Clash of the Titans Page #24

SKULD:

(PIERCING)

You've wasted a journey. I trust

it was not a taxing one.

The Sisters CACKLE HORRIBLY. Skuld SWOOSHES down. Icos

and Krikor, terrified, hit the deck. Skuld tosses the

Eye back to Urd. Perseus watches with growing

irritation.

AMOUN:

Surely the beast from the sea has

some weakness. You owe me this

answer at least.

URD:

The Sisters owe nothing to you or

any Man!

She tosses the Eye to Verdandi, who focuses her attention

on Perseus.

VERDANDI:

There's something wrong with that

one. I don't like having him

here.

SKULD:

Let me take a look.

Verdandi tosses the Eye to Skuld. Perseus leaps and

snags the Eye out of mid-air. The Strix SCREECH.

Perseus goes to the precipice.

PERSEUS:

Tell us what we want to know or

your Eye has seen its last.

(CONTINUED)

77.

CONTINUED:

The Norns flap their wings and puff up their feathers.

TO AMOUN:

VERDANDI:

You've brought a thief into our

nest!

URD:

A villain!

SKULD:

Scum!

AMOUN:

No, good Sisters... the son of

Zeus.

The Strix react in horror and all land on the same

monolith.

PERSEUS:

Since you cannot see, let me tell

you what's about to happen. I'm

about to throw this evil Eye to

the rocks far below. I fear its

journey will be a taxing one.

The members of the Expedition are impressed; Vidalia,

too:
the young demigod shows growing leadership. The

Strix are panicked --

URD:

We can't tell you. We don't dare

betray Tiamat again.

VERDANDI:

She sees all! Her touch is felt

in every evil thing!

SKULD:

A second offense and she will

DESTROY USL:

PERSEUS:

You don't have to tell us the

secret. But you will have to live

as blind as she made you.

SKULD:

No! Give us the Eye and we'll

tell.

PERSEUS:

Tell me first. If I like the

answer, you get your Eye.

(CONTINUED)

78.

CONTINUED:

VERDANDI:

We need the Eye to see the answer!

AMOUN:

You know the answer sure as you

already knew the question.

The Norn Sisters confer, enclosed in a curtain of wings.

THEN --

SKULD:

Leviathan can be destroyed...

VERDANDI:

The beast has one weakness.

SPYROS:

Tell us now!

The Strix are torn, frightened. Finally --

URD:

The stare of Medusa. No creature

can look directly in her eyes and

still survive.

The answer hangs in the silence of the stunned

Expedition.

AMOUN:

They're lying, Perseus.

Perseus studies the Sisters, weighing his response.

PERSEUS:

I believe them.

(tosses the Eye high)

Here's your second sight.

Verdandi launches and catches it in her beak, pops it in

her socket.

PERSEUS:

(to the Norns)

And Medusa! Where does she abide?

SKULD:

In Tartaros, beyond the frozen

Tethys Sea. Only Charon's ferry

dare challenge the ice.

PERSEUS:

How can she be slain?

(CONTINUED)

79.

CONTINUED:

VERDANDI:

With extraordinary cunning and

unimaginable luck.

Skuld flaps to the pitch-black portal to an UNDERGROUND

VAULT.

SKULD:

And the proper tools. Explore our

cache of spoils. You may find

such a tool.

Perseus stares into the black entrance.

DRACO:

Don't go in there, Perseus. It's

a trap.

VERDANDI:

No. We have guaranteed the rage

of Tiamat with this revelation...

SKULD:

. we ask only that the young God

mention our aid...

URD:

... to his Father.

PERSEUS:

(NODS)

If ever I should meet him.

(turns toward the

VAULT)

I need a light.

The Shaikh holds a branch near his eyes until the end

bursts into flame and hands it to Perseus, who disappears

into the blackness.

INT. VAULT OF THE NORN SISTERS - DAY

Perseus fights through cobwebs and hanging roots. The

torch REVEALS piles of armor, bones, and broken weapons.

A round edge catches his eye. He pulls it free -- A

SHIELD, TARNISHED AND DENTED. Unsure why it attracted

him, he shoulders it and leaves.

80.

EXT. OCEAN - NIGHT

The STORM RAGES around a FLEET OF SHIPS, manned by

armored CREWMEN, that rises and falls on hundred-foot

mountains of water.

EXT. DECK OF LEAD SHIP - NIGHT

The FIRST MATE shouts to the stalwart CAPTAIN.

FIRST MATE:

Captain, the storm is too great!

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