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Season Five
1999/2000

091  Fallen Angel
092  Chakram
093 Succession
094 Animal Attraction
095 Them Bones, Them Bones
096 Purity
097 Back In The Bottle
098 Punch Lines
099 Lyre Lyre Hearts on Fire

091 "Fallen Angel"
Air Date: October 02, 1999
Production Code: 5.01
Story by: Robert Tapert & R.J. Stewart
Teleplay by: R. J. Stewart
Directed by: John Fawcett
Guest Cast:
Hudson Leick (Callisto)
Joxer (Ted Raimi)
Joxer is wandering on a snowy mountainside and encounters Amarice; he tells her he's been having nightmares that Xena and Gabrielle are in trouble. Amarice tells him they aren't having any more troubles and points towards their lifeless bodies on crosses below. Joxer says he will return with their bodies to Greece... Meanwhile, in the afterlife Xena and Gabrille wait atop a peaked mountain and are surrounded by angels who lift them both up towards the light. However, as they rise, the angels are attacked by winged demons, Callisto amongst them and Gabrielle is dropped during the fighting and ends up in Hell. She awakes there to find Callisto lying beside her and tempting her to eat fruits of hell. Gabrielle correctly guesses it's a trick, but Callisto gets her demon buddies to force feed Gabrielle with the fruit and she turns into a demon with a few choice words for Callisto along the way.
Meanwhile, back up top, Xena attempts a plunge to rescue Gabrielle and is retrieved forceably by the Arch-Angel Michael who is not best impressed. Deciding that Xena could be a useful ally, he gives her the chance to take a test and she becomes an Arch-Angel. Michael warns her that Hell will be very hard and she will be more compassionate than before - should she give up her light, she will trade places with whoever she rescues. Undetered Xena and the other arch-angels launch their attack on the demon world below, and succeed in rescuing Gabrielle during a bitter battle. Xena however is confronted by Callisto, and decides to give her her purity. The semi-demonic Gabrielle is bathed in the waters of purity and emerges healed of her demonic attributes. She asks after Xena and Michael refuses to answer the question. Later she discovers that Xena saved Callisto and is shocked. Confronting the virginal and gentle new Callisto, Gabrielle finds it difficult to forgive her. Michael realises that Xena is now a demon and that with such a leader at their head, they are likely to be even more dangerous than before. Gabrielle offers to distract Xena in the fight, and Michael tells her that she must go through a test to see if she is worthy. She undertakes the test only to be faced with the gentle Callisto again - a sure sign that Michael wants her to forgive Callisto - the hardest thing for Gabrielle to ever do.

Meanwhile having removed their bodies from the crosses, Joxer, Eli and Amarice are moving them. Amarice accuses Eli of as good as killing them himself by teaching Gabrielle all the peace claptrap such that she would not defend herself. Joxer tries to step in, but Eli stops him, accepting there is much truth in what Amarice is saying.

Back in the afterlife, Gabrielle emerges from her trial as an Arch- Angel and sets herself on a high rock where she can be seen. True to form, Xena diverts her attention to Gabrielle and the two talk as the other demons and arch-angels start fighting. After Gabrielle tells Xena she will not join her in Hell, the two come to blows. Eventually wounded they plunge downwards. Meanwhile, Eli is having a crisis of faith and calls out for help. His cries are answered and an angel appears and tells him to go back to the bodies of his friends. Eli places his hands on Xena and Gabrielle's bodies and the ghostly angel lays her hands there too, though his. Gabrielle and Xena, still falling towards hell, suddenly dissolve and return to their bodies. Eli, Joxer and Amarice are astounded as they move and Gabrielle's hand reaches out to hold Xena's. Joxer touches her face and Gabrielle smiles at him and then rests her head on Xena's shoulders. Michael and the angel watch from the sidelines; he tells the angel that it is time and she is re-united with her parents who died many years before in an attack on a small village called Cirra by a warlord and her army! (You can figure out who the angel is for yourselves!).

