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I came here on business,
Alecto.

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I know, Xena.

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You're obsessed with her.

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Call it what you will.

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I think I've made an
excellent case against her.

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I want a judgment, now!

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Furies! Ares, god of War,
has need of our judgment.

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You've all heard his complaint
against the Warrior Princess.

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How do you judge?

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It's unanimous.

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The Furies have found Xena

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guilty,of all charges.

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The sentence?

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What will it be?
Persecution or madness?

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How about,
persecution and madness?

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It's,highly unusual to do both.

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I'll be most appreciative.

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It shall be done.

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Hear me, gods and goddesses.

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Xena,Warrior Princess,
has committed a terrible crime.

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She will be punished
by persecution, and madness.

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Cool.

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Ah, you're afraid.

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Yeah, I'm terrified.I just don't gamble.

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You don't gamble?
Xena, who are we kidding here?

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Every day of your life is a roll of the die.

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Well, what would we bet?

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If I win,you have to cook breakfast
for me tomorrow morning.

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You call that winning?

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Good point.

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If I win, you have to collect
all the firewood for one week.

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And if I win,

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you have to make those little
dumplings with the red stuff inside.

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Oh, please.

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OK.

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Yeah.

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All right, to that cypress.

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Wait. How big a lead did you say?

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Three strides.One, two, three.
OK.On your mark, get set !

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Go.

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I win!

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That is cheating.
OK,cheating's an overstatement.

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Hey,boys,out for a morning hunt?

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Yeah, and you're the quarry, Xena.

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And why is that?

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Well, there's a bounty on
your head,and we,plan to

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collect it.

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You know, fellas, there are
less painful ways

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of making a dinar,but, um, if you insist.

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Oh, demons of the soul,
over Xena's reason roll.

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Replace? sweet illusion
with the poison of delusion.

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To Xena's head do not be kind,

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for it's your job to
make her lose her mind.

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Xena.

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Wait!I didn't mean to do that.

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Here.All right.OK.

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I love the smell of warrior
sweat in the morning.

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Go!

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This thing is great!

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And to think I've only been using it

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all these years as a weapon!

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Xena, you're acting really strange.

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Don't be ridiculous, Mavis.

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Alley-oop, Argo!

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Hey,I like this.

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I can see where I've been!

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Xena,now,that,that warrior said that

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there's a bounty on your head.

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Don't you wanna know what that's about?

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But I don't think he's gonna tell me anything.

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Why don't you put the pinch on him?

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Hah!

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I've cut off the flow of blood to

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your brain and other pertinent body parts.

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So, tell me-,how old were
you when you lost your virginity?

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Xena.

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Shut up, Mavis, this is important.

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Fourteen.

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Come on.

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OK, OK, nineteen, nineteen.

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See,Mavis,all you have to do is act nicely.

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Quick!Tell us who put
the bounty on Xena's head.

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The priest.

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What priest?

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The temple of the Furies.

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The Furies?

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All right, all right.Here's one for you.

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What is the capital of Assyria?

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Xena, take the pinch off him, now!

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Well, all right,but I think

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there's still more he could tell us.

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Where are you going?

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To get something to eat.I'm starved.

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What about the Furies?

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They can get their own.

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Xena, I think something
terrible has happened to you.

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You're not thinking clearly.

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Well, you know how I am
when I miss breakfast.

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No.Look.I think the Furies
are punishing you for something.

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Legend has it they punish
with persecution,

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which explains the bounty,
and the madness.

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Madness?

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Yes.

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I've never felt better!

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Let's go to the temple of the Furies
and find out what's going on.

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No.

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Please, Xena,Will you do it for me?
Please?

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OK.

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Go, horsey!

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There are many crimes which
the Furies punish with madness.

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Why are you telling me this?

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I'm not crazy.

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What do you think?

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I think we have a serious
problem, here, Xena.

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I could lose the daisies.

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It's not your look that I'm talking about.

