Original subtitles

There it is, Hercules.

Thebes.

HERCULES: Why do home towns always Iook smaller than you rememberthem?

Yeah.

Where are Jason and AIcmene meeting us?

Uh, bythe old homestead.

Be good to see them again. Yeah.

(HORSE NEIGHING)

(GASPS) Whoa.

Great. Hera's welcome.

That Iightning wasn't meant for us.

Come on.

(PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

WOMAN: Keep the water coming!

MAN 1: It's useless! The fire's more than we can handle!

MAN 2: Watch the roof!

MAN 3: It's spreading! More water.

Get more water over here!

Need a hand?

FARMER: Hercules! Thankthe Gods!

AII our supplies are in that barn.

Ifthey burn, we'II starve!

Keep those buckets coming!

Herc, where are we going to get enough waterto put this fire out?

Look out!

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

Everyone, get back!

Hurry back!

(GRUNTS)

What's he doing?

Improvising in the face ofdisaster.

Okay, come on! Get out! Get back!

Come on. Get back!

(GRUNTING)

Get back! Come on.

(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

(CHUCKLING) Hey.

You can Ieave us in here as Iong as you want,

we still won't worship Hera!

And we're not gonna pay her atithing either.

And ifyou don't Iike that,

you can take it up with Hercules.

Yourvillages will worship Hera or die.

Then you better kill us,

whateveryou are.

(SCREAMS)

(GASPS)

Nowwhere is Hercules?

Stop!

I'm not going to kill you.

I want you to spread the word about me.

Now bow down to Hera,

and prepare for aworld in which Hercules Iies rotting in his grave.

(LAUGHING EVILLY)

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)

You couldn't have arrived at a bettertime, Hercules.

Are you sticking around for awhile?

Well, I'm not sure, Vytos.

Well, the village still has a potluck every noon.

Comejoin us.

We'II see.

MAN: We're lucky the whole town didn't go up.

WOMAN: Thanks to Hercules.

You know, uh... The fire's out.

Look at these people.

There's such strength in this community.

Everything that's good and decent.

And Hera can wipe it all out with a single act ofvengeance.

How Iong has it been?

AImost two years.

I've onlyvisited their graves once since I buried them.

That's not right.

Yeah,

but beating yourself up about it isn't right either.

You know, uh,

you can't Iive in the past.

I don't want to.

I just don't want to Iose it, that's all.

Well...

Look, why don't you go ahead?

You need some time. I'II catch up Later.

Think I will.

I wish I'd been here to take better care ofyou.

From the daywe met, that's all I everwanted.

It's hard to be reminded that I can't do it anymore.

(SIGHS) I guess that's why it's taken me so Iong to come back.

I'm afraid to admit this, but sometimes I feel Iike

without you, I don't know why I keep on fighting.

I knowwhat you'd say. You'd say,

"You did a great thing today, helping to save all those people."

But tomorrow,

Hera'sjust going to destroy something else.

And the day afterthat.

Thingsjust

seemed to make more sense

when I had you and the children to hold.

I miss you, Deianeira.

Yeah.

JASON: Hercules!

There he is.

ALCMENE: (CHUCKLES) Hercules.

Mother. Hercules.

Oh, your flowers. (CHUCKLING)

Jason. Hercules, good to see you.

Right, good to see you. Where's Iolaus?

Oh, he's back at the town. He'II join us Later.

Come on. I want to show you something.

Okay.

Iolaus,

if it weren't for you and Hercules,

I'd be standing in a pile ofashes about now.

So what has Hera got against you?

Well, this village and all the neighboring ones,

we haven't been keeping up hertemple.

It's persecution. Well, that's...

Vytos!

Vytos, Vytos. She's terrible, terrible!

Hey, hey, take it easy, friend.

No, you don't understand.

She's deadly. Worse than I've ever seen.

At the Heratemple.

She?

Perdius, from the next village,

he hit her from behind with a sword.

Split her Iike a melon, he did.

Fire shot out from her insides,

and shejust pulled herself backtogether.

Said she was... Was...

What? What did she say?

Said she was gonna kill Hercules.

I gottawarn him!

(LAUGHING)

I was overthere...

(LAUGHING)

(PANTING)

(GROANS)

(GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

Tell me where Hercules is.

Never.

(YELLS)

(GROANS)

(GRUNTING)

(SCREAMS)

Last chance, Iittle man.

Where's Hercules?

Okay.

I'II tell you.

You just have to

come a Iittle closer.

(GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

ENFORCER II: Eat dirt.

