Hercules Episode 3 - Hercules and the Secret Weapon Episode Title:Hercules and the Secret Weapon.Episode Description:The Narrator and Muses explain that Athena (Jane Leeves) and Ares (Jay Thomas) have been rivals for centuries. So when Hephaestus (Kevin Michael Richardson) builds a secret weapon for Ares - a bow that produces energy blasts as arrows - Athena has Hercules and Phil go to Sparta to investigate this secret weapon. However, while there, Hercules unwittingly accepts a mission from Ares to destroy Athens using the Armageddon Bow (Paula Poundstone), who, as he discovers, is a female and doesn't like to kill. After Icarus and Cassandra arrive and Icarus blurts out Hercules' prior commitment, Ares decides to kill them, but Athena comes to his aid. While the two deities argue over who should get the bolt, Hercules decides to drop it and let whoever catches it have it (who turns out to be Eros).