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It's what's going on inside your head.

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You don't wanna go there it's terrifying.

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Doesn't that concern you?

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What do you think? It's too leafy?

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I think I'm gonna get some sleep.

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Xena.

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Look at you the guilt the shame.

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It's stamped on your faces,
clear as mud.

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And I won't let you get away with it.

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I'm here to avenge your heinous crimes.

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I've come to take retribution!

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Xena?

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I've come to take retribution in flames!

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What are you doing?

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Delivering the wrath of justice.

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These people are evil incarnate.

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They must burn.

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Xena,what have they done?

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What have they done?

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Look, can't you see the
women and children?!

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They've crucified the
women and children!

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Xena, Xena, the only people
here are women and children.

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Xena, they're afraid of you.

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Give me the torch.

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I'm in trouble, aren't I, Gabrielle?

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No, we'll get through this.

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Xena, we have to get to
the temple of the Furies.

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The Furies, right.

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I'm sorry.

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Xena, pull yourself together.

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Pull my finger.

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Who's there?

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Ah, the Warrior Princess.

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You've heard about the bounty, I take it.

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The price on my head? Oh, yes.

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Well, if it's my head
you want, then take it,

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cause frankly, it's driving me crazy!

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What's going on with my friend?

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The Furies have punished her

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with both persecution and madness.

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They must be appalled by her crime.

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What is it?

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A breach of duty that
the Furies are bound to punish.

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So, what does she have to do?

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Avenge the murder of
a member of her family.

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Anyone who says that I didn't avenge

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the murder of my brother is a liar.

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Xena!

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His killer died at my hands.

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Not your brother.

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Who, then?

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Your father.

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My, father?

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Yes, he was murdered.

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By who?

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That I don't know.

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a's punishment will continue

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until this crime is avenged.

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Xena,do you wanna sit down?

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Xena! Wait! Come back!

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Bacchus.

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Bacchus.

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No! It's me!It's, it's me.
It's Gabrielle.

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To the gods.
Now, put that down.

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Xena! Look.
To the gods.

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Listen to me.

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We're worthless insects.
Xena, I'm gonna help you.

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They're gonna kill us.

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I'll help you if you let me.
I can help, Xena, listen!

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Xena, we have to find out
who murdered your father!

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Xena, if we can bring him to justice,

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we can satisfy the Furies, Xena.

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This is what happened to Orestes!

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Xena, he didn't avengehis father either!

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You know, to the god

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we are nothing but dirty little

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beetles and they'll kill us for their sport.

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Well, I'm sorry,Gabrielle;

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you can't come with me but

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I can't be trusted, you know?

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You behave yourself.

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I'm rather ashamed of you.

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You behave, or you
don't get to come with us.

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She's coming right at us.
Come on, guys.

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She's a babbling idiot.

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She doesn't even know we're here.

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Xena.

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Oh, she looks so strange.

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What's wrong with her?

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Xena, What happened?

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Cyrene

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She's been driven mad, by the Furies.

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She was able to tell you that?

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No,she's incoherent.

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But ever since I heard what the

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Furies did to Orestes,

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I've been hoping against

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hope this day'dnever arrive.

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So, you know what happened to her father.

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He was murdered.

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Cyrene, do you know who did it?
Cyrene?

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Yes.

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We have to know.

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Maybe, then, we can bring the

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murderer tojustice and satisfy the Furies.

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Gabrielle,do you think that Xena,

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even in this state,could kill her mother?

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What?

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I killed Xena's father.

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Xena was seven.

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Her father, came home from the temple

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of Ares,drunk,and angry.

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He told me Xena had to die.

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He was,very confused, Xena.

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The priest at the temple must have

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told him to sacrifice you to Ares.

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Your father was, very
dedicated to the god of war.

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I told him that I wouldn't let him do that.

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He said he'd-- kill me too, then.

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He went to the stables
to sharpen a knife.

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He was so,methodical, the way

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he planned to kill his own daughter.

