This way. It's not far now.
Anyone would think
he's in a hurry.
- Get them!
- We're under attack!
This way! Now!
Watch out! Behind you!
That's him!
That's the one we want!
There's too many of them!
Get out of here! Go!
No!
Death to the centaur!
After him, quick!
- Clothes...
- Yes.
Oh..., very nice.
- Gabrielle, you'll never buy that.
- Xena, I'm not buying them.
- I'm shopping.
- Oh.
Different.
- Gabrielle.
- All right, Xena, I know.
It's not me.
As beautiful as ever.
Ephiny?
It can't be.
- What can't be what?
- Xena, it's-it's Ephiny.
- No, Ephiny's been dead for years.
- Xena, she's here.
She is with us right now.
I'm not seeing things.
I mean, I-I am.
- Ephiny's spirit... is here.
- Ephiny
- We've missed you.
- I missed you, friends.
Gabrielle...,
my son, Xenon, he's in danger.
- I need your help.
- Xenon's in danger?
She's talking to you?
- Can't you see her?
- No.
- Gabrielle, only you can.
- Why me?
Because you're an Amazon.
You're bonded
through your right of caste.
That's right.
How do you know
that your son's in danger?
She can sense it.
- Attention, everyone!
- Gabrielle, look.
Lord Belach has placed a bounty
on the head of this centaur.
That's Xenon.
- Who's putting up this bounty?
- Lord Belach.
I think maybe we offer
our services to Lord Belach.
Lord Belach has placed a bounty
on the head of this centaur!
In the time of ancient gods,
warlords
and kings,
a land in turmoil
cried out for a hero.
She was Xena,
a mighty princess
forged in the heat of battle.
The power.
The passion.
The danger.
Her courage
will change the world.
XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS
Lord Belach.
More bounty hunters,
I take it.
Are you all right?
She's staring
in the face of her past.
This man is the spitting image
of Borias. He was Xena's lover.
- Well, have you found him?
- Not yet, but we will.
What's this centaur done
to make you want him so badly?
That half-man...,
half-horse...
monstrosity stole my daughter,
Nika.
This place seems pretty well-guarded.
How did he manage that?
She was snatched up by that thing
and carried away.
Why would he do a thing like that?
I've received no ransom demands,
so I can only assume the worst.
I'll hunt down every last one
of those animals
if that's what it takes
to get my daughter back.
- You're the animal!
- Take it easy.
- What?
- Take it easy?!
You think you could take it easy
if your child was stolen?!
No, no, no.
Look, pay no attention to her.
Your father... was Borias.
That name...
is not to be spoken here.
I meant no offense.
My father was a w*rlord,
a cruel-hearted man.
Everything I have done...,
everything I have built,
all you see around you has been done
despite being his son.
And he died when you were a child.
- How do you know that?
- I've heard the legend.
Borias was a hero to the centaurs.
Using his name
might get your daughter back
faster than any needless w*r.
I have let those freaks...
live on my land for years;
it was a mistake.
My wife..., Leone...,
died bringing Nika into the world.
She's all I have left.
I'll bring your daughter back.
He came through here,
I'm sure of it.
Ephiny says that we're
on his trail.
Good. That should put us ahead
of the bounty hunters.
Xena..., if Belach is Borias' son,
does that mean that he's your...?
No. No, Borias had a son
before I came along.
- And that was Lord Belach.
- There's... something about him, Xena.
- He's dangerous.
- He's grieving.
It is Xenon we're supposed to be helping,
right?
- Gabrielle..., I owe Belach.
- My son never would have taken her
- against her will.
- I know, Ephiny.
Belach's daughter was taken
by a centaur.
He's not going to listen to reason
till he gets her back.
You can't blame him for that.
Xenon..., my son.
Last time I saw you,
you were... a child.
Can't you sense that I'm here?
Somebody's there.
Yes. It's your mother.
Show yourself!
Xenon..., we're here to help.
- Where's Nika?
