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1995/1996
Xena decides to
end her life as a warrior and return to quieter ways, and buries her sword,
throwing ring and armour. Within a few minutes though, she is back to fighting
when she discovers a group of village girls being tormented by a gang of
thugs. She defeats the thugs single handed, and since she knows the warlord
who commands them she goes to see him and requests that he leave the village
alone. Xena lets slip however that she is heading home, and angry at being
spurned by her, the warlord follows her and threatens her home village.
Meanwhile Xena is tailed by one of the village girls (Gabrielle), who seeks
excitement and adventure and thinks she may find it with Xena. After she
steps in and saves Xena from being lynched by her own townsfolk, Xena in
the end agrees to her coming along.
Notes: This is Renee O'Connor's first appearance as Gabrielle.
Xena finds a group
of villagers building a barn being attacked by a brutal warlord and his
troops. She sees them off but is wounded by an arrow. The carpenter of
the village who has three young children takes her in while she recovers.
Meanwhile Gabrielle is waiting for Xena and becoming worried when she doesn't
turn up. As Xena recovers, the warlord's son calls the villagers to a meeting
to talk peace, but his fathers soldiers are waiting in the wings to slaughter
them all...
Gabrielle is kidnapped
by dark forces working for the god Morbius and has to go through a series
of challenges to see if she is suitable to be his bride. Xena tries to
rescue her by entering a dreamscape world where she comes up against a
number of foes including the dark side of her own pscyhe. In the meantime,
her body is in an unconcious state and soldiers working for Morbius are
searching for her.
Xena and Gabrielle
discover a baby in a basket left floating abandoned on a river. They plan
to take the baby to a nearby town, only to discover that it is being hunted
for by the soldiers of the King who have orders to kill it. To make things
worse, they are joined by Pandora, grand- daughter of the original Pandora
who first opened the box. When her box is seized in a fight, this also
becomes a priority since hope will escape if Pandora doesn't reset the
time lock by midnight.
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A princeling pleads
with Xena for help when his girlfriend (a princess) is kidnapped leading
two neibouring states to the verge of war. Xena soon realises that a local
arms dealer is responsible and has to return to a city from which she launched
many of her battles. She is reunited with an old flame (Marcus) and is
unable to decide whether to trust him. Meantime she does a deal with the
arms dealer to get closer to the kidnapped princess.
Xena finds a small
group of peasants travelling with a cart being attacked by a hooded swordsman,
and comes to their rescue. After a short fight the swordsman disappears
and she finds herself surrounded by the friends and relations of the injured
men. When they see blood all over Xena and her sword, they assume that
she is responsible for the attack. Xena and Gabrielle make their escape
up a side valley that turns out to be a dead end. Early the following morning
Xena and Gabrielle try to get past them but are captured. Xena is thrown
into a prison cell and once alone the hooded swordsman appears to her.
He is Ares, the god of war, who wants her to return to her old warlike
ways. His ways and to become his Queen. She refuses and prepares to face
death at the hands of the peasants instead...
A group of villagers
pursuade Gabrielle to help them read a scroll that will reawaken a group
of Titans (giants) locked inside a cave near their village. Gabrielle succeeds
but fairly soon her influence over the Titans fades and they start to follow
their own agenda. One that does not bode well for the villagers. Xena has
to step in and try to regain control of the Titans and save the village.
A thug decides
to try his luck at slaying Xena, and not unsurprisingly fails. However,
when her attempts to heal his wounds fail, she starts a quest for an oracle
since she believes that the god Prometheus has been captured and as a result
his gifts to mankind are disappearing. These include the ability to heal
and the knowledge of fire. The oracle instructs her on how to free Prometheus
and she sets off to do so. Along the way she meets up with Hercules, and
together they set off to free Prometheus. However, when Xena discovers
that using the mystic sword to break Prometheus' chains will result in
the holder dying, she and Hercules start fighting over who should fulfill
this sacrifice. Each wishing to save the other, they attempt to outsmart
each other at every turn...
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Hades appears
to Xena and asks her to help him free his sister, Celesta, who has been
kidnapped by an elderly but good King. It's not however straightforward
since Celesta is Death and with her held captive no one can die. At first
Xena thinks this is a good thing and ignores the request, but when Xena
and Gabrielle meet some injured people in the road, her opinion begins
to change. When they visit a hospital, she becomes convinced that she must
free Celesta so that these people's suffering can come to an end. Assisted
by Gabrielle and a friend she's met on the road, who has knowledge of the
King's Palace, Xena sets off to release Celesta.
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Xena and Gabrielle
enter the territory of the Amazons and are being taken before the Amazon
Queen when the party is attacked. When Gabrielle tries to save one of the
Amazons, her dying wish is that Gabrielle should inherit her birthright.
