SYNOPSIS:
Synopsis by Liz Sheppard
Fortune, Goddess of Luck, makes a
rich guy very unhappy. Meanwhile, Iolaus is getting frustrated
because Hercules is getting more praise than him. Also meanwhile,
a couple are trying to cross an old bridge and they end up
getting in trouble. Herc saves the guy while Iolaus tries to
reach the woman. He reaches her, but she's too scared to move and
ends up freaking out. Iolaus looses his grip and the woman falls,
leaving Iolaus very terrified.
Iolaus is very frustrated on having
somebody die and ends up quitting the hero biz. Herc tries to
convince him to stay while he's having some sort of weird long
fight scene in every Herc ep. Iolaus goes to a tavern but has to
pay two dinars for stew because he's not Herc's partner. He
continues to look for a job, but can't get one because he was a
thief when he was a teenager.
Herc'c camping out when Fortune
gives him a visit and starts babbling that
the woman's death was her fault. She wants to help, but Herc
tells her not to.
At another camp site, Iolaus is
having bad flashbacks of the woman's death when Fortune pops by.
He wishes that he had never met Herc and she blanks out his
memory. He doesn't know who Herc or Fortune is. She thinks she is
in trouble.
Iolaus is walking through the dirty
part of town where he finds a beautiful woman who takes him to
some thugs. Big long fight scene. Iolaus and the girl team up and
steal from the thugs. His last memory was when he was 15.
Herc visits a king who wants to
send some money to Nemia, the town that
Iolaus is in. Herc helps Spiro and they go with the money. Spiro
decides to become Herc's new sidekick. They run into a pregnant
woman from Nemia and the guys give her a ride. Sprio doesn't like
her because she's from Nemia.
Iolaus is gambling, where he cheats
and plays with knives. Thenatos, who works for a powerful guy
named Xeno comes by to talk with Iolaus. He wants Iolaus to work
for Xeno. Iolaus reveals that Thenatos was stealing from Xeno and
Xeno makes Iolaus his new number one. Thenatos convinces the
others to kill Xeno and Iolaus.
While Herc and Sprio are off the
wagon, it goes crazy with the woman in the back. Herc gets a whip
and hangs off the end (kind of like the Callisto/Xena chariot
fight in RETURN OF CALLISTO)
Xeno decides to send Iolaus and
thugs to go get the wagon and rob it. Since Iolaus has no memory
of the Herc, he doesn't remember how strong he is. They meet the
wagon and another big long fight scene breaks out. Iolaus
attacks. It looks like he stabbed the big guy. Commercial break.
Iolaus just hit the wagon. He
doesn't understand why he couldn't kill Herc
and runs away. Herc picks up a thug and asks for answers. After
they drop off the woman at her home, Spiro said that he was wrong
when he judged all Nemians as bad. Herc goes to a tavern looking
fro Xeno, but found Iolaus instead. Iolaus hoes to save Xeno.
Thenatos is taking Xeno to a swamp.
Thenatos pushes Xeno in the swamp
when Herc and Iolaus pop by. Lots of
fighting in this ep. Iolaus jumps into the swamp with a vine
around his waist to get Xeno. After a very long time, Herc drags
Iolaus back up, with
Xeno in his arms.
Thenatos, Xeno, and the other thugs
go to jail. Xeno tells Iolaus to find
another line of work. Herc calls for Fortune, who gives Iolaus
his memory
back. Iolaus still freaks out on the things he's done.
COMMENTARY:
This commentary is by Kent Simmons.
The second episode of season two, and one wonderful emotional and moving
episode about the friendship of Hercules and Iolaus. The introduction of a new
goddess, a powerful storyline, and some great acting by Hurst made this ep
the real season four premiere.
The storyline was well started with Iolaus feeling like a sidekick, feeling
like
a sidekick and not a hero, and than not being able to save the woman from
falling off the bridge. He needed Fortune, who needed to prove herself, and
as she messed up, Iolaus' problems were solved fully as he now never met
Hercules and forgot all about the bridge. Now Hercules lost his best friend,
and had to deal with his emotions and heros heart.
It was cool to see Iolaus bad. Hurst acted well. The scenes between the
Greek Godfather Zeno and Iolaus were wonderful. The best bad Iolaus scene
was the one in the inn, were he was playing cards with the thug. In the end
Iolaus saved his new friend Zeno, and regained his heros heart. Fortune made
her mistake right, as Herc told her not to interfer, and gave Iolaus his
memorys
back. Iolaus was able to forgive himself for not saving the woman, and the two
best friends for together again.
Hercules reaction to Iolaus was surprise. The fight scene between Herc and
Iolaus was one of my favorite scenes, as was the scene were Iolaus headed
off to save Zeno and Herc asked Iolaus why, because Zeno was bad, and Iolaus
saif it was because Zeno was his friend. The scene were Herc and the
memorylost
Iolaus fought Thantano' thugs was also great.
I give this episode 5 out of 5 stars. It was well worth the watch and has
become
a favorite of many Iolausians out there, maybe there favorite so far.
TALES OF THE HERCAVERSE
01-13-99. From Kent Simmons. Kevin Sorbo mention in a interview sometime during the summer of 1997
that the first part of the season was filled with lighter episodes and lots of
unusual stuff. He must have been joking because "Heros Heart" was pretty
dark along with "Regrets Ive Had a Few," "Web of Desire," "Two Men and
a Baby," and "Prodigal Sister." He was right about the unusual stuff, as the
first 8 episodes had some stuff that was first time done for HTLJ.
01-25-98. Iolaus should avoid people whose names
start with "Xen" or "Zen" because they are always popping up when Iolaus
feels a need to kill Hercules.
TRANSCRIPT
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DISCLAIMER
As Fortune would have it, Iolaus'
memory was not harmed during the production of this motion
picture.
