"Copyright from ecOtOne™" "(THUNDER RUMBLING)" "IOLAUS:" "Yöu think yöu know the truth about him?" "Yöu know nothing." "(LIGHTNING CRASHING)" "His father was Zeus." "The Zeus." "King of the gods." "His mother, alcmene, a mortal woman." "Together, they had a boy." "Half human, half God." "But Zeus' queen, hera, saw this bastard child as an insult, a living reminder of her husband's infidelity." "Alcmene named the boy Hercules, which means "glory of hera,"" "but this failed to appease the goddess." "She wanted him dead." "(HISSING)" "(CRUSHING)" "(GASPS)" "Luckily, he took after his father." "Once he reached manhood, the gods commanded him to perform twelve labors, twelve dangerous missions." "If he completed them all and survived, hera agreed to finally let him live in peace." "(ROARING)" "He fought the lernean hydra!" "(ROARING)" "(PANTING)" "He battled the erymanthean boar!" "But his greatest labor was the nemean lion." "(LION GROWLING)" "This was no ordinary beast." "(ROARS)" "It had a hide so tough, no weapon could penetrate it." "(ROARING LOUDLY)" "But even this monster was no match for the son of Zeus." "What a load of crap!" "Every word is true." "(MEN LAUGHING)" " (IOLAUS WHIMPERS)" " GRYZA:" "Yöu know what I think?" "This friend of yöurs doesn't even exist." "(MEN CONTINUE LAUGHING)" "IOLAUS:" "Laugh all yöu want." "He's coming." "And be warned, gryza, he despises pirates." "Macedonia has been good to us." "Plenty of villages ripe for pillaging." "We are here to stay." "Finish him." "(GASPING)" "The more yöu struggle, the faster yöu drop." "(GRYZA CHUCKLES)" "Indeed, yöur fleet is strong." "I..." "Yet, as I was about to explain before I was so rudely interrupted, the nemean lion was strong, too." "Yet, he still destroyed it." "And not with a sword or a spear or arrows." "No!" "I did it with my bare hands!" "Or so they say." "Hercules." "Is this all the men yöu have?" "There's 40 of us." "One of yöu." "The king of this land has offered me gold to dispose of yöu." "So leave, or die." "I get paid either way." "Make him bleed." "(MEN YELLING)" "Five men with a single blow." "Still think yöu can destroy the son of Zeus?" "Bring me his head!" "(MEN YELLING)" "Seems they need more convincing, autolycus." "That's why we're here." "(MEN SCREAM)" " Atalanta." " (GROANS)" "Amphiaraus." "May Zeus forgive yöu." " Tydeus?" " (YELLING)" "(ALL GRUNTING)" "(MEN SCREAMING)" "Die, Hercules!" "(SCREAMING STOPS)" "Ah, good man. (CHUCKLES)" "(PANTING)" "(ROPE SNAPPING)" "Hurry!" "Hurry!" "Uncle!" "(YELPING)" "Uncle, hurry!" "Hurry!" "Hurry!" "(SCREAMS)" "Any longer, Uncle..." "And the girls would finally be safe from yöur attentions." "The rest of yöu may go." "But not yöu." "Thirteen, 14, 15, 16," " 17, 18, 19, 20." " That was fun." "Twenty pirates at two gold pieces a head, minus the headless ones." "Let's see." "Not a bad night." "Yöu see how the pirates ran?" "My story softened their resolve." "Their resolve must be broken, iolaus." "When yöu spread the legend of Hercules, make it bigger, scarier." "The more they believe Hercules is truly the son of Zeus, the less likely they are to fight." "Oh!" "Aye." " Amphiaraus?" " Mmm?" "Care to join us here on earth?" "A lion and a crow in strange alliance, fighting across a sea of corpses." "If yöu're going to use those herbs, amphiaraus, at least share." "Huh?" "(ALL CHUCKLING)" " (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) - (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)" "THUG:" "Hold it!" "Hold it!" "Hold it!" "Hold it!" "Fight it!" "Keep practicing, boys!" " So who's next?" "Yöu?" "Yöu?" " (SNIFFING)" "Ah!" "That's a pretty sight." "One more payday, autolycus, that's all we need." "Then we get to live like the kings we've served." "Or live simply." "Yöu still dreaming of barbarian lands?" "Beyond the aegean." "At the shores of the black sea." "That is where I will live out the rest of my days in solitude." "Boring, if yöu ask me." "Maybe so, autolycus." "But I'll never find peace unless I move as far away as possible." "What of tydeus?" "Without yöu to temper his rage, I fear what he may become." "Tydeus will go with me." "Civilization has become too civilized for us." "Uncle!" "Join us." "The girls are eager to welcome yöu." "See?" "I told yöu I knew Hercules." "Are yöu his servant?" "I'm his nephew." "Are yöu, really?" "I tell of Hercules' twelve labors, like the nemean lion, the apples of the hesperides, the belt of hippolyta with its buxom naked Amazons and exciting bondage." " I immortalize him..." " He talks, while the rest of us fight." "It is a wonder yöu share the same blood as Hercules." "(WOMEN LAUGHING)" "Have fun." " Ladies." " BOTH:" "Oh..." "What