Original subtitles

(men shouting indistinctly)

prisoner: don't ieave us down here! we'ii drown iike rats!

hercules: shut up or i'ii toss you overboard! you stay chained!

we're never gonna make it to sparta.

we'ii make it. (chuckles)

you murdered a man. you will stand trial forthat.

you are a fool! these seas are filled with pirates.

ifthe storm doesn't kill us, theywill.

(lightning crackling) we'ii see.

(men shouting indistinctly)

(grunts) so much for pirates.

(thunder cracking)

derk: hercules!

unchain me! we're gonna capsize!

just hold on! (yelling) whoa!

(men yelling)

ifthe boat sinks, i'm gonna go down with it!

we'ii all go down.

you won't. you're not chained to it.

cut me ioose.

(lightning crackling)

(grunts)

derk: we're going down! every man for himself!

(men screaming)

(grunting)

(waves crashing)

(grunts)

(groaning)

(groaning)

(gasping)

(grunts)

(groaning)

(grunts)

(gasping)

(grunts)

(tearing)

(sighs)

(groans)

(sighing)

thanks for saving me.

narrator: this is thestory ofa time long ago,

a time ofmyth andlegend,

when the ancientgods werepettyandcruel

and theyplagued mankind with suffering.

onlyone man dared to challenge theirpower.

hercules.

hercules possessedastrength the worldhadneverseen,

astrength surpassed only bythepowerofhis heart.

hejourneyed the earth, battling the minions of his wickedstepmother, hera,

the all-powerful queen ofthe gods.

but wherever there was evil,

whereveran innocent wouldsuffer,

there would be hercules.

(screeching)

(growling)

(roaring)

(all cheering)

(waves crashing)

(grunts softly)

(groans)

(panting)

"thanks for saving me."

(grunting)

(groans)

(grunts)

(groaning)

(branch cracking)

derk: don't worry.

it'sjust atree stump.

but you're wise to be careful.

now i figure we're even.

how do you figure that?

you saved my iife on the boat,

and i didn't kill you on the beach.

oh, i suppose i should thankyou.

if i wanted you dead, you wouldn't be here.

well, i'm here now.

like i said. we're even.

but ifyou keep on coming after me, i will kill you.

(grunting)

(both grunting)

(gasping)

(clanking)

derk: i'm warning you, don't follow me!

(sighs)

(sniffing)

(spits)

(rat chittering)

(bird squawking)

(chittering)

(rat slurping)

(rat growls)

(water splashes)

man 1: think anyone made it off the prison ship?

man 2: spread out! look for survivors! let's go.

man 3: search the beach. maybe the gold washed ashore.

tracks.

human tracks.

someone was trying to coverthem.

man: right overthere. why bother?

unless the gold was on the prison ship iike you said.

over here! tracks! i see tracks!

here! this way!

there are only two sets oftracks.

the gold is either at the bottom ofthe ocean,

orthose two buried it.

what ifthey don't want to tell us?

then we will just have to persuade them.

(laughing wickedly)

(laughter echoing)

(grunts)

(panting)

(groans)

(yells)

your camouflage needs a iittle work.

doesn't matter. you're still a dead man.

(both grunting)

(groaning)

(grunting)

(grunts)

(grunting)

(yelling)

(groans)

(grunts)

(groaning)

(both grunting)

you're good, hercules, even with one arm. but are you good enough?

(grunts)

(grunting)

(screams in surprise)

(panting)

here, iet me help.

(grunting)

(screaming) oh, no!

derk: that's a dried-up well you're in.

better start digging.

(grunting) we'd find water a iot quicker

ifyou were down here helping me.

(laughs) true. verytrue.

but i need my rest.

(grunts)

(grunts)

(smashing)

big eggs.

looks iike we're not alone.

(snoring softly)

(grunting)

(grunts)

(flies buzzing)

(groans)

have a nice nap? (grunts)

(derk panting)

look, the onlyway we're gonna get off this island

is ifwe work together.

(groaning) oh, yeah.

nowyou wanna worktogether.

just keep digging.

i could dig a iot faster if my arms were untied.

yeah, i suppose you could.

what if i promise not to escape?

i rememberthe iast time i gave you a break.

besides,

i iike knowing where you are.

(grunts)

your arm swelling?

it's probably infected.

could use my help fixing it.

(panting)

i can handle it myself.

(sizzling)

(groaning)

(laughing)

should we bury him?

whywaste the effort?

you two go on ahead. split up ifyou have to, but find water.

(grunts affirmatively)

sordis: you. backto the ship. bring water.

man: yes, sir.

i doubt ifthese two have found water, either.

they must be getting weaker.

let us hope they do not die

before theytell us where they hid the gold. (chuckles)

(chuckles) i should've become a farmer iike my father.

and why didn't you?

i didn't have his touch forthe soil.

