Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and Iolaus (Michael Hurst) promise Felicita (Kyrin Hall) that they will try to rescue her wrongly enslaved husband, Gladius (Tony Todd). The poor man has been forced into gladiatoral combat with huge and hungry lions, all for the entertainment of the sadistic Menas Maximus (Ian Mune), the wealthiest man in Apropus and his equally venal wife Postera (Alison Bruce). Hercules exhorts the other gladiators to rise up and vanquish Menas -- but the villain has a couple of aces up his tunic sleeve. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi