01x02 - Episode 2

[bunniefuu]

[intriguing guitar intro playing]

- ["Like the Deserts Miss the Rain" plays]
- ♪ And I miss you ♪

[excited chatter]

♪ Like the deserts miss the rain ♪

♪ And I miss you ♪

- ♪ Like the deserts miss the rain ♪
- [door opens]

[foreboding music playing]

[dance music fades]

[bartender panting]

[ethereal vocals rising]

- [bartender gasps]
- [woman] Caenis!

You've changed.

What are you doing here?

- [crossbow clangs]
- [grunts, shudders]

But I... I...

I didn't come back to the compound.

You dishonor the gods and your tribe.

[sternly] Vero.

[breathing shakily]

[sounds distort]

[weakly] Mom?

[ethereal vocals fade]

[high-pitched ringing]

[coughs]

[panting]

[softly] There was a guy.

[ringing subsides]

There was a guy, uh...

Where's, uh...

Where's the guy?

Oh... [groans]

[grunts]

[sighs]

Wha...?

[exhales deeply]

[quietly] What have I done?

[sighs] What the f*ck have I done?

- [Dionysus] What have you done?
- [Orpheus yelps]

[grunts]

Chocolate or plain?

Okay, there was cheese.
I already ate the cheese. I'm sorry.

- Man, you got messy last night.
- [Orpheus shudders]

Want to get your wife back? Yeah?

Then you need
to get your strength up. Here.

[muffled grumbling]

- Mm! Nutritious!
- [spits]

I thought I dreamt you.

All right, sit down. Sit down. Come on.

I... I can...

I can really...

[hesitates]...get Riddy back without dying?

[Dionysus] Yes. Yes.

But... we have to move quick.

Before she goes through the Frame.

[intense, rhythmic music playing]

[music fades]

[PA chimes]

[announcer] Can passengers
make their way to the bridge deck

for an orientation video
from our Lord Hades?

[peppy lobby music playing on video]

[Hades] The one guarantee
that comes with life?

It ends.

As far as human beings are concerned,

death is the only thing
they can be sure of.

Now, some of you will be scared.

Some of you will be angry.

You didn't think it was your time perhaps,
but be comforted by this.

Your devotion to the gods,
to me and my family, is about to pay off.

So I say, f*ck them.

[haunting violin music playing]

Did you hear me?

I defy them.

I defy the gods. [echoing]

The better you serve us
and the Earth you just left,

the more glorious your next life will be.

Your ferry is currently crossing
the River Styx.

This is the body of water that takes you
from Earth to the underworld.

We will be here at the port,

ready to guide you towards the next stage
of your journey at the River Lethe,

where our friendly divers
will help you pass easily into the water

and make your way through...

The Frame.

I made it.

I made it for you

to allow your atoms
to return joyfully to the Earth.

Do not mourn life.
You are returning to it.

Welcome back to the underworld.

Everything's going to be okay.

[buoyant orchestral music playing]

[Zeus on speaker] Okay.
Uh... hey, you still there?

Hello?

- [Zeus] Hello?
- What? Uh, yes.

Yes. Yes, I'm here.

Am I on speaker?

[hesitates] No.

Pull!

Yep...

Uh, anyway, we're gonna send a message
to the monument shitters, right?

- So...
- [Hades] Yes?

Okay, uh...

Is it done? You trained more divers?

No.

No, first of all,
we're working on the selection process.

I'm sorry? What?

Why would you need a selection process?

- Just, uh, move people.
- [Persephone huffs]

- Right?
- Zeus.

- With the greatest respect...
- I knew I was on speaker.

- It's not easy to find new divers.
- What?

All underworld workers who applied
to be divers and were found appropriate

have been accepted and trained.

We are looking at substandard quality
if we recruit more now.

So? [grumbles]
We don't have time for this.

I don't care if they apply,
if they're appropriate.

It's f*cking crowd control, Persephone.
It's not art.

Get more divers today.

Pull!

[Persephone] It might not be art,
but it is a skill.

Zeus, taking those human souls
through the Frame

is a complex and delicate process.

We cannot, for the preservation
of the integrity of the underworld,

allow standards to...

[Hades snoring softly]

[Persephone sighs]

[Zeus] Hello?

