From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
                                       5.21 Eve   
      
   First airing was May 8, 2000.   
      
       The story starts out with scenes from "Livia" – including Xena breaking   
   out of the ice coffin, seeing Livia riding into Rome with the followers of   
   Eli as prisoners, and Xena saying to Gabrielle, "I've gotta go after her,   
   Gabrielle. I gotta save her from herself from herself -- and the gods."   
      
   [But at the end of "Livia" she says, "We've gotta go after her, Gabrielle.   
   She'll do something terrible.  We've gotta save her from herself -- and the   
   gods."]   
      
       Xena, Gabrielle, Joxer, and Virgil are going after Eve (walking because   
   Joxer and Virgil have no horses). Xena says they are tracking Livia, not   
   Eve. Gabrielle tells Xena Eve will be Eve again when she looks inside   
   herself and sees Xena there.   
      
       Roman soldiers of Livia  are killing villagers. Livia is walking around   
   with a bloody sword. A man tells her that they lived through Callisto's   
   raids. Livia says Callisto did good work, but she's not Callisto, and chops   
   his head off.   
      
       Xena, Gabrielle, Joxer and Virgil  enter the village. Lots of people are   
   hung on crosses. Xena says that her daughter did this, and looks horrified.   
   Virgil says he knows these people -- they were his friends. A note on one of   
   the crosses says "Rome needs no mother."   
      
   An old woman crying over a body, spits on Xena. She says Livia told her to   
   ask Xena why she was killing them. Xena has tears running down her cheeks.   
      
       Ares appears. He tells Xena to give him a child, and all this will go   
   away. Xena says she'd rather go to hell. Ares, very mad, grabs her and   
   yells, "Give me what I want or I'll bring down all of Olympus on your   
   daughter's head!" Xena says that the thought of being with him sickens her.   
   He disappears.   
      
       Livia sets up camp with her soldiers. Ares appears and tells Livia she   
   has to get even. He says they had a deal -- she destroys the cult of Eli for   
   him, and he makes her empress of Rome. He says he is still prepared to   
   fulfill his part of the deal, and that he once loved Xena but no more. He   
   tells Livia to kill her. He also tells Livia that the only power she has   
   over the gods is the fear the gods put into themselves worrying about the   
   twilight. After all, she's been around for 25 years and nothing happened. He   
   tells her again to kill Xena.   
      
       Xena and Gabrielle talk. Gabrielle says Eve will look inside herself.   
   Xena says if she looks inside herself, she'll find Xena there. She says "I   
   was her." Gabrielle says, "Then there's hope, because you changed."   
      
       Another village is being attacked. Xena throws her Chakram and stops   
   some guy from getting nailed to a cross. Xena fights, Gabrielle fights,   
   Virgil fights.   
      
       Livia says, "Oh Mommy." She has Joxer, with a knife at his throat.   
   Everyone stops. The soldiers all get behind Livia. Xena picks up a handful   
   of nails and throws them at Livia. She deflects them with the knife, and   
   Joxer escapes. Livia throws the knife at Xena and Xena catches it just   
   before it hits her in the face.   
      
       Xena and Livia fight. Xena throws Livia against the wall. A villager   
   drops down and puts a knife to Livia's throat and starts to kill her, but   
   Xena stops him with her Chakram. Livia yells for her archers. Fire arrows   
   start fires everywhere. Xena yells for everyone to get down. Livia rides   
   off. Ares appears to Xena and asks "What does it feel like to have someone   
   you love despise you?"   
      
        The villager asks Xena why she stopped him. Livia killed his wife and   
   daughter and now the blood of Livia's next victims is on Xena's head now.   
      
       Ares and Livia talk again. She says Xena could have let the villager   
   kill her, but she didn't. He asks who she is going to listen to – the mother   
   who abandoned her 25 years ago, or the god who's going to make her an   
   empress?   
      
       That night while camping, Joxer and Virgil talk. Joxer tells Virgil he   
   wasn't a great warrior. He tells him that the hero in all the stories was   
   really Xena. Virgil says it sounds like you and Xena had some real   
   adventures together.   
      
       Gabrielle asks Xena if Eve can't be changed, can Xena kill her. Xena   
   says yes, if she has to. Later, Xena mounts up  and says she has to go to   
   Ostea, the last Eli follower stronghold. Xena rides off. Gabrielle wakes up   
   Virgil, and tells him if she isn't back by morning, then they should go on   
   to Ostea as planned to meet Xena. She says she has to go keep Xena from   
   doing something she'd never forgive herself for.   
      
       Livia is in her tent. Gabrielle is dragged in by two soldiers, she is   
   unarmed. "Auntie Gabrielle," Livia says. She tells Gabrielle to save the   
   words, and tells her what Gabrielle was going to say, and wants to know why   
   Xena wants to destroy her. Gabrielle says Xena wants to protect her, and   
   that she won't fight her. Livia puts a knife to Gabrielle's throat and says   
   maybe she just hasn't been properly motivated.   
      
       Joxer is mad at Virgil for letting Gabrielle go off alone. He tells   
   Virgil to go get Xena. He goes after Gabrielle. Joxer finds the camp and   
   hides in some bushes. He counts the men. Odds of 20 to 1. Livia says she   
   will wipe out the cult and take her revenge on Xena. Gabrielle is tied up.   
      
       Xena and Virgil ride toward Livia's camp. Joxer throws a rock and hits a   
   soldier on the helmet. The soldier investigates and Joxer knocks him out and   
   takes his clothes.   
      
       Livia decides it is time to kill Gabrielle. Joxer interrupts, dressed as   
   a soldier. Xena rides in, swinging her sword and knocking down soldiers.   
   Livia is next to Gabrielle. Virgil fights, and Xena fights as Livia watches.   
   Livia starts to kill Gabrielle, but just as Xena starts to throw her   
   Chakram, Joxer gets in her way, yells out "no," and runs toward Gabrielle.   
   Xena tells him to duck, but he keeps running and Livia turns around and   
   stabs him in the stomach with her sword, up to the hilt. Everyone yells   
   "No!" Livia and her soldiers get on their horses and ride off.   
      
       Virgil and Xena gather around Joxer. Xena says she can't help him but   
   she puts the Pinch on him to ease his pain. She takes her sword and cuts   
   Gabrielle lose.  Joxer says he is a little cold, but it doesn't hurt   
   anymore. And he dies.   
      
       Virgil says he will take Joxer's body back to Meg when they have   
   finished. Now he wants his revenge against Livia. He tells Xena not to tell   
   him it's not his fight, because it is.   
      
       Ares appears to Xena. He tells her Joxer is dead and it's all her fault   
      
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