| ODYSSEUS' VOICE OVER | |||||||||
| Kalypso had spoken the truth. The island WAS pleasant and time did pass. All would have been well, if only I could have burned my memory. I had no way of knowing that my life was about to change - again... | |||||||||
| HIGH AERIAL SHOT - DAY | |||||||||
| We are GLIDING RAPIDLY OVER THE SEA, DESCENDING, as we approach Kalypso's Island... the ocean gives way to land and TROPICAL JUNGLE as we DESCEND into the midst of it where | |||||||||
| Kalypso is harvesting FRUIT. There's a NOISE as we land and she turns, reacting to us, going pale. | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| You. Why have you come here? | |||||||||
| REVEAL HERMES | |||||||||
| HERMES | |||||||||
| You know why. | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| You cannot take him from me. | |||||||||
| HERMES | |||||||||
| Athena has conferred with father Zeus. It is time for him to go. | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| (desperate) | |||||||||
| He will never succeed; Poseidon has decreed it. | |||||||||
| HERMES | |||||||||
| Poseidon is away. | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| Away? | |||||||||
| HERMES | |||||||||
| (smiles) | |||||||||
| In love. Come, you must help him. | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| He will not go. He loves me. | |||||||||
| HERMES | |||||||||
| (fractional pause) | |||||||||
| We shall see. | |||||||||
| He leads the way and she follows, reluctantly. | |||||||||
| SEVERAL SHOTS | |||||||||
| as they make their way to the shore. There, sitting with his back to us, is Odysseus. Hermes and Kalypso look at each other - Hermes waves her forward; he himself steps into the trees and vanishes. | |||||||||
| Odysseus stares at the sea, TEARS streaming down his face. Kalypso sits next to him, strokes his arm lightly. | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| Can there still be water for so many tears? I would have thought by now your eyes were dry as desserts. (he doesn't answer) Do I never make you happy? | |||||||||
| ODYSSEUS | |||||||||
| (finally) | |||||||||
| Sometimes. I would be lying if I said you didn't. You are loving beyond men's dreams and beautiful beyond imagining. | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| Odysseus, listen to me. (he looks at her) I can make you immortal. | |||||||||
| ODYSSEUS | |||||||||
| (startled) | |||||||||
| Immortal. | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| (urgent) | |||||||||
| Yes - like me, always to be young, beautiful, to be a god yourself and never know infirmity, grief or age... | |||||||||
| ODYSSEUS | |||||||||
| (tempted) | |||||||||
| Never to know grief... | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| We can make love, pleasing each other | |||||||||
| forever... | |||||||||
| ODYSSEUS | |||||||||
| (caresses her cheek) | |||||||||
| If - ? | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| If only you promise to love me and stay. | |||||||||
| ODYSSEUS | |||||||||
| (smiles) | |||||||||
| Immortal? | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| (eyes shining) | |||||||||
| Love for all eternity. Am I not desirable? The Gods themselves dream of me. | |||||||||
| ODYSSEUS | |||||||||
| (sadly) | |||||||||
| I'm only a man. I can only desire what mortals dream of... | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| (the light fades) | |||||||||
| Home. | |||||||||
| ODYSSEUS | |||||||||
| Yes. | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| Your wife. | |||||||||
| ODYSSEUS | |||||||||
| Yes... | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| Your child... | |||||||||
| ODYSSEUS | |||||||||
| Yes... | |||||||||
| She puts her head in her hands for a long time, then lifts it up, blinking away her own tears. | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| I will help you. | |||||||||
| She rises to walk away but he grabs her hand; looks up. | |||||||||
| ODYSSEUS | |||||||||
| (suspicious) | |||||||||
| Why? Why now? | |||||||||
| She looks down at him. | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| Because I must. | |||||||||
| She withdraws her hand and walks into the trees. Surprised by this turn of events, Odysseus follows her... | |||||||||
| EXT. CLEARING - DAY | |||||||||
