"Last of the Centaurs" Episode 132/617
[TEASER]
Xenan [Xen]: "This way. It's not far, now."
A Centaur: "Anyone would think he's in a hurry."
Man: "Get them!"
3rd Centaur: "We're under attack!"
Man's Voice: "This way! Now!"
A Centaur: "Watch out! Behind you!"
Man: "That's him! That's the one we want!"
A Centaur: "There's too many of them! Get out of here! Go!"
Xen: "No!"
Men's Voices: "Death to the Centaur!" "After him! Quick!"
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X: "Clothes."
G: "Yes-s-s-s. Oh-- very nice."
X: "Gabrielle, you'll never buy that."
G: "Xena, I'm not buying them. I'm shopping."
X: "Oh."
G: "Different."
Ephiny [Eph]'s Voice: "Gabrielle."
G: "All right, Xena, I know-- it's not me."
Eph's Voice: "As beautiful as ever."
G: "Ephiny? It can't be."
X: "What can't be what?"
G: "Xena, it's-it's Ephiny."
X: "No, Ephiny's been dead for years."
G: "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."
X: "Ephiny? We've missed you."
Eph: "I missed you, friends. Gabrielle? My son, Xenan-- he's
in danger. I need your help."
G: "Xenan's in danger?"
X: "She's talking to you?"
G: "Can't you see her?"
X: "No."
Eph: "Gabrielle, only you can."
G: "Why me?"
X: "Because you're an Amazon. You're bonded through your right
of caste."
Eph: "That's right."
G: "How do you know that your son's in danger?"
X: "She can sense it."
Man: "Attention, everyone!"
Eph: "Gabrielle, look."
Man: "Lord Belach has placed a bounty on the head of this
Centaur."
G: "That's Xenan."
X: "Who's putting up this bounty?"
Man: "Lord Belach."
X: "I think maybe we offer our services to Lord Belach."
Man: "Lord Belach has placed a bounty on the head of this
Centaur!"
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[ACT I]
Warrior: "Lord Belach."
Belach [Bel]: "More bounty hunters, I take it."
G: "Are you all right?"
Eph: "She's staring in the face of her past. This man is the
spitting image of Borias. He was Xena's lover."
Bel: "Well, have you found him?"
X: "Not yet, but we will. What's this Centaur done to make you
want him so badly?"
Bel: "That half-man-- half-horse-- monstrosity stole my
daughter, Nika."
X: "This place seems pretty well-guarded. How did he manage
that?"
Bel: "She was snatched up by that thing and carried away."
X: "Why would he do a thing like that?"
Bel: "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."
Eph: "You're the animal!"
G: "Take it easy."
X: "What?"
Bel: "Take it easy?! You think you could take it easy if your
child was stolen?!"
X: "No, no, no. Look, pay no attention to her. Your father--
was Borias."
Bel: "That name-- is not to be spoken here."
X: "I meant no offense."
Bel: "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."
X: "And he died when you were a child."
Bel: "How do you know that?"
X: "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."
Bel: "I have let those-- freaks-- live on my land for years. It
was a mistake. My wife-- Leone-- died bringing Nika into the
world. She's all I have left."
X: "I'll bring your daughter back."
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Eph: "He came through here-- I'm sure of it."
G: "Ephiny says that we're on his trail."
X: "Good. That should put us ahead of the bounty hunters."
G: "Xena-- if Belach is Borias' son, does that mean that he's
your-- ?"
X: "No-- no, Borias had a son before I came along-- and that was
Lord Belach."
G: "There's something about him, Xena. He's dangerous."
X: "He's grieving."
G: "It _is_ Xenan we're supposed to be helping, right?"
X: "Gabrielle-- I _owe_ Belach."
Eph: "My son never would have taken her against her will."
G: "I know, Ephiny."
X: "Belach's daughter was taken by a Centaur. He's not going to
listen to reason till he gets her back. You can't blame him for
that."
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Eph: "Xenan-- my son. Last time I saw you, you were-- a child.
Can't you sense that I'm here?"
Xen: "Somebody's there."
Eph: "Yes-- it's your mother."
Xen: "Show yourself!"
X: "Xenan-- we're here to help. Where's Nika?"
Xen: "How do you know my name?"
X: "You were named after me. I'm Xena. I delivered you at
birth."
Xen: "You're not old enough to be Xena."
G: "It's a long story-- but it's true. I was there, too."
Eph: "Xenan-- they're your friends."
