SYNOPSIS:
Synopsis by Liz Sheppard
Hercules and Serena are in Happy Happy
Land and having too much fun being married to spend time with
Iolaus. Oh well. They plan to meet him later, but come back early
to have a little fun.
Meanwhile, over in Xenaland, Xena and
Gabrielle are in a tavern when they are interrupted by a couple of
drunk dudes. Xena couldn't help but hear that the drunk guys are
laughing about how Hercules got married to the last of the Golden
Hinds and that he gave up his powers to do it. Xena gets upset and
her and Gabby leave the tavern, with the guys following them
outside. Until the girls are gone, the drunk guys turn into
-woohoo- the Black Leather Duo, Ares and Strife. They seem quite
happy with themselves, having "put their plan into action".
Hercules and Serena are in the
marketplace (with her being just as happy as anything) when, of
course, a bunch of thugs picks on the newlyweds. Big long fight
scene that's in every Herc ep, except Herc takes quite a beating,
even with the help of Iolaus (Serena did a little, too). All
through the fight, a cloaked figure in the background watches.
After the fight, Herc's all Mr. Meany to his wife and sidekick,
cause even though he doesn't have his superhero-god-like-muscles,
he still thinks he doesn't need their help. More insults fly out of
Herc's mouth until Mr. Cloaked Guy (Strife) goes bye-bye. Then Herc
says he's sorry.
Ares and Strife are hanging out in a
field with lots and lots of bones lying around everywhere. They
discuss their plan and what's going on so far. Strife tries to be
a pain in the b*tt to Ares, but the god of war just laughs at the
boy (evil laugh, no doubt). Ares blabs on and on on what happened
in that field, and that Xena did it and and Ares loved it -- big
sigh from Ares --, ahh he misses his warrior princess (don't we
all), and he plans to get her back soon (but that's what he always
does) -- insert evil laugh here --
The newlyweds and a sidekick are at a
tavern. Newlyweds want their honeymoon to last --forever --, but
Iolaus will break it up at dawn the next day before he goes
fishing.
The villagers (plus Mr. Cloaked Guy) have
all called a meeting on Hercules. Strife, finding the meeting
boring, decides to liven it up by making a villager mad at Herc. It
worked, and they plan to tell Herc to leave the next morning.
Herc and Serena are cuddling in bed,
talking about mushy stuff. They get ready to get really mushy.
Meanwhile, Strife's a happy little boy, just singing and running
around outside the newlyweds place. Of course, he plans to do evil,
because he is evil. But at least he's happy.
Herc's having really bad dreams in which
he's arguing with Serena. And they fight and fight and fight and
fight and Herc wakes up. But Serena doesn't. Blood everywhere.
Bloody knife in Herc's lap. You draw your own conclusion.
Iolaus is walking along when he hears
Herc scream, and he finds that Serena is dead. The villagers show
up and declare Hercules as a murderer. Herc gets mad and makes
everyone leave so he can smash stuff.
Ares is hanging out with the three fates
and comes across Hercules' life line. He convinces Atropus that
Hercules, the Coldblooded Savage Wife Killer, should die. Then,
ta-da, big boy Zeus shows up and stops Ares from doing his evil
ways. Ares suggests that ol' Herc be tried among mortals for the
murder and Zeus agrees.
Hercules tries to hide from the mob while
Iolaus tries to knock some sense in the mob, but Herc doesn't have
anywhere to hide. An old man that once had his life saved by our
hero hides him in his house. While a villager searches the place,
Herc's holding that necklace he gave to Serena and it looks like
the big guy might be crying. The old man says that with the way
Herc's acting, he couldn't have killed her.
While Herc tries to get away without
being seen, Strife, who seemed to be just hunting the man down,
finds him, becomes happy, and does his lightning-bolt-out-the-hand
thing on his favorite angry villager. The villager just suddenly
finds Hercules and the whole mob goes after him. They catch him and
beat the stuffing out of him. Iolaus pops up, but the mob beats him
up, too. Seems hopeless for the Dynamic (Male) Duo?
Never! It's their show, they can't die.
Xena and Gabby show up and the four kick major booty. Even though
they win the fight, Herc badly damages several parts of his body.
Since Xena has "many skills", she's able to heal him somewhat.
The four are hanging out in a cave. Herc
concludes that what's going on is all Ares fault. Talk about
brotherly love. Xena's trying to keep it cool since she's the
doctor, and she tells him that they are past the time they could of
been together. Oh well, we can still dream (Gabby and Iolaus could
still get together). Iolaus is frustrated by what's going on and
thinks up a plan to kill Herc and confess to the murder to save
Herc's reputation. And Gabby is just tired of walking back and
forth to get water.
Hercules wakes up from one of his
glorious nightmares again, this time he actually saw himself kill
her. While Gabby goes to get water, Herc finds Xena's sword and
runs away. Xena, Iolaus, and Gab meet and find him and the sword
gone and they conclude that he's gone to charge the mob and die a
warrior's death. Meanwhile, Ares and Strife are at the Fates place,
playing beautiful music with Herc's life line. Strife pulls out a
knife.
Herc meets the mob, tries to charge it,
but two sidekicks and a warrior princess stop him. Iolaus and Herc
argue on who really killed Serena, Herc thinks he did it. They
start sword fighting and Iolaus kills him. Herc falls to the ground
and dies. Xena gets mad, starts fighting with Iolaus and kills him.
Well, I guess this is an ok way to end the series.
Since Xena seems to be reverting back to
her evil ways, Ares and Strife show up and Ares tries to claim what
was his -- Xena. She asks him how he made Herc kill Serena. Ares
wants to keep it a secret, but Strife blabs on how he killed Serena
and it was easy, etc. Herc and Iolaus come back to life. Strife
seems to have this look on his face like "Oh, sh*t", then our big
hero beats the stuffing out of him. Then -- oops -- Strife
remembers that he's a god, and starts beating the stuffing out of
Herc. Herc's about to die but the old man that took him in earlier
comes by and gives herc back his muscles. The old man turns out to
be Zeus, Herc's daddy. Then Strife gets some more stuffing beat out
of him again. He puts up with it for a while, then disappears with
that demented laugh of his. Ares goes bye-bye too, claiming that
this wasn't over yet. Zeus walks away and Herc follows, complaining
to his daddy that he wants his wife back, but Zeus can't do that.
Herc's sad.
Xena, Iolaus, and Gabby are talking about
the fake deaths, when a sad Hercules walks by saying that if he
hadn't loved Serena, she would still be alive. We get to hear Xena
sing her death ballad to Serena (she rents herself out, you know),
while Herc embeds her necklace into her headstone. Hercules says
good-bye to his bride.
TALES OF THE HERCAVERSE
01-11-99.
From Kent Simmons. Atlantis: Cassandra's house was the same one shown in several episodes. In HTLJ's "Judgement Day" it was Serena's house. In XWP's "Destiny" it was Niklios Healing House. It was also in HTLJ's "Beanstalks and Bad Eggs" as the house of Alyssa. It was also used in HTLJ's "And Fancy Free" as the house of the digruntled father of Althea.
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