From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
                               6.12 The God You Know   
      
   The first airing was Jan 29, 1991.   
      
   The story starts with Xena and Gabrielle walking through a field of dead   
   people. Gabrielle asks what kind of animal would do that. Archangel Michael   
   appears and Xena draws her sword, still pissed that he tried to send her to   
   hell. He says Caligula did the killing. Xena knows his reputation – psycho,   
   sex addict, and murderer, your run-of-the-mill Roman emperor.   
      
   Gabrielle adds that he thinks he's a god. Michael says he is a god. He wants   
   to be one of the great gods of the Roman Pantheon. And he kills anyone who   
   won't swear allegiance to his cult of blood, including the followers of Eli.   
   Also Eve has gone to Rome to confront him. X&G ride off to Rome.   
      
       In Rome, Caligula is driving a chariot dragging two dead men. He stops   
   and has a soldier give a civilian his sword and tells the man to stab him.   
   He does with no ill effects. The man kisses Caligula's ring. But when he   
   wants an old man to kiss it, he refuses and Caligula says he forfeits his   
   life.   
      
     Eve appears and tells Caligula to release the man. A soldier whispers to   
   Caligula that she is Eve of the Elijans (followers of Eli). Caligula says he   
   wishes he knew her when she was the Bitch of Rome. She says she is now the   
   bitch  *for*   Rome and wants Caligula to know his days of tyranny are over.   
      
       Suddenly a chariot driven by Xena in disguise arrives. Soldiers try to   
   stop her but can't. The horses stop and she dives over them and lands in   
   front of Caligula. She is wearing a gold helmet that covers the top half of   
   her face. Meanwhile, Gabrielle finds Eve and tells her to go with her. Ares   
   (back in black leather) shows up and just as Xena is about to stab Caligula,   
   dives at her and they go down. He says if she kills Caligula, Aphrodite will   
   die also – their lives are bound together.   
      
       Gabrielle tells Eve to go to the catacombs where other Elijans are   
   hiding.   
      
       Aphrodite appears. Aphrodite sees Ares and tries to feel him up, much to   
   his dismay. Caligula wants to know what Xena was doing.   
      
   Gabrielle comes back and tells him she is Cinda of Thrace and Xena is the   
   great charioteer Saaba, who wants to challenge him to a chariot race. He   
   thinks it's a good idea and tells Saaba she will be his guest of honor at   
   the palace. Ares is taken to the dungeon. Apparently, Caligula doesn't know   
   who he is.   
      
       Gabrielle and Xena are bathing in a small indoor pool. Xena is washing   
   Gabrielle's feet. Xena gets out and puts on her clothes and gold helmet and   
   says she going to talk to Ares.   
      
       At the party, Gabrielle is now wearing a green bra and skirt. She sees   
   Aphrodite and tries to talk to her and tells her they are friends, but   
   Aphrodite is drunk or drugged, and doesn't recognize her. Gabrielle follows   
   Aphrodite out into a hall and Aphrodite tries to kiss her. Caligula comes up   
   and has Aphrodite taken away. He's mad that Saaba isn't at the party yet.   
      
       Xena asks Ares how Aphrodite is. He doesn't know, he says he came to   
   Rome when he heard she was losing her mind. Without the god of war, the   
   goddess of love becomes unbalanced.   
      
       While stalling for time, Cinda does some kind of dance with fire and   
   rope and dancing on shields.   
      
       Ares tells Xena Caligula is like a succubus and is sucking the godhood   
   out of Aphrodite. Xena says she has to come between them somehow.   
      
       Cinda is dancing while Caligula puts Aphrodite to sleep. After the dance   
   Xena asks Gabrielle about Aphrodite. She says she (Aph) didn't recognize her   
   (Gab).   
      
   Caligula sees Saaba. She drops her robe and is wearing a skimpy black   
   bikini. She says she's at his command. He wants to know if she is a worthy   
   opponent. And to prove it, he has a shirtless Ares brought out and tells her   
   to kill him.   
      
   Saaba says she and Cinda have a floor show and wants to show him. But before   
   they do, she takes her gold helmet off and kisses Caligula, biting his lip   
   and making it bleed. When he sees the blood, he is highly upset and has the   
   room cleared after having Saaba chained up.   
      
       She tells him she is the immortal Celtic Goddess of Sex. And after   
   hearing about the demise of the Olympians, she wanted to spread her wings   
   and knew he would be the perfect ally. She says her power is the ability to   
   pierce the veil of immortality. He's worried about her being around but she   
   says she's better than the washed out dishrag Aphrodite. She tells him she   
   can be a very good friend, and even better enemy.   
      
       Caligula is in the throne room and hears his mother's voice taunting   
   him. He looks around and sees Michael standing behind the throne.   
      
       Eve is praying in the catacombs and Michael appears behind her. He tells   
   her she is ready and to have no fear.   
      
       Eve is brought before Caligula by two guards. She tells him to let go of   
   the lust and violence and to open his heart to truth and hope. He decides to   
   kill her. Saaba stops him and knocks Eve out before she can expose her as   
   Xena. He says the winged demon told him to kill Eve. Saaba tells him it's   
   better to have her exterminated in front of the people.   
      
   She asks why he prefers Aphrodite. He tells her he only needs a final kiss   
   goodbye from Aphrodite.   
      
       Gabrielle is still trying to get Aphrodite to recognize her. Michael   
   appears and starts to kill either Aphrodite or Gabrielle with his sword.   
   Xena comes in and is mad that he tried to get Caligula to kill Eve, and now   
   he's going after her girl friends.   
      
       They fight and Xena eventually knocks him into the pool. She puts the   
   Pinch on him and wants to know why. He struggles to tell her he was trying   
   to kill Aphrodite to keep Caligula from becoming a full god, which will   
   happen if he kisses her again.   
      
       Xena asks what happens to angels when they die and pushes his head under   
   the water.   Gabrielle yells for her to stop. The second time she does it, a   
   fiery beam comes down from the heavens and takes Xena's god-killing ability   
   away. Michael is laughing at her and disappears. Xena tells Gabrielle her   
   ability is gone.   
      
       Caligula comes in, goes to Aphrodite, kisses her, and he becomes  a god.   
   He is elated, then disappears. Aphrodite is back in her right mind, but when   
   she tries to get them all out of there by teleporting, she can't. Xena says   
   Caligula is a full god now.   
      
       Xena goes back down to the dungeon where Ares and Eve are. He tells them   
   Caligula is now a full god and Eli took away her power to kill gods. She   
      
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