Hercules in the Underworld Page #5

This is probably? - No!

I've been all the way to

the bend. It only gets deeper.

This is probably the best spot

to cross. I'll get Iole.

Your beauty's so strong

it charms even the animals.

It shouldn't surprise me.

Deianeira, what's wrong?

I know all about you, Iole. I know

about your breeding your training,

and how you have the power

to make men fall in love,

how you'll make a widow

and orphans out of a loving family.

But please, call this off.

Leave my family be.

I can't.

- ( Footsteps )

- Deianeira, what are you doing here?

I've come to warn you.

Thank the gods, you're all right!

Warn me? What are you talking about?

You've been tricked.

We've both been tricked.

You know this medallion, the one

Iole gave me? She's Nurian Maiden.

Deianeira, I know. I've known

since she first arrived.

- And you're still going with her?

- It'll be all right.

But she'll take you away from us

and we'll never see you again!

Please, please, come home.

She has these powers.

and she'll make you fall in love,

and you'll be willing to die for her.

All this talk about powers

and dying, it's nonsense.

There's only one person in the world

I'd die for, and that's you.

Let me go and go what

I can for Iole's people.

Then I'll hurry right back home

to you. I promise.

At the very worst, I'll have

a new scar or two to show you.

Now get yourself home.

Nessus will go with you to

make sure you get there safely.

We better get going.

Good-bye.

Funny, isn't it? You travel all this

way because you love him so much.

And still, where are you? Alone.

Watching as he leaves with

her for a second time.

Nessus, be quiet.

Hercules has a job to do.

But why this job? Ask yourself that.

Why has he chosen to

abandon his family...

and go off risking his life

for this stranger?

Could it be. Because she's a young,

beautiful virgin?

Mmm? Look at the way he carries her.

The way he holds her, it's tender.

Like a lover.

He used to carry you that way.

Do you remember? Hmm?

Or is it too long ago?

It's time to go. ( Gasps )

If you were mine, Deianeira,

You'd never be alone.

Let's go of me right now,

or when Hercules gets home I will

tell him about this and the other night!

There's only one way

to get through to you.

- One way to make you see things clearly,

like I do. - Nessus, stop it!

I should have done this

a long time ago.

There's no escape, and you know it.

So relax. You just might enjoy it.

Hercules! Help! Hercules!

What are you screaming about?

DEIANEIRA:
Help! Help!

There is no Hercules!

- Hercules, what is it?

- Keep quiet.

- DEIANEIRA:
Hercules!

- NESSUS:
He's gone.

- He's as good as dea--

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