[exhales] Consider it done.

What...

Oh.

Okay.

Yeah, good. Good.

Um, hey, while I've got you, uh,
did either of you happen to see my watch?

[call disconnects]

- I've been...
- [dial tone buzzes]

[quietly] And they hang up.

[Persephone] You are working too hard.

[whimsical music fades]

[Agatha sighs]

What will your next life be, do you think?
What are your hopes?

Um... I, uh...

I don't... I don't know.

Not waste it?

Why? How about you?

Well, I was an Olympia sacrifice.

Wow. Okay.

[Agatha] So I imagine
something of a step-up.

I wanted to be a tacita,
but, sadly, wasn't called.

- I served Hera, nevertheless.
- [tense music playing]

I trained to remove their tongues
to honor her.

And I never married, of course.

Mm. That was by choice?

Yes.

- By choice.
- [Riddy] Mm-hmm.

[cheeky, rhythmic music playing]

You're very young.

How did you die?

Well, I, uh, got hit by a truck
after I said I defied the gods,

so probably coming back
as a dog or a stone or something.

Who knows, right?

I see.

- Well, good luck to you.
- [Riddy] Mm.

- [solemnly] Vero.
- [rhythmic music fades]

[Riddy takes a deep breath]

- [softly] f*ck.
- [lively cover of "The Passenger" playing]

- [tires squeal]
- [Orpheus] f*ck! We're gonna die!

Look, I can't die.

I'm not gonna let you die, okay?
You're fine.

How do I know that?

And how do I know
you're who you say you are?

Dionysus, I mean.

The gods have been
on Earth the whole time.

You don't know unless we tell you.
We have to want you to know.

You gotta trust.

Gotta have faith.

- Can you do that?
- [gasps, yelps]

No!

- ♪ I am the passenger ♪
- [Orpheus groans]

[engine revving]

- ♪ I stay under glass... ♪
- No! No! No!

No! No, no!

You had a g*n to your head last night.
Just relax.

Whoo-hoo!

No!

- [horns blaring]
- [Orpheus screams]

♪ Over the city's ripped backsides... ♪

f*ck! Oh, f*ck!

Keep your eyes open.

- [screams]
- [truck horn blares]

- [exhales, yelps]
- Sweet!

[laughing wildly]

[Orpheus exclaims, sobbing]

Well done. That was great.
That was really good.

Hey! Hey. What, what...

Hey, it's okay.
I just, uh, had to be sure.

[sobs, sniffles]

- Why are you helping me?
- ["The Passenger" fades]

[echoing] There's nothing wrong
with being slightly lightweight, Dionysus.

[mocking laughter]

[laughter resonates, fades]

'Cause I like your music.

Now come back here
and tell me about your girl!

[ominous music playing]

[harbor bell clanging]

[passengers murmuring]

[announcer on PA] All handlers required
at the dock.

Please report for duty.

[announcer on PA] Welcome to Asphodel.

Please form an orderly queue
and make your way through the turnstiles.

- [dogs barking]
- [Charon] I only want to see five lines!

And I want those lines straight.
Dogs ready?

[music fades]

[woman on PA] These are
working cerberus dogs.

- Please do not attempt to stroke them.
- [dogs sniffing]

- [Charon] Let's get a move on!
- [dogs barking]

[bartender] Step out, please.

Come on.

Hey, easy. Easy. Fotis.

- Fotis. Come on. Let's go.
- [tense music playing]

[Fotis sniffing]

- [sighs]
- [Fotis barks]

- Uh, step out, please.
- [Fotis growls]

- Why?
- [bartender] It's okay. Stay calm.

- What are they barking at?
- This way, please.

Where are you taking me?
I'm still being renewed, right?

- Someone will explain everything as soon...
- Can you just tell me?

Where are we going?
Why can't you just tell me?

[bartender] It'll be okay. I promise.

[handler] Come on.

[Prometheus] You know I said my plan
to bring Zeus down involves three humans?

{an8}This is the second.

{an8}[energetic music playing]

{an8}[Prometheus] Caeneus died ten years ago.
You saw how.

[Fotis barks]

[Prometheus] Like Riddy,
he is completely unaware

of his cosmic significance.

[Caeneus] Good boy. Good boy.

