people, too.
I don't go home
at the end of the summer.
Camp is home.
If I can't get that Fleece
- and camp f--
- That won't happen.
You wouldn't have been
granted a quest
unless you had it in you
to finish it.
What did the Oracle tell you?
- Why do you wanna know?
- Because prophecies suck.
It's almost like they're made
to scare you.
It doesn't scare me.
I didn't think it would.
[tense instrumental music playing]
"You shall sail the iron ship
with warriors of bone."
"You shall find what you seek
and make it your own,
but despair for your life
entombed within stone and
to fail without friends,
to fly home alone."
Yeah, it's not so bad. [sighs]
Boss, they told me to get you.
It looks like we're here.
[sighs]
We're not friends.
[sighs heavily]
Finally.
Mm.
[foreboding instrumental music playing]
[Clarisse] Men!
We are now entering
the Sea of Monsters.
Today, we sail into glory!
[all cheering]
[music intensifies]
[thunder rumbling]
[ominous instrumental music playing]
- [tentacle whipping]
- [crew member screams]
[Percy breathing heavily]
[monster snarling]
[crew member screams]
Scylla.
[Scylla screeching]
That's two.
Four to go.
[Scylla screeching]
- [tentacle whipping]
- [screams]
[artillery firing]
[breathes heavily, grunts]
[music intensifies]
[crew screaming]
- What are you doing?
- [Clarisse] We fight Charybdis.
Because heroes slay monsters,
they don't run from them.
Small choices. [pants]
That didn't feel small.
- [tentacle whipping]
- [crew member screams]
[music continues]
[screams]
[screams]
[Charybdis roaring]
[grunts] Load a clip!
[screams aggressively]
[Annabeth] We'll never be able
to escape the vortex,
but maybe our plan will work.
Or maybe I can turn the tide.
- Do you have the juice for that?
- If I speed up the current,
I can slingshot out
the other side.
[pants]
But what?
I can't control the wind.
- The thermos!
- It's in Hermes's bag.
You fight the current,
I'll fight the wind.
Go!
[screams aggressively]
[crew members screaming,
shouting]
[artillery continues firing]
[music swells, becomes heroic]
- [ship creaking]
- [music becomes dramatic]
[Charybdis roaring]
Tyson! More power!
Yes, brother!
[grunts]
[thermos clangs]
[gasps, grunts]
[Annabeth screams]
- Clarisse!
- Come here!
[both grunting]
The thermos!
[wind whistling]
[dramatic instrumental music playing]
[all screaming]
[boat creaking]
[dramatic instrumental music continues]
[music ends abruptly]
[adventurous theme music playing]
[theme music continues]
[woman] The Sirens peer
into your soul
to see your fatal flaw
and then use that against you.
[monsters shrieking]
No one at camp
needs to know about this.
[guinea pig squeaking]
- [monster shrieks]
- [Annabeth gasps]
Annabeth, no!
[theme music continues]
[theme music concludes]