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01x08 - The Oracle

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "MythQuest". Aired: August 25 – November 17, 2001.*
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When their father vanishes without a trace, teenagers Cleo and Alex Bellows discover that when they touch artifacts on the screens of the Cyber Museum, a computer program created by their father, they are able to travel into myths.

01x08 - The Oracle

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yes his very name is heresy serious the

great he calls himself he's a despot a bite in the world

theorists of Persia must be stopped he threatens all of us not just my kingdom

of Lydia but Greece as well I have allies to stop him masses of

Egypt nabonidus of eben oh yes yes yes yes but do you have a question for the

work

I asked Apollo's blessing as he threw

the mighty Python into the belly of this mountain let me destroy Cirrus

tell me great Oracle

should I attack now

mighty King Croesus by his hands

ah great army falls by his hands

hi my hat she says by my hands yes she

speaks your name

red poppies bro thirsty for what blood puppies grow

where blood soaks dear

never forgotten yes the Oracle of Delphi

always speaks truth always

to measure

okay see yo Patra where do you come from

what you see

elbow sorry helps needs to work on this for

that practice their third point fifteen

eight one Bell is getting the game so ice is gonna be cappuccinos on you the

next week nice

15:10 you talked about what you were too close you lost your balance was it fair

it is fair fine I'm gonna call it's fair what's this about any minute what's this

about I don't play ball can I always there in first grade mean you broke your shovel over Jerry Tam Tino's head

because your dog was missing and he was in the wrong place the wrong time was also there for years ago when you threw a chair and mr. Mahoney because he cut

your article out of the school paper but it wasn't even about that because your sister was in the hospital and you just want to throw a chair at somebody so

what is all this what is this I just want to play basketball he won't play psychology 101 wants the basketball to

play ya know what I quit well you can't

quit now forget it you win

so we're in the airport in Egypt under and these security guards there like bombing toxin machine g*ns is the works

and you've got all these equipment cases and I got six PhD candidates right okay

let's just set this up just a little bit further the guys have done long hair scraggly fears we look like the

seventies rock band on tour if you think I'm gonna manager yeah right but the

guys were the g*ns thought that was funny okay who's telling this story not me so then I started wondering now why

didn't I specialize in Roman Britain or the other side so when it's easier to

get oh no you had to be the big Egypt expert okay that's where you got your name we know

so did they let you in oh yeah really let him but even then I would like some Thomas old man with a trowel and a bunch

of maps eugenie about him yeah well he had an Australian passport they liked his ex

yeah they actually I had a little trouble I forgot that it's inappropriate to wear a tank top in a Muslim country

who's okay no cuz I had this summer dress in the carry on you know there wasn't worse as your dad

he was so busy reading you didn't hear when they called his name and they were

just mad at him when I got that that sounds like dad yeah well now they want to open up every suitcase every knapsack

every box oh yeah we didn't tell him I buy the laser the other night no what if

the surveyors to excuse for measuring distances that's very accurately easy to use but it comes in a brushed aluminum

case makes it look like a rocket woman sure guided m*ssile so what did you do

we get it to them with the other line where they got the g*ns right well how

did you take measurements well your dad he wears his size 11 booth which is 13

inches exactly so a mile would be 4874

stammers wait a minute you made him pace off the miles no we should have done Oh

tell us about the chickens of Petra oh you know maybe some other time sweetie I

don't know his wife's asleep

hey never mind it's just a little red wine it's good luck it's fine it's about

time we go anyways yeah

okay well I'll go get the car

so how you doing we're not getting it all we really know is that Hades told

Alex that dad's not a Mandarin so it means not dead but must mean he's trying to get back and we searched everywhere

Greek myths Japanese minutes Viking mincemeat of American and still no sign

of dead maybe learn more than you think listen

in archeology most days you're not find King Tut's - you find a broken part it

takes a while to put it together to figure out what you do have you don't know where to look next maybe should

look back where you've been maybe there's a patentee of a senior

look call me tomorrow when I've had a good night's sleep maybe I can help

speaking of back where we started

second

hold on come in hey I got an idea

yeah so do i oh you go first you're not gonna like it what haven't

you at work we're not going in anymore what this is totally consumed as Clio we

keep going in like we're gonna get anywhere you almost got k*lled and what

do we have to show for it huh pictures pictures that's not true

searching for dad is enough I can live with that Alex we'll find him is that

what you really believe but you just want to keep going in because you don't want to admit the truth nope we're never

gonna find him again thanks it's

solidarity

Wow what way sitting up here I sometimes do

remember dad used to rocky asleep in that blanket yeah careful

Clio you okay yeah why your chair no I'm fine

brought your books did you read them findeth did you read them okay fine

on Mount Parnassus Apollo defeated the great Python and through the monstrous corpse into the pit

a woman sat above this pit upon a tripod and the stench from the rotting carcass would send her into a trance boo the