(chuckles)

that's too bad. you wouldn't be here now.

i guess it's iike every son.

you eitherwanna be just iike your father orjust the opposite.

(grunts) so you became a killer?

no.

not at first.

soldiering was just the thing

to get me the furthest away from that farm.

(grunts)

you hated your father that much?

no. i...

i ioved him.

i just wanted to go on my own.

(grunting)

water! water!

i found water! i hit water!

(groans) oh!

(spits)

(sighs)

salt.

oh... (panting)

i've been all over the east side ofthis island,

and there's no safe water to be found.

then we'ii have to head west.

(low rumbling)

(screeching)

oh, i know he didn't get up there without iegs.

no.

my guess is he ieft them

with whomever was chasing him.

we've been on this island fortwo days.

i haven't seen anything big enough to do that.

(sighs) sometimes,

it's what you can't see that can hurt you the most.

rememberthose strange-iooking pods we saw in the well?

what about 'em?

i think they're egg sacs.

wow, theywere huge.

i know.

(sighs)

well, o great monster killer, what are our choices?

there's no water, no choices. we keep heading west.

(men speaking indistinctly)

(growls) sordis.

no gold buried down here.

(growls in frustration)

man: pull him up.

(grunts)

they could not have carried it this far.

if it survived the storm, it's backwhere they ianded.

don't worry,

we'ii get them to tell us.

that saltwater couldn't have done them any good.

you thinkwe're gaining on 'em?

they're dragging their feet.

they have to be on their iast iegs.

(growls)

how's that arm?

you shut up and keep moving.

(chuckles)

(groans)

(yelling)

(both yelling)

(yelling echoing)

get up!

(grunting)

(yelling)

(chittering)

(panting) you fool.

you should be saving your strength.

(both grunting)

(yells)

(panting)

(grunting)

(creature roaring)

(screaming)

(grunting)

(creature chittering)

(grunting)

(yelling)

(creature screeches)

(grunts) oh, what was that?

(groans)

i have no idea.

(screeching) oh!

(grunting)

(grunting)

(panting)

(low rumbling)

(both gasping)

(grunts)

over here!

(growling)

(grunts)

where'd it go?

(whispering) derk. the shell.

(rumbling)

(screeching)

(burps)

i guess he doesn't care much for shells.

yeah.

or burrowing through stone.

you're pretty good at that.

must have had some practice.

when you're a soldier, you learn.

tell me something.

why do you keep saving me?

the reward's the same whether my head's in a bag or not.

i told you before, i'm not interested in the money.

what then?

justice? (chuckles)

you can't really believe that i'ii getjustice.

you should've thought ofthat before you killed lycus.

i doubt that lycus gave it athought

when he killed the sons ofthe woman that hired me.

i've known lycus a iong time.

i've never known him to kill anyone.

when was the iast time you saw lycus?

there's a family in attica without any male heirs because of him.

aii i know is that the courts

decide guilt and punishment. not mercenaries.

well, the courts didn't punish lycus, so i did.

and how do i know you've been telling the truth?

because i'm not a iiar.

no. you just kill people.

(both grunting)

derk, derk, this isn't the time forthis.

why?

i'ii give you three reasons.

(low rumbling)

(rumbling continues)

derk: we're going to be here until we rot.

have you always been so optimistic?

no. i'm just... i'm tired.

i'm tired of being chased. i'm tired of running.

(sighs deeply) i'm just tired.

ifyou don't bring me back, they'ii just send somebodywho will.

you should've considered that

before becoming a killer for hire.

well, the army doesn't train you for peacetime work.

(scoffs)

look, ifwe get out ofthis, i wanna make a deal.

it's no deals.

before you take me back, i wanna see my family again.

seems strange for a family man

to be in your kind of business.

it put food on the table, all right?

you give me yourword that i can see my family once more,

and i promise i won't tryto run away anymore.

myword is good.

deal.

but i want something from you first.

aii right. name it.

you're right about my arm. it's getting worse,

and i...

i need some help.

well, i've set a few iimbs,

and i've cut a few iimbs off, when necessary.

this is foryou.

to bite on.

(grunts)

(groans)

you ready?

(groans) (bone cracks)

(bone snaps) (yells)

i didn't do anything otherthan kill somebody who had killed someone else.

revenge never evens out.

itjust perpetuates itself.

(creature roars)

(rock thumps)

you everthink about the families ofthe men you kill?

no. what's the point? it'd only make the work harder.

(creature snorts) maybe you should start.

(creature growls)

(rock thumps)

i can smell them.

come on!

(grunts)

(creature growling)

(grunts)

throw another one.

what?

throw another rock.

maybe they've gone. maybe...

(shushing) (men screaming distantly)

hercules: listen. (screaming continues)

(creature growling)

they found somebody else. come on.

shouldn't we be going that way?

no. they may need our help.

wait. (grunts)

maybe they have water.

