Our favorite duo's relationship deepens after an experience with yet another village hostile to Xena. This is quickly set back when Gabrielle's jealousy bubbles to the surface and Xena wonders if it's best to leave her behind with the Amazons.

Amidst planning for a decisive and rather personal battle against Caesar of Rome, one which her mentor, the God of War assures she will win, the Conqueror must also deal with her growing distrust of a shamaness friend, the straining relationship with her closest companion Marcus and her own unexplainable and cold behavior towards an Amazon Queen that once offered her a home.

Elseworld. Prince Kal-El of Krypton is set to wed his fiancee Kara in one year's time. His mother, however, worries that her son is not showing the normal signs of manhood and virility that is expected of him. To rectify the situation, on his 25th birthday, she gifts him a pleasure slave - a young woman from a recently enslaved tribe of warrior women.