The Furies, at Ares' instigation, condemn Xena to persecution and madness for failure to avenge the murder of her father. As Xena descends into madness, Gabrielle is her only grip on reality. Xena must convince the Furies that Ares' charge is untrue.

Xena lives again and again the same day, until she finds the way to stop a carnage. It seems that Gabrielle leaves some strange love marks on Xena's neck. The main characters die a few times: Xena once, Gabrielle a pair of times, Joxer at least thrice (once by Xena's Chakram).

Ares steals the secret of the powerful Hephaestus' metal and gives it to a proud warlord, Agathon. Xena decides to recruit four assassins she trained, now about to be executed, who will have the second chance to start a new life, the same that she had.

Xena travels to Britannia to assist her former ally Boadicea in her rebellion against Caesar. Gabrielle travels with her and makes a new friend, Khrafstar, who tells her about his one god. However, Gabrielle doesn't know that this journey will change her life forever.

Gabrielle is haunted by having killed, and told by banshees that she is carrying the "Child of Darkness."

Xena is asked to come to the far kingdom of Chin to kill a person. She decides to do it, although Gabrielle doesn't understand why Xena is going to give up the last years she has dedicated to the Greater Good and become a murderer again. While they're travelling, Xena tells Gabrielle a story of her past which would explain what she is going to do.

After being betrayed by Gabrielle, Xena is carried to the Green Dragon's prison, where she'll wait her execution. There she continues remembering the days she spent with Lao Ma, and the chance she gave her to change her life.

Joxer's identical brother Jett, a cold-blooded assassin, is planning to assassinate Cleopatra, but Gabrielle, Autolycus, and Joxer intend to stop him.

Someone is trying to harm the Hestian high priestess Leah, who happens to be yet another Xena look-alike, and substitutes Meg for the priestess. Xena takes over to figure out the puzzle and save Leah.

When a miffed Aphrodite casts a charm on Gabrielle's scroll so that anything she writes comes true, she is delighted at the chance to do good -- and astonished when her acts leads to unintended consequences.

Xena and Gabrielle travel to the centaurs' lands to celebrate a treaty and visit Solan. However, Hope's back, now as a young girl, and she frees Callisto from the lava pit.

Xena and Gabrielle face their anger and deceptions in an odd in-between world, guided by Solan, Xena's son. This is the first musical episode of Xena: Warrior Princess to feature its own original soundtrack.

When the Persian army lands, intending to capture Greece, they expect easy pickings -- but Xena and an injured Gabrielle are in their way.

When the Urn of Apollo is stolen from his temple, Xena and Gabrielle go after it, with the dubious help of Tara, a gang girl who wants to replace Gabrielle as Xena's sidekick.

Joxer's wins at a gambling palace set him up for a con and then a beating. Xena drafts the con artists to avenge the beating, with their less-than-wholehearted cooperation.

When Julius Caesar captures Vercinix, Xena captures Crassus to trade for him. But Crassus plays with Gabrielle's head during the trip, leading her to doubt Xena's motives and judgment.

Tortured by the things she has done and suffered in the last months, Gabrielle decides to come to the temple of Mnemosine, the Goddess of Memory, where she could forgive all these memories. However, it has a price: she would also have to renounce to good memories - including Xena.

Aphrodite sends her pet thugs with a stolen diamond to her temple at Parnassus, and distracts the pursuers -- Xena, Gabrielle, and Joxer -- with a potion that makes them obsess about whatever they were thinking when they smell it.

Gabrielle discovers Autolycus is embarking in a ship of slaves and she and Xena find themselves travelling with him. But everything changes when a giant wave provoked by the eruption of Mount Etna makes the ship sink and they must find a way to get out the ship and survive.

When an enormous statue commemorating Peace is stolen from a seaside village, Autolycus fears the loss of his title of King of Thieves and recruits Xena to help him steal it back.

One of Gabrielle's friends, Seraphin, is about to be sacrificed to a goddess. Xena and Gabrielle assume the goddess is Callisto and stop the sacrifice, but Seraphin tells them she wants to die to bring the Goddess to the world. Then Xena realizes the new goddess is Hope, whose rebirth would be one of the steps of Dahak's entrance in the world.

Hope has emerged from her cocoon and he looks exactly like Gabrielle. She prepares with Ares the sacrifice which will bring Dahak into our world, but Callisto gets bored of her and joins Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer to kill her, on condition that Xena kills her too so that there will be no afterlife for her.