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The Odyssey · written by Christopher Nolan · 2026
Scene 128 of 199 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two
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.
Ithaca frozen in a decade of waiting: Penelope weaving, the suitors feasting, Telemachus unheard.
Telemachus needs proof of his father's fate; Penelope needs the throne secured before the suitors force her hand.
Telemachus sails from Ithaca in secret, crossing into the unfamiliar world beyond his mother's house.
Odysseus's captivity with Calypso opens the parallel strand — a man who has forgotten his own family, slowly remembering his way home.
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.
Eumaeus edges closer to overhear the suitors' plotting.
Antinous guesses Telemachus has gone to Sparta to see Menelaus, but decides against pursuit.
Melanthius drags Eumaeus into the light after catching him eavesdropping.
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Melanthius PUSHES Eumaeus into the light.
MELANTHIUS
He was listening.
Antinous turns, LOOKING AT EUMAEUS.
EUMAEUS
I was coming for Argus --
Eumaeus WAVES in the direction of the dung pile. ARGUS LIES ON IT, HALF-DEAD.
ANTINOUS
I told you, that dog stays there. Go back to the farm. When we need your pigs we'll send Melanthius. You're no longer welcome in this palace.
Eumaeus straightens up, trying for some dignity.
EUMAEUS
I answer to my mistress.
ANTINOUS
Does she even know your name, old man?
Tears appear in Eumaeus's eyes... Antinous takes pity.
ANTINOUS (CONT'D)
If she asks for you, we'll send word. Now go.
Eumaeus, refusing Melanthius's help, makes his way out of the courtyard. Antinous TURNS TO POLYBUS.
ANTINOUS (CONT'D)
Telemachus will come back by the temple at Pylos. Take your man and wait for him there.
POLYBUS
While you stay here, trying to charm the queen? I don't think so.
ANTINOUS
Telemachus needs to die on the road.
Polybus signals a BEGGAR sitting by the wall. HE APPROACHES.
POLYBUS
Irus has a plan.
IRUS nods at Antinous.
IRUS
Telemachus and his men will be ready for the Bandits who work the road between here and Pylos. But if some of them took the temple from the priests before they arrived...
Antinous considers this. Nods. TO IRUS --
ANTINOUS
No witnesses -- everyone in that party dead in a ditch, throats open. Bring me part of Telemachus as proof. His nose.
POLYBUS
Would you know him from his nose?
ANTINOUS
Ears, too, then.