do yöu want with Hercules?" "My words are for him, not yöu." "Atalanta, it's all right." "Yöu certainly are a hard man to find." "Maybe I don't want anyone to find me." "I'm not just anyone." "My name is ergenia, daughter to lord cotys." "Yöur father is most fortunate to have such a beautiful heir." "My father is most unfortunate." "He battles a warlord, rhesus." "Our land is torn by civil war." "Every day, villages are destroyed, crops ruined, innocents slaughtered." "We all have problems." "Well, perhaps I can convince yöu to make our problems yöur own." "Unfortunately, my lady," "Hercules is fully committed till the feast of dionysus." "We could, however, advance yöu to the front of the line, for the right price." "Hmm." "I thought heroes fight for glory." "But mercenaries fight for gold." "Lord cotys is a rich man." "I like him already." "If yöu agree to aid him, he will pay yöur weight in gold." "Eat up." ""A lion and crow in strange alliance."" "Told yöu." "Where are we going?" "(HORSE WHINNIES)" "It is good to see yöu safe, my lady." "This war claims more victims every day." "We were concerned, my lady." "Thank yöu, general sitacles." "I was well protected." "Ah." "The mighty Hercules." "An honor." "Though not quite as big an honor as I expected." "General, go tell my father Hercules is here." "Uncle?" "Hera." "Impressive." "It's meant to be." "It took five years and a thousand men to build her temple." "Hera is the patron goddess of thrace." "Everyone knows the legend, how hera seeks to destroy Hercules." "Perhaps the right cause might finally reconcile yöu." "Mother!" "Arius." " Yöu're Hercules." " That's right." "My name is arius." "I know all yöur labors by heart." "Yöu killed the giant geryon with a single blow, cleaned the augean stables in one night." "Hercules is probably tired." "And the labor of the hide, and the labor of the mares." "That's enough, arius." "Come along." " (CHUCKLES)" "(WHISPERS) Stay away from him." "Men who deal in violence attract violence." "But he's Hercules." "He's no mere mortal." "He's the greatest!" "Lord cotys will see yöu now." "Have yöu ever met royalty, Hercules?" "Once or twice." "BOTH:" "Father!" " Ah!" "(CHUCKLES)" "(APPLAUSE)" "Megara." "Welcome home, my love." "(ALL CHEERING)" "Hercules!" "Whenever I'm here, I imagine this is what elysium must look like." "(CHUCKLES) Well, men like us have the means to create our own paradise on earth." "Look." "Magnificent, aren't they?" "Well, do not keep us in suspense." "Are we safe from the monster hydra?" "The hydra's heads, yöur majesty." "The masks of serpents." "No wonder men thought they were monsters." "Yöu've done yöur sovereign a great service." "Come." "Let the people have their hero." "MALE SERVANT:" "All hail king eurystheus." "And the mighty protector of Athens," " Hercules!" " (CROWD CHEERING)" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "A man faced with such adoration might be tempted to think himself a God." "I only want to be a husband and a father." "(BOTH SCREAMING)" "Lord cotys awaits." "Hercules." "Welcome." "An honor to host such a legend." "Lord cotys." "But in legend, yöu fight alone." "My reputation would not exist without my comrades." "Autolycus of sparta." "Tydeus of thebes." "Atalanta of scythia." "Iolaus of Athens." "And amphiaraus of argos." "Amphiaraus?" "The famed seer of argos." "It is said yöu have glimpsed yöur own death, so yöu fight each battle knowing that it is not yet yöur time to die." "What else can yöu tell of the future?" "Only what the gods see fit to reveal." "A shame." "It would have been a great gift to know the outcome of this war." "The gods can be frustrating sometimes, lord cotys." "(CHUCKLES)" "(SIGHS)" "With respect, I fear tha t the task ahead might not be suitable for a woman, even if she is an Amazon warrior." "I stand corrected." "(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)" "COTYS:" "When the kings of yesteryear built this citadel, it was intended as the high seat of all thrace." "But now thrace is divided." "This war has depleted our forces." "We're left with nothing but farmers and merchants to replenish our army." "It takes every one of us to resist rhesus." "People think that he cannot be killed by an ordinary mortal." "Only by a God." "Rhesus is a sorcerer." "His magic words confuse men, bend them to his will." "He leads an army of monsters, half horse, half human." "Centaurs?" " Yöu've actually seen them?" " They have been seen." "COTYS:" "Come, Hercules." "Let me show yöu what misery rhesus has brought us." "Every week, more refugees arrive seeking my protection, most of them covered in blood, crippled or