Episode 3

Season: 1

Episode: 3

Information

Airdate

August 29, 2024

Writer(s)

Charlie Covell

Director(s)

Georgi Banks Davies

Chronology
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Episode 3 is the third episode of the first season of the Netflix original mythological dark-comedy KAOS. It was released on August 29, 2024.

Synopsis[]

Zeus demands revenge on the Trojans for desecrating his monument. Ariadne begs her father for the one thing she wants for her birthday — redemption.

Plot[]

The Furies, as old as the Gods, roam the earth delivering justice where they feel it has been denied; only those who they pursue can see and hear them. They set their sights on a man named Terry and force him to shoot and kill himself inside a gas station bathroom.

On the morning of her 30th birthday, at her mother's behest, Ari allows Daedalus to make a wax sculpture of her dead twin brother Glaucus, who Ari accidentally killed whilst they were sleeping as babies. Ari's father, President Minos, offers to get Ari anything for her birthday, despite the fact that she's refused every year. And just like the years prior, she refuses again.

Later that evening, President Minos, Pas, and Ari gather with the people for Olympia Day celebrations in Krete. First up, the annual human sacrifice; they watch as Agatha of Heraklion drinks the poison and dies within moments. Then the unveiling of the monument in dedication to the Gods, only to discover that it was vandalized with feces with help from Ari's security guard Theseus. Minos is outraged, though Pas finds it amusing as she believes this day should be sacred to Glaucus.

Ari helps her mother back to her room, where she recounts how Ari came out screaming when she was born, but Glaucus was quiet and still. Even blue. They feared he wouldn't make it, but he did, and he was perfect, but Pas' account.

Minos sits down with Hecuba, the queen of Troy and Andromache, her daughter-in-law, following the vandalism of the monument for the Gods. Both their husbands had been butchered in front of them, and Andromache's only child, Astyanax, had been thrown from the city's walls when the Trojans surrendered, though they insist they had nothing to do with the monument being vandalized. The vandals, who call themselves the Trojan 7, have all been captured except for their leader, though the ladies insist they have no knowledge of who that could be. Nevertheless, Minos offers to pardon the other six if the leader turns himself in. Should they fail to do so, the six will be sentenced to death via the Minotaur.

While confessing his sins to Hera, Minos is visited by Poseidon, who comes to ensure that the Trojan 7 will be punished for their actions.

Rather than go to the Olympia concert, Theseus takes Ari to the Munis, where warriors fight to the death. It is then that Ari gets a glimpse of the Furies for a second time, the first being when she was riding with her father. She and Theseus watch as Carl Crixus faces off with Hippolyta II, with the fight ending in both of their deaths. Afterward, Theseus reveals to Ari that his boyfriend Nax, short for Astyanax, the alleged dead Prince of Troy, is the seventh Trojan. It was his idea to vandalize the monument, and he's willing to turn himself in, but Theseus has locked him up to stop him from doing so. Theseus is hoping that Ari can ask her father to pardon him as her birthday gift. When asked why he did it, Nax explains the Gods abandoned them, so he refuses to worship them. They're just barely surviving, with only 15,000 of them left when there used to be more than five million. Ari agrees and gets her father pardon the Trojan 7.

Nax and the other six Trojans are released, as agreed upon by Ari and Minos. As the Trojans celebrate, Cassandra's screams for them to run, but her screams go unanswered.

Poseidon pays Minos another visit after learning that he spared the lives of the Trojan 7. He instructs him to go through with the execution or else he will be punished himself. And so, that night whilst they slept, armed forces enter the Trojan compound and take Nax and his comrades into custody, where they are killed by the Minotaur.

Ari awakens the following morning to the sound of Andromache's screams as discovers Nax and the others have been executed and hung for public display.