We must go.
No. Without the golden twine we'll never get out of this place.
Oh my god!
Hi nigey, i'm back.
Uh, pardon me?
I'm filling in for claudia while she's away. I'll be here for another week.
Uh, another week?
I'm lynette. Remember me?
Oh, yes, of course, i remember you. Um, i'm very pleased to see you again.
Oooh. That accent.
Uh-huh... yeah... okay. Well...
i can get everything you need tomorrow. Right. Yeah. Projector, got it.
And the hotel's expecting you... and nigel.
Oh, okay.
Don't worry, i've got everything written down.
And before you ask, i've already set up lunch with ajax.
- ajax? - Oh, alex, whatever. Sorry.
Oh, claudia, could you also get me the latest brochure from the athens museum?
I want to see how they're laying out their exhibits, you know...
especially the pottery antiquities.
Syd, gotta go. Tons to do. See you tomorrow. Ciao.
Bye.
I'd probably do any thing a man with an english accent told me to do.
- Yeah? - I couldn't help myself.
- No? - No.
And so i... well, i should... i should...
- wait. - What?
- This just came for professor fox. - Thank you.
If they find evidence of the temple any further to the east...
i'd recommend extending the dig perimeter. Alright.
Well, call me if you need anything else researched. Bye.
- nigel? - Hello.
What's the matter?
Matter? Nothing, nothing at all. It's... a rather fine day at the university,
the campus is pristine, the student body is ready to work.
When... when i said "student body", i didn't mean "body" as in "body",
i meant "body".
You met lynette.
Yes, all of her. She's...
only with us while claudia's in greece.
Thank god, although that does mean that we'll eventually get claudia back.
You know, it's going to be a disaster, claudia alone in athens.
Oh, she's going to be fine. Sounds like she's completely organised.
She's been begging me to go on one of these trips for ever.
I needed some advance work done and she seemed like the logical choice.
Sometimes a little responsibility is all someone needs to grow up.
Her father is the biggest donor this university has, okay?
You are the most beautiful woman in greece.
- I... - don't. Words are inadequate.
What's that?
Don't know. Lynette said it just arrived, came from greece.
Looks like it got mangled in customs.
This stone once belonged to a god.
Promise me you'll wear it for ever.
I... i will never take it off. My god, it's... it's beautiful.
The minotaur. Any idea who sent this photo?
- None. It doesn't have a return address? - No, but it was sent from athens.
Claudia?
Claudia can't send an inter-office memo across campus, nigel.
Well, it's cut from stone, it looks authentic. But you can never tell without the real thing.
Could the err, museum in athens have sent it?
I just got off the phone with them. No one said anything to me.
And this isn't the kind of thing you forget to mention.
Wait. Who are you?
I'm stavros... but you can call me stavie.
- Do you know the myth of the minotaur? - Of course... um... half-man, half-bull...
banished to the labyrinth where he lived in an endless maze of tunnels.
The maze was so complex, the gods created a golden ball of twine...
so that humans may find their way out.
Mmm. Gods, monsters and fortunes. The greeks certainly knew how to spin a tale.
There's also and other legend, not quite as well known.
About?
A key that could unlock the door to the minotaur's maze.
Really?
It was supposedly cut from white marble found only on crete...
with the minotaur carved on it.
Does this look like marble to you?
You think this is the key?
It's only a legend. But legends do have basis in fact.
- Then who'd be sending it to you? - And why?
Baby, boom, boom... let's have some fun whoo! Belly to belly, sweatin' in the sun
sugar, you're so sweet jiggle and jiggle, you i've got to meet
a little look and you'll be mine a little touch and i feel fine
a little kiss would be just right come and play with me
a little walk along the beach a little holdin' hands at least
if you want to fall in love come and play with me
why... you tantalize
i love the way you walk that walk i'm mesmerized
honey, whoo, girl, you're cute!
- I'm sure claudia has a good explanation. - I'm sure.
- Well, it's only been... - an hour and a half.
Oh, there she is.
Am i late?
Claudia, look at you. When was the last time you slept?
Nobody sleeps in greece. There's too much stuff to do.
- Bars to go to, parties to crash, men to... - claudia, i don't need to know this.
I met the most handsome man in the world.
Oh, my god, he is so gorgeous. Tall, dark. His name is stavie. That's so greek.
Where did you find that necklace?
He gave it to me yesterday. Or maybe the day before.
- he? - the hunk.
- where? - Here.
Can i see it?
- Does, uh... the hunk have a last name? - We didn't get that far.