burnt by rhesus' men." "I feared nothing could ever be good again, till yöu arrived." "I'm just a mercenary fighting for gold." "How we view ourselves is of little consequence." "How others perceive us is important." "And yöur name, like it or not, is a rallying cry." "I have seen too much reality to trust in legends, and I am not alone." "Nobody has any faith anymore." "The people need a hero." "They need someone to look up to." "My son believes in yöu." "Bring us peace, and I will believe in yöu, too." "I'm convinced these are good people." "I see." "And who's more convincing, cotys or his daughter?" "All the gold on earth is not as convincing as a pair of breasts." "Maybe, but gold never ages." "Which is why I got them to double our price." "Double yöur weight in gold?" "(LAUGHS) Well done." "Amphiaraus?" "If it be the will of Zeus." "Which title sounds more terrifying to our enemies?" ""HERCULES:" "Savior of thrace" or "HERCULES:" "A legend is born"?" "Both sound terrifyingly boring." "(CHUCKLES)" "What are we supposed to do with an army of farmers?" "Train them." " Oh, shit." " (CHUCKLES)" "In war, there is one thing more important than killing." "Surviving." "My companions and I will show yöu how to stay alive, so that yöu may return home to yöur farms someday." "Autolycus." "Shield wall!" "Form!" "(YELLING)" "(MEN GROANING)" "(PANTING)" "Corpses!" "Every last one of yöu!" "Because yöur shield wall was weak." "Dead." "Dead." "Very dead." "Soldier, many lives depend on yöu." "When attacked, lock yöur feet in the ground." "Yöu understand?" "Yes, sir." "When a shield wall is strong, nothing can ever defeat it!" "Yöu must learn to work together, react together." "When yöu do, each individual will become a link in a chain that will be stronger than iron." "I hope the enemy has a sense of humor." "Right." "Today's lesson, how not to stab yöurselves!" "It is imperative that we strike now, my lord, given this opportunity." "COTYS:" "Ah!" "There yöu are!" "Hercules, my scouts have brought news." "Rhesus is on the move." "Archers who shoot lightning from their bows." "And infantry 4,000-strong, their minds bewitched." "Demons march with them." "So now we're fighting demons." "No stranger than the monsters I hear yöu faced, Hercules." "My lord, rhesus is preparing to attack bessi lands." "He will be on them within six days." "If the bessi fall, we're next." "Unless we intercept him." "Yöur men need weeks, if not months, of training before they're ready." "The bessi are a fierce but primitive tribe." "If we do not protect them, then there will be a bloodbath." "Face rhesus with an untrained army and yöu risk losing far more than a single battle." "My lord, rhesus is coming." "I vouch my life on it." "The longer rhesus lives, the more villages will be burnt and the more innocents will be killed." "Assemble yöur men." "We march tomorrow." "Hercules, the gods have offered us a gift." "We must not squander it." "Are yöur gods going to be fighting with us?" "No." "The son of Zeus will." "(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)" "I've seen how yöu watch over Hercules." "Tell me, how did a woman, beautiful woman, fall in with these hardened men?" "Killers?" "Son of Zeus need a woman's protection?" "I don't protect him." "I protect yöu from him." "Hmm." "General, from now on, maybe yöu should favor the company of yöur men." "He pulled a knife?" "It was only a small prick." "(CHUCKLES)" "(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)" "(FAINT GROWLING)" "(WHIMPERING)" "(SNARLING)" " Ah!" " (SCREAMING)" "(PANTING)" "Yöur mother told yöu to stay away." "Yöu should listen." "What's wrong with him?" "Tydeus is my most loyal warrior." "He was born in war." "When I found him, he was more animal than human." "He never speaks of what he saw." "He never speaks at all." "But he relives it every night." "Come." "Let's find yöur mother." "ARIUS:" "When I grow up, I want to be a great hero like yöu." "HERCULES:" "Like me?" " No hero is greater than Hercules." "I know all yöur labors." "Like the cretan bull, yöu wrestled it for seven days and seven nights." "Uh, that's a bit exaggerated." " And struck it 49 times with yöur club." " Maybe not quite that many." "Until it fell dead and crete was saved." "It's my favorite labor." "Also queen hippolyta's belt, with its buxom Amazons and exciting bondage." " Do yöu even know what that means?" " No." "(LAUGHS)" "(MAN COUGHS)" " Mother." " Arius." "Yöu're supposed to be in bed." "Why are yöu in the hospice?" "My mother saves people's lives." "Many of our physicians were killed during battle." "So, out of necessity, I taught myself the art of healing." "If I could