Gabrielle doesn't mention this to Xena, which complicates things when the
Amazons are drawn into friction with the Centaurs who live nearby. Xena
soon realises that a third party is insighting a war between the Amazons
and the Centaurs...
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Xena visits a
village to discover that the local warlord has kidnapped a young woman
who was a childhood friend of hers. Xena promises to rescue her and decides
to pretend to be working for the warlord in order to get into the dungeon
where she and some of the other villagers are being held. She discovers
that dissent against the warload is being organised by a mysterious leader
called the Black Wolf, and keen to help the people overthrow the warlord.
Xena struggles to discover who the leader is. As usual, Gabrielle manages
to get herself drawn into the melee as well...
In the besieged
city of Troy, Helen has visions of being overrun by the Greeks and sends
a trusted courtier out to find Xena and ask her to come and help. Xena
and Gabrielle find the courtier being attacked by soldiers and try to rescue
him, but his injuries are too great and he dies. Before he dies however
he does manage to deliver his message and Xena and Gabrielle head to Troy.
Defeating a number of Greek soldiers, they are welcomed to the city by
Gabrielle's former fiancee who is a captain of the city guards. Things
start to go awry when Xena is arrested by the guards under the control
of Paris and is thrown into a cell. She soon fears that there is a traitor
within the City Guards, and that the city will soon fall...
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Gabrielle meets
up with a young man and his father who are making their way to Athens to
take part in a competition for four places at the Athens City Academy of
the Performing Bards. Gabrielle enthralls everyone with her tales of Xena's
exploits, and decides to try the competition for herself. All is going
well until it is revealled by the jellous father of the young man who told
Gabrielle about the contest that she had not applied properly for the competition
and she is disqualified.
Note: This is basically a clip show compiled from previous episodes of the series, plus segments from Xena's appearances in Hercules The Legendary Journeys.
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Xena finds one
of her friends being attacked and chases his attacker while Gabrielle attends
to his wounds. Xena recovers a purse stolen from her friend but is then
challenged by another attacker, at which point she removes a parchment
map from the purse and after memorising it, eats it. It turns out that
it is one of four clues to the location of the buried treasure of the Summarian
empire. She soon teams up with an assassin and a warlord and they set off
to find the treasure. Xena informs Gabrielle that buried along with the
treasure is some ambrosia - the food of the gods - which will turn any
mortal who eats it into a god.
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Xena visits a
palace and is somewhat surprised when all the guards stand down. She meets
with the King and he explains that she is the splitting image of his daughter.
The problem for the King is that some group are trying to kill his daughter
before she can marry the princeling from a neighbouring state. At first
Xena is unimpressed until she hears that the marriage will bring the end
of slavery in the neighbouring state, at which point she agrees to help.
Xena meets the Princess, Diana, and there is indeed a striking similarity.
However for Xena to take her place, Diana must take Xena's place, and rides
out of town on Xena's horse to meet Gabrielle. All too soon Xena is having
to content with multiple attempts on her life as she posses as Diana, and
she begins to have the disquieting fear that the assassins are working
for someone within the court.
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While Xena and
Gabrielle are eating in a Tavern, one of the girls working there reports
having seen a ghost outside. Xena goes out and finds the ghost of her dead
lover Marcus (from The Path Not Taken) waiting for her.
He starts to tell her of a terrible change in the underworld, but before
he can finish some dark figures appear to drag him off and they all disappear.
Going with Gabrielle to the place he mentioned before he was dragged off,
Xena dives into a lake and swims to the bottom where she finds her way
through some caves to the river Styx. Going across, she discovers that
the evil-doers have taken over the Elysian fields and thrown those who
should be there into the underworld. Finding Marcus, they proceed together
to a castle where Hades, is imprisoned having had his helmet of invisibility
stolen. Xena and Marcus discover that an psychopathic murderer has stolen
it and has plans to invade the world of the living...
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Xena is asked
to help a group of villagers recover a valuable box that has been stolen
from them. It turns out that it also significant value as a weapon and
is due to be put up for auction. Xena enlists the help of a master thief
and together they go to an island fortress. Things start to go awry when
the box is stolen and the man selling the item is found dead...
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Gabrielle and
Xena are attacked by an opportunistic bunch of robbers but manage to foil
their threats. However at the crucial moment Gabrielle freezes in fear.
Something which leads her to feel that she is a danger to Xena's safety.
Deeply troubled she decides to return to her home village, discovering
on the way that it is about to be attacked by a warlord who has already
destroyed other villages in the area. She further discovers that her village
has hired a reknown soldier, Meleager the Mighty, to protect them. But
when he appears in person he is drunk and less than impressive. Gabrielle
decides to organise the defence of the village herself...
