From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   4.9  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.   
      
   Flashback to Xena meeting Kaleipus. She hands him her and Borias' son   
      
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