1.24 - Dad Always Liked Me Best

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Title Dad Always Liked Me Best
Episode # Season 1, Episode 24
First aired November 6, 1998
Directed by Andrew Merrifield
Written by Liz Friedman & Vanessa Place
Summary Hercules meets another of his half-brothers, Lucius, who tells him about Castor's death.


FoxKids Spoilers

  • In an effort to insure that half-brother, Pollux, who has been accused of killing his twin brother Castor, is innocent until proven quilty, Hercules joins Lucius in his manhunt. Unbeknownst to Hercules, the destruction of Pollux is just part of a more heinous plan orchestrated by Lucius (another mortal son of Zeus) and his crazy mother Iambe to eliminate all of Zeus children... including Hercules.
  • Hercules teams up with Lucius (Craig Parker), another one of Zeus's sons, to track Pollux, who is accused of murdering Castor.

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  • Hercules meets Lucius, another mortal son of Zeus, who tells him that he is on the trail of Pollux on the request from Zeus himself to deliver Pollux to death on the crime of the death of Castor, their brother. Hercules agrees to join him unaware that Castor was actually killed by Lucius, who has some ambitious plans that don't include his brothers.

Synopsis

Title card - End credits can be found here.

Hercules is out for a stroll when he comes across two thugs robbing an old man. Hercules jumps in and "orders" the thugs to leave the man alone. Three more thugs appear. A fight breaks out. Hercules was doing good at first until the thugs get the upperhand. One of them was able to kick him in his chest, and another two kicked him in his back. The hero stands up holding his abdomen in pain, the thugs were about to finish him off when a mysterious stranger drops in and lends a hand to Hercules.

The fight ends and the guys exchange introductions. The stranger says his name is Lucius, son of Zeus, Hercules' half-brother.

Hercules brings Lucius to Kora's and introduces him to Iolaus and Lilith. Lucius tells a whole bunch of stories. One about Zeus kicking Ares off Olympus, and one about driving Apollo's chariot. Lucius says he sees Zeus at least once a week. he tells Hercules that Zeus talks of him all the time. Hercules is stunned. He was not even aware that Zeus knew he existed. When Iolaus brings up Castor and Pollux, Lucius tells everyone that Castor is dead, and that Pollux killed him.

Lucius tells Hercules that Zeus has sent him on a mission to find Pollux and to bring him to Olympus for trial. Hercules asks to accompany Lucius. Lucius at first refuses, then accepts.

Hercules takes Lucius to see Pollux's mother Leda. Leda tells Hercules that Pollux is in Romanus.

Lucius goes to see his mother to discuss baiting a trap for Hercules.

The guys find Pollux. He has changed. He has given up the sword and is a man of peace. Lucius knocks out Hercules and takes both Hercules and Pollux to a cave.

Hercules wakes up, tied to post, and sees Pollux hanging from a beam over a spiked pile. Hercules distracts Lucius by getting him to admit to killing Castor, as he tries to break the fabric that Lucius used to tie him to the pole.

Hercules frees himself, and a fight breaks out. While fighting Hercules realizes that everything Lucius told him was a lie.

Hercules wins the fight and saves Pollux, but Lucius gets away. Hercules brings Pollux home to Leda.

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New Guy - This episode is the first time Lucius is introduced.
Continuity Warning - In HtLJ "2.14 - Once A Hero", Castor and Pollux are part of the Argonaut reunion and help Jason retrieve the fleece. Only Pollux tries to claim it as his own.
Continuity Warning - In X:WP "5.08 - Little Problems", Castor and Pollux are shown mud wrestling. Also, they are described as two souls sharing the same body that can separate with the use of special oil.
Pop Culture References and Greekisms - Lucius says, "Come on, we're the dream team." The 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team, nicknamed the "Dream Team", was the first American Olympic team to feature active NBA players. Described by American journalists as the greatest sports team ever assembled, and called by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame "the greatest collection of basketball talent on the planet", it defeated its opponents by an average of almost 44 points en route to the gold medal against Croatia at the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona. - Wikipedia
Reality Check - Lucius claims that mistakes can be erased. But did they even have erasers back then, or know what erasing was? According to the The Online Etymology Dictionary, the term "erase" only dates back c.1600, from Latin erasus, pp. of eradere "scrape out, scrape off, shave," from ex- "out" + radere "to scrape".
Déjà Vu - The white robe that Pollux wears is the same robe that Hercules wears in Mila's dream in 1.47 - Mila.

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