1 00:00:02,594 --> 00:00:06,776 Come back in time. Not to a century or a millennium... 2 00:00:07,071 --> 00:00:12,204 ..but to an age outside of history, a time of myth and fantasy... 3 00:00:12,491 --> 00:00:16,710 ..a time of many Gods and one great hero... 4 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,535 ..the time of Hercules. 5 00:00:19,535 --> 00:00:21,772 HERCULES. 6 00:00:25,305 --> 00:00:29,192 Zeus! 7 00:00:44,572 --> 00:00:46,880 It was a time of enchanted forests... 8 00:00:46,991 --> 00:00:51,310 ..and secret ceremonies, a time when Gods walked the Earth... 9 00:00:51,310 --> 00:00:52,805 ..disguised as men. 10 00:00:56,335 --> 00:00:59,631 A time of magical creatures... Centaurs... 11 00:00:59,631 --> 00:01:01,769 ..half man, half horse. 12 00:01:07,854 --> 00:01:10,637 Satyrs... half man, half goat. 13 00:01:29,422 --> 00:01:31,758 It was also a time of war. 14 00:01:31,758 --> 00:01:35,053 Not a war between armies, but a war between Gods... 15 00:01:35,053 --> 00:01:37,677 ..as Zeus and Hera fought for power. 16 00:01:37,677 --> 00:01:40,109 Their war became the war of mankind... 17 00:01:40,109 --> 00:01:41,517 ..as the followers of Hera... 18 00:01:41,517 --> 00:01:44,583 ..battled for supremacy against the worshipers of Zeus. 19 00:02:02,584 --> 00:02:04,828 Drink, poet. 20 00:02:12,205 --> 00:02:15,501 It was a time of Nymphs, bronze-skinned young women... 21 00:02:15,501 --> 00:02:18,184 ..who lived forever and protected the forests. 22 00:02:25,484 --> 00:02:27,404 Hera... 23 00:02:27,404 --> 00:02:29,160 ..sacred Goddess... 24 00:02:30,157 --> 00:02:32,908 ..who oversees the journey of all living things... 25 00:02:32,908 --> 00:02:35,654 ..whose embrace is endless... 26 00:02:35,838 --> 00:02:37,452 ..and deathless... 27 00:02:37,452 --> 00:02:39,045 ..all renewing... 28 00:02:40,044 --> 00:02:43,393 ..your children celebrate your Harvest. 29 00:02:48,780 --> 00:02:52,555 The sweet nectar of the Mother Hera. 30 00:02:53,317 --> 00:02:55,383 Oh, Hera. 31 00:02:56,428 --> 00:03:00,300 Yes, fill yourselves with the Goddess, sisters... 32 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:03,747 ..for the sacred ritual is ahead of us this night. 33 00:03:10,668 --> 00:03:14,245 Zeus? Zeus? 34 00:03:20,043 --> 00:03:22,956 Zeus cannot harm us... 35 00:03:22,956 --> 00:03:25,451 ..only howl like a jealous child... 36 00:03:25,451 --> 00:03:30,507 ..because we worship Hera, Mother of Earth, Mother of life. 37 00:03:30,507 --> 00:03:34,155 Others may abandon her and think her husband, Zeus, is stronger... 38 00:03:34,155 --> 00:03:37,504 ..but we know that she is greater. 39 00:03:38,507 --> 00:03:40,165 Fear not. 40 00:03:42,474 --> 00:03:45,579 I am not afraid of the Gods, Priestess. 41 00:03:45,579 --> 00:03:47,406 I am not. 42 00:03:47,517 --> 00:03:51,505 It is those who claim to speak for them that I fear. 43 00:03:57,707 --> 00:03:59,300 A kiss... 44 00:04:01,803 --> 00:04:04,907 ..to soften your lips, Linus. 45 00:04:04,907 --> 00:04:06,947 Sing for the Goddess. 46 00:04:11,050 --> 00:04:15,211 * Oh, shining Mother over all * 47 00:04:15,211 --> 00:04:19,370 * the summer fleeced the blast of fall * 48 00:04:19,370 --> 00:04:23,402 * to hide in snow awaiting you * 49 00:04:23,402 --> 00:04:28,266 * to conquer death with life anew * 50 00:04:28,266 --> 00:04:32,706 Holy Mother Hera, we do your bidding. 51 00:04:34,026 --> 00:04:37,961 Make winter Earth fertile once more. 52 00:04:37,961 --> 00:04:41,736 Bring back life from death. 53 00:04:50,889 --> 00:04:53,481 Deianeira, Nymph... 54 00:04:53,481 --> 00:04:55,008 ..join us. 55 00:04:56,265 --> 00:04:58,602 You are wasting your time, Alcmene. 56 00:04:58,602 --> 00:05:01,929 That Nymph has chosen the path of the Virgin Goddess. 57 00:05:01,929 --> 00:05:04,482 But I make up for her modesty. 58 00:05:06,281 --> 00:05:10,078 Then I give you the honour of the Harvest King. 59 00:05:15,926 --> 00:05:22,258 Row! Row! Faster, faster! 60 00:05:22,332 --> 00:05:25,086 How do I offend you, Zeus? 61 00:05:25,096 --> 00:05:27,593 Why do you keep me from my marriage bed? 62 00:05:27,593 --> 00:05:30,185 I've kept my vow. 63 00:05:30,185 --> 00:05:34,789 I've slaughtered the Cretan pirates who murdered my bride's family. 64 00:05:35,849 --> 00:05:39,711 What's left of them, I've wrapped in chains as a wedding gift. 65 00:05:41,353 --> 00:05:45,118 Why do you keep me from the arms of my beloved bride, Alcmene? 66 00:05:45,216 --> 00:05:51,841 Zeus rages at the night, Amphitryon, not you. It's the night of Hera's Harvest Festival. 67 00:05:52,072 --> 00:05:56,008 Zeus is master here. The Goddess Hera is dead in Thebes. 68 00:05:56,059 --> 00:05:59,008 Not in Thebes nor anywhere! 69 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,960 I am Antaeus, son of Mother Earth! 70 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:10,504 If my feet were planted on Hera's sacred soil, I tear you apart! 71 00:06:10,504 --> 00:06:13,603 Not even your God Zeus could save you! 72 00:06:17,991 --> 00:06:20,893 The mark of Zeus is on you, Hera worshiper. Aah! 73 00:06:47,975 --> 00:06:50,151 Wake, chosen one... 74 00:06:50,151 --> 00:06:52,223 ..the Harvest King. 75 00:06:53,287 --> 00:06:58,695 Open your eyes and witness the mysteries of Mother Hera. 76 00:06:58,695 --> 00:07:02,247 We honour you, give you greatness, glory. 77 00:07:02,247 --> 00:07:04,865 Hera's Harvest King. 78 00:07:09,126 --> 00:07:11,783 From winter comes spring. 79 00:07:11,783 --> 00:07:14,502 From death comes life. 80 00:07:14,502 --> 00:07:16,806 From winter comes spring. 81 00:07:16,806 --> 00:07:19,110 From death comes life. 82 00:07:19,110 --> 00:07:22,110 Deliver Hera her sacrifice. Aah! 83 00:07:25,254 --> 00:07:28,570 Priestess, he is male and female. He is both. 84 00:07:30,630 --> 00:07:32,518 Hermaphrodite. 85 00:07:33,510 --> 00:07:35,654 You cannot kill him now. 86 00:07:35,654 --> 00:07:39,718 It is sacrilege for a man to see the sacred rites of Hera and live. 87 00:07:39,718 --> 00:07:42,662 He is part woman. Slay the man, you slay the woman. 88 00:07:42,662 --> 00:07:44,353 This, too, is sacrilege. 89 00:07:46,117 --> 00:07:50,309 Zeus marks us. Hera demands his death. 90 00:07:50,309 --> 00:07:52,646 He must die! Give Hera her sacrifice! 91 00:07:52,646 --> 00:07:54,500 From death comes life! 92 00:07:56,646 --> 00:07:58,853 Kill him! No. Kill him. 93 00:07:58,853 --> 00:08:01,122 He must die. 94 00:08:06,789 --> 00:08:09,605 Let the Goddess in you live... 95 00:08:09,605 --> 00:08:14,656 ..but the man within you will see no more of what is forbidden. Aah! Aah! 96 00:08:24,261 --> 00:08:26,373 Alcmene! 97 00:08:26,373 --> 00:08:28,901 Yes, I know you! 98 00:08:28,901 --> 00:08:33,252 Even in my blindness, Zeus has given me a new sight! 99 00:08:33,252 --> 00:08:38,052 I am Tiresias, and I say to you, you have offended the Gods! 100 00:08:38,052 --> 00:08:43,584 Zeus will punish you this very night, and Hera will not answer your prayers! Amphitryon. 101 00:08:57,380 --> 00:09:01,887 My husband returns from the sea. 102 00:09:19,075 --> 00:09:23,588 Hera, when my husband set sail... 103 00:09:23,588 --> 00:09:26,628 ..to hunt the murderers of my father and brothers... 104 00:09:26,628 --> 00:09:29,156 ..I prayed he would not return. 105 00:09:29,156 --> 00:09:32,504 Now his ship rests in the harbour. 106 00:09:33,924 --> 00:09:36,707 Has the husband my father chose for me... 107 00:09:36,707 --> 00:09:42,075 ..a man who worships Zeus, returned home defeated or victorious? 108 00:09:43,971 --> 00:09:46,427 Have my prayers been answered? 109 00:09:49,475 --> 00:09:51,231 Amphitryon. 110 00:09:53,219 --> 00:09:55,521 You wear your wedding cloak. 111 00:09:57,155 --> 00:10:00,504 Let me see your face. Speak. No! No! No! No! 112 00:10:25,666 --> 00:10:28,448 CITY OF THEBES. 113 00:10:48,322 --> 00:10:50,656 Cold and empty house. 114 00:10:53,538 --> 00:10:56,385 I was expecting a better welcome, wife. 115 00:10:56,385 --> 00:10:58,561 The welcome is not of my choosing. 116 00:10:58,561 --> 00:11:03,202 - My cloak. How did you get this? - You know very well. 117 00:11:03,202 --> 00:11:05,697 You left it last night after you forced yourself on me. 118 00:11:05,697 --> 00:11:10,007 No, I was stranded on my ship all last night. 119 00:11:18,721 --> 00:11:21,857 And I say to you, you have offended the Gods! 120 00:11:21,857 --> 00:11:24,289 Zeus will punish you this very night... 121 00:11:24,289 --> 00:11:27,420 ..and Hera will not answer your prayers! 122 00:11:37,281 --> 00:11:39,736 I love you, Alcmene. 123 00:11:41,504 --> 00:11:43,392 Love me. 124 00:11:52,161 --> 00:11:56,632 Love me. Love me. 125 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:06,561 It was a Cretan prisoner... Antaeus. 126 00:12:06,561 --> 00:12:10,657 He tore the cloak off me before he leapt overboard. 127 00:12:10,657 --> 00:12:12,696 He even mocked me. 128 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,192 If a child comes, I will kill it. 129 00:12:16,192 --> 00:12:20,087 Which child, lord Amphitryon? There will be two. 130 00:12:24,288 --> 00:12:25,946 Tiresias? 131 00:12:27,231 --> 00:12:29,536 Tell him, Tiresias. 132 00:12:29,536 --> 00:12:32,639 Tell my husband that you know who raped me... 133 00:12:32,639 --> 00:12:35,744 ..that it was Zeus disguised in the flesh of Amphitryon. 134 00:12:35,744 --> 00:12:37,183 Don't blame your lust on Zeus. 135 00:12:37,183 --> 00:12:40,448 If a child is born, I will kill it. 136 00:12:40,448 --> 00:12:42,719 I will help you. 137 00:12:42,719 --> 00:12:46,399 Do you think that I would bear the child of your degenerate God? 138 00:12:46,399 --> 00:12:47,807 Did you not hear me? 139 00:12:47,807 --> 00:12:52,095 What business is this of yours? Who are you, blind beggar? 140 00:12:52,095 --> 00:12:54,783 Blind, yes, lord... 141 00:12:54,783 --> 00:12:57,279 ..but I can see what you cannot. 142 00:12:57,279 --> 00:12:59,967 Alcmene will bear two sons. 143 00:12:59,967 --> 00:13:02,943 Only one will be yours. 144 00:13:02,943 --> 00:13:05,407 And so I ask again... 145 00:13:05,407 --> 00:13:07,829 ..which one will you kill? 146 00:13:53,150 --> 00:13:54,972 King Creon. 147 00:13:57,918 --> 00:14:00,414 - Alcmene! Alcmene! - Megara! 148 00:14:00,414 --> 00:14:03,316 That little minx has no respect for protocol. 149 00:14:04,318 --> 00:14:06,206 Alcmene, Alcmene! 150 00:14:06,206 --> 00:14:08,381 Look at you, my beauty. 151 00:14:08,381 --> 00:14:10,590 What have you brought me this time? 152 00:14:10,590 --> 00:14:13,022 An autumn pomegranate. 153 00:14:13,022 --> 00:14:15,517 The Mother's promise that life will return... 154 00:14:15,517 --> 00:14:17,341 ..strong and sweet in spring. 155 00:14:17,341 --> 00:14:19,357 And Hera is the Mother. 156 00:14:19,357 --> 00:14:21,277 The Mother of us all, sweetie. 157 00:14:21,277 --> 00:14:24,637 Zeus is worshiped here. 158 00:14:24,637 --> 00:14:28,157 King Creon won't appreciate you teaching his daughter the ways of Hera. 159 00:14:28,157 --> 00:14:32,637 Creon tolerates some Hera worshipers well enough. 160 00:14:32,637 --> 00:14:36,317 He has invited my uncle, the usurper, to your triumph. 161 00:14:36,317 --> 00:14:37,844 King Sthenelus. 162 00:14:38,845 --> 00:14:41,911 Sthenelus is no King, only a thief. 163 00:14:46,938 --> 00:14:49,980 A triumphant return, Amphitryon. 164 00:14:52,700 --> 00:14:54,293 And to the victor... 165 00:14:55,484 --> 00:14:57,339 ..a laurel wreath. 166 00:15:07,900 --> 00:15:10,747 Citizens of Thebes thank you, Amphitryon. 167 00:15:18,940 --> 00:15:21,212 Amphitryon has done us a great service, Sthenelus... 168 00:15:21,212 --> 00:15:24,060 ..ridding us of these Cretan pirates at last... 169 00:15:24,060 --> 00:15:26,747 ..and avenging the murder of your brother and his sons. 170 00:15:26,747 --> 00:15:28,892 You should make him your heir. 171 00:15:28,892 --> 00:15:32,476 Yes, Creon, the ghost of my brother, the late King... 172 00:15:32,476 --> 00:15:34,812 ..and his sons may rest at last. 173 00:15:34,812 --> 00:15:37,340 Amphitryon's done a mighty deed... 174 00:15:37,340 --> 00:15:39,260 ..but that's no reason to make him my heir. 175 00:15:39,260 --> 00:15:41,915 He is married to Alcmene, your niece, and you have no sons. 176 00:15:41,915 --> 00:15:45,051 I have daughters. We in the land of Goddess... 177 00:15:45,051 --> 00:15:47,227 ..do not fear a woman's rule. 178 00:15:47,227 --> 00:15:51,036 Then why was I denied my birthright? 179 00:15:51,036 --> 00:15:54,843 The throne of Tiryns fell to me when my father and brothers died. 180 00:15:54,843 --> 00:15:57,745 You banished me from lands that are mine. 181 00:15:59,003 --> 00:16:02,299 Because your father wed you to a Zeus follower. 182 00:16:02,299 --> 00:16:05,467 No one disputes Amphitryon's nobility... 183 00:16:05,467 --> 00:16:11,515 ..but our people in Tiryns worship Hera. No Zeus lover will ever sit on my throne. 184 00:16:11,515 --> 00:16:16,411 My throne. And I would sit it, not my husband. 185 00:16:16,411 --> 00:16:19,227 And I am no lover of Zeus. 186 00:16:19,227 --> 00:16:23,024 Oh? I've heard differently. 187 00:16:25,658 --> 00:16:29,723 Your new seer, oracle reaches even our faraway court in Tiryns. 188 00:16:29,723 --> 00:16:32,827 Amphitryon will be a proud father. 189 00:16:32,827 --> 00:16:37,979 You have not heard, oh, my oracle, King of Tiryns... 190 00:16:37,979 --> 00:16:42,075 ..I have seen more. It is this... 191 00:16:42,075 --> 00:16:46,490 ..the next born son of the house of Perseus... 192 00:16:46,490 --> 00:16:49,051 ..will ascend the throne of Tiryns... 193 00:16:49,051 --> 00:16:52,346 ..and rule all the lands that you rule now. 194 00:16:54,938 --> 00:16:58,138 The wine not to your tasting, uncle? 195 00:16:58,138 --> 00:17:00,858 I am of the house of Perseus. 196 00:17:00,858 --> 00:17:04,057 As am I, niece. As am I. 197 00:17:04,057 --> 00:17:06,841 But you have no sons, my aging uncle. 198 00:17:06,841 --> 00:17:09,594 Sons from the line of Perseus. 199 00:17:09,594 --> 00:17:12,147 And my belly is full of them. 200 00:17:40,601 --> 00:17:42,361 Shh! Shh! Twins, my lord. 201 00:17:42,361 --> 00:17:46,745 I never saw two twins slip out so swiftly. One after another. 202 00:17:46,745 --> 00:17:49,167 Which was first born? 203 00:17:50,201 --> 00:17:51,865 Which was first born? 204 00:17:51,865 --> 00:17:54,036 They come so fast... 205 00:17:55,289 --> 00:17:58,551 My Goddess, I... fool. How will we know? 206 00:17:59,609 --> 00:18:02,838 How will we know who is heir to the throne? 