The Odyssey · written by Christopher Nolan · 2026

Agamemnon's shade begs Odysseus for news of his son's revenge and warns him not to walk into his own house expecting a hero's welcome.

Scene 120 of 199 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act two

Agamemnon
Odysseus
Tiresias
Rower
Eurylochus

Act oneAct two

Begins 1:17 into a 2:26 film

The story so farBefore scene 120

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 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
In Hades, Sinon's shade accuses Odysseus of never telling him the truth about the dangerous ruse that killed him.
Scene 119
Flashback: Agamemnon, murdered by his wife Clytemnestra in his own bed, reveals in voiceover the betrayal and guilt that doomed him at home.
Scene 120
This scene

120EXT. HADES - TWILIGHT

AGAMEMNON

She and her lover had plotted my

murder for years. Odysseus?

ODYSSEUS

Yes?

AGAMEMNON

My son, Orestes. Did he avenge me?

ODYSSEUS

My Lord, how could I know? I'm still

trying to get home.

AGAMEMNON

Don't make my mistake. Don't walk in

the front door expecting garlands and

praise. Come in disguise. Take your

time. Assess.

Odysseus watches Agamemnon rise. MELT INTO THE SHADES. Tiresias turns to look at Odysseus WITH BLIND EYES.

TIRESIAS

Do you see?

ODYSSEUS

I understand what I have to do.

TIRESIAS

Some of what you have to do.

Tiresias INDICATES EURYLOCHUS AND THE OTHER MEN.

TIRESIAS (CONT'D)

My prophecy isn't for their ears.

Eurylochus and the men MOVE BACK TOWARDS THE SHIP...

TIRESIAS (CONT'D)

Sail southwest past the Sirens. Their

song lures your men onto the rocks.

They all die.

ODYSSEUS

I won't let that happen. I'll block their ears. With wax.

TIRESIAS

Past the Sirens you choose between the whirlpool Charybdis and the monster Scylla. The whirlpool in the sea would take all your lives, the monster in the cliffs only six. But your determination to sacrifice no more lives kills all of them.

ODYSSEUS

I'll do what I have to.

TIRESIAS

At the end. When starvation and mutiny threaten, they demand to land where the Sun God's cattle graze. They slaughter Apollo's herd. Zeus kills them for it. Do you see?

ODYSSEUS

I'll stop them.

TIRESIAS

Why do these lives matter more to you than those you've already lost?