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092 "Chakram"
Air Date: October 04, 1999
Production Code: 5.02
Written by: Chris Manheim
Directed by: Doug Lefleur
Guest Cast:
Kevin Smith (Ares)
Ted Raimi (Joxer)
the episode starts with Ammerice giving Xena her chakram back... in pieces. Xena is like "What is this?" and Gabby, Eli, Joxer and Ammerice realize Xena has no memory of being a warrior or even fighting evil. She is all... pure! (It is kinda scary *lol*) Anywho, with Ares help (he is sporting a new hair cut btw. I cried) Xena realizes she needs to help her friends. Ares and this other God are after this, like, devil chakram that can kill a God. And when combined with the GOOD chakram (Xena's) it is like MEGA chakram! So anywho, when Xena joins the two together, she is back to her old self. YAY! ALSO Joxer FINALLY tells Gabrielle he loves her. But says she doesn't need to respond. He just wanted her to know. Then he walked away. *sniff*

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093 "Succession"
Air Date: October 11, 1999
Production Code: 5.03
Written by: Steven L. Sears
Directed by: Rick Jacobson
Guest Cast:
Kevin Smith (Ares)
Ares sees Gabby is getting good with her fighting skills but Xena ignored that. So he helps her out by puting Xena and Gabby in the same body... letting Xena only come out during the day and Gab at night. And he puts this other ass kicking woman with them in this world he creates. Only Gab can kill this woman but Xena can't. Yet Mavican (the blond warrior) can kill either of them. This whole thing is to see who would be a better person to pass down Ares (title? Fortune?) too. Anywho, all in all Xena and Gabrielle win (like always) and Xena actually tells Gabby she is PROUD of her! About time eh Xena? Check out Xena's new outfit! Going back to basics... almost. This new outfit provides room for Xena's growing tummy and pants! Or high boots... hard to tell.

094 "Animal Attraction"
Air Date: October 18, 1999
Production Code: 5.04
Written by: Chris Manheim
Directed by: Rick Jacobson
Guest Cast:
Ted Raimi (Joxer)
Jennifer Sky (Amarice)
Xena's pregnant! and acting VERY strange. Gabby gets a horsie! A busy episode that made me feel all warm and fuzzy. Gabrielle gets a cute chocolate brown horse to ride (to keep up with Xena and Argo) and Xena finally finds out she is PREGNANT! (Same week as Lucy had her baby... hmmm) Yet she claims not to know who or how Gabby DOES suggest the work of Ares to which Xena replies "NO!!" But who COULD be the daddy? The only men she HAS been around is Ares (*hehe*), Joxer (*Ahem*... NO), Eli (I highly doubt he's the dad), Caesar ('cept she didn't sleep woth him this time around) and all those perdy angels... but despite what my mum thinks, I doubt that is the case. It would be kinda...strange. Ammerice falls in love (could she be leaving the show soon) and Joxer practically CLINGS to Gabrielle making her feel uncomfortable about that whole love thing back in "Chakram". And is it me or are the costumes getting pretty good?

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095 "Them Bones, Them Bones"
Air Date: October 25, 1999
Production Code: 5.05
Written by: Buddy Williers
Directed by: John Fawcett
Guest Cast:
Sherri Rappaport (Otere)
Claire Stansfield (Alti)
Jennifer Sky (Amarise)
Kate Elliot (Yakut)
Donoch Ells (Chi’ah)
During a remedy taste for morning sickness, Xena becomes awfully sick and has a premonition of somebody trying to kill her baby. She goes to see Yakut, shamaness and leader of the northern amazons. Once there, Yakut tells her that the baby is being attacked in the spiritual realm, and that the attacker bears the mark of a shamaness. Alti. Xena wants to go to that realm and fight for her baby, but Gabrielle doesn’t let her and she goes instead.
After the ritual, the bard reaches the spiritual realm, and tries to kill Alti with the sacred dagger of the shaman, but the sorceress mind is too strong in a place where the strongest mind always wins. When Gabrielle comes back to physical realm, she knows that Alti doesn’t want to kill the baby, instead wants to steal his/her soul, and replace it with her own.

Xena will try the burial ritual for restless souls, that will enable to trap Alti’s soul. For that she needs an special amber, and commands Gabrielle and Amarise to go and get it, while she and Yakut go after Alti’s bones. When Xena arrives to the gravesite, she sees that the skull is missing and Yakut confesses that she stole it, she wanted to harness Alti’s power for good, but freed her spirit instead. Yakut wants to redeem herself by going alone against Alti, but is defeated and about to die when Xena arrives to spirit world. Once there, Alti do steals her baby soul and offers a deal to the princess, her restoration to physical realm in exchange for the soul of the baby. To do that, she must convince the amazon tribe to put their minds and wills together, ant then, anything is possible.

Gabrielle and Amarise arribe to the cave and are met by Chi’ah, the guardian of the amber, who has the ability to see into the souls of those who enter into the cave, and then reveals the secret that Amarise has held, she is not an amazon, but Gabrielle can pass and she gets the amber and they both return to Yakut village.

