THE DIRTY HALF DOZEN

An army is destroyed with Ares' new weapons and armor -made from an impenetrable metal. Elsewhere, Xena keeps a man from being executed. She seeks his assistance in going up against Ares. But he's not the only one. Xena breaks into a prison to recruit another three -two men and a woman. Soon, the gang wards of a band of these armed men whose head warlord is called Agathon. We learn that Agathon is now out to kill Xena. X & G have a heart to heart and Gabby questions the power of Xena's influence. She wonders if she would have been influenced for bad if she'd met Xena beforehand. (Xena had changed their recruits for evil once upon a time.) "Am I really who I am or am I what you made me?" Later, one of the men turns on Xena and gets killed for it. Ares appears and warns Xena that if she attacks, Agathon is going to kill her; he's promised to not intervene. But Xena invades the castle where Agathon is working anyway. Suddenly, Xena is captured and we understand that her new team has betrayed her! (Well, everyone except for the woman.) While behind bars, Xena wonders if it'd been herself who would have changed had she met Gabrielle sooner, thereby questioning the power of Gabrielle's influence. Soon, we learn that the "capture" was part of the plan! (Although one of the guys actually did turn on them.) They are helped out of prison. A fight! Xena and Agathon have a showdown. Xena wins! They blow up the castle.... The woman and the one man left head east together. And Xena concludes that "nobody made you who you are; it was already there. Question is who would I be without you?"