Oracle would then have visions of the future and answer great questions to great mysteries Cleo there's no such

thing as an Oracle there's no such thing as a Minotaur or snow vampire Bateen

both of those this all started in each increase if dad's anywhere she'll know well what do you want me to do you want

me to go to Delphi and ask the Oracle what happened to Matt bellows for two thousand years the Oracle was the most

powerful woman in the world kings and Generals went to ask her about the future no Cleo you're reaching I mean

they may as well just go get the Ouija board you don't want to do it fine

what's that supposed to mean I have to do this are you gonna help me or not

you really think this Oracle is gonna help us yes I do

okay fine but this is the last time so I'm still asleep I think so I can't do

this right now okay I'm drawing up the

Delphi collection you sure about this look don't back out on me now I'm not

backing out on you it's just no if you want me to go in this last time I will if this is the last time I want to go

you don't understand what's like in there be back on my feet but before the

accident Cleo you know I know what you're gonna say it's not a game it's dangerous I

know that when I dream I still climb in

there it's real I know Thomas it was real

okay let's get started now which one

sacrificial Goblet remnant of Apollo statuary fragment of a golden necklace

hmm this one sounds good remnants of chicken bones oh I write

about that pilgrims coming to the Oracle for answers we'll bring offerings Gold rare fruit live animals my cone is a

pilgrim and I could just wait my turn and then ask the Oracle my question wait

wait hold on a second slow down I want to see wine of a chicken

okay well I read somewhere that the priest wrote down everything New York Elad so what about that scroll mm-hmm

yeah maybe she went in as a priest you'd be able to talk to the Oracle without

sacrificing a goat party goober

be careful

Alex Alexandra another great one who hasn't

been born yet she's spoken of him before she must be going very deep oh great

you're not at the Oracle Cleo you are the Oracle oh you don't believe this Mel

let me guess big snake carcass right Oh

Jimmy well this be a good time we've been waiting three days perhaps just a few

days more but we come so far

am I too early for an audience with the Oracle of course not we live - sir

in the name of Apollo Oracle of Delphi will speak hey you want me to go get the

magic 8-ball funny you've come to get an answer from the Oracle and she's not here it's our unclear

second later he's my father I've been waiting in searching for him for years

but I know I'll probably never see him again but I can't help hoping he left us

to fight in the Trojan w*r he didn't want to go he wanted to stay with me and my mother but he didn't have a choice

and now our house is overrun with suitors who wish to marry my mother and

I don't know how much longer she can put them off Telemachus devious she knows me

the Oracle knows all good call kind of

it can she tell me my father's fake ask

is my father alive if he ever gonna come home come on I guess his father yes

Telemachus never gives up hope never stops believing that his father is alive

never Odysseus lives

winds will change good winds will bring him home father's coming home

let us hope when our house is reinstated there will be more

god bless ya

you know you're not supposed to speak directly to the petitioners but he wanted to know what would happen your

visions can mislead you you must rely on your priests to interpret what you see

we ensure that no one has cause to doubt the Oracle this guy's the original

politician suppose Odysseus never returns we would have been more careful

in our face but he will return I know he will you cannot command the visions

visions command you we glean what is important we draw the wheat from the

chaff

why'd you do that I know the story the honesty I read it in the seventh grade

yeah well they don't seem too happy about it I'm the Oracle I'm the one who sees it's a classic case clear people

without visions present those with them we have a question a simple one I don't

know do you see a child in our future we've come so far to ask you I'm sorry

there's nothing I can tell you

but please tell us well we have a child

child is coming thank you so much

Clio

Clio

hello beautiful dad Cleo hey all right

log in Changsha artist until he said

contrast left before much by the scan

oh my god do you see can you see what I'm seeing

the vision of real one Cleo I think the fumes from the snake are getting to your

head

that's how I got it whose dad Chris Amon

study the night he disappeared

like he was standing right here what was he doing pretty good I go into the cyber

museum and he found the Gorgo stone inside it what I don't we were right you

found it and he scanned it in and when he touched it he got sucked in like us Cleo I saw

him you wanted to see him I don't know

but if you saw exactly what you expected to see I mean maybe this is just a little too easy it was real you're not

here you didn't feel it like fireworks inside of my head it was real what do

you want to do now

dad dad asked me Clio

you can't caught up like that I don't think the real Oracle could either you

heard what the priest said yeah we're all those guys maybe they can help I

thought they were supposed to write down everything I say yeah well maybe they went to go invent the tape recorder

