Episode 128 season 6 #16 “Send in The Clones"
ACT IV
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Mac: "But why?"
Alti: "Well... I'd spent countless incarnations enjoying the fact that Xena's reputation as a do-gooder was lost for eternity. After she died I hid the scrolls. And I thought I could just sit back and enjoy the unchecked evolution of evil on Earth. It's really hit a few high points in the last century. But then this hideous TV show starts celebrating her as a defender of righteousness. Well, we'll see how long that reputation lasts."
(The TV screen switches channels to show a local TV reporter with a special bulletin.)
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Reporter: "Reports are flooding in of a reign of terror sweeping through the downtown area. A woman dressed like the television character, Xena, Warrior Princess, has broken into the city jail and freed another woman dressed as Gabrielle-- the Warrior Princess' sidekick."
(A bottle blonde takes exception to that characterization!)
Lea: "She's plenty more than just a sidekick."
Reporter: [Interrupts] "Our cameras are trying to catch up with the rampaging abductee..."
Polly: [Interrupts Lea] "Would you give that stuff a rest?"
Reporter: "... but witnesses are shaken."
Cop on TV: (Obviously NOT a fan of the show) "We got concussions. We got broken bones. We got blood on the floor. Crazy chick, she's got the strangest damn round weapon, kind of like a frisbee."
Reporter: "The public is warned that this woman is armed and highly dangerous, and should not be approached under any circumstances."
Alti: "I couldn't have written it better myself."
Lea: "You cloned an evil Xena to discredit her."
Alti: "Ah, you catch on fast."
Reporter: "Eyewitnesses describe her leaping from car to car leading to high-speed collisions and multiple pile-ups."
Alti: "Xena wasn't always an angel in the early days-- "
Reporter's Voice: "-- state and local--"
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Alti: "-- but she gets 22 episodes of a TV show, and everyone thinks she's a great hero. Well, they'll soon know the real truth."
Reporter: "Swat teams have been mobilized."
Alti: "And once she's alienated herself from everything good, decent, she'll follow me and together we'll rule the world. [Chuckles to herself before turning to the Xenite trio.] Let's go."
(As the trio run ahead of her, out of the lab, they start to "turn" on each other.)
Polly's Voice: "Why didn't you try to stop her?!"
Mac: "You stop her! Ah-h!"
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Reporter: "Lawlessness." (Unintended pun? On THIS show??? I think NOT!!!)
Edwin B. Stalter Animal Enthusiast AKA Surfer Dude: "OK, well, I was just like, uh watchin' my giraffes and, uh and then Xena turns up, and it's like it's her, man, it's [BLEEP]ing her! And it's like there's cops all over the place, you know? And but Xena's just like Whee-ha! And then she's like H'yah! You know? She totally [BLEEP]ing deals with the heat, man. But then she just... jumps the fence... lands on the back of this crazy-ass, like, horse. She's [BLEEP]ing gone. It was awesome, man. You know, Xena's-- hot, too, you know?"(REALLY?)
The TV bulletin ends, and we find ourselves in an auto junkyard. Men are running for their lives. Soon we see Xena under welding goggles, burnishing a weapon. Gabby runs up to her.
This next exchange between Xena and Gabrielle in the junkyard can be seen in its full length here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--TNcvKoSkc&feature=related
I just hope that, like Lucy, you can speak German!
Gabrielle: (Fingers stuck in her ears for protection from the power sander's noise) "What is that?!"
Xena: (She's in the ZONE, man!) "What?!"
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Gabrielle: "What are you doing?!"
Xena: (Stops the sander, and flips up her goggles to examine her work.) "I'm making me some new weapons." (She reaches down and pulls a police pistol from her right boot and points it away from Gabrielle) "These things are hopeless in hand-to-hand combat--" (She pulls the trigger and the gun fires, before she throws it dismissively over her shoulder where it FIRES AGAIN much to Gabrielle's and the junkyard cat's displeasure.)
Cat: [Screeches]
Xena: "See what I mean? And these?" (She picks up the resin sword that came with her Xena costume) "...merely toys."
Gabrielle: "Xena-- you could have killed someone at the city dungeon."
Xena: "They had you locked up. What did you want to do? Rot there the rest of your life?"
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Gabrielle: "You know, we can't just w-- "
Xena [Interrupts]: "If they want trouble-- they're gonna get it."
