再一次从希腊神话说起，讲讲特洛伊木马的背景故事。
会提到荷马史诗，金苹果，阿喀琉斯之踵，特洛伊战争和19 世纪的一位神话爱好者施里曼。

片头提到的 Serial 制作团队新出的播客剧集The Trojan Horse Affair

命运价格那句出自作家茨威格的人物传记 Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman.
"She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate bestows."

希腊人的礼物 "I fear the Greeks, even those bearing gift."