From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   4-15 Between The Lines   
      
       First air date Feb. 15, 1999.   
      
       The episode starts out with Indian music and a quote from the Xena   
   "Blue" Scroll,   
   "What we sow in this life, We reap in our future lives. This is our karma."   
      
       Xena and Gabrielle are wearing Indian clothes. They see a procession and   
   check it out.  A wrapped body is thrown onto a funeral pyre, then the living   
   wife of her dead husband is to be thrown onto it also. Xena and Gabrielle   
   interfere, they fight then take the woman and run away. The go into a temple   
   with only one door and no way out. They bar the door.   
      
       Xena and the woman, Naiyima, are in one room alone. She tells Xena she   
   has to send her into the future to save her karmic circle. She forms a blue   
   ball between her hands, something that looks like the sky with galaxies   
   circling appears, then Xena is hit with it and disappears.   
      
       In the future, a woman warrior named Khindin is talking to an old,   
   partially crippled Indian woman named Arminestra, who is reincarnated Xena,   
   about killing the men of the village and capturing the women and children.   
   Xena recognizes a spear she stuck in a stone urn years ago during the fight   
   to save Naiyima. When they face off, Khindin becomes Alti, who recognizes   
   Arminestra as Xena. A man named Shakti rescues Xena but is shot with a   
   crossbow by Alti.   
      
       Back in the past Gabrielle realizes Xena is gone. Naiyima seems to pick   
   things from the air, then causes colored lights with tails to fly around   
   Gabrielle.  Naiyima sees that Gabrielle and Xena are meant to be together   
   and tells Gabrielle she will send her forward in time to be with Xena, but   
   first must give her a weapon she didn't have time to give Xena. She will   
   teach her the mendhi (magical body painting).   
      
       Future -- Xena takes the crossbow arrow out of Shakti's shoulder. She   
   tells him his people must fight because  she knows the woman warrior.   
      
       Past -- Naiyima tells Gabrielle the mendhi will be waiting for her in   
   the future hidden in the wall. She creates the blue ball and sends Gabrielle   
   into the future just as the men break through the door.   
      
       Future -- Gabrielle is reincarnated in the body of Shakti. She and Xena   
   recognize each other even though when looking into a mirror they only see   
   Arminestra and Shakti. Xena tells Gabrielle about Alti. Alti is about to use   
   a young girl as a sacrifice to find out who the enemy in the past was that   
   sent Xena there.   
      
       Hiding and watching, Gabrielle tells Xena if they don't succeed, their   
   souls end there. Xena mentions that in this lifetime Gabrielle is the   
   warrior and hero and she is the mother of peace. Gabrielle says to her the   
   mother of peace is a goddess.   
      
       Gabrielle and the other men go somewhere. Xena sends a man to retrieve   
   the mendhi, then she walks out to Alti and the little girl and tells her she   
   will answer the question of who sent her there if she releases the girl.   
   Gabrielle and the men attack.   
      
       Xena sees Alti aiming her crossbow at Gabrielle, and picks up a dagger   
   to kill Alti. The man who got the box yells at her not to kill. Alti turns   
   around and shoots the man. He gives the box to Xena and dies. Gabrielle is   
   watching and is knocked out from behind. They are captured.   
      
       Alti tells Xena they are going to die slowly and leaves. Xena tells   
   Gabrielle she had better start painting the symbols on their bodies like   
   Naiyima had before Alti returns.   
      
       Past -- Naiyima is again to be thrown onto the funeral pyre.   
      
       Future -- Alti returns and Gabrielle and Xena using the power of the   
   mendhi capture Alti and they all disappear.   
      
       Past -- Naiyima is thrown onto the pyre, then she, Xena and Gabrielle   
   run out of it. Gabrielle takes Naiyima to safety. Alti appears and tells   
   Xena that now that she is back her powers are also back. As Xena tries to   
   fight her, Alti uses the old trick of using Xena's past beatings to affect   
   her now.   
      
       Gabrielle attacks with her staff, but Alti breaks it into two pieces and   
   beats her with it. She then shows her the vision of her and Xena being   
   nailed to the crosses. As Gabrielle's hands and feet are pierced with the   
   nails, she feels the pain and her hands and feet bleed.  She is holding   
   Gabrielle up by her hair and Xena throws her Chakram and it cuts Gabrielle's   
   hair and she falls to the ground.   
      
       She throws it again but Alti makes it fly back and it slices Xena's   
   throat.   
      
       Naiyima comes out and uses her magic on Alti. Then the drawings on all   
   three of them glow and they hold Alti fast. Xena produces magic Chakrams and   
   throws them at Alti. She deflects the first two. Xena makes two of them   
   appear, throws them together and Alti is no more.   
      
       Naiyima tells Xena Alti's soul is not destroyed but will return many   
   times. She tells Gabrielle she and Xena are forever connected. Then she   
   turns into a ball of light and disappears into the sky.   
      
       Later, Gabrielle walks up to Xena and her hair is cut very short. She   
   tells Xena it's like it was in the vision. But since Alti was evil why   
   should they believe anything she showed them?   
      
       They talk about their souls being intertwined. Xena paints a cross on   
   the top of one foot as a sign they will recognize each other in future   
   lives.   
      
   …………….   
      
       I actually liked this one more than I remembered. I seem to have this   
   memory about not liking the India episodes. Maybe it will come to pass in   
   future eps.   
      
       VERY curious about the "Blue" Scroll ! !! !!!   
      
       Both Gabrielle and Xena were gorgeous in the new clothes. I just wish   
   Reneé was wearing the blue (and showing the cleavage she did in her other   
   clothes).   
      
       Not exactly sure what all  the colored lights flying around Gabrielle   
   were about.   
      
       I liked it that Gabrielle was the warrior hero and Xena was the mother   
   of peace for a change.   
      
       I had forgotten just HOW short Gabrielle/Reneé's hair was.   
      
       It was kind of cool when Xena wet her wrap and used it like her missing   
   bullwhip. Not sure how it suddenly became as stiff as it did to be used as a   
   battle staff.   
      
       If the firebombs were from Arminestra's rescuers, they must not have   
   cared much about the collateral damage to the village or the villagers.   
      
       Very violent and impressive and effective when Gabrielle's hands and   
   feet started bleeding as they were being nailed in the vision.   
      
       I'm sure Xena was very happy to hear that Alti will return again and   
   again in their future lives!   
      
       Gabrielle managed to salvage her staff once more and put it back   
   together.   
      
      
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