HOOVES AND HARLOTS

Meet the Amazons! Xena and Gabrielle, seeking safe passage, are brought to Queen Melosa. On their way, they are all attacked and Gabrielle is given a rite of cast for trying to save a life. Now she's an Amazon Princess! There is threat of war with the centaurs over hunting grounds. Gabrielle is taught the Amazon way. The use of a staff as a weapon makes its first real debut. Xena thinks someone else is causing the Amazon/centaur feud...a warlord. Gabrielle learns that she is supposed to carry out the death sentence with the sword of the victim. She must kill! Xena speaks with the warlord and discovers there is a centaur on the inside. Just in time, she proves that the accused is not the murderer. Melosa is not convinced, so Xena challenges her in a fight to the death. Xena's the new queen and leaves Melosa alive. Also, there will be no execution. Then the centaurs show up and the mole is uncovered. They join forces against the warlord and win.