Xena plans to comply and bring Alti back, and the amazons unite their mind to the ritual, Xena forces Alti into a trap by taking the shamaness into her dreams. Both the warrior and the sorceress shed their skin (literally) and their skeletons fight. After some flips and somersaults, Xena rips the soul of her baby out of Alti and then the amazons use the amber to trap the evil sorceress soul.

Amarise decides to stay with Yakut amazons and Gabrielle tells her that she considers her one of her amazon sisters, Xena finally accepts her baby and heads east

Alti’s skeleton was harmed during the production of this motion picture.

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096 "Purity"
Air Date: November 01, 1999
Production Code: 5.06
Written by:
Directed by:
Guest Cast:
Jay La'gella (Draco)
Xena receives a message from a dying man on her way to Chin "The Hawk and the Dove must be made one with the wisdom" She realizes that this phrase means that the book of Lao Ma is in danger, and along Gabrielle and Joxer hurries to Chin, to the temple where the book ('the wisdom') is hidden.
When they get there, the town close to the monastery is destroyed, and Xena identifies the explosive stuff that was in use, black powder, a forbidden composite by Chinese law. The monastery is being as attacked, and is up to her and Gabrielle to defend it. They receive help from a Chinese girl that identifies herself as Pao Su, daughter of Lao Ma. When the incoming army retreats, they go where Xena left the book, and realize it is gone. Xena grabs a random book, puts it in her saddle, and along Pao Su goes tracking for Lao Ma's wisdom book.

Gabrielle and Joxer remain in the village, trying to find the missing component of the powder, Xena knows there is sulfur and coal in it, but can't identify the final component, the only clue they have is that the explosive powder was discovered by a cook, so it must be something that a cook uses.

When Xena and Pao Su find the book, is in the hands of Kao Sin, another offspring of Lao Ma. Pao Su reveals herself as the owner of the army that attacked the monastery and rediscovered the formula of black powder, and takes off with what she thinks is the book of wisdom, not knowing that Xena was on her from the start, and made an exchange of books, keeping the wisdom and giving her only a prayer book.

Joxer gets Gabrielle and himself arrested by telling everybody that he is looking for the forbidden formula of powder, the law officers put them in the torture chamber, with the classic drop of water on their heads, until Gabrielle is able to make the lock explode with a little bag of powder that Joxer was carrying. With all the spices they were able to carry, they go looking for Xena and Pao Su.

Pao Su meanwhile, realizes she's been had, the book she has, has nothing more than prayers and meditation, deciding to hunt Xena and get the book. Kao Sin and the warrior princess go to Lao Ma's palace, and they begin the study of the wisdom, for they know that the only way they can defeat an army with explosives is with the power of Lao Ma. However, Pao Su captures Joxer and Gabrielle, and takes them to the palace, where the ties them spread eagle, and puts a few kegs of powder around them, then calls for Xena to surrender the book, otherwise she will get to see her friends blowing to pieces. Joxer screams to Xena that she must save Gabrielle first, put Kao Sin prefers to give the book to her sister, thinking that she will be fulfilling her mother's wish, Pao Su is 'the Hawk' and she is 'the Dove', united with the book of wisdom. Pao Su doesn't think that she has to share the secret of the book with anyone, hits her sister and set fire on the powder. Xena sends her chakram to cut Joxer bonds while stamping off the fire under Gabrielle.

Pao Su studies the book while Xena and Kao Sin study in a different way, Lao Ma's blood runs in Kao Sin, and the teachings are in Xena head. Together, they discover that Lao Ma's power is based on purity and focus, they have purity of love, but Pao Su has purity of hate, hate for her mother never being there for her. Xena plans to dilute that hate by telling her that her mother loved her so much, that had to sent both her daugthers away, to insure that his son, Ming T'ien, did not kill them.

Joxer discovers the formula for powder and they are ready to blow Pao Su's powder supply sky high, while Xena and Kao Sin face Pao Su personally. When they are face to face, Pao Su claims to be following the footsteps of a great man, the Green Dragon, and attacks, Xena and Kao Sin deflect her power time and again, all the while telling her that her mother did love her, and that his idolized Green Dragon was the son of Lao Ma that would have them killed. Pao Su starts to lose concentration, and claims that at least dead she will have them for company, channeling all her remaining power against the duo. They deflect it and say together "To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way." Then they reflect the power back to Pao Su, making her fly to where all her powder was concentrated, Joxer and Gabrielle send a few rockets that way, and when all the powder storage blows, Pao Su dies screaming. After all is over, Kao Sin tells Xena that the real Hawk that her mother message was referring wasn't Pao Su, but Xena, who is her sister.

No funny comment for this episode.

