Category: Season 5

Ares and Kel, another god of war, discuss Xena’s return and the chakram of light. Both gods want the weapon, since it can kill a god, but only the purest soul can retrieve it. Kel sends a monk after it, but he isn’t pure enough and is killed.

In the ruins of the temple in the mountains, Xena and Gabrielle are adjusting to their return to life. Amarice gives Xena the pieces of her broken chakram. The warrior has no idea what it is and isn’t interested in getting it fixed, which puzzles Gabrielle. Down in a nearby village, the bard shows Xena the new weapons she wants to buy for her, but again, the warrior isn’t interested. Suddenly Kel’s men appear, and Gabrielle and Amarice fight them – Xena just stands and watches. The bard calls for them to retreat back to the temple. Once there, they fill Eli in on what happened and ask him what could be wrong with Xena. He isn’t sure, but he thinks his friend, a monk, could help her. Later, Gabrielle tells him she knows she wasn’t following the right way for her and that if Xena doesn’t recover her memory, she will do whatever she must to protect her.

written by Chris Manheim
directed by Doug Lefler
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Ted Raimi (Joxer), Timothy Omundson (Eli), Jennifer Sky (Amarice), Kevin Smith (Ares), Antonio Te Maioho (Kel), Mark Rounthwaite (Guard)

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Ares’ girl of the moment, a warrior named Mavican, wants him to make her his new chosen since Xena no longer wants the job. But the god of war refuses, and Mavican determines to prove that she’s worthy of him.

Meanwhile, Xena fights of a small group of bandits, but won’t let Gabrielle help. Ares appears before the bard-turned-warrior when she visits a nearby temple to fill the waterskins. He’s sympathetic to her feelings of Xena treating her like a kid again, then surprises her with a compliment about her fighting skills with her sai before disappearing.

As Gabrielle is leaving the temple, Mavican appears. She wants to fight Xena to prove her worth to Ares…and she knows the best way to get the warrior’s attention is to kill her best friend.

written by Steven L. Sears
directed by Rick Jacobson
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Kevin Smith (Ares), Jenya Lano (Mavican)

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Xena, Gabrielle, Amarice and Joxer are heading to Spamona for a break in the town known for its hot springs. Along the way, they find a horse caught in a trap. Xena realizes that the animal calms down a bit when Gabrielle is close to it, so she has her distract him while she frees its hoof. They take the wounded horse on with them. In Spamona, they learn from the sheriff, Talia, an old friend of Xena’s, that the warlord Darcon plans to attack the village. Xena offers to help but Talia refuses it. Since Xena hasn’t been feeling well lately, Gabrielle tells her to go see a healer. When she does, the man has some startling news…

written by Chris Manheim
directed by Rick Jacobson
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Jennifer Sky (Amarice), Ted Raimi (Joxer), Alison Bruce (Talia), David Te Rare (Darcon), Mfundo Morrison (Arman), John Smith (Stablehand), Michael Howell (Deputy), Ric Chan (Healer), Norman Potts (Gang member), John Lawler (Barkeep)

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Xena and Gabrielle’s peaceful morning is ended when the warrior begins having sharp pains in her abdomen. They rush to a village healer. At the healer’s, Xena awakens from a horrible vision and tells Gabrielle and Amarice, who has joined them, that she must go see Yakut. The trio sets off for the northern Amazon village.

Yakut greets them. She has also seen the vision. The young shamaness has another vision and says that there’s a woman in it bearing the mark of the shamaness. Xena realizes that it is Alti. The warrior makes the decision to enter Alti’s realm to stop her from attacking her baby, but Gabrielle insists on taking her place for the baby’s and Xena’s sake. In the vision quest, Alti tells Gabrielle that she doesn’t want to harm the baby, but wants to return to the physical plane and that Xena should find a way to make this happen.

written by Steven L. Sears & R.J. Stewart
directed by John Fawcett
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Claire Stansfield (Alti), Jennifer Sky (Amarice), Kate Elliot (Yakut), Donogh Rees (Chi’Ah), Beryl Te Wiata (Midwife), Rachel Hayward (Amazon), and Argo

