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| - Xena and Gabrielle must work out why a father is trying to sacrifice his son to his God and why this god would ask him to do such a task.
- Xena & Gabrielle swim sans clothing ... Xena is teaching Gabrielle to catch fish. A young boy with men chasing him runs close; Xena pulls him in the water. He can't hold his breath. Some guy grabs the kid (Ikus); Xena rises from the water, scowling and breathing and purring (like a dragon-kitten, maybe?). She gets the kid; grabs her leather cover (no breast plate or anything), and beats up 10 guys with a string of fish. Then Mael, the brother of Ikus, shows up. He says, "I don't know who ... or what ... you are, but this is none of your concern." Xena then manages to make the word "maternal" sound like the strength of the sun ("call it my MATERNAL instinct"). Ikus tells Xena he's to be sacrificed by his father to "the one true god."
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| - Xena and Gabrielle must work out why a father is trying to sacrifice his son to his God and why this god would ask him to do such a task.
- Xena & Gabrielle swim sans clothing ... Xena is teaching Gabrielle to catch fish. A young boy with men chasing him runs close; Xena pulls him in the water. He can't hold his breath. Some guy grabs the kid (Ikus); Xena rises from the water, scowling and breathing and purring (like a dragon-kitten, maybe?). She gets the kid; grabs her leather cover (no breast plate or anything), and beats up 10 guys with a string of fish. Then Mael, the brother of Ikus, shows up. He says, "I don't know who ... or what ... you are, but this is none of your concern." Xena then manages to make the word "maternal" sound like the strength of the sun ("call it my MATERNAL instinct"). Ikus tells Xena he's to be sacrificed by his father to "the one true god." Xena takes Gabrielle & Ikus to a cave and then goes to see Anteus, father of Ikus and Mael; she also finds Ikus's mother at the temple of Hestia; Mael rouses the other men against Xena. Meanwhile, back at the cave, Gabrielle eats some nutbread that Ikus has and is poisoned. Xena figures out the bread is poisoned when she speaks to Ikus's mother, (Mael had the bread made) and rushes back to the cave, to find a very drugged Gabrielle lying on the ground. Ikus is gone. Gabrielle hears voices and is very funny, though Xena's rather concerned. Xena leaves her and goes back to get Ikus, who has gone to his mother to get help for Gabrielle. Xena has to jump a barricade and with some cunning gets Ikus away from the men who would sacrifice him. Anteus is praying on the mountain, and god thunders and speaks to him -- everyone hears this. Xena takes Anteus and Ikus back to their house, and Gabrielle shows up. Mael grabs Gabrielle and takes Ikus. Xena and Gabrielle end up falling or jumping (or something--I think they allow themselves to be thrown) down a well; Xena saves them both. Anteus takes Ikus up the hill to sacrifice him; Ikus goes willingly because he loves his father and his god. However, we see that Mael has made a "gong" that he strikes to sound like thunder and has constructed a "loud talking thing" to make his voice echo over the hill. He is jealous of his father's love of Ikus. Xena tells Mael to tell Anteus not to kill Ikus; Mael throws the loud talking thing up the ridge; Gabrielle goes after it. Xena crosses a rope bridge to Mael, who cuts the ropes one by one, while Xena does a balancing act on each remaining strand until she's close enough to flip over to the same side as Mael; Mael falls, and clings to the rope. He won't take Xena's hand and falls into the river below. Xena runs to save Ikus. She throws her chakram and it misses as a voice booms out: "Anteus, you have proven your faith, do not kill Ikus." As Xena and Gabrielle leave, Xena tells Gabrielle she did a good voice of god imitation. Gabrielle says she never managed to reach the loud talking thing. So then who ??? Quick shot of the sky; choir sings.
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