He woke up thinking today would be
like every other in the underworld.

That, as usual,
he would focus solely on the past

and ignore the present.

Let's go.

[energetic music fades]

[Prometheus] But that changes today.

[announcer] Personnel,
make yourselves ready.

[woman] Caeneus, Prue, congratulations.
You've been promoted.

My name is Medusa,
and you're going to be trained as divers.

- [exclaims]
- I don't want to be a diver.

- [Medusa] Excuse me?
- I didn't apply. I never apply.

I did. I got rejected lots of times.

- I know.
- [Prue splutters] Oh, this is wonderful!

I'm a good handler.

[scoffs] No, you're not.

But I still don't appreciate
people stealing my staff.

Persephone's orders, Charon.

Look, I'm waiting for someone.

- Who?
- His mother.

Oh. Oh, I did wonder.

- He's very private.
- [Medusa] Everyone's waiting for someone.

- I'm not.
- [Medusa] You're here to work.

- No. I don't want to go. I'm staying.
- [Medusa chuckles]

Now, this is interesting.

I mean, you seem to be laboring

under the sweet misunderstanding
that there's an element of choice here.

What about our dogs?

Divers don't use dogs.

Sorry.

[Prue breathing heavily with excitement]

[Prue] I'm more
of a cat person. [chuckles]

[ferry horn blows]

- Excuse me, ma'am.
- [Fotis whining]

Are you the Medusa? As in...

[slithering]

- [snake hisses]
- [gasps, cries out]

- Wha... Why didn't I turn to stone?
- 'Cause you're f*cking dead.

Oh.

Come on, today! Let's go!

I'll visit. I promise.

[gently] Look out for her, okay?

[Fotis whines]

[whimpering]

Let's go.

His name's Fotis.

- It means "light."
- I don't care.

["The Wizard" by Jimmie Rodgers playing]

Keep moving, please!

Nothing to worry about.

Where are we going?
Are we going to the Frame?

- I thought we were going to the Frame.
- Me too.

And me.

- Are we not?
- It's just a bit of admin. Keep moving.

If this is about
what I said at the temple I've...

Move along, please!

[Riddy] Admin?

- Why is there admin in the underworld?
- [handler] Move along, please!

[indistinct, concerned chatter]

[man] We're still being renewed, right?

♪ That's what you have to do ♪

♪ And your wishes will all come true ♪

♪ Tell 'em what the wizard says ♪

♪ Tell 'em what the wizard says ♪

♪ All you have to do
Is snap your fingers ♪

♪ Make a wish and snap your fingers ♪

♪ That's what you have to do ♪

♪ And your wishes ♪

♪ Will all come true! ♪

- [catchy '50s country tune ends]
- [wind gusting]

- Where are we?
- Exactly where you need to be!

- Hey! What are you doing?
- Yeah. There's a line here!

Hey! This man's competing, Patricia.

- Well, I... I what?
- [Patricia] How's he know my name?

- Was that Orpheus?
- Who?

[cheery '70s instrumental music playing]

- [Dionysus] Hey!
- [excited chatter]

Get in there.

Hey. It's me, baby. I'm back.

Oh yeah!

Who are you?

- [Orpheus] I, um...
- Hey, Poly.

Um, he's with me.

Table one.

Welcome to The Cave.

[scoffs] Is this a joke?

- [Dionysus] I'm sorry?
- The Cave.

You brought me to The Cave.

f*ck you.

[Prometheus] The Cave is famous...
but not in a good way.

It's a place where desperate people come
to try to gain access to the underworld.

- There is an audience. It's a sport.
- [chanting] Cave! Cave! Cave!

[Prometheus] But it always ends
in failure.

[indistinct chatter]

- Hey! Hey. Hey. Hey.
- Look.

I don't know who or what you are, okay?
And I don't care.

I didn't come here to be humiliated.

Is that clear?

Humiliated? How'd you figure that?

It's a scam. Everybody knows it's a scam.
Nobody gets people back.

Nah, but that's just not true.

It's entirely possible to get people back.
No one's done it before, but you can!

Okay? I know you can.

Your love is greater than death.

[gentle piano music playing]

What do I have to do?

It's a quiz!

Baby, it's a quiz!

Okay.

