"We Board the Princess Andromeda" is the eleventh episode of the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It was released on December 17, 2025, and is the third episode of season two.
Synopsis[]
Aboard a cruise ship, our heroes struggle to differentiate friend from foe.
Plot[]
Clarisse goes to the Oracle for her quest where her prophecy seems to disturb her. Due to Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson fleeing camp, Clarisse is given the option of having someone replace Annabeth, but instead chooses to go alone instead. She is greeted by her father Ares who takes her to a dock where he gifts her a steam powered sub and an undead crew. While he wishes her luck, it is heavily implied that Ares pressures her for her quest.
Elsewhere, Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson manage to climb aboard the Princess Andromeda, a cruise ship, and hide in a hotel room. Percy, trying to accept that Annabeth is being secretive with him, agrees that he does not want to be informed about a potential prophecy and even uses a safe word if he gets too close to something, "Boon". Annabeth insists that they capture Luke, rather than kill him as she still considers him an older brother, much to Percy's chagrin. Tyson informs the two that he smells monsters on the ship.
The group immediately spot laestrygonians. Believing that the Mist is hiding their appearance, they run into Alison who remembers Annabeth and promises to help. Percy, however, recalls from his link to Grover that Alison is working for Luke and, he and Annabeth battle Alison, knocking her off the ship and into the ocean. When they hide in their hotel room, the group realize that the ship is covered with monsters and demigods working together.
Clarisse has trouble managing her crew, who all seem disinterested in listening to her, especially since they were the "losers" of their respective battles. On the Princess Andromeda, Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson head to the main deck where they are captured by Luke, his followers, and a recently fished out Alison. Luke reveals that he poisoned Thalia's tree because he knew that they would go searching for the Golden Fleece to heal her. He in turn, wants to use the Fleece to bring back Kronos, whose coffin he has, and is convinced will help usher in a new era. He also believes that Thalia would agree with his actions.
Luke takes the heroes to his training room, having amassed a large following. Tyson is supposedly tended to by the laestrygonians who are helping him build something. Luke tries to urge Percy and Annabeth to join his cause as the doesn't want his fellow demigods to be ignored any longer, but they refuse. Tyson reveals that he built a bomb and uses it to allow him, Percy, and Annabeth to escape. The three steal a rescue boat and escape the Princess Andromeda.
Clarisse finally overcomes her crew's lackadaisical attitude and gets them to work, only to be informed by one of her soldiers that the coordinates are for New Jersey, instead of the Sea of Monsters. Realizing that Percy was telling the truth about the wrong coordinates, she is filled with determination to find him. On the rescue boat, Annabeth comes clean about the Great Prophecy, which says that a child of one of the Big Three will either save or destroy Olympus. Percy admits that he was better off not knowing.
Cast[]
- Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson
- Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase
- Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood
- Charlie Bushnell as Luke Castellan
- Dior Goodjohn as Clarisse La Rue
- Daniel Diemer as Tyson
Guest starring[]
- Timothy Simons as Tantalus
- Adam Copeland as Ares
- Beatrice Kitsos as Alison Simms
- Kevin Chacon as Chris Rodriguez
Co-starring[]
- Sage Linder as Bronte
- Ryan Beil as Assistant Satyr
- Marloe Marolle as Mark
- Araya Boyce as Clarisse Cronie
- Heather Feeney as Oracle
- Dan Payne as Marrow Sucker
- Daniel Cudmore as Skull Eater
- Paul Cheng as Brain Biter
- Mark Gibbon as Chet Jr.
- Aiden Howard as Aidan
- Adrian Hough as Carrington (British Captain)
- Kurt Ostlund as Thorvald (Viking)
- Sean Yves Lessard as Pierre (Napoleonic Navigator)
- Miles Merry as Blockbuster Mitch
- Shota Tsuji as Hikojiro (Japanese Imperial Officer)
- Andre Roshkov as Boris (Russian Steamship Engineer)
- Andrew Alvarez as Rogue Demigod Theo
- Mathew Yanagiya as Rogue Demigod Dean
- Cassandra Ebner as Rogue Demigod Petra
- Olly Atkins as Rogue Demigod Auggie
- Emmanuel Akpoviroro as Canthus Ancient Greek Soldier
- Nick Boraine as Kronos
Book comparisons[]
- Clarisse's entire side story of how she acquired her boat and crew, as well as her overcoming her insecurities in leading them, is only briefly mentioned in the book (which is entirely from Percy's perspective).
- Clarisse's entire crew in the book were all Confederate soldiers. In the series, it is changed to anyone in history who has lost a war, including, rather humorously, a Blockbuster employee who lost the "streaming war".
- In the book, Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson arrive on the Princess Andromeda in the middle of the night. In the series, it is during the day.
- Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson briefly have a chat with a crew member on the ship. The series changes it to them having an interaction and later fight with newly invented character Alison Simms.
- Chris Rodriguez is among the demigods on the ship with Luke. In the series, he is still at Camp Half-Blood and, so far, not shown to be part of Luke's crew.
- Two of Luke's followers, the Greek figures Agrius and Oreius, are absent. Because of this, the heroes escape is changed. In the book, Percy and Tyson cleverly split Agrius and Oreius apart so that they can escape, while in the series, Tyson builds a bomb and uses it as a distraction.
- The humans on the Princess Andromeda, seem to be ordinary people who are ignorant to their surroundings due to the Mist. In the book, it is made clear that Luke used some kind of magic to turn them all into zombies who are in a constant happy state.
- Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson escape in a rescue boat. In the book, it was a regular inflatable raft.
Trivia[]
- The title comes from the eighth chapter of The Sea of Monsters, while the episode adapts the remainder of that chapter, chapter nine, and the first two pages of chapter ten.
- This episode reintroduces Andrew Alvarez as a new character named Theo, after Kevin Chacon took over the role of Chris Rodriguez.
- This episode recasts the Oracle for season two.
- The jumper Luke wears in this episode is the same one Joe Locke wore as Billy Maximoff/Teen in the Agatha All Along episode "Through Many Miles / Of Tricks and Trials".
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