Xena is teaching
Gabrielle how to catch fish with her bare hands in the pool at the foot
of a waterfall, when a young boy runs out of the woods pursued by a gang
of men. She rescues the boy and defeats the gang and discovers that the
boy is on the run because his father believes he has to sacrafice his son
to his god. Xena can't believe that a father would really kill his son,
and proceeds to investigate, but finds that it appears to be true. After
several scuffles with the gang of zealots, Xena discovers that the father
has been drugged after Gabrielle becomes delirious having eaten some bread
intended for the boy. Meantime the boy is recaptured by the zealots and
Xena is in a race against time to stop the sacrafice.
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Xena and Gabrielle
are about to rescue a group of girls captured by a warlord, when another
warrior appears and starts attacking the warlord's men. An older man, he
seems unlikely to be able to hold his own, and Xena rescues him. When he
hears Xena's name, he claims to be her father, Atrius. A claim she hardly
even seems to consider, let alone believe, much to Gabrielle's astonishment.
They free the slave girls and start to lead them home. Meanwhile we see
Ares appearing to the warlord and telling him that he'll fall to Xena.
The warlord maintains that he'll defeat her. When ambushed by one of the
warlords men, Atrius kills him after he has surrendered in front of Gabrielle
who is shocked but when challenged shows evidence that he was pulling a
dagger which appears contrary to what Gabrielle saw. In the end Gabrielle
decides that she should not stand between Xena and her father and arranges
for them to have some time together performing a rear guard action. When
they reach the town from which the girls were taken, Atrius is lynched
by a mob and Xena asks them to spare him until she has dealt with the approaching
army of the warlord. After a duel with the warlord, she gains control of
the army and returns to the village, only to find her father strung up
to die by the townsfolk. In a wild rage, she orders the army to destroy
the town and kill them all, including Gabrielle.
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Xena and Gabrielle
are found by a young woman who pleads on behalf of a Lord to save their
village from a pending attack from a vicious warlord. When they reach the
village they discover that the Lord of the village is none other than Salmoneus.
A battle with the warlords minions ensues and all is going well until a
mysterious figure in the woods fires a poisoned dart which hits Xena in
the neck. At first she seems ok, but as time goes on she starts to loose
her usual poise and timing and becomes very ill. With Xena unable to move,
Gabrielle has to impersonate Xena in order to keep the warlords forces
from attacking again. Unfortunately things don't go well and on her return
to the village Gabrielle is told that Xena is dead.
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A Village is attacked
and ramsacked by a woman warrior and her army, and she lets a villager
live saying that she is Xena. When Xena and Gabrielle are attacked by a
man claiming revenge for the killing of his family, the two of them start
to investigate who is attacking them. Finding the blonde-haired warrior
who is called Callisto. Xena has a battle with her and her soldiers during
which she looses her chakram. Interrogating one of Callisto's soldiers,
they discover that Callisto plans to kill the Delphi oracle and frame Xena.
Xena foils this attempt and takes Callisto to prison only for her to be
freed accidentally when a lynch mob attacks the prison. Callisto escapes
kidnapping Gabrielle and Xena has to follow, straight into Callisto's carefully
prepared trap.
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Xena and Gabrielle
are attacked by thug firing an arrow and much to Gabrielle's amazement
she stops the arrow in flight with her staff. After overpowering the thug
and his companion, Xena observes that they are wearing the trademark face
masks of the warlord who attacked her home village many years before, killed
her brother Lycius and started her on the path to being the Warrior Princess
she became. Seeking to take revenge, she tracks down the camp of the warlord
only to meet up with her brother who is trying to infilitrate their ranks.
She pursuades them to work together and set off to seek the elusive warlord
but when they come face to face with him suddenly realise there's a much
bigger picture and a lot more involved than they suspected in overpowering
him.
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Xena and Gabrielle
are trying to travel to Athens but find that they have to pass through
a battleground. When they find Ephiny, one of their Amazon friends, heavily
pregnant and lying hidden in the trees - her husband having been killed
in the crossfire, Xena resolves to stop the war one way or another. Capturing
one of the generals, she stabs him through with a sword and she and Gabrielle
take both him and Ephiny to a temple in the other city-states territory.
Once their Xena does her best to help the injured and dying while at the
same time showing the General the needless suffering the war has caused.
When Gabrielle hears a child has been left outside when his mother was
injured and goes to find him, she too becomes a casualty.
Note: The UK showing of this on Sky 2 had more than 3 minutes of programme removed from it - it had a running time of just under 39 minutes compared to the normal 42 minutes 30 seconds. In the US the first run showing of this episode was "hidden away" amongst the summer season of repeats, it being shown in the middle of July. Basically, one way or another, the broadcasters seem to have a big problem with the somewhat gory content of this episode.
They didn't have any problem showing all the gory content of this episode in Holland. (Y.S. Hu)
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