["Dance of the Reed Pipes" playing]

- [line ringing]
- [Zeus] Dionysus, you f... little sh*t.

- Let's talk to one of the others.
- [voicemail beeps]

Uh, hello? Ares.

Hey, it's Pop.

I think I'm leaving a message
on your, uh, machine.

How are you, kid?

Uh, callin' to see if you're around,
and see if you're...

I don't know, still mad at me?

Uh, anyway, I... I... I need some help.

Um, did you, by any chance,

happen to catch that debacle in Heraklion
with the monument the other day?

Did it... Did it hurt your feelings?
It sure did mine.

Okay, bye.

- [call disconnects]
- Well, interesting.

- Okay.
- [line ringing]

Ring, ring, ring.

Wow. Nobody f*ck' home?

What is this?

- [voicemail beeps]
- Uh, hi, Athena.

Hey, it's Pop-Pop.

Um... [clicks tongue]

Do you want to do some work?
Mm, some myth-making?

Hello? Hello?

- Uh, Apollo... It's, uh... It's Dad.
- [voicemail beeps]

- Um, hello, Aphrodite. It's Daddy.
- [voicemail beeps]

Artemis? Um, this is Papooza.

Is anybody f*ck' there?
Are they listening to these messages?

You know, the Papooza.

Hermes! Pick up the phone!

[whimsical melody concludes]

- [receiver crashes loudly, resonates]
- [huffs]

f*ck' family.

[exasperated sigh]

[Prometheus] Zeus is
constantly disappointed by his children.

[Zeus] f*ck.

- Here. Here! Bam!
- [slamming table]

[thunder crashes]

[Prometheus] So in his infinite wisdom,
he always has a few more cooking on Earth.

- [both breathing heavily]
- [dramatic rhythmic music playing]

[Zeus and lover speaking indistinctly]

[both moaning]

- Ooh. Ooh!
- [lover] Yeah!

[both breathing heavily]

- [Zeus grunts]
- [echoing moan]

[Zeus exhales]

The baby.

[sighs] You can do whatever you like.
You can't harm it.

[lover sighs]

[Zeus exhales]

What's it gonna be? What's it gonna do?

Great things.

- [lover] Yeah?
- Yeah.

- [doorbell buzzes]
- [lover] Uh...

Oh sh*t. I think that's my parents.

- [buzzing continues]
- f*cking hell.

[Zeus grunts]

Oh.

- For my pregnant beauty, Spartan ribs.
- [laughs]

[door closes]

Trojan gin.

Don't tell me
there can't be peace on Earth.

Ah. Okay. Very funny.

I thought you were gonna be
my dad. [chuckles]

Who's here?

- [amused chuckle]
- That's not funny.

[quirky music playing]

[lover] Zeus.

- Who's...
- [lover] What are you talking about?

No. No.

- No.
- [inhales sharply]

[in Hera's voice] Hello.

Who are you?

I'm his wife, little one.

[blows smoke]

Now, look.

Well done. I mean, pfft,
you are an extremely promising f*ck.

And you're very pretty.
I mean, I... I absolutely see the appeal.

- But we agreed.
- Oh...

No more kids.

- [lover cries out]
- Sorry.

[lover gasps, groaning]

[quietly] Help me.

What the f*ck is happening?

[skin straining]

[Zeus] Hera, is this necessary?

- Uh, no, not really.
- [lover screaming]

Zeus, why? Why do you want a baby?

Your wrinkle?

- It's not a new wrinkle.
- [screams grow louder]

[loud plop]

- [newborn wailing]
- [lover shrieks]

[sobbing] Oh god!

[crying, softly] No, no, no...

I'm afraid I'm gonna have to ask you
to calm down.

[quietly] Please. Don't k*ll me, please.

[Hera] I'm not going to k*ll you. No, no.

Nothing so unimaginative.

[lover] Please, please...

- [whoosh]
- [bee buzzing]

It's gonna be fun.
There's a whole g*ng of you.

- Do it.
- [Zeus sighs] Um...

Please, just this one.
Then no more. I promise.

- Just...
- [hesitates] No.

- Hera. Hera...
- No. All of them.

All of these half-breeds,
they just take up too much.

It's vulgar, it's paranoid,
and it's... human.

[gently] You don't need them.

Now, I'm gonna make us a drink.