be like yöu," "I would protect all of thrace and no one would ever get hurt." "(CHUCKLES)" "HERCULES:" "Here." "I was going to give this to someone else, but I never got the chance." "Only a hero may wear this." "But to become a hero, yöu must grow strong." "Is this the nemean lion's tooth?" " It is." " Thank yöu." "Thank yöu." "Good night." "Good night, Hercules." "AMPHIARAUS:" "Have no fear." "If yöu fall in the service of a just cause, yöur souls will go to elysium, where they will dwell forever among the shades of heroes, like theseus." "Odysseus!" "And the great achilles." "Or if yöu're lucky, yöu'll go to Hades, where all the fun people are." "Iolaus." "Yöur place is beside lord cotys, where it's safe." "I've been giving it a lot of thought, and I really feel I'm ready to fight." "Yöu're a storyteller, not a warrior." "We share the same blood." "And I will not see it shed." "Chariot." "Now." "(SCOFFS)" "Thracians, the shield wall is yöur home." "Yöur shelter." "When yöu sleep, the wall is yöur blanket." "When yöu fight, the wall is yöur armor." "The shield wall will never break formation as long as there is breath in yöur body." "Remember these words, and yöu will taste victory." " Move the army out!" " SOLDIER 1:" "Move out!" "(HORSES NEIGHING)" "Halt!" "Halt!" " Halt!" " SOLDIER 2:" "Halt!" "We are too late." "Rhesus has already been here." "Leave the chariots." "We'll go down on foot." "The lion and crow cross a field of corpses." "I hate being right all the time." "Halt." " Halt!" " SOLDIER 1:" "Halt!" "HERCULES:" "This head is rotting." "A week old, at least." "Yet some of these bodies are fresh." " (YELLS) - (YELPING)" " IOLAUS:" "Uncle!" " (BOTH GRUNTING)" "(SHRIEKS)" "And we've walked into a trap." "Shield wall!" "Form a single square!" "Protect lord cotys!" "Iolaus, go!" "Shield wall!" "We're here to help them." "Why are they attacking?" "This is rhesus' doing." "They say his spells have the power to cloud minds." "Turn comrades against each other." "King's guards, around lord cotys!" "Amphiaraus, do we die in this battle?" "My time's not come yet." "Not sure about yöurs." "That's comforting." "(YELLING)" "I think he wants a challenge." "(ALL CHEERING)" "Hercules' fists have been dipped in the blood of the hydra!" "Lethal to anyone but him!" "Watch!" "(YELLING)" "(CHEERING STOPS)" "Did yöu see that?" "The gods fight on our side!" "(ALL CHEERING)" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "ALL:(CHANTING) Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "(YELLING)" "(ALL YELLING)" "Battle position!" "Lady Artemis, if I am to fall, let me be judged... (YELLING CONTINUES)" "(ALL GRUNTING)" "Stand fast!" "SITACLES:" "Hold yöur position!" "Do not yield!" "(SHOUTS)" "No retreat!" "Stay in the wall!" "Hold the lines!" "Do not yield!" "Defend lord cotys!" "(SCREAMS)" "SITACLES:" "The wall has been breached!" "Seal up the shield wall!" "Defend lord cotys!" "Whip!" "Hercules!" "Bring the chariots!" "SITACLES:" "Defend yöur lord!" "No!" "(URGES HORSES)" "(LAUGHS)" "(YELLING)" "(GRUNTS)" "(GRUNTS)" "Advance!" "SITACLES:" "Advance!" "(GROANS)" "(SOLDIERS CHEERING)" "SOLDIER:" "Make way!" "Where is rhesus?" "(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)" "Lord cotys." "We came here to save this village, but, no, they killed half my army." "Rhesus." "This is all his doing." "And yöurs." "I warned yöu." "Yöur men are brave, but untrained, unprepared for battle." "Give me time to make warriors." "Very well." "Cover up, before yöur loyal army sees yöu bleed like a mortal." "Phineas." "Yöu plead yöur life." "And I gladly offer it." "I failed to see this trap." "The fault is mine!" "Spare the other scouts." "AUTOLYCUS:" "General sitacles." "I think we've lost enough men for the day, don't yöu?" "But just to avoid future misunderstandings," "I'll be taking charge of yöur scouts from now on." "Is that clear?" "Thank yöu." "Another mistake, I'll end yöu myself." "(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)" "(HORSE WHINNIES)" "I'm applying a salve of mint, chamomile and Clay to seal the wound." "This is extract of lithops for the pain, a powerful sedative." "It should rest yöu after consuming it." "It may have certain side effects." "I don't need it." "Ah, forgive me, I forgot." "No mortal can harm Hercules." "And, uh, yöur lion's hide is indestructible?" "Drink, son of Zeus." "Arius' father was the same, he distrusted medicines." "Where is he now?" "Taken by the gods before my son was born." "I'm sorry." "I never knew my father." "Well, he must have been very, very strong. (LAUGHS)" "Tell me about arius." "Oh." "He's a good boy." "And someday, he will make a fine king." "Do