Status Updates From The Odyssey

EXT. TROY - NIGHT
(Odysseus STUMBLES in the FLAMING RUINS of Troy, breathing hard, on one knee, sweaty in the firelight, he looks up, APPALLED.)
ODYSSEUS. (V.O.) A new dawn will break over the darkened world ...

EXT. GATES OF TROY - NIGHT (FLASHBACK)
(Odysseus signals the TORCHES to DROP. The gates to be opened ...)
(The VAST GATES open. AGAMEMNON stands there in the moonlight. RIVERS OF GREEK WARRIORS stream past him on either side ...)

(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?!

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.

CIRCE. Only blind Tiresias can tell you how to go home.
ODYSSEUS. Tiresias?
CIRCE. In Hades.
(Odysseus stars at her.)
ODYSSEUS. Nobody sails into hell and comes back.
CIRCE. You will ...

CYCLOPS. POSEIDON, FATHER, THEY BLINDED ME. VENGEANCE, FATHER, VENGEANCE ... FOR PAIN ...
(One of Odysseus's men is at his side)
POLITES. It can talk! Why didn't it talk before?
ODYSSEUS. Do you talk to ants?