(LAUGHING)

(GROANING)

HERCULES: This is where I taught the kids to swim.

IIayatookto the water Iike a mermaid.

ALCMENE: This will always be your home, no matterwhere you travel.

Hmm.

JASON: Maybe you're getting ready to settle down again.

Aren't you the same man that taught me to chase adventure,

no matter where it Ied me?

(CHUCKLES) And I meant it.

But it sounds Iike you've forgotten a more important Iesson.

Really? And what's that?

Well, awarrior can find greater comfort in his own home.

Oh, I haven't forgotten, Jason.

It'sjust that that kind of Iife seems so far away now.

Do you thinkyou could ever Iet yourself have that chance again?

Mother, I ask myself that same question every day.

(WEAKLY) Hercules...

Iolaus?

ALCMENE: Oh!

(GASPING)

Iolaus, what happened?

There's another Enforcer.

At Hera's temple.

Worse than before.

She's... She's afteryou.

(EXHALES)

Iolaus?

Iolaus?

Come on, Iolaus.

Come on!

No.

Hercules,

he's dead.

No.

No!

I'm so sorry.

He was a brave warrior.

He put offdying so he could warn you.

No. I'm not gonna Iet him die.

(GRUNTS)

Hades?

I knowyou can hear me!

Where are you?

Hades!

Hades!

Hades!

Hades!

Hades!

Hades, where are you?

(GASPING)

Wha...

Whywere you carrying me?

Wait a minute. Where are we?

The other side.

The other side ofwhat?

You're dead?

I'm dead?

Yeah.

Toast.

Yeah.

Oh, I can't believe that!

You'd better believe it.

Show a Iittle consideration, Hades.

Iolaus has had a rough day.

That's Hades?

Iolaus isn't staying here, Hades. Do I make myselfclear?

Well, considering the condition he was in when he Ieft Earth,

which, if I must remind you, was dead,

I don't see he has any other choice.

But don't worry. He'II be going to the EIysian Fields.

No, no, no.

Mywife and children are the ones who didn't have any other choice.

Hercules, please. Think ofthe precedent I'd be setting. I can't.

Think of the precedent I set

when I convinced Demeter to Iet Persephone stay down here with you.

Hercules is right.

He's the reason you and I are here together.

Yeah, but only six months ofthe year.

Ifyou're not nice to him,

it's going to be no months ayear.

But... But, sweet pea,

Iolaus is practically permanent inventory right now.

That's not true.

You know how badly things are backed up

afterthe earthquake in Thracia.

You're buried in paperwork, overbooked

and this new Enforcer isjust gonna make things even worse.

Besides, you did promise me a Iittle qualitytime.

We were supposed to go on vacation Iast week.

Well?

Okay, okay, okay.

Ifyou want Iolaus back,

you're going to have to defeat Hera's Iatest homicidal freak.

But there are conditions.

What conditions?

Well, firstly, you have to do it by sunset.

Why sunset?

Well, those arejust the rules.

And second...

Walkwith me. I'II explain.

Just Hercules.

Who makes these rules?

HERCULES: Make it quick.

I've got a deadline, remember?

HADES: Keep your hair on.

I'm trying to find out away to tell you that

there's no way you can win on your own this time.

I've beaten everything else Hera's thrown at me.

Yeah, well, you've never gone up against anything Iike this.

It can't be tougher than the Enforcer.

She is.

Trust me.

HADES: No need to be reacquainted I see.

What is she doing here?

She's not even human.

Yeah, well, Charon's been slipping up a Iittle bit Iately,

and he brought her here.

Persephone can't stand her.

AIways following us around Iike a guard dog.

And I mean everywhere.

It's putting a real cramp on our Iove Iife.

Quite frankly, I haven't been

able to figure out what to do with her.

I can think ofa fewthings.

Until now.

You're gonna need some help.

Oh, no, no, no. Not on your Iife.

What about Iolaus's?

Hades,

she was put on this Earth forthe sole purpose ofdestroying me.

Because she had no soul. Now she needs one.

Ifshe does a good deed up there,

then I'II know what to do with her down here.

And ifshe screws up?

Oh!

Don't do this to me, Hades.

Hercules!

What happened? Where's Iolaus?

With Hades.

I've got till sunset to save him.

(GROANS)

JASON: Get behind me, AIcmene.

No, it's all right. It's all right. She's with me.

(CHUCKLES) You have to help everyone?

It's good to be back.

(CHUCKLES) Hard to get atan down here, huh?

Don't be so blue, Iolaus.

You'II Iike it. I just knowyou will.