207 00:18:03,929 --> 00:18:05,529 It doesn't matter. 208 00:18:05,529 --> 00:18:08,217 A son has already been born to Sthenelus. 209 00:18:08,217 --> 00:18:09,977 They named his Eurystheus. 210 00:18:09,977 --> 00:18:13,336 He is the next born son of the house of Perseus. 211 00:18:13,336 --> 00:18:15,352 He will rule. 212 00:18:15,352 --> 00:18:20,249 Sthenelus will not cheat me out of my throne again. 213 00:18:20,249 --> 00:18:22,392 I swear to Hera, he will not! 214 00:18:22,392 --> 00:18:25,848 Which of those is my son, and which is... 215 00:18:25,848 --> 00:18:27,790 ..Zeus' bastard? 216 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:31,506 Someone's bastard. 217 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,628 I will find out, husband. 218 00:18:45,752 --> 00:18:48,695 Hush, child, hush. 219 00:18:48,695 --> 00:18:52,855 He wails his despair the deeper we seek Mother Hera's magic. 220 00:18:52,855 --> 00:18:55,479 Only Zeus' son would grow so discontented... 221 00:18:55,479 --> 00:18:57,688 ..unlike his fat, happy brother. 222 00:18:57,688 --> 00:19:01,965 If you've decided already, why have we come to this dreary place? 223 00:19:05,527 --> 00:19:07,255 Why, indeed? 224 00:19:07,255 --> 00:19:10,295 Tell, or the next will pierce your flesh. 225 00:19:10,295 --> 00:19:13,524 I seek minions of the great Mother Hera. 226 00:19:19,479 --> 00:19:23,607 Who makes demands of Hera's servants? 227 00:19:23,607 --> 00:19:25,942 Her Priestess Alcmene. Shh! Shh! Shh! 228 00:19:26,935 --> 00:19:30,934 Silence that squalling man-thing. 229 00:19:30,934 --> 00:19:32,918 Or I will. 230 00:19:32,918 --> 00:19:34,967 Wait, sister. 231 00:19:34,967 --> 00:19:38,903 You are Alcmene, violated of Zeus? 232 00:19:38,903 --> 00:19:40,598 Then you know my sorrow? 233 00:19:40,598 --> 00:19:44,727 Two sons... one destined for Hera, the other the spawn of Zeus. 234 00:19:44,727 --> 00:19:46,583 But I do not know which. 235 00:19:46,583 --> 00:19:49,714 You've done well to come here. 236 00:19:55,126 --> 00:20:00,112 The one who suckles at my breast is the son of Hera. 237 00:20:04,502 --> 00:20:06,869 Their names? 238 00:20:07,862 --> 00:20:12,725 Mine I will call Iphicles. Zeus' son deserves no name. 239 00:20:12,725 --> 00:20:18,229 This one suckles strongly and greedily. 240 00:20:18,229 --> 00:20:21,269 Consecrate him to Mother Hera. 241 00:20:21,269 --> 00:20:24,237 I knew he was the one. 242 00:20:27,766 --> 00:20:31,446 He won't let go! Get him off! He bites! 243 00:20:31,446 --> 00:20:35,958 Cunning, cruel Zeus. That is his child. 244 00:20:35,958 --> 00:20:38,925 He bites the breast that feeds him. Ugh! 245 00:20:41,909 --> 00:20:45,173 But name him before you slay him. 246 00:20:45,173 --> 00:20:48,140 Call him Hercules. 247 00:20:49,749 --> 00:20:52,597 Hercules... glory to Hera. 248 00:20:52,597 --> 00:20:54,357 Perfect, sister. 249 00:20:54,357 --> 00:20:59,413 No, you must kill him! I fear the wrath of Zeus. 250 00:20:59,413 --> 00:21:01,557 Fear Hera's wrath. 251 00:21:01,557 --> 00:21:04,404 You bore him. Bury him. 252 00:21:18,772 --> 00:21:22,004 Do not ask where I went or how I know. 253 00:21:22,004 --> 00:21:25,932 - I know that this is my son. - So is this one. 254 00:21:27,412 --> 00:21:31,828 He is a sin inflicted by your God. 255 00:21:31,828 --> 00:21:34,868 If you love me, Amphitryon... 256 00:21:34,868 --> 00:21:38,324 ..destroy that which brings us shame. 257 00:21:38,324 --> 00:21:41,524 Let us start again with Iphicles... 258 00:21:41,524 --> 00:21:45,300 ..our son and true heir... 259 00:21:45,300 --> 00:21:47,820 ..to bind our love. 260 00:22:28,691 --> 00:22:30,414 I am sorry. 261 00:22:31,410 --> 00:22:33,418 It's your fate. 262 00:22:49,970 --> 00:22:52,786 I won't care for him. Keep him away from my son. 263 00:22:52,786 --> 00:22:55,730 He's your responsibility. Yes. 264 00:22:55,730 --> 00:23:03,695 And if he is a son of Zeus, as you claim, I will not be responsible for his death. 265 00:23:05,394 --> 00:23:07,336 I will find a nurse for him. 266 00:23:55,121 --> 00:23:56,753 Your child is hungry. 267 00:23:56,753 --> 00:23:59,208 It's Hercules. Where's your nurse? No... 268 00:24:03,153 --> 00:24:04,746 ..it's Iphicles. 269 00:24:19,665 --> 00:24:21,388 Oh, Zeus. 270 00:24:24,688 --> 00:24:26,510 Zeus... 271 00:24:28,465 --> 00:24:30,439 ..he must be your son. 272 00:24:33,968 --> 00:24:35,463 Keep your guard up. 273 00:24:38,622 --> 00:24:41,397 Wound. Keep your guard up, Hercules. 274 00:24:46,483 --> 00:24:49,355 Wound. Well done, Iphicles. 275 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,160 Disabling wound, Hercules. Well done, Iphicles. 276 00:24:59,568 --> 00:25:03,280 Disable, oaf. Didn't you hear Chiron? 277 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:07,077 Fatal wound. Match, Iphicles. 278 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,305 That's enough, clodpoll, you are dead. 279 00:25:19,248 --> 00:25:22,095 No more lessons for today, boys. We've other matters. 280 00:25:22,095 --> 00:25:24,304 Your uncle Sthenelus has died. 281 00:25:24,304 --> 00:25:27,119 Has the old buzzard? Praise Hera. 282 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,967 King Creon requests we attend the funeral with him at Tiryns. 283 00:25:29,967 --> 00:25:31,279 We must prepare. 284 00:25:31,279 --> 00:25:34,127 Does Creon's daughter, Megara, go, too? 285 00:25:34,127 --> 00:25:37,007 All of royal Thebes, including us. 286 00:25:37,007 --> 00:25:39,374 Come on, Iphicles. I will race you home. 287 00:25:45,551 --> 00:25:47,183 You run like a girl. 288 00:25:47,183 --> 00:25:49,230 Iphicles shows some skill with the sword. 289 00:25:49,230 --> 00:25:53,647 He has the cunning of a warrior, but an indifferent passion for it. 290 00:25:53,647 --> 00:25:55,983 It is all merely exercise for his vanity. 291 00:25:55,983 --> 00:25:59,534 You are blunt, Chiron. I chose their trainer well. 292 00:25:59,534 --> 00:26:01,071 And Hercules? 293 00:26:01,071 --> 00:26:05,550 Patient with strategy, but a rare flair for fighting. 294 00:26:05,550 --> 00:26:10,318 Give him a club instead of a sword and point him to the crash of battle. 295 00:26:10,318 --> 00:26:13,166 The bravest soldier will quake at the sight of him. Hyah! Hyah! 296 00:26:17,006 --> 00:26:18,762 CITY OF TIRYNS. 297 00:26:23,438 --> 00:26:27,918 I, Eurystheus, send my father, King Sthenelus of Tiryns... 298 00:26:27,918 --> 00:26:29,773 ..to you, Mother Hera. 299 00:26:46,317 --> 00:26:50,253 You should become closer with your cousin Eurystheus. 300 00:26:50,253 --> 00:26:54,246 He sits on your throne only because of the trick of time. 301 00:26:58,382 --> 00:27:01,773 Eurystheus is almost as pretty as your brother, Iphicles... 302 00:27:01,773 --> 00:27:03,917 ..don't you think? 303 00:27:03,917 --> 00:27:05,677 I know nothing of pretty men, Megara. 304 00:27:05,677 --> 00:27:10,157 No you wouldn't, but I do. 305 00:27:10,157 --> 00:27:13,581 They're the most beautiful young men here. 306 00:27:13,581 --> 00:27:16,712 You are the most beautiful woman here, Megara. 307 00:27:24,268 --> 00:27:27,432 You are no beauty, but you are bold. 308 00:27:30,188 --> 00:27:36,077 I am Iphicles, son of your mourned father's niece Alcmene. 309 00:27:36,077 --> 00:27:40,135 A part of our family dies with yours. 310 00:27:50,956 --> 00:27:53,509 Oh, my clever son. 311 00:28:02,603 --> 00:28:05,124 That was most moving, Iphicles. 312 00:28:10,187 --> 00:28:13,516 I am Hercules, brother of Iphicles. 313 00:28:13,516 --> 00:28:17,388 Also son of Alcmene and Amphitryon. 314 00:28:17,388 --> 00:28:21,697 As my brother says, we share your grief. 315 00:28:42,603 --> 00:28:46,315 Clod. You diminished my offering. 316 00:28:46,315 --> 00:28:50,537 But his was original. You must admit. 317 00:29:06,699 --> 00:29:10,282 Pluck the strings. Don't throttle them, Hercules. Like your brother. 318 00:29:10,282 --> 00:29:12,290 Very good, Iphicles. 319 00:29:16,682 --> 00:29:18,470 Pay attention. 320 00:29:19,594 --> 00:29:22,218 Since you're so interested in Silenus' affairs... 321 00:29:22,218 --> 00:29:24,778 ..we will mix a little biology with music. 322 00:29:24,778 --> 00:29:28,356 What would the offspring of that seduction be if the old goat succeeds? Uh... 323 00:29:29,738 --> 00:29:31,978 ..a Nymph, if it's a girl child. 324 00:29:31,978 --> 00:29:33,930 If it's a boy, it would be a Satyr. 325 00:29:33,930 --> 00:29:37,322 Excellent, Iphicles. And if a prehuman mates with a human? 326 00:29:37,322 --> 00:29:40,234 Species is always determined through the father. 327 00:29:40,234 --> 00:29:42,953 Prehuman men breed prehuman children. 328 00:29:42,953 --> 00:29:45,833 Human men breed human children. 329 00:29:45,833 --> 00:29:48,906 So, if I mated with a Nymph, my child would be... 330 00:29:48,906 --> 00:29:52,354 ..an idiot. Like his father. 331 00:29:53,769 --> 00:29:57,034 Practice! Practice. 332 00:29:57,034 --> 00:29:58,665 Iphicles is right. 333 00:29:58,665 --> 00:30:00,905 Your child by Nymph would be human. 334 00:30:00,905 --> 00:30:03,239 Not that any Nymph would have him. 335 00:30:05,001 --> 00:30:06,627 Practice. 336 00:30:09,801 --> 00:30:12,489 You make catgut sound as though it were still in the cat. 337 00:30:12,489 --> 00:30:14,857 It will not penetrate that thick skull of yours! 338 00:30:14,857 --> 00:30:16,199 Now practice! Ugh! 339 00:30:20,585 --> 00:30:23,272 Linus! Linus! 340 00:30:23,272 --> 00:30:25,280 Oh, Mother Hera. 341 00:30:27,337 --> 00:30:29,321 Mother! 342 00:30:29,321 --> 00:30:31,464 Hercules has murdered Linus! 343 00:30:31,464 --> 00:30:33,705 No, Iphicles, I didn't mean to! 344 00:30:33,705 --> 00:30:36,290 Murderer! Murderer! 345 00:30:37,289 --> 00:30:40,677 Linus? Linus! 346 00:30:59,496 --> 00:31:01,732 Deianeira, daughter. 347 00:31:02,728 --> 00:31:04,288 What is it, my father? 348 00:31:18,728 --> 00:31:21,826 Linus. He needs your healing touch. 349 00:31:22,824 --> 00:31:25,573 They couldn't even find Linus' body. 350 00:31:27,207 --> 00:31:30,884 Some carrion eater must have dragged it off. 351 00:31:47,047 --> 00:31:50,118 Well, what was their verdict? 352 00:31:50,118 --> 00:31:51,809 Leave us, Iphicles. 353 00:31:52,839 --> 00:31:54,465 Leave us. 354 00:32:04,135 --> 00:32:05,382 I didn't mean to kill Linus. 355 00:32:05,382 --> 00:32:11,362 Enough, Hercules. King Creon and his judges accept your defence and pardon with conditions. 356 00:32:13,766 --> 00:32:16,743 Conditions? 357 00:32:16,743 --> 00:32:18,663 You are banished from Thebes. 358 00:32:18,663 --> 00:32:20,102 But this is my home. 359 00:32:20,102 --> 00:32:22,470 You will tend to my herds in the mountain pastures. 360 00:32:22,470 --> 00:32:24,678 I will send Chiron with you. You will continue training. 361 00:32:24,678 --> 00:32:27,133 You will hunt, and you will eat well. 362 00:32:30,183 --> 00:32:34,342 It's because I am a bumbler, isn't it, an embarrassment? 363 00:32:34,342 --> 00:32:36,870 I know I am not as smart or as fine a son as... 364 00:32:36,870 --> 00:32:39,106 ..you are as fine. 365 00:32:42,213 --> 00:32:44,548 No man could ask for a finer son. 366 00:32:47,174 --> 00:32:49,148 I wish you were mine. 367 00:32:50,597 --> 00:32:52,517 What do you mean, father? 368 00:32:52,517 --> 00:32:54,726 I love you, Hercules. 369 00:32:54,726 --> 00:32:57,344 I will always think of you as my son... 370 00:32:58,982 --> 00:33:01,851 ..but you were born of greater blood than mine. 371 00:33:05,190 --> 00:33:08,223 I have a gift I've been keeping for you. 372 00:33:09,605 --> 00:33:11,394 Hold out your arms. 373 00:33:12,837 --> 00:33:16,993 You slew these snakes whilst you were still in your cradle. 374 00:33:18,405 --> 00:33:22,234 My son, but not my son... 375 00:33:23,237 --> 00:33:28,419 ..your father... Is Zeus almighty. 376 00:33:35,780 --> 00:33:38,399 You can't escape the son of Zeus! 377 00:33:46,469 --> 00:33:48,029 Come here. 378 00:33:51,173 --> 00:33:53,701 You are supposed to be chasing cattle. 379 00:33:53,701 --> 00:33:55,780 Nymphs are so much easier to catch. 380 00:33:55,780 --> 00:33:58,628 And they smell so much better, Chiron. 381 00:33:58,628 --> 00:34:00,676 That wild boar is on the rampage again. 382 00:34:00,676 --> 00:34:02,884 Old ragged tusk? 383 00:34:02,884 --> 00:34:05,764 Finally, some excitement. 384 00:34:05,764 --> 00:34:09,060 I will find him and throttle him bare-handed, like I did these. 385 00:34:09,060 --> 00:34:11,548 You pile of soft flesh, off with you! Oh. 386 00:34:15,396 --> 00:34:18,811 How dare you. You forget who I am. 387 00:34:21,316 --> 00:34:26,116 How can I? You bore everyone with your interminable boasting about it. 388 00:34:26,116 --> 00:34:28,196 You still have no defence. 389 00:34:28,196 --> 00:34:30,755 Your father, Amphitryon, would be ashamed of you. 390 00:34:30,755 --> 00:34:33,475 My father is Zeus, a God! 391 00:34:33,475 --> 00:34:36,003 Get your head out of the heavens. 392 00:34:36,003 --> 00:34:39,268 Your name doesn't earn you respect. Your life does! 393 00:34:39,268 --> 00:34:40,803 Make it have meaning! 394 00:34:40,803 --> 00:34:45,473 You will never be a hero or a God until you learn to be a man first. 395 00:34:52,387 --> 00:34:54,623 I will show that old nag who's a hero. 396 00:35:23,554 --> 00:35:26,498 Let Thebes think me dead. 397 00:35:26,498 --> 00:35:28,898 Wasted myself there. 398 00:35:28,898 --> 00:35:33,022 Losing my edge, composing dreary ditties for dim-witted patrons. 399 00:35:34,626 --> 00:35:36,666 This is the life. 400 00:35:37,666 --> 00:35:40,642 I am content to lull in your forest, Deianeira. 401 00:35:40,642 --> 00:35:43,202 It's the Goddess' forest. 402 00:35:43,202 --> 00:35:45,858 You are welcome to lull as long as you like. 403 00:35:45,858 --> 00:35:49,250 When my head heals, I will go to Tiryns for a while. 404 00:35:49,250 --> 00:35:52,130 They'd appreciate a poet of my skill. 405 00:35:52,130 --> 00:35:55,810 But for now I will seek inspiration in the serenity of nature... 406 00:35:55,810 --> 00:35:58,882 ..where you can hear the muses whisper. 407 00:35:58,882 --> 00:36:01,570 So young Hercules has done you a favour. 408 00:36:01,570 --> 00:36:03,809 He's reunited you with the purity of your art. 409 00:36:03,809 --> 00:36:08,001 That lout couldn't recognize art if it impaled him on the end of a javelin. 