Lin-Manuel Miranda Gives the ‘Percy Jackson’ Kids a Wild Time in Vegas

Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell) is having dreams again. Call it foreshadowing, or call it a mere nightmare—we’re back in his mind in the middle of the night, where he’s eavesdropping on some important conversation. A deep, faceless voice is talking to someone about stealing the master bolt. He also mentions a big war that lies ahead—something the gods are completely unaware of and unprepared for, something monstrous and dangerous.

Then, the mysterious person (god? demon?) looks straight at Percy. Percy, frightened to the core, wakes up. He’s in the same place we left him in the previous Percy Jackson and the Olympians episode, on a truck full of livestock, headed to Vegas with his friends Annabeth (Leah Jeffries) and Grover (Aryan Simhadri). But what was that menacing vision all about?

The trio have to update Camp Half-Blood on their quest. So, using one of Percy’s drachmas from Luke (Charlie Bushnell), they call up a portal to talk to Chiron (Glynn Turman) to catch him up to speed. But Chiron isn’t around, too busy prepping the kids for war; it’s Luke who picks up the phone instead. Annabeth and Percy bicker over the phone with Luke—“When did you two turn into an old married couple?” Luke jokes—until they give him the big update.

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