X: "Belach is after you. Why aren't you with your brothers?"
Xen: "That's none of your concern."
Eph: "Gabrielle, tell him I'm here."
G: "All right, Ephiny."
Xen: "Why do you say my mother's name?!"
G: "Your mother's spirit-- is here."
Xen: "Can you say anything that doesn't insult my
intelligence?!"
Eph: "Gabrielle? Do you know the Amazon lullaby?"
G: "Yeah-- it's OK."
Eph: "Sing it with me. He'll understand. I changed the words
when I used to sing it to him."
Eph and G [Sing]: "Moon shines bright
By fire's light.
Amazon baby, sleep tonight."
Xen: "A lot of people know that song!"
Eph and G [Sing]: "Hush-- hush-a-bye.
Please don't cry.
Xenan sings his lullaby.
Xenan sings his lullaby."
Xen: "Mother? Are you really here?"
Eph: "I'm here, my love."
G: "She's here. She brought us to you."
Xen: "Nika! Come! They're friends. This is my Nika."
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[ACT II]
X: "Give me your hand. It's a boy-- a Centaur."
Eph: "My grandson."
G: "How long?"
X: "Any time-- right, Nika?"
Nika [Nik]: "I've been feeling some pains already."
G: "Your father didn't mention this. I take it it didn't slip
his mind."
Xen: "He doesn't know."
Nik: "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."
X: "Your father loves you."
Nik: "I love Xenan-- and he loves me."
G's Voice: "We can't take her back now."
X: "We're gonna have to go back and talk to Lord Belach."
Xen: "Talk? It's gone way past that. Belach has declared war
on all the Centaurs."
X: "The Centaurs should not be at war with the son of Borias."
Xen: "Belach is the son of Borias?"
X: "And the blood of Borias is in your son. Where are your
brothers now?"
Xen: "Camped in a secret place not far from here."
X: "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."
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G: "I don't understand, Xena-- you owe Belach for what?"
X: "When I met his father, Borias-- he was a rising warlord--
and me-- I was just ambitious."
[Flashback]
X: "It gets lonely at the top."
Borias [Bor]: "You push your luck, Xena."
X: "Always."
Bor: "Natasha will see us."
X: "She knows what kind of man she has. Have you had time to
consider my campaign?"
Bor: "Toward the East? I've told you-- I can't feed and
transport my army halfway across the world."
X: "That's why we leave your army and start from scratch in the
East."
Bor: "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."
X: "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."
Bor: "This campaign would take me away from Natasha. You and I
would be together a long time."
X: "For all time. So, do you wanna live here in squalor-- or
ride to glory with me?"
Bor: "How can I decide when I've never ridden with you?"
X: "Giddy-up."
X: Wait just a minute."
Bor: "What are you doing?"
X: "I'll be back in a minute. Word of advice for ya, kid--
never step between two people and their passion."
[Present]
X: "I shamed his mother and stole his father, Gabrielle. I
can't let him lose his daughter as well."
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Eph: "It's completely devastated."
G: "Where are they?"
X: "Son of Borias, what have you done?"
Eph's Voice: "This was prophecy."
Eph: "I haven't changed anything."
X: "Belach's men must have encircled your brothers and driven
them into this pit. There was no escape."
G's Voice: "What kind of man could do this?"
Xen: "They're gone-- every last one. All dead! Belach will pay
for this!"
G: "Xenan, you can't risk yourself! Not now!"
Xen: "Out of my way!
Nik: "Whatever my father has done, you have to stay alive for
your son-- for me."
Xen: "Then who will see justice done?"
X: "I will."
Bel: [Sobs]
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Bel: "Get 'em! I see you haven't brought my daughter to me."
X: "I talked to her."
Bel: "Tell me where she is."
X: "She is with her husband-- mourning his people."
Bel: "Her what?"
X: "Xenan didn't kidnap her. She's carrying his baby. They're
in love, Belach. Do you have any idea what you have done?"
Bel: "What I had to do."
X: "You're the son of Borias. How could you have betrayed your
father's legacy?!"
Bel: "What do you know about my father."
X: "I know that he defended the Centaurs when _they_ were
betrayed."
Bel: "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!"
X: "Centaurs are a proud and noble race. Your father knew
that."
Bel: "He was an ignorant savage. Sweep the land until you find
that Centaur! When you do-- kill him!"
X: "Tip for ya, kid-- never step between two people and their
passion."
[Flashback]
X: Wait just a minute."
Bor: "What are you doing?"