410 00:36:08,001 --> 00:36:11,330 Not surprising, really, considering his violent conception. 411 00:36:11,330 --> 00:36:13,250 I was there that night... 412 00:36:13,250 --> 00:36:15,041 ..you know. So was I, Linus. 413 00:36:15,041 --> 00:36:17,761 I saw Zeus take Alcmene... 414 00:36:17,761 --> 00:36:20,322 ..in the shadow of Hera's altar. 415 00:36:20,322 --> 00:36:22,273 I heard her pleas. 416 00:36:22,273 --> 00:36:26,430 I saw the mark of his divinity upon him... a thunderbolt. 417 00:36:27,937 --> 00:36:32,759 Hercules has inherited all of Zeus' brazen audacity. 418 00:36:35,521 --> 00:36:36,481 What? 419 00:36:36,481 --> 00:36:38,753 Ragged tusk, the boar I've been hunting. 420 00:36:38,753 --> 00:36:40,509 Throw me my bow. 421 00:36:50,977 --> 00:36:52,289 Well, well... 422 00:36:52,289 --> 00:36:57,242 ..the Goddess Artemis, the huntress herself, in all nature's glory. 423 00:36:59,521 --> 00:37:01,089 Put that down. 424 00:37:01,089 --> 00:37:03,009 But I am a nature lover, Goddess. 425 00:37:03,009 --> 00:37:06,145 I am not Artemis the huntress. I am almost as good an archer. 426 00:37:06,145 --> 00:37:08,064 You will be dead if you don't put down my clothes and go. 427 00:37:08,064 --> 00:37:11,196 But what a vision I will die with when you rise up to shoot. 428 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,589 A Ceryneian hind. 429 00:37:23,424 --> 00:37:25,246 Wait, Nymph! 430 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:28,566 Hercules. 431 00:37:30,432 --> 00:37:32,224 The ghost of Linus! 432 00:37:32,224 --> 00:37:33,791 Ghost? 433 00:37:33,791 --> 00:37:35,733 I did not mean to kill you. 434 00:37:38,207 --> 00:37:39,931 Do not look upon me! 435 00:37:42,303 --> 00:37:43,936 It was an accident. 436 00:37:43,936 --> 00:37:45,535 I didn't know my own strength. 437 00:37:45,535 --> 00:37:47,615 I didn't know I was the son of Zeus. 438 00:37:47,615 --> 00:37:49,887 - Please forgive me. - Forgive you? 439 00:37:49,887 --> 00:37:54,207 I see how you grieve for your sin, molesting innocent maidens. 440 00:37:54,207 --> 00:37:56,287 Well, the living must go on living. 441 00:37:56,287 --> 00:37:58,687 That sweet Nymph, Deianeira... 442 00:37:58,687 --> 00:38:01,599 ..is a Virgin Goddess and sacred. 443 00:38:01,599 --> 00:38:05,631 Go to the Virgin, return her things, beg for forgiveness... 444 00:38:05,631 --> 00:38:09,343 ..and vow never to abuse her with your foul lusts again! 445 00:38:09,343 --> 00:38:12,159 Yes, ghost, my foul lusts. 446 00:38:12,159 --> 00:38:15,159 Away, go! Go now! 447 00:38:18,495 --> 00:38:20,829 Go! Go! 448 00:38:22,367 --> 00:38:24,025 Go! 449 00:38:33,503 --> 00:38:34,997 Deianeira! 450 00:38:38,207 --> 00:38:39,390 Virgin Nymph... 451 00:38:39,390 --> 00:38:42,942 ..Hercules, son of Zeus, abates himself at your door... 452 00:38:42,942 --> 00:38:46,259 ..to crave your pardon and return your... 453 00:38:49,470 --> 00:38:51,742 ..away. You don't want to do this now. 454 00:38:51,742 --> 00:38:53,630 Honour demands it. 455 00:38:53,630 --> 00:38:56,349 If ever again I abuse you with my foul lust... 456 00:38:56,349 --> 00:38:58,750 ..may your arrow pierce my heart. 457 00:38:58,750 --> 00:39:02,526 Though in truth, Lady, your beauty has already pierced it... 458 00:39:02,526 --> 00:39:06,302 ..which is my meagre excuse for my overeager attentions. 459 00:39:06,302 --> 00:39:08,158 Forgive me, Nymph. 460 00:39:08,158 --> 00:39:11,606 Apology accepted given such public contrition. 461 00:39:15,869 --> 00:39:18,718 So, these are the weighty matters with which Demigods fill their days? 462 00:39:18,718 --> 00:39:22,329 Oh, Hercules. I thought you were saving your foul lusts for me. 463 00:39:23,326 --> 00:39:25,437 Megara. Father... 464 00:39:25,437 --> 00:39:26,621 ..what are you all doing here? 465 00:39:26,621 --> 00:39:29,109 We came to hunt boar and instead, we find a bore. 466 00:39:30,141 --> 00:39:32,349 Hercules, your cousin Eurystheus... 467 00:39:32,349 --> 00:39:36,701 ..and prince Theseus of Athens pay a visit to King Creon. 468 00:39:36,701 --> 00:39:40,861 Theseus? The same Theseus who slew the minotaur? 469 00:39:40,861 --> 00:39:42,525 An honour, prince. 470 00:39:42,525 --> 00:39:46,172 We thought we'd seek some sport with this rogue boar we've heard about. 471 00:39:46,172 --> 00:39:48,925 Ragged tusk. I've been stalking him all morning. 472 00:39:48,925 --> 00:39:51,608 That's not the only thing you've been stalking. 473 00:39:52,765 --> 00:39:55,997 Join us, Hercules. You must know the boar's haunts and habits. 474 00:39:55,997 --> 00:39:57,404 You will need our help. 475 00:39:57,404 --> 00:40:00,828 This is a hunt for princes, not herdsmen and Nymphs. 476 00:40:00,828 --> 00:40:03,516 So many spears for one little pig would hardly be much sport. 477 00:40:03,516 --> 00:40:06,037 Ragged tusk is... 478 00:40:07,036 --> 00:40:08,701 ..King of Tiryns. 479 00:40:08,701 --> 00:40:10,621 It would make more than a match for you all. 480 00:40:10,621 --> 00:40:12,955 But surely not for the son of Zeus. 481 00:40:14,492 --> 00:40:16,412 Just let them join us, father. 482 00:40:16,412 --> 00:40:19,836 It may be more sport than you know, Eurystheus... 483 00:40:19,836 --> 00:40:22,844 ..to see how a God hunts. 484 00:40:22,844 --> 00:40:24,699 I will bring you back a pelt. Megara. 485 00:40:33,135 --> 00:40:41,942 Whoa. Hercules, ride with me. Ho! Hyah! Hyah! 486 00:40:46,907 --> 00:40:49,657 I will be waiting for my pelt, Hercules! 487 00:40:51,996 --> 00:40:53,589 The leaves are turning. 488 00:40:54,939 --> 00:40:57,979 Hera's Harvest festival is not far off. 489 00:40:57,979 --> 00:41:01,083 And I have a gift for you. 490 00:41:01,083 --> 00:41:05,361 This year, you will be allowed to attend the festival. 491 00:41:08,027 --> 00:41:10,683 My first festival. 492 00:41:10,683 --> 00:41:14,043 You must tell me all that I need to know, Priestess of Hera. 493 00:41:14,043 --> 00:41:15,668 I want to be ready. Whoooooaaa! 494 00:41:35,995 --> 00:41:38,744 Hercules, let the dogs flush him out! 495 00:41:39,739 --> 00:41:41,648 I promised the lady a pelt! 496 00:41:47,354 --> 00:41:49,338 I will show you how a God hunts! 497 00:41:49,338 --> 00:41:51,930 Or how a God dies. 498 00:41:51,930 --> 00:41:53,882 Over there! 499 00:41:53,882 --> 00:41:55,987 I am not giving that lug the glory! 500 00:41:57,146 --> 00:41:59,002 Well, you can die, too. 501 00:41:59,002 --> 00:42:01,871 An empty throne is easier to seat. Ugh! Aaahh! 502 00:42:59,897 --> 00:43:02,297 That pelt should have gone to you. 503 00:43:02,297 --> 00:43:04,857 Your arrow laid ragged tusk alone. 504 00:43:04,857 --> 00:43:06,744 I've never seen a finer shot. 505 00:43:09,592 --> 00:43:12,953 That looks serious. I will send a physician. 506 00:43:12,953 --> 00:43:15,000 Deianeira is a Virgin of the Mother. 507 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,760 The Goddess has taught her well. 508 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,488 Her healing skills are very strong. 509 00:43:18,488 --> 00:43:20,692 He is in more need of her archery skill. 510 00:43:23,992 --> 00:43:25,849 Let them laugh, my son. 511 00:43:25,849 --> 00:43:27,832 You have greatness in you. 512 00:43:27,832 --> 00:43:29,806 Time will reveal it. 513 00:43:37,816 --> 00:43:39,896 Your father is a wise man. 514 00:43:39,896 --> 00:43:41,944 Our paths will cross again. 515 00:43:41,944 --> 00:43:43,984 I look forward to that day. 516 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:46,808 Farewell, my young friend. 517 00:43:46,808 --> 00:43:48,880 Thank you, Theseus. Farewell. Come now, come. 518 00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:03,316 Megara. 519 00:44:19,191 --> 00:44:22,647 I am sorry. I... did I hurt you? 520 00:44:22,647 --> 00:44:24,534 It's all right. You were dreaming. 521 00:44:27,063 --> 00:44:30,326 Do you always kiss as though you're slurping a leg of mutton? 522 00:44:30,326 --> 00:44:32,055 I am a passionate fellow. 523 00:44:32,055 --> 00:44:35,511 Passion is not all fumbling paws and crushing lips. 524 00:44:35,511 --> 00:44:37,687 No one ever kiss you tenderly? 525 00:44:37,687 --> 00:44:39,767 Your nurse? 526 00:44:39,767 --> 00:44:41,425 Your Mother? 527 00:44:43,607 --> 00:44:45,712 I suppose not. 528 00:44:47,447 --> 00:44:49,651 Don't purse them so tightly. 529 00:44:50,902 --> 00:44:54,448 Make them soft, moist... 530 00:44:55,984 --> 00:45:01,846 ..and pliable. Mmh. 531 00:45:02,678 --> 00:45:06,070 Everything need not be a bruising, charging conquest. 532 00:45:06,070 --> 00:45:10,174 Slow sweetness can stir passion, too. Hmm? 533 00:45:11,957 --> 00:45:15,062 Why did you choose the Virgin path? 534 00:45:15,062 --> 00:45:18,998 Because men and women refuse to learn... 535 00:45:18,998 --> 00:45:21,461 ..what you have just learned. Love is not a power struggle. 536 00:45:21,461 --> 00:45:24,278 Not war but peace. 537 00:45:24,278 --> 00:45:25,909 Well, I've learnt it. 538 00:45:25,909 --> 00:45:27,766 So I will marry you. 539 00:45:27,766 --> 00:45:30,486 It's more than mere kissing. 540 00:45:30,486 --> 00:45:34,326 It's realizing that passion needs patience. 541 00:45:34,326 --> 00:45:37,366 Victory is sometimes found in surrender. 542 00:45:37,366 --> 00:45:40,053 Some strengths are small and soft. 543 00:45:40,053 --> 00:45:42,573 Besides, I am much too old to marry you. 544 00:45:43,669 --> 00:45:46,197 No. You are a Nymph. 545 00:45:46,197 --> 00:45:49,099 You will remain beautiful for hundreds of years. 546 00:45:50,421 --> 00:45:52,565 Hera, though beautiful, is ancient. 547 00:45:52,565 --> 00:45:56,597 Zeus is young. Ever since they mated, they've been at war. 548 00:45:56,597 --> 00:45:58,805 We could be an example for them. 549 00:45:58,805 --> 00:46:01,909 You, servant of Hera, and I, son of Zeus... 550 00:46:01,909 --> 00:46:04,341 ..can show them how to love each other. 551 00:46:04,341 --> 00:46:06,316 Sweet thought, Hercules. 552 00:46:08,148 --> 00:46:09,877 But you don't love me. 553 00:46:09,877 --> 00:46:12,436 Your heart is set on another. 554 00:46:12,436 --> 00:46:14,989 That's as hopeless as Zeus and Hera. 555 00:46:16,821 --> 00:46:19,439 Would you like me to teach you another soft strength? Hmm? 556 00:46:28,693 --> 00:46:31,412 Don't choke it. 557 00:46:31,412 --> 00:46:33,714 It's a bow, not a thunderbolt. 558 00:46:36,308 --> 00:46:39,472 It needs the patience of the Mother, not the force of Zeus. 559 00:46:40,500 --> 00:46:42,507 Caress, not a grope. 560 00:46:43,892 --> 00:46:46,035 Find a balance. 561 00:46:46,035 --> 00:46:48,239 Target's that way. 562 00:46:50,036 --> 00:46:54,556 Remember the balance. Let it fly. 563 00:47:02,740 --> 00:47:05,609 Wait till Chiron sees how I can handle a bow. 564 00:47:06,611 --> 00:47:09,395 You are a much more patient teacher than he is. 565 00:47:09,395 --> 00:47:12,243 Perhaps you've become a more patient student. 566 00:47:22,004 --> 00:47:24,307 I know about the Harvest festival tonight... 567 00:47:24,307 --> 00:47:27,155 ..some dark rite that Goddess Hera demands of her followers. 568 00:47:27,155 --> 00:47:29,392 Not some dark rite they demand of her. 569 00:47:30,931 --> 00:47:34,030 I've upset you, Deianeira. Forgive me. 570 00:47:35,475 --> 00:47:37,811 It's not you. 571 00:47:37,811 --> 00:47:41,651 It's just that as the ancient mysteries of this world... 572 00:47:41,651 --> 00:47:43,827 ..trickle down through the ages... 573 00:47:43,827 --> 00:47:46,035 ..they lose their form and purpose. 574 00:47:46,035 --> 00:47:48,146 And their magic is misused. 575 00:47:48,146 --> 00:47:50,322 And arrogant humans who claim to serve the will of the Gods... 576 00:47:50,322 --> 00:47:52,494 ..serve only their own petty ends. 577 00:47:55,026 --> 00:47:56,914 Learn the difference, Hercules. 578 00:47:58,227 --> 00:48:00,049 I will. 579 00:49:03,505 --> 00:49:05,196 Megara. 580 00:49:11,921 --> 00:49:14,026 What happened? Are you hurt? 581 00:49:49,008 --> 00:49:51,792 Megara, it's all right. 582 00:49:51,792 --> 00:49:53,515 Megara! Megara! 583 00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:01,189 Let her go. 584 00:50:02,479 --> 00:50:04,487 Harvest festival is over. 585 00:50:25,712 --> 00:50:27,751 Seems reluctant to go with you. 586 00:50:32,623 --> 00:50:34,415 Now it won't be. 587 00:50:34,415 --> 00:50:35,919 Well, I won't let it go. 588 00:50:35,919 --> 00:50:38,735 See, that belongs to my father, lord Amphitryon. 589 00:50:38,735 --> 00:50:40,270 Amphitryon? 590 00:50:40,270 --> 00:50:42,095 Then I will enjoy stealing it all the more. 591 00:50:42,095 --> 00:50:44,461 I said it's not going anywhere. Hyah! 592 00:50:46,255 --> 00:50:48,975 I lied. Amphitryon is only my adopted father. 593 00:50:48,975 --> 00:50:51,658 Zeus is my real one. Ohh! 594 00:50:57,327 --> 00:50:59,017 Now, get up and fight. 595 00:51:08,334 --> 00:51:12,742 Son of Zeus, I am Antaeus, son of Mother Earth. 596 00:51:16,014 --> 00:51:18,218 Grovel before her. 597 00:51:19,214 --> 00:51:20,970 Hercules! Aah! Aah! 598 00:51:33,230 --> 00:51:34,446 Did you see that? 599 00:51:34,446 --> 00:51:37,486 He lifted you up as though you were a child. 600 00:51:37,486 --> 00:51:40,561 I had an unfortunate view of it, yes. 601 00:51:44,397 --> 00:51:45,901 Hercules... 602 00:51:45,901 --> 00:51:47,566 ..you will hurt yourself... 603 00:51:47,566 --> 00:51:50,894 ..or worse, me. 604 00:51:50,894 --> 00:51:52,552 Hercules? 605 00:51:53,709 --> 00:51:57,124 If a common cattle thief can do it, so can the son of a God. 606 00:51:58,830 --> 00:52:01,829 Hercules. Hercules! 607 00:52:05,453 --> 00:52:06,797 King Creon. 608 00:52:06,797 --> 00:52:08,488 Megara. 609 00:52:09,805 --> 00:52:11,949 My daughter is with child. 610 00:52:11,949 --> 00:52:13,132 Wonderful! 611 00:52:13,132 --> 00:52:15,245 She says you are the father. 612 00:52:15,245 --> 00:52:16,589 I am proud to say so. 613 00:52:16,589 --> 00:52:19,469 Proud? Violator. 614 00:52:19,469 --> 00:52:21,580 What? 615 00:52:21,580 --> 00:52:23,405 You confess your ravishment? 616 00:52:23,405 --> 00:52:25,068 Ravish? No. 617 00:52:25,068 --> 00:52:27,173 - Seize him! - Megara! 618 00:52:33,612 --> 00:52:35,336 Hercules! 619 00:53:15,083 --> 00:53:19,339 Megara has given birth to triplets... all sons. My sons. 620 00:53:19,339 --> 00:53:23,404 Creon does not harm them? 621 00:53:23,404 --> 00:53:27,979 No. Nor does he acknowledge them as his heirs. 