From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
                       6-11 Dangerous Prey   
      
   First airing was Jan 22, 2001.   
      
   The story starts out with an Amazon running through some woods, looking over   
   her shoulder occasionally. It is Marga, the queen. She trips and her hand   
   goes into a small bear trap. Someone dressed in black walks up to her. She   
   escapes and runs away but he throws a triangle shaped Chakram-weapon and   
   hits her on the back of the leg. She tells him to kill her but he says she   
   will deliver a message before she dies.   
      
   Xena and Gabrielle ride into a deserted camp. They dismount and look around.   
   Xena yells out that they've come in peace. Varia comes out and wants to know   
   what Xena is doing there. Xena says Marga invited them. Another Amazon says   
   that their warriors keep ending up missing in the Sacred Canyon.   
      
   Marga went to find out why. Varia doesn’t want Xena's help. The other Amazon   
   says Marga told them not to go after her. Varia is impatient and wants to   
   go, and she does.   
      
   Xena goes after her after but finds Marga first. She tells Xena to protect   
   Varia and she gives Xena her necklace. Varia runs up as Marga dies. Xena   
   sees a triangular cut on her shoulder. And words are carved into her skin.   
   Xena reads it and it is a challenge to the Amazons.   
      
   They take Marga back to camp and Xena tells Gabrielle she died from internal   
   injuries. She was meant to crawl back to camp before she died. Varia is gone   
   again and Xena tells Gabrielle to stay with the Amazons and she goes after   
   her.   
      
   Varia is caught by the feet in a snare and is hanging upside down.  Several   
   men come out and one says Prince Morloch will be pleased. The have   
   two-headed spears and start to cut her down. Xena's Chakram cuts the heads   
   off the spears and they attack her. She uses the shafts to fight them off.   
   One of them, Raczar, is watching her closely.   
      
   One of the men steps into another snare trap and is hanging upside down.   
   Xena defeats the others, tells Varia to watch the hanging man, and goes   
   after Raczar but he escapes on horseback. The hanging man has taken poison   
   and dies. Xena berates Varia for not watching him closer.   
      
   Varia says she is going after them but Xena tells her the woods are full of   
   traps and she promised Marga she would protect Varia. She says she doesn't   
   need protecting. Xena uses her sword to cut the chain of another trap with   
   some kind of ring on it. She throws it at Varia and the ring goes around her   
   neck with Xena holding the chain. She drags Varia off behind her.   
      
   Morloch puts on a blindfold and has three of his men attack with swords. He   
   defeats them easily. Raczar comes in and tells him about a one-of-a-kind   
   Amazon.   
      
   Xena is still dragging Varia. Varia punches Xena in the mouth and Xena tells   
   her she will let that one go. Varia screams she hates Xena and Xena tells   
   her it won't be the last time she says that. And drags her off again.   
      
   Morloch is telling Raczar he's hunted every kind of animal then started   
   hunting Amazons but was disappointed. Raczar assures him this one is   
   different.   
      
   A storm hits and Xena and Varia take shelter in an old fortress. Xena takes   
   the collar off Varia and she attacks Xena. Xena has no trouble defending   
   herself.   
      
   She throws Varia against a short stone column, but when she tries to help   
   her up, Varia attacks again. Varia ends up falling through the floor but   
   barely hangs onto the side to keep from falling down into a chasm. Xena   
   offers her hand but Varia refuses. She starts to fall and Xena throws the   
   chain down to her and she grabs it. Xena pulls Varia back up and her   
   attitude had changed and she's ready to do what Xena says, mostly.   
      
   Morloch's men are going through the woods. Xena drops down on the last one.   
   He is carrying a keg of some kind of flammable liquid. She ties him up high   
   on a tree and she and Varia watch from a distance as the rest of them try to   
   get him down. They are looking for the leader. Xena feels something isn't   
   right.   
      
   Off to their side, Morloch and Raczar are watching Xena and Varia. They move   
   out of sight then Xena comes back into Morloch's view. He doesn't see the   
   Chakram and knows something's not right. Xena in Varia's clothes throws her   
   Chakram and knocks down a man she thinks is Morloch but it isn't. He's   
   standing at the entrance to a cave and invites Xena inside, and goes in.   
      
   Xena and Varia change clothes again and Xena goes inside while telling Varia   
   to wait outside.   
      
   Xena and Morloch taunt each other as they introduce themselves. He throws   
   his triangle and Xena throws her Chakram, They both ricochet off the walls.   
      
   Varia comes inside with the keg and distracts Xena, who gets cut on her   
   shoulder. Morloch catches Varia and starts to kill her but Xena throws her   
   Chakram and breaks his sword.   
      
   The rest of Morloch's men come into the cave and he tells them to kill the   
   girl but leave Xena to him. They shoot arrows at Varia, then see her boots   
   around a corner. When they pick them up, a green flame ignites the barrel of   
   flammable liquid and huge fiery explosion kills everyone but Morloch and   
   Raczar. Xena and Varia are outside.  Xena tells Varia she knows Morloch is   
   still alive and says she's tired of being the prey.   
      
   They are looking down on Morloch's camp and Xena realizes he could see them   
   coming. She and Varia are going to sneak around behind the camp. Varia sees   
   a bow and arrow trap and she thinks Xena is going to get hit and trips it   
   herself. She is shot in the lower leg.   
      
   Morloch has his men setting fire to the woods. Two of them can't hear him   
   calling them so he has Raczar shoot a fire arrow to start the woods burning,   
   and burns up his own men.   
      
   Varia knows she is slowing Xena down and tells her to leave her behind to   
   save the other Amazons. Xena won't leave her. She pulls a tree down by a   
   vine hanging from it and loops it around a smaller tree. She tells Varia to   
   get on, then cuts the vine and catapults Varia over the flames. Morloch has   
   Raczar release a catapult and a net opens up, trapping Varia and she falls   
   to the ground. Xena runs through the fire yelling for Varia. Morloch tells   
   his men  to take Varia to the arena.   
      
   The arena is surrounded by red fabric. There is a very high square structure   
   made of logs with a log platform on top with Varia tied to another log. Xena   
   and Morloch square off. They swordfight some. Xena nicks Morloch's cheek and   
   he cuts her shoulder.   
      
   They spin and jump to the sides of the structure. They swordfight between   
      
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