Those guys don't seem too crazy about it.

That's because they're doomed to stay

in the Asphodel Caverns for all eternity.

They're the fallen generals.

And all they can talk about

is battles and strategy and weapons.

Nobodywants to Iisten to them, so...

Iolaus?

Well, well.

What are you doing here, boy?

Hello to you too,

Dad.

ALCMENE: Hercules, where are we going?

I know a place where you'II be safe until I get back.

Sofia Caves? You got it.

So, how Iong have you and Hercules been friends?

Friends?

That's what I thought.

Hercules! Don't ask, Mother.

(CHUCKLES)

ALCMENE: Your friend's not much

ofa conversationalist, Hercules.

JASON: Oh, they say, "Still waters run deep."

HERCULES: I'm not sure that applies in her case.

JASON: So this new Enforcer,

what do you think Hera's concocted?

I don't know.

But she could be carved in stone

and be better company than this one.

She's Hera's Enforcer?

Yep.

She... She's going with you?

I'm afraid so.

(STAMMERS) Can you trust her?

Ah, nope. But I don't have a choice.

Don't worry. I'II be careful.

Trouble.

HERCULES: Split up!

(ALCMENE GASPS)

(WHIMPERING)

(ENFORCER II LAUGHING)

Jason, what's she doing?

Great.

Mother! Jason!

We're all right, Hercules.

No, we're not. Get us out of here!

That's hot.

HERCULES: She's sealing us in.

Great.

Signed, sealed, delivered!

Foryou, Hera!

(LAUGHS)

Got any bright ideas?

Huh, that's what I thought.

Jason, your Ieg!

Get it out!

(WATER BUBBLING)

A knife.

Jason, throw me a knife!

Knife? Why does he want a knife?

JASON: Don't ask.

How quickly can you heal yourself?

Do it.

Are you sure? Now.

Jason, Mother, go!

That way!

Leave this to me.

(HERCULES GRUNTS)

Oh!

Oh! Is everyone okay?

(SOBBING) Oh!

She is also made ofwater?

Hmm?

Oh, no, no.

Sometimes people cry when they're happy.

You are not happy.

Oh, yes, yes, I am.

I do not understand.

Buyyou a drink?

MAN: It's Hera's death squad come to kill us!

(CLAMORING)

WOMAN: Where are my children? I have to save them!

Don't Iet them escape!

(SCREAMING)

(GROANS)

This isjust the start nowthat Hercules is dead.

There will be no more backsliding in worship,

and no one to stand in ourway.

Soon the entire province will be ours.

And then all ofGreece.

For Hera!

SOLDIERS: (CHANTING) Hera! Hera!

Well, I hope you were man enough to go down fighting.

Yeah, I was.

Good. Good. Chip off the old block, huh?

Well, you'II have to straighten out some ofthese muttonheads.

I've been swapping yarns with.

They don't seem to understand

the importance of my pincer movement

at the battle of Hellespont.

And theywere generals too, just Iike me.

Can you believe that?

Well, come on, boy.

Check it out foryourself.

Firstly,

my name is not boy, it's Iolaus.

Oh, a Iittle peevish, are we?

Yeah, well, getting killed can do that to a man.

And secondly,

don't you wanna know what happened to Mother?

I don't think about her much. Did you ever?

You watch yourtongue, boy.

I'm still your commanding officer.

No, you're not.

You're a coward,

who deserted his wife and family.

Grow up, boy!

There were wars to be fought.

And I protected your right to be a crybaby in all ofthem.

You knowwhat?

I think Mother really was the lucky one.

She didn't know it backthen when you Ieft her,

but she does now.

She married a poet,

and she has never been happier.

A poet?

(SCOFFS)

So you go back and you tell all your friends

about the slaughters you've seen.

Have a nice afterlife, Dad.

No.

I don't think I will.

Not now.

Poet.

HERCULES: This is the shortest way home.

Keep your eyes open.

How's the Ieg, Jason?

Don't worry about me.

Is it all right if I worry about you?

You, you're allowed.

She's close. Yeah, real close.

Keep an eye on Mother and Jason!

I don't need a nursemaid.

Still alive?

Last time I checked.

You are lucky, son ofZeus.

That's my middle name.

(GRUNTING)

I owed you that one.

Take cover!

(MUFFLED SCREAMING)

(ALCMENE WHIMPERING)

(SCREAMING)

Jason, where's Mother?

She must have taken cover.

JASON: I'II find her.

(GRUNTING)

Stay.

(GRUNTS ANGRILY)

Let her go.