When I get back, I want that dead.

[newborn continues fussing]

- [Zeus sighs]
- [baby crying]

- [neck snaps]
- ["The Way to Your Heart" playing]

[bees buzzing]

See? I told you there was a g*ng.

♪ I climbed the Eiffel Tower ♪

♪ Walked in a London shower ♪

♪ But I get lost
Finding my way to your heart... ♪

Why is everybody lookin'
so f*ck' content down here?

- [group laughing]
- [indistinct, joyful chatter]

♪ Where Cinderella's magical slipper is ♪

♪ I'm a whiz ♪

♪ I took a trip to Dallas ♪

♪ Slept in a prince's palace ♪

- [loud whoosh]
- How... [scoffs]

- [song ends]
- Why... You're still almost totally nude.

- Here.
- [whoosh]

That's better.
I want to run something by you.

I was just down on Earth.

Incognito mode, of course.

And, um, very human person
that I saw down there

was conspicuously, uh... convivial.

Not scared.

And when they're not scared,
they're not worshiping me.

So, why...

So why would that bother you?

Not worshiping,
it never used to bother you before.

- [hushed] Prometheus.
- What?

- I've never had that before.
- Ah...

No, I'm... No, no, no.
I'm weakening, and they can sense it.

So I think things
need to go back to the old days,

where everybody down there
is always on edge.

I've been so lax about it.

I'm just gonna go
into a full wipeout mode.

And indiscriminate.
I haven't done that for a while.

I'm gonna take out,
like, you know, I think half.

Half what? Half the world?

I'm gonna f*ck' shock 'em.

I'm gonna petrify 'em
and demoralize 'em into submission.

Remember when you k*lled all our ants?
Remember when we were kids?

One of them bit you,
and you burnt them all,

and then you wept for a week.

No, I don't recall weeping.

Yeah, you did.

And then there was the puppy. Hestia.

- Your daddy ran her over with a cart.
- Come on.

Now, listen. You loved her.

You loved that puppy. You did.

You loved her back to life,
and she stayed with you forever after.

This is true.

This is the old Zeus,
the one I believed in.

There are many roads to worship, Zeus.
You know that. Love can do a lot.

You set the scene.
You control the narrative.

- You tell the stories...
- [Zeus] Hang on.

That's your answer to all this?

You think
that I should be telling 'em stories?

I'm just saying you don't need to destroy
everything in order to control...

[loud whoosh]

[mellow, pensive music playing]

[sighs deeply]

Look.

I do what I can to protect you.

I managed to set up a couple of things
before I ended up here, but I am...

[clicks tongue]...limited.

God, I miss the Earth.

More than you could possibly imagine.

Come on, Riddy.

[music grows ominous]

- [handler] Move. Go on.
- [grunts]

[grunts]

Welcome!

[handler] Right. Vests off, please.
Nobody's going in the water today.

It's not on.

It... Is it...

How can I turn this on? This...

- [sighs]
- Can you turn this on?

Okay, so, bit of a shock
with the dogs, wasn't it?

[feedback squeals]

[worker] Yeah, you're probably wondering
why you're here.

Why are we?

Well, you've all been buried
or cremated without coins.

- Uh, it means that you, uh...
- What?

[worker] You can't go
through the Frame and renew.

f*ck you, Geri!

Who's Geri?

[quietly] My sister.

[worker] The important thing
is not to feel shame.

Just take your time
to come to terms with what's happened.

You got plenty of time now.

Sorry, uh, excuse me.
I... I think that there's been a mistake.

No, there hasn't.

Well, um, yes, there... there has.

My husband was my coin bearer.

[worker] So?

So he would never bury me without one.

[scoffs] He would never do that.

- [worker] Mm...
- I... No offense. Um...

I'm trying to tell you
that there's been a mistake.

[worker] There are no mistakes.

Not here.

Oh. Okay.

So then this sh*t show
is just a front, is it?

This doesn't look
anything like the video, so...

There are no mistakes.

[Riddy sighs]

[worker] Yes?

[man] What happens to us now?

Well, there's everything.
There's a games room, a canteen, a bar.

You've got a couple of basketball courts.
Uh, you get your own living quarters.

Everything you need.

But... what do we do?

Well, you work.