A man you met in a bar gave a necklace like this to you?
He said i was the most beautiful woman in greece.
I see.
And we didn't even have sex or anything. He left too soon.
- Could i borrow this for just a little while? - I don't know.
My friend alex is an expert on ancient greek art.
I'd be interested to see what he says about it.
Fine.
Well, why don't you go back to the hotel with nigel. I'll wait for alex.
It is what you think it is.
You're the most handsome man in the world.
And you're very beautiful as well.
That's what claudia called you. Why did you give her this necklace?
Couldn't risk giving it to you myself.
You're too visible and so am i. It would have been too dangerous.
So you sent me the picture, to get me intrigued.
Yes. We must find the maze and the golden twine before others do.
What others? Who are you?
I'll be in touch. Speak to absolutely no one and guard the stone.
Wait!
Don't move!
Get off! Get off!
Hey! Come back...
missed you at the restaurant, alex.
My faculty meeting ran long, syd. I tried your cell phone.
Was working on my tan.
Some things never change?
Hmm. I guess not. Long story. Um, i need your opinion on something.
There's only one quarry in the world that produces this type of marble.
Don't tell me - it's on crete...
so?
I know all the stories about the key to the maze, sydney, and they're just that.
This isn't a key.
Then what is it?
It's a trinket. It's old, certainly - probably 2000 bc, maybe earlier.
Where'd you get it?
The handsomest man in the world. Some guy named stavie.
- Stavros vardolos? - You know him?
Everyone in athens knows stavros vardolos.
His father's one of the richest men in greece.
Dimitri vardolos, the shipping magnate?
Among other things.
Don't get involved with stavros or his father. They're feuding.
You invited me to athens to lecture on ancient greek art. This is ancient greek art.
So i'll see you at the minister's reception in the park?
Reception?
The minister of culture. I told your secretary. What's her name?
Claudia... don't tell me. It's fancy?
Yeah.
- Is this okay? - It's fine. You look lovely.
Nothing showing that shouldn't be?
I'm not sure. I mean, well, the dress is designed to show as much as it can so...
well, what... what shouldn't be showing?
I don't have a clue. For all i know, it could be on backwards.
I hate this. I can't move, i can't breathe.
I'm afraid to spill something on it and i'm spilling out of it.
God.
Roll your tongue back up, you might trip.
Hundred thousand drachmas says the guy in the ice cream suit is dimitri vardolos.
Stavros' father?
And behind him is my buddy from the beach.
Sydney, it's nice to see you in something other than boots.
You didn't tell me you knew dimitri vardolos.
He funded the chair i hold at the university, built the new library. We all know dimitri.
Let me introduce you to the minister of culture.
He's very keen to meet the famous sydney fox.
I'll get us a drink.
- I want to talk to you. - I have nothing to say to you.
Hey, talk about a small world.
Yes, very. Would you excuse me a moment?
Hey!
- You stole something from me. - Get your hands off me.
- I want it back, stavros. - It's not yours.
I paid a fortune for that necklace.
The necklace doesn't belong to you. It belongs to greece.
It belongs to me! You are no more than a petty thief.
Well, father, we have more in common than i ever imagined.
Throw him out. Quietly.
Don't talk to him. Don't talk to any of these people. They all work for my father.
- I can take care of myself. - You can't trust anyone.
Does that include you?
Let's go, stavie.
Hey, let go of him. Oh!
Get lost.
Go. I'll take care of him.
We got to stop meeting like this. People will start talking.
- Are you alright? - I'm fine.
- Did stavros get away? - I think so.
What about alex?
Well, after the fight broke out, he herded the minister away.
Alex is in on it.
Nothing in his desk.
How does a history teacher afford some of these pieces?
Good question. He's acting like everything is fine, but i know him, he's hiding something.
Alex has always been a terrible actor.
Played macbeth in grad school, thought he was olivier.
I thought he was more like lurch from "the addams family".
Hello.
My greek's pretty bad. How's yours?
Oh, a bit rusty, but i'll give it a go.
It says, "this is the work of a man called daedelus".
Nigel, daedelus is the architect that designed the minotaur's maze.
- You think these are his... - blueprints...
if we can find the entrance, this will open the door.
You always were a dreamer, sydney, and far too curious for your own good.
But i'm not dreaming, am i, alex? The maze exists. Dimitri hired you to find it, didn't he?
Don't get involved with this, sydney.
Why are you involved, alex?
You don't understand.
