Nemesis (Kimberley Joseph) runs through the forest panicked, clutching her six-month-old son Evander in a basket. She is being pursued by soldiers under the command of General Meniskos (Alistair Browning), one of Ares' (Kevin Smith) lieutenants. To escape her attackers, she wades into a fast-moving river where the basket gets away from her and starts floating downstream. Meniskos begins shouting for his men to get the baby, now headed for the falls. Meanwhile, Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and Iolaus (Michael Hurst) are fishing down river when Hercules discovers the basket carrying Evander. Just as he is showing the adorable little infant to Iolaus, Nemesis gallops into their campsite and is enormously relieved to find the baby is safe. She then announces to Hercules that he is Evander's father. Hercules is shocked, but the baby's grin has already captured his heart.
When Nemesis goes off to wash some of Evander's things, Hercules and Iolaus begin to play with the baby. Suddenly, Evander levitates a small stone which pops Iolaus in the back of the head. Grinning from ear to ear, the baby then levitates a second stone, causing it to smack Hercules is the back of his head. Evander leaves the two men confused, each thinking the other was responsible for the prank. When Nemesis takes the baby away to feed him and is gone for a long time, Hercules and Iolaus set out to investigate. They soon discover that Nemesis has taken a horse and left Evander behind. Convinced that she's in real trouble, the two agree they must find her. Meanwhile, Meniskos is cowering before Ares and Discord (Meighan Desmond) back at Ares' castle. When he confesses that he and his men have been unable to find Nemesis and the baby, Ares orders Discord to join in the search. Discord quickly catches up with Nemesis and orders Meniskos to take her to the village. In the meantime, as Hercules and Iolaus look for Nemesis, Evander continues to play with his "powers," levitating a surprised Iolaus several times, though never when Hercules is watching.
In the village, Discord angrily grills Nemesis to find out where she's hiding the baby and why Ares is so interested in the child. When her efforts prove futile, she orders that Nemesis be tied to a stake and burned if she doesn't relent. But before Meniskos can set her ablaze, Hercules and Iolaus arrive with the baby to rescue her. After a spectacular fight, they flee to the village gates and escape, locking Meniskos and his men inside. Hercules then pleads with Nemesis to tell him about the trouble she's in and she finally breaks down, admitting that she's deceived him -- that he's not Evander's father after all. Hercules is stunned and disappointed. She confesses that Ares is the baby's real father and that she became involved with him only because he promised her godhood again if she gave him a son. She goes on to explain that Ares wants the baby back because the child has inherited some of Ares' powers. Meanwhile, Ares tells Discord, who assumes the baby's father is Hercules, that he wants Evander back because the baby has powers he can eventually use to kill Hercules. Ares then tries to take the baby from Hercules, but fails. Suddenly, Hercules hears the urgent sound of Nemesis' voice and rushes off to find her. As he races through the forest with Evander in tow, he also hears Iolaus' cry. He finally finds them hanging precariously from a tree over a precipitous drop to the rocks -- the work of Ares and Discord. Ares tells Hercules he must make a choice -- he must hand over Evander or else his friends will die. Faced with no choice, Hercules gives up the baby to save Nemesis and Iolaus.
Back at the castle, when Discord finds out that the baby is actually Ares' child, she is consumed by her jealousy of Nemesis. She grabs the child and runs into the castle courtyard, only to find herself trapped between Meniskos and his men on one side and Hercules, who has just arrived with his friends, on the other. She sprints up the stairway to the castle tower and hurls the baby over the side. Hercules dives to catch Evander, but Ares rushes in at the last moment and grabs the baby. Soon, a battle ensues between Hercules, Iolaus and Meniskos and his men, and as Nemesis rages after Discord, Ares slips away. When Hercules catches up with Ares and the baby, he watches as Evander levitates a rock and sends it flying into the back of Discord's head, knocking her over the tower. Evander then rises out of Ares' grasp, higher and higher towards the battlement wall, into the arms of his mother. Hercules and Ares lash out at each other and after a furious fight in which Ares is drop-kicked by an unrelenting Hercules, the god of war gives up his struggle for the baby. Later, as Iolaus and him bid farewell to Nemesis and Evander, Hercules promises to always be there for them if they need him.
Starring: Kevin Sorbo (Hercules), Michael Hurst (Iolaus)
Guest Starring: Kevin Smith (Ares), Kimberly Joseph (Nemesis), Meighan Desmond (Discord), Alistair Browning (Meniskos), Rachel Ackerley and Rose Schicker (Evander)
Teleplay by John Hudock
Story by Kevin Sorbo
Directed by Christopher Graves