From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   6-05 Legacy   
      
      
      
   First air date was on Oct. 30, 2000.   
      
   The story starts out with Xena and Gabrielle in a desert, leading their horses   
   through a sandstorm.   
   They are wearing clothes similar to what they wore in India. They find some   
   ruins with a large tub.   
   They bathe in it, washing the sand off.   
      
   After they get dressed they hear sounds of battle and go to investigate. They   
   see riders   
   surrounding and threatening men on foot. Xena says they are nomads and she and   
   Gabrielle ride down   
   to help them. Gabrielle starts to kill one of the nomads, hesitates, then   
   knocks him out and goes   
   on to the next one. After a short but successful battle, the riders run off,   
   including one who is   
   better dressed than the others.   
      
   One of the ones they saved was  a woman and she is insulted they were helped.   
   They pull their   
   swords on X&G. When Gabrielle tells Xena "let's go" she asks who she is to   
   take the name of Xena   
   since she's long dead. When Gabrielle tells her she IS Xena the woman says she   
   supposes she is   
   Gabrielle, the Battling Bard of Poteidaia. Gabrielle confesses. To prove who   
   she is, Xena throws   
   her Chakram. It ricochets off a rock, splits into two, and breaks their   
   swords. They fall to the   
   ground in worship.   
      
   X&G are inside a tent at their camp. They are given food and drink. The woman,   
   Kahina, tells Xena   
   that she will lead them into battle against the Romans. She says they were   
   brought up on the   
   stories of Xena from Gabrielle's scrolls. Gabrielle is pleased they have come   
   so far. They are   
   offered men to sleep with for the night, but they refuse, claiming Amazon   
   chastity.   
      
   Gabrielle asks Xena if she has had moments of indecision - to disable or kill   
   someone. Xena tells   
   her to trust her instincts. When Gabrielle asks what if the instincts are   
   wrong, Xena says debating   
   that (in battle) could get her hurt.   
      
   Kahina, Xena, Gabrielle and others, ride to the other camp, led by Tazere, and   
   his son Korah. He   
   says the prophesies may be coming true and welcomes them. Korah tells   
   Gabrielle he admires her   
   skills with the sais and wants her to teach him to use them. He starts washing   
   her feet. Xena sees   
   this, looks a bit jealous, and decides it's time to go.   
      
   Xena wants to check out the town the Romans are in. Xena dresses as a Roman   
   noblewoman and   
   Gabrielle is her slave. She goes to talk to the Roman governor, acting as if   
   she want to invest   
   money in the town. He tells her they have a profitable trade route, protected   
   by the Roman   
   soldiers. When she asks about them uniting, a Roman soldier says they are just   
   waiting for Caesar's   
   Thracian whore, Xena, to lead them. They leave.   
      
   On the way back, they are caught in a sandstorm and get separated. Gabrielle   
   sees someone about to   
   stab Xena from behind so she pulls her sais and kills him. It is Korah,   
   holding a scroll with a   
   peace treaty between the two nomadic tribes. They take him back to the ruins   
   where Xena is washing   
   blood from Gabrielle's hands. She says she will take Korah back to his people.   
   Gabrielle wants to   
   go to explain but Xena talks her out of it.   
      
   In the camp, Xena lets Tazere believe it was the Romans who killed Korah.   
      
   Gabrielle is back at Kahina's. She is angry Xena let the think Romans did it.   
   Xena tells her death   
   is the penalty and her dying would serve no purpose. But Gabrielle insists the   
   father deserves to   
   know the truth.   
      
   Kahina and other men bring in a Roman they found in the desert. They are going   
   to take him to   
   Tazere to be executed. Gabrielle can't let them do that, and confesses. Kahina   
   is angry Xena lied   
   to them and says they can't follow her, and at dawn the next day, Gabrielle   
   will die.   
      
   Gabrielle is in chains next to Korah's body. Tazere comes in and asks her how   
   it feels to kill an   
   innocent. Before she can explain, he smacks her and says if he knew what a   
   snake she was he would   
   have killer her and Korah would be alive.   
      
   Gabrielle has flashback visions of her early days with Xena - leaving home,   
   healing during a   
   battle, Perdicus dying and not being able to kill Callisto, the accidental   
   killing when she lost   
   her blood innocence, following the Way of Love and throwing her battle staff   
   away, killing to save   
   Xena before they are crucified, and not killing Gurkhan because she didn't   
   want to be like him. She   
   says to (not-there) Xena that once she prayed never to see the light go out in   
   her but there isn't   
   much left, and her death is best for everyone.   
      
   The next day Gabrielle is taken out and buried up to her neck in the sand.   
   Riders are hitting   
   skulls with large rocks tied to long poles, practicing. Xena rides to the   
   Roman camp and tells the   
   governor where the nomads are.   
      
   Four nomads ride toward Gabrielle to kill her with the rock-poles. Xena throws   
   her Chakram,   
   breaking them. A lookout yells that the Romans are coming and they scatter.   
   Xena digs up Gabrielle   
   and they ride off.   
      
   Gabrielle tells Xena the night before she thought that her death was the best   
   thing for everyone.   
   Xena says she felt that way once - tired of hurting and wanted it to end. But   
   meeting Gabrielle   
   changed it. Gabrielle says she guesses they've come full circle.   
      
   X&G go back to the nomads and tell them they have no choice but to let them   
   help. Gabrielle says   
   they could have gone in the opposite direction, but maybe helping them will   
   make Korah's death have   
   some meaning. Both Kahina and Tazere realize they have no choice and agree.   
      
   A sandstorm is coming and the Romans are too. The soldiers stop at a Roman   
   helmet on a pole in the   
   sand. The storm hits and the nomads jump up from camouflaged holes in the   
   ground and they all   
   fight. Gabrielle saves Tazere's life.   
      
   After the battle, Gabrielle tells Xena she saved her against the greater good.   
   Xena tells her some   
   things go beyond the greater good, and she wasn't about to let Gabrielle die.   
   Gabrielle asks what   
   if it was her choice. Xena says especially if it was her choice.   
      
   Tazere comes up and says Gabrielle saving his life evens the scales between   
   them. Gabrielle says it   
   doesn't, and he says no, but that Korah could have been a great warrior - just   
   like her.   
      
   Gabrielle head drops in sadness.   
      
   ........   
      
   And yet another very good episode!   
      
   I guess Eve has gone her own way for a while. And Virgil must have gone back   
   to Meg.   
      
   I presume Xena and Gabrielle's regular clothes were in saddlebags, as were the   
   Roman noblewoman and   
   slave outfits they wore. But I'm still trying to figure out where they got the   
   desert clothes.   
      
   I like premise - Gabrielle wondering how she changed so that she could kill so   
   quickly - using her   
      
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