From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   5-20    Livia   
      
      
      
   First airing was May 1, 2000.   
      
   The story starts out with Roman soldiers fighting, and killing, local   
   villagers. A metal hooded   
   woman warrior rides in and starts killing. Ares appears and tells her she's   
   doing a good job. He   
   also says she's been named the official successor to the emperor of Rome. She   
   kisses Ares. She says   
   now no one can stop her from ruling all of Rome and killing all the followers   
   of Eli.   
      
             Up on the mountain, an avalanche causes a hole in the ice cave. The   
   sunlight shines   
   through on Xena's ice coffin. The ice begins to melt. Xena slowly wakes up.   
   Then her fist breaks   
   through the ice and she sits up. She sees Gabrielle in a coffin next to hers.   
   She goes to the   
   coffin but it is solid ice. Xena sees her sword and Chakram. She grabs the   
   sword and breaks through   
   the icy top and pulls a very stiff Gabrielle to her. Then Xena asks where's   
   Eve? She looks around.   
   She tells Gabrielle something must have went wrong, because Octavius didn't   
   bring the Eve to her.   
   They have to go find her.   
      
             Xena and Gabrielle are in a village they don't recognize. A woman   
   asks them if they are   
   lost. Then she tells them they are at the foot of Mount Etna. Xena says Ares   
   must have done   
   something. She yells for Ares. The woman says Ares hasn't been seen in the   
   area for about 25 years,   
   ever since the Xena died. Xena asks if the woman has ever heard of Octavius.   
   The woman says the   
   only Roman anyone ever talks about is Livia, the Roman commander named Livia -   
   the emperor's bitch.   
   Xena and Gabrielle leave to find Eve.   
      
   They find the Sword and Chakram Tavern. They enter it and see it is a shrine   
   to Xena and Gabrielle,   
   with dolls and paintings of them and Gabrielle's scrolls in frames.   
      
             They see an old woman who is Meg. Meg tells Gabrielle she'd almost   
   look like Gabrielle if   
   she wasn't so butch. Old Joxer enters the room and he and Meg argue. Gabrielle   
   says his name. Joxer   
   drops the tray of food in his hands then goes to Xena and Gabrielle and hugs   
   them. They sit and   
   talk. He says he looked for them for years, but quit after Argo died. Joxer   
   takes them out back. He   
   has Argo's daughter, that he let no one ride. Xena throws a saddle on her and   
   there's the new Argo.   
   Joxer introduces his son Virgil. Xena and Gabrielle say they are going to Rome   
   to find Eve. Joxer   
   and Virgil say they want go along. Virgil makes some comments about Joxer's   
   heroic deeds and Joxer   
   tells him to be quiet.   
      
             They arrive in Rome. Xena asks Gabrielle to take the horses to a   
   stable (Gabrielle has a   
   horse, too) while Xena takes in a Roman "victory march". She sees that   
   Octavius is Augustus Caesar.   
   She sneaks up on him. He looks really surprised. Xena asks where her daughter   
   is. Octavius looks   
   down as Livia rides in, victorious, with her prisoners of war. "Livia.   
   Champion of Rome," he says.   
   "That's Eve?"  Xena cries out. Xena remains in the background. Livia presents   
   herself to Augustus.   
   Xena tells him to wave and close the curtain so they can talk.   
      
             Octavius tells Xena that Livia was raised with the best of   
   everything, and she became the   
   champion of Rome. He says Xena wasn't there, what did she expect? Xena says   
   she expected to raise   
   her herself. Octavius says he loves Livia and wants to marry her. Livia does   
   not know that she is   
   really Xena's daughter. Octavius says if Xena tells the truth to anyone, Eve   
   will be in mortal   
   danger from the gods again. But as his my wife, the gods will only know her as   
   Livia.   
      
             Later, that night Xena stares out of a window and Gabrielle comes to   
   her. They talk. Xena   
   says she gave away one child, and lost another, and she just wanted to do   
   right. Xena says Livia   
   has Xena's darkness inside of her and Callisto's spirit -- not a good   
   combination of things.   
   Gabrielle says the two of them can change her, because Xena changed, so this   
   daughter of Xena's   
   will too. Xena says they have to turn her back.   
      
             The next morning Xena leaves to go find Livia. Gabrielle stays with   
   Virgil and Joxer.   
   Roman soldiers appear and want money from everyone for a new temple that Livia   
   is erecting to Ares.   
   Gabrielle says she isn't giving any money, the soldiers declare her an Eli   
   worshipper, Gabrielle   
   and Virgil fight the Romans until one of them puts a knife to Joxer's throat.   
   The three are thrown   
   into prison with the other Eli-ites.   
      
             Livia and Ares practice fighting, training for Livia. Then they kiss   
   just as Xena opens a   
   door. She throws her Chakram, separating them. Ares is stunned and Xena pulls   
   out her sword. Livia   
   looks disgusted and jealous. Xena tells Ares if he was mortal, she'd cut out   
   his heart. Ares walks   
   to her, and through her sword, and tries to kiss her. She gives him a head   
   butt. Livia pulls a   
   sword on Xena. Ares introduces them and pushes Livia's sword away. Then he   
   says if Xena is alive,   
   Eve is too, and that means his immortality is in jeopardy.   
      
             Livia goes to the prisoners and tells them to find a champion to   
   fight her. She picks   
   Virgil to fight her.   
      
             Xena goes to Octavius. She tells him that Livia does not love him,   
   she loves Ares. He has   
   seduced her with promises of absolute power. She tells Octavius she will prove   
   it to him at a party   
   that night.   
      
             At the party, Xena, with a veil over her face and dressed as a   
   servant, comes in.   
   Octavius sees her and goes and gets Livia. Xena goes to Ares, who realizes it   
   is Xena. He says he   
   has to know what happened because he mourned her for years. He says Livia   
   isn't Xena, and if he   
   thought for one minute he had a chance with Xena, Livia would be "dropped like   
   a nasty habit." Xena   
   and Ares kiss passionately. Livia sees and hears all this, with Octavius   
   seeing and hearing it all,   
   too. Octavius tells Livia that he'd sooner see his empire crumble than leave   
   it to her.   
      
             Xena goes outside. She senses Ares' presence. He says he has figured   
   out that Livia is   
   Eve. He says he didn't know it until Xena arrived. Xena says it is personal   
   because he has   
   corrupted her daughter. Ares says you, me, a child, otherwise, I go to the   
   gods. Xena says you   
   would do that to the woman you love, condemn her to death, and he says no, but   
   I would condemn her   
   daughter.   
      
             Back in the prison, Gabrielle sees Virgil writing a poem. They are   
   about Joxer's deeds.   
   Gabrielle smiles and says Joxer is inspiring. She doesn't tell Virgil the   
   truth.   
      
             Livia tears up a room because she is mad. Xena comes in and Livia   
   draws her sword. Xena   
      
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