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I took an axe and, I stopped him.

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This is the same mess that Orestes was in.

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Yes, the, circumstances are the same.

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His mother killed his father,

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and so,his, obligation, according to the

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code of the Furies, was to kill his mother.

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Did it work?

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I don't know.

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I heard he still lives in
a village not far from here

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Andreas.

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Maybe I can find him.

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Maybe I can find a way
to get us out of this.

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Perhaps.

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Then I'm off to Andreas.

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Xena?

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Look, I know you're in there.

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Hey, we're gonna get through this.

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You know, we always do.

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So Mama killed Papa.

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Doesn't matter.

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You were trying to

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save my life, right?

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I should be grateful.

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But you have to admit,

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you did put me in something of a jam,
didn't you?

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I have an interesting choice, now.

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I can kill you or

266
00:22:33,221 --> 00:22:36,567
I can spend the rest of my life

267
00:22:36,567 --> 00:22:39,783
shuttling between babbling
idiocy and vivid clarity.

268
00:22:40,091 --> 00:22:42,319
Did you know that sanity
is just a veil that the gods

269
00:22:42,319 --> 00:22:44,974
throw over our eyes to stop
us from seeing the truth?

270
00:22:45,909 --> 00:22:47,008
What is the truth, Xena?

271
00:22:47,350 --> 00:22:48,350
That life is a joke!

272
00:22:50,162 --> 00:22:52,243
It's a barroom joke at that!

273
00:22:55,034 --> 00:22:56,385
And you know what the punchline is?

274
00:22:58,351 --> 00:23:01,560
The punchline is that no matter what we do,

275
00:23:01,789 --> 00:23:03,723
we still end up as food for the worms.

276
00:23:05,998 --> 00:23:08,403
Mother, there really is only one way out of this.

277
00:23:12,976 --> 00:23:14,895
Go ahead-- do it.

278
00:23:15,695 --> 00:23:18,789
Oh, no, no.You don't
get out of it that easy.

279
00:23:19,696 --> 00:23:21,498
I leave you to entertain the gods.

280
00:23:22,196 --> 00:23:23,961
I am retiring from the stage.

281
00:23:25,701 --> 00:23:26,412
Xena.

282
00:23:27,147 --> 00:23:32,070
Mother, I am a lunatic
with lethal combat skills.

283
00:23:33,134 --> 00:23:34,368
If I stay around here much longer,

284
00:23:34,592 --> 00:23:36,341
some innocent people are gonna get killed.

285
00:23:39,371 --> 00:23:40,867
I'm doing them a favor.

286
00:24:05,837 --> 00:24:08,245
Xena,what are you doing?

287
00:24:10,152 --> 00:24:11,759
Why am I not surprised to find that

288
00:24:11,759 --> 00:24:13,311
you have an interest in all this?

289
00:24:13,914 --> 00:24:14,576
Of course, I do.

290
00:24:14,962 --> 00:24:15,666
You're my favorite.

291
00:24:17,070 --> 00:24:17,576
I don't wanna see you

292
00:24:17,576 --> 00:24:19,088
throw yourself off some cliff.

293
00:24:19,747 --> 00:24:20,451
If for no other reason, it's such

294
00:24:20,451 --> 00:24:23,539
a tastelessly melodramatic
way out of this life.

295
00:24:24,811 --> 00:24:25,790
Ah, but I'm quite batty,

296
00:24:26,589 --> 00:24:27,713
Ares and I have limited choices.

297
00:24:30,342 --> 00:24:32,153
Madness is a rotten way to go through life.

298
00:24:34,231 --> 00:24:36,453
Now, Xena? Don't do that.

299
00:24:37,853 --> 00:24:39,077
There is another solution.

300
00:24:41,482 --> 00:24:46,451
Killing Mommy? No, I don't think so.

301
00:24:47,369 --> 00:24:48,467
Well, I heard what you said to your mother.

