From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
                                   6.4 Who's Gurkhan?   
      
   First airing was on Oct. 23, 2000.   
      
   This episode starts out with Xena, Gabrielle, Eve, and Virgil walking into   
   Poteidaia (no horses?). Gabrielle is anxious to see if her parent's house is   
   still standing. But when they get to the farm, Gabrielle comments on how   
   rundown everything looks. Xena urges her to go to the house while they wait   
   outside the fence. Just before she knocks on the door, it opens and a   
   twenty-five-year-older Lila opens it. They embrace.   
      
   They are inside, it is getting dark, and thunder can be heard. Lila sadly   
   mentions to Gabrielle that she wishes Sarah was there to see her. Gabrielle   
   asks who Sarah is. Lila says it's her daughter. Then Gabrielle asks where   
   her parents are. Lila tells her Sarah was kidnapped by Gurkhan and taken to   
   Mogador to be a slave in his harem. Eve tells them it's in north Africa.   
   Lila then tells them that their parents, and her husband, went to buy her   
   back but they were beheaded.   
      
   Gabrielle runs out of the house and Xena follows. She tells Gabrielle they   
   will go after Sarah. Gabrielle tells her it will be more than a rescue   
   mission. She wants vengeance, and she will kill him. The skies open up and   
   they are drenched with a hard rain.   
      
   They are on a ship heading toward Africa. Gabrielle is practicing with her   
   sais. Eve asks what her plan is. Gabrielle says to get inside the city, kill   
   Gurkhan, and bring Sarah back. Eve says that is her goal, but what is her   
   plan? She tells Gabrielle she was in Mogador once. Gabrielle wants to know   
   about Gurkhan, and Eve tells her no one outside the city has ever seen him,   
   but if he captures her, to pray the end is quick. Gabrielle asks why she was   
   in Mogador. Eve says to sell slave girls. Suddenly Gabrielle gets seasick   
   and runs to the railing to throw up.   
      
   Eve and Xena are watching Gabrielle. Eve says Gabrielle doesn't have it in   
   her to kill in cold blood. But wonders if she inherited that talent from   
   Xena. Xena says she is going to cure Gabrielle's seasickness.   
      
   They have arrived at Mogador but Virgil can't wake Gabrielle up. Xena says   
   she'll be out for a while. She says she's going to the palace without her.   
   And Virgil is going to help her.   
      
   They are in a slave market. Xena is dressed in rags and Virgil is dressed   
   like a rich man named Superlious. He tells the slave seller he wants to sell   
   his slave. The man walks around her, then strips her clothes off. Virgil is   
   awed and speechless. The seller tells him Gurkhan will probably buy her.   
      
   Xena is put up for sale. She tells Virgil to get near Gurkhan when he bids   
   to see if he can hear something useful. The bidding starts and three   
   different men named Gurkhan offer bids for her. She is finally sold to one   
   of the Gurkhans for 220 gold ducats.   
      
   Gabrielle wakes up and realizes they are in port and that Xena has left   
   without her. Virgil returns, singing about being a pirate, with a bag of   
   gold coins. Gabrielle tells him two can play Xena's game.   
      
   Xena is in a room with a large bathing pool with other slave girls. She   
   calls herself Sophie. She asks a couple of them if they know Sarah  but no   
   one will talk about the other "wives." Then a well dressed woman tells the   
   new girls she is the Number One Wife and intends to stay number one. She   
   kicks Xena in the face when she catches her looking at a folding screen a   
   man is standing behind.   
      
   They are all in a large room with the three Gurkhans looking over the harem.   
   Superlious comes in with another slave covered with a large white veil. He   
   offers to let her dance for Gurkhan as a token of his good faith. The number   
   one wife sees one of the Gurkhans nod and tells him she can dance.   
      
   It is Gabrielle dressed in a skimpy costume. She dances sensuously closer to   
   them. She puts her hands over her head and starts to draw a knife hidden in   
   the straps of her top. Xena sees her and dives at her, knocking her down,   
   knocking her out, and says "she won't have Gurkhan before me."   
      
   Xena is knocked out and dragged away.   
      
   One of the slaves asks Gabrielle if she could get to see "Sophie". Gabrielle   
   says there are too many guards.   
      
   While Gabrielle worries and frets, Xena is being beaten by three guards. She   
   is hung upside down and beaten with clubs. Blood drips down to puddle on the   
   stone floor. She sees a vision of Gabrielle walking toward her, swaying like   
   she was dancing.   
      
   One of the Gurkhans comes in and asks why she had a knife. Xena says to make   
   sure none of the other wives gets a jump on her. She says she is there to   
   give herself to Gurkhan and to be his number one wife. He tells her her name   
   is now Fatima, and has her cut down.   
      
   Xena, barely able to walk, enters the harem room. When the guards leave she   
   collapses onto a bed of pillows and Gabrielle runs to her. She looks at   
   Xena's bloody face and injured eye, then holds her close.   
      
   While a servant girl is wiping Xena's wounds, she assures Gabrielle that   
   Sarah is here. She says she can kill Gurkhan. Gabrielle thanks her. Xena   
   says not to thank her but to be ready.   
      
   Much time has passed and Xena's wounds have healed. The number one wife   
   tells the girls to get down on their faces and not to look. Gurkhan comes in   
   and selects Fatima. Number One tells her she will dance. Gabrielle draws on   
   Xena's make up.   
      
   Fatima starts to dance very seductively. As the dance ends she tells Gurkhan   
   she has a request. She wants Sarah's head on a plate. He asks where she   
   heard that name, then snickers and says he'll give her Sarah's head.   
      
   The Number One Wife wants to how he can do that to her. When he doesn't   
   answer, she proudly walks off with the guards. Gabrielle looks shocked, but   
   not Xena.   
      
   "Fatima" and Gurkhan are in his bed chamber and she whispers an idea into   
   his ear. Gabrielle walks in as Xena is straddling Gurkhan on the bed. He   
   invites Gabrielle to join them. Xena puts the Pinch on him and he is   
   paralyzed. Xena hands Gabrielle a dagger and tells her to do it.   
      
   Gabrielle puts the knife to his throat, hesitates, then asks, "Are you   
   afraid?  Afraid like my mother?  My father?  Like my sister's husband?   
   Right before you cut off their heads.  If I kill you -- you win.  I become   
   like you.  I hate you."   
      
   Gabrielle gets up and turns away from him. Then she kicks him and pummels   
   him with her fists until her rage has subsided.   
      
   Gabrielle and Xena enter Sarah's cell. She asks if they are there to behead   
   her. Gabrielle tells her who they are and that they are there to take her   
      
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