I don't like what's happening here you

seen how she speaks to thin air the drove sews the Oracles are always difficult to understand

she shouldn't be listening to any spirit except Apollo let me see the day Scrolls

her prediction for an easiest return was like like nothing we've ever heard before time will tell if she spoke the

truth - can't be doubt if the Oracles words that would be the end then what truth do

we make of what she said today there's too much here we can't explain so what

do we do wait listen the Oracle will

give us a sign we should be prepared

hello why are you here

I thought something it was right of you to come to us all your visions must be

record but it's better that you stay in your place the blessing of Apollo comes

from the well the truth comes from well right so I need to breathe in those

Python fumes you need to be the true Oracle consecrated to a pole then the

visions come I saw someone a man someone I used to know your life

before you came to us does not exist if

if I saw something that I wanted to know more about like like Telemachus should I

ask to see more it's not your job to ask the questioners

come apollo speaks answers through you when he chooses you can oracle as long

as i'd been priest why are all these questions now i just got confused leave

it in my hands

I'm sitting on this thing got enough of that at home no I don't worry about it

he's just putting you in your place hardy-har I don't trust this guy at all most of his life tending this snake pit

listening to me all day could make anyone a little weird Oh believe me I know I won't take it personally about

even so aren't you wondering about what they're talking about behind your back you seen how she speaks to thin air

oh so systems the Oracles were always difficult to understand she shouldn't be listening to any spirits Alex we have to be more careful

they know I'm talking to you why how do you know that having the division I

didn't see the priest talk behind my back you serious I was just sitting here

and it started it let me see the data scroll

Clio listen to me when when when did you

see the vision was it just when I was talking to you yeah I guess that's it that's how it works

what do you mean you started seeing the visions right when I asked you what was happening to them right you're right

about dad I could feel I could get him back I'm with you her predictions for

DC's return was like like like nothing's ever gonna do time will tell if she's history

hey I spoke the truth I read The Odyssey like four times why would it be saying you're just doubting me they don't know

if they can trust my prophecies - can't be done elsewhere no dude an again then what truth do we

make of what she said today Oh Cleo this is not good why it's too much here we

can't explain wait so what do we do if they start doubting you we can be in some serious trouble here

the Oracle wasn't just one woman we kept replacing her when the old one died

well when the old one stop being an Oracle would you stop having visions or

when her vision stopped making sense wait wait wait listen

Oracle will give us a sauce we should be prepared what are you saying what are

they doing they're just saying they should be prepared case it's time I

don't like this Chlo I can't find what they did with the old Oracle once they got a new one

look let's just figure that out later I want to see dad

out of the way Oh hopefully

Babylon and Egypt have fallen Lydia next for Oracle sees the future creases

she doesn't create great army vaulted my

hand Oh busy I thought with my man

Joseph get out of the way or I swear I'll k*ll all of you

you read harm I've always chosen me I'm

on the web and Croesus is the king of Lydia she speaks again of Alexander what

does she eat she sure Don Apollo yes I love the web okay

Croesus did consult with the Oracle what did I say there she has nothing to say

she was just a puppet for your politics though the oracles inspired by Paulo and

why does she never speak okay I've got

an idea repeat after me bring her down now

fine go I spoke the truth I spoke the truth and anyone who touches

me and anyone who touches me will die a horrible death will die a horrible death

it's okay don't freak out we can use this listen or die good one I said a

great army would fall by increases his hands I said a great army would fall by pieces his hands still she lies his own

army his own army she was telling the truth she never said whose army would

fall by your hands how could I have know she meant mine

because you're all day a man as I am sometimes we must understand the Oracles

words but she is she is divine

she's infallible no touch her and it

would be blasphemy this is sacred ground this is a Paulo's

place you would not be safe

you should have left it to us you wanted to k*ll me how would you know what to

say to a king little voice told me apollo still speaks to you better say

yes i hear him loud and clear this better not happen again Oracle that

is touted by a king there's no Oracle

well those guys are gone right see if we can get through to dad again no hold on wait what you have a question you want

to ask I don't think the Oracle knows where Elvis is hiding out notes I just want you to be careful it's this

grossest guy he's starting to scare me fine we can worry about that later I

mean this is why we came here and you're worried about some grouchy old priest look I am just trying to save a life

here

what so frustrating it's like I'm blind

what what is he doing he's just picking up the phone it's not exactly Hitchcock

well then what's the point in seeing him what sure he's in trouble something's

wrong you have to go over there what do you mean it's Ashley's having some kind of attack how do you know I'm seeing it