302
00:24:49,231 --> 00:24:49,977
And you were right of course

303
00:24:50,875 --> 00:24:51,729
what you said about life.

304
00:24:53,078 --> 00:24:53,843
I was ranting.

305
00:24:54,504 --> 00:24:55,336
Like a prophet.

306
00:24:56,589 --> 00:24:58,728
Xena, you were never so close to the truth.

307
00:25:00,135 --> 00:25:01,199
If you're trying to convince me

308
00:25:01,199 --> 00:25:02,329
that life's worth living,

309
00:25:02,329 --> 00:25:03,574
this is not a good strategy.

310
00:25:03,792 --> 00:25:05,828
No-- life isn't worth living.

311
00:25:07,637 --> 00:25:10,430
It's to be taken, and beaten, and wrestled,

312
00:25:10,656 --> 00:25:11,886
and formed in your image.

313
00:25:13,949 --> 00:25:14,747
That's where the meaning

314
00:25:14,747 --> 00:25:17,479
lies in what you can twist life into.

315
00:25:18,260 --> 00:25:19,041
For those who just endure life,

316
00:25:19,041 --> 00:25:21,667
yeah-- it is a very nasty joke.

317
00:25:22,419 --> 00:25:24,314
But for those who form it with their will,

318
00:25:25,230 --> 00:25:26,744
the joke is on those who get in the way.

319
00:25:29,472 --> 00:25:30,247
I must be crazy.

320
00:25:30,451 --> 00:25:31,556
You're beginning to make sense.

321
00:25:32,669 --> 00:25:36,481
This melodrama with your
family put it all behind you.

322
00:25:37,483 --> 00:25:38,123
You don't know how common

323
00:25:38,123 --> 00:25:39,684
it is for a jealous man to try and

324
00:25:39,684 --> 00:25:41,978
punish his wife by hurting the child.

325
00:25:43,856 --> 00:25:45,266
Do you understand
what I'm saying to you?

326
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,730
Yes, I think I do.

327
00:25:52,717 --> 00:25:53,825
Satisfy the Furies.

328
00:25:55,231 --> 00:25:56,529
Give your mother to the worms.

329
00:25:57,442 --> 00:26:02,254
You are on the brink of ultimate freedom,
Xena.

330
00:26:11,356 --> 00:26:12,065
Do it.

331
00:26:13,827 --> 00:26:15,862
You'll be reborn into a world of true choice

332
00:26:17,543 --> 00:26:18,824
beyond good and evil.

333
00:26:20,472 --> 00:26:22,419
And not only will Y
ou regain your sanity

334
00:26:23,891 --> 00:26:25,704
but you'll see the world
as few have seen it

335
00:26:26,639 --> 00:26:27,905
as a playground to your will.

336
00:26:28,731 --> 00:26:29,453
Now, do it.

337
00:26:31,629 --> 00:26:33,172
But how will the Furies know if I do it?

338
00:26:38,499 --> 00:26:39,669
They'll know.

339
00:26:39,669 --> 00:26:40,467
But how?

340
00:26:41,109 --> 00:26:41,796
They'll know.

341
00:26:43,419 --> 00:26:44,954
You expect me to trust you?

342
00:26:45,457 --> 00:26:46,641
I'm crazy; I'm not stupid.

343
00:26:47,859 --> 00:26:48,766
If I'm gonna whack Mamma,

344
00:26:48,983 --> 00:26:50,335
I wanna get something out of it.

345
00:26:50,857 --> 00:26:52,889
I want to know that
the Furies are watching!

346
00:26:53,629 --> 00:26:56,021
They'll see it. It's a god thing.

347
00:26:57,316 --> 00:27:00,387
I won't do it unless
it's in front of the Furies!

348
00:27:02,067 --> 00:27:04,600
All right,it can be arranged.

349
00:27:06,538 --> 00:27:08,899
Good, I'll get Mom.

350
00:27:18,528 --> 00:27:19,588
Xena, you're all right.

