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   "David"  wrote in message news:kpk6nm$pkn$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   1-12    Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts   
   First Air Date – Jan 15, 1966   
   Helen of Troy story.   
      
   Recap ---   
   This episode starts with Helen of Troy having nightmares about an assassin   
   who kills all of her guards. So she has one of her trusted soldiers find   
   Xena. I assume Helen doesn't mind waiting a few years or so while he   
   searches all of Greece.   
       Xena and Gabrielle are walking and talking about not getting enough   
   supplies (food) when they left Mount Poulis.  What, Xena doesn't hunt   
   anymore?   
   They see Maltiades (Helen's man) being attacked by several other men and   
   Xena rides to the rescue, just a Xena gets to the action, Maltiades is   
   stabbed.     Maltiades tells Xena about Helen wanting her to come, then he   
   dies. Gabrielle is surprised Xena knows Helen, although by now she should   
   know that Xena knows EVERYBODY!   
       Xena and Gabrielle arrive at Troy and have to run through Greek soldiers   
   hiding in trenches or foxholes who jump up to attack them.   
     While Xena and Gabrielle are fighting their way to the city gates,   
   Perdicus recognizes Gabrielle and has the gates open for them. Of course   
   Gabrielle is surprised to see Perdicus. After they are inside the city   
   walls, Xena   goes to see Helen. She wants to go back to Menelaus so the war   
   will stop. Xena tells her sorry, won't help.   
     Gabrielle and Perdicus are talking when Greek archers start shooting over   
   the walls, and kills a friend of Perdicus. He pulls the burning arrow out of   
   the guy, climbs to the top of the wall, gets a crossbow and shoots,   
   presumably, the man who fired the killing arrow. Perdicus is the hero, with   
   lots of backslapping, etc. But Gabrielle isn't very happy about it. She   
   looks at Perdicus with real disappointment and sadness in her eyes.   
      Xena finds Helen trying to sneak out of the city, and then both see   
   Deiphobus sneaking out. Xena follows him and sees him conspiring with   
   Menelaus. Xena confronts him in front of Paris and Helen and he says he's   
   brokered a peace. And at that moment it is announced that the Greeks are   
   pulling back and they have left a large wooden horse as a parting gift. Xena   
   warns Paris to beware of Greeks bearing gifts and is thrown into the dungeon   
   as a traitor to Troy. Of course she escapes.   
       Gabrielle and Perdicus are talking about the previous night's   
   celebration and memories of their childhood.   
         The Greek soldiers exit the horse, open the gates and let the rest of   
   the soldiers inside.  Xena tells Perdicus to round up as many people and   
   have them go to the Temple of Aphrodite. But when we see the temple, there   
   is some kind of ugly gargoyle over the doors. That's not something I would   
   think Aphrodite would approve of.   
       Xena, Helen, Gabrielle, Perdicus and a few others hide in horse as it is   
   pulled out of the city as a souvenir for Menelaus.  Perdicus decides to   
   travel to a new city, and Helen asks to go with him.   
      
   Not too much to nitpick about.    A different Perdicus than we saw in Sins   
   of the Past - more handsome and not as "slow".   
   I kind of liked this episode, despite a few flaws.  I give it a 7 out of 10.   
      
       Sins of the Past  -- 7   
       Chariots of War – 7   
       Dreamworker ---   8   
      Cradle of Hope --   6   
      Path Not Taken --  6   
      The Reckoning --  8   
      The Titans -------  6   
      Prometheus---     6   
      Death in Chains - 7   
      Hooves/Harlots - 8   
      The Black Wolf -- 5   
      Beware Greeks -- 7   
   Average...............    6.7   
      
      
      
      
      
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