The Odyssey · written by Christopher Nolan · 2026

In Hades, Sinon's shade accuses Odysseus of never telling him the truth about the dangerous ruse that killed him.

Scene 118 of 199 · ≈ 3 min on screen · Act two

Sinon
Odysseus
Agamemnon

Act oneAct two

Begins 1:14 into a 2:26 film

The story so farBefore scene 118

Twenty years after leaving for the Trojan War, Odysseus fights his way home across a hostile sea only to find his kingdom overrun — and must return in disguise to reclaim his wife, his son, and his throne from the suitors laying siege to his house.

Scenes 1–9
Ithaca frozen in a decade of waiting: Penelope weaving, the suitors feasting, Telemachus unheard.
Scenes 9–27
Telemachus needs proof of his father's fate; Penelope needs the throne secured before the suitors force her hand.
Scenes 28–29
Telemachus sails from Ithaca in secret, crossing into the unfamiliar world beyond his mother's house.
Scene 31
Odysseus's captivity with Calypso opens the parallel strand — a man who has forgotten his own family, slowly remembering his way home.
Scene 99
Circe begins transforming Odysseus's starving men into pigs mid-feast — the crew's appetite becomes literal cost, and Odysseus is forced to act alone.
Just before
Scene 115
Circe warns Odysseus that only he, not his men, is fated by the gods to make it home.
Scene 116
The shades of the dead rise toward the blood; Odysseus recognizes his old soldier Sinon among them and lets him drink to speak.
Scene 117
Flashback: at Troy, Odysseus and young Sinon discuss why Sinon volunteered to be the sacrificial decoy left behind with the horse — to spare Antinous.
Scene 118
This scene

118EXT. HADES - TWILIGHT (PRESENT)

Sinon's bloody-chinned shade looks ACCUSINGLY at Odysseus.

SINON

You didn't trust me with the truth? After all those years? I was a boy when I came with you to Troy. You knew I'd die for you.

ODYSSEUS

Dying men tell the truth. I needed you

to believe.

SINON

I died for your lie on that beach.

ODYSSEUS

I know. I was there with you.

INSERT CUT: ODYSSEUS, TEARFUL, LEANS HIS HEAD AGAINST THE WOOD, NEXT TO THE BLOODY SPEAR POINT INSIDE THE WOODEN HORSE.

ODYSSEUS (CONT'D)

I heard you repeat my lie with your

dying breath. Winning us the war. I

was right there. Inches from you.

Smelling your blood.

SINON

What comfort could that give me? Not

knowing you were inside that Horse

until the dead told me.

ODYSSEUS

Which dead?

Sinon GESTURES to the HORDES OF SHADES on the obsidian plain.

SINON

A lot of veterans of your campaigns

walk these shores. The dead meet to

lament the living and greet the newly

dead. My father was the first Shade to

find me.

ODYSSEUS

To comfort you?

SINON

Shades don't comfort. They want word

of the living who wronged them. My

father had died in poverty, alone,

begging for scraps from people like

Antinous.

ODYSSEUS

Antinous cheated you?

SINON

As he's no doubt cheating you.

ODYSSEUS

How?

SINON

Who's in Ithaca looking after your

wife and son?

ODYSSEUS