Suddenly, a familiar red Pontiac Firebird comes screeching into the junkyard, with three frightened Xenites huddled together in the back seat. A wrathful Alti hops out of the car and goes for Xena.
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Alti: "I hear you've been busy, Xena."
Xena: (Remember, its the first time OUR girls have truly seen her.) "Alti"
Alti: "Missed your fire-- your fury."
Gabrielle: "Don't listen to her."
Xena: "Huh?"
Alti: "Remember what we used to have, Xena?"
[[Alti: "Help me-- and I'll make you-- the `Destroyer of Nations'."
Xena: "All right, I delivered."
Alti: "You did, indeed."
Xena: "I am the `Destroyer of Nations'."]]"
Alti: "Remember the thrill of conquest-- you had, hm-m-m? Before she came into your life?"
[[Horse-chasing scene from The Rheingold]]
Gabrielle: "Don't listen to her."
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Alti: "Doesn't her little voice remind you of her betrayal?"
[[Scene from the Debt I, when Xena finds Gabby in Ming Tein's bed (alone)
Gabrielle: "I'm sorry, Xena. I couldn't let you do this."]]
Alti: "What her lies did to your son."
Xena: "My son."
[[Xena has just found her son, poisoned by Gabby's daughter.
Xena: "Solon? Solon? Hey-- hey, Solon. Solon."
Gabrielle: "Xena? No. No. No."
Xena: "Get out."
Gabrielle "Xena-- "
Xena: "Go! Solon. Solon-- please. I'm here, now. Your mom is here now-- just like you always wanted." [Xena screams]]
Alti: "And how much you enjoyed avenging that deed, huh?"
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[[ Gabrielle: "Xena!
The full Gab drag from The Bitter suite. The one where Xena had to ride another horse, since EVERYONE KNOWS Argo would NOT have done THAT to Gabrielle! At the end, Xena stands next to the cliff, holding Gabby high, ready to toss her over, when she screams...
Xena: "Vengeance!"]]
Xena: (All we see is HATE in Xena's eyes as she looks at Gabrielle in the junkyard) "Why did you bring her back?"
Alti: (Alti walks around Xena and Gabrielle, until she can position herself to push Gabby back into Xena's chest. Xena is fuming, Gabby looks worried.) "Well-- consider her my gift to you, Xena." (Xena is furious, as she looks down at the blonde)
Gabrielle: [Worry not, she's now close enough to whisper face to face] "Xena... Xena, you weren't like this in the end. Think of what we accomplished. Think of the good that we did for the world."
Flashbacks show Xena saving various little girls from various explosions and arrows.
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Xena: [Whispers like a lost child] "Gabrielle."
Gabrielle: (Her voice is a lifeline, thrown to a soul foundering in the ocean of loneliness and doubt) "Xena, the good that we did for each other."
[[How many can YOU identify, Xenite?
1)Gabrielle: "After all we've been through? I am with you till the end."
2)Xena: "When I reach down inside myself and do things that I'm not capable of, it's because of you."
3)Xena: "You talk about trying to find your way, but to me, you are my way."
4)Xena: "I'm sorry for all the times I didn't treat you right."
Gabrielle: "Xena-- you've brought out the best in me. You saved me, Xena."
5) Gabrielle: "But I'm a part of you. I want it to be like that forever. I love you."
6)Xena: "You are the best thing that ever happened to me. You gave my life meaning and joy. You will be a part of me forever."]]
Xena suddenly growls and reaches for Gabrielle but NOT to fight her! She throws Gabrielle to the side so she can attack ALTI! As the fight erupts between Xena with her new sword, and Alti and a handy CROWBAR, Gabrielle gets away and goes after the trio now hiding behind the Firebird, leading them to safety.
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Gabrielle: "Let's go!"
Xena loses sight of Alti for a moment, only to realize she's climbed back into her red car and is trying to run Xena down.
Xena: "For an old bird, you sure move fast."
Eventually, once Alti stops the car to look around for Xena, Xena appears abruptly at the window and gives her a right cross before pulling her from the car and kicking her across the yard.
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Alti: "Nice move, Xena. You'll make a great sidekick."
Xena: "I'll give you `sidekick.' "
Somewhere in this fight, Alti grabs a live wire and threatens to electrocute Xena. Xena avoids it, and eventually tosses the huge cable with its deadly charge, onto the firebird, electifying the sucker.