| A LARGE STAND OF FIR TREES | |||||||||
| as Kalypso leads Odysseus to it. He regards the trees with wonder. | |||||||||
| ODYSSEUS | |||||||||
| I never saw these. | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| I did not intend you to. | |||||||||
| He looks at her. | |||||||||
| ODYSSEUS | |||||||||
| I will need tools. | |||||||||
| KALYPSO | |||||||||
| You shall have them. | |||||||||
| A BANGING OVER | |||||||||
| EXT. TELEMACHUS' ROOM DOOR - DAY | |||||||||
| as Antinous BANGS on it. | |||||||||
| ANTINOUS | |||||||||
| Telemachus? | |||||||||
| He looks at the others. | |||||||||
| ANTINOUS (cont'd) | |||||||||
| Break it down. | |||||||||
| A DOZEN SUITORS hurl themselves at the door, which smashes open, REVEALING | |||||||||
| Telemachus' empty room - with the SHEET strung out the window. | |||||||||
| Antinous reacts goes forward to the window and looks down, in time | |||||||||
| to see Leocritus running BELOW and shouting up - | |||||||||
| LEOCRITUS | |||||||||
| He's taken a ship and twenty men went with him! | |||||||||
| ANTINOUS | |||||||||
| (stunned) | |||||||||
| Bound for? | |||||||||
| LEOCRITUS | |||||||||
| No one seems to know... | |||||||||
| EURYMACHUS | |||||||||
| (also at the window) | |||||||||
| Or they're not saying... I didn't think the boy had it in him... | |||||||||
| ANTINOUS | |||||||||
| I told you one day that cub would bare his fangs... | |||||||||
| There's a GASP from behind and they turn - | |||||||||
| Penelope stands on the threshold. | |||||||||
| ANTINOUS | |||||||||
| Your son has fled, madam. | |||||||||
| Ignoring him, Penelope moves forward through the Suitors and the room. Gently she touches the bed where the sheet is entwined and follows the sheet to the window and over the sill. | |||||||||
| She sits on the sill, looking at the room full of Suitors. | |||||||||
| PENELOPE | |||||||||
| Now I have lost all. | |||||||||
| She buries her head in her hands. | |||||||||
| INT. BANQUET HALL - DAY | |||||||||
| The Suitors are taking counsel together. | |||||||||
| LEOCRITUS | |||||||||
| We don't even know where he's headed. | |||||||||
| ANTINOUS | |||||||||
| Sparta, any fool can see that. He'll go to Menelaus and ask for an army to see him home. | |||||||||
| EURYMACHUS | |||||||||
| Menelaus will never give him troops - he's too old for campaigning now. | |||||||||
| ANTINOUS | |||||||||
| We can't take that chance. We must prepare for the boy's return. | |||||||||
| LEOCRITUS | |||||||||
| How prepare? | |||||||||
| EURYMACHUS | |||||||||
| A ship must be outfitted to intercept him. | |||||||||
| ANTINOUS | |||||||||
| Correct. Let it stay beyond the point, just outside the harbor. Telemachus has proven himself a rash adventurer - and accidents befall adventurers. The son of Odysseus won't be the first member of his family never to reach home. (pause) But he will be the last. | |||||||||
| Silence as they contemplate this. | |||||||||
| EURYMACHUS | |||||||||
| And once the boy is out of the way..? | |||||||||
| ANTINOUS | |||||||||
| Then Queen Penelope has no heir. She MUST remarry. | |||||||||
| He starts briskly out as - | |||||||||
| EXT. THE BANQUET HALL - DAY | |||||||||
| Eurycleia has been listening. Now she moves quickly off... | |||||||||
| EXT. ITHAKA HARBOR - DAY | |||||||||
| The SUITORS' killer ship puts out to sea... Leocritus with the | |||||||||
| Helmsman. | |||||||||
| LATER | |||||||||
| The killer SHIP conceals itself, disappearing around the point outside the harbor. | |||||||||
| INT. PENELOPE'S BEDCHAMBER - DAY | |||||||||
| Sprawled on her bed, the queen sobs convulsively. Eurycleia stands next to her, stroking her mistress. | |||||||||
| EURYCLEIA | |||||||||
| Lady, be comforted, your son is escaped from this den of rogues. | |||||||||
| PENELOPE | |||||||||
| (lifts her head) | |||||||||
| But if he lives he will return - and you tell me they lie in wait to kill him... | |||||||||
| ON EURYCLEIA | |||||||||
| what can she say? She watches, helpless, as Penelope sobs. | |||||||||
| PENELOPE (cont'd) | |||||||||
| (frantic) | |||||||||
| Odysseus! Odysseus, my love, come back to me! End this endless torment... | |||||||||
| SOUNDS OF AN AXE OVER | |||||||||
| CU AN AXE CHUNKING INTO A TREE - WIDEN TO REVEAL | |||||||||