622 00:53:27,979 --> 00:53:29,611 And Megara? 623 00:53:29,611 --> 00:53:31,851 Does her heart soften? 624 00:53:31,851 --> 00:53:37,483 Towards the children. Not towards you, their father. 625 00:53:37,483 --> 00:53:39,371 Nor does Creon's heart. 626 00:53:39,371 --> 00:53:42,411 He's arranged the marriage of Megara and Eurystheus... 627 00:53:42,411 --> 00:53:48,459 ..heir to the throne of Tiryns. He wants to unite the Kingdoms. 628 00:53:48,459 --> 00:53:50,793 Stay out of Thebes, Hercules. 629 00:54:01,899 --> 00:54:04,386 You will see home again someday, Hercules. 630 00:54:05,387 --> 00:54:07,394 Only if I return a hero. 631 00:54:12,394 --> 00:54:14,666 A colt is not a centaur, Hercules. 632 00:54:14,666 --> 00:54:16,138 The colt will get bigger. 633 00:54:16,138 --> 00:54:17,802 How will that make you a hero? 634 00:54:17,802 --> 00:54:19,907 Pound by pound. 635 00:54:38,026 --> 00:54:40,262 He must be divine. 636 00:54:41,642 --> 00:54:43,018 Or merely determined. 637 00:54:43,018 --> 00:54:46,025 He has lifted that horse every day since it was a colt. 638 00:54:46,025 --> 00:54:48,553 They have grown bigger and stronger together... 639 00:54:48,553 --> 00:54:50,408 ..strength that is wasted up here. 640 00:54:51,402 --> 00:54:53,929 Now isn't a good time for Hercules to return. 641 00:54:53,929 --> 00:54:57,193 A monstrous 2-headed creature ravages the hills around Thebes. 642 00:54:57,193 --> 00:54:58,761 We've called it a Hydra. 643 00:54:58,761 --> 00:55:01,578 What better time? I will slay this Hydra. 644 00:55:01,578 --> 00:55:04,969 More seasoned warriors than yourself have tried and failed. 645 00:55:04,969 --> 00:55:09,001 No one man can kill it. We hunt it in packs now. 646 00:55:09,001 --> 00:55:11,977 I came to tell you. You must stay in hiding. 647 00:55:11,977 --> 00:55:14,121 King Creon and his soldiers are very close. 648 00:55:14,121 --> 00:55:16,713 They're in the lowland pastures, stalking the creature. 649 00:55:16,713 --> 00:55:18,535 Then let me stalk it. 650 00:55:20,009 --> 00:55:22,473 You once said I had greatness in me, father. 651 00:55:22,473 --> 00:55:25,001 I am not going to find it hiding in these mountains. 652 00:55:25,001 --> 00:55:26,856 A hero seeks his destiny. 653 00:55:26,856 --> 00:55:29,001 That destiny might be your death. 654 00:55:29,001 --> 00:55:31,848 If not from the Hydra, then from Creon's soldiers. 655 00:55:31,848 --> 00:55:35,752 Have patience, my son. Your time will come. 656 00:55:35,752 --> 00:55:38,174 I must get back to the King and rejoin the hunt. 657 00:55:48,236 --> 00:55:50,341 My time is now, Chiron. 658 00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:56,003 Aah! Ow! A frightened ghost? 659 00:56:58,471 --> 00:57:00,135 Hercules, help me. Help you? 660 00:57:00,135 --> 00:57:02,246 I want to kill you, spirit! 661 00:57:02,246 --> 00:57:04,999 Let me go. I am no spirit. 662 00:57:04,999 --> 00:57:07,750 Not yet. I've been exiled because of your tricks! 663 00:57:07,750 --> 00:57:09,539 Come along! 664 00:57:23,559 --> 00:57:30,746 King Creon, Hercules... and the creature. Hercules! Aah! Hyah! 665 00:58:21,906 --> 00:58:24,720 Hercules! 666 00:58:25,125 --> 00:58:29,057 No one man can slay it, huh? Aah! 667 00:59:02,404 --> 00:59:04,709 Move about. Distract it. 668 00:59:04,709 --> 00:59:06,367 We must save the King. 669 00:59:27,780 --> 00:59:29,700 Hercules! 670 00:59:29,700 --> 00:59:32,514 The fire sears the necks! New heads can't grow back! Aah! No! Ugh! 671 01:00:16,643 --> 01:00:18,268 Amphitryon, no. 672 01:00:20,835 --> 01:00:22,722 Save the King. 673 01:01:17,153 --> 01:01:20,601 Zeus is your father. He won't forsake you. 674 01:01:21,601 --> 01:01:24,641 Your course is set. 675 01:01:24,641 --> 01:01:27,292 You will be a hero. 676 01:01:28,321 --> 01:01:33,056 You will find the strength within yourself. 677 01:01:38,689 --> 01:01:42,486 A God is in you. 678 01:02:12,096 --> 01:02:14,464 * They cowered, all... 679 01:02:14,464 --> 01:02:17,504 ..when fangs were flashed * 680 01:02:17,504 --> 01:02:22,326 * and he alone withstood the foe * 681 01:02:23,616 --> 01:02:26,176 * with flame and club... 682 01:02:26,176 --> 01:02:29,472 ..the hero slashed * 683 01:02:29,472 --> 01:02:33,978 * and lay the Hydra's head all alone * 684 01:02:45,919 --> 01:02:48,767 Forgive me, Hercules. I have wronged you. 685 01:02:48,767 --> 01:02:51,327 Allow me to serve you. 686 01:02:51,327 --> 01:02:53,280 I will sing your glories... 687 01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:56,182 ..across the land and in the courts of Kings. 688 01:03:07,135 --> 01:03:09,022 Son of Zeus. 689 01:03:11,295 --> 01:03:14,399 Here lies the only father I ever knew. 690 01:03:14,399 --> 01:03:16,575 He raised me... 691 01:03:16,575 --> 01:03:19,166 ..believed in me... 692 01:03:19,166 --> 01:03:21,567 ..loved me. 693 01:03:21,567 --> 01:03:24,799 I come to do him honour and you. 694 01:03:24,799 --> 01:03:28,158 I shall not forget what you did for me and for Thebes... 695 01:03:28,158 --> 01:03:30,329 ..and I reward you. 696 01:03:43,902 --> 01:03:46,622 My marriage to Eurystheus was all but ordained... 697 01:03:46,622 --> 01:03:48,926 ..but your brutish son ruins everything. 698 01:03:48,926 --> 01:03:51,838 Creon hails him a hero, and I am his prize. 699 01:03:51,838 --> 01:03:53,438 Pride of the victor. 700 01:03:53,438 --> 01:03:54,974 You should've murdered him in his crib. 701 01:03:54,974 --> 01:03:58,717 I tried. Zeus protects him. 702 01:03:58,717 --> 01:04:01,118 We are helpless to destroy him. 703 01:04:01,118 --> 01:04:04,414 So this is the hope you and Hera offer me? 704 01:04:04,414 --> 01:04:07,070 Have more faith in the Goddess you serve. 705 01:04:07,070 --> 01:04:11,005 One day you will take my place as a High Priestess. 706 01:04:11,005 --> 01:04:13,502 We cannot destroy Hercules... 707 01:04:13,502 --> 01:04:16,477 ..but he can destroy himself. 708 01:04:16,477 --> 01:04:18,877 Hera will show the way. 709 01:04:18,877 --> 01:04:22,365 Why does she wait to bring him down? 710 01:04:22,365 --> 01:04:24,189 It is her way. 711 01:04:24,189 --> 01:04:27,293 All things in their season. 712 01:04:27,293 --> 01:04:29,853 The slower vengeance ripens... 713 01:04:29,853 --> 01:04:32,438 ..the sweeter when plucked. 714 01:04:42,205 --> 01:04:43,965 Over here, boys. 715 01:04:43,965 --> 01:04:45,693 They're for you. 716 01:04:45,693 --> 01:04:48,413 They come from my friend Chiron the centaur. 717 01:04:48,413 --> 01:04:50,333 He knows horseflesh. 718 01:04:50,333 --> 01:04:54,204 Someday he will train you to be great warriors just like your father. 719 01:04:54,204 --> 01:04:57,629 We have no father! We have no father! 720 01:04:57,629 --> 01:04:59,516 Stop that! Stop! 721 01:04:59,534 --> 01:05:03,421 You will hurt them! Come here! 722 01:05:03,421 --> 01:05:05,980 Mother! Mother! Mother! 723 01:05:05,980 --> 01:05:07,804 You leave them alone. 724 01:05:07,804 --> 01:05:09,660 You should teach them gentler ways. 725 01:05:09,660 --> 01:05:12,060 What do you expect, given their ungentle begetting? 726 01:05:12,060 --> 01:05:15,900 Is that the lie you tell to keep the love of Eurystheus? 727 01:05:15,900 --> 01:05:18,900 I am their father and soon your husband. 728 01:05:20,284 --> 01:05:23,100 You think it that simple? 729 01:05:23,100 --> 01:05:25,596 How can you love what you do not know? 730 01:05:25,596 --> 01:05:28,700 To hunger for my beauty is not love. 731 01:05:28,700 --> 01:05:30,972 One lunatic night on a mountain is not love. 732 01:05:30,972 --> 01:05:35,548 Like Zeus and Hera... 733 01:05:35,548 --> 01:05:37,499 ..we must learn to love one another. "must" is a God word. 734 01:05:37,499 --> 01:05:39,675 Hera will never love Zeus... 735 01:05:39,675 --> 01:05:41,748 ..and I will never love you. 736 01:05:44,379 --> 01:05:46,168 You are going to die! 737 01:05:47,388 --> 01:05:50,428 You are dead! 738 01:05:50,428 --> 01:05:52,250 Not my children. 739 01:05:53,435 --> 01:05:55,547 His children. 740 01:05:55,547 --> 01:05:58,204 The blood of Zeus flows in them. 741 01:05:58,204 --> 01:06:02,514 They will be Hera's tools to destroy her enemy. 742 01:06:04,347 --> 01:06:07,611 I will never be as great a Priestess as you. 743 01:06:07,611 --> 01:06:09,531 My heart is too tender. 744 01:06:09,531 --> 01:06:13,435 The tender heart makes the truest sacrifice... 745 01:06:13,435 --> 01:06:16,763 ..but those children will never serve the Mother. 746 01:06:16,763 --> 01:06:18,971 They're like their father, little brutes... 747 01:06:18,971 --> 01:06:21,627 ..like the God they sprout from. 748 01:06:21,627 --> 01:06:24,699 And if you have a child with Eurystheus... 749 01:06:24,699 --> 01:06:31,092 ..do you think that they will stand by while you raise another, one conceived in love, above them? 750 01:06:35,643 --> 01:06:39,537 Rid yourself of all your mistakes at once. 751 01:06:41,082 --> 01:06:44,187 From blood comes new blood. 752 01:06:44,187 --> 01:06:46,969 From death comes life. Fresh fruits and vegetables for your table. Seeds, sackcloth, nutmegs from the finest corners of the Earth. 753 01:07:02,874 --> 01:07:04,826 One well-aimed arrow... 754 01:07:04,826 --> 01:07:06,842 ..will bring war, Eurystheus... 755 01:07:06,842 --> 01:07:09,973 ..and deny you your desire. 756 01:07:11,002 --> 01:07:13,562 Do you think that Creon would surrender his daughter... 757 01:07:13,562 --> 01:07:17,530 ..to the man who killed the hero of Thebes? 758 01:07:17,530 --> 01:07:20,116 Let Hera work her way. 759 01:07:23,642 --> 01:07:27,513 The thought of his hard hands bruising your flesh... 760 01:07:27,513 --> 01:07:29,146 ..his body crushing yours. 761 01:07:29,146 --> 01:07:31,961 He won't lie with me ever again, I swear. 762 01:07:31,961 --> 01:07:34,328 No, never again. 763 01:07:36,474 --> 01:07:38,895 Eurystheus, get the wedding guests. 764 01:08:14,617 --> 01:08:17,170 Go. Prepare yourself. 765 01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:34,008 I understand no more than Eurystheus. 766 01:08:34,008 --> 01:08:36,760 Why not let him kill Hercules? 767 01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:38,904 Because he won't kill Hercules. 768 01:08:38,904 --> 01:08:42,104 No matter how good his bow-arm, Zeus will protect his son. 769 01:08:42,104 --> 01:08:44,056 Well, then why plot with Eurystheus? 770 01:08:44,056 --> 01:08:46,552 He stands in our way as much as my brother. 771 01:08:46,552 --> 01:08:50,072 If he can't kill Hercules, what good is it to pit one against the other? 772 01:08:50,072 --> 01:08:52,568 Because Hercules may kill Eurystheus. 773 01:08:52,568 --> 01:08:53,816 Give me the word. I will kill him. 774 01:08:53,816 --> 01:08:57,048 That won't get you the throne of Tiryns. 775 01:08:57,048 --> 01:08:58,807 Who do you think that they would prefer... 776 01:08:58,807 --> 01:09:02,647 ..you, Iphicles, or Hercules, the hero of Thebes? 777 01:09:02,647 --> 01:09:04,184 Then why have me cosy up... 778 01:09:04,184 --> 01:09:06,453 ..with my cousin all these years? 779 01:09:07,447 --> 01:09:10,583 Let Hera work her will against Hercules. 780 01:09:10,583 --> 01:09:13,201 I will not pit you against your brother. 781 01:09:14,359 --> 01:09:15,671 You are afraid of him! 782 01:09:15,671 --> 01:09:18,103 You are afraid of that muck-brained, bumbling ape! 783 01:09:18,103 --> 01:09:23,154 Who has bumbled his way to greatness above you despite your mocking of him. 784 01:09:26,743 --> 01:09:29,612 Oh, my dear Iphicles. 785 01:09:35,447 --> 01:09:39,091 Let this be a war between Hera and Zeus. 786 01:09:47,127 --> 01:09:50,838 The water cleanses past sorrows... 787 01:09:50,838 --> 01:09:53,558 ..past sins. 788 01:09:53,558 --> 01:09:56,656 Come to your wife fresh and pure. 789 01:10:01,142 --> 01:10:03,638 Come to your husband fresh and pure. 790 01:10:03,638 --> 01:10:07,053 Two unblemished souls bound together... 791 01:10:08,246 --> 01:10:10,450 ..in sacred wedlock. 792 01:10:25,045 --> 01:10:26,540 Hercules? 793 01:10:28,854 --> 01:10:32,629 Gifts for you to give your sons. 794 01:10:32,629 --> 01:10:34,549 Amphitryon's idea. 795 01:10:34,549 --> 01:10:36,373 He had them made long ago, hoping for the day... 796 01:10:36,373 --> 01:10:39,188 ..that you could be reconciled with them. 797 01:11:12,757 --> 01:11:15,797 The blood of Zeus flows in them. 798 01:11:15,797 --> 01:11:19,594 Rid yourself of all your mistakes at once. 799 01:11:25,172 --> 01:11:26,804 Gifts... 800 01:11:26,804 --> 01:11:28,528 ..for my sons. 801 01:11:34,580 --> 01:11:36,620 Send them away now. 802 01:11:39,060 --> 01:11:41,812 The wedding cup first... 803 01:11:41,812 --> 01:11:43,917 ..Lord husband. 804 01:12:03,763 --> 01:12:07,028 You are weary, husband. 805 01:12:07,028 --> 01:12:10,410 I will return later when you're more fit to perform your duties. 806 01:12:14,420 --> 01:12:16,427 I am fit. 807 01:12:25,107 --> 01:12:27,603 Hera and Zeus need not war, Megara. 808 01:12:27,603 --> 01:12:29,811 Let go of me! 809 01:12:29,811 --> 01:12:32,179 Let go! 810 01:12:32,179 --> 01:12:35,026 - Let go of her! - I hate you! 811 01:12:37,203 --> 01:12:38,995 I hate you! Don't hurt my Mother! I wouldn't hurt her! 812 01:12:38,995 --> 01:12:41,458 I wouldn't! 813 01:12:41,458 --> 01:12:43,880 You will not win their affection by abusing their Mother. 814 01:13:14,386 --> 01:13:16,655 It is his head. 815 01:13:29,074 --> 01:13:31,278 Please don't cry, Mother. 816 01:13:36,210 --> 01:13:38,795 She mustn't cry anymore. 817 01:13:39,794 --> 01:13:44,049 He must never make her cry again. 818 01:13:46,193 --> 01:13:47,917 Mother? 819 01:14:03,761 --> 01:14:05,484 Strike it. No. 820 01:14:06,641 --> 01:14:08,167 Strike it. 821 01:14:09,233 --> 01:14:12,144 Strike it! Strike it! 822 01:14:12,144 --> 01:14:14,033 Harder! Harder! 823 01:14:14,033 --> 01:14:16,782 Harder! Harder! 824 01:15:04,655 --> 01:15:06,256 Hercules. 825 01:15:06,256 --> 01:15:08,079 Hercules. 826 01:15:08,079 --> 01:15:09,903 Beware. 827 01:15:09,903 --> 01:15:13,615 Demons. Demons! Aah! Aah! Aah! Hercules. 828 01:16:09,615 --> 01:16:11,118 Murderer! 829 01:16:11,118 --> 01:16:12,744 You murderer! No-o-o-o-o-o-o! Aaahhhh! 830 01:16:22,606 --> 01:16:25,294 He's killed my children! 831 01:16:25,294 --> 01:16:28,327 Demons! I thought they were demons! 832 01:16:28,505 --> 01:16:32,707 Murderer! I thought they were demons! 833 01:16:42,127 --> 01:16:51,050 My so-o-o-ns! Aah! Aah! 834 01:16:51,261 --> 01:17:01,206 Aah! 835 01:17:01,587 --> 01:17:04,802 Aaaaahhhhh! 