yöu have any children?" "Do they live in Athens?" "Thank yöu for yöur care." "The sedative will help yöu rest." "How could yöu do such a terrible thing?" "By law, I should execute yöu, but I believe a more fitting punishment would be to let yöu live." "So yöu can walk the earth in torment, haunted by the knowledge that yöu alone are responsible for the death of yöur loved ones." "The great Hercules." "Hands forever stained with innocent blood." "Get out, yöu monster." "Get out!" "(PANTING)" "(CHILDREN LAUGHING)" "(LAUGHING CONTINUES)" "(GROWLING)" "No!" "(SNARLING)" "(YELLING)" "(PANTING)" "AMPHIARAUS:" "It happened again, didn't it, hmm?" "Another vision of Cerberus, the three-headed beast of Hades?" "The gods show yöu things they don't share with others." "There's a word for that." "Madness." "When we were driven from Athens," "I consulted the oracle of delphi on yöur behalf." "Do yöu remember her prophecy?" ""Hercules must finish the labor that remains unfinished."" "And what is that, Hercules?" "Confront the beast that haunts yöu." "Only then will yöu find peace." "I speak from experience." "No matter how far yöu run, no matter how fast yöu go, the beast will follow." "Man cannot escape his fate." "Room for one more in yöur company?" "It'd be a pleasure having female companionship for a change." "Atalanta doesn't quite count." "No offense." "If only yöur manhood was as long as yöur tongue." "Both can satisfy in different ways." "Yöu're a famed storyteller, iolaus." "Grace me with a story." "Any particular subject, my lady?" "Murder, of a woman and her three children." "Is it true?" "Did Hercules slaughter his own family?" " Who said so?" " Oh, soldiers talk." "They say if Hercules ever returns to Athens, king eurystheus will have him executed." "Hercules had completed his labors and returned home." "But hera..." "No myths." "I want the truth." "No one knows the truth." "Not for sure." "We found Hercules alone." "His wife, megara and the children, dead." "He remembers nothing." "Do yöu believe he is innocent?" "We grew up together, both orphans, trying to survive in the streets of Athens." "We found a home in the army." "Looked out for each other." "Hercules' strength set him apart." "Kings of Athens started to send him on all the most dangerous missions." "The twelve labors." "And he took me with him." "To fight by his side." "And with each mission, our numbers grew." "Scythia, the Amazon kingdom where the royal family had been assassinated." "My family was gone." "Everyone was gone." "Hercules helped me avenge their murder." "He became my brother-in-arms." "Thebes, the city of corpses, where we found a single child, still alive." "Hercules took tydeus in when everyone else saw nothing but a wild animal." "Yöu know how a rumor spreads." "How a legend grows." "Hercules' deeds were so incredible, they could not possibly have been performed by a mere mortal." "So we played along." "We encourage people to think Hercules was the son of Zeus." "It's good." "Scares the enemy." "Iolaus helps." "He talks nice." "Yöu're very loyal friends." "Yöu're avoiding my question." "Hercules is a warrior." "And there is something that haunts warriors." "It can cloud their minds." "We call it the blood rage." "This rage afflicted Hercules." "He made me vow to keep the world away from him." "To make sure that he would never harm innocents again." "And that, my lady, is the truth." "The truth," "(SCOFFS)" "Whatever the truth, the death of his loved ones haunts Hercules." "Only the gods can help him, if he listens." "Come!" "Gather around, soldiers of thrace, and behold, when Hercules gives an order, even the gods listen." "Zeus' master ironsmith, using the forges of yöur own citadel, has crafted these divine weapons that will make yöu invincible." "As steel is hewn into shields, so, too, will yöu be hewn into warriors." "Yöu shall carry the shield of Hercules!" "It's lighter." "Infused with the souls of stymphalian birds from Hercules' sixth labor!" "Spirits of birds?" "How does that work, exactly?" "Well, much as birds take flight, so, too, are these shields lighter than air." "It's in the fibers." "Here." "Try on the helmet of Hercules." "It covers my whole face." "Forged after Hercules' very own helmet, when he defeated the demon geryon." "Yöu sure it wasn't yöur horseshit that frightened geryon to death?" "Mmm?" "IOLAUS:" "General sitacles, perhaps yöu would care to inspect the armor of Hercules?" "(CHUCKLES)" "Leather armor?" "Mmm?" "We will be skewered like pigs." " (SITACLES GRUNTS) - (SOLDIERS GASP)" "Linothorax." "Hewn from the skin of the erymanthean boar." "It's indestructible." "Wait." "If it's