Last of the Centaurs
This way. It's not far now.
MORGA
Anyone would think he's in a hurry.
There they are!
EXTRA
Get them!
We're under attack!
This way! Now!
MORGA
Watch out! Behind you!
That's him! That's the one we want!
No.
There's too many of them! Get out of here! Go!
XENAN
No!
Death to the Centaur!
After him! Quick!
Clothes.
GABRIELLE
Yes-s-s-s. Oh, very nice.
XENA
Gabrielle, you'll never buy that.
GABRIELLE
Xena, I'm not buying them. I'm shopping.
XENA
Oh.
Different.
EPHINY (voice-over)
Gabrielle.
GABRIELLE
All right, Xena, I know. It's not me.
EPHINY (voice-over)
As beautiful as ever.
Ephiny? It can't be.
What can't be what?
GABRIELLE
Xena, it's--it's Ephiny.
XENA
No, Ephiny's been dead for years.
GABRIELLE
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.
EPHINY
I missed you, friends. Gabrielle? My son, Xenan - he's
in danger. I need your help.
GABRIELLE
Xenan's in danger?
XENA
She's talking to you?
GABRIELLE
Can't you see her?
XENA
No.
EPHINY
Gabrielle, only you can.
GABRIELLE
Why me?
XENA
Because you're an Amazon. You're bonded through
your Right of Caste.
EPHINY
That's right.
GABRIELLE
How do you know that your son's in danger?
XENA
She can sense it.
TOWN CRIER
Attention, everyone!
EPHINY
Gabrielle, look.
Lord Belach has placed a bounty on the head
of this Centaur.
GABRIELLE
That's Xenan.
Who's putting up this bounty?
TOWN CRIER
Lord Belach.
(to villagers) Have any of you seen this centaur?
Have any of you?
XENA
I think maybe we offer our services to Lord Belach.
TOWN CRIER
Lord Belach has placed a bounty on the head of
this Centaur!
END OF TEASER
ACT ONE
Lord Belach.
LORD BELACH
More bounty hunters, I take it.
Are you all right?
EPHINY
She's staring in the face of her past. This man is
the spitting image of Borias. He was Xena's lover.
LORD BELACH
Well, have you found him?
XENA
Not yet, but we will. What's this Centaur done to
make you want him so badly?
LORD BELACH
That half-man, half-horse monstrosity stole my
daughter, Nicha.
XENA
This place seems pretty well-guarded. How did
he manage that?
LORD BELACH
She was snatched up by that thing and carried away.
XENA
Why would he do a thing like that?
LORD BELACH
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.
EPHINY
You're the animal!
GABRIELLE
Take it easy.
XENA
(whispers) What?
LORD BELACH
Take it easy?! You think you could take it easy if
your child was stolen?!
XENA
No, no, no. Look, pay no attention to her. Your
father was Borias.
LORD BELACH
That name is not to be spoken here.
XENA
I meant no offense.
LORD BELACH
My father was a warlord, a cruel-hearted man.
Everything I have done - everything I have built - all
you see around you has been done despite being
his son.
XENA
And he died when you were a child.
LORD BELACH
How do you know that?
XENA
I've heard the legend. Borias was a hero to the
Centaurs. Using his name might get your daughter
back faster than any needless war.
LORD BELACH
I have let those freaks live on my land for years.
It was a mistake. My wife, Leone, died bringing
Nicha into the world. She's all I have left.
XENA
I'll bring your daughter back.
He came through here, I'm sure of it.
GABRIELLE
Ephiny says that we're on his trail.
XENA
Good. That should put us ahead of the bounty hunters.
GABRIELLE
Xena, if Belach is Borias' son, does that mean
that he's your-
XENA
No. No, Borias had a son before I came along
and that was Lord Belach.
GABRIELLE
There's something about him, Xena. He's dangerous.
XENA
He's grieving.
GABRIELLE
It is Xenan we're supposed to be helping, right?
XENA
Gabrielle, I owe Belach.
EPHINY
My son never would have taken her against her will.
GABRIELLE
I know, Ephiny.
XENA
Belach's daughter was taken by a Centaur. He's
not going to listen to reason 'til he gets her back.
You can't blame him for that.
Xenan...my son. Last time I saw you, you were a
child. Can't you sense that I'm here?
XENAN
Somebody's there.
EPHINY
Yes. It's your mother.