836 01:17:42,300 --> 01:17:43,943 Hercules, no! 837 01:17:44,083 --> 01:17:53,608 Aaaaaaaaahhhhh! Zeu-u-u-u-s! Aaahhh! 838 01:18:06,978 --> 01:18:08,299 He lives! 839 01:18:08,299 --> 01:18:10,156 Kill him! 840 01:18:10,156 --> 01:18:12,458 Avenge my children! 841 01:18:14,123 --> 01:18:16,620 It was a madness, lord Creon. A madness seized him. 842 01:18:16,620 --> 01:18:18,796 He slew my children! 843 01:18:18,796 --> 01:18:22,444 All in madness. Zeus, with his own thunderbolt, punishes him... 844 01:18:22,444 --> 01:18:24,235 ..and I am satisfied with his judgment! 845 01:18:24,235 --> 01:18:29,516 Afraid... afraid to demand his death because he is the son of your God. 846 01:18:29,516 --> 01:18:31,523 A wise man fears his God. 847 01:18:32,779 --> 01:18:35,147 And I annul his marriage to Megara... 848 01:18:35,147 --> 01:18:37,099 ..and banish him from Thebes. 849 01:18:37,099 --> 01:18:39,179 But he lives or dies by Zeus' will, not mine. 850 01:18:39,179 --> 01:18:41,675 And if he lives, let him seek the oracle at Delphi... 851 01:18:41,675 --> 01:18:45,385 ..and find a way to atone for this horrible sin. 852 01:20:04,489 --> 01:20:06,312 Deianeira. 853 01:20:56,106 --> 01:20:57,699 Damn it! 854 01:20:58,774 --> 01:21:00,214 Deianeira... 855 01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:02,404 Aah! 856 01:21:03,796 --> 01:21:06,024 How long have I been... 857 01:21:06,024 --> 01:21:07,551 Many days. 858 01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:11,624 You've cared for me all this time? 859 01:21:11,624 --> 01:21:13,412 And Linus. 860 01:21:18,952 --> 01:21:21,640 I don't deserve such loyal friends. 861 01:21:21,640 --> 01:21:25,667 You should have let me die. No. 862 01:21:26,184 --> 01:21:28,671 There's nothing left for me but to die. 863 01:21:32,295 --> 01:21:34,848 You can heal the body but not the soul. 864 01:21:36,775 --> 01:21:39,719 You alone must do that. 865 01:21:39,719 --> 01:21:41,607 How? 866 01:21:46,759 --> 01:21:48,614 Be strong... 867 01:21:49,735 --> 01:21:52,190 ..and endure what must be endured. 868 01:22:01,255 --> 01:22:03,360 Is it the dreams again? 869 01:22:04,487 --> 01:22:06,342 More memories. 870 01:22:07,879 --> 01:22:12,231 Let them be dreams... Just dark dreams. 871 01:22:12,231 --> 01:22:15,078 Not all of these dreams are dark. 872 01:22:15,078 --> 01:22:17,151 Some would make a Virgin blush. 873 01:22:20,550 --> 01:22:22,656 Only dreams. 874 01:22:25,767 --> 01:22:33,478 In my dream tonight, someone told me to seek out the oracle of Delphi... 875 01:22:33,478 --> 01:22:35,430 ..and atone for my crime. That was a memory Creon suggested. 876 01:22:35,430 --> 01:22:39,846 What atonement can there be... For my crime? 877 01:22:39,846 --> 01:22:42,406 I slaughtered my children. 878 01:22:42,406 --> 01:22:45,094 Zeus spared you for a reason. 879 01:22:45,094 --> 01:22:47,199 Seek the oracle. 880 01:23:19,717 --> 01:23:21,669 Priestess of Delphi... 881 01:23:21,669 --> 01:23:25,893 ..I am Hercules, guilty of great horror. 882 01:23:25,893 --> 01:23:28,485 How am I to atone for my sins? 883 01:23:28,485 --> 01:23:32,707 From death and disgrace must Hercules be reborn. 884 01:23:34,565 --> 01:23:38,788 Tiresias? You are the oracle of Delphi? 885 01:23:38,788 --> 01:23:41,861 Like nature, Linus, I am many-sided. 886 01:23:41,861 --> 01:23:46,501 One thing is always many things, but balance is all, Hercules. 887 01:23:46,501 --> 01:23:48,708 No riddles, man-woman. 888 01:23:48,708 --> 01:23:53,637 How am I to, as you say, be reborn? 889 01:23:53,637 --> 01:23:56,740 Megara has married Eurystheus. 890 01:23:56,740 --> 01:24:01,444 You must surrender your power and pride in the service of their glory. 891 01:24:01,444 --> 01:24:04,100 Six times must you serve them... 892 01:24:04,100 --> 01:24:06,820 ..three times for three slain sons... 893 01:24:06,820 --> 01:24:12,427 ..and three times for Hercules... dead as a hero, dead as a God... 894 01:24:12,677 --> 01:24:14,308 ..who must be reborn as a man. 895 01:24:14,308 --> 01:24:16,683 He's not dead as a hero or as a God. 896 01:24:16,774 --> 01:24:18,660 Please, Linus... 897 01:24:18,660 --> 01:24:20,482 ..the oracle is right. 898 01:24:22,276 --> 01:24:25,700 I believe Zeus' thunderbolt was meant to kill me. 899 01:24:25,700 --> 01:24:29,252 Zeus would not abase his true son before his enemies. 900 01:24:29,252 --> 01:24:31,684 I am no immortal. 901 01:24:31,684 --> 01:24:34,852 Perform your labours for Eurystheus, Hercules... 902 01:24:34,852 --> 01:24:37,721 ..and you may still find immortality. 903 01:24:52,675 --> 01:24:54,819 Hercules. 904 01:24:54,819 --> 01:24:59,075 Welcome to Tiryns, my Kingdom. 905 01:25:06,595 --> 01:25:09,859 I come to you stripped of glory... 906 01:25:09,859 --> 01:25:16,227 ..naked but for my body... might... and loyalty. 907 01:25:16,227 --> 01:25:20,417 I am your vassal... Here to serve. 908 01:25:26,403 --> 01:25:31,007 If you wish to serve me, murderer... die. 909 01:25:37,570 --> 01:25:39,426 Darling, he will. 910 01:25:39,426 --> 01:25:42,562 You promised. "Trust in the Goddess" he still lives. 911 01:25:42,562 --> 01:25:46,274 My sons have died for nothing. 912 01:25:46,274 --> 01:25:49,410 Your sons died to make way for this child... 913 01:25:49,410 --> 01:25:52,577 ..to give you your prince and your throne and to defeat Hercules. 914 01:25:52,577 --> 01:25:57,729 The Goddess has now put him into your power. 915 01:25:57,729 --> 01:26:00,250 How will she slay him? 916 01:26:12,801 --> 01:26:15,387 I've decided your first labour of atonement. 917 01:26:17,634 --> 01:26:19,809 In the far-off land of Stymphalia... 918 01:26:19,809 --> 01:26:24,894 ..there is a swamp where dwells certain... Birds. 919 01:26:33,697 --> 01:26:36,321 I've heard of these Stymphalian birds... 920 01:26:36,321 --> 01:26:38,045 ..and this marsh. 921 01:26:39,809 --> 01:26:42,721 It was once a lake with sweet water... 922 01:26:42,721 --> 01:26:45,568 ..teeming with fish before these birds came. 923 01:26:47,456 --> 01:26:49,823 No wonder Eurystheus wants them killed. 924 01:26:59,776 --> 01:27:01,631 Oh, my lyre. 925 01:27:03,424 --> 01:27:06,464 Who disturbs our peace? 926 01:27:06,464 --> 01:27:08,353 I am Hercules! 927 01:27:08,353 --> 01:27:11,393 Hercules? Hercules? 928 01:27:11,393 --> 01:27:12,961 You know me? 929 01:27:12,961 --> 01:27:17,568 We named you, son of Zeus. 930 01:27:17,568 --> 01:27:21,397 Harpies. They're not birds at all. They're Harpies! 931 01:27:23,424 --> 01:27:26,238 I seek the Stymphalian birds. 932 01:27:29,568 --> 01:27:31,837 You found them. 933 01:27:39,328 --> 01:27:40,757 Hercules! Hercules! 934 01:28:12,607 --> 01:28:14,134 Hercules, the trees! 935 01:28:54,462 --> 01:28:56,535 You are still the best shot in Greece, sire. 936 01:28:57,694 --> 01:28:59,646 I see no place for me in Hera's plan. 937 01:28:59,646 --> 01:29:01,854 Megara gets fatter with child every day. 938 01:29:01,854 --> 01:29:03,610 Iphicles. 939 01:29:06,078 --> 01:29:09,111 Throw it! High! 940 01:29:17,565 --> 01:29:20,797 Forgive me, cousin... brother... 941 01:29:20,797 --> 01:29:22,750 ..as I rush to tell you of my success. 942 01:29:22,750 --> 01:29:24,822 You killed the Harpies? 943 01:29:25,886 --> 01:29:28,733 You knew the Stymphalian birds were Harpies, Mother. 944 01:29:28,733 --> 01:29:30,813 I had heard rumours only. 945 01:29:30,813 --> 01:29:33,268 One feather hardly proves you slew them. 946 01:29:47,581 --> 01:29:49,084 A son? 947 01:29:49,084 --> 01:29:52,401 A daughter... a beautiful daughter. 948 01:29:58,044 --> 01:30:02,005 I will name her Iole, after the moon of the Goddess. 949 01:30:04,285 --> 01:30:06,194 Well, you will need your rest. 950 01:30:37,660 --> 01:30:40,889 Oh, my poor, poor sister. 951 01:30:43,772 --> 01:30:45,596 Alcmene... 952 01:30:45,596 --> 01:30:47,611 ..cursed of Zeus... 953 01:30:47,611 --> 01:30:50,652 ..disrespectful of Hera. 954 01:30:50,652 --> 01:30:54,044 Why didn't you kill Hercules when commanded? 955 01:30:54,044 --> 01:30:57,019 You and your sister should have killed him. 956 01:30:57,019 --> 01:31:01,467 - So, you tear me from my death rest to chide me? - No... 957 01:31:01,467 --> 01:31:04,379 ..for an answer? 958 01:31:04,379 --> 01:31:10,576 If you were not strong enough to kill Hercules, what servant of the Mother is? 959 01:31:14,715 --> 01:31:17,301 The Nemean lion. 960 01:31:20,571 --> 01:31:23,099 These unattended flocks are an open invitation for a lion. 961 01:31:23,099 --> 01:31:26,165 What kind of fools let the livestock stray like this? 962 01:31:28,283 --> 01:31:30,225 Frightened fools, stranger... 963 01:31:31,291 --> 01:31:35,450 ..too full of misery and too few of us to care anymore. 964 01:31:35,450 --> 01:31:39,738 My village burns empty pyres for bodies that were never found. 965 01:31:39,738 --> 01:31:42,330 - None returned. - This lion? 966 01:31:42,330 --> 01:31:46,810 A lion that doesn't feed on our flocks, only our young men. 967 01:31:46,810 --> 01:31:49,019 First, the unsuspecting were slaughtered. 968 01:31:49,019 --> 01:31:52,442 Then those that went to avenge them were killed. 969 01:31:52,442 --> 01:31:55,930 When no one went to hunt it, it hunted them. 970 01:31:55,930 --> 01:31:57,370 And the lion? 971 01:31:57,370 --> 01:31:59,610 It waits for fools like you. 972 01:31:59,610 --> 01:32:01,818 High on the bluff is its den. 973 01:32:01,818 --> 01:32:04,922 It dares you to come. It knows none return. 974 01:32:04,922 --> 01:32:08,506 - None? - One... Ballioclaude. 975 01:32:08,506 --> 01:32:11,161 With his dying breath, he told of a beautiful woman... 976 01:32:11,161 --> 01:32:13,402 ..a captive in the beast's lair. 977 01:32:13,402 --> 01:32:14,649 A woman? 978 01:32:14,649 --> 01:32:16,729 And then he died. 979 01:32:16,729 --> 01:32:19,512 No one knows her name or how he keeps her there. 980 01:32:20,794 --> 01:32:22,522 S-some tried to rescue her but... 981 01:32:22,522 --> 01:32:25,075 ..let me guess... none returned. 982 01:32:33,017 --> 01:32:35,161 There's still time for you to turn back, you know. 983 01:32:35,161 --> 01:32:39,865 Nonsense. I am bound by my word to be your servant and bard. 984 01:32:39,865 --> 01:32:42,105 I release you from your bond. 985 01:32:42,105 --> 01:32:44,185 I am also bound to you by my art. 986 01:32:44,185 --> 01:32:46,297 A poet needs inspiration. 987 01:32:46,297 --> 01:32:47,737 Try love. 988 01:32:47,737 --> 01:32:49,945 My deeds can't inspire when... 989 01:32:49,945 --> 01:32:52,440 ..they're merely penitence for shameful acts. 990 01:32:52,440 --> 01:32:53,945 That's why they inspire. 991 01:32:53,945 --> 01:32:55,833 An imperfect man can do great deeds... 992 01:32:55,833 --> 01:32:57,491 ..and a great man imperfect ones. 993 01:32:59,257 --> 01:33:03,737 And it's not oaths or a poet's need to prattle that binds us... 994 01:33:03,737 --> 01:33:05,528 ..but friendship. 995 01:33:05,528 --> 01:33:08,953 Because you are my friend, I will not risk your life in this. 996 01:33:08,953 --> 01:33:11,448 Well, I don't want to miss the beautiful woman. 997 01:33:11,448 --> 01:33:13,593 Damsel in distress... 998 01:33:13,593 --> 01:33:16,375 ..talk about inspiration for poetry. 999 01:33:17,656 --> 01:33:21,240 I think this song will require a darker tone than your last. 1000 01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:25,266 I've already got the refrain... and none returned. Aah! 1001 01:34:07,031 --> 01:34:09,878 * And none returned * 1002 01:34:10,871 --> 01:34:12,944 * and none returned * * and none... * 1003 01:34:14,231 --> 01:34:19,087 * returned * 1004 01:34:37,078 --> 01:34:38,967 - Move. - What? 1005 01:34:38,967 --> 01:34:40,821 Move. 1006 01:34:43,831 --> 01:34:45,773 Linus, the woman. 1007 01:35:01,014 --> 01:35:04,310 Lady... your rescue is at hand. 1008 01:35:05,302 --> 01:35:06,934 Kiss me, hero. 1009 01:35:06,934 --> 01:35:09,007 Let me know you are real. 1010 01:35:10,102 --> 01:35:12,273 You are truly beautiful. 1011 01:35:22,518 --> 01:35:24,277 Where is the lion? 1012 01:35:24,277 --> 01:35:25,739 Here. 1013 01:35:42,165 --> 01:35:43,725 Linus, my bow! 1014 01:35:48,533 --> 01:35:51,317 You can't kill it, Hercules! It's a sphinx! 1015 01:35:51,317 --> 01:35:52,975 Come on! 1016 01:36:27,380 --> 01:36:29,235 Welcome, Tiresias. 1017 01:36:31,188 --> 01:36:35,316 So, you left Delphi and you want to set up a shrine in Tiryns. 1018 01:36:35,316 --> 01:36:36,821 Why? 1019 01:36:36,821 --> 01:36:41,364 My visions tell me great events unfold in Tiryns under your rule. 1020 01:36:41,364 --> 01:36:44,980 Really? Well, I do owe you a debt. 1021 01:36:44,980 --> 01:36:46,996 If your prophecy had not warned my father... 1022 01:36:46,996 --> 01:36:50,228 ..Hercules might be wearing the crown instead of me. 1023 01:36:50,228 --> 01:36:51,951 Or even you, Iphicles. 1024 01:36:57,876 --> 01:37:00,080 What do you see for my daughter? 1025 01:37:01,395 --> 01:37:04,436 - Megara... she should not marry. - What? 1026 01:37:04,436 --> 01:37:07,188 You doom my daughter to a childless existence. 1027 01:37:07,188 --> 01:37:09,970 If she were to marry, her husband will kill you. Yes. 1028 01:37:15,507 --> 01:37:18,483 She will remain a Virgin of the Goddess the rest of her days. 1029 01:37:18,483 --> 01:37:21,134 Megara, we will have other children. 1030 01:37:24,468 --> 01:37:27,053 Set up your shrine, Tiresias. 1031 01:37:30,899 --> 01:37:32,819 And many thanks. 1032 01:37:32,819 --> 01:37:34,761 I want a son anyway. 1033 01:38:05,778 --> 01:38:07,917 Easy, fellow. I am not one of them. 1034 01:38:08,914 --> 01:38:10,962 Who did this? 1035 01:38:10,962 --> 01:38:12,423 The Cretan bull. 1036 01:38:14,034 --> 01:38:16,587 The man they call the Cretan bull! 1037 01:38:28,081 --> 01:38:29,874 Cretan bull, Cretan bull. 1038 01:38:29,874 --> 01:38:33,202 Our crops, our livestock, our gold, too. 1039 01:38:33,202 --> 01:38:35,820 Our people slain, left homeless. 1040 01:38:37,266 --> 01:38:39,442 You must do something. Must I? 1041 01:38:39,442 --> 01:38:43,057 You expect me to send valuable troops... 1042 01:38:43,057 --> 01:38:46,385 ..chasing after a common bandit? 1043 01:38:46,385 --> 01:38:48,017 From what I've seen, this Cretan bull is no common bandit. 1044 01:38:48,017 --> 01:38:49,809 You need no army. You have the perfect man to stop him... 1045 01:38:49,809 --> 01:38:51,597 ..Hercules. 