From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
                                                   6-05 Legacy   
      
   First air date was on Oct. 30, 2000.   
      
   The story starts out with Xena and Gabrielle in a desert, leading their   
   horses through a sandstorm. They are wearing clothes similar to what they   
   wore in India. They find some ruins with a large tub. They bathe in it,   
   washing the sand off.   
      
   After they get dressed they hear sounds of battle and go to investigate.   
   They see riders surrounding and threatening men on foot. Xena says they are   
   nomads and she and Gabrielle ride down to help them. Gabrielle starts to   
   kill one of the nomads, hesitates, then knocks him out and goes on to the   
   next one. After a short but successful battle, the riders run off, including   
   one who is better dressed than the others.   
      
   One of the ones they saved was  a woman and she is insulted they were   
   helped. They pull their swords on X&G. When Gabrielle tells Xena "let's go"   
   she asks who she is to take the name of Xena since she's long dead. When   
   Gabrielle tells her she IS Xena the woman says she supposes she is   
   Gabrielle, the Battling Bard of Poteidaia. Gabrielle confesses. To prove who   
   she is, Xena throws her Chakram. It ricochets off a rock, splits into two,   
   and breaks their swords. They fall to the ground in worship.   
      
   X&G are inside a tent at their camp. They are given food and drink. The   
   woman, Kahina, tells Xena that she will lead them into battle against the   
   Romans.   
      
   She says they were brought up on the stories of Xena from Gabrielle's   
   scrolls. Gabrielle is pleased they have come so far. They are offered men to   
   sleep with for the night, but they refuse, claiming Amazon chastity.   
      
   Gabrielle asks Xena if she has had moments of indecision – to disable or   
   kill someone. Xena tells her to trust her instincts. When Gabrielle asks   
   what if the instincts are wrong, Xena says debating that (in battle) could   
   get her hurt.   
      
   Kahina, Xena, Gabrielle and others, ride to the other camp, led by Tazere,   
   and his son Korah. He says the prophesies may be coming true and welcomes   
   them. Korah tells Gabrielle he admires her skills with the sais and wants   
   her to teach him to use them. He starts washing her feet. Xena sees this,   
   looks a bit jealous, and decides it's time to go.   
      
   Xena wants to check out the town the Romans are in. Xena dresses as a Roman   
   noblewoman and Gabrielle is her slave. She goes to talk to the Roman   
   governor, acting as if she want to invest money in the town. He tells her   
   they have a profitable trade route, protected by the Roman soldiers. When   
   she asks about them uniting, a Roman soldier says they are just waiting for   
   Caesar's Thracian whore, Xena, to lead them. They leave.   
      
   On the way back, they are caught in a sandstorm and get separated. Gabrielle   
   sees someone about to stab Xena from behind so she pulls her sais and kills   
   him. It is Korah, holding a scroll with a peace treaty between the two   
   nomadic tribes. They take him back to the ruins where Xena is washing blood   
   from   
   Gabrielle's hands. She says she will take Korah back to his people.   
   Gabrielle wants to go to explain but Xena talks her out of it.   
      
   In the camp, Xena lets Tazere believe it was the Romans who killed Korah.   
      
   Gabrielle is back at Kahina's. She is angry Xena let the think Romans did   
   it. Xena tells her death is the penalty and her dying would serve no   
   purpose. But Gabrielle insists the father deserves to know the truth.   
      
   Kahina and other men bring in a Roman they found in the desert. They are   
   going to take him to Tazere to be executed. Gabrielle can't let them do   
   that, and confesses. Kahina is angry Xena lied to them and says they can't   
   follow her, and at dawn the next day, Gabrielle will die.   
      
   Gabrielle is in chains next to Korah's body. Tazere comes in and asks her   
   how it feels to kill an innocent. Before she can explain, he smacks her and   
   says if he knew what a snake she was he would have killed her and Korah   
   would be alive.   
      
   Gabrielle has flashback visions of her early days with Xena – leaving home,   
   healing during a battle, Perdicus dying and not being able to kill Callisto,   
   the accidental killing when she lost her blood innocence, following the Way   
   of Love and throwing her battle staff away, killing to save Xena before they   
   are crucified, and not killing Gurkhan because she didn't want to be like   
   him. She says to (not-there) Xena that once she prayed never to see the   
   light go out in her but there isn't much left, and her death is best for   
   everyone.   
      
   The next day Gabrielle is taken out and buried up to her neck in the sand.   
   Riders are hitting skulls with large rocks tied to long poles, practicing.   
   Xena rides to the Roman camp and tells the governor where the nomads are.   
      
   Four nomads ride toward Gabrielle to kill her with the rock-poles. Xena   
   throws her Chakram, breaking them. A lookout yells that the Romans are   
   coming and they scatter. Xena digs up Gabrielle and they ride off.   
      
   Gabrielle tells Xena the night before she thought that her death was the   
   best thing for everyone. Xena says she felt that way once – tired of hurting   
   and wanted it to end. But meeting Gabrielle changed it. Gabrielle says she   
   guesses they've come full circle.   
      
   X&G go back to the nomads and tell them they have no choice but to let them   
   help. Gabrielle says they could have gone in the opposite direction, but   
   maybe helping them will make Korah's death have some meaning. Both Kahina   
   and Tazere realize they have no choice and agree.   
      
   A sandstorm is coming and the Romans are too. The soldiers stop at a Roman   
   helmet on a pole in the sand. The storm hits and the nomads jump up from   
   camouflaged holes in the ground and they all fight. Gabrielle saves Tazere's   
   life.   
      
   After the battle, Gabrielle tells Xena she saved her against the greater   
   good. Xena tells her some things go beyond the greater good, and she wasn't   
   about to let Gabrielle die. Gabrielle asks what if it was her choice. Xena   
   says especially if it was her choice.   
      
   Tazere comes up and says Gabrielle saving his life evens the scales between   
   them. Gabrielle says it doesn't, and he says no, but that Korah could have   
   been a great warrior - just like her.   
      
   Gabrielle's head drops in sadness.   
      
   ………………..   
      
   And yet another very good episode!   
      
   I guess Eve has gone her own way for a while. And Virgil must have gone back   
   to Meg.   
      
   I presume Xena and Gabrielle's regular clothes were in saddlebags, as were   
   the Roman noblewoman and slave outfits they wore. But I'm still trying to   
   figure out where they got the desert clothes.   
      
      
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