351
00:27:19,588 --> 00:27:21,035
I'm anything but all right, Mother.

352
00:27:21,503 --> 00:27:22,035
Yes, of course.

353
00:27:22,035 --> 00:27:23,193
I'm so sorry this happened to you.

354
00:27:23,193 --> 00:27:24,205
Maybe Gabrielle'll find a

355
00:27:24,205 --> 00:27:25,034
Stop it!

356
00:27:25,851 --> 00:27:27,676
Gabrielle couldn't save
a cat in a sack without me.

357
00:27:28,298 --> 00:27:29,251
She's a useless little pissant,

358
00:27:29,677 --> 00:27:32,255
really now that I see things clearly.

359
00:27:32,934 --> 00:27:33,600
That's not true.

360
00:27:34,002 --> 00:27:36,380
And I don't think you're
seeing things clearly at all.

361
00:27:37,329 --> 00:27:37,851
No matter.

362
00:27:38,377 --> 00:27:39,455
I'm crazy and you're dead.

363
00:27:39,908 --> 00:27:40,554
Let's go.

364
00:27:40,881 --> 00:27:41,587
What are you saying?!

365
00:27:42,954 --> 00:27:44,005
Don't push it with me, Mother.

366
00:27:46,472 --> 00:27:47,006
Xena

367
00:27:47,318 --> 00:27:48,955
if that's what you feel you have to do

368
00:27:50,755 --> 00:27:54,442
Oh-- the self-sacrificing mother.

369
00:27:55,465 --> 00:27:56,818
That's such a tired cliche'.

370
00:27:57,890 --> 00:27:58,799
Tell me, Mother.

371
00:27:58,799 --> 00:28:00,795
When you and Daddy were rolling

372
00:28:00,795 --> 00:28:03,423
around like a pair of crazed weasels,
was it good?

373
00:28:03,955 --> 00:28:05,704
Please, Xena.
Let's just get this over with.

374
00:28:06,679 --> 00:28:07,589
I have a right to know about the act

375
00:28:07,589 --> 00:28:09,338
that brought me into
this miserable world.

376
00:28:09,540 --> 00:28:10,534
I will not talk about that!

377
00:28:13,412 --> 00:28:14,342
I'm losing patience with you.

378
00:28:18,903 --> 00:28:20,416
Your father was away at war.

379
00:28:21,162 --> 00:28:21,849
Suddenly, one night,

380
00:28:21,849 --> 00:28:22,929
he was there with me.

381
00:28:23,255 --> 00:28:24,474
And, yes, it was good!

382
00:28:30,790 --> 00:28:31,944
Thank you, Mother.

383
00:28:36,005 --> 00:28:39,902
As you say let's get this over with.

384
00:28:50,557 --> 00:28:51,197
I don't understand.

385
00:28:51,197 --> 00:28:52,132
This is an asylum.

386
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,039
Are you sure we're
talking about the same man?

387
00:28:54,980 --> 00:28:56,933
That's right. Here he is.

388
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:57,936
See for yourself.

389
00:29:06,646 --> 00:29:08,184
Orestes? .

390
00:29:10,742 --> 00:29:11,703
So he didn't do it

391
00:29:12,116 --> 00:29:13,014
Didn't do what?

392
00:29:14,260 --> 00:29:15,560
He didn't avenge his father's murder.

393
00:29:16,149 --> 00:29:16,993
Oh, yeah, he did.

394
00:29:17,484 --> 00:29:18,183
He killed his mother,

395
00:29:18,387 --> 00:29:19,182
Clytemnestra.

396
00:29:20,891 --> 00:29:21,526
But I thought that--

397
00:29:21,526 --> 00:29:22,746
that he'd be liberated from

398
00:29:22,746 --> 00:29:24,463
his madness if he killed his mother?

399
00:29:25,242 --> 00:29:25,495
Yeah.

400
00:29:25,715 --> 00:29:26,868
Ahh-- it's all a lie.

