00:01Heroes' quests are world-defining events.
00:04They have made and broken empires,
00:06altered the course of human civilization.
00:09A quest is a sacred thing,
00:11and to be charged with one is to be in conversation with the gods themselves.
00:16Monsters can't be avoided entirely.
00:18They're more common than you think.
00:19The trick is to spot them first before they spot you.
00:25It's a pleasure to meet you, son of Poseidon.
00:28I'm Medusa.
00:30Medusa offered to help me save my mom if I turn to the two of you.
00:33What'd you say?
00:34I got off her head.
00:39Percy, you can't ship Medusa's head to Olympus.
00:41Why not?
00:43Because the gods won't like it?
01:08You have to let go, Percy.
01:11I can't.
01:12Yep, you really can.
01:13You just have to try.
01:14I did try.
01:15No, you didn't.
01:16We have been in the same position for 15 minutes.
01:18Hey, come on.
01:19Just do it once with me.
01:21Can you go home now?
01:22Percy, we paid for this class.
01:29You know I wouldn't ask you to do this if it wasn't safe, right?
01:34Percy, it could be dangerous for you if you don't know how to do this.
01:38One day, it could be really, really important, and I may not be there to help you when that happens,
01:44so I need to make sure you can do it.
01:46Freeze.
01:47What?
01:49Just breathe, Mommy.
01:52That's what you always tell me to do.
02:04You'll always be here.
02:15Mom?
02:18Mom?
02:24Hello again, little hero.
02:28What sort of trouble are you up to now?
02:32Hmm?
02:33The forbidden child attracts attention.
02:38The forbidden hero?
02:40Well, they attract doom.
02:45She is coming.
02:57Hey, you asleep?
03:04Yes.
03:08You and Dahlia were really close, right?
03:12Yeah.
03:15What was she like?
03:19Why?
03:22She was the last forbidden kid before me, right?
03:26She must have dealt with the same kind of stuff.
03:29She was tough.
03:32I mean, she knew she was a forbidden kid, she just didn't care.
03:36When Luke and Dahlia found me, Luke cared for me right away.
03:41But Dahlia, she made me earn it.
03:47Is that why you give me a hard time?
03:49I gotta earn it with you too?
03:53Yeah.
03:54Maybe.
03:55I gotta say, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
04:00What doesn't make sense to you?
04:02What?
04:03The way you guys all talk.
04:05The way the gods want us to think.
04:08I gotta burn an offering to get a parent's attention.
04:11I gotta beat up on Clarice just to get my father to admit he's my father.
04:16It isn't supposed to work that way.
04:21People who work closely aren't supposed to treat you that way.
04:27You wanna know how we ended up alone on the road in the first place?
04:33I started out as a gift to my father.
04:37That's how it works with Athena.
04:40We're born from a thought in her mind and then given to a partner she feels connected to.
04:45And for a while I was treated like a gift.
04:49My father cared for me.
04:53He loved me.
04:56I knew it.
05:01Then he met a woman.
05:03They had their own kids.
05:07And to her I wasn't a gift.
05:10It was a problem.
05:14So I left.
05:17I was seven.
05:22It isn't the gods who think that way.
05:25It's everybody.
05:29But at least with the gods you know the rules.
05:32Show them respect and they'll be in your corner no matter what.
05:39You awake?
05:41I am now, thanks.
05:44Are you okay?
05:46He's super grouchy when he doesn't get enough sleep.
05:48He's super grouchy when he doesn't get enough.
05:50Yeah.
05:51Wow.
05:52He'd never been on a boat with him before.
05:54A little different than Froofy boarding school.
05:57He's Froofy.
05:58You're Froofy.
05:59What's Froofy?
06:01I think I need to eat.
06:03I think I need to eat.
06:30Dumb question.
06:31It's like you need me to make fun of you.
06:34Shoot.
06:36I've never been to Los Angeles before.
06:39I'm guessing neither of you have been to Los Angeles.
06:42So how will we have any idea where we're going?
06:45No idea.
06:47But that's like step 37 and we're still on step 4.
06:52Cross that bridge when I get there.
06:55Follow up stupid question.
06:57Dude.
06:57And you shall fail to say what matters most in the end.
07:01Back in Jersey I told you the Oracle said this quest would fail.
07:04And no one's mentioned it since.
07:07Seems like something we ought to be taking a little more seriously.
07:12Hey.
