Adventures in the Sin Trade
Yah!
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Tartarus. Elysian Fields. Tartarus. Elysian Fields.
Hades! My friend Gabrielle, where is she?
HADES
Gabrielle. Well, if she's dead, she didn't come
to me.
XENA
I saw her die, she had to come to you.
HADES
Why would I lie to you? Look, if you'd like to see
Solan, I could arrange a few moments.
XENA
No, no, no. You leave Solan out of this. He doesn't
need to know about my problems. It's Gabrielle
I want to see. Come on, you owe me.
HADES
Xena, not all the world's dead come to me.
XENA
She was Greek. The Olympian Gods control
her destiny.
HADES
Yeah, I admit it, thus it seems like she'd be mine,
like these people. Charon and I are going to be
very, very busy.
XENA
I'm not interested in your work load, Hades! Look,
I just wanna know where my friend went after she died.
HADES
Did she, uh, belong to many spiritual order, or-
XENA
No.
She pauses.
What is it?
XENA
Do Greek Amazons come to you?
HADES
No.
XENA
Then that's it. Gabrielle's initiation into the Amazons
meant she want to a different land of the dead.
HADES
Well I can't help you then.
He gets in his chariot.
I don't know where that is.
I do.
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I'm sorry girl. Can't take you where I'm going.
Yah!
Yah! Yah!
Ya-a-a-a-a-a-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!
END OF TEASER
ACT ONE
Xena. (pause) Xena.
Xena.
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Xena. (pause) Xena.
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Gabrielle...I'm entering a world of darkness I
promised myself I'd never return to, but it's the
only way I can see you again.
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My mind has lost it's center. It's turning...turning.
Can't hold. I can't hold.
GABRIELLE (voice-over)
Xena.
XENA (voice-over)
I hear you, or is it the wind? As I travel along
paths left long ago, I'm engulfed by my memories.
They consume me.
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What?
BORIAS
What would you do, if I told you I'm in love?
XENA
I'd cut out your sweetheart's throat.
You think I wouldn't?
BORIAS
No, I mean, I'm in love with you.
XENA
With me?
Have you lost what's left of your mind? People
like you and me don't fall in love. Not with each
other anyway.
She sighs.
Where do we go from here? I say we take on
the Amazons.
BORIAS
They're a tough bunch, but reasonable, I think.
I say we offer to ally with them against their traditional
enemies, the centaurs. With the centaurs out of
the way, nothing stands between us and Greece.
XENA
You and your alliances. Didn't do us much good
in Chin.
BORIAS
We did all right in Chin. We would have done
better if it wasn't for your unquenchable lust for power.
XENA
I thought you like my unquenchable lust.
BORIAS
Well, it does have its good points.
Borias!
Borias turns away from Xena before he kisses her.
What?
We caught these two lurking in the camp. The hag
says she's a shamaness. Claims she can help
us beat the Amazons.
XENA
How can you do that?
ALTI
I was once an Amazon myself, but they expelled
me from their number because my power was
too great. I'm Alti, and this is my apprentice, Anokin.
(to Xena) Congratulations.
XENA
What?
ALTI
You're with child.
Very good. I haven't told anyone that yet.
BORIAS
What?
XENA
I would have gotten 'round to it. (to Chalcis) Go.
Xena, what are you doing? A shamaness like
her can only be trouble.
XENA
I like trouble, Borias. (to Alti) Please, make
yourself at home.
Gabrielle?
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What is she doing?
YAKUT
I don't know.
Look at this.
KORYAK
What do you think you're doing?
XENA
You did this, didn't you?
KORYAK
Yeah. So what?
Look what we got.
OTERE
Good.
YAKUT
Pick him up.
It's a warrior woman. She fought our enemies,
so I don't think we need to fear her.
You've got to take me with you. Teach me everything
you know.
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Even in death Gabrielle-
-I will never leave you.
You are the best thing that ever happened to
me. you gave my life meaning and joy. You will
be a part of me forever.
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That wailing. I heard it before, a long time ago,
when I was a child.
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An army from the east swept across the steps.
They destroyed everything in site. It was lead
by a great warlord named Borias.
And her.
Alti! Who did this!
Xena, let's go!
XENA
I'm not leaving without her.
BORIAS
Then don't. Throw her on a horse and let's move.
This is the last of the villages before Amazon
territory. I don't want the Amazons to think we're
moving on them.
