Blood of Zeus Season 1 Episode 2 Recap – Past Is Prologue

The Queen

Heron dreams of a queen about to give birth. The queen worries that the king might want to kill her baby. The king arrives and inspects the child, but another child comes out. The king learns that the children have different fathers, so he vows to kill the other one. An eagle enters via the window to stop him. This is when Heron wakes up.

Heron succeeds in scaling the mountain but questions if it’s all worth it. He marvels at the rose bush and mines the adamantium beneath it. Heron takes the sack of ores to Elias and complains that it’s a waste of time. The older man tells him it isn’t if you can work steel.

Heron draws a seal from his dreams and asks Elias if he recognizes it. It’s the seal of Corinth. Elias shows him a depiction of Morpheus, Phantasos, and Phobetor. The Oneiroi brought his dreams to him as a parallel to reality.

In the city, the men are preparing for battle. Heron prepares a huge boulder above his hut as a trap for enemies while his mother works in the garden. Heron asks her about his dream of her being a queen.

Her mother admits she was married to a king long ago. She is Queen Electra. Heron learns she was arranged to the Tyrant of Corinth, but a god’s eye also caught her. Her husband would act rudely on some days but would suddenly be sweet the next day. It drove her to confusion. But then she caught the impostor in the act, and the man revealed himself as Zeus. Zeus was the one who offered her flowers, the one who truly loved her.

The King

Back in Olympus, Hera sees this all happen. Apollo calls out to his father in a panic and warns him to hurry back. Zeus exchanges place with Apollo, feigning that he is battling something from the sea.

Still, Hera’s jealousy sees through their deception and learns the woman is with child. In her anger, she goes to the Oneiroi and requests them to appear in the king’s dreams. They seep inside his mind to tell him he’ll have twins, one of which isn’t his.

The king swore to kill the child that wasn’t his, but Zeus came in to save Heron. The king took him and tried to throw him down the balcony, but Electra came to save Heron and pushed the king to his death.

Zeus hid them there to escape the gaze of Hera; that’s why the villagers all hate them. Heron wonders what happened to his brother; it turns out he was killed by an uncle who coveted the crown. Heron wants to seek revenge, but his mother tells him not to look back.

He complains that Elias helped them more than Zeus ever did. Heron learns the truth that the old man was actually Zeus. He smashes the old furnace, leading him to find the adamantine sword.

The Sword

He throws the sword out of anger and lodges it in a rock.

Alexia checks the demon’s map. She can’t read it, so she’ll have to seek Chiron the Wise. But then a group demons surround and attack them.

Electra asks Zeus to take them away, but he refuses. She storms off disappointed, shaming Zeus for fearing Hera more than he loves her.

Alexia’s band is defeated, but she escapes carrying the map. The demons unleash a three-headed dog to pursue her.

Zeus reveals himself to Heron to apologize, but he rejects him as well. Alexia suddenly arrives in a hurry, and they both are chased by the three-headed dog.

Our Thoughts

Interesting plot development that got me glued to my seat. I rate this a 3.5/5.