1046 01:38:54,450 --> 01:38:59,089 Chiron is right. Hercules will slay the Cretan bull. 1047 01:38:59,089 --> 01:39:01,031 Give us him. 1048 01:39:04,081 --> 01:39:05,804 He's yours. 1049 01:39:09,521 --> 01:39:11,942 But bring back the Cretan bull alive. 1050 01:39:14,225 --> 01:39:16,079 Chiron's tracked them. 1051 01:39:18,225 --> 01:39:20,079 They're coming. 1052 01:39:22,033 --> 01:39:24,720 Nestor, your men know what to do. 1053 01:39:24,720 --> 01:39:27,502 Pay back the debt we owe these pigs. Aah! Aah! Aah! Aaahhh! Hyah! Hyah! Hyah! 1054 01:41:35,086 --> 01:41:36,842 Antaeus. Aaaahhhh! 1055 01:41:45,358 --> 01:41:47,149 You've gotten bigger, boy. 1056 01:41:47,149 --> 01:41:48,494 And stronger. 1057 01:41:48,494 --> 01:41:52,525 Son of Mother Earth, I return you to her embrace. 1058 01:41:52,525 --> 01:41:54,125 Oh, your mistake. 1059 01:41:54,125 --> 01:41:56,909 The Earth is Mother Hera's life-force... 1060 01:41:56,909 --> 01:41:59,597 ..and source of my strength. 1061 01:41:59,597 --> 01:42:01,581 No, Hercules! Don't kill him. 1062 01:42:01,581 --> 01:42:03,621 Chiron must be avenged! 1063 01:42:05,901 --> 01:42:08,461 Eurystheus said bring him back alive. 1064 01:42:08,461 --> 01:42:10,189 You won't take me alive. 1065 01:42:10,189 --> 01:42:13,287 Hera's Earth sends her strength into me. 1066 01:42:17,709 --> 01:42:20,426 Your Goddess washes off of you, Antaeus. 1067 01:42:26,893 --> 01:42:29,762 Where's your precious Mother now? Huh? Aaahhh! 1068 01:42:31,533 --> 01:42:39,083 Hercules! Hercules! Hercules! Hercules! 1069 01:42:52,300 --> 01:42:54,275 The Cretan bull! 1070 01:42:55,436 --> 01:42:58,636 He believes his strength comes from the Earth... 1071 01:42:58,636 --> 01:43:00,588 ..so don't lock him in a dungeon... 1072 01:43:00,588 --> 01:43:04,101 ..but in a tower high above the ground! 1073 01:43:05,580 --> 01:43:08,140 Free Hercules! Free Hercules! 1074 01:43:08,140 --> 01:43:12,415 Free Hercules! Free Hercules! 1075 01:43:12,684 --> 01:43:14,626 They cheer him. 1076 01:43:15,979 --> 01:43:18,124 See how Hera plots. 1077 01:43:18,124 --> 01:43:20,812 Eurystheus begins to lose control of his Kingdom. 1078 01:43:20,812 --> 01:43:23,051 To Hercules. Wait. 1079 01:43:23,051 --> 01:43:26,187 The Mother reveals all in time. 1080 01:43:26,187 --> 01:43:27,403 Free Hercules! 1081 01:43:27,403 --> 01:43:30,719 Does the King reward Hercules with his freedom? 1082 01:43:32,555 --> 01:43:35,627 I remain bound to Eurystheus. 1083 01:43:35,627 --> 01:43:38,027 What does he ask of me now? 1084 01:43:38,027 --> 01:43:39,685 Nothing. 1085 01:43:41,163 --> 01:43:43,563 I ask nothing. 1086 01:43:43,563 --> 01:43:45,417 You've earned a hero's rest. 1087 01:43:46,411 --> 01:43:48,931 I honour you, as does all Tiryns. 1088 01:43:52,267 --> 01:43:53,995 But rest, Hercules. 1089 01:43:53,995 --> 01:43:56,235 Rest so you are strong and... 1090 01:43:56,235 --> 01:43:58,472 ..fit to answer Tiryns' call when she has need of you again. 1091 01:43:58,770 --> 01:44:05,730 Hercules! Hercules! Hercules! 1092 01:44:29,770 --> 01:44:31,466 They told us to go home. 1093 01:44:31,466 --> 01:44:33,440 This was the only home I could think of. 1094 01:44:34,794 --> 01:44:39,178 There. Flower nectar should remove the lion scent. 1095 01:44:39,178 --> 01:44:41,698 Your horses won't go crazy with fear. 1096 01:44:43,081 --> 01:44:45,034 It was a sight, Deianeira. 1097 01:44:45,034 --> 01:44:47,433 Even as the sphinx's lips puckered for his... 1098 01:44:47,433 --> 01:44:50,946 ..her claws gleamed from the gloom to plunder his heart. 1099 01:44:52,393 --> 01:44:54,466 Go test that on the horses. 1100 01:44:55,465 --> 01:44:56,709 Right. 1101 01:44:58,634 --> 01:45:03,041 Linus is sometimes a touch lurid in his turn of phrase. 1102 01:45:05,865 --> 01:45:07,913 You've done well, Hercules. 1103 01:45:07,913 --> 01:45:09,705 Three labours in barely... 1104 01:45:09,705 --> 01:45:11,199 ..four years... mighty deeds. 1105 01:45:12,682 --> 01:45:18,793 While Eurystheus calls you a slave... People cheer you as a hero. 1106 01:45:18,793 --> 01:45:21,444 And pull their children away if I get too close. 1107 01:45:23,497 --> 01:45:26,953 I can't find the meaning that Chiron told me life must have. 1108 01:45:26,953 --> 01:45:28,713 You are just tired. You need rest. 1109 01:45:28,713 --> 01:45:30,785 I need to know where I belong, Deianeira. 1110 01:45:32,040 --> 01:45:33,950 I hunger for a home. 1111 01:45:34,953 --> 01:45:37,481 I think it's all I've ever hungered for... 1112 01:45:37,481 --> 01:45:39,528 ..to know who I am... 1113 01:45:39,528 --> 01:45:41,640 ..where I am wanted. 1114 01:45:41,640 --> 01:45:43,647 You are wanted here. 1115 01:45:45,257 --> 01:45:48,901 I am welcomed here, but it's not my home. 1116 01:45:50,921 --> 01:45:53,309 I have no wife waiting, no children. 1117 01:45:56,040 --> 01:46:00,350 I saw Megara's daughter watching me from the palace steps before I left. 1118 01:46:01,608 --> 01:46:06,212 She's beautiful, like her Mother. 1119 01:46:14,440 --> 01:46:16,488 Hyllus. Mother? 1120 01:46:16,488 --> 01:46:18,920 Someone you've often heard me speak of. 1121 01:46:18,920 --> 01:46:20,830 Hercules! 1122 01:46:25,128 --> 01:46:26,851 Your club. 1123 01:46:29,799 --> 01:46:34,280 Mother? Have you broken your vows? 1124 01:46:34,280 --> 01:46:36,583 He's a foundling I've adopted. 1125 01:46:36,583 --> 01:46:38,439 I've taught him many things. 1126 01:46:38,439 --> 01:46:40,231 Like all things in nature... 1127 01:46:40,231 --> 01:46:41,890 ..he needs the male as well as the female. 1128 01:46:43,303 --> 01:46:45,125 The balance is all. 1129 01:46:48,295 --> 01:46:49,953 There you are. Rrraarr. 1130 01:46:54,247 --> 01:46:56,103 Now, it will be yours in time, my lovely... 1131 01:46:56,103 --> 01:46:58,407 ..I promise. 1132 01:46:58,407 --> 01:47:01,799 But you must be subtle like Hera. 1133 01:47:01,799 --> 01:47:05,575 Don't force what can't be forced. 1134 01:47:05,575 --> 01:47:07,549 Go put it back... for now. 1135 01:47:26,630 --> 01:47:28,386 Ooh, more for me, too. Aah! 1136 01:47:44,869 --> 01:47:47,141 He is the brother of your enemy! 1137 01:47:47,141 --> 01:47:48,550 Who is also his enemy. 1138 01:47:48,550 --> 01:47:50,598 Who could also claim a right to the throne. 1139 01:47:50,598 --> 01:47:53,222 I've already given him that right. 1140 01:47:53,222 --> 01:47:54,598 What? 1141 01:47:54,598 --> 01:47:57,382 I've made Iphicles my heir. Why not? 1142 01:47:57,382 --> 01:48:00,422 He's next in blood to me. 1143 01:48:00,422 --> 01:48:03,206 Your daughter is next in blood. 1144 01:48:03,206 --> 01:48:05,701 Are you mad? If she marries, I die. 1145 01:48:05,701 --> 01:48:08,165 If she can't marry, she can't provide heirs. 1146 01:48:08,165 --> 01:48:10,140 Can Iphicles can you?! 1147 01:48:12,965 --> 01:48:16,707 It seems all the sons you had in you, you gave to Hercules. 1148 01:48:26,949 --> 01:48:29,957 When are you going to tell him? 1149 01:48:29,957 --> 01:48:31,844 Tell who what? 1150 01:48:33,029 --> 01:48:35,429 Deianeira... 1151 01:48:35,429 --> 01:48:39,390 ..Hercules may be a bit thick when it comes to biology, but I am not. 1152 01:48:44,709 --> 01:48:47,130 I could tell Hercules about Hyllus... 1153 01:48:48,740 --> 01:48:51,107 ..and I could tell Hercules how much I love him. 1154 01:48:52,740 --> 01:48:54,629 And Eurystheus might call... 1155 01:48:54,629 --> 01:48:56,734 ..on the two of you to traipse off for another year or two. 1156 01:49:02,404 --> 01:49:05,438 Really go for it. Hard. All the more reason to make the most of your time now. 1157 01:49:06,788 --> 01:49:08,763 And if you don't come back? 1158 01:49:10,500 --> 01:49:13,892 I don't want to Hyllus a father only to deprive him of one. 1159 01:49:13,892 --> 01:49:16,868 Why do you deny him his Mother? 1160 01:49:16,868 --> 01:49:19,555 Stop mourning your broken vow. 1161 01:49:19,555 --> 01:49:22,244 Tell Hercules you love him. 1162 01:49:22,244 --> 01:49:24,894 Tell him Hyllus is his son. 1163 01:49:28,324 --> 01:49:30,625 Light and loose. Feel the balance. 1164 01:49:37,091 --> 01:49:39,458 Excellent! Now, home to your Mother. 1165 01:49:40,452 --> 01:49:42,307 Aw, so soon? 1166 01:49:42,307 --> 01:49:43,748 I am hungry. 1167 01:49:43,748 --> 01:49:45,755 Come on. I will race you. 1168 01:49:59,907 --> 01:50:03,811 Be happy, my son. Hera has spun her web. 1169 01:50:03,811 --> 01:50:06,594 Eurystheus trusts and loves you. 1170 01:50:06,594 --> 01:50:09,251 Why must my rise come only in his fall? 1171 01:50:09,251 --> 01:50:15,427 Forget his embraces. Now you are embraced in the glory of Hera. 1172 01:50:15,427 --> 01:50:17,663 Glory's embrace is cold. 1173 01:50:18,851 --> 01:50:22,626 Megara... what does Hera spin for her? 1174 01:50:22,626 --> 01:50:24,928 Leave Megara to me. 1175 01:50:55,201 --> 01:50:57,794 I am Megara... 1176 01:50:57,794 --> 01:50:59,938 ..Queen to Eurystheus. 1177 01:50:59,938 --> 01:51:02,754 The rumours are that you are a Priestess of Hera. 1178 01:51:02,754 --> 01:51:06,306 I waste away in this tower so far from the Mother's touch. 1179 01:51:06,306 --> 01:51:08,482 Why does her Priestess punish her child? 1180 01:51:08,482 --> 01:51:11,777 My husband punishes, not I... 1181 01:51:11,777 --> 01:51:13,882 ..because you failed to defeat Hercules. 1182 01:51:16,258 --> 01:51:17,793 And you, Priestess... 1183 01:51:17,793 --> 01:51:20,929 ..do you come to mock my failure? 1184 01:51:20,929 --> 01:51:25,850 No. I come for your help. 1185 01:51:28,065 --> 01:51:30,367 The Mother is all I have left. 1186 01:51:48,737 --> 01:51:51,457 Thank you, Priestess. 1187 01:51:51,457 --> 01:51:54,753 Your majesty, I remain in your service. 1188 01:51:54,753 --> 01:51:57,248 What is my labour to be this time? 1189 01:51:57,248 --> 01:51:59,872 You will tame the man-eating mares. 1190 01:51:59,872 --> 01:52:01,377 That's not what we agreed. 1191 01:52:01,377 --> 01:52:05,473 No, it's better. Let her go on. 1192 01:52:05,473 --> 01:52:08,128 Seek the mares on the isle of Lemnos... 1193 01:52:08,128 --> 01:52:09,921 ..tame them. 1194 01:52:09,921 --> 01:52:14,592 And what proof do I bring back that these mares have been tamed? 1195 01:52:14,592 --> 01:52:17,056 The golden cingle... 1196 01:52:17,056 --> 01:52:19,423 ..worn by the leader of this herd. 1197 01:52:25,728 --> 01:52:28,183 Hercules and Linus leave already? 1198 01:52:29,887 --> 01:52:33,632 Back to Thebes to find a ship to sail to Lemnos. 1199 01:52:33,632 --> 01:52:38,496 Few know about the man-eating mares. How did you? 1200 01:52:38,496 --> 01:52:42,015 The Cretan bull knows many of the Mother's secrets. 1201 01:52:42,015 --> 01:52:46,240 That was clever of you to suggest it, but you might have told us. 1202 01:52:46,240 --> 01:52:49,791 My husband no longer shares his counsel with me. 1203 01:52:49,791 --> 01:52:51,962 You might have told me. 1204 01:52:53,151 --> 01:52:58,880 You do know that Iphicles is only named heir as a precaution against Hercules? 1205 01:52:58,880 --> 01:53:02,079 You may yet have more children with Eurystheus. 1206 01:53:02,079 --> 01:53:06,105 How? He is not in my bed at night. 1207 01:53:09,503 --> 01:53:12,927 Help me, Alcmene. 1208 01:53:12,927 --> 01:53:15,935 Somehow I've offended Mother Hera... 1209 01:53:15,935 --> 01:53:19,294 ..perhaps because of my foolish mistake with Hercules... 1210 01:53:19,294 --> 01:53:23,742 ..or because I bore his children and to my shame, I mourn them still. 1211 01:53:23,742 --> 01:53:27,775 Perhaps I've resisted her plan somehow. 1212 01:53:27,775 --> 01:53:30,207 Help me to do penance to the Goddess... 1213 01:53:30,207 --> 01:53:34,495 ..prove to her my loyalty and devotion. 1214 01:53:34,495 --> 01:53:36,982 Child, if I can, I will. 1215 01:53:40,030 --> 01:53:42,014 Surrender to me... 1216 01:53:42,014 --> 01:53:43,870 ..the duties of High Priestess... 1217 01:53:43,870 --> 01:53:45,659 ..on Hera's Harvest festival. 1218 01:53:47,487 --> 01:53:51,358 You have trained me since childhood to serve her. 1219 01:53:51,358 --> 01:53:54,014 Give me this. 1220 01:53:54,014 --> 01:53:56,283 Let me prove myself. 1221 01:53:57,566 --> 01:54:00,665 On the same night, the mares of Lemnos will run. 1222 01:54:23,613 --> 01:54:26,973 Swiftness and agility over strength, Hercules. Ha ha! 1223 01:54:26,973 --> 01:54:29,395 I could get in 10 punches to your one. Ooh. 1224 01:54:35,005 --> 01:54:36,412 I only need one. 1225 01:54:38,653 --> 01:54:40,628 Hyllus, what are you doing here? 1226 01:54:47,357 --> 01:54:49,693 Jason, you have to take him back to Thebes. 1227 01:54:49,693 --> 01:54:51,864 No, we go on. When is the next round? Who will fight me? 1228 01:54:55,005 --> 01:54:57,110 I suppose he's your problem now. 1229 01:54:59,581 --> 01:55:02,717 Deianeira is going to kill you. 1230 01:55:02,717 --> 01:55:04,539 Deianeira's going to kill me. 1231 01:55:28,828 --> 01:55:31,036 Now, wait here. 1232 01:55:31,036 --> 01:55:33,276 I want to see you tame the mares. 1233 01:55:33,276 --> 01:55:36,953 This is my labour, Hyllus, and I have to do it by myself. 1234 01:55:40,667 --> 01:55:42,740 Make sure he behaves himself. We will manage. 1235 01:57:00,922 --> 01:57:03,514 Take your pick, Hercules! 1236 01:57:03,514 --> 01:57:08,119 Theseus! What are you doing here? And who are all these women? 1237 01:57:09,818 --> 01:57:11,770 I was shipwrecked here months ago. 1238 01:57:11,770 --> 01:57:14,745 And rescued by my beautifull saviour... 1239 01:57:14,745 --> 01:57:18,094 ..Hippolyta, queen of amazons. 1240 01:57:23,385 --> 01:57:27,706 Hippolyta found me under the shattered hull of my ship... 1241 01:57:27,706 --> 01:57:29,594 ..and nursed me back to health. 1242 01:57:29,594 --> 01:57:31,673 Greece thanks you, queen Hippolyta. 1243 01:57:31,673 --> 01:57:34,169 We can't afford to lose such a great hero. 1244 01:57:34,169 --> 01:57:36,121 Also good a friend. 1245 01:57:36,121 --> 01:57:38,553 When do we tame the mares, Hercules? 1246 01:57:38,553 --> 01:57:40,825 The mares come only once a year. 1247 01:57:40,825 --> 01:57:45,369 But if there are men on the island, the mares will have their flesh. 1248 01:57:45,369 --> 01:57:50,224 The year has come 'round. The mares will run soon. 1249 01:57:51,641 --> 01:57:54,905 Sail away from here with Hercules, my love. 1250 01:57:54,905 --> 01:57:56,728 You must leave here. 1251 01:57:56,728 --> 01:57:59,801 I will not sail without you, Hippolyta. 1252 01:57:59,801 --> 01:58:01,945 I've told you before. 