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Xena and Gabrielle find a monk from the temple where Xena had left Lao Ma’s book. He delivers a message that the warrior realizes is from her late mentor. The two women, along with Joxer, head for Chin. Once there, they find a devastated village. As they are investigating the damage, missiles begin exploding throughout the ruins around them, and soldiers attack them. During the fighting, a woman joins their defense and soon the army retreats. The woman then identifies herself as Pao Ssu, daughter of Lao Ma. She explains to them that the army that was attacking has discovered the secret of black powder, which had been outlawed in Chin. They head for the temple and discover that Lao Ma’s book has been stolen. As Xena and Pao Ssu search for the thief, Gabrielle and Joxer head to the market to get what they need to make their own black powder.

written by Jeff Vlaming
directed by Mark Beesley
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Ted Raimi (Joxer), Marie Matiko (Pao SsU/K’Ao Hsin), Andy Choi (Go Kun), William Kwan (Vendor)

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As Xena tests to see whether or not she can use Lao Ma’s teachings away from Chin, she has a vision of Gabrielle, Joxer, and an unknown man fighting an army with explosions around them. She decides they must return to Chin to find out what the vision means. In Chin, they encounter K’ao Hsin with hundreds of refugees. K’ao Hsin tells them that the warlord Ghengis Khan is leading an army of Monguls through Chin. Khan is receiving help from the spirit of Ming Tien and his sister, Pao Ssu. Pao Ssu gives Khan the secret to making black powder – and suddenly Xena’s fight to save the refugees is that much more difficult…and deadly.

teleplay by Steven L. Sears
story by Robert Tapert & Steven L. Sears
directed by Rick Jacobson
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Ted Raimi (Joxer), Marie Matiko (Pao SsU/K’Ao Hsin), George Kee Chung (Genghis Khan), Daniel Sing (Ming Tien), Anthony Wong (Lin Qi), Helen Phung (Tei), Lohsing Cheng (Peasant)

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After Xena and Gabrielle stop some theives from robbing her temple, Aphrodite shows them the hospice she has set up in another part of it. One of the patients is a girl named Daphne, who’s been unconcious since she was brought in. Xena says she’d trade places with the girl if that would get her to wake up, and Aphrodite does just that. But when Daphne wakes up, they discover that she was only half successful – now Xena is sharing the girl’s body. Daphne’s father arrives to take her home, and Xena tells Gabrielle to watch over her body and find a way to restore her. But they have restore her before sundown, or Xena will be sharing Daphne’s body forever.

written by Gregg Ostrin
directed by Allison Liddi
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Alexandra Tydings (Aphrodite), Rose McIver (Daphne), Colin Moy (Galantis), Peter Feeney (Tharon), Stephen Finch (Sandor), Wade Taylor (Castor), Scott Taylor (Pollux), Justin Curry (Doorman), Allen O’Halloran (Guard), David Telford (Announcer)

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Ares appears after a brawl in a tavern and tells Xena that some of the people involved are part of a movement that has been inciting people to disobey the gods. Xena realizes that he’s afraid that the prophecy about the twilight of the gods may be comiing true. He says he’s just being thorough.

Xena and Gabrielle accompany the members the movement to protect them, and learn that they are followers of Eli’s teachings. They meet up with their friend in another village where he’s encouraging people to destroy their weapons, saying the only weapon they need against the gods is love. But Xena is concerned about what Ares may be up to…and her fears are confirmed when she finds some of his warriors preparing to attack the village.

written by George Strayton and Tom O’Neill
directed by Garth Maxwell
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Hudson Leick (Callisto), Kevin Smith (Ares), Timothy Omundson (Eli), Ann Baxter (Disciple), Tim Beveridge (Villager #2), James Gaylyn (Petracles), Albert Heimuli (Head Soldier), Peter Rowley (Milos), Greg Ward (Villager #3)

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Draco and his men find one of Terpiscore’s golden lyres in the desert, but Amazons appear and claim that it belongs to them. As they are about to start fighting, Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer arrive. Xena takes the lyre and tells them that their dispute will be settled in a battle of the bands.

written by Adam Armus & Nora Kay Foster
directed by Mark Beesley
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Darien Takle (Cyrene), Ted Raimi (Joxer/Jace), Jay La’Gaia (Draco), Gillian Illiana Waters (Amoria), Susan Calloway and Susan Wood (Gabrielle vocals), Tony Bishop (Alabardus), Paul Norell (Falafel), Grant Bridger (Farmer Paxon), Jim Ngaata (Maximinimus), Christine Bartlett (Townsperson #2), Jeremy Birchall (double for Joxer/Jace), Stephen Butterworth (Small Guy), Geoff Dolan (Henchman #1), Latham Gaines (Rich Guy), Bruce Hopkins (Barkeep), Olaf John (Leader), Geoff Knight (Big Man), Ciaran Pennington (Young Man), Guy Ryan (Sex Symbol Guy), Clint Sharplin (Townsperson #1)