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097 "Back In The Bottle"
Air Date: November 08, 1999
Production Code: 5.07
Story by: Rob Tapert & Steven L. Sears
Directed by: Rick Jacobson
Guest Cast:
Ted Raimi (Joxer)
Marie Matiko (Pao Su/Kao Sin)
Anthony Wong (Kun)
George Kee Cheung (Lin Chi)
Daniel Sing (Ming T’ien)
Xena is trying to archive perfect stillness to cook a rabbit that Gabrielle is holding, however, all she gets it to turn the bunny to stone. Ever since the battle with Pao Su, she can't concentrate. Joxer joins them saying that there is no game to be found, and that they have to eat the rabbit, but seeing it turned to stone (with some others) screams at Xena. Gabrielle decides to go to the closest town to buy some food and asks Joxer for money. He pulls a bag and hands it over to her, but there is not money in there, but powder. When Xena takes it she has a premonition.
Fireworks destroying villages, people dying in the explosions, Gabrielle fighting alongside a Chinese man, until a rocket explodes at his feet, then one blowing Joxer to pieces and then one hitting Gabrielle.

Kun, leader of the northern Chinese warriors (Mongols) invokes the spirit of the Green Dragon, who appears telling him that thanks to his sister, Pao Su, they will have the formula for black powder, and carve his name in blood all over the continent.

Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer hurry back to Chin, and are met by a column of refugees, leaded by Kao Sin, who informs them that Kun, a warlord, is coming, taking everything in his path, and, to make things worse, he has the black powder. Xena suggest taking the caravan to Lao Ma's palace, where they can find solace in the tunnels that are beneath it. Gabrielle rides ahead to warn the castle, and meets Lin Chi, the one in charge the palace defenses who disagrees with the idea of bringing the refuges to a bottle with no exit. In the palace he can contain the enemy army buying the refugees time to escape. Then an advance of Kun's army blows a hole in a wall, and they find fighting side by side. The skirmish makes Lin Chi see the side of Gabrielle's argument, and orders the defenders to help her any way they can.

When a group leaded by Joxer encounters a mined field, Xena has to go to get them out, meeting with Kun personal guard, who informs her that he serves Ming T'ien and Pao Su, who appear before Xena. The warlord then orders his soldiers to send explosives her way, but with the power of Lao Ma, Xena is able to deflect them. Then she uses her chakram to set all the mines on, and the group makes the escape, with Lin Chi and Gabrielle covering them.

Xena tries to practice the power inside the palace, but is unable to archive stillness. Kao Sin shows up and tell her that she can't help in the battle, for she found a warning on her mother's book, every time one of the children of Lao Ma use the power, it makes all stronger. Then a servant comes in and tells them that the army stopped for the night, so Gabrielle and Lin Chi go to try to blow the powder cache.

Once there, they are trapped, and Kun tells them there are hundreds of caches, and nothing can be done to stop him. He then proceeds to put fire to the powder and leave the tent. Xena, back in the palace, feels the fear that Gabrielle is generating, and uses the power from a distance to suck up all the air in the tent. No oxygen, no fire. That buys Gabby and Chi time to escape, carrying the news of all the powder camps to Xena.

Ming T'ien and Pao Su order Kun to advance, they must be ready to finish Xena by morning. In the palace, the warrior princess is getting desperate, because she can't control the power, it only works to protect those she loves, and with that she can't fight an enemy, she can't love her enemy to death. Love does not end wars. When the morning comes, Joxer informs Xena that Kun's Army is right in front of the castle, and that they are using villagers as human shields.

Xena goes to face the army, while Gabrielle, Lin Chi and Joxer try to rescue the peasants. All the explosives that Kun sends to Xena are deflected, and some are even reflected back to the attackers. Joxer leads the villagers out to safety, while Gabrielle and Lin Chi fight to cover them. This recreates the premonition that Xena had, so she concentrates on the dragon emblem that is in all the breastplates of the army, a dragon. All the dragons start to glow green and then all the army turns to stone. Once all their followers are dead, Pao Su and Ming T'ien explode as well.

After the battle ended, Kao Sin tells Xena that she feels closer to her mother than ever, and Xena agrees that she feels her closer, but she doesn't feel the power anymore. Kao Sin theorizes that it has already served its purpose, after all it saved all Chin from the threat of the powder. Lastly, Xena claims that with love as her focus, she was able to end the war, therefore, love does end wars.

Despite having just killed 100,000 soldiers, Xena conscience was not harmed during the production of this motion picture

098 "Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire"
Air Date: November 15, 1999
Production Code: 5.08
Written by:
Directed by:
Guest Cast:

Synopsis not available.

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