Xena eventually sees Alti is standing UNDER a car suspended in the air by a crane. Why is it suspended? WHO KNOWS... it just is going to look REALLY COOL when Xena uses her chakram to cut the chain from the crane and drop the damned thing on her head. After it drops... Xena goes looking for her emeny.
Xena: Alti? Alti."
Alti: (From nowhere, Alti pops up behind Xena and whispers into her ear) "Nice work, Xena. Haven't lost your touch."
Polly: (Our Xena wannabe has had enough, as she sees her hero tossed aside like a rag doll. We can hear the wheels in her mind say... "my turn!") "Right!"
Gabrielle: (HER Momma didn't raise no fool!) "Wait! No!"
Polly: "Now you'll have to deal with me." (Between fantasy and reality is a wealth of difference, begging to make Polly's acquaintance. She confronts Alti like Neo confronting Mr Smith the first time... and when she gives Alti the disrespectful 'come on" wave, Alti just knocks her out with a single blow.
Alti then goes looking for Xena, and a massive fight occurs, from the top of semi trucks, to the tops of junk cars, to the ground. Eventually Alti looks like she's winning, and is pushing Xena back towards the electrified Firebird... but Xena grabs Alti by the shoulders, falls backward onto her behind and pulls Alti down with her, using her foot to catapault her enemy over her head and onto the roof of the electrified car. lets just say... after Alti was done shaking, she was just ash. Literally burned to a "crisp".
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But that wasn't the end. The live wire ignites an oil slick that is running towards our trio of Xenities and Gabby, hiding behind a bunch of oil drums. Naturally they are labeled "Flammable"... and naturally Xena not only can read "that" but knows it means RUN AWAY.
But instead of running AWAY... she and Gabby encourage the trio to climb up on top of the wall of FLAMMABLE DRUMS standing behind them.
Now, WHY, you may ask, did they not just run away from the running flame, instead of crawling on top of the flammable drums? HOW the HECK should I know? Our Ancient Greeks may have an excuse re: lack of knowledge of current incendiary devices and warning labels... BUT the XENITES should have known better!
Xena: "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un! Come on! Let's go! Now! Come on."
She waves for them to hop onto her hands and climb to the top of the wall of barrels. Sorry guys... Mac didn't do the "honorable" thing, he pushed the girls aside and hopped oup top first, himself.
Mac: "Look out! Look out! Look out!"
All three get to the top of the barrel pile, just as the flames reach the first line of flammable barrels. Our heroines know they have no time to escape, and Gabrielle leaps into a clinch with Xena, nearly knocking out the Warrior Princess before the explosion occurs.
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And the show ends ... our Trio of Xenites are walking away from the junkyard, down the road as police cars pass.
Polly: "There was nothing left of them."
Lea: "I guess clones just-- break up easy."
Mac: "Well, maybe it was for the best. I mean-- we were messing with nature."
Lea: "Are you kidding? We had-- the greatest heroes in history here-- and now they're gone."
Polly: "You know? To be honest? I-- I was a bit disappointed anyway. I mean, they just seemed to be-- so much more dynamic on TV." (How often must these actresses overhear something like that from jaded fans at a con?)
Lea: [Interrupts] "On TV, yeah."
Polly: "Yeah."
Mac: "Hey, do you guys think they're gonna believe us at the conventions?"
Lea: "You kidding?"
Polly: "Not a chance."
Mac: "Hey, we could do someone else. You know? I-- I've got some of Dr. Spock's toenails at home, from when I was a Trekkie?"
(OBVIOUSLY a FAILED Trekkie. DOCTOR Spock was a famed pediatrician from the 1960's, not a green blooded Vulcan from the Famed TV show also spawned in the 60's!)
Lea: "You were a Trekkie?"
Mac: "Yeah?"
Lea: "You really are a nerd."
Mac: "Hey, I'm-I'm not-not proud of it, OK?"
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But the best part, as they were talking and walking, was the taxi that passed them. In the back of the taxi could be seen a blonde and a brunette. We see the leather arm band and wrist bracer on the right arm, as it's casually drapped over the back of the seat, above the blonde's shoulders.
As the Taxi drives away, we see the two clink champagne flutes.
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You gotta love Greek Women!
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ACT IV
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Mac: "But why?"