indestructible, how did Hercules cut it off the boar?" "He used an indestructible blade." "(SCOFFS)" "(SOLDIERS MURMURING)" "SOLDIERS:" "One, two. (GRUNT)" "(SOLDIER GRUNTS)" "HERCULES:" "Get up." "Next!" "(SOLDIERS GRUNTING)" "Again!" "Both eyes open." "Keep practicing." "(GROANS)" "HERCULES:" "Firmer grip." "Elbow up." "Good." "Shield wall!" "Form!" " ATALANTA:" "Stand tall." " (SOLDIER GRUNTS)" "Excellent." "(SOLDIERS APPLAUDING)" "(ALL GRUNTING)" "(IOLAUS GRUNTING)" "Careful yöu don't cut yöurself, boy." "AUTOLYCUS:" "Again!" "(SOLDIERS GRUNTING)" "Rhesus is here." "Close enough to stick a blade between his ribs." "What did yöu see?" "Centaurs." "Half man, half horse." "Hundreds of them." "He saw shadows in the night." "My lord, I will go ahead into the rhesus camp." "I will bring word of his plans." "If we let them get past mount asticus, thrace will fall." "Yöu want to stop rhesus?" "We'll go through the forest and they'll never see us coming." "It'll slow down our chariots." "A gamble." "I have a plan." "The scouts have returned." "Rhesus has made his camp in mount asticus, 72 leagues away." "Once these men are ready, we march." "So, have yöu seen if we win or lose?" "The gods have been annoyingly silent on that matter." "What they have told me is that" "I'm soon to discover there truly is a heaven or a hell." "When will yöu die?" "Within a week in a place that looks an awful lot like hell." "As always, the gods are generous with hints, but cheap on specifics." "Cheer up, Hercules." "I've lived, not always well, but long enough." "I'm ready for what's next." "Thracians, halt!" "(SOLDIERS GRUNT)" "Shield wall!" "Form!" "Battle positions!" "Tydeus?" "(YELLING)" "(SOLDIERS GRUNT)" "There is no enemy camp." "This is the right place." "Centaurs!" "They're real." "(BLOWING HORN)" "(CENTAURS SHOUTING)" "It seems that we're expected." "Centaurs?" "(EXHALES)" "Rhesus!" "Yöu have come looking for a fight, and we are happy to oblige." "Hercules." "The son of Zeus." "Yöur legend ends here." "HERCULES:" "Look at me." "Do I look afraid?" "Phineas." "Traitor!" "Hades will have yöu!" "After it has yöu, my lord." "RHESUS:" "It is over, cotys." "Mount asticus on yöur front." "The woods at yöur back." "And my troops outman yöu three to one." "Surrender now, and we shall consider being merciful." "Men die who speak to my lord in such a manner." "Yöu've made yöur choice." "Go!" "In this moment, on this day, become the man yöu were born to be!" "Yöu have it within yöurselves to write yöur own legends!" "Let it be to death or victory!" "(SOLDIERS CHEERING)" "Charge!" "HERCULES:" "Shield wall!" "(SOLDIERS GRUNT)" "Flanks out!" "(SOLDIERS YELLING)" "Maybe today." "Now!" "(SOLDIERS GROANING)" "Watch as the Amazon uses the arrows of Artemis..." "Silence, boy!" "Spears forward!" "(SOLDIERS GRUNT)" "(URGES HORSES)" "Archers, ready!" "Loose!" "(BOTH SCREAM)" "Advance!" "Set them aflame!" "Take cover!" "SITACLES:" "Defend lord cotys!" "Maybe not." "Shield wall!" "Attack!" "Push forward!" "To kill a snake, cut off its head." "(URGING HORSE)" "(SOLDIERS CHEERING)" "Victory is yöurs, lord cotys!" "It is not over yet!" "(URGES HORSE)" "(HORSE NEIGHING)" "(PANTING)" "Fucking centaurs." "(PANTING)" "(ALL CHEERING)" "ALL:(CHANTING) Hail, lord cotys!" "Hail, lord cotys!" "Hail, lord cotys!" "Hail, lord cotys!" "Hail, lord cotys!" "(SOLDIERS BOOING)" "SITACLES:" "Halt!" "(SOLDIERS LAUGH)" "Get up." "Get up." "(SOLDIERS LAUGH)" " Up." " Enough!" "Yöu helped a tyrant enslave a nation." "All I did was stop yöu from burning more villages." "I burned no villages." "HERCULES:" "Then who did?" "Ask yöurself, if cotys is beloved, why did he need to hire mercenaries to do his dirty work?" "Keep moving, dog." "Yöu've been fighting on the wrong side." " (MUSIC PLAYING) - (MEN LAUGHING)" "Where are yöu going?" "I'm taking some water to the prisoner." "Sit down." "It's time." "(MUSIC STOPS)" "Thrace is finally united." "One land, one king," "one thrace." "ALL:" "One land!" "One king!" "One thrace!" "Thrace is not a man, a king, or a God!" "Thrace is her people!" " (GROANS) - (ALL LAUGHING)" "Who cares what rhesus claims?" "Our work is done." "Let's collect our fee and be gone." "Don't do anything foolish." "Where are yöu going?" "(GASPS)" "I saw pity in yöur eyes for rhesus." "Why?" "Look at me." "Cotys is responsible for this war, isn't he?" "Yöu lie very well." "Clearly, yöur father's daughter." "I didn't do it for my father." "I did it for my son." "If I disobeyed cotys or resisted in any way, arius would be executed." "I did what any mother would." "I protected my child." "My husband was king." "And cotys poisoned him to take his place." "Rhesus fought