The Price

Doubling back, Xena and Gabrielle take one of their canoes and head off down the river with only Xena's timely use of the chakrum saving them from being caught.

Xena tells Gabrielle of her previous encounter with the Horde and how they slaughtered a significant number of her army. They return to the canoe and continue down the river, feeling that they're being watched. They pass a river bank where a number of the Athenian army are stretched out and screaming on makeshift crosses; Gabrielle pleads with Xena to let her go and help but Xena refuses insisting that they're as good as dead. A soldier still on his feet swims out into the river, and catches hold of their canoe and they try to pull him in. Suddenly ahead they see the aura of a waterfall and head towards the bank; fortunately just as a group of soldiers from the Athenian garrison arrive. Returning with them to the garrison, Xena discovers a descimated and hopeless army based in the ruins of a castle -- she decides to try and rally them around her in order to survive. Meanwhile Gabrielle tries to do her best for the injured and dying. As Xena works on her plan to defend the garrison, Gabrielle starts to see the totally evil and ruthless side of Xena that made her into such a formidable warlord. When Xena refuses food for the injured and dying and starts torturing a prisoner she's taken, Gabrielle snaps and decides to follow her own lights rather than Xena's orders. Gabrielle goes outside with water to attend to the injured of the Horde, she initiates a ceasefire during which time both sides retrieve their injured from the battleground. In the process, Xena realises that Gabrielle is right that she needs to understand the enemy and tries an experiment with the captured savage.

She releases him with a challenge for the leader of the Horde, and he comes forward to take part in a duel. When Xena defeats him, he is killed by his own side who then withdraws leaving the Athenians free to leave the besieged compound.

To show sympathy for the Horde, "Kaltaka" was only served on request during the production of this motion picture.

The Lost Mariner

Xena and Gabrielle are shipwrecked after the boat they were travelling in is run onto the rocks by marauding pirates. A boat that comes past the following morning rescues Gabrielle (and another survivor). When the other survivor is killed my magical forces after jumping from the boat, Gabrielle discovers that she is trapped on the doomed ship of Cecrops. Cecrops has been cursed by Poseidon to forever travel the sea and no one is able to leave the ship. Xena, desperate to save Gabrielle and relentlessly pursued by some pirates she's acquainted with decides to jump onto the ship despite knowing of the curse. When Poseidon appears and offers Xena a way of the ship, she realises that there is a way to defeat the curse and she's close to finding it and defies Poseidon by remaining. When Poseidon offers Cecrops a way out for giving Xena up to him, Xena becomes certain she knows the way out and leads them to the deadly whirlpool, Caribdus, where she believes the answer and their salvation lies.

Cecrops "Joie de Vivre" was not harmed during the production of this motion picture.

Comedy of Eros

Cupid tries to pursuade his young son, Bliss, to go to sleep and believing he’s asleep, goes to his wife. Bliss however has other ideas and borrows his father's bows and arrows and disappears. Xena and Gabrielle arrive at the temple of the Hestian Virgins where they plan to defend the temple and more specifically the virgin priestesses from an attack by the warlord Draco. Unfortunately Bliss arrives at the same village and starts shooting his father's arrows all over the place. Draco arrives on the scene and Bliss fires an arrow at Xena just as they confront each other. Despite her infatuation with Draco, Xena is still determined to stop him from kidnapping the priestesses and tries to convince him not to do it. Meanwhile Bliss strikes again, this time making Gabrielle fall for Joxer and Draco fall for Gabrielle. Draco goes after the priestesses but only catches one, who turns out to be Xena in disguise. Then somewhat unexpectedly Xena appears to change heart and stands aside to let Draco kidnap the priestesses; the slave trader arrives with a

note supposedly from Draco including Gabrielle in the slaves being sold. Since Draco is hopelessly in love with Gabrielle, he refuses to hand her over and a fight ensues during which time the priestesses escape to some nearby caves. Things take a turn for the bizarre when Bliss strikes a number of the Priestesses and they start chasing Draco's men instead of the other way round.

Meanwhile Xena lets Cupid know what is going on and does a deal with him to help him clear up the mess Bliss has made. Fairly soon everyone is back to normal except Draco, who Xena persuades Cupid should be left as

he is. Joxer is somewhat depressed that Gabrielle's interest in him wasn't real after all, since he was genuinely interested in her.

No cherries were harmed during the production of this motion picture.