401
00:29:28,077 --> 00:29:30,781
If they persecuted him for
not avenging his father's murder,

402
00:29:31,058 --> 00:29:33,856
what were they going to do
to him for killing his mother?

403
00:29:34,957 --> 00:29:35,868
There was no way out for him.

404
00:29:48,830 --> 00:29:50,199
Furies, hear me!

405
00:29:50,701 --> 00:29:52,415
I, Ares, god of war,

406
00:29:53,310 --> 00:29:54,267
demand your presence

407
00:29:54,768 --> 00:29:55,951
at this act of redemption!

408
00:30:05,673 --> 00:30:06,591
She's the murderess?

409
00:30:08,595 --> 00:30:09,808
And the avenging party?

410
00:30:42,894 --> 00:30:45,722
Don't! Xena, it won't do any good!

411
00:30:48,472 --> 00:30:50,892
Sometimes, that is the
only way to shut her up.

412
00:31:01,997 --> 00:31:03,051
Is there a problem, Xena?

413
00:31:04,716 --> 00:31:05,622
Why am I doing this?

414
00:31:06,897 --> 00:31:07,687
She killed your father.

415
00:31:08,348 --> 00:31:09,345
You have to avenge his death or the

416
00:31:09,345 --> 00:31:10,904
Furies will torment you for eternity.

417
00:31:10,904 --> 00:31:12,091
Yadda, yadda, yadda-- go.

418
00:31:12,874 --> 00:31:15,030
All right.

419
00:31:18,214 --> 00:31:19,434
She killed my father?

420
00:31:19,434 --> 00:31:23,887
Yes! Murdered him in cold blood.
Show her no mercy.

421
00:31:26,118 --> 00:31:27,526
But how could she kill my father

422
00:31:27,526 --> 00:31:29,245
when my father is very much alive?

423
00:31:31,889 --> 00:31:33,399
Right, Daddy?

424
00:31:37,300 --> 00:31:38,838
If you've noticed, she is crazy.

425
00:31:39,189 --> 00:31:40,524
Yeah, I'm completely out of my gourd

426
00:31:40,524 --> 00:31:42,517
and I might cut Mommy up later, just for fun

427
00:31:42,517 --> 00:31:44,075
but not because she killed my father.

428
00:31:45,244 --> 00:31:46,150
Because you're my father.

429
00:31:49,172 --> 00:31:50,901
Look at that hunk of
burning love you had, Mom.

430
00:31:53,135 --> 00:31:54,387
This is nonsense.

431
00:31:55,138 --> 00:31:56,400
Don't you think Cyrene might have

432
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:57,399
mentioned this before now?

433
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,121
That's not a very good explanation,
Daddy.

434
00:32:00,121 --> 00:32:00,651
Gabrielle, tell him.

435
00:32:02,048 --> 00:32:03,185
Do the bard thing.

436
00:32:07,580 --> 00:32:08,780
The legends say tha

437
00:32:09,610 --> 00:32:11,090
Ares takes the form of his warriors

438
00:32:12,012 --> 00:32:12,900
and he visits their wives

439
00:32:13,154 --> 00:32:14,173
while they're away at battle.

440
00:32:17,301 --> 00:32:18,542
Mom, tell him.

441
00:32:23,089 --> 00:32:24,922
The night Xena was conceived,

442
00:32:26,278 --> 00:32:30,081
my husband came home
unexpectedly from war.

443
00:32:32,936 --> 00:32:34,487
This is ridiculous.

444
00:32:37,150 --> 00:32:38,341
Do you ladies eavesdrop on us

445
00:32:38,341 --> 00:32:40,249
whackos when you're tormenting us?

446
00:32:40,997 --> 00:32:41,876
Frequently, yes.

447
00:32:43,795 --> 00:32:44,683
Did you hear that little chit-chat

448
00:32:45,144 --> 00:32:46,311
that Daddy and I had on

449
00:32:46,311 --> 00:32:47,371
the cliff when he thought

450
00:32:47,371 --> 00:32:48,592
I was gonna throw myself over?