(screaming continues)

(man shrieking)

(creature growling)

(screaming)

(screaming)

(screaming)

(screaming) stop! stop!

(screaming)

(screaming) help me!

get it off! help!

(creature chittering)

(growling)

(screaming)

get it off!

(growling continues)

(screaming) help!

(screaming continues)

(screeching)

(screaming continues)

(grunts)

(squealing)

(screams)

quiet! don't move. (muffled gasping)

(screaming)

(laughing wickedly)

don't do anything.

(muffled gasping)

(man screaming hysterically)

(screaming)

(creature growling)

(screaming)

(muffled gasp)

(muffled gasping)

(grunts)

(panicking)

(gasping)

stop.

(whispers) stop.

(continues gasping)

(soft growling)

(soft rumbling)

(growling growing loud)

(screaming)

(creature screeching)

hercules: head forthose pillars.

come on! hurry!

come on! faster!

(chittering)

(screeching)

(panting)

(chittering)

(grunts) whoa!

(sighs)

(panting)

(whispers) hey.

you have enough energy to do a flip?

yeah. if my iife depended on it.

it does.

get down the middle here.

(whispers) what?

just get down.

i'ii tell you when tojump.

(growling)

now!

(grunts)

(growling)

(creature squealing)

thanks.

(grunts)

there are still two ieft. you got any ideas?

just one.

it doesn't require ieaping, does it?

(chuckles)

(sighs in disgust) oh!

remember, run fast.

go!

(chittering)

(grunts)

now!

(creature growling)

(creature screeching)

(creature screeching)

(both creatures screeching)

(both grunting)

(both creatures squealing)

(sighs)

(panting)

let's get outta here.

yeah. water's west.

(huffs)

those men didn't drop out ofthe sky.

their ship and theirwater is east.

(panting) let's go.

(grunts)

(both chuckling)

man: let 'em roll! you owe me ten dinars!

ah! (chuckling)

hey! i need your boat.

(man yelling)

(grunts)

(grunting)

(bone cracking)

(yelling)

i'm surprised you didn't kill him.

well, i guess you're rubbing offon me.

let's go see your family.

thankyou.

you're welcome. (knocking on door)

kara: who's there?

daddy!

it's not our daddy.

girl: then who are you?

i'm hercules.

(girl giggling) you don't mind putting them to bed?

oh, not at all!

thankyou.

where are you going, mom? oh, i won't be iong.

you just iisten to hercules.

my dad used to tell us stories before we went to bed.

can you?

i, uh... (chuckles) i'm a iittle out of practice,

but i'ii see what i can do.

(chuckles) derk!

i was so afraid i'd never see you again.

then you're going backwith him?

i have to.

i gave myword.

maybe marcus can do something.

he's the new magistrate in sparta.

he's more concerned with his career than my iife.

(sighs) oh! but that's so unfair.

i know.

there's a iot of things i've done

that i haven't told you about, that i'm ashamed of.

i'm...

i'ii wake the children so you can say goodbye.

no.

promise me you won't tell 'em i'm here.

but why?

ifthey iove me iike i iove them,

they might end up iike me,

and i want a better iife forthem than that.

but, derk, you can'tjust...

promise me.

ifthey need someone to iook up to, iet it be my father.

or hercules.

i promise.

but you should see them.

wejust won't wake them.

(footsteps approaching)

we'd better go.

(bell tolling)

execute him. (people speaking indistinctly)

next.

prisoner: no, please! have mercy!

i was onlytrying to feed my family!

court officer: derkus petronicus.

his crime?

court officer: assassination of a public official.

(chuckles)

(gavel bangs) execute him. next.

hold on here.

doesn't he get atrial?

he was tried in absentia and found guilty.

i meant a fairtrial. what about counsel?

this is spartan law.

you do believe in the law, don't you?

i believe in justice.

hmm.

justice. (snickers)

now, wait a minute! save your breath.

the spartans have their own kind ofjustice.

but it's not right.

neither is what i did.

(hammering)

get on with it!

(clanking)

guard: oh! look! above!

(grunting)

court officer: guards! guards! stop him! he's getting away!

after him, you fools!

(grunting)

(both grunting)

(groaning)

guard: come on! there he is!

(guards clamoring)

(guards shouting indistinctly)

(grunting)

(panting)

(gasps)

(groans) don't you ever give up?

i suppose you've come to take me back again.

that was my arrow.

why?

what was happening to you,

it wasn'tjustice.

thankyou.

it's not that easy.

you go back to your family.

you be a farmer, a fisherman,

but you put your mercenary days behind you.

it's done. give you myword.

good.

(guards shouting from a distance)

you'd better get going. it won't be iong before they pick up yourtrail.

hercules,

you're always welcome in my home.

(shouting continues)

(panting)