THE PATH NOT TAKEN

A couple's joining will bring peace to two feuding families. But they are attacked and the woman carried away. The man seeks help from Xena. She goes off while he and Gabrielle wait behind. She goes to a place well known for its bad guys. There she is reacquainted with Marcus. Meanwhile, Gabby and man go to talk his fiances father out of the idea that he's kidnapped her! (It was really Mazentius: bad guy boss). Xena poses as one of them but soon loses the trust of Mazentius. The next thing we know, Gabrielle and man are chained in stocks! Marcus learns Xena has turned good. She tries to talk him into joining her. He refuses and calls the guards just as she was trying to sneak the girl out of town. But then Marcus dies saving the girl and thereby is on the path to redemption. Xena kills Mazentius and the battle ends. Funeral.