Alti: "Well... I'd spent countless incarnations enjoying the fact that Xena's reputation as a do-gooder was lost for eternity. After she died I hid the scrolls. And I thought I could just sit back and enjoy the unchecked evolution of evil on Earth. It's really hit a few high points in the last century. But then this hideous TV show starts celebrating her as a defender of righteousness. Well, we'll see how long that reputation lasts."
(The TV screen switches channels to show a local TV reporter with a special bulletin.)
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Reporter: "Reports are flooding in of a reign of terror sweeping through the downtown area. A woman dressed like the television character, Xena, Warrior Princess, has broken into the city jail and freed another woman dressed as Gabrielle-- the Warrior Princess' sidekick."
(A bottle blonde takes exception to that characterization!)
Lea: "She's plenty more than just a sidekick."
Reporter: [Interrupts] "Our cameras are trying to catch up with the rampaging abductee..."
Polly: [Interrupts Lea] "Would you give that stuff a rest?"
Reporter: "... but witnesses are shaken."
Cop on TV: (Obviously NOT a fan of the show) "We got concussions. We got broken bones. We got blood on the floor. Crazy chick, she's got the strangest damn round weapon, kind of like a frisbee."
Reporter: "The public is warned that this woman is armed and highly dangerous, and should not be approached under any circumstances."
Alti: "I couldn't have written it better myself."
Lea: "You cloned an evil Xena to discredit her."
Alti: "Ah, you catch on fast."
Reporter: "Eyewitnesses describe her leaping from car to car leading to high-speed collisions and multiple pile-ups."
Alti: "Xena wasn't always an angel in the early days-- "
Reporter's Voice: "-- state and local--"
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Alti: "-- but she gets 22 episodes of a TV show, and everyone thinks she's a great hero. Well, they'll soon know the real truth."
Reporter: "Swat teams have been mobilized."
Alti: "And once she's alienated herself from everything good, decent, she'll follow me and together we'll rule the world. [Chuckles to herself before turning to the Xenite trio.] Let's go."
(As the trio run ahead of her, out of the lab, they start to "turn" on each other.)
Polly's Voice: "Why didn't you try to stop her?!"
Mac: "You stop her! Ah-h!"
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Reporter: "Lawlessness." (Unintended pun? On THIS show??? I think NOT!!!)
Edwin B. Stalter Animal Enthusiast AKA Surfer Dude: "OK, well, I was just like, uh watchin' my giraffes and, uh and then Xena turns up, and it's like it's her, man, it's [BLEEP]ing her! And it's like there's cops all over the place, you know? And but Xena's just like Whee-ha! And then she's like H'yah! You know? She totally [BLEEP]ing deals with the heat, man. But then she just... jumps the fence... lands on the back of this crazy-ass, like, horse. She's [BLEEP]ing gone. It was awesome, man. You know, Xena's-- hot, too, you know?"(REALLY?)
The TV bulletin ends, and we find ourselves in an auto junkyard. Men are running for their lives. Soon we see Xena under welding goggles, burnishing a weapon. Gabby runs up to her.
This next exchange between Xena and Gabrielle in the junkyard can be seen in its full length here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--TNcvKoSkc&feature=related
I just hope that, like Lucy, you can speak German!
Gabrielle: (Fingers stuck in her ears for protection from the power sander's noise) "What is that?!"
Xena: (She's in the ZONE, man!) "What?!"
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Gabrielle: "What are you doing?!"
Xena: (Stops the sander, and flips up her goggles to examine her work.) "I'm making me some new weapons." (She reaches down and pulls a police pistol from her right boot and points it away from Gabrielle) "These things are hopeless in hand-to-hand combat--" (She pulls the trigger and the gun fires, before she throws it dismissively over her shoulder where it FIRES AGAIN much to Gabrielle's and the junkyard cat's displeasure.)
Cat: [Screeches]
Xena: "See what I mean? And these?" (She picks up the resin sword that came with her Xena costume) "...merely toys."
Gabrielle: "Xena-- you could have killed someone at the city dungeon."
Xena: "They had you locked up. What did you want to do? Rot there the rest of your life?"
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Gabrielle: "You know, we can't just w-- "
Xena [Interrupts]: "If they want trouble-- they're gonna get it."
Suddenly, a familiar red Pontiac Firebird comes screeching into the junkyard, with three frightened Xenites huddled together in the back seat. A wrathful Alti hops out of the car and goes for Xena.
