the adult perseus (sam worthington) and his family fish from a boat, when they witness soldiers from argos felling a statue of zeus. angered by this desecration, the gods unleash the furies, who attack the soldiers and destroy the fishing boat. perseus, the only survivor, is found by a group of soldiers. he is brought to the court of king cepheus (vincent regan) and queen cassiopeia (polly walker), who are celebrating their campaign against the gods. the queen brashly compares the beauty of her daughter andromeda (alexa davalos) to that of aphrodite (agyness deyn), and the celebrations are cut short when hades arrives, who has been given leave by zeus to punish the mortals for defying the gods. he warns that unless andromeda is sacrificed to the kraken, a monster that he created, he will unleash it onto argos.