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Xena and Gabrielle are spending the night in one of Aphrodite’s temples. While the warrior is sleeping soundly, Gabrielle is trying to write a story about their latest adventure when Aphrodite appears. The goddess of love offers to help the bard get past her writer’s block by having Gabrielle talk about what happened earlier in the day, when the god of despair, Lachrymose, shrank Argo and how she had to try find away to restore the horse to her normal size before Xena found out.

written by George Strayton & Tom O’Neill
directed by Garth Maxwell
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Alexandra Tydings (Aphrodite), Ted Raimi (Joxer), Jon Gadsby (Lachrymose), Chris Ryan (Blutos), Tony Forster (Solemus), Bernard Moody (Drunk)

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Zeus pays a visit to the Fates, who confirm his belief that the twilight of the gods is approaching. They tell him that the birth of Xena’s child will be the beginning. Though Hera tries to disuade him, Zeus decides that Xena must die before the baby is born. Hercules catches up with Xena and Gabrielle, bringing a gift for the baby. But as the three friends are talking, Proxitici appear. They fight them off and learn that about Zeus’s plan. While Hercules goes to talk to his father, Xena and Gabrielle head to the underworld to get Hades’ helmet of invisibility.

written by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman
story by Chris Manheim
directed by Phil Sgriccia
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Kevin Sorbo (Hercules), Kevin Smith (Ares), Meg Foster (Hera), Charles Keating (Zeus), Nicko Vella (Solan), Stephen Lovatt (Hades), Chloe Jordan (Lachesis), Slade Leef (Xena’s Proxidicae), Samantha Adriaanse (Clotho), Elizabeth Pendergrast (Atropos)

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Xena and Gabrielle escape a storm, unleashed by the gods in an effort to kill Eve, in a cave. Joxer is waiting for them with three people who say they are Magi, with gifts for Xena’s baby. But the warrior recognizes one of the gifts as being sacred to the goddess Artemis. She and Gabrielle fight the “Magi.” During the fight, Joxer is cut on his arm. Xena recognizes that one of the swords belonged to a warrior from the temple of Apollo, which means there was poison on the blade. Xena sends Joxer and Gabrielle to find a certain tree to make an antidote.

written by Chris Manheim
directed by Mark Beesley
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Ted Raimi (Joxer), Kevin Smith (Ares), Natalie Duggan (Tira), Peter Sa’ena-Brown (Tazor), Matthew Dwyer (Orcas), Patrick Iwobi (Magi #1), Grant Boucher (Magi #2), Barbara Cartwright (Magi #3)

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Xena fights off a group of female warriors who attacked the guards on the road to Amphipolis. Her first thought is Ares, but after he appears she realizes that it was Athena who sent the warriors. When Xena and Gabrielle reach Amphipolis, the warrior tries to get her mother to leave, but she refuses. They gather the villagers to discuss the threat of Athena’s forces. The goddess appears and offers to leave the area – but only if Xena will give her Eve.

written by Chris Black
directed by Mark Beesley
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Paris Jefferson (Athena), Darian Takle (Cyrene), Kevin Smith (Ares), Musetta Vander (Ilainus), Ben Brown (Villager #2), Douglas Kamo (Border Guard), Crawford Thomson (Villager), Stuart Thorpe (Infantry Commander)

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When Gabrielle and Joxer go to a village for food, they find Aphrodite and Discord fighting. During the fighting, some rigging from a ship is knocked loose, hits Gabrielle in the head, and she falls into the water. When she wakes up, she’s in a cave with a mermaid’s tail. A man named Hagar (who bears a striking resemblance to Joxer) is also there, and he says that she’s his wife, Crustacea.

written by Kevin Maynard
directed by Paul Grinder
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Alexandra Tydings (Aphrodite/Crabella), Ted Raimi (Joxer/Hagar), Meghan Desmond (Discord/Sturgena), Joseph Main (Urchin), Rupert Simmonds (Flipper), Steve Clearly (Instructor), Don Linden (Council Member/Minister), Renee O’Connor (Crustacea), and Baby Ro

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