You'll be allocated
an appropriate sector in a few days.

[Riddy scoffs]

No way. I, um... I have to renew.

Uh, I have to.
My whole childhood was given to the gods.

They... they took my mom.

I need to start again.
I think that they owe me a new life.

The gods owe you nothing.

So, we stay... like this?

- [worker] Mm-hmm.
- For how long?

Only 200 years.

- [group murmurs]
- [worker] Then you get your chance.

[worker] Praise Hades and his generosity.

Vero.

[unsettling rhythmic music playing]

- [doors close heavily]
- She'll be back.

[oppressive music intensifies]

- [tense music fades]
- [sultry instrumental music playing]

[Dionysus] This is gonna be fun.

Service, please.

- Tell me I'm doing the right thing.
- You're doing the right thing.

- Louder.
- You're doing the right thing.

Louder, man! f*ck' louder!

- You're doing the right...
- Yeah!

[glass clatters]

Entrance fee?

Uh, I don't, uh...

[scoffs]

sh*t, I don't have my wallet.

My friend might...

- [whoosh]
- I don't really carry cash.

- Sorry.
- Uh, hold on. Hold on.

My wedding ring.

Would this do?

Yeah, okay.

That's very f*cking romantic.

[Orpheus] Did you change your shirt?

[vibrant, upbeat tune playing]

- Who are they?
- They're the Fates.

[sounds distort]

[Dionysus] They set the questions.
They keep the score... on several levels.

Welcome, players!

Yeah! Yeah!

[crowd cheering]

[bell dings]

My name is Polyphemus, Keeper of The Cave.

This afternoon, we have three contestants.

All playing for the chance to cheat death

and bring back
someone from the underworld.

Oh yeah!

Of course, uh,
entry is just the beginning. Ah...

You have a bit to do
when you get down there as well.

If you get down there.

Good luck to you all!

- [cheers and excited chatter]
- [dramatic music plays]

- [whispers] What happens now?
- Focus.

[wheels squeaking]

Are you ready?

- Yes!
- [musical flourish plays]

Yes! Come on!

- [scattered applause]
- Yeah!

[tension-filled music playing]

[Poly] Round one.

Please mark every freckle,
mole, and blemish of your loved one.

- [crowd murmurs]
- Whoa!

[quietly] Oh f*ck.

{an8}[bell dings]

Uh...

[subway train rattling on tracks]

- [PA chimes]
- [woman on PA] Next stop, River Lethe.

[energetic, rhythmic music continues]

[Medusa] As you are all aware,
divers are required

to ease the passage of newly dead
across the River Lethe.

You're going to be taught
how to organize and run this process.

There's many facets to it,
and it looks a lot easier than it is.

Excuse me!

Coming through! Excuse me.

- [announcer] Please form an orderly queue...
- Move, please.

- Thank you.
- [announcer] The divers are here to help.

- Please treat them with respect.
- [murmurs]

Aggression towards divers
will not be tolerated.

[Medusa] Come on, people.
Keep it moving. Let's go, come on.

[announcer] Please form an orderly queue
and make your way through the turnstiles.

The divers are here to help you.
Please treat them with respect.

[Medusa] All right, listen up.

No one can be forced into the water
or through the Frame.

Free will isn't great
from an efficiency perspective,

so that's where you come in.

Divers are essential.

You guide, you support, you listen.

You get people into the water
and through the Frame, on towards Renewal.

- You got that?
- Yes, yes.

- Don't f*ck it up.
- I won't.

- Good.
- [sighs]

[Caeneus] What happens
if we do f*ck it up?

[Medusa] You'll be working
Children's Renewal.

[scoreboard chimes]

[Poly] And then there were two.

- [cheering and scattered applause]
- [widow sobs]

- [Poly] Okay. Next round.
- [bell dings]

- You.
- [feedback squeals]

[Poly] Tell me all about your boy.

Tell us why you should be chosen

to get him back from the underworld.

- [dark music rises]
- Um...

[Poly] Ah...

You must not speak.

[dramatic musical flourish]

- [Dionysus chuckles]
- [audience murmurs]

[audience whispering]

[loud clattering and clanging]

- [woman] What the f*ck is he doing?
- [man] I don't know.

