Category: Season 5

Xena and Gabrielle travel to the village of the northern Amazons so that Gabrielle can give Eve her right of caste. When they arrive, they learn that Yakut and Amarice were killed when Samite nomads raided the village. Gabrielle decides that they should still have the right of caste ceremony, but since Xena isn’t an Amazon she isn’t allowed to take part. While the others are busy with the ceremony, Yakut appears to Xena. She says her mission in life wasn’t completed and asks Xena to stop the Amazons from seeking revenge.

teleplay by R.J. Stewart and George Strayton and Tom O’Neill
story by Robert Tapert and R.J. Stewart
directed by Paul Grinder
Amazon High sequences directed by Michael Hurst
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Danielle Cormack (Samsara), Kate Elliot (Yakut), Claudia Black (Karina), Shelley Edwards (Cyane), Selma Blair (Utma/Cyane), Karl Urban (Kor), Monica Mcswain (Olan), Morgan Reese Fairhead (Eris)

Notes: Some sequences in this episode were filmed by Michael “Iolaus” Hurst for the pilot episode of an aborted Young Hercules-style Xena spinoff called Amazon High. The series never made it beyond the pilot, and so the footage was reused here.

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Now that the right of caste ceremony is over, Gabrielle is thinking that she and Xena should stay with the Amazons and raise Eve, but Xena is ready to move on. As the two discuss their plans, a group of Amazons captures Joxer, who was spying on them while they were bathing. They bring him back to the village for Gabrielle to decide on his punishment. To complicate things, Cyane wants to be queen, another Amazon wants to be Xena’s new sidekick, and a third becomes interested in having a baby.

written by George Strayton and Tom O’Neill
directed by Josh Becker
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Joy Van Uden (Rhea), Morgan Reese Fairhead (Eris), Shelley Edwards (Cyane), Charlotte Comer (Young Amazon), Joy Ramirez (Amazon)

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Cleopatra is relaxing in a milk bath when a messenger brings her a scroll. When she unrolls the parchment, a snake bites her. Before she dies, Cleopatra asks her trusted servant Shiana to take a message to Xena. In it, the Queen tells the Warrior Princess that Romans have been wanting to ask her about using her naval fleet. So Xena must find out which Roman was behind Cleopatra’s assassination – Marc Antony or Ceasar’s former right hand man, Brutus.

written by Carl Ellsworth
directed by Michael Hurst
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Jon Bennet (Marc Antony), David Franklin (Brutus), Mark Warren (Octavius), Josephine Davison (Cleopatra), Mariama Smith (Shiana), Dion Blair (Soldier), Benjamin Crellin (Brutus’ Lieutenant), Geoffrey Knight (Antony’s Lieutenant), Paul Willis (Advisor #1)

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A peddler in a tavern claims to have the last known scroll written by the Bard of Poteidaia. An old man at the bar makes a grab for the scroll. It’s Joxer, and he confirms that the handwriting is indeed Gabrielle’s. The peddler begins to take bids for the parchment, but Joxer hands over a small bag with 65 dinars in it and leaves with the scroll before anyone else can bid. He hopes that the scroll will give him clues as to what happened to Xena and Gabrielle.

written by Carl Ellsworth
directed by Garth Maxwell
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Lucy Lawless (Meg), Ted Raimi (Joxer), Kevin Smith (Ares), Paris Jefferson (Athena), Jason Hoyte (Hephaestus), Stephen Lovatt (Hades), Theresa Healey (Celesta), Mark Warren (Octavius), Jed Brophy (Ramius), Kate Smeda (Kara), Michael Langley (Theon), Samantha Adriaanse (Clotho), Elizabeth Pendergrast (Atropos), Chloe Jordan (Lachesis), Alister Babbage (Patron #2), Bob Blackwell (Bartender), Bruce Burfield (Inebriated Patron), Rachel Gilchrist (Lead Archer)

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Xena and Gabrielle awaken and find themselves trapped in an ice cave. Using her chakram, the warrior manages to free them. They travel to a village which is unfamiliar to them. A woman tells them they are at the foot of Mount Etna. Puzzled at first as to how they got there, Xena decides that Ares must be behind this and calls for him. But the woman stops her and says that Ares hasn’t been seen in the area since Xena died…25 years before.

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

Guest Cast: Lucy Lawless (Meg), Ted Raimi (Joxer), Kevin Smith (Ares), Adrienne Wilkinson (Livia), William Gregory Lee (Virgil), Colin Moy (Augustus), Kate Smeda (Kara), Michael Langley (Theon), Craig Doherty (Roman Guard), Dane Jerro (Roman Captain), Andrea Kelland (Village Leader), Stuart Thorpe (Burly Soldier)

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Xena, Gabrielle, Joxer and Virgil follow Eve/Livia’s path with her loyal soldiers. They enter a village where most of the people have been killed, with some on crosses. There is at least one survivor, a woman who hears Xena’s name. When Xena goes to the survivor, the woman spits in her face and says that she asked Livia, the leader of the attack on her village. And Livia tells her, “Ask Xena. Ask my mother.”

written by George Strayton & Tom O’Neill
current revisions by Chris Manheim
directed by Mark Beesley
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Ted Raimi (Joxer), Kevin Smith (Ares), Adrienne Wilkinson (Livia), William Gregory Lee (Virgil), Brendan Young (Young Villager), Paul Glover (Senetus), Vicky Haughton (Woman), Steve Matthews (Villager)

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The gods have gathered in the Great Hall on Olympus. They’re angry that Ares has kept the fact that Livia is Eve to himself for so long. Athena says that now Xena is a mother, she’ll be even harder to stop and calls on the Furies. Ares says he has already tried that with Xena. Athena knows that, but claims her plans are more subtle. Aprhodite begs her not to go after the bard. Athena tells her that if she’s got such a soft spot for Gabrielle, then she shouldn’t watch.

Meanwhile Xena and Gabrielle, after saving Eve from a mob seeking revenge against Livia, are with the followers of Eli. Xena says that Eli had a way of initiating people into his way. A woman says that there is someone who continues that tradition, the Baptist. They go to this man and he baptizes Eve. As he is doing this, Xena gets a message sent by the Archangel Michael. Suddenly Poseidon rises in the ocean as Discord, Demios, Hades, Hephestus and Artemis appear on the beach and attack Xena, Gabrielle and Eve.

teleplay by R.J. Stewart
story by Robert Tapert
directed by Rick Jacobson
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Ted Raimi (Joxer), Kevin Smith (Ares), Alexandra Tydings (Aphrodite), Adrienne Wilkinson (Eve), William Gregory Lee (Virgil), Paris Jefferson (Athena), Meighan Desmond (Discord), Stephen Lovatt (Hades), Julian Garner (Hephaestus), Joel Tobeck (Demios), Josephine Davison (Artemis), Asa Lindh (Alecto), Diana Rowan (Shepherd), Jon Brazier (Baptist), Annmarie Dennis (Tisiphone), Siaosi Fonua (Cullar), Susan Brady (double for Gabrielle/Hope), Jonathan Costello (Horseman), and A Tall Waterspout (Poseidon)

Original title: Twilight Of The Gods

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