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Alti: "I hear you've been busy, Xena."
Xena: (Remember, its the first time OUR girls have truly seen her.) "Alti"
Alti: "Missed your fire-- your fury."
Gabrielle: "Don't listen to her."
Xena: "Huh?"
Alti: "Remember what we used to have, Xena?"
[[Alti: "Help me-- and I'll make you-- the `Destroyer of Nations'."
Xena: "All right, I delivered."
Alti: "You did, indeed."
Xena: "I am the `Destroyer of Nations'."]]"
Alti: "Remember the thrill of conquest-- you had, hm-m-m? Before she came into your life?"
[[Horse-chasing scene from The Rheingold]]
Gabrielle: "Don't listen to her."
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Alti: "Doesn't her little voice remind you of her betrayal?"
[[Scene from the Debt I, when Xena finds Gabby in Ming Tein's bed (alone)
Gabrielle: "I'm sorry, Xena. I couldn't let you do this."]]
Alti: "What her lies did to your son."
Xena: "My son."
[[Xena has just found her son, poisoned by Gabby's daughter.
Xena: "Solon? Solon? Hey-- hey, Solon. Solon."
Gabrielle: "Xena? No. No. No."
Xena: "Get out."
Gabrielle "Xena-- "
Xena: "Go! Solon. Solon-- please. I'm here, now. Your mom is here now-- just like you always wanted." [Xena screams]]
Alti: "And how much you enjoyed avenging that deed, huh?"
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[[ Gabrielle: "Xena!
The full Gab drag from The Bitter suite. The one where Xena had to ride another horse, since EVERYONE KNOWS Argo would NOT have done THAT to Gabrielle! At the end, Xena stands next to the cliff, holding Gabby high, ready to toss her over, when she screams...
Xena: "Vengeance!"]]
Xena: (All we see is HATE in Xena's eyes as she looks at Gabrielle in the junkyard) "Why did you bring her back?"
Alti: (Alti walks around Xena and Gabrielle, until she can position herself to push Gabby back into Xena's chest. Xena is fuming, Gabby looks worried.) "Well-- consider her my gift to you, Xena." (Xena is furious, as she looks down at the blonde)
Gabrielle: [Worry not, she's now close enough to whisper face to face] "Xena... Xena, you weren't like this in the end. Think of what we accomplished. Think of the good that we did for the world."
Flashbacks show Xena saving various little girls from various explosions and arrows.
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Xena: [Whispers like a lost child] "Gabrielle."
Gabrielle: (Her voice is a lifeline, thrown to a soul foundering in the ocean of loneliness and doubt) "Xena, the good that we did for each other."
[[How many can YOU identify, Xenite?
1)Gabrielle: "After all we've been through? I am with you till the end."
2)Xena: "When I reach down inside myself and do things that I'm not capable of, it's because of you."
3)Xena: "You talk about trying to find your way, but to me, you are my way."
4)Xena: "I'm sorry for all the times I didn't treat you right."
Gabrielle: "Xena-- you've brought out the best in me. You saved me, Xena."
5) Gabrielle: "But I'm a part of you. I want it to be like that forever. I love you."
6)Xena: "You are the best thing that ever happened to me. You gave my life meaning and joy. You will be a part of me forever."]]
Xena suddenly growls and reaches for Gabrielle but NOT to fight her! She throws Gabrielle to the side so she can attack ALTI! As the fight erupts between Xena with her new sword, and Alti and a handy CROWBAR, Gabrielle gets away and goes after the trio now hiding behind the Firebird, leading them to safety.
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Gabrielle: "Let's go!"
Xena loses sight of Alti for a moment, only to realize she's climbed back into her red car and is trying to run Xena down.
Xena: "For an old bird, you sure move fast."
Eventually, once Alti stops the car to look around for Xena, Xena appears abruptly at the window and gives her a right cross before pulling her from the car and kicking her across the yard.
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Alti: "Nice move, Xena. You'll make a great sidekick."
Xena: "I'll give you `sidekick.' "
Somewhere in this fight, Alti grabs a live wire and threatens to electrocute Xena. Xena avoids it, and eventually tosses the huge cable with its deadly charge, onto the firebird, electifying the sucker.