1253 01:58:01,945 --> 01:58:05,081 And I will not leave until I've tamed these mares. 1254 01:58:05,081 --> 01:58:07,161 Why don't you just kill them? 1255 01:58:07,161 --> 01:58:08,825 We serve Hera... 1256 01:58:08,825 --> 01:58:10,744 ..and they are the Mother's creatures. 1257 01:58:10,744 --> 01:58:14,967 Some divine necessity of the Mother drives them to do this. 1258 01:58:16,184 --> 01:58:18,456 But the season is here. 1259 01:58:18,456 --> 01:58:20,179 They will come soon. 1260 01:58:21,208 --> 01:58:23,543 You must not be here when they do. 1261 01:58:31,096 --> 01:58:32,472 Hercules! Hercules! 1262 01:58:32,472 --> 01:58:34,741 I can't find Hippolyta! The women are gone! 1263 01:58:57,848 --> 01:59:01,207 Thank you, Alcmene, for giving me this chance... 1264 01:59:01,207 --> 01:59:02,935 ..to appease the Mother. 1265 01:59:02,935 --> 01:59:05,847 Have you chosen your Harvest King? 1266 01:59:05,847 --> 01:59:07,603 I have. 1267 01:59:12,312 --> 01:59:15,181 Pass the laurel leaves among our sisters. 1268 01:59:30,263 --> 01:59:31,986 The mares. 1269 01:59:58,231 --> 01:59:59,659 Come, Priestess. 1270 02:00:00,663 --> 02:00:03,183 The Harvest King is bound and waiting. Ohh! 1271 02:00:30,262 --> 02:00:31,723 Jason, no! 1272 02:01:16,277 --> 02:01:18,666 Show him Hera's power. 1273 02:01:19,733 --> 02:01:21,268 Say the words, Priestess. 1274 02:01:21,268 --> 02:01:23,603 Do what must be done. 1275 02:01:25,333 --> 02:01:28,052 From winter comes spring. 1276 02:01:28,052 --> 02:01:30,901 From death comes life. 1277 02:01:30,901 --> 02:01:33,236 From winter comes spring. 1278 02:01:33,236 --> 02:01:36,180 From death comes life. 1279 02:01:36,180 --> 02:01:39,156 Deliver Hera her sacrifice. 1280 02:01:39,156 --> 02:01:41,807 No, mom! No! No-o-o-o-o! Iphicles! No! No! No! 1281 02:01:52,084 --> 02:01:54,516 Slower vengeance ripens... 1282 02:01:54,516 --> 02:01:56,850 ..the sweeter when plucked. 1283 02:02:04,884 --> 02:02:06,612 I love her, Hercules. 1284 02:02:06,612 --> 02:02:08,499 You know what it's like to go mad. 1285 02:02:08,499 --> 02:02:10,771 I will take her away. Don't kill her. 1286 02:02:10,771 --> 02:02:13,870 I came here to tame the mares, not kill them. 1287 02:02:15,027 --> 02:02:17,619 I bid you to leave. 1288 02:02:17,619 --> 02:02:19,411 I could not stop it. 1289 02:02:19,411 --> 02:02:21,267 It has always been done. 1290 02:02:21,267 --> 02:02:24,467 Some dark thing of the Goddess demands it. 1291 02:02:24,467 --> 02:02:27,603 The dark thing is you not Hera. 1292 02:02:27,603 --> 02:02:31,155 These are the work of mortals not Gods. 1293 02:02:31,155 --> 02:02:35,759 You choose to let superstition and empty ritual steal your will. 1294 02:02:43,187 --> 02:02:46,867 Do you really think this is what the Goddess wants? 1295 02:02:46,867 --> 02:02:48,460 Blood and grief? 1296 02:02:49,842 --> 02:02:51,435 If so... 1297 02:02:53,203 --> 02:02:54,730 ..take my blood. 1298 02:02:56,818 --> 02:03:02,226 Don't hide behind magic that turns you into mindless, unfeeling things. 1299 02:03:02,226 --> 02:03:05,455 And don't blame Hera for what has always been your choice. 1300 02:03:16,082 --> 02:03:18,952 It is not the will of the Goddess. 1301 02:03:38,385 --> 02:03:40,109 Help me. 1302 02:03:43,026 --> 02:03:46,408 Please don't let his body be left here. 1303 02:03:49,969 --> 02:03:53,035 It was not the Goddess who was against me. 1304 02:03:55,281 --> 02:03:56,907 It was you. 1305 02:03:58,769 --> 02:04:00,624 You... 1306 02:04:02,513 --> 02:04:04,520 ..who, after Hera... 1307 02:04:05,777 --> 02:04:08,427 ..I loved most of all. 1308 02:04:10,865 --> 02:04:12,589 You... 1309 02:04:13,648 --> 02:04:16,463 ..who, since my earliest childhood... 1310 02:04:19,697 --> 02:04:22,697 ..taught me the magic of my sex... 1311 02:04:23,920 --> 02:04:26,255 ..the secret ways of the Mother. 1312 02:04:28,273 --> 02:04:30,728 But they were just your ways. 1313 02:04:34,416 --> 02:04:40,944 They were the ways of a bitter... 1314 02:04:40,944 --> 02:04:43,726 ..denied woman stripped of power. 1315 02:04:46,064 --> 02:04:48,486 And I learned my lesson well. 1316 02:04:53,520 --> 02:04:56,389 Look on your creature. 1317 02:05:00,816 --> 02:05:03,336 I am just like you. Oh! Oh! 1318 02:05:32,527 --> 02:05:34,831 How dare you run away. I should be... 1319 02:05:34,831 --> 02:05:37,865 ..I already have. Scolded him regularly for it. Oh. 1320 02:05:42,639 --> 02:05:47,087 You brought him back... and yourself. 1321 02:05:47,087 --> 02:05:49,198 Brought me back, too. 1322 02:05:49,198 --> 02:05:50,824 Oh. Linus. Ah! 1323 02:06:47,597 --> 02:06:50,946 Hyllus? My son? 1324 02:06:52,494 --> 02:06:55,214 Forgive me. Forgive you... 1325 02:06:55,214 --> 02:06:57,773 ..when you've given me such joy? 1326 02:06:57,773 --> 02:07:00,653 For not telling you sooner. 1327 02:07:00,653 --> 02:07:10,349 It happened one... I remember. The dream. You gave up your vows... for me. 1328 02:07:10,349 --> 02:07:12,291 You have a home now... 1329 02:07:13,517 --> 02:07:16,516 - ..if you want it. - Oh, I want it. 1330 02:07:47,116 --> 02:07:49,741 Hercules has shown the women of Lemnos... 1331 02:07:49,741 --> 02:07:53,196 ..that Mother Hera is not found in blood rites... 1332 02:07:53,196 --> 02:07:55,404 ..and magic icons of power. 1333 02:07:55,404 --> 02:07:58,156 We surrender this to Hercules... 1334 02:07:58,156 --> 02:08:00,876 ..tamer of the mares of Lemnos. 1335 02:08:00,876 --> 02:08:08,625 And in surrender, find strength and victory. No! 1336 02:08:13,803 --> 02:08:16,204 Your Mother is right, Iole. 1337 02:08:16,204 --> 02:08:19,596 There is a darkness within its beauty. 1338 02:08:19,596 --> 02:08:22,347 Your proof of my completed labour, queen. 1339 02:08:22,347 --> 02:08:25,064 And to make sure the mares... Ohh! 1340 02:08:36,268 --> 02:08:38,796 Hercules, you have done what no King could... 1341 02:08:38,796 --> 02:08:42,795 ..do in ridding us of these blood rites. Zeus would be pleased. 1342 02:08:42,795 --> 02:08:45,794 It was Mother Hera who showed me the way. 1343 02:08:47,979 --> 02:08:52,900 I am sorry to say your own brother was a victim of these last Harvest festival rites. 1344 02:08:55,595 --> 02:08:58,379 My Mother must be much grieved. 1345 02:08:58,379 --> 02:09:00,651 You have triumphed in your labours... 1346 02:09:00,651 --> 02:09:02,920 ..and brought honour to Thebes! 1347 02:09:07,818 --> 02:09:09,930 Thank you, lord Creon. 1348 02:09:09,930 --> 02:09:13,162 But I have not yet triumphed in all of my labours. 1349 02:09:13,162 --> 02:09:15,306 I have two left. 1350 02:09:15,306 --> 02:09:17,695 What is my next one to be, Eurystheus? 1351 02:09:23,786 --> 02:09:27,114 A contest between you and me. 1352 02:09:27,114 --> 02:09:29,098 Bows and arrows. 1353 02:09:29,098 --> 02:09:31,105 And the target? 1354 02:09:35,018 --> 02:09:37,025 The Ceryneian hind. No! 1355 02:09:41,353 --> 02:09:43,594 You are not afraid, are you? 1356 02:09:43,594 --> 02:09:45,961 If it is my labour, then I must perform it. 1357 02:09:45,961 --> 02:09:48,073 First shaft to bring the deer down wins. 1358 02:09:48,073 --> 02:09:50,442 And to make it interesting, a side wager. 1359 02:09:50,442 --> 02:09:52,746 If you lose, I add another labour. 1360 02:09:52,746 --> 02:09:56,106 And if I win, do I get to take one away? 1361 02:09:56,106 --> 02:09:59,497 No. You ask any other boon, and I will grant it. 1362 02:09:59,497 --> 02:10:03,593 Then I ask it now, in front of all of these good people... 1363 02:10:03,593 --> 02:10:05,546 ..so you can't refuse it. 1364 02:10:05,546 --> 02:10:09,353 If I win this wager, reunite the house of Perseus... 1365 02:10:09,353 --> 02:10:14,729 ..under one rule by betrothing my son, Hyllus, to your daughter, Iole. 1366 02:10:14,729 --> 02:10:16,393 Never. 1367 02:10:16,393 --> 02:10:21,929 Megara... No labour I can ever perform will erase my crime... 1368 02:10:21,929 --> 02:10:24,201 ..or ease your pain. 1369 02:10:24,201 --> 02:10:27,945 Let's not bury our children's future in our past grievances. 1370 02:10:27,945 --> 02:10:32,649 The union of Iole and Hyllus can heal the bad blood between our warring families... 1371 02:10:32,649 --> 02:10:35,497 ..perhaps even between Zeus and Hera. 1372 02:10:35,497 --> 02:10:38,185 Let's put an end to it. 1373 02:10:38,185 --> 02:10:41,054 That is the boon I ask. 1374 02:10:46,217 --> 02:10:48,191 Done. 1375 02:10:57,641 --> 02:10:59,848 If you kill the hind, Hyllus will never forgive you. 1376 02:10:59,848 --> 02:11:03,752 It's a sacred animal. To spill one drop of its blood is sacrilege. 1377 02:11:03,752 --> 02:11:07,614 Believe in your teacher, Deianeira. Believe in me. 1378 02:11:16,903 --> 02:11:20,647 So, you forgot the prophecy of Tiresias. 1379 02:11:20,647 --> 02:11:23,462 If Iole marries, her husband will slay you. 1380 02:11:26,536 --> 02:11:28,925 You forget I am the greatest archer in Greece. 1381 02:11:29,928 --> 02:11:34,568 I will win, and I will once more assert my power over Hercules. 1382 02:11:34,568 --> 02:11:37,223 He's never been in your power. 1383 02:11:37,223 --> 02:11:40,736 He does these labours for his own honour, not your whim. 1384 02:11:46,919 --> 02:11:52,007 For the sake of your vanity, you waste an opportunity to destroy him. 1385 02:11:52,007 --> 02:11:54,631 Except he isn't destroyed, is he? 1386 02:11:54,631 --> 02:11:57,287 Against plot of your Goddess... 1387 02:11:57,287 --> 02:11:58,759 ..he triumphs, and everyone heaps scorn on me. 1388 02:11:58,759 --> 02:12:01,447 I am shamed before my subjects and my fellow Kings... 1389 02:12:01,447 --> 02:12:03,236 ..and Hercules... he's worshipped as a hero. 1390 02:12:05,991 --> 02:12:08,551 From now on, I will trust in my own skill rather... 1391 02:12:08,551 --> 02:12:10,623 ..than in Hera's fumbling help. 1392 02:12:13,671 --> 02:12:15,743 She's useless against my enemy. 1393 02:12:17,542 --> 02:12:20,160 Nor do I forget she killed something I prized. 1394 02:12:22,758 --> 02:12:25,478 So, this is all about Iphicles. 1395 02:12:25,478 --> 02:12:30,822 You not only want revenge on Hercules, but on me and Hera also. 1396 02:12:30,822 --> 02:12:33,543 Well, you may still need us yet, Eurystheus. 1397 02:12:33,543 --> 02:12:35,270 Whoever kills the sacred hind... 1398 02:12:35,270 --> 02:12:36,518 ..there's still one labour left. 1399 02:12:36,518 --> 02:12:39,780 Two. After I kill it. 1400 02:12:41,894 --> 02:12:45,574 It's agreed then. Creon will judge any dispute. 1401 02:12:45,574 --> 02:12:47,232 Loose the dogs. 1402 02:13:10,341 --> 02:13:11,868 They've cornered it. 1403 02:13:18,502 --> 02:13:20,127 Hyllus! Aah! 1404 02:13:25,221 --> 02:13:26,716 Hercules, no! Hyllus. 1405 02:13:37,125 --> 02:13:38,853 What a shot... 1406 02:13:38,853 --> 02:13:41,797 ..between the bones and sinews of both forelegs. 1407 02:13:41,797 --> 02:13:43,936 I had never hurt the hind. 1408 02:13:46,308 --> 02:13:47,909 It isn't dead. 1409 02:13:47,909 --> 02:13:50,725 I appeal to the judge. 1410 02:13:50,725 --> 02:13:54,436 The first shaft to bring it down... that was the wager. 1411 02:13:54,436 --> 02:13:57,186 Hercules brought it down without shedding its blood. 1412 02:14:08,036 --> 02:14:09,792 See you at home. 1413 02:14:13,316 --> 02:14:16,484 I cry foul. It was a trick. His son tried to ride me down. 1414 02:14:16,484 --> 02:14:18,628 The boy was more of a disadvantage to me. 1415 02:14:18,628 --> 02:14:20,004 You wouldn't have cared if you'd shot him or not. 1416 02:14:20,004 --> 02:14:21,923 I wish I had. 1417 02:14:21,923 --> 02:14:24,803 Your whelp will never marry my daughter. 1418 02:14:24,803 --> 02:14:28,995 I will not put another child of mine into his murdering hands. 1419 02:14:28,995 --> 02:14:31,588 If you can break your bargains, then so can I. 1420 02:14:31,588 --> 02:14:35,556 Until you honour your word and wager, your last labour remains undone. 1421 02:14:35,556 --> 02:14:37,732 Then let it be on your head. 1422 02:14:37,732 --> 02:14:40,612 We did not demand that you do these labours. 1423 02:14:40,612 --> 02:14:43,394 The Gods did for murdering my children. 1424 02:14:53,251 --> 02:14:58,106 If you honour your vow, all will see he's broken his vow. 1425 02:15:00,355 --> 02:15:05,219 No one would be happier for you to abandon these labours than me. 1426 02:15:05,219 --> 02:15:10,051 No one. But if you do, you've much to lose. 1427 02:15:10,051 --> 02:15:12,986 More to lose if you finish them. 1428 02:15:19,139 --> 02:15:22,968 Megara will yet find a labour which will kill you. 1429 02:15:24,290 --> 02:15:26,712 Even before the labours, we... 1430 02:15:28,226 --> 02:15:30,943 ..we have plotted your destruction. 1431 02:15:32,418 --> 02:15:33,912 Why, Mother? 1432 02:15:35,810 --> 02:15:38,211 Because you are the son of Zeus. 1433 02:15:38,211 --> 02:15:41,474 You are the enemy of Mother Hera. 1434 02:15:41,474 --> 02:15:46,499 And because I wanted the throne which was rightfully mine for Iphicles. 1435 02:15:46,499 --> 02:15:49,313 I never sought your throne, Mother. 1436 02:15:51,618 --> 02:15:56,034 All I saw were those who barred our way... 1437 02:15:56,034 --> 02:15:59,329 ..Eurystheus... you... 1438 02:16:01,378 --> 02:16:03,320 ..your sons. 1439 02:16:06,625 --> 02:16:08,698 My sons? 1440 02:16:09,826 --> 02:16:14,463 Do not complete these labours, for you have no cause. 1441 02:16:17,345 --> 02:16:19,287 No cause? 1442 02:16:20,769 --> 02:16:22,296 No cause? 1443 02:16:24,001 --> 02:16:27,041 Hercules! These labours have meaning. 1444 02:16:27,041 --> 02:16:32,897 I enslave myself to my enemies... 1445 02:16:32,897 --> 02:16:35,265 ..over a crime that I did not commit. 1446 02:16:35,265 --> 02:16:36,705 Show me the meaning in that. 1447 02:16:36,705 --> 02:16:39,105 These labours have become the struggle for the soul of Tiryns... 1448 02:16:39,105 --> 02:16:40,545 ..and the heart of its people. 1449 02:16:40,545 --> 02:16:43,585 Your labours have become the battlefield in the war between Zeus and Hera. 1450 02:16:43,585 --> 02:16:46,689 I do not choose sides in Zeus and Hera's war! 1451 02:16:46,689 --> 02:16:49,601 The only soul I struggle for is my own. 1452 02:16:49,601 --> 02:16:52,513 I am no one's symbol or saviour, Deianeira. 1453 02:16:52,513 --> 02:16:54,849 You are whether you wish it or not. 1454 02:16:54,849 --> 02:16:57,020 That is what a hero is. 1455 02:17:06,848 --> 02:17:09,505 Finish the task you agreed to, Hercules. 