Show yourself!
Xenan, we're here to help. Where's Nicha
XENAN
How do you know my name?
XENA
You were named after me. I'm Xena. I delivered
you at birth.
XENAN
You're not old enough to be Xena.
GABRIELLE
It's a long story, but it's true. I was there, too.
EPHINY
Xenan, they're your friends.
XENA
Belach is after you. Why aren't you with your brothers?
XENAN
That's none of your concern.
EPHINY
Gabrielle, tell him I'm here.
GABRIELLE
All right, Ephiny.
XENAN
Why do you say my mother's name?!
GABRIELLE
Your mother's spirit is here.
XENAN
Can you say anything that doesn't insult my intelligence?!
EPHINY
Gabrielle? Do you know the Amazon lullaby?
GABRIELLE
Yeah. (to Xena) It's okay.
EPHINY
Sing it with me. He'll understand. I changed the
words when I used to sing it to him.
EPHINY
(singing) Moon shines bright.
EPHINY and GABRIELLE
(singing) By fire's light.
Amazon baby, sleep tonight.
XENAN
A lot of people know that song!
EPHINY
(singing) Hush-
(singing) Hush-a-bye.
Please don't cry.
EPHINY
(singing) Xenan sings his lullaby.
GABRIELLE
(singing) Xenan sings his lullaby.
Mother? Are you really here?
EPHINY
I'm here, my love.
She's here. She brought us to you.
XENAN
Nicha Come! They're friends.
This is my Nicha.
ACT TWO
Give me your hand.
It's a boy - a Centaur.
EPHINY
My grandson.
GABRIELLE
How long?
XENA
Any time, right, Nicha?
NICHA
I've been feeling some pains already.
GABRIELLE
Your father didn't mention this. I take it it didn't
slip his mind.
XENAN
He doesn't know.
NICHA
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.
XENA
Your father loves you.
NICHA
I love Xenan and he loves me.
GABRIELLE
We can't take her back now.
XENA
We're gonna have to go back and talk to Lord Belach.
XENAN
Talk? It's gone way past that. Belach has declared
war on all the Centaurs.
XENA
The Centaurs should not be at war with the son
of Borias.
XENAN
Belach is the son of Borias?
XENA
And the blood of Borias is in your son. Where
are your brothers now?
XENAN
Camped in a secret place not far from here.
XENA
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?
XENA
When I met his father, Borias, he was a rising
warlord and me...I was just ambitious.
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It gets lonely at the top.
BORIAS
You push your luck, Xena.
XENA
Always.
Natasha will see us.
XENA
She knows what kind of man she has. Have you
had time to consider my campaign?
BORIAS
Toward the East? I've told you - I can't feed and
transport my army halfway across the world.
XENA
That's why we leave your army and start from
scratch in the East.
BORIAS
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.
XENA
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.
BORIAS
This campaign would take me away from Natasha.
You and I would be together a long time.
XENA
For all time. So, do you wanna live here in squalor,
or ride to glory with me?
BORIAS
How can I decide when I've never ridden with you?
XENA
Giddy-up.
Wait just a minute.
What are you doing?
XENA
I'll be back in a minute.
Word of advice for ya, kid-
-never step between two people and their passion.
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I shamed his mother and stole his father, Gabrielle.
I can't let him lose his daughter as well.
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It's completely devastated.
GABRIELLE
Where are they?
Son of Borias, what have you done?
EPHINY
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.
GABRIELLE
What kind of men could do this?
XENAN
They're gone, every last one. All dead. Belach
will pay for this!
Xenan, you can't risk yourself! Not now!
XENAN
Out of my way!
Whatever my father has done, you have to stay
alive for your son - for me.
XENAN
Then who will see justice done?
XENA
I will.
I see you haven't brought my daughter to me.
XENA
I talked to her.
LORD BELACH
Tell me where she is.
XENA
She is with her husband...mourning his people.
LORD BELACH
Her what?
XENA
Xenan didn't kidnap her. She's carrying his baby.
They're in love, Belach. Do you have any idea what
you have done?
LORD BELACH
What I had to do.
XENA
You're the son of Borias. How could you have
betrayed your father's legacy?!
LORD BELACH
What do you know about my father?
XENA
I know that he defended the Centaurs when they
were betrayed.
LORD BELACH
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!
XENA
Centaurs are a proud and noble race. Your father
knew that.
