"Searching for needle in a needle stack"? Wow, it's a whole new impossible.

I envision some Grecian hero being confronted by Hecate, and she tells him that he may have audience with Hades, but only if he can find the slightly bent needle from amongst a trillion needles. Upon finding a bent needle, he approaches Hecate, and she sighs, "Alas, but that is the bent needle, I require the slightly bent needle," ...