1456 02:17:09,505 --> 02:17:12,320 Then the Gods punish me for a crime of which I am innocent. 1457 02:17:12,320 --> 02:17:14,048 You slew the children. 1458 02:17:14,048 --> 02:17:18,049 Defending myself whilst bewitched by others. 1459 02:17:18,049 --> 02:17:20,480 I have told you the Gods' will. 1460 02:17:20,480 --> 02:17:22,752 Defy them if you wish. 1461 02:17:22,752 --> 02:17:26,240 I am tired of others telling me what the Gods want. 1462 02:17:26,240 --> 02:17:29,982 I will be my own oracle, speak to them myself. 1463 02:17:34,400 --> 02:17:38,144 Gods and men, hear the oracle of Hercules. 1464 02:17:38,144 --> 02:17:40,960 I pray to Zeus and Hera... 1465 02:17:40,960 --> 02:17:43,360 ..Apollo and Artemis... 1466 02:17:43,360 --> 02:17:45,632 ..Ares and Athena... 1467 02:17:45,632 --> 02:17:48,063 ..to Poseidon, Aphrodite... 1468 02:17:48,063 --> 02:17:49,887 ..Pluto, Demeter... 1469 02:17:49,887 --> 02:17:53,023 ..and all the other Gods and Goddesses! 1470 02:17:53,023 --> 02:17:57,248 I pray to them one and all and all as one... 1471 02:17:57,248 --> 02:18:00,032 ..and to all Gods, I make sacrifice... 1472 02:18:00,032 --> 02:18:02,335 ..not a sacrifice of blood... 1473 02:18:02,335 --> 02:18:06,495 ..but of reverence to their nobility... 1474 02:18:06,495 --> 02:18:11,583 ..their love, their honour, their courage... 1475 02:18:11,583 --> 02:18:14,751 ..their kindness, their justice. 1476 02:18:14,751 --> 02:18:19,807 But to their pettiness, their wantonness... 1477 02:18:19,807 --> 02:18:23,871 ..their cruelty, their savagery... 1478 02:18:23,871 --> 02:18:27,871 ..their vanity, their injustice... 1479 02:18:27,871 --> 02:18:30,079 ..I make no sacrifice. 1480 02:18:30,079 --> 02:18:32,095 I pay no reverence. 1481 02:18:32,095 --> 02:18:35,166 I deny all that is ungodly in them! 1482 02:18:35,166 --> 02:18:38,367 I will worship the beauty they have bestowed... 1483 02:18:38,367 --> 02:18:41,567 ..my fellow beings, the animals... 1484 02:18:41,567 --> 02:18:44,414 ..the mountains and seas and green Earth... 1485 02:18:44,414 --> 02:18:48,414 ..the sky, and the light of the sun... 1486 02:18:48,414 --> 02:18:51,422 ..and the moon and the stars that keep us from the darkness. 1487 02:18:51,422 --> 02:18:54,526 I will worship and try to emulate... 1488 02:18:54,526 --> 02:18:58,142 ..all that is great in the Gods... nothing more. 1489 02:18:58,142 --> 02:19:02,878 If that is not good enough for them... So be it. 1490 02:19:02,878 --> 02:19:06,750 When my time comes, they can judge me worthy or not. 1491 02:19:06,750 --> 02:19:11,710 But if they are truly great and truly just... 1492 02:19:11,710 --> 02:19:16,117 ..then they can ask no more of any man than what I offer them. 1493 02:19:31,901 --> 02:19:34,301 He will be back now. 1494 02:19:34,301 --> 02:19:35,581 I know him. 1495 02:19:35,581 --> 02:19:37,053 Then let him come... 1496 02:19:37,053 --> 02:19:39,354 ..and let his doom be my way. 1497 02:19:40,541 --> 02:19:45,145 Will it be his doom? You failed before. 1498 02:19:48,093 --> 02:19:51,485 This time, I will destroy him. 1499 02:19:51,485 --> 02:19:57,021 Even so, the triumph of his death will go to Eurystheus... 1500 02:19:57,021 --> 02:19:59,132 ..and he will still rule. 1501 02:19:59,132 --> 02:20:01,885 Not for long. 1502 02:20:01,885 --> 02:20:06,045 To the one who slays Hercules, all Kingdoms will kneel. 1503 02:20:06,045 --> 02:20:08,828 And to you, my queen. 1504 02:20:08,828 --> 02:20:11,037 Then Zeus will tumble... 1505 02:20:11,037 --> 02:20:14,811 ..and Hera will reign supreme once more. 1506 02:20:15,804 --> 02:20:17,527 Yes. 1507 02:20:20,668 --> 02:20:22,773 Let it be your way. 1508 02:20:23,772 --> 02:20:25,944 This is my last chance. 1509 02:20:29,052 --> 02:20:31,386 You are my last hope. 1510 02:20:35,804 --> 02:20:38,843 Wear this into battle. 1511 02:20:38,843 --> 02:20:42,488 I want it to be the last thing he sees when you kill him. 1512 02:20:45,659 --> 02:20:49,140 I want him to know who brings about his downfall. 1513 02:21:25,659 --> 02:21:28,731 So our servant returns. 1514 02:21:28,731 --> 02:21:32,250 Did the Gods not answer your prayers yesterday? 1515 02:21:32,250 --> 02:21:34,522 I've come to finish my labours... 1516 02:21:34,522 --> 02:21:36,538 ..not for you... 1517 02:21:36,538 --> 02:21:38,491 ..not for the Gods... 1518 02:21:38,491 --> 02:21:40,251 ..but for my own honour. 1519 02:21:40,251 --> 02:21:42,362 Since you return chastened... 1520 02:21:42,362 --> 02:21:43,963 ..I will allow you to serve me in this last labour... 1521 02:21:43,963 --> 02:21:46,010 ..and forgive you your demand of my daughter. 1522 02:21:46,010 --> 02:21:49,242 Don't take pride in your broken vow, King. 1523 02:21:49,242 --> 02:21:51,962 When I return, I will no longer be your slave... 1524 02:21:51,962 --> 02:21:55,131 ..and I will demand again what you refuse on fair request. 1525 02:21:55,131 --> 02:21:58,011 If you return, Hercules. 1526 02:21:58,011 --> 02:22:01,243 In the far corners of our Kingdom is a lake. 1527 02:22:01,243 --> 02:22:05,882 Its waters flow into the bowels of a great mountain that belches smoke. 1528 02:22:05,882 --> 02:22:12,440 Inside this mountain, the water turns into a river of fire called the Styx. 1529 02:22:14,138 --> 02:22:18,746 - The river of Hades. - Yes. The river of Hades. 1530 02:22:18,746 --> 02:22:20,826 The realm of the dead. 1531 02:22:20,826 --> 02:22:24,249 The flaming waves of the Styx lead to the gates of Hades. 1532 02:22:24,249 --> 02:22:30,394 Guarding these gates is Cerberus, the 3-headed dog. 1533 02:22:30,394 --> 02:22:32,979 Hercules must bring him back to us. 1534 02:23:34,200 --> 02:23:36,142 If this isn't hell, it's close enough. 1535 02:23:41,335 --> 02:23:43,572 Maybe there is a 3-headed dog. 1536 02:23:46,520 --> 02:23:49,304 Is that the gate to Hades? 1537 02:23:49,304 --> 02:23:51,320 Pretty doghouse. 1538 02:23:51,320 --> 02:23:53,043 Now where's the dog? 1539 02:23:54,136 --> 02:23:55,826 Hercules, look! 1540 02:24:00,183 --> 02:24:04,012 You can look for him if you get past me. 1541 02:24:08,279 --> 02:24:12,152 So the dog is really a bull. Well, why not? 1542 02:24:12,152 --> 02:24:14,583 Birds become Harpies, a lion a sphinx. 1543 02:24:14,583 --> 02:24:18,359 Why shouldn't a dog be a bull that is really just a man? 1544 02:24:18,359 --> 02:24:21,400 But I've beaten the man before. 1545 02:24:21,400 --> 02:24:23,831 Not in my domain you haven't. 1546 02:24:23,831 --> 02:24:30,687 Here, I am invincible! Aah! 1547 02:25:00,086 --> 02:25:03,350 No, Hercules, don't kill him! He was the one with Alcmene. 1548 02:25:03,350 --> 02:25:05,846 I saw the thunderbolt on his arm, and I thought he was Zeus... 1549 02:25:05,846 --> 02:25:07,340 ..but he may be your father. 1550 02:25:18,230 --> 02:25:19,926 Amphitryon gave me this. 1551 02:25:19,926 --> 02:25:23,155 Maybe I paid him back by usurping his bride night. 1552 02:25:39,381 --> 02:25:41,174 Now Hera will be served. 1553 02:25:41,174 --> 02:25:43,214 I know who you serve! 1554 02:25:46,101 --> 02:25:48,556 And it doesn't matter who my father is... 1555 02:25:49,621 --> 02:25:52,725 ..Zeus, Amphitryon, or Cretan. 1556 02:25:52,725 --> 02:25:54,383 It doesn't matter! 1557 02:25:57,685 --> 02:25:59,573 I am not my father! 1558 02:26:06,165 --> 02:26:07,669 Yes, Antaeus... 1559 02:26:07,669 --> 02:26:10,036 ..seek the Mother's strength. 1560 02:26:10,036 --> 02:26:11,733 I will earn my own. 1561 02:26:11,733 --> 02:26:15,285 My birth doesn't matter, only my life. 1562 02:26:15,285 --> 02:26:18,601 I make it have meaning, no one else. 1563 02:26:28,980 --> 02:26:32,596 We are not Gods, Antaeus, only men. 1564 02:26:32,596 --> 02:26:34,506 Only very strong men! Aah! Hyah! 1565 02:27:13,459 --> 02:27:16,176 Father! Father! Whoa. 1566 02:27:20,179 --> 02:27:21,706 Hercules. 1567 02:27:27,763 --> 02:27:30,414 Mother, I relieve you of a long burden. 1568 02:27:32,691 --> 02:27:36,814 My life is chained to burdens. Which one, my son? 1569 02:27:37,843 --> 02:27:42,121 I killed the man you thought my father, and he was not Zeus. 1570 02:27:44,755 --> 02:27:48,552 I will do no penance for his death, Tiresias, whether my father or not. 1571 02:27:49,907 --> 02:27:52,658 Your labours are done, Hercules. 1572 02:27:52,658 --> 02:27:55,219 Even though I don't bring back Cerberus? 1573 02:27:55,219 --> 02:27:57,458 What do you bring back? 1574 02:27:57,458 --> 02:27:58,985 Myself. 1575 02:28:00,530 --> 02:28:02,258 It is enough. 1576 02:28:02,258 --> 02:28:04,146 Will Eurystheus think so? 1577 02:28:04,146 --> 02:28:05,683 Will he honour his bargain... 1578 02:28:05,683 --> 02:28:07,699 ..and betroth Iole to Hyllus? 1579 02:28:07,699 --> 02:28:11,539 Your labours are done, Hercules, not your war with Eurystheus. 1580 02:28:11,539 --> 02:28:16,114 You will find no victory there until the highborn woman of Tiryns dies. 1581 02:28:16,114 --> 02:28:18,098 No more prophecies, Tiresias. 1582 02:28:18,098 --> 02:28:21,394 I will not kill Megara to get Iole for my son. 1583 02:28:21,394 --> 02:28:24,050 Megara is not of Tiryns. She is its queen. 1584 02:28:24,050 --> 02:28:27,409 She is not its queen. 1585 02:28:27,409 --> 02:28:30,994 The throne is mine and through me, yours. 1586 02:28:30,994 --> 02:28:33,138 I don't want your throne, Mother. 1587 02:28:33,138 --> 02:28:35,697 I will exact no revenge for you. 1588 02:28:35,697 --> 02:28:38,322 I do not ask you to. 1589 02:28:38,322 --> 02:28:42,481 I ask nothing from you. 1590 02:28:42,481 --> 02:28:45,645 But it is time that I do something for you. 1591 02:28:48,593 --> 02:28:51,627 I have never kissed my son. 1592 02:29:08,721 --> 02:29:12,518 I do not know how to live in your new world, Hercules. 1593 02:29:14,769 --> 02:29:18,993 And I have wronged you for so long. 1594 02:29:18,993 --> 02:29:21,513 Let me give you victory now. 1595 02:29:26,865 --> 02:29:28,556 Yes. 1596 02:29:34,801 --> 02:29:36,113 Mother! 1597 02:29:36,113 --> 02:29:41,644 I am the highborn woman of Tiryns, and I gladly die. 1598 02:30:01,008 --> 02:30:03,179 Where's the 3-headed dog? 1599 02:30:05,040 --> 02:30:07,406 Where is the dog? 1600 02:30:09,520 --> 02:30:11,243 You are a coward! 1601 02:30:16,911 --> 02:30:19,312 This is our triumph. 1602 02:30:19,312 --> 02:30:20,741 Guards! 1603 02:30:29,467 --> 02:30:31,018 Bow to your master. 1604 02:30:31,073 --> 02:30:34,323 No longer my master. My labours are done. 1605 02:30:34,461 --> 02:30:36,719 Are they? You hear the crowd. They ask the question... 1606 02:30:36,719 --> 02:30:39,055 ..I ask... where's Cerberus, the hound of Hades? 1607 02:30:39,055 --> 02:30:41,160 I don't have him. 1608 02:30:42,863 --> 02:30:45,231 Coward. 1609 02:30:45,231 --> 02:30:47,343 Where is the 3-headed dog? 1610 02:30:47,343 --> 02:30:51,499 The only dog I found had one head, and I killed it! 1611 02:31:00,591 --> 02:31:02,533 Here's his collar. 1612 02:31:14,391 --> 02:31:17,862 Sad, savage pair. 1613 02:31:18,766 --> 02:31:22,061 To have no greater ambition than to thwart me. 1614 02:31:23,791 --> 02:31:25,838 You serve neither men nor Gods. 1615 02:31:25,838 --> 02:31:30,286 What do you know of Gods? When have they ever smiled on you? 1616 02:31:30,286 --> 02:31:33,870 It doesn't matter if the Gods smile on me or curse me. 1617 02:31:33,870 --> 02:31:36,974 I make my own destiny. 1618 02:31:36,974 --> 02:31:41,098 Give Hyllus and Iole the chance to make theirs. 1619 02:31:42,349 --> 02:31:43,694 No! 1620 02:31:43,694 --> 02:31:45,902 He tries to steal my child. Seize the traitor. 1621 02:31:45,902 --> 02:31:49,230 Seize him! 1622 02:31:49,230 --> 02:31:52,491 See, Tiryns? The great hero turns on his masters. 1623 02:31:56,174 --> 02:31:57,668 Hercules! 1624 02:32:06,861 --> 02:32:09,447 Remember who captured the Cretan bull! 1625 02:32:10,445 --> 02:32:13,707 Nemea remember its debt to Hercules! 1626 02:32:27,373 --> 02:32:29,445 Flank left! Flank right! 1627 02:32:40,621 --> 02:32:43,309 He failed. He failed! 1628 02:32:43,309 --> 02:32:45,356 He has disgraced himself! 1629 02:32:45,356 --> 02:32:47,429 He's no hero! Aah! Aah! 1630 02:33:11,276 --> 02:33:13,228 Go hide yourself. 1631 02:33:13,228 --> 02:33:18,018 He slew children. He defies me, his lord! 1632 02:33:19,051 --> 02:33:22,368 He defies the Gods with blasphemous prayers. Aah! 1633 02:33:36,876 --> 02:33:38,636 Eurystheus... 1634 02:33:38,636 --> 02:33:40,427 ..I don't want your throne. 1635 02:33:40,427 --> 02:33:42,150 Stay your weapons! 1636 02:33:47,883 --> 02:33:50,955 Unite the house of Perseus through our children. 1637 02:33:50,955 --> 02:33:53,291 Just keep your word... 1638 02:33:53,291 --> 02:33:55,680 ..and there will be a better future for all. 1639 02:33:58,506 --> 02:34:00,197 Hyllus! 1640 02:34:02,027 --> 02:34:05,163 Drop your bow, Hercules, and the boy lives. 1641 02:34:05,163 --> 02:34:08,010 Shoot me and he dies. 1642 02:34:08,010 --> 02:34:10,694 If I drop my bow, you will kill us both. 1643 02:34:13,995 --> 02:34:16,171 Hyllus, do you trust me? 1644 02:34:16,171 --> 02:34:17,643 With my life, father. 1645 02:34:17,643 --> 02:34:20,842 It will be your life or your father's. 1646 02:34:20,842 --> 02:34:24,737 My arrow's pointed at his head. Now lower your bow, Hercules! No! 1647 02:34:45,258 --> 02:34:47,112 Hyllus will never marry Iole. 1648 02:35:08,713 --> 02:35:10,346 It seems... 1649 02:35:10,346 --> 02:35:13,545 ..Tiresias' prophecy comes true. 1650 02:35:13,545 --> 02:35:18,249 The union of our two children will heal all ills. 1651 02:35:18,249 --> 02:35:20,321 Not my ills. 1652 02:35:42,248 --> 02:35:44,329 Hercules! 1653 02:35:44,329 --> 02:35:56,442 Hercules! Hercules! Hercules! Hercules! Hercules! Hercules! Hercules! Hercules! 1654 02:36:31,016 --> 02:36:34,758 A poet is no priest, but he knows love when he sees it. 1655 02:36:38,375 --> 02:36:40,644 Drink from the wedding cup. 1656 02:36:42,152 --> 02:36:46,691 May your life together forever be as sweet as the wine you share. 1657 02:36:48,360 --> 02:36:52,647 The labours are over, woes all depart. 1658 02:36:52,647 --> 02:36:56,542 Home comes the hero, home to his heart. 1659 02:37:02,407 --> 02:37:05,895 We, the children of nature, have no words or rituals... 1660 02:37:05,895 --> 02:37:09,446 ..to bless the blending of two hearts, my love. 1661 02:37:09,446 --> 02:37:11,814 Our hearts need none. 1662 02:37:11,814 --> 02:37:13,927 I offer only a prayer. 1663 02:37:13,927 --> 02:37:18,150 May Hera and Zeus find the love that we know.