[scattered laughter]

- [sighs]
- [somber, gentle music playing]

[Lachesis] Hmm.

[father exhales shakily]

- [softly] One, two...
- Three.

[father gasps dramatically]

[breathing shakily]

[mother whimpers]

[father sobbing]

[both crying]

[heartbreaking strings fade]

[quietly] Oh sh*t.

No. No, no.

Don't worry.

- [bell dings]
- And you... will sing of your love.

[audience gasps]

[Poly] Also without your voice.

- [dramatic musical flourish]
- [Orpheus sighs]

[audience murmuring]

[gasps] Oh! Yes! Over there!

[splutters] Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Yeah. Go, go, go.

Sorry, pal.

[couple breathing shakily]

- [fallboard opens]
- [Orpheus strikes piano keys]

[playing gentle warm-up tune]

[crowd murmuring in anticipation]

[Orpheus takes a deep breath]

[playing emotional piano tune]

[tender song building]

- [indistinct chatter]
- [Riddy panting]

- Hey, hey!
- [Riddy] I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

[Riddy takes a deep breath]

[Medusa] Up. Into the water,
through the Frame.

Okay? Some people can't swim, right?

So you just have to guide them.
That's why you're divers.

I chose you specifically for that reason.

[Prue] And I'm very good with people.

[Medusa] Good.

[gentle, soulful melody building]

[panting] No. No.

No, no, no, no, no.

[Prometheus] People without coins
are unable to pass through the Frame.

[screams]

[Prue] Oh, dear.

[Prometheus] The water
simply won't rise to meet them.

- They're trapped.
- [Riddy weeping]

[mournful tune fades]

- Told you he was good.
- [crowd applauds]

[energetic, upbeat theme playing]

[Orpheus screams]

Oh! What the f*ck?!

What the f*ck?!

[Lachesis] This man, friends...

this man has done something wrong.

Haven't you?

Tell them.

[Orpheus] I haven't. I haven't.

- [inhales sharply]
- [Lachesis grunts]

Thank you.

- [Lachesis strains]
- [inhales sharply] f*ck!

[groans]

[panting]

- Please tell them what you did, Orpheus.
- Tell the truth, Orpheus.

We can't help you
if you don't tell the truth.

[whimpers] I... I... I...

- [Lachesis] Yes? Good start.
- [Orpheus crying]

- [tragic violin music playing]
- What has he got in his pocket?

[softly] What has he got in his pocket?

- [Orpheus sniffles]
- What is this?

What is this?

[inhales sharply]

[mystical chimes jingle]

My wife's coin.

[stunned gasps]

Shame on you.

[Orpheus] Because I love her!

Because I needed her to stay

so I could go and find her
so we could be together.

[woman] Selfish prick!

We were gonna have a family!
I was never gonna leave her there!

[sniffles] Please.

[softly] Please.

Game over.

[Clotho] Congratulations, table two.

You may enter the underworld
and attempt to find your son.

[exciting musical flourish]

I'm bored. Let's go play some pool.

Come on.

Riddy... [crying]

[rueful string music playing]

[Prue] Oh, she's so upset.

Caeneus.

Caeneus!

Caeneus!

[Riddy sobbing]

[water sloshing]

Hey.

[breathing heavily]

[softly] You. You put me here.

No. No, I... I... I didn't. Uh...

I'm, uh... I'm the same.

Buried without a coin.

And I've been here too, so many times,

trying to get past
this point in the river.

[Riddy sighs]

My husband took my coin.

[chuckles sadly]

He didn't even let me die without him.
Unbelievable, right?

If it makes you feel any better,
I think my mom took mine.

[quietly] It doesn't.

I'm sorry.

Two hundred years, right?
That's what they said?

[Caeneus] Yeah.

[quietly] Okay. Okay.

[sniffles]

[crying softly]

It gets better. I promise.

[Prometheus] Little does Riddy know,
she is exactly where she needs to be

and has met exactly who she needs to meet.

[mournful music fades]

[glumly] I'm sorry.

No.

It was an act of love.

What can we do... to... to get him in?
There's gotta be something.

Well, perhaps, for you, Dionysus,

we could take two into the underworld.

- [Dionysus gasps]
- Nothing's impossible. But it will cost.

[hesitates] Of course. Anything.