LORD BELACH
He was an ignorant savage. (to soldiers) Sweep
the land until you find that Centaur! When you do...kill him!
Tip for ya, kid - never step between two people
and their passion.
Wait just a minute.
BORIAS
What are you doing?
XENA
I'll be back in a minute. Word of advice for ya, kid - never
step between two people and their passion.
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You. It can't be.
XENA
It is. Now you're coming with me.
I'm not going anywhere with you.
Guards!
Seize her!
Come here.
After you.
A-l-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-she-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-
e-e-e-e-e-e-e-yah!
Aa-ah.
Yah-h-h-h!
Yah! Hi-i-i-i-i-yah!
EXTRA
Yah!
EXTRA
Yah. Yah.
Stop!
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Hyah!
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Yah-h-h-h-h-h! Yah! Keep up, Belach!
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Yah, yah!
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Ah-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!
Ah-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!
XENA
Nice day for it! Yah!
Yah-h-h-h!
Ah-h-h-h-h-h!
She-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-yah! Aah!
Chi-i-i-i-i-ooh! Yaaaah!
Chi-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-yah!
Hyah!
ACT THREE
Whoa-a-a-a-a!
XENA
Get off.
I suppose I don't need to tell you my name now.
LORD BELACH
Xena - I realized who you were the moment I
heard you say those words. I've always wanted
to meet you again.
XENA
I bet you did.
To say I'm grateful. If you hadn't stolen my father,
I'd be following in his muddy footprints.
XENA
You think you're so very different to him?
LORD BELACH
I am nothing like my father!
XENA
You're right. Your father would never stoop to do
what you've done. He was better than that.
LORD BELACH
Better?! Are we remembering the same man?!
Are we remembering the day you took him from us?!
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Belach? Belach? Belach?
Belach! What happened?!
Hey!
Natassa! Natassa!
What can you say to me?!
Me and your son?!
Uh! Or that whore?! You must choose, Borias!
BORIAS
If you were more of a woman, I wouldn't have
to choose!
Tsk-chk-chk.
Papa!
Hyah! 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.
XENA
You kept it?
LORD BELACH
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.
LORD BELACH
I did what had to be done.
You look again. You look again and you tell me
you feel nothing. Your daughter saw this. Who
would she think is more civilized, you or Borias?
LORD BELACH
Why have you brought me here? Why don't you
just kill me?
XENA
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?
XENA
(whispering firmly) 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.
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Oh!
I-I-I have to stop!
EPHINY
Gabrielle, it is time.
GABRIELLE
We have to get her to shelter.
Down there.
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Nicha, what can I do?
GABRIELLE
Go and keep a lookout. We'll call for you. Go on.
Gabrielle.
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Slow down. Breathe slowly. Come on, sh-h. Slow
down. Slow down. Slow your breathing down.
EPHINY
Sh-h.
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This way.
What am I doing here?! I never should have left!
Xenan!
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Yah-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!
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.
GABRIELLE
You have to stay calm, Nicha.
NICHA
I wanna push!
EPHINY
Not yet. She can't.
GABRIELLE
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.
BOUNTY HUNTER #1
Let's check in here.
EPHINY
Gabrielle, someone's here.
Search that side.
BOUNTY HUNTER #2
They're not here.
Yes, they are.
How close is she?
GABRIELLE
Very.
XENA
Okay, Nicha, we're gonna take good care of you,
I promise.
NICHA
(whispering) 'Kay.
XENA
(whispering) Gabrielle, I'm gonna make an incision.
Make this as clean as you can.
GABRIELLE
Why are they hunting us?
Did you stop Belach?
XENA
I took him back to the Centaur camp. I thought if
I could show him what he'd done...
GABRIELLE
Did you get through to him? Xena, you should'a
killed him.
XENA
Gabrielle, I couldn't. He's Borias' son, her father.
GABRIELLE
He slaughtered the Centaurs, and he won't
stop until he kills Xenan.
NICHA
Xenan! Where are you?! I need you!
GABRIELLE
Did you see Xenan out there?
XENA
No. Nicha 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.
XENA
Yes.
There he is. Oh. Oh.
It's okay.
Oh, it's beautiful. Oh-h-h-h.
EPHINY
Is that my grandson? He's perfect.
He's beautiful, Nicha.
GABRIELLE
I'll give her stitches.