X: "I'll be back in a minute. Word of advice for ya, kid--
never step between two people and their passion."
[Present]
Bel: "You-- it can't be."
X: "It is-- now you're coming with me."
Bel: "I'm not going anywhere with you. Guards! Seize her!"
[Fight]
X: "Come here. After you."
Bel: [Screams]
X: "Aa-a-a-a-a-ah! Come on! Yah-h-h-h!"
Guards: "To the horses!" "Come on!" "Yah!" "Yah-h-h-h-h!"
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Bel: "Stop!"
Guards: "Hyah!"
X: "Yah-h-h-h-h-h! Yah! Keep up, Belach!
Ah-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!"
Bel: "Ah-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!"
X: "Nice day for it! Yah-h-h-h! Yah-h-h-h-h-h-h!
Ah-h-h-h-h-h-h-h! Get on!"
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[ACT III]
Bel: "Whoa-a-a-a-a!"
X: "Get off. I suppose I don't need to tell you my name now."
Bel: "Xena-- I realized who you were the moment I heard you say
those words. I've always wanted to meet you again."
X: "I bet you did."
Bel: "To say I'm grateful. If you hadn't stolen my father, I'd
be following in his muddy footprints."
X: "You think you're so very different to him?"
Bel: "I am nothing like my father!"
X: "You're right. Your father would never stoop to do what
you've done. He was better than that."
Bel: "Better?! Are we remembering the same man?! Are we
remembering the day you took him from us?!"
[Flashback]
Natasha [Nat]: "Belach? Belach? Belach? Belach! What
happened?!"
Bor: [Laughs]
Bor: "Natasha! Natasha!"
Nat: "What can you say to me?! Me and your son?! Uh! Or that
whore?! You must choose, Borias!"
Bor: "If you were more of a woman, I wouldn't have to choose!"
X: "Tsk-chk-chk."
Bor: "Sah!"
Bel: "Papa!"
X: "Hyah! Yah! Get on!"
[Present]
Bel: "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."
X: "You kept it?"
Bel: "Not for sentimental reasons, I can assure you-- only to
remind me of what scum he was and how far I've come!"
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X: "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."
Bel: "I did what had to be done."
X: "You look again. You look again and you tell me you feel
nothing. If your daughter saw this-- who would she think is more
civilized, you or Borias?"
Bel: "Why have you brought me here? Why don't you just kill
me?"
X: "I might yet."
Bel: "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?"
X [Mouths]: "No. [Normal Voice] 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. [Whistles] Yah!
Yah!"
Man: "Lord Belach! She went through there. We can pick up her
trail."
2nd Man: "Lord Belach? Lord Belach."
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Nik: "Oh! I-I-I have to stop!"
Eph: "Gabrielle, it is time."
G: "We have to get her to shelter. Down there."
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Xen: "Nika-- what can I do?"
G: "Go and keep a lookout. We'll call for you. Go on."
Eph: "Gabrielle."
G: "Slow down. Breathe slowly. Come on, sh-h. Slow down.
Slow down. Slow your breathing down."
Eph's Voice "Sh-h."
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Man's Voice: "This way."
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Nik: "What am I doing here?! I never should have left! Xenan!"
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Xen: "Yah-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!"
Men: "There! Come on!" "He's getting away!"
Bounty-Hunter [B-H] 1: "Let _them_ have the Centaur. Why settle
for a bounty? Belach-- will pay a _ransom_ for his daughter."
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Eph's Voice: "Keep talking to her. That's good."
G: "You have to stay calm, Nika."
Nik: "I wanna push!"
Eph: "Not yet. She can't."
G: "You can't push. Breathe with me. Just stay with me.
Breathe slow. Breathe with me."
Eph: "That's it, Gabrielle. Just keep talking to her. Calm
her."
B-H 1's Voice: "Let's check in here."
Eph: "Gabrielle-- someone's here."
B-H 1: "Search that side."
B-H 2: "They're not here."
B-H 1: "Yes, they are."
[Fight]
X: "How close is she?"
G: "Very."
X: "OK, Nika-- we're gonna take good care of you, I promise."
Nik: "'K."
X: "Gabrielle, I'm gonna make an incision. Make this as clean
as you can."
G: "Why are they hunting us? Did you stop Belach?"
X: "I took him back to the Centaur camp. I thought if I could
show him what he'd done-- "
G: "Did you get through to him? Xena, you should'a killed him."
X: "Gabrielle-- I couldn't. He's Borias' son, her father."