XENA
I don't care about your plan! My friend is dead.
BORIAS
You knew her for less then a moon. What spell
have they thrown on you?
Yah! Quick girl, come on! (to Xena) It's only a
child. Yah!
It's too late.
You can see her again, you know.
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She must want to cross over to the other side,
and she needs the horse's spirit to do that.
ACT TWO
What are you doing?
YOUNG WOMAN
You're the one who gave me a decent funeral.
Now you too are in the Land of the Dead. I thank
you, and mourn for you.
XENA
Don't mourn for me, I'm not dead.
YOUNG WOMAN
If you're not dead, then why are you here?
XENA
I'm looking for a friend. She should have passed
through the gate into Eternity by now.
YOUNG WOMAN
So you plan to follow her into Eternity?
XENA
That's right.
YOUNG WOMAN
So will you be able to get back from there?
XENA
I don't know.
YOUNG WOMAN
She must be a very good friend.
XENA
She's the only friend.
YOUNG WOMAN
How come you know so much about the Land
of the Dead? Have you been here before?
XENA
Let me tell you a little story.
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Gabrielle's not the first I followed here. I came
once before.
Anokin!
What's the matter?
ANOKIN
Stay away from me.
XENA
Why?
ANOKIN
You poisoned my soul. I want nothing to
do with you.
I hate the dead. You can't tale vengeance on them.
ALTI
Ah, but you can.
Come back to me, Xena.
What do you want?
BORIAS
I want you. This stuff you're into, it's madness.
You're carrying our child within you.
ALTI
The baby will be a fine, healthy boy, with his father's
mouth and his mother's eyes.
XENA
What will we call him?
ALTI
Neither one of you will name him.
BORIAS
We'll name him, and you can stop your evil
predictions, you hag!
Borias, you shouldn't have done that. She's powerful.
BORIAS
In the Land of the Dead, perhaps, but here she's
a pathetic, bag of bones.
XENA
Never mind, it's over your head.
And who is this?
XENA
Alti needed a human body to get us to the Land
of the Dead.
You're killing people to help that demon cast
her spells?
XENA
Come on, Borias, after all the people we've killed,
what's one more corpse?
BORIAS
I can't believe what's happening to you.
And I can't believe what's happening to you. You're
as soft as a pig's belly. And what's all this talk about
our baby and us?! I swear if you use the
word 'family,' I'm going to puke!
These powers you're after...
ALTI
You want to know what they are. Your friend you
told me about, Lao Ma, her powers come from
denial, self sacrifice, from the light. That's not
for people like you and me. I want to tap into the
heart of darkness. The sheer, naked will behind all
craving. The hatred and violence. I'll become the
face of death itself, capable of destroying not only
a person's body, but their soul. Help me, and I'll
make you Destroyer of Nations.
What is it? Who is that?
XENA
Cyane, Queen of the Amazons.
YOUNG WOMAN
Cyane! She's a legend! You knew her?
XENA
I killed her.
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What are you doing here, Xena? You're not welcome.
XENA
Cyane, why are you still in the Land of the Dead?
You should have crossed over into Eternity.
CYANE
Answer me first. What do you want?
XENA
I'm looking for a friend. A Greek Amazon.
CYANE
An Amazon is your friend.
XENA
That's right. Her name is Gabrielle.
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At heart you're an Amazon, whether you believe
it or not.
XENA
It's not for me, Cyane.
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Follow me.
Think she's dead?
EXTRA
Poke her.
She's not dead.
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Her spirit's with the dead.
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I say we send her body there too.
ACT THREE
No! We don't hurt her.
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You see, Xena, none of us can pass through the
gate to Eternity. We're doomed to wander the
Land of the Dead forever.
XENA
Alti did this to you.
CYANE
Yes...Alti.
Watch it. Don't jerk her. Keep everything still or she'll
feel it. Careful.
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I'll look up top.
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Be careful. We don't want to wake her up just yet.
EXTRA
What's wrong with her?
OTERE
Nothing.
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She's in the Land of the Dead. We're going to let
her accomplish what she must there. She's
probably acquiring great powers.
YAKUT
I still say we should cut her throat.
OTERE
No. She's our future. I'm sure of it.
YAKUT
And why should we believe you? There's something
you're not telling us.
OTERE
Borias had taken me in out of the cold.
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She must die.
XENA
Her? What are you talking about? She's just a child.
ALTI
She, will take your power away from you one day.
