Wounded, Jason bravely fights off General Goran's men but ends up caught. After Medea pleads to trust the bond between those touched by the gods, Pasiphae has a tender mother-son with jailed Jason and pledges not to kill him. Councilor Cilix protests he can't appease the popular cry for Poseidon's justice merely by distracting gladiatorial games, but Cassandra's oracle declares filicide the ultimate crime. Jason's death sentence is commuted to fighting in the arena, where he does great against unfair odds but keeps fainting due to exhausting wounds. Talked over by Pythagoras, Aeson tells Hercules it's not his place to save his son, as no one else can heal his blackened heart. Icarus gets him in the crew of lepers assisting arena corpse disposal. After failed talks, he gets through to Jason and provides a potion to fake death. His 'corpse' can then be evacuated at night, but Icarus has to save Daedalus by betraying them, so there's a trap. Aeson dies later in the forest from a wound incurred taking a blade meant for Jason. Medea has lost trust in Pasiphae and secretly helps the escapees, irresistibly drawn to Jason.
—KGF Vissers