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Gabrielle: "Ares, what's wrong with being a farmer?" |
Ares: "Xena, let's you and I go crazy on Gasgar and his boys. I am talking about slaughter and mayhem."
Xena: "Ares, do you really want to fight every warrior who wants to make a fortune?"
Ares: "Okay, it's getting to be a chore."
Gabrielle: "If we set you up as a farmer, you can come and go as you please."
Ares: "Really?"
Gabrielle: "No one would suspect the God of War to be living on a country farm."
Xena: "Gabrielle and I will stay with you, just until you get the swing of things."
Ares: "Yeah, plantation, some slaves, half a dozen flute playing girls …"
Xena: "Just what I was thinking."
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Xena: [riding up to a very run-down house] … "There it is, just as I remembered it. The Elysian Fields on earth … Come on, come on. Well, this is it." |
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Xena: "Look … [hopping up on the porch] … here. I carved my initial in this pole. Here." |
Xena: "My grandma used to sit in this chair. She'd rock and she'd tell us stories about the Olympian gods."
Ares: "Bet you never thought you'd grow up to kill most of them, did you?"
Xena: [ignoring Ares] … "But wait … the best is yet to come." … [goes inside]
Gabrielle: "Come on."
Gabrielle: "Xena, it's charming."
Xena: "It even smells the way I remember it."
Ares: "I don't want to spoil your waltz down Memory Lane, but Ares ain't living here. Now, you can tell us all about your pastoral childhood on the way back to civilization."
Xena: "Ares, it's a little run-down, but we can fix it."
Ares: "When I was a god, I couldn't have fixed this place."
Gabrielle: [trying with little success to upright a table] … "It's nothing that a little hard work can't put right."
Ares: "See, now you're scaring me."
Xena: "More than a band of cutthroats who are after your blood?"
Ares: "Do I have to answer right away?"
Xena: "Gabrielle, come check out the stove."
Siki: "So, I get the God of War down, and I wouldn't listen to his pleas for mercy. And then I … I cut his throat."
Girl: "What did he look like?"
Siki: "You know, he wasn't as mean looking as everyone says. Kind of a dark, handsome guy dressed all in black with a beard, and he had this gray vest -- oof!"
Gasgar: "You didn't kill anyone, you little pimple. But, you might have seen something. That description of Ares was pretty good."
Siki: "I - I did see him."
Gasgar: "Where?"
Siki: "Outside of Ipeiros. I followed them as far as the Lakawan Valley. Then I lost my nerve."
Gasgar: "What do you mean 'them'? Does he have an army with him?"
Siki: "No, a couple of women."
Gasgar: "Ares always did have a weakness for the ladies. Probably looking for a place to shack up with them. Pass the word. We're headed for the Lakawan Valley."
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Xena: [from inside] … "Ares, hurry up with those rags!" |
Gabrielle: "Has anyone seen that saw I left out here?"
Ares: "Well, don't look at me. I try to touch tools of common labor as little as possible."
Xena: "Well, that's gonna change. Let's go." … [drives Ares inside with a few quick whips of her apron]
Ares: "Not the butt … if that leaves a mark …"
Gabrielle: [still obsessing] … "I know I left the saw on the railing."
Xena: "Alright, Ares, I want you to get up here on the mantelpiece and nail those boards to the ceiling."
Ares: [staring at a very shapely piece of warrior princess ass] … "After you."
Xena: "Ares … come on."
Ares: "Okay, what did you want me to do with the rags?"
Xena: "I wanted you to stuff them in the holes in the outside wall to keep the wind from coming though."
Ares: "I'd rather do that."
Xena: "Alright, what are you looking for?"
Ares: "Okay, I hid the rags. I thought you were going to get me to mop the floor or do some other demeaning job I'd rather die than do."
Gabrielle: "That's strange. I left both my boots out here and now one of them's gone."
Ares: "Okay, where's my wineskin."
Xena: "Something's out there."
Greba: "Excuse me! Hello! My name is Greba. I'm your neighbor."
Xena: "Oh, hi."
Ares: [perking right up] … "Hel-lo."
Greba: "I just came from Ipeiros. There's an army heading toward the valley led by the warlord Gasgar. That Gasgar … he's a bad one. You know what they say his favorite sport is? To take a young, beautiful, helpless maiden and despoil her chastity again and again and again."
Ares: [a little short of breath] … "Oh, the beast."
Xena: "Thanks, Greba."
Greba: "It makes me shudder just thinking about it, being a young widow on my own without a man to take care of my wants and needs, alone in my house over the fence, just over there."
Xena & Gabrielle: "Thank you, Greba."
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Ares: "Hey, drop by again when the news is better. We'll have a glass of wine, swap stories on raising root vegetables." |
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Xena: "Alright, you two take care of the thief, I'm going to talk to Gasgar." … [walks inside to change] |
Demetrius: "Gasgar … Xena's here."
Gasgar: "Xena?"
Xena: "Gasgar, I've come to present you with a little gift."
Gasgar: "What is it?"
Xena: "Ares' head on a platter."
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