Have I been wrong with my predictions so far?
XENA
You think Borias is trouble now, you should wait
and see if we knocked off his little orphan girl.
ALTI
Control your destiny. Kill her now, and avoid the
day she takes your power.
No! Oh, no.
So she would have killed you if Borias hadn't
shown up.
OTERE (voice-over)
Nope, I don't think she would have.
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She didn't kill me because she knew what Alti
predicted must happen. I am destined to take
her power.
YAKUT
I'm glad you're so sure about it. I'm going to have
my axe ready when she start to come around.
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I'm so sorry for what's happened to you.
Cyane looks back at her Amazons.
I don't think they believe you, Xena.
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She claims she's looking for a friend. A Greek
Amazon, no less.
XENA
I understand your anger. The site of me must be
a torment to you. But once I find Gabrielle, you'll
never see me again.
CYANE
Then go! The gate to Eternity lies in the heart of that
volcano. That's where you'll find your precious Gabrielle.
XENA
But you said Amazons can't pass through the gate.
CYANE
Our tribe can't. The other Amazon tribes from Greece
and Mesopotamia, they can. The path to your friend
lies though that gate. Now, go into Eternity and
out of our lives forever.
Go!
Xena. (pause) Xena.
XENA
I can't. Gabrielle, I can't. You nothing would make
me happier then seeing you again. You were my light.
I just realized what it was that you gave me. A light
of my own. There's something I gotta do, something
you'd want me to do. I love you.
I thought I told you that the gate was over there.
XENA
Some other time. I'm going back to stop Alti.
CYANE
Our holy word should have been strong enough
to undo whatever it was that kept us from Eternity,
but still we can't pass through the gate.
XENA
Then maybe you need a new holy word. One
stronger than the last.
Our holy word is 'Courage,' Xena. Nothing's
stronger than courage.
END OF ACT THREE
ACT FOUR
Get back!
EXTRA
Quick.
EXTRA
Move.
XENA
Who are you?
OTERE
Otere.
XENA
I remember you. How did I get here?
We moved you. We thought you'd be safer here.
We were careful not to wake you up.
XENA
You did well.
Oh.
XENA
I could teach you a thing or two about holding a
sword on somebody.
Who's he?
YAKUT
Our enemy. You wounded him. We haven't decided
who gets to kill him yet.
OTERE
You drew first blood. You should make the kill.
Can you walk?
Good. I want you to deliverer a message to Alti.
She shoves him outside.
Go! Tell her that Xena's coming.
You move directly on Alti, she'll send him after us.
XENA
Whose 'him'?
OTERE
Berserker. He's only the greatest fighter in our
land. He's been given special powers by Alti.
He's killed every warrior he's ever met in combat.
XENA
Is that so? Well, let's get started then.
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He says that-
ALTI
Xena's coming. Do you idiots think I didn't know
that already? I've felt her presence for days. It was
only a matter of time before she looked for me.
(to Koryak) And you were kind enough
to bleed your way back here and leave ever so
nice a trail.
This one's for you, Gabrielle.
The Berserker!
XENA
That's the Berserker?
OTERE
No, that's the Berserker.
Get out of the way!
You all right?
XENA
My legs still feel broken. It doesn't make sense.
The power that was making me relive my past
seemed to be coming from the Berserker, but...
OTERE
But you killed him.
XENA
I know. That should have released me from...
Here.
Alti's spirit was in the horse. She seemed
afraid of you.
XENA
Now maybe, but as we get closer to her stronghold,
she'll get stronger and stronger.
This new power that she has, the one to make
you relive your past...
...it's a toughie.
OTERE
Can we beat her?
XENA
We've got to.
END OF ACT FOUR
STARRING
Lucy Lawless as Xena
Renee O'Connor as Gabrielle
GUEST CAST
Claire Stansfield as Alti
Marton Csokas as Borias
Vicky Pratt as Cyane
Sheeri Rappaport as Otere
Kate Elliott as Yakut
Erik Thomson as Hades
Charlotte Saunders as Anokin
Jay Saussey as Young Woman
Sanelle Vosloo as Young Otere
Ben Baker as Chalcis
Barret Irwin as Warrior
Barry Duffield as Koryak
Teleplay by: R.J. Stewart
Story by: Robert Tapert and R.J. Stewart
Directed by: T.J. Scott
Disclaimer: No Dead Amazons lost their lives during the production of this motion picture.
