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The Odyssey · written by Christopher Nolan · 2026
Scene 139 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.
At night, Odysseus is beckoned by a vision of Athena glimpsed through the trees.
Odysseus follows the firelight deeper into the forest, smelling roasting meat.
Odysseus catches his crew secretly slaughtering and feasting on the Sun God's sacred cattle, and tells them, ashamed, he wanted them to live rather than starve.
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Odysseus strides back to the ship. ATHENA FALLS IN BESIDE HIM...
ATHENA
Tiresias told you. Circe told you. The Gods told you --
ODYSSEUS
Your Gods don't speak in ways we understand!
ATHENA
Who doesn't understand pain?! Or blood?! Or death?!
Odysseus shakes his head, hoping she won't be there any more. But Athena CONTINUES...
ATHENA (CONT'D)
When you watch your men die do you see chance? Or do you see consequence?
Odysseus turns on her --
ODYSSEUS
I see consequence. I see my failure.
ATHENA
What if their deaths aren't your failing but theirs?
ODYSSEUS
I lead them. I led them here.
ATHENA
And who led you? Why do you put yourself above the Gods?
Why do you claim responsibility? Why don't you want to go home?
Odysseus stares at her. Thinking. About to speak --
EURYLOCHUS (O.S.)
What were they supposed to do?!
Odysseus TURNS TO SEE EURYLOCHUS APPROACHING. ATHENA IS GONE.
EURYLOCHUS (O.S.) (CONT'D)
Our food ran out! Have some pity.
Odysseus turns, FURIOUS --
ODYSSEUS
My pity put us on this damned island! I told you what would happen.
EURYLOCHUS
Yes, you did. And we decided that we'd rather drown than starve.
Odysseus notices -- THE FLAG HAS STOPPED FLAPPING. He points at it --
ODYSSEUS
Well, here's our chance.
Eurylochus runs back towards the trees, SHOUTING.
The Crew PUSH THE BOAT OFF THE SAND, JUMPING aboard, PULLING on the oars, pushing out into the moonlight on the NOW-CALM SEA...
ODYSSEUS (V.O) (CONT'D)
The calm was just long enough to tempt us out onto Poseidon's ocean. Under Zeus's sky...