(can be heard shouting from outside) Xena?!
GABRIELLE
It's so new.
Even trade, Xena! I've got the Centaur!
Give me my daughter!
ACT FOUR
Not another step! Or we'll snap his neck! Give
me my daughter and I'll spare the Centaur!
XENA
I've got a better idea. Give me the Centaur and
I'll spare you.
LORD BELACH
Yah-h-h-h! Kill him!
XENA
Ah-h-h-h-h!
Attack her!
Hi-i-yah!
EXTRA
Kill her.
LORD BELACH
Forward!
Ah-h-h-h-h-h-h!
Xenan! Get Nicha and the baby and get outta here!
I'll hold 'em.
Attack!
My boy.
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They have reinforcements. Xena needs help.
GABRIELLE
(to Xenan) You have to get out of here. Be careful.
She's weak.
She-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-yah!
EXTRA
Come on!
A-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-she-yah!
Nicha, we have to go.
NICHA
My father and Xena, they could kill each other
because of us!
XENAN
There's nothing we can do about it! We have
to survive!
NICHA
For what? What future can we give our son?
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You know what you have to do, Xena.
XENA
We'll see.
Fi-i-i-i-i-ire!
XENA
A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ah!
No-o-o-o! Stop it!
Nicha?!
NICHA
Stop it, now!
LORD BELACH
Nicha, get away from him! Come here! You don't
belong with him! Not with his kind!
XENAN
You'll have to kill me first.
NICHA
No! Can't you see?! I love him! The way that you
loved my mother!
LORD BELACH
You don't know what love is!
GABRIELLE
You have to do it, Xena.
I will kill you, Belach.
LORD BELACH
I'm prepared to die for my child.
XENA
Your father was the same.
LORD BELACH
When was my father ever willing-
XENA
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.
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Kill 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 armies 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-h! Boria-a-a-a-as!
SATRINA
It's your son, Xena. Come on! We have to go!
Come on, Xena!
BORIAS
M-m-my...s--son.
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Borias died tryin' to change what he'd become.
That was the real story your father. How will your
story end, Belach?
EXTRA
Over there!
There they are!
EXTRA
Surround them!
XENA
It's up to you now, Belach. Do you want your
daughter to hate you the same way you hated
your father? The killing can end here Belach, or...
LORD BELACH
(whispeing) No.
No!
This is over. She belongs with him!
Forgive me, Nicha.
Give this...to your son. When he is old enough
to understand tell him-
NICHA
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.
NICHA
It's beautiful.
EPHINY
Gabrielle? Please, let me appear to my son.
GABRIELLE
How?
EPHINY
I can be in your body for just a few moments.
Just clear your mind.
Mother.
EPHINY
I've been trying and trying to talk to you, but now
I don't know what to say.
XENAN
You don't have to say anything.
Borias.
(sings) Moon shines bright
Like fire's light.
(sings) Amazon baby, sleep tonight.
Hush-a-bye.
Please don't cry.
I have to leave, now. Xenan...I will always be there.
You won't see me, but I'll be there.
XENAN
I have a feeling I'll know when you are.
We'll miss her.
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Xena, I'm glad you didn't kill Belach.
XENA
Oh, now you're glad.
GABRIELLE
You know? Different roads lead to the same place.
XENA
That's very wise. Only on your road he'd be dead.
GABRIELLE
(chuckles) Right. I can be wise, sometimes.
XENA
Yeah, right.
GABRIELLE
I can, really.
XENA
Yeah. I'm agreeing with you...as always.
STARRING
Lucy Lawless as Xena
Renee O'Connor as Gabrielle
GUEST CAST
Danielle Cormack as Ephiny
Marton Csokas as Borias
Marton Csokas as Lord Belach
Hamish Hector as Xenan
Katrina Devine as Nicha
Margaret-Mary Hollins as Madra
Peter Muller as Lars
Kim Michalis as Natassa
Michelle Blanchard as Mawu-ka
Michael Edward as Morga
Jacob Rutene as Young Belach
Steve Hall as Bounty Hunter #1
Roi Taimana as Bounty Hunter #2
Stephen Handisides as Soldier #1
Richard Thompson as Soldier #2
Bruce Burfield as Town Crier
Written by: Joel Metzger
Directed by: Garth Maxwell
Disclaimer: The Centaur population was severely harmed during the making of this motion picture.