07:15Look at that.
07:17Are those?
07:19Centaurs.
07:29No one even knows they're there.
07:32There used to be herds of them.
07:33Everywhere.
07:35What happened to them?
07:37Humans.
07:41A few thousand years ago the god of the wild, Pan, disappeared.
07:48And ever since without Pan to protect the natural world, humans have been trying really hard to chip away at
07:54it.
07:55The bravest satyrs volunteer to become searchers.
07:59Trying to find Pan.
08:02None have ever returned.
08:06Your uncle we found, Medusas, Ferdinand.
08:10He was a searcher.
08:16The Oracle didn't say the quest would fail.
08:19Fail to save what matters most.
08:22That could mean a lot of things.
08:23That's how prophecies work.
08:25That's how fate works.
08:27It could mean a lot of things.
08:29The harder you work to understand, the harder it gets to understand.
08:35Sometimes you just gotta let it come to you when it's ready.
08:39Excuse me.
08:40Can I see your tickets, please?
08:49You're in cabin 17B.
09:05You wanna explain?
09:08Wait.
09:10Wait.
09:10You think we did this?
09:11Did you?
09:12I mean, how?
09:14And why?
09:15Sir, when we left to get breakfast, everything was intact.
09:18We don't know how this happened.
09:21We got a witness here who says she heard the window smash, and then heard children's voices.
09:26Oh, come on.
09:27Can you tell me what time you left the cabin?
09:28Are we under arrest?
09:31I don't think you wanna take that tone with me, little girl.
09:37Are we under arrest?
09:43So we're just killing time until we find out that guy's like a werewolf or something, right?
09:47The train is arriving at St. Louis Gateway Station in 10 minutes.
09:51I don't think he's a monster.
09:54Hard to say.
09:56Well, if he's not a monster, what's going on here?
09:59Why would anyone tear our room apart?
10:00Maybe they were looking for something.
10:03We don't have anything.
10:05The people who think you stole Zeus's master boat might disagree.
10:09Right.
10:11Well, look, they're not gonna find something we don't have.
10:15Either way, we aren't spending the day answering questions in a St. Louis police station.
10:19We need to get out of this before we get delayed.
10:23Do you mind if I sit?
10:26Ah.
10:29You poor dears.
10:33Your parents aren't here, are they?
10:36Isn't that right, precious?
10:39Don't children get scared when they're all alone?
10:43It's okay.
10:44I'm a mom.
10:45I know how scared you must be.
10:49Excuse me.
10:50Would you mind giving us a little space?
10:53I think...
10:55I think you're making them nervous.
11:02I want you to know,
11:05I don't actually think that you made that mess back there.
11:09I just wanted a moment alone with you.
11:13There are some things I need you to understand.
11:16You have something on your jacket.
11:19Looks like...
11:22Looks like glass.
11:26No one smashed out the windows from inside our cabin.
11:31Someone smashed them in from the outside.
11:39Yes, sweetheart.
11:41I know. I know.
11:43You're impatient.
11:48But we're almost there.
11:55This isn't your fault.
11:57But sadly,
11:59you're going to have to bear the burden
12:01of your parents' mistakes today.
12:04Listen, lady.
12:05I don't know who you are, but I think I know what you are.
12:08We've run across a few monsters like you,
12:10and we've sent them all packing.
12:14Monsters like me.
12:18Well...
12:18Of course they're like me.
12:22They were my children.
12:24Children?
12:27What does that mean?
12:29The mother of monsters.
12:32Echidna.
12:43Monster.
12:45That's an odd word.
12:46Considering my grandmother is your great-grandmother,
12:51and this has always been a family story.
12:54But...
12:55To my eye,
12:57the demigod is a more dangerous creature.
13:04Disruptive.
13:06Violent.
13:07If I exist for anything,
13:10it is to stand in the way
13:13of monsters.
13:15Like you.
13:19My little one here.
13:21She's just a pup now.
13:24Bless her heart.
13:28Today...
13:31You will be her prey.
13:37Are you afraid yet?
13:39It's alright.
13:41Fear is natural.
13:43It's also essential to the hunt.
13:45Your fear.
13:47Your doubt.
13:48Your confusion.
13:51I needed you to understand
13:54what was happening
13:56so that she could track the scent.
14:00So that she could learn
14:02and grow because...
14:05That's what a good mother does for her children.
14:09Not that you would know.