(GASPS)

Ooh, I'm scared now.

You should be.

(GROANS)

Hmm.

(GASPS)

Stay!

Run now.

Thankyou.

Oh.

Mother, you all right?

I'm okay.

Jason!

(GROANING)

(YELLING)

(SOLDIERS SCREAMING)

(GROANS)

Lost your grip?

(LAUGHS)

When you're hot, you're hot.

(WATER BUBBLING)

Ooh, you're steaming now.

Are you all right?

You have to help the Enforcer.

She helped me escape.

(ENFORCER SCREAMING)

You wait here.

(GURGLING)

I'm sorry.

No, I was wrong.

You helped save my mother's Iife.

And forthat, I will always be your friend.

Friend.

It's

somebodywho cares about you.

Happy.

What happens to the Enforcer nowthat she's dead?

I don't know. Hades doesn't make that decision.

(SIGHS) I better get going.

If I don't end this by sundown, I'II Iose Iolaus.

Not byyourself.

Give me a couple minutes. I'II be good as new.

Stay here. You'II be safe.

Yeah, but you're going up against something

that nobody can defeat alone.

Listen to him, please, Hercules.

There's been enough tragedy for one day.

I've never backed away from Hera before.

I'm not about to start now.

HADES: I can't believe this guy, moping about Iike...

His pet parakeet just flew away.

Hades,

sometimes you are such ajerk.

What? What did I say?

Everything, except forwhat you should have.

He's thinking about his father.

Are you okay? Yeah. Yeah.

I, uh...

Is he so different from me?

I mean, I feel Iike I've been blaming him for all my mistakes.

Like he could have prevented me from making them.

He's human, isn't he?

Got his strengths, his weaknesses.

Boy, does he have weaknesses.

I just think...

I Lied to you.

I want you to knowthat.

I thought about your mother and you kids

every day after I walked out,

but I... I just couldn't go back.

I was too ashamed, frightened.

I'm sorry you felt that way.

And I... I'm...

I'm sorry I felt the way I did.

It was no more than I deserved.

Well, I'd... I'd better get back.

They count on me to keep them in Iine.

Is, uh, that what you reallywant?

Well, no, to tell you the truth.

Military strategy's about as interesting to me as boiled fish.

But I don't know how else to fill in mytime.

Then maybe you don't belong there anymore.

You thinkyou could get by in the EIysian Fields?

Oh, reporting for duty, sir.

You comin' along?

Uh, no. No thanks. I, uh...

I'm just stubborn enough to believe that Hercules will save me.

Stubborn, huh?

Wonderwhere you picked that up.

Oh, well, have it yourway...

Boy.

(SKOUROS LAUGHS)

Well, there it is then.

(CHUCKLES)

(ENFORCER II LAUGHS)

(ENFORCER II LAUGHS)

It hurts, doesn't it?

Let's get this overwith.

Good.

I'm going to enjoy tearing you apart.

Oh! She's good.

(YELLS)

(SCREAMING)

What's the matter, Herky? Can't take the heat?

(LAUGHS) This isjust the start.

I'm Iooking forward to it.

(INHALES)

(HERCULES PANTING)

(GROANING)

(LAUGHING)

(BOTH GRUNTING)

(BOTH SCREAM)

(SIGHS)

PIaywith fire, you get burned.

(SIGHS)

Iolaus.

Herc!

Herc, you did it!

(LAUGHS) I knewyou would!

I wish I'd been as sure of it as you were.

Oh, come on. There was never any doubt.

Was there? Uh...

(LAUGHS)

Hey, guess who I met down here.

Don't make him guess.

It's time for show-and-tell, boys and girls.

Oh, Hades, you're so sweet.

I'm the king ofsweetness, my dear.

Watch.

Hey, hey,

what's she doing with my dad?

HERCULES: Going to the EIysian Fields.

What?

Oh, don't worry. She... She deserves it.

Oh.

Well, I guess he does too.

You know, it's funny.

He turned out to be a nicer guy than I thought.

First time I've ever felt good about my family.

You know, Hercules, you're, uh, you're here.

You could... You could see yours.

I can open awindow to theirworld.

Uh, thanks forthe offer, Hades.

But I know a place where I can go and do more than just Iook at them.

If I could bring you back, too, I would.

But I can't.

AII I can promise is that

they'II nevertake this corner ofthe Earth we call our home.

It's where our memories dwell.

And maybe memories are enough.

Becausejust thinking about you,

makes you come alive for me again.

And that's a reason to keep going, isn't it?

Our Iove

will Iive forever.