451
00:32:49,270 --> 00:32:50,342
Had you going there, didn't I?

452
00:32:52,136 --> 00:32:52,813
Well, did you?

453
00:32:53,470 --> 00:32:54,128
: Yes.

454
00:32:54,655 --> 00:32:56,215
You ladies do dress the part,
don't you?

455
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,575
Did you wonder why Ares used

456
00:32:58,575 --> 00:33:00,187
the word 'jealous' when referring

457
00:33:00,394 --> 00:33:01,967
about my alleged father?

458
00:33:02,615 --> 00:33:04,344
That was odd. Why jealous?

459
00:33:05,358 --> 00:33:07,676
I mean, he was jealous in the attention

460
00:33:07,895 --> 00:33:09,595
Cyrene showed Xena.

461
00:33:10,391 --> 00:33:11,299
It's a common phenomenon.

462
00:33:12,575 --> 00:33:14,674
Oh. Now, here's my theory.

463
00:33:15,562 --> 00:33:17,843
Ares and Mom do their thing;

464
00:33:17,843 --> 00:33:19,334
she gets ripe with me; and then,

465
00:33:19,334 --> 00:33:20,747
shortly after that, her husband

466
00:33:21,403 --> 00:33:22,749
comes home from war,

467
00:33:23,375 --> 00:33:25,344
and he thinks that his manhood did the trick.

468
00:33:26,862 --> 00:33:28,919
Well, I pop out, and he thinks he's my father.

469
00:33:31,941 --> 00:33:33,471
Well, things go on like this for years,

470
00:33:33,750 --> 00:33:35,626
and then one night, at the Temple of Ares,

471
00:33:36,017 --> 00:33:41,842
someone maybe a drunken
priest maybe you,spills the beans.

472
00:33:42,592 --> 00:33:43,873
A jealous rage ensues.

473
00:33:45,563 --> 00:33:47,124
Mom does her thing with the axe,

474
00:33:47,393 --> 00:33:50,676
and-- hah! Here we are.

475
00:33:55,020 --> 00:33:56,179
You're not buying any of this.

476
00:33:57,376 --> 00:34:00,520
I am _not_ the father.

477
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:01,531
Why would he go to all this

478
00:34:01,531 --> 00:34:03,157
trouble just to drive you insane?

479
00:34:05,768 --> 00:34:08,031
Because a mad Xena would be

480
00:34:08,031 --> 00:34:10,427
more sympathetic to his quaint world view.

481
00:34:12,845 --> 00:34:13,712
And you were right.

482
00:34:14,619 --> 00:34:16,689
I meant it when I said that you

483
00:34:16,689 --> 00:34:18,692
were beginning to make sense to me.

484
00:34:20,753 --> 00:34:23,895
But the best bit-- the best bit of all

485
00:34:24,376 --> 00:34:25,680
and this is a proud daughter talking

486
00:34:26,616 --> 00:34:27,971
is when I kill Mom

487
00:34:29,304 --> 00:34:31,409
thereby dooming myself forever to insanity

488
00:34:31,409 --> 00:34:33,431
and complete dependence on you.

489
00:34:36,116 --> 00:34:36,942
I have ways to prove it.

490
00:34:37,495 --> 00:34:38,007
What's that?

491
00:34:38,869 --> 00:34:39,523
We fight.

492
00:34:40,721 --> 00:34:42,720
If I'm half god, I should
be able to hold my own.

493
00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:43,712
And if I'm not

494
00:34:43,712 --> 00:34:45,470
well, surely the god of war will win.

495
00:34:48,281 --> 00:34:49,654
This is ridiculous.

496
00:34:50,464 --> 00:34:51,431
What are you afraid of, Ares?

497
00:34:52,110 --> 00:34:57,036
Me 'cause he knows that
I'm half god and all crazy.