Cleo we don't know if what you're seeing is real I don't want to take that chance you have to get over there and leave you

here no you have to I know what I saw and I saw you running in and helping him please you have to get over there I

don't have to do anything why don't you just ever do something because I asked you to okay look hurry

sorry just calm down okay I'll go wash up for these priest okay promise me that

Korea

me wearing my dress

the time is been declared an era has ended a new time has come you have done

your duty as the voice of Apollo I don't like this

she who was before you came and went as you came early

as you came here

pack please

where are you what are you doing what

you see stay away from me here I saw you I saw you're trying to k*ll me yeah this

is what we've waited for the Oracle declares the time are you talking about

you've seen your own death when the Oracle has a vision at the end of her time it's the job of the priest to

fulfill her word it's time for you to go to Apollo

max lilies what are you doing here

nothing all right I guess are you all right what where's

Cleo give me my help well she thought you did huh

she thought the Oracle of Delphi could help us out with dad she went to see the Oracle of Delphi

clever girl did he work well kind of except she actually became the Oracle

and now she's seeing visions one of which was that you were in trouble kind

of trouble well she said that you were sick and you needed my help I'm fine

you better get back there you sure yeah go go go go

okay see ya

time has been declared an era has ended a new time has come you have done your

duty as the force of power

she who was before you came and went as you came here you leaked it as you came

here how I leave you are you doing this

when the Oracle reaches the end of her time it's up to us to choose the next servant to Apollo

today's prophecies were not inspired by the God they will die with you the words

of the new Oracle begin tomorrow

we are blessed

get out of my temple you try to send her to the 54 time-division you misinterpret the

Oracle stays or it's time for the priestess

saved me Apollo saved me

hey guess what I found I don't know what you press on tofu yeah

that too no please

she made me throw these out yes you know and it's a really very good you

have a talent and quite an imagination for this stuff yeah I just I'm getting

older I thought I trusted you now oh that's fine but it doesn't mean you have to throw away what you did before

thank you something's burning

listen you're going upstairs can you tell your sister to come down by cuz I

need a hand if I'm gonna get these chocolate mandarin souffles done it's

not a little bit fancy for our family yeah probably but I figured guys deserve

a treat don't think I don't appreciate you guys always taste testing my recipe evenly sea urchin ceviche I just I need

a hand uh no you know what why don't sir women I help you up it's okay Chloe

you yeah me I've always wanted to learn how to make

what is it stir-fry you have never wanted to help in the kitchen before

what's the story hey I'm just trying to help you out mom

besides you know a guy who can cook is a little bit more popular with the ladies oh very evolved so much there what can I

do look if you want to help how about you stir I'll go get your sister well mom

just do

hey try not to burn anything before I get back would you like what you came

for what do you mean the pigeon you asked about my father

will we ever find him

it's time to go

Alex no can you hear me calling oh sorry

I was reading could you possibly need a hand over there oh no I'm okay okay

actually mama could you yeah sure I

can't believe you saw that stuff no I mean I believe you I just

I mean I have gone in so many times and found nothing look I got lucky I was in the right

place the important thing is now we know for sure he's in there and we know what he touched to get in so

you have to touch the Gorgo stone to get back yeah that's if we have a fine Alex will find him so you think he might

be in Egypt no not Egypt I made you peanut you should go next time

yeah I don't know what you sure yeah you

should be the one to go I mean if you want no no no that's not what I mean are you sure about this

stuff that you saw well I saw a sarcophagus I'm pretty sure who's Egyptian you know I want to do some

research to see if I can find one that I recognize that's not what you can either no I

meant divisions are you sure what you saw was real well all the others were perilous I

mean nothing happened to max at least not yet

don't don't even go there Alex I don't know what to tell you I don't want it to come true but I think we'll like all the

others including the one about Bonnie death