- How do you know my name?
You were named after me. I'm
Xena. I delivered you at birth.
- You're not old enough to be Xena.
- It's a long story, but it's true.
- I was there too.
- Xenon, they're your friends.
Belach is after you.
Why aren't you with your brothers?
- That's none of your concern.
- Gabrielle, tell him I'm here.
- All right, Ephiny.
- Why do you say my mother's name?
Your mother's spirit... is here.
Can you say anything
that doesn't insult my intelligence?
Gabrielle...,
do you know the Amazon lullaby?
- Yeah, it's okay.
- Sing it with me. He'll understand.
I changed the words
when I used to sing it to him.
Moon shines bright
by fire's light
Amazon baby,
sleep tonight
A lot of people
know that song!
Hush... Hush-a-bye
Please don't cry
Xenon sings his lullaby
Xenon sings his lullaby
Mother?
Are you really here?
I'm here, my love.
She's here.
She brought us to you.
Nika, come!
They're friends.
This is my Nika.
Give me your hand.
It's a boy. A centaur.
- My grandson.
- How long?
- Any time..., right, Nika?
- I've been feeling some pains already.
Your father didn't mention this.
I take it it didn't slip his mind.
- He doesn't know.
- No one does.
I've been keeping to myself
the last few months.
He hardly looks at me anyway.
I think I remind him too much of my mother.
- Your father loves you.
- I love Xenon..., and he loves me.
We can't take her back now.
We're gonna have to go back
and talk to Lord Belach.
Talk? It's gone way past that. Belach
has declared w*r on all the centaurs.
The centaurs should not be at w*r
with the son of Borias.
- Belach is the son of Borias?
- And the blood of Borias is in your son.
Where are your brothers now?
Camped in a secret place
not far from here.
We'll escort you there
and find a safe place for you all.
Then we can negotiate peace
with Lord Belach.
He may think differently
knowing his daughter's pregnant.
Come on.
I don't understand, Xena.
You owe Belach for what?
When I met his father, Borias...,
he was a rising w*rlord.
And me...,
I was just ambitious.
It gets lonely at the top.
- You push your luck, Xena.
- Always.
- Natasha will see us.
- She knows what kind of man she has.
Have you had time
to consider my campaign?
Toward the East?
I've told you.
I can't feed and transport
my army halfway across the world.
That's why we leave your army
and start from scratch in the East.
After I've paid off all my men...
and divided the treasure among them.
You want to just take off
and keep everything for us.
By the time anyone finds out
where we are,
we'll be so formidable
they wouldn't dare come after us.
They're thugs, Borias.
They'd slit your throat for a dinar.
This campaign would take me away
from Natasha.
You and I would be together
a long time.
For all time.
So, do you wanna live here in squalor...
or ride to glory with me?
How can I decide
when I've never ridden with you?
Giddy-up.
- Wait just a minute.
- What are you doing?
I'll be back in a minute.
Word of advice for ya, kid.
Never step between
two people and their passion.
I shamed his mother
and stole his father, Gabrielle.
I can't let him
lose his daughter as well.
- It's completely devastated.
- Where are they?
Son of Borias, what have you done?
This was prophecy.
I haven't changed anything.
Belach's men must have
encircled your brothers
and driven them into this pit.
There was no escape.
What kind of man could do this?
They're gone.
Every last one.
All dead!
Belach will pay for this!
Xenon, you can't risk yourself!
Not now!
- Out of my way!
- Whatever my father has done,
you have to stay alive
for your son. For me.
Then who will see justice done?
I will.
Get out!
I see you haven't brought
my daughter to me.
I talked to her.
Tell me where she is.
She is with her husband...
mourning his people.
- Her what?
- Xenon didn't kidnap her.
She's carrying his baby.
They're in love, Belach.
Do you have any idea
what you have done?!
- What I had to do.
- You're the son of Borias.
How could you've betrayed
your father's legacy?!
- What do you know about my father?