back." "Civil war broke out." "Arius is the legitimate king." "My father is old." "He will not live forever, and once he is gone, my son will be a good king." "And he will heal this land." "That's a dream." "And yöu can help." "Please, when yöu leave thrace, take arius with yöu." "Please keep him safe." "Find another savior." "SITACLES:" "Hercules?" "The king commands yöur presence." "My lady." "Ah, champion of thrace!" "Something tells me we're not gonna get paid." " Yöu could be right." " Oh, shit." "Yöu wanted conquerors, not heroes." "Yöu betrayed me, cotys." "Betrayed?" "A mercenary who has long since sold his conscience for gold can hardly presume to judge his employers." "Let's not quibble about details." "We all know yöur legend, Hercules." "But here is mine." "When I was a general in the army of thrace," "I had dreams of ruling this kingdom." "But thanks to yöu, my dreams have grown." "I now crave an empire." "My thousands will train more thousands, and they even more." "The lessons of Hercules will spread." "What yöu began here can never be stopped." "And if yöu fear what such an army may do, then lead it." "Yöu want me to serve yöu?" "Spare me the moral outrage." "Child killer." "(ALL GASP)" "Getting us all killed, bad idea." "Well, I must take this as a "no."" "In that case, yöur services are no longer required." "Yöu will be paid in full." "Bring them the gold." "If we hurry, we can be spending our fortunes in Macedonia." "Take mine, too." "What do yöu think yöu're doing?" "Let's go." "There will be no more innocent blood on my hands." "I can't leave without setting this right." "Oh, I see." "And who's gonna be paying us for this suicidal endeavor?" "Thrace needs our help." "To hell with thrace." "We have gold." "Yöu remember the black sea." "That beach yöu spoke of is within reach." "Leave now, be free." "I would never be free." "In this fight, yöu're alone." "Never saw that one coming." " How can yöu just walk away?" " Yöu can't just leave." " Why not?" " It's all right." "Yöu've sacrificed yöur lives for me." "Now yöu can finally be free." "Whatever debt yöu feel yöu owe me is paid." "Debt?" "Yöu think we follow yöu because we owe yöu?" "Look around, Hercules." "We're family." "All we have is each other." "We will fight for yöu." "And if it's our time, we will die for yöu." "Because yöu would die for us." "Take that, too." "I have no need of it." "This is madness." "Yöu want madness?" "Tonight, a spear of flame will Pierce my heart." "Is that not the most insane death yöu've ever heard of?" "Crazy." "The lot of yöu." "Autolycus." "Iolaus." "Go with autolycus." "I think I'll stay." "Nephew." "Uncle, all I've ever done is tell stories of great deeds performed by others." "It's time I stopped telling their stories." "Started living my own." "Well, yöu may have all completely lost yöur minds, but not me." "Not me." "Autolycus?" "Live like a king, my friend." " (URGES HORSES) - (HORSES NEIGHING)" "What about cotys?" "He paid us to save thrace." "Let's not disappoint him." "(CREAKING)" "SITACLES:" "Lay down yöur arms." "Lay down yöur arms!" "Or yöur nephew dies first." "(WEAPONS CLATTERING)" "I invite yöu to join me." "Yöu refuse." "I order yöu to leave." "Yöu return." "(GRUNTS) Get yöur hands off me." "I overheard her conspiring with Hercules." "They were planning to remove the yöung prince from yöur protection." " No." " (ARIUS SCREAMING)" "Let go of him!" "Don't touch him!" "(SHOUTS)" "Arius!" "No!" "(SCREAMING)" "No!" "Yöu're hurting him!" "No!" "ARIUS:" "Hercules, no!" "Help me!" "Stop!" " Help!" "No!" " ERGENIA:" "Arius." "No." "(CRYING) Arius!" "No!" "(GROANING)" "(PANTING)" "(GROWLING)" "(SNARLING)" "MAN:" "Magnificent, aren't they?" "An extraordinary species." "Incredibly loyal." "As long as they're fed." " Remember them?" " Eurystheus." "They remember yöu." "Confused, Hercules?" "Kingdoms are won with armies, but empires are made by alliances." "King eurystheus and I will now rule all of Greece." "(SNARLING)" "Cerberus only exists in my mind." "Speak a little louder, Hercules." "I didn't quite catch that." "The wolves." "They were there that night." "The wolves were there." "Yöu drugged me." "(MEGARA SCREAMING)" "The wolves were there the night my family was murdered." "My men told me how yöur children screamed as my wolves gnawed on their bones." "(GASPS)" "As their fangs despoiled yöur daughter's pure flesh." "When the people called out yöur name louder than mine, yöu see, when they saw yöu as a God, how long before they saw yöu as their king?" "I wanted nothing!" "Precisely!" "Yöur sin, Hercules, was that yöu had no ambition!" "I can deal with an ambitious man!" "He can be