No, i don't. Why don't you tell me what happened...
so i can make sure the same thing doesn't happen to me?
Everyone works for dimitri. He's like a god on olympus. He controls things on earth.
So you sold your soul so you could buy...
all these things that you're supposed to be spending your life protecting.
You always saw things other people couldn't. Or wouldn't.
Maybe that's why i invited you to athens, to teach me.
I knew you'd probably tell me something i couldn't tell myself.
Why don't you put that thing away?
My god, sydney, what am i doing?
Stop it! Stop it, the two of you!
He had a gun!
Which he was about to give to me before you barged in.
Now, what are you doing here? Don't tell me you were just stopping by.
I followed you to make sure you were safe. He works for my father.
You live off him.
My father is paying the professor to find the maze. If he finds the maze, he'll loot it.
I stole the key and bought it to you because i couldn't stand the idea...
of someone destroying something so precious for money.
So that's what this was all about? Why didn't you tell me this before?
We didn't exactly get a chance to discuss it until now.
I felt the same way about what dimitri was doing.
That's why i haven't told him about the daedelus plans.
He doesn't know you have these?
No. A colleague of mine got it from a farmer who found it buried in a cave.
My father would kill you if he knew you had those and hadn't told him.
Well, we aren't going to tell him, are we?
What kind of man do you think i am?
I have no idea. What kind of man are you?
Let's get to work, all of us.
This must be the minotaur's lair.
I still can't get over how many tunnels there are.
Well... makes the paris subway system look like a walk in the park, doesn't it?
Someone could get lost down there forever.
Many did. This is king minos of crete, he banished the minotaur to the maze.
The maze could be anywhere.
Myth says king minos built the... the maze on crete.
True, but daedelus never left athens. As a boy, he had nightmares about drowning...
so a boat trip to crete would've been out of the question.
Well, that narrows down the field... sort of. Can anyone translate this?
As in the light above, so in the darkness below.
Darkness below? He must be talking about the maze.
Lovely, but why won't he tell us where he built it?
- I've seen these words before. - You have?
That's ancient greek. That hasn't been used in over 3000 years.
Where did you see the words?
I can't remember... sorry.
Damn, it's right there, sydney, on the edge of my brain.
Well, maybe if you don't push so much, it'll come to you.
- Maybe alex will come up with something. - Are we going back to the hotel?
Yeah. Oh, there's a cab.
Wait here.
Claudia. Must have been a wild night.
There you are. I've been looking all over athens for you.
I saw him first. Basic rules of dating.
We're not dating, claudia, we're working.
In that dress? At six o'clock in the morning?
The park. That's where i saw those words. The park where we were yesterday.
- We need to borrow your cab, claudia. - Fine, but on coming with you.
We need to make one stop along the way, at a place that sells fishing gear.
I grew up not far from here.
When i was a boy, my nannies bought me here nearly every day.
I pretended this was mount olympus and i was a god.
You are.
Look. It's just as i remembered.
What was this place, stavros?
It was a temple dedicated to prometheus.
Then why is king minos' head sitting on top of that arch?
King who?
Minos. He was the king of crete.
His wife pasiphae was cursed by poseidon, and fell in love with a bull.
Isn't that against the law?
Sydney, what are you doing?
I'm going up to take a look around.
God. Show off.
The necklace fits.
Lovely, but now what?
Hey!
Sydney, there's a door down here.
- Do you have a light? - No.
So, uh, where do you think this tunnel leads?
Only one way to find out.
The daedelus book got us in here. Hopefully, our fishing line will get us out.
Hopefully? What exactly do you think she meant by hopefully?
There you go, nigel.
Ready, i suppose.
Who drew these things?
The minotaur.
And the minotaur would be...
a creature that was half-man and half-bull.
Half-bull?
Looks like the site of a massacre.
- Or a dinner party. - I don't understand.
The minotaur ate people that got lost in the maze.
What is it?
- These aren't human bones. - What are they?
Primate of some kind, but definitely not human.
Are you saying the minotaur ate monkeys?
No, i'm saying it feels like it's staged, like these things were planted here.
To scare people.
The world first haunted house.
Oh, my god.
Well, that's human.
It's disgusting.
Sydney, look, it's a door.
How do we open it? There's got to be a lever or something.
Two in a row. That's what i love about the greeks, they're so consistent.
It's some kind of communal gathering place.
There was more than one minotaur.
Look at the walls.
What is this?
They weren't minotaur at all.
Or monsters.
They were just physically deformed in some way.