G: "He slaughtered the Centaurs, and he won't stop until he
kills Xenan."
Nik: "Xenan! Where are you?! I need you!"
G: "Did you see Xenan out there?"
X: "No. Nika? I'm gonna take away your pain now-- and
everything is gonna be just fine. [Mouths] All right? [Normal
Voice] OK? All right? Good. OK."
G: "Stay with us. You're doing so well. Stay with us."
X's Voice: "Yes. There he is. Oh-- oh."
X: "It's OK. Oh, it's beautiful. Oh-h-h-h."
Eph: "Is that my grandson? He's perfect."
X: "He's beautiful, Nika."
G: "I'll give her stitches."
Bel's Voice: "Xena?!"
G's Voice: "It's so new."
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Bel: "Even trade, Xena! I've got the Centaur! Give me my
daughter!"
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[ACT IV]
Bel: "Not another step! Or we'll snap his neck! Give me my
daughter-- and I'll spare the Centaur!"
X: "I've got a better idea-- give me the Centaur and I'll spare
you."
Bel: "Yah-h-h-h! Kill him!"
X: "Ah-h-h-h-h!"
Bel: "Attack her!"
[Fight]
Bel: "Forward! Ah-h-h-h-h-h-h!"
X: "Xenan! Get Nika and the baby and get outta here! I'll hold
'em."
Bel: "Dah-h-h-h-h!"
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Xen [Sighs]: "My boy."
Eph: "They have reinforcements. Xena needs help."
G: "You have to get out of here. Be careful-- she's weak."
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[Fight]
Warrior's Voice: "Come on!"
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Xen: "Nika, we have to go."
Nik: "My father and Xena-- they could kill each other because of
us!"
Xen: "There's nothing we can do about it! We have to survive!"
Nik: "For what? What future can we give our son?"
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[Fight]
G: "You know what you have to do, Xena."
X: "We'll see."
Bel: "Fi-i-i-i-i-ire!"
Nik: "No-o-o-o! Stop it!"
Bel: "Nika?!"
Nik: "Stop it, now!"
Bel: "Nika, get away from him! Come here! You don't belong
with him! Not with his kind!"
Xen: "You'll have to kill me first."
Nik: "No! Can't you see?! I love him! The way that you loved
my mother!"
Bel: "You don't know what love is!"
G: "You have to do it, Xena."
X: "I will kill you, Belach."
Bel: "I'm prepared to die for my child."
X: "Your father was the same."
Bel: "When was my father ever willing-- ?!"
X [Interrupts]: "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."
[Flashback, with Xena narrating]
X: "Kill him."
[Fight]
X [Narrates]: "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."
X: "Ah-h! Boria-a-a-a-as!"
Sat: "It's your son, Xena. Come on! We have to go! Come on,
Xena!"
Bor: "My-- son."
[Present]
X: "Borias died tryin' to change what he'd become. That was the
real story your father. How will your story end, Belach?"
Men's Voices: "Over there!" "There they are!" "Surround them!"
X: "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-- "
Bel [Whispers]: "No. [Normal Voice] No! This is over. She
belongs with him! Forgive me, Nika. Give this-- to your son.
When he is old enough to understand-- tell him-- "
Nik: "No-- when the time comes-- you tell him. We have given
him a name-- Borias."
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Bel: "This was your mother's land. Your family can live here in
safety and peace."
Nik: "It's beautiful."
Eph: "Gabrielle? Please, let me appear to my son."
G: "How?"
Eph: "I can be in your body for just a few moments. Just clear
your mind."
Xen: "Mother."
Eph: "I've been-- trying-- and trying to talk to you-- but-- now
I don't know what to say."
Xen: "You don't have to say anything."
Eph: "Borias.
[Sings]: Moon shines bright
Like fire's light.
Amazon baby, sleep tonight.
Hush-a-bye.
Please don't cry.
[Speaks] I have to leave, now. Xenan-- I will always be there.
You won't see me-- but I'll be there."
Xen: "I have a feeling I'll know when you are."
G: "We'll miss her."
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G: "Xena, I'm glad you didn't kill Belach."
X: "Oh, now you're glad."
G: "You know? Different roads lead to the same place."
X: "That's very wise-- only on _your_ road-- he'd be dead."
G [Chuckles]: "Right. I _can_ be wise, sometimes."
X: "Yeah, right."
G: "I can-- really."
X: "Yeah. I'm agreeing with you-- as always."
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