No, not you. Him.

[inhales dramatically]

Ticktock. Ticktock. Ticktock.
Ticktock. Ticktock.

Oh. Oh! Uh...

Oh no, that's, uh... Yeah.

- Maybe... maybe not.
- [splutters] What?

No, it's just... It's not mine. It's, uh...

It's not special.
It's just a... It's just a watch.

Then what's the problem?

- Okay.
- [loud whoosh]

[Prometheus] Now what? Where am I?

I know what I'm doing.

I've got a two-phase plan.

Drink your Meander water.

- No, thanks.
- No...

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
"No"? "No, than"...

- Every time there's something.
- Okay.

"No, thanks." Come on.
I got you that fun, gold, bendy straw.

- Nice.
- It matches your Grecian key.

Dri... Drink.

There you go. There you go. Okay.

Phase one, natural disasters.

Ooh. That's gonna get the folks down there
real respectful, real quick.

Phase two. Now, this is
a tip of the hat to you, old bean.

Uh, stories. Thank you.
Stories are the best.

I tell 'em stories to get 'em
to hate each other, Trojan-w*r style.

Oh, yeah. I wheedle my way

into their tender
and bouncy little hearts,

turn them inky black.

If woven correctly,

uh, pretty soon, one as*h*le is tempted
to steal another as*h*le's wife.

Then, by and by, somebody burns up his kid
and hopes for a favorable wind.

Then it's just a hop and a jump
to a ten-year conflict,

which they think they want.

- And what have I done?
- Nothing.

[Zeus] You know, it needs to be like that
all over the world, all the time.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

- Where's your watch?
- Huh?

Oh, um... I... I don't know. I can't find it.

Ah. Okay.

No, no, no. "Okay"? Wait a minute.

What do you mean?
You mean something. You're thinking.

[chuckles] No, I don't. Nothing.

- I'm sorry. Come on. The phases.
- [Zeus] Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

- What?
- Um...

Yeah, right.

What?

- Right.
- What?

Hercules said that
that watch was actually lucky.

Hey. It saw him through his 12 labors.

It should see me through my two phases.

- First, I find the watch.
- Okay.

And then I launch into that plan.

- Good idea.
- [Prometheus] Okay.

That's my price.

Look, I... I have to get her back,
I have to make things right.

Please. Please. I'll be the first
to bring someone out of the underworld.

I will. I swear I will.

My love is greater than death.

I'll prove it.

[uncomfortably] Yeah, okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Let's do it.
Let's do it. Uh, it's, um... Yep.

- Take it. Take it.
- [Orpheus] Thank you.

Thank you.

[Prometheus] According to myth, no one
has ever made it back from the underworld.

- Come on. Follow me.
- [Orpheus chuckles]

- [laughs]
- ["Heaven" by Brute Chorus playing]

But, as Zeus, of all people should know,
never trust a myth.

♪ Heaven ♪

♪ Don't ever think that you'll get in ♪

♪ They'll leave you standing
In your own skin ♪

♪ Hollerin' as dust returns to dust ♪

♪ Yeah, that's the one thing
You can trust ♪

{an8}♪ When you're all broke down and busted ♪

{an8}♪ Sickened and disgusted ♪

{an8}♪ As all the hits, they keep on comin' ♪

{an8}♪ Like the devil on a drum ♪

♪ Well, the devil sets the rhythm now ♪

♪ From here to kingdom come ♪

♪ It feels like
They locked the gates of heaven ♪

♪ On the day I was born ♪

♪ And I won't be goin'
Back there anymore ♪

♪ Anymore ♪

♪ No, I won't be goin back there any ♪

♪ Anymore ♪

♪ Well, heaven ♪

♪ Costs much more than you can save ♪

♪ A phone connected to the grave ♪

♪ Is always callin' us ♪

♪ But don't you pick it up ♪

♪ Why should we let them interrupt ♪

♪ What we got goin' on down here ♪

♪ Don't let them interfere ♪

♪ 'Cause we ain't no angels, baby ♪

♪ No matter what they say ♪

♪ I know a harp sounds good ♪

♪ But it's very hard to play ♪

- [song fades]
- [foreboding tune playing]

[energetic, rhythmic music playing]

[percussive clapping intensifies]

[somber strings rise]