14:20You should run now.
14:26Three yards!
14:27Go!
14:31You! Stop!
14:33Stop!
14:36Silly girl.
14:38You got ahead of yourself.
14:41We'll work on that.
14:45We'll work on that.
15:18We'll be right back!
15:23Where is it?
15:25Open this door!
15:28What is that?
15:29It's a stinger.
15:31Gober, do you know what kind of monster has one of those?
15:33I don't know. I mean, nothing good, probably.
15:36Do you feel okay?
15:37I think so. Why?
15:39Do you think it's poisonous or something?
15:40Open this door right now!
15:41I'm not sure.
15:56You got to move?
16:10Why isn't it still chasing us?
16:12A kid just said whatever she was hiding in that carrier, it's young.
16:16It won't venture too far from our mother.
16:18She's learning to hunt.
16:20And this seems like the hunting part.
16:26We aren't going to be able to outrun them for very long.
16:28We don't need to.
16:30We just need a safe place to hole up.
16:33Someplace safe.
16:34Any ideas where we might find one of those?
16:38I do.
16:39A sanctuary dedicated to Athena.
16:42I hope I won her demigod children a long time ago.
16:44There's an Athenian temple hidden somewhere in the middle of downtown St. Louis?
16:49Yes.
16:51Except it's not all that hidden.
17:05It's 630 feet wide.
17:08630 feet tall.
17:09Both two within an inch.
17:12It's got no internal support.
17:14Each side is balanced perfectly against the other.
17:18The arch is held up by symmetry.
17:20It's held up by math.
17:22And it's earthquake-proof.
17:24So Poseidon can't ruin it.
17:26Nice.
17:27Excuse me.
17:29This is how you show Athena your love.
17:32A monument to the power of perfection.
17:36It's a monument to some other stuff, too.
17:39You're talking about what some humans want this place to be about.
17:44I'm talking about what it actually is.
17:47Whatever.
17:49We're safe here, right?
17:52No monsters can enter.
17:53Not even in Ketna.
17:55We're safe.
17:56Great.
17:58Well, since our train exploded,
18:00I'm gonna see if there's another one we can get tickets on.
18:03We can't stay here forever.
18:09Just because we're prey doesn't mean we need to be helpless.
18:17He doesn't like it when people mess with animals.
18:21Yeah.
18:22I know.
18:25I shouldn't have snapped on him.
18:27I just...
18:30I know.
18:35So,
18:36this is your mom's place?
18:38I wonder if she's around.
18:41Be right down.
18:42Just go into the potty.
18:47Nice.
18:49I have a gift.
18:53I guess you were right, by the way.
18:56We needed a safe place,
18:57and your mom had one waiting.
19:00Pretty lucky we happened to be in the right city for it.
19:04Luck or fate?
19:11I know you think it's all just in my head that...
19:14that I tell myself my mother cares,
19:16because it's easier that way.
19:18I didn't say that.
19:22Look,
19:22I've only been a demigod since...
19:25last Saturday.
19:27You shouldn't listen to me.
19:31You know,
19:32this is my mother's place,
19:35but...
19:35the temple is a temple.
19:37Maybe you could say hi to your dad while we're here.
19:42No thanks.
19:44What could it hurt?
19:48your thing with your mom.
19:51I get it.
19:53It's different.
19:53It works for you,
19:55but...
19:55my father...
19:58I don't want anything from him.
20:01He's had his chances.
20:02Honestly,
20:03you've done more for me
20:04in the past few days
20:05than my father's done in my entire life.
20:07If I have to stick with someone,
20:09I...
20:11Careful.
20:13I think you're about to call me your friend.
20:16Somewhere around here,
20:17the oracle is laughing at us,
20:18but you know...
20:18Whoa!
20:19Percy!
20:21Hey!
20:21What happened?
20:22I think...
20:24I think they're saying your things were poisonous.
20:26I have an idea.
20:27Come on, help me.
20:28Okay.
20:30Okay.
20:30Come on.
20:31Come on.
20:32Come on.
20:33Come on.
20:33Come on.
20:34Come on.
20:35Come on.
20:36Come on.
20:36Come on.
20:36The water curing back at camp.
20:39It should work for Poison too, right?
20:42You know, I think it's...
20:43I think it's working.
20:45This is a great call.
20:50Or not.
20:51Maybe it needs to be naturally running water
20:53for Poseidon to be able to heal him.