498
00:35:06,746 --> 00:35:07,693
Hey, come on, you two

499
00:35:08,052 --> 00:35:10,119
you're not gonna get it again,are you?

500
00:36:49,509 --> 00:36:50,973
I'm gonna use you as a shield,
Gabrielle

501
00:36:53,134 --> 00:36:53,861
just kidding.

502
00:36:56,905 --> 00:36:58,577
I win!

503
00:37:09,544 --> 00:37:12,169
Well,I think I've proved my point.

504
00:37:17,317 --> 00:37:19,136
Girls, he's been giving you rotten fruit.

505
00:37:20,657 --> 00:37:22,407
Well, as I was say,
I think I've proved my point.

506
00:37:23,420 --> 00:37:23,885
Agreed.

507
00:37:30,885 --> 00:37:31,763
Mother.

508
00:37:32,630 --> 00:37:33,762
Zeus and the other gods will hear

509
00:37:33,762 --> 00:37:35,730
about this betrayal of a sacred trust.

510
00:37:38,730 --> 00:37:40,533
We'll talk later about the fruit.

511
00:37:41,011 --> 00:37:42,419
I've been on the outs with the family before.

512
00:37:44,136 --> 00:37:44,764
They need me.

513
00:37:48,234 --> 00:37:49,723
You don't really think
I'm your father, do you?

514
00:37:50,045 --> 00:37:50,983
It doesn't matter.

515
00:37:51,764 --> 00:37:52,622
The Furies think you are.

516
00:37:52,825 --> 00:37:53,545
That's all that counts.

517
00:37:58,449 --> 00:38:00,237
That-- was brilliant.

518
00:38:01,453 --> 00:38:02,164
If I was your father,

519
00:38:03,047 --> 00:38:05,545
I'd be very-- very proud of you.

520
00:38:08,137 --> 00:38:10,016
I still don't get what you see in her.

521
00:38:39,206 --> 00:38:41,732
Xena, you knew what
your mom would say

522
00:38:42,358 --> 00:38:43,404
about the night of your conception.

523
00:38:44,329 --> 00:38:45,973
And you knew exactly what I would say.

524
00:38:48,045 --> 00:38:49,735
Well, I don't know if
I like being that predictable.

525
00:38:50,501 --> 00:38:51,914
I knew you were gonna say that.

526
00:38:54,205 --> 00:38:57,233
Xena, your father.

527
00:39:00,288 --> 00:39:01,767
Um,I'll collect some more firewood.

528
00:39:14,032 --> 00:39:15,349
I took him away from you.

529
00:39:16,207 --> 00:39:16,883
Mother.

530
00:39:18,820 --> 00:39:22,051
It seemed-- like the only way.

531
00:39:24,703 --> 00:39:25,958
I'm sure it was.

532
00:39:30,798 --> 00:39:32,052
I never really knew him.

533
00:39:32,297 --> 00:39:35,454
I, the hardest thing for me
was giving up the hope.

534
00:39:37,019 --> 00:39:37,737
Hope.

535
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:40,633
I kept hoping that maybe

536
00:39:40,633 --> 00:39:42,234
I'd run into him, somewhere.

537
00:39:43,696 --> 00:39:45,611
Understand-- understand myself.

538
00:39:49,226 --> 00:39:50,331
I know that will never be.

539
00:39:53,939 --> 00:39:55,210
Can you ever forgive me?

540
00:39:55,947 --> 00:39:57,291
There is nothing to forgive.

541
00:40:00,051 --> 00:40:01,235
You saved my life.

542
00:40:01,235 --> 00:40:02,350
I owe you my thanks.

543
00:40:04,663 --> 00:40:07,269
I'm sorry that you had to
carry this alone all these years.

544
00:40:18,299 --> 00:40:19,317
We'll go on.

545
00:40:21,739 --> 00:40:23,490
We'll be stronger than before.

546
00:40:24,395 --> 00:40:25,355
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