From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   4-09 Past Imperfect   
      
      
      
             First air date Jan 4, 1999.   
      
             The episode starts with the vision Xena had of Gabrielle being   
   nailed to a cross in the   
   snow. Then we hear Gabrielle asking if Xena was sure she (Gabrielle) was   
   dying. Xena says it was so   
   real, and Gabrielle refuses to believe it can be true.   
      
             They break camp to go to a village called Actus to warn the people   
   about an advancing   
   army. Xena wants Gabrielle to stay behind and catch up some rest but Gabrielle   
   refuses to stay   
   behind. Xena agrees to let her come but says as soon as the village is warned   
   they are leaving.   
      
             They arrive before the village knows about the attackers. The   
   general of the army says   
   half his men are sick. Suddenly the town is bombarded with fireballs. Xena   
   runs to save a little   
   girl and when a fireball explodes they are thrown through the air and Xena   
   bounces off a wall.   
      
             Xena has a flashback and she is the Evil Xena with Borias and   
   Dagnine. They are attacking   
   Corinth. Xena wants the Ixion stone so she can become the Destroyer of Nations   
   as Alti promised.   
   They have captured three Corinthian soldiers and two centaurs.   
      
             Back in Actus, Xena tells Gabrielle things are happening like they   
   did when she attacked   
   Corinth.   
      
             As Xena tells Gabrielle more about her attack on Corinth she   
   flashbacks again. Evil Xena   
   is in a tent with  a servant girl named Satrina. Borias comes in and tells   
   Satrina to leave, but   
   Xena tells her to stay. Borias tells Xena the Corinthians are behind the city   
   walls and now they   
   can attack Athens. Xena still wants the Ixion stone. Her unborn child   
   painfully kicks, and Borias   
   suggests they wait until she gives birth. She refuses, saying her empire is   
   more important than her   
   child. Borias leaves angry.   
      
             Satrina tells Xena that Borias loves her, and reminds her of her   
   former master, Demayeus,   
   that Xena killed. She says when he attacked Rhodes, he had poisoned grain   
   captured which made the   
   soldiers sick, and he tunneled underneath the city walls until they collapsed.   
   Xena says she is   
   using all the digging equipment to find the Ixion stone, but likes the   
   poisoned grain idea.   
      
             In Actus, a soldier tells Xena the general is dead, he is in now in   
   command but has no   
   battle experience, so Xena takes over the army.   
      
   Xena realizes poisoned grain has made the men sick.  Xena wants Gabrielle to   
   stay in the hospital,   
   but Gabrielle refuses. She says she isn't going to hide there, and goes to   
   form a fire brigade.   
      
   Xena, Gabrielle and some soldiers sneak out of the city to try to break down a   
   dam so there will be   
   plenty of water getting into the city.   
      
   Xena flashes back to the river going into Corinth. Borias talked her into   
   releasing the centaurs   
   but Xena had Dagnine kill the soldiers so their bodies would float into   
   Corinth as shock value.   
      
   In the present, enemy soldiers wait until they are at the dam, then rise up   
   out of the water and   
   attack. Just as Xena tells her men to retreat, she sees the craggy,   
   four-peaked mountain she saw in   
   her vision.   
      
   Back in the village, Xena asks Gabrielle if she saw the mountain. Gabrielle   
   guesses it was in her   
   vision. Xena asks her what if this is the place it happens, and Gabrielle   
   tells her it isn't.   
      
   Flashback to Evil Xena about to give birth. Borias can't wait. Xena knows he   
   will take the baby   
   from her.   
      
   Instead of making peace with the Centaurs, Dagnine has captured Kaleipus and   
   another one. Xena   
   still wants the Ixion stone and is willing to make war on the Centaurs. She   
   orders Dagnine to kill   
   them but Borias begins to fight to save them. He cuts the ropes tying their   
   hands and the two   
   centaurs also fight. Xena throws a knife at Kaleipus and puts out his left   
   eye. Borias jumps on   
   Kaleipus' back and they escape. Xena says they are at war with the Centaurs   
   and Boris is their   
   ally.  She vows there will be a line of crucified bodies all the way from   
   Corinth to the Caspian   
   Sea.   
      
   In the present, Xena realizes someone is using her own tactics against her.   
   And she wonders how to   
   defeat herself.   
      
   Again, Xena is trying to save Gabrielle, this time by creating a diversion so   
   Gabrielle can escape   
   the city, but Gabrielle refuses again, saying,  "Xena, I don't believe in your   
   vision.  I can't   
   afford to! Now, either I prove you wrong-- and we go on from here-- or I prove   
   you right-- and we   
   die.  But either way-- I will not continue like this."   
      
   Xena goes outside the city wall and enters the tunnel being dug.   
      
   A quick flashback to Xena about to give birth and Satrina is giving her a   
   potion from the santra   
   bush, a narcotic, to ease the birth, and afterward she'll give her kala root   
   to counteract the   
   santra potion.   
      
   Inside the tunnel, Xena is hit from behind with a poisoned dart and she gets   
   woozy. She sees who   
   shot the dart - Satrina in warrior garb, then passes out.   
      
   Satrina tells her men to get out of the tunnel and the next morning they will   
   collapse the wall.   
      
   Satrina tells the barely conscious Xena that she was actually Demayeus'   
   partner and lover and when   
   Xena killed him she saw her opportunity to study Xena. And she had to continue   
   studying her so she   
   couldn't let Borias see Xena when their son was born.   
      
   Flashback to Borias' army attacking Xena's camp. Borias sneaks into Xena's   
   tent. He goes out the   
   front  to prepare a wagon to take Xena away. Satrina tells him she will help,   
   then stabs him in the   
   thigh with a knife. She tells him her destiny is an empire and he'll spoil it.   
   Satrina yells to   
   Dagnine that Borias is there to kill Xena. They fight and Dagnine eventually   
   stabs Borias twice in   
   the back with a sword.   
      
   Xena has her baby, and when Satrina takes her out to the wagon, Xena shows   
   Borias his son's face   
   just before he dies.   
      
   In the present, Satrina chides Xena for not staying and taking Corinth.   
      
   Satrina has the columns rigged so when the first one falls, ropes will pull   
   the others down. Xena   
   tells her the poisoned grain was the key - who would know about it? Then she   
   shows that she ate   
   kala root before she came in and wasn't drugged at all. She loops a rope   
   around Satrina's neck is   
   about to choke her. She blames Satrina for killing Borias, and if he had lived   
   her son would have   
   [survived]. But she won't taint Borias' memory by killing her.   
      
   Satrina calls for her men when she realizes the soldiers of Actus have   
   tunneled from the other end.   
   Satrina pulls down the first column but Xena cuts the rope with her Chakram.   
   Satrina gets away.   
      
      
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