- I know that he defended the centaurs
- when they were betrayed.
- Yes.
By that faithless bitch that took
my father from me when I was a child.
All this I have built...,
that is my achievement!
But it means nothing
without my daughter to give me an heir.
I want a grandson to be
loved and cherished...,
not some bastard offspring
of a centaur!
Centaurs are a proud and noble
race.
- Your father knew that.
- He was an ignorant savage.
Sweep the land
until you find that centaur!
When you do, k*ll him!
Tip for ya, kid. Never step between
two people and their passion.
- Wait just a minute.
- What are you doing?
I'll be back in a minute.
Word of advice for ya, kid.
Never step between
two people and their passion.
You. It can't be.
It is.
Now you're coming with me?
I'm not going anywhere with you.
Guards!
Seize her!
Come here.
After you.
Yah!
- The horses!
- Yah!
Yah!
Stop!
Yah!
Yah! Yah!
Keep up, Belach!
Nice day for it! Yah!
Yah!
Get on!
Get off.
I suppose I don't need
to tell you my name now.
Xena. I realized who you were
the moment
I heard you say those words.
I've always wanted to meet you again.
- I bet you did.
- To say I'm grateful.
If you hadn't stolen my father,
I'd be following in his muddy footprints.
- You think you're so very different to him?
- I am nothing like my father!
You're right. Your father would never
stoop to do what you've done.
- He was better than that.
- Better?!
Are we remembering the same man?!
Are we remembering the day
you took him from us?!
Belach?
Belach?
Belach?
Belach. What happened?
Natasha!
Natasha!
What can you say to me?!
Me and your son?!
Or that whore?!
You must choose, Borias.
If you were more of a woman,
I wouldn't have to choose!
Sah!
Papa!
Yah! Yah! Get on!
When my father's army broke up,
we fell into servitude.
While we were starved
and beaten..., I heard
about his exploits...
cutting across the East with that woman.
With you.
This is the only thing
my father left me.
- You kept it?
- Not for sentimental reasons,
I can assure you.
Only to remind me
of what scum he was
and how far I've come!
Lord Belach...,
so fine, so cultured.
Look how far you've come.
To wipe out an entire race.
You're right.
You are nothing like your father.
I did what had to be done.
You look again. You look again
and you tell me you feel nothing.
If your daughter saw this...,
who would she think is more civilized?
You or Borias?
Why have you brought me here?
Why don't you just k*ll me?
- I might yet.
- No, I don't think so.
What's the matter?
Do I look too much like my father?
You had a son with Borias,
didn't you, Xena?
Would it be too much like
slitting his throat?
No.
I just wanted you to know
who Borias really was.
Stay awhile amongst the dead.
Tell them how far you've come.
What a fine lord you are.
Yah! Yah!
Lord Belach!
She went through there.
We can pick up her trail.
Lord Belach?
Lord Belach.
I... I have to stop.
Gabrielle, it is time.
We have to get her to shelter.
Down there.
Nika.
What can I do?
Go and keep a lookout.
We'll call for you; go on.
Come on.
Gabrielle.
Slow down. [?]
Breathe slowly.
Come on. Shh. Slow down...
Slow down, slow your breathing down.
Shh.
This way.
What am I doing here?!
I never should have left!
Xenon!
There! Come on!
He's getting away!
Let them have the centaur.
Why settle for a bounty?
Belach... will pay a ransom
for his daughter.
- Keep talking to her, that's good.
- You have to stay calm, Nika.
- I wanna push!
- Not yet. She can't.
You can't push.
Breathe with me.
Just stay with me, breathe slow.
Breathe with me.
That's it, Gabrielle. Just keep
talking to her, calm her.
Let's check in here.
Gabrielle..., someone's here.
Search that side.
They're not here.
Yes, they are.
- How close is she?
- Very.
Okay, Nika. We're gonna
take good care of you, I promise.
'K.
Gabrielle, I'm gonna make an incision.