bought!" "But a man who wants nothing has no price!" "Killing yöu would have turned Athens against me." "I had to ruin yöur name." "My wife!" "My children!" "Well, yöu have our permission to join them in death." "All of yöu!" "Starting with my faithless daughter!" "ERGENIA:" "No!" "Get off me!" "(GRUNTS) No!" "No!" "No!" "Unhand me!" "No!" "She's yöur own flesh and blood!" "I will raise arius to be my worthy successor!" "Yöu stay away from my boy!" "Yöu monster, yöu bastard!" " Yöu are a monster!" "Yöu are a monster!" " No!" " (GRUNTS)" " ERGENIA:" "Yöu are not a man!" "Yöu're a demon!" "AMPHIARAUS:" "Who are yöu?" "Are yöu a murderer?" "Damn yöu!" "I curse yöu!" "Are yöu a mercenary who turns his back on the innocent?" "Stay away from my son!" "AMPHIARAUS:" "Are yöu only the legend?" "Or are yöu the truth behind the legend?" "No!" "Father, please, please, please." " We believe in yöu." " (ERGENIA SOBBING)" "We have faith in yöu." "Have faith in yöurself." " (GRUNTS)" " ERGENIA:" "Save me!" "AMPHIARAUS:" "Remember the man that yöu are." "Father, the gods will punish yöu!" "Yöu cannot escape this time!" "AMPHIARAUS:" "Remember the deeds yöu have performed, the labors yöu have accomplished!" "No!" "No!" " Stop it!" " Leave her alone!" "AMPHIARAUS:" "Now, tell me!" "Please!" "Who are yöu?" "I am Hercules!" "(GASPS)" "Unleash the wolves!" "(WOLVES SNARLING)" "HERCULES:" "Get away!" "Ahh!" "Three wolves should be more than enough for one lion." " (WOLF WHINES)" " Ahh!" "Hurry!" "(GRUNTING)" " Hurry!" " Hurry!" "No!" "(GRUNTING)" "(JAW CRACKING)" "Ahh!" "(WOLF WHINES)" "The gods have revealed yöur innocence." "The final labor is complete." "But I'm just getting started." "Doesn't take a vision to know what's waiting for us up there." "(ALL GRUNTING)" "(SOLDIER SCREAMS)" "My time." "(SOLDIER SCREAMS)" "Excuse me." "That was my moment, my fate." "Yöu're welcome." "(SCREAMS)" "I'm going after eurystheus!" "(GRUNTING)" "Hercules, listen to me." "None of this is my fault." "Yöu see, cotys poisoned my mind." "Turned me against yöu." "(LAUGHS NERVOUSLY)" "I like yöu." "No, stop." "I command yöu to stop!" "I'm yöur king!" "Yöu took an oath to obey me!" "Yöu swore to Zeus!" "Wait, wait, wait." "Yöu fight for gold." "I have plenty of gold." "Name yöur price." "Find it in yöur heart to forgive." "Yöu want forgiveness?" "(GRUNTS)" "(GROANS)" "Ask my family for forgiveness." "(GRUNTS)" "(GRUNTING)" "I've never killed a God before." "(GROANS)" "I really think I'm ready to fight now." "Well done, warrior." "(MEN SHOUTING)" " Eurystheus?" " Dead." " We need to find arius." " HERCULES:" "Follow me." "HERCULES:" "Soldiers of thrace!" "Yöu followed me in battle." "Follow me now." "Don't be fools!" "Hercules is mortal!" "Not a God!" "Anyone who sides with him will die!" "And I will show yöu." "Bring him." " Arius!" " Mama!" "No!" "He's yöur grandson!" "Yöu failed to save yöur children, Hercules." " But yöu may yet save him." " (WHIMPERS)" "Please, father!" "No!" "Admit defeat!" "Bow to me!" "Yöu have until the count of three!" "One!" "Two!" " (GROANS) - (SOLDIERS MURMURING)" "Don't just stand there!" "Kill someone!" "SOLDIER:" "Protect lord cotys!" "Arius, run!" "Mother!" "Get the boy!" "(SCREAMING)" "(TYDEUS YELLING)" "(GROANS)" "(CONTINUES YELLING)" "Ahh!" "Tydeus!" " Attack!" " (SOLDIERS YELLING)" "HERCULES:" "Hold them back!" "COTYS:" "Spears!" "(BOTH GROANING)" "Go through the fire!" "(SOLDIERS YELLING)" "Here!" "Here!" "Help!" "Come on!" "Easy, tydeus." "(ALL YELLING)" "(BOTH GRUNTING)" "(SOLDIERS SCREAMING)" "Hercules." "(LAUGHS)" "(TYDEUS CHOKING)" "Lock shields!" "March!" "Find peace, my brother." "As yöu said, Hercules, there is no way to defeat a shield wall!" "There is no way out!" "Come out and face me!" "(GRUNTING)" "Yöu're no hero!" "Yöu're no God!" "Yöu're nothing but a mercenary!" "Yöur wife and children deserved to die!" "(YELLING)" "(GASPS)" "(CONTINUES YELLING)" "COTYS:" "What're yöu doing?" "Get back up there!" "Hercules must die!" "Come on!" "Kill that filthy bastard!" "(WHIMPERS)" "(COTYS SCREAMING)" "(THUNDER RUMBLING)" "ALL:(CHANTING) Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "Hercules!" "AMPHIARAUS:" "Yöu want to know the truth about Hercules?" "There it is." "To be honest, I prefer it to the legend." "The world needs a hero they can believe in." "Is he actually the son of Zeus?" "I don't think it really matters." "Yöu don't need to be a demigod to be a hero." "Yöu just need to believe yöu're a hero." "It's what worked for him." "But then again, what the hell do I know?" "I'm supposed to be dead by now." "(LIGHTNING CRASHES)" ""Hope You've Liked  Enjoyed The Movie"" "Copyright from ecOtOne™"