The Debt, part 1

Xena and Gabrielle are ambushed in their sleep by a group of Ninja warriors who are in pursuit of a messanger who is looking for Xena. Having defeated the Ninja Warriors, Xena is unable to help the messanger who has been fatally injured in the fight, but listens to his message which says "The little green dragon has become too big and must be made small again". At this Xena starts to set off for the Kingdom of Chin, where she tells Gabrielle that she must repay an old debt. Gabrielle asks if this means that she must kill somebody, and Xena answers that it does. Xena starts to explain how after her encounter with Caesar, she and Borias journeyed to the east in search of riches and hatched a plan to set the royal families of the kingdom of Chin to fight each other. Reaching the port where Xena must board a boat to Chin, Gabrielle decides that she can play no part in this and tells Xena that she will not come on a mission of murder; she asks Xena not to throw away all the changes for good that Xena's made in the last two years but Xena insists she has no choice but to go. We learn that Xena tried to kidnap the son of one of the kings of Chin and became an embarassment to Barias who arranged to let her be captured by the King. Once captured she was hunted down like an animal but at the last moment was given the chance to escape by a mysterious woman, Lao Ma, who ran one of the other kingdoms in the name of her sick husband, their King. Sensing a kindred spirit in Xena, Lao Ma, starts to show her some of the ancient chinese magic which gives Xena the ability to defy gravity! Back in the present, Xena reaches the Kingdom of Chin, and makes her way into the castle to find and kill Ming T'ien, the son who Xena kidnapped many years ago. Raising a dagger high above her head, she's about to strike at what she believes is the sleeping prince, only to find Gabrielle lying there instead.

The Debt, part 2

Captured by the Palace Guards, Xena is thrown into the dungeon. Meanwhile Gabrielle asks Ming T'ien to let her see Xena, a request that he denies saying that she is awaiting trial on charges of treason and cannot be seen by anyone. When Xena is found guilty of treason, and is sentanced to death, Gabrielle is finally allowed to see her. In the meantime, we learn more about Xena's time with Lao Ma and that Ming T'ien is in fact her son. Gabrielle is distraught that she has caused Xena to be imprisoned and begins to realise that Ming T'ien is a cruel and evil despot, and that maybe she should have trusted Xena more. Learning from a fellow prisoner that Lao Ma was recently killed by her own son, Ming T'ien, Xena resolves to kill him. Xena is taken from the dunegeon to be executed and just before the executioneer moves forward to carry out his job, Ming T'ien gives Xena a gift his mother asked him too just before he killed her. It is a small hairclip which Xena knows contains a sharp metal spike that was Lao Ma's favourite weapon - to her this is the sign that Ming T'ien must be killed. As she lies strapped to the executioneers table, Xena summons up the ancient magic taught to her by Lao Ma and breaks free and destroys the palace. In a face down with Ming T'ien in front of Gabrielle, Xena says that by defeating him and demolishing the palace she has made him small again. Believing the work done, Gabrielle turns to leave just as Xena launches the hairclip at Ming T'ien quietly killing him as he sits on his throne. When Gabrielle compilments Xena on doing the job without killing Ming T'ien, Xena chooses not to reveal to her the truth that she did kill him at the end.

King of Assassins

Xena has gone away for most of this episode..(I can’t remember where sorry LOL)Autoycus and Joxer (??) are stealing a sword for the assasination of Cleopatera. However we find out that it is in fact not Joxer who is the assasin but Jet joxer’s evil twin brother. When Autoycus mistakes Joxer for Jett in the market place Gabrielle comes and proves that it is Joxer, by her famous pulling Joxer’s nose. They then decide that they need to stop Jett for killing Cleopatera. So Gabrielle decides that she should make the plan after she has been listening to Xena. Gabrielle ends up getting them captured and sent into the dungeon but the man who hired Jett mistakes Joxer for Jett so Joxer then has to pretend he is Jett. They eventually get it sorted out but not without the help of Xena. As she comes in and saves the day Autoycus then convinces that the mistakes were his fault and not Gabby’s so Xena would get a good impression of her.

They end up saving Cleo and Jett gets send to jail but not after showing his brotherly love and saving joxer..

Warrior…Princess…Tramp

A warlord is somewhat surprised when Xena appears before him talking about

love and disarms herself; not believing his luck he has her captured and

tied to a stake. Gabrielle arrives and thinks that Xena must be testing

her, and true to form she comes through and they both escape, except that

it turns out not to be Xena after all, but Leah. Leah is the high

priestess of the local temple of Hestian Virgins.

Finding the real Xena, Gabrielle introduces Leah and they set off to

find out why Leah was tricked into a suicide and by who.

Back at the temple they find that Meg has been pursuaded to stand in for

the "missing" Leah by one of the priests, Bailey.

In order to find out more about him and his motives, Xena goes undercover

pretending to be Meg, while Meg hides and with Gabrielle's help Leah

pretends to be Meg -- the only problem is that Meg runs the local

brothel.

Meanwhile, Meg accidentally lets slip to Bailey that Xena is there and

he dispatches the guards to kill Leah at the Brothel.