Make this as clean as you can.
Why are they hunting us?
Did you stop Belach?
I took him back to the centaur camp.
I thought if I could show him
- what he'd done...
- Did you get through to him?
Xena, you should'a k*lled him.
Gabrielle..., I couldn't.
He's Borias' son; her father.
He slaughtered the centaurs
and he won't stop until he kills Xenon.
Xenon! Where are you?!
I need you!
- Did you see Xenon out there?
- No.
Nika?
I'm gonna take away your pain now...,
and everything is gonna be just fine.
Okay?
All right?
Good.
Okay.
Stay with us.
You're doing so well.
Stay with us.
Yes.
There he is. Oh. Oh.
It's okay.
Oh, it's beautiful. Oh.
Oh, my grandson.
He's perfect.
He's beautiful, Nika.
I'll give her stitches.
Xena?!
It's so well.
Even trade, Xena!
I've got the centaur!
Give me my daughter!
Not another step!
Or we'll snap his neck!
Give me my daughter...
and I'll spare the centaur!
I've got a better idea. Give me
the centaur and I'll spare you.
k*ll him!
Attack her!
Forward!
Xenon! Get Nika and the baby
and get outta here! I'll hold 'em.
My boy.
They have reinforcements.
Xena needs help.
You've to get out of here.
Be careful. She's weak.
Come on!
Nika, we have to go.
My father and Xena..., they could
k*ll each other because of us.
There's nothing we can do about it!
We have to survive!
For what? What future
can we give our son?
- You know what you have to do, Xena.
- We'll see.
Fire!
No!
- Stop it!
- Nika!
- Stop it, now!
- Nika, get away from him!
Come here! You don't belong
with him, not with his kind!
- You'll have to k*ll me first.
- No! Can't you see?!
I love him! The way
that you loved my mother!
- You don't know what love is!
- You have to do it, Xena.
I will k*ll you, Belach.
I'm prepared to die
for my child.
Your father was the same.
- When was my father ever willing...?!
- For our baby! Your brother.
You spent your life trying
to be the opposite to your father...,
but what you don't know is that
when he grew away from me,
he grew into a better man.
k*ll him.
I had broken a treaty
with the centaurs.
Borias stood against me risking
his life to keep his word to them.
On the night I gave birth...,
he went up against my entire army
to see the boy.
I had seduced him away
from his first family.
He never forgave himself for that.
He didn't wanna lose another son.
Ah! Borias!
It's your son, Xena.
Come on, we have to go!
Come on, Xena!
My...
son.
Borias died tryin' to change
what he'd become.
That was the real story
of your father.
How will your story end, Belach?
- Over there!
- There they are!
Surround them!
It's up to you now, Belach.
Do you want your daughter to hate you
the same way you hated your father?
The k*lling can end here,
Belach. Or...
No.
No!
This is over.
She belongs with him!
Forgive me, Nika.
Give this... to your son.
When he is old enough...
to understand...,
- tell him.
- No.
When the time comes...,
you tell him.
We have given him a name.
Borias.
This was your mother's land.
Your family can live here
in safety and peace.
It's beautiful.
Gabrielle?
Please, let me appear
to my son.
How?
I can be in your body
for just a few moments.
Just clear your mind.
Mother?
I've been... trying...
and trying to talk to you...,
- but... now I don't know what to say.
- You don't have to say anything.
Borias.
Moon shines bright
like fire's light
Amazon baby,
sleep tonight
Hush-a-bye
Please don't cry
I have to leave now.
Xenon...,
I will always be there.
You won't see me...,
but I'll be there.
I have a feeling I'll know
when you are.
We'll miss her.
- Xena, I'm glad you didn't k*ll Belach.
- Oh, now you're glad.
You know, different roads
lead to the same place.
Very wise.
Only on your road..., he'd be dead.
- Right. I can be wise sometimes.
- Yeah, right.
- I can, really.
- Yeah. I'm agreeing with you.
As always.