21:00We need to get back inside.
21:01No, we need to keep trying.
21:03This isn't working,
21:03and she's coming.
21:09Okay, look.
21:10We'll take Percy inside,
21:11and we'll go to the devil's altar.
21:12Altar?
21:12Where is there an altar?
21:14The highest point.
21:15The best view.
21:15Okay, but what gut is that even gonna do us?
21:18We're gonna get to the altar,
21:20and I'm going to ask my mom for help.
21:24I thought we don't ask for help.
21:30Come on.
21:30Let's get moving.
21:34Come on.
21:35Come on.
21:35Come on.
21:36Come on.
21:40Guys, did you hear that?
21:43Hear what?
21:44Never mind.
21:45Come on.
22:03Who was that back there?
22:05What did you hear?
22:08She spoke to you.
22:11Electra did that with me back in the museum in New York.
22:14What did she say?
22:22Is that the chimera?
22:25I think...
22:26I think that was the chimera.
22:28How did the chimera even get inside here?
22:31How did any monster get inside here?
22:32Annabeth?
22:33We're in a sanctuary.
22:35Athena would have had to let her in,
22:37but why would she do that?
22:38Annabeth!
22:40Annabeth!
22:40What did she say to you?
22:43She said my impertinence wounded my mother's pride
22:46and that that will be my doom.
22:50Impertinence?
22:51What kind of...
22:54Deuce's head.
22:57I embarrassed my mother.
23:01But I'm the one who sent the head to Olympus.
23:03I signed the note.
23:04And I went along with it.
23:08It embarrassed her.
23:10Now she's angry.
23:13Guys, what are we going to do?
23:15She isn't going to help us when we get to the top to save Percy.
23:18No, I meant what are we going to do about Echidna and Chimera?
23:22They're going to be right behind us.
23:25We're not going to have much time.
23:27They'll be up here any minute.
23:28And if my mother isn't going to protect us,
23:31then we'll just have to fight her out up here.
23:33Oh, my God.
23:43Oh, no.
23:44We've got to get everybody out of here.
23:57You and Percy, follow them down.
24:00What?
24:01No, no, we're not splitting up.
24:02Colbert, come on.
24:03No.
24:04No, no, no, no.
24:05We're all getting out of here together.
24:06We won't make it.
24:08The Chimera is the demigod killer.
24:10Someone has to stay back to slow her down
24:12and buy it every once in a while.
24:14No.
24:18Hey, help him down the stairs
24:19and get him to the river.
24:21And don't stop.
24:22Not till you get to Hades.
24:23Not till you have the vault.
24:25Do you hear me?
24:28Okay.
24:29Go.
24:30Wait.
24:36Take this.
24:44Hey!
24:45Percy!
24:46Percy, please!
24:48Percy, no!
24:49Stop it!
24:51I'll tell you!
24:51If Sidon's never helped me before,
24:54he wasn't going to start now.
24:56Percy!
24:59I would have never made it to Hades.
25:00Percy!
25:02Percy, please!
25:04But you can't.
25:07And now you will.
25:09Percy!
25:12Percy!
25:12Percy, do you hear me?
25:15Percy, you can't do this on your own.
25:17Percy, you can't do this on your own.
25:33This is the end, sweetheart.
25:36He's right.
25:38He'll just make her angry.
25:44He's right.
25:46He's right.
25:47I'm right.
25:50I don't know.
26:29I don't know.
26:54I don't know.
26:55So unfair.
26:56You never had a chance, did you?
27:00If only someone cared enough for you to provide you with one.
27:04I don't know.
27:05I don't know.
27:16I don't know.
27:29I don't know.
27:32I don't know.
27:59You are frightened.
28:03It's all right, Percy.
28:06Your father sent me to tell you.
28:09It's all right.
28:13Just breathe.
28:18Your father is here.
28:21He's always been here.
28:24It is so hard for him to stand back.
28:27To see you struggle.
28:29It is so hard for us all.
28:31But he's here.
28:34And he's so very proud.
28:38Trust him.
28:42Trust yourself.
28:47Just breathe.
28:50Trust him.
29:18Don't breathe.
30:53My mom told me these stories all the time.
30:57Percy, stand up.
30:58I mean it.
30:59She said this is what the gods are like to each other.
31:03This is the kind of family they are.
31:57He said this is the kind of family they are.
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