From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   6-12    The God You Know   
      
      
      
   The first airing was Jan 29, 1991.   
      
   The story starts with Xena and Gabrielle walking through a field of dead   
   people. Gabrielle asks   
   what kind of animal would do that. Archangel Michael appears and Xena draws   
   her sword, still pissed   
   that he tried to send her to hell. He says Caligula did the killing. Xena   
   knows his reputation -   
   psycho, sex addict, and murderer, your run-of-the-mill Roman emperor.   
   Gabrielle adds that he thinks   
   he's a god. Michael says he is a god. He wants to be one of the great gods of   
   the Roman Pantheon.   
   And he kills anyone who won't swear allegiance to his cult of blood, including   
   the followers of   
   Eli. Also Eve has gone to Rome to confront him. X&G ride off to Rome.   
      
             In Rome, Caligula is driving a chariot dragging two dead men. He   
   stops and has a soldier   
   give a civilian his sword and tells the man to stab him. He does with no ill   
   effects. The man   
   kisses Caligula's ring. But when he wants an old man to kiss it, he refuses   
   and Caligula says he   
   forfeits his life.  Eve appears and tells Caligula to release the man. A   
   soldier whispers to   
   Caligula that she is Eve of the Elijans (followers of Eli). Caligula says he   
   wishes he knew her   
   when she was the Bitch of Rome. She says she is now the bitch for Rome and   
   wants Caligula to know   
   his days of tyranny are over.   
      
             Suddenly a chariot driven by Xena in disguise arrives. Soldiers try   
   to stop her but   
   can't. The horses stop and she dives over them and lands in front of Caligula.   
   She is wearing a   
   gold helmet that covers the top half of her face. Meanwhile, Gabrielle finds   
   Eve and tells her to   
   go with her. Ares (back in black leather) shows up and just as Xena is about   
   to stab Caligula,   
   dives at her and they go down. He says if she kills Caligula, Aphrodite will   
   die also - their lives   
   are bound together.   
      
             Gabrielle tells Eve to go to the catacombs where other Elijans are   
   hiding.   
      
             Aphrodite appears. Aphrodite sees Ares and tries to feel him up,   
   much to his dismay.   
   Caligula wants to know what Xena was doing. Gabrielle comes back and tells him   
   she is Cinda of   
   Thrace and Xena is the great charioteer Saaba, who wants to challenge him to a   
   chariot race. He   
   thinks it's a good idea and tells Saaba she will be his guest of honor at the   
   palace. Ares is taken   
   to the dungeon. Apparently, Caligula doesn't know who he is.   
      
             Gabrielle and Xena are bathing in a small indoor pool. Xena is   
   washing Gabrielle's feet.   
   Xena gets out and puts on her clothes and gold helmet and says she going to   
   talk to Ares.   
      
             At the party, Gabrielle is now wearing a green bra and skirt. She   
   sees Aphrodite and   
   tries to talk to her and tells her they are friends, but Aphrodite is drunk or   
   drugged, and doesn't   
   recognize her. Gabrielle follows Aphrodite out into a hall and Aphrodite tries   
   to kiss her.   
   Caligula comes up and has Aphrodite taken away. He's mad that Saaba isn't at   
   the party yet.   
      
             Xena asks Ares how Aphrodite is. He doesn't know, he says he came to   
   Rome when he heard   
   she was losing her mind. Without the god of war, the goddess of love becomes   
   unbalanced.   
      
             While stalling for time, Cinda does some kind of dance with fire and   
   rope and dancing on   
   shields.   
      
             Ares tells Xena Caligula is like a succubus and is sucking the   
   godhood out of Aphrodite.   
   Xena says she has to come between them somehow.   
      
             Cinda is dancing while Caligula puts Aphrodite to sleep. After the   
   dance Xena asks   
   Gabrielle about Aphrodite. She says she didn't recognize her. Caligula sees   
   Saaba. She drops her   
   robe and is wearing a skimpy black bikini. She says she's at his command. He   
   wants to know if she   
   is a worthy opponent. And to prove it, he has a shirtless Ares brought out and   
   tells her to kill   
   him. Saaba says she and Cinda had a floor show and wants to show him. But   
   before they do, she takes   
   her gold helmet off and kisses Caligula, biting his lip and making it bleed.   
   When he sees the   
   blood, he is highly upset and has the room cleared after having Saaba chained   
   up.   
      
             She tells him she is the immortal Celtic Goddess of Sex. And after   
   hearing about the   
   demise of the Olympians, she wanted to spread her wings and knew he would be   
   the perfect ally. She   
   says her power is the ability to pierce the veil of immortality. He's worried   
   about her being   
   around but she says she's better than the washed out dishrag Aphrodite. She   
   tells him she can be a   
   very good friend, and even better enemy.   
      
             Caligula is in the throne room and hears his mother's voice taunting   
   him. He looks around   
   and sees Michael standing behind the throne.   
      
             Eve is praying in the catacombs and Michael appears behind her. He   
   tells her she is ready   
   and to have no fear.   
      
             Eve is brought before Caligula by two guards. She tells him to let   
   go of the lust and   
   violence and to open his heart to truth and hope. He decides to kill her.   
   Saaba stops him and   
   knocks Eve out before she can expose her as Xena. He says the winged demon   
   told him to kill Eve.   
   Saaba tells him it's better to have her exterminated in front of the people.   
   She asks why he   
   prefers Aphrodite. He tells her he only needs a final kiss goodbye from   
   Aphrodite.   
      
             Gabrielle is still trying to get Aphrodite to recognize her. Michael   
   appears and starts   
   to kill either Aphrodite or Gabrielle with his sword. Xena comes in and is mad   
   that he tried to get   
   Caligula to kill Eve, and now he's going after her girl friends.   
      
             They fight and Xena eventually knocks him into the pool. She puts   
   the Pinch on him and   
   wants to know why. He struggles to tell her he was trying to kill Aphrodite to   
   keep Caligula from   
   becoming a full god, which will happen if he kisses her again.   
      
             Xena asks what happens to angels when they die and pushes his head   
   under the water   
   Gabrielle yells for her to sop. The second time she does it, a fiery beam   
   comes down from the   
   heavens and takes her god-killing ability away. Michael is laughing at her and   
   disappears. Xena   
   tells Gabrielle her ability is gone.   
      
             Caligula comes in, goes to Aphrodite, kisses her, and he becomes  a   
   god. He is elated,   
   then disappears. Aphrodite is back in her right mind, but when she tries to   
   get them all out of   
   there by teleporting, she can't. Xena says Caligula is a full god now.   
      
             Xena goes back down to the dungeon where Ares and Eve are. He tells   
   them Caligula is now   
   a full god and Eli took away her power to kill gods. She apologizes to Eve,   
   who is angry that Xena   
      
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