Xena eventually sees Alti is standing UNDER a car suspended in the air by a crane. Why is it suspended? WHO KNOWS... it just is going to look REALLY COOL when Xena uses her chakram to cut the chain from the crane and drop the damned thing on her head. After it drops... Xena goes looking for her emeny.
Xena: Alti? Alti."
Alti: (From nowhere, Alti pops up behind Xena and whispers into her ear) "Nice work, Xena. Haven't lost your touch."
Polly: (Our Xena wannabe has had enough, as she sees her hero tossed aside like a rag doll. We can hear the wheels in her mind say... "my turn!") "Right!"
Gabrielle: (HER Momma didn't raise no fool!) "Wait! No!"
Polly: "Now you'll have to deal with me." (Between fantasy and reality is a wealth of difference, begging to make Polly's acquaintance. She confronts Alti like Neo confronting Mr Smith the first time... and when she gives Alti the disrespectful 'come on" wave, Alti just knocks her out with a single blow.
Alti then goes looking for Xena, and a massive fight occurs, from the top of semi trucks, to the tops of junk cars, to the ground. Eventually Alti looks like she's winning, and is pushing Xena back towards the electrified Firebird... but Xena grabs Alti by the shoulders, falls backward onto her behind and pulls Alti down with her, using her foot to catapault her enemy over her head and onto the roof of the electrified car. lets just say... after Alti was done shaking, she was just ash. Literally burned to a "crisp".
http://mikes-images.com/eps/sitc/pages/sitc_mq_338cd.htm
But that wasn't the end. The live wire ignites an oil slick that is running towards our trio of Xenities and Gabby, hiding behind a bunch of oil drums. Naturally they are labeled "Flammable"... and naturally Xena not only can read "that" but knows it means RUN AWAY.
But instead of running AWAY... she and Gabby encourage the trio to climb up on top of the wall of FLAMMABLE DRUMS standing behind them.
Now, WHY, you may ask, did they not just run away from the running flame, instead of crawling on top of the flammable drums? HOW the HECK should I know? Our Ancient Greeks may have an excuse re: lack of knowledge of current incendiary devices and warning labels... BUT the XENITES should have known better!
Xena: "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un! Come on! Let's go! Now! Come on."
She waves for them to hop onto her hands and climb to the top of the wall of barrels. Sorry guys... Mac didn't do the "honorable" thing, he pushed the girls aside and hopped oup top first, himself.
Mac: "Look out! Look out! Look out!"
All three get to the top of the barrel pile, just as the flames reach the first line of flammable barrels. Our heroines know they have no time to escape, and Gabrielle leaps into a clinch with Xena, nearly knocking out the Warrior Princess before the explosion occurs.
http://mikes-images.com/eps/sitc/pages/sitc_mq_342cd.htm
And the show ends ... our Trio of Xenites are walking away from the junkyard, down the road as police cars pass.
Polly: "There was nothing left of them."
Lea: "I guess clones just-- break up easy."
Mac: "Well, maybe it was for the best. I mean-- we were messing with nature."
Lea: "Are you kidding? We had-- the greatest heroes in history here-- and now they're gone."
Polly: "You know? To be honest? I-- I was a bit disappointed anyway. I mean, they just seemed to be-- so much more dynamic on TV." (How often must these actresses overhear something like that from jaded fans at a con?)
Lea: [Interrupts] "On TV, yeah."
Polly: "Yeah."
Mac: "Hey, do you guys think they're gonna believe us at the conventions?"
Lea: "You kidding?"
Polly: "Not a chance."
Mac: "Hey, we could do someone else. You know? I-- I've got some of Dr. Spock's toenails at home, from when I was a Trekkie?"
(OBVIOUSLY a FAILED Trekkie. DOCTOR Spock was a famed pediatrician from the 1960's, not a green blooded Vulcan from the Famed TV show also spawned in the 60's!)
Lea: "You were a Trekkie?"
Mac: "Yeah?"
Lea: "You really are a nerd."
Mac: "Hey, I'm-I'm not-not proud of it, OK?"
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But the best part, as they were talking and walking, was the taxi that passed them. In the back of the taxi could be seen a blonde and a brunette. We see the leather arm band and wrist bracer on the right arm, as it's casually drapped over the back of the seat, above the blonde's shoulders.
As the Taxi drives away, we see the two clink champagne flutes.
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You gotta love Greek Women!
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at the end of this vid.
