Category: Season 2

Aphrodite is upset that two young people from two different kingdoms have fallen in love and are to be married. When that happens, their fathers who rule the kingdoms plan to demolish some of her temples. She decides to use a spell on Joxer and he will break the couple up. But Gabrielle soon realizes that something isn’t right with him and tries to find a way to end the spell and reunite the couple.

written by Adam Armus and Nora Kay Foster
directed by Josh Becker
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Ted Raimi (Joxer), Alexandra Tydings (Aphrodite), Karl Urban (Cupid), Mandie Gillette (Ileandra), Craig Parker (Sarpedon), Ross Jolly (King Barus), Craig Walsh-Wrightson (King Lynaeus), Rachale Davies (Aria), Tai Hadfield (Guard), Mark Jones (Messenger)

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Gabrielle recieves an urgent message from her friend, Meleager the Mighty. When she and Xena reach the village, they find that Meleager has just been found guilty of murder. He is to be executed for the crime. Gabrielle is convinced that Meleager is innocent and helps him to escape. Xena intervenes when the bard is mobbed. She tells the judge, Arbus, that she will go after Meleager but Gabrielle will come with her. When they finally catch up to Meleager he confesses that he can’t remember what happened because he was drunk at the time and that he lied to Gabrielle. The bard is hurt that her friend didn’t trust her. He tells them that he knows where the dead man’s sword is because for some reason he held on to it. When he shows Xena the sword, she knows that Meleager is innocent.

written by Paul Robert Coyle
directed by Michael Levine
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Tim Thomerson (Meleager), Tony Blackett (Arbus), Douglas Kamo (Sullus), Alvin Fitisemanu (Hawker), Jonathon Acorn (Slim Man), Ann Baxter (Elderly Woman), Colin Francis (Hurried Villager), Matthew Jeffs (Head Guard), Patrick Kuhtze (Other Guard), Dean Stewart (Executioner)

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Gabrielle is kidnapped and the warrior who took her, Palaemon, tells Xena that he killed her. The two warriors fight and Xena soon realizes that he lied. During the fight, Xena is accidentally sprayed in the face with a dye. One of the ingredients in the dye could permanently blind her, unless she receives treatment within twenty four hours. But Xena is more concerned with rescuing Gabrielle. She makes Palaemon act as her guide to the bard. Having been taken to a castle, Gabrielle is told that she will be married to the king. She is taken to her chambers to be prepared for meeting some of the people and for the ceremony.

written by Adam Armus and Nora Kay Foster
directed by Josh Becker
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Jeremy Callaghan (Palaemon), Chris Bailey (Apex), Sydney Jackson (Vidalus), Graham Lauder (Lagos), Ajay Vasisht (Vendor)

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Xena and Gabrielle meet Ulysses and offer to help regain control of his ship, which is being held by pirates. Poseidon, god of the sea, warns them not to try to sail to Ithaca. He tries to stop them by having the Sirens sing, but Xena ties Ulysses below deck. When they reach Ithaca, an old friend of Ulysses greets them. He tells them Peneolpe had believed her husband to be dead. She is being forced to find someone to replace him as king.

written by R.J. Stewart
directed by Michael Levine
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: John D’Aquino (Ulysses), Charles Siebert (Poseidon), Rachel Blakely (Penelope), Carl Bland (Layos), Tim Raby (Meticles), Geoffrey Knight (1st Pirate), Donna Pivac (1st Siren)

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Xena and Gabrielle find an Athenian soldier who washed up in the river they were fishing in. He manages to tell them that he was attacked by the Horde before he dies. They look back to the river and see more bodies.

When they head away from the river, they run into the Horde and so they turn back to the river. Spotting a canoe in the water, they make their escape with it. When they are finally able to stop for a bit, Xena tells Gabrielle about her army’s encounter with the Horde. The warrior tells her that they will have a hard time getting away from the Horde. The Horde attack when Xena and Gabrielle return to the river, but more Athenian soldiers appear and drive the warriors back. The soldiers take the two women to their fortress. Inside the fortress, the men have given up hope of defeating the Horde. When Xena sees this and learns that their commander is dead, she takes control.

written by Steven L. Sears
directed by Oley Sassone
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Paul Glover (Menticles), Mark Perry (Galipan), Tamati Rice (Garel), Brent Gilbert (Drowned Athenian), Bob Johnson (Athenian #2), Phillip Jones (Wounded Athenian), Allen O’Halloran (Fatigued/Gashed Athenian), Sam Williams (Hordemasater)

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Xena and Gabrielle are separated after the ship they were on sinks during a storm. The bard is picked up by Cecrops, the lost mariner, whose ship was cursed three hundred years before by Poseidon. Xena has her hands full on shore with pirates who wish to capture her. She learns from them which ship picked up Gabrielle. She makes the decision to try and reach that ship. Once aboard, Xena convinces Cecrops to head east toward the whirlpool Charybdis and the part of the island where his late love, Tyrie, had lived. When they do, Poseidon appears and offers Xena and Gabrielle the opportunity to leave the ship. Realizing that she is close to figuring out how to break the curse, Xena turns him down.

written by Steven L. Sears
directed by Garth Maxwell
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Tony Todd (Cecrops), Charles Siebert (Poseidon), Nigel Harbrow (Basculis), George Henare (Hidsim), Frank Iwan Jr. (Colfax), Michael Hollows (Tig), John Smith (Bloomer)

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When his parents think he is sleeping, Cupid’s son Bliss takes one of his father’s bows and heads for a village. Xena and Gabrielle are in that village, because they had heard that Draco was planning on kidnapping the Hestian virgins. Joxer has also heard this and comes to help. Draco raids the temple but finds that it is deserted except for Xena. She tells him that the virgins are safely hidden away. Since he can’t have the virgins, Draco settles for capturing Gabrielle and Joxer.

written by Chris Manheim
directed by Charles Siebert
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Ted Raimi (Joxer), Jay Laga’aia (Draco), Karl Urban (Cupid), Anthony Ray Parker (Pinullus), Cherie Bray-Taylor (Virgin #2), Michael Holt (Draco Man #1), Eric Lynch (Best Buddy), Vanessa Mateja (Virgin #1), Collette Pennington (Housewife), David Perrett (Farmer), Zen Player (Draco Man #2), John Carr Watson (Merchant)

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