They must have established a society where they lived amongst each other...
without fear of judgment from the outside world.
The ancient greeks did worship physical beauty.
So they were outcasts.
Because of the way they looked? That is so mean, god.
Sydney, look at this. It's a broken pot on a pedestal.
The golden twine. It exists as well.
Your father's going to be quite pleased, stavros. You've led us right to the twine.
He is not going to get any of this.
Your father gets anything he wants. You should know that.
What are you going to do, shoot me?
Of course not. Stavie, your family. But the others...
what is he doing?
Nothing... yet.
Get the twine.
Let's get out of here!
Go!
Hurry up, come on, come on.
That should keep "em for a while. Let's go.
Don't lose sight of the fishing line.
They left us here to die.
Now what?
Maybe we won't be alone.
Do you hear that?
- What is that? - Hooves. It sounds like hooves.
Shhh.
That's the end of our fishing line!
Those guys back there must've been rewinding it.
We're, like, lost, aren't we?
No, we just can't figure our way out.
But we'll figure it out, right? I mean, that's what you do, isn't it?
You find your way into places like this and then you get out?
We've got about a half-hour's light left.
Let's get moving while we can still see where we are going.
What happens once the torches go out?
So? Which way?
- Who knows? - No one knows, that's who.
Someone said people who get lost down here get eaten. Who said that?
That's part of the myth, claudia. It didn't really happen.
How do you know?
The myth also said that the twine would help people find their way out of the maze.
If it was tied to something at the entrance like our fishing line.
The twine by itself is useless.
I wonder.
Sydney, you don't actually think that it's going to...
move? Yeah, right, duh.
It's moving!
It's not moving, it's rolling. We must be on a slight incline.
Yeah, well who cares whether it's moving or rolling? It's going somewhere.
You feel that? It's a breeze, fresh air.
There's a light at the end of the tunnel. You are amazing.
Finding the maze might have been the easiest part. Now we've got to protect it.
Not to worry, professor fox.
I will make sure the maze gets the best care that money can buy.
Is that all you care about, father? Making more money?
This has nothing to do with money. I have more money than i will ever need.
- Then what's it about? - It's about power.
Of course, you would understand, professor. It is about being the best.
The world will soon know that dimitri vardolos found the maze of the minotaur.
Oh. And will you tell the world about the golden twine also?
To the victor go the spoils, stavros.
When i was a boy, i looked up to you. I wanted to be just like you.
Finally.
Huh? Huh? Huh?
What kind of trick is this? What happened to the twine?
- It's gone. - What are you talking about?
The gods created the twine to guide those of good heart and true spirit...
like the people that lived in the maze. But for people like you, it's useless.
You'll always be lost.
This is your fault.
This is about no one but you, father, and what you've become.
I used to hate you, but now i just feel sorry for you.
He won't be a problem. It's over.
This is over. But that thing between you and your father...
yes, i know, sydney. That's just beginning.
It's a start.
It's a shame we lost the golden twine. It was a magnificent find.
I guess we should go.
You're right, nigel, it was a great find.
But maybe some things just aren't meant to be in a museum.
A little look and you'll be mine a little touch and i feel fine
a little kiss would be just right come and play with me
a little walk along the beach a little holdin' hands at least
if you want to fall in love come and play with me
i haven't heard a word from stavie. I mean, he said he'd call.
Then i'm sure he will.
He was going to take me to this island with these amazing caves.
I mean, people live there for weeks with no clothes, with no phones, nothing.
My god, why would anyone want to do that?
A week without clothes with stavie? Total no-brainer, nigel.
Speak of the devil.
He's here with another... oh, god.
Claudia, guys like stavros are like crash diets...
they're so full of hope and promise but, in the end, they never work.
- What would you know about diets? - I was just using it as an example.
You don't understand, sydney. I, like, dug stavros.
I mean, this wasn't some bimbo infatuation on a totally gorgeous hunk.
Of course not.
He meant something to me, something important.
You didn't really know him, claudia.
I knew stavros, in my heart. We were, like, soul mates.
The real question is whether you even need a man like stavros in your life.
You're kidding, right?
No.
Stavros was a god. I will never find someone like him again.
Gods make lousy boyfriends.
Oh, my god.
Well, my tan's starting to fade. Time to hit the beach again.
Ciao.
Hi.
Another crash diet?
Let's hope she doesn't starve. A... a greek tragedy, please.
- Yes, ma'am. - Seems appropriate somehow.
- Make that two. - Yeah, okay.
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