Telemachus
He deserves the same welcome as all of you!
Polybus
Are you calling us beggars?
Telemachus
I'm saying you've been welcome here for three years.
Antinous
We've only enjoyed your hospitality for so long. Because your mother won't choose.
Telemachus
She's already married.
Antinous
Odysseus is dead.
Telemachus
What do you know about my dad?
Antinous
I know he kept stringing cattle in bad wine.
Telemachus
You had the best of it the first two seasons.
Antinous
I know he never came home.
Telemachus
Not yet.
Antinous
You're pining for a daddy you didn't even know. Like some sniffling bastard.
Telemachus
Well, since none of us can really know who our fathers are. Don't cling to one.
Antinous
But I did know him. As boys. We watched him hunt. I tried to volunteers for his expedition to Troy. He told me to stay here and keep an eye on you.
Telemachus
Oh, me and my mother?
Antinous
You can't blame me for looking.
Telemachus
My dad is coming home. And his hospitality won't be as generous as hers.
Antinous
So he doesn't follow Zeus' law then?
Telemachus
Zeus' law tells us to treat strangers as we should be treated because they might be gods in disguise. I think we've established to Antinous that you were not a god.
Polybus
This one doesn't smell like a god.
Telemachus
Wouldn't be much of a disguise if he did. [the beggar restrains Polybus] Careful. He might strike you down right now. [thunder claps]
That thunder was luck.
Telemachus
I don't know. You have wise eyes. Athena's eyes.
