The Messenger

Episode Guide

Written by: Caina Q. Fuller

1-Moving On

Gabrielle (Renee O’Connor) and Eli (Timothy Omundson) must team up to stop Lucifer (Alex Mendoza) and Rachel (Hudson Leick) from taking Eve (Adrienne Wilkinson) back to hell and reverting her back to the evil Callisto in order to steal the location of Heaven’s Gate, the one weapon that Lucifer needs in order to win the war against Heaven.

2-The Heart Of The Matter

There is a new warrior in town named Ledricles (Jon Bennet [Marc Antony from Xena Seaon 5-Antony And Cleopatra]), and he wants to be hailed as the new Champion of Rome. Augustus Caesar (Colin Moy) has re-taken the throne and wants Eve (Adrienne Wilkinson) to return to him in order to resume her life as his lover and/or champion. The two men team up and kidnap Virgil (Greg Lee), threatening to kill him in the arena if she doesn’t return to Rome. She now has one choice: Return to Augustus’ side as his wife, or pick up the sword and kill again in order to fight her way free with Virgil.

3-Family Tree

When Virgil (Greg Lee) suddenly and inexplicably gains the powers of a god, the question of his parentage must be answered. Is he the son of Ares as Phobos (Joel Toebeck) claims he is, or is this an elaborate trick played by the god of Fear in order to get Virgil to kill Eve (Adrienne Wilkinson) for murdering Joxer?

4-Blood Brother

Eve (Adrienne Wilkinson) hasn’t done nearly enough in her walk as Eve to make up for the sins she committed as Livia. After Virgil (Greg Lee) kills her in battle with his new godly powers, Eve falls victim to Persephone’s (Claudia Christian) hatred. The new queen of the underworld is bitter towards Eve for the death of her beloved husband Hades (Steven Lovatt), and she is determined to make her suffer for eternity in Tartarus. Now Solan (David Taylor) and Marcus (Bobby Hosea) risk it all to resurrect her so she can return to life and redeem herself, but will they pay the ultimate price for helping Eve by loosing their places in the Elysian Fields forever?

5-A Still, Small Voice

Despite Raphael’s (Tamati Rice) assurances that the way of the warrior is the correct path for Eve (Adrienne Wilkinson), she still has doubts about her choice to pick up the sword again. Her indecision not only nearly gets Virgil (Greg Lee) killed when they go into battle to save a village from slaughter, it may cost Eve her soul when she must go up against Cain (James Marsters of Buffy The Vampire Slayer), the evil grandson of Dahak and the first Destroyer.

6-A Saving Grace

After her death only a few short weeks after Xena and Gabrielle were crucified by Caesar, Najara (Kathryn Morris) was sentenced to an eternity with the Jinn. She is, ironically, an angel of justice, but can never know true happiness as a result of her sins in life. After seeing Hope (Renee O’Connor) while working in Potidaea, Najara’s memories of her encounters with Gabrielle come flooding back. With it also comes her old obsessions, and she kidnaps Hope. Now the Jinn have asked Eve (Adrienne Wilkinson) to not only save Hope from Najara, but to help Najara find redemption before she is sentenced to an eternity in hell.

7-Everlasting Love

Ares (Kevin Smith) and Apollo (Jeremy Callaghan) have taken to fighting over the remaining temples to the slain gods of Olympus. They will do anything to outdo one another in temple ownership, even if it means destroying entire villages. Now Gabrielle (Renee O’Connor) has set out to stop them at all costs, but things only become more complicated when she learns that Apollo’s new champion Benjamin (Karl Urban) is the reincarnation of her lost husband Perdicas.

8-The Road To Megara

Four years ago, when Eve (Adrienne Wilkinson) rode as Livia (the Champion of Rome), she destroyed the village of Megara. Not only did she destroy the village, but she sold over two hundred women and children into slavery and then crucified many more innocent people, hanging their bodies alongside the road leading into the village. Now she’s returned as Eve, the Messenger of hope to come, but the villagers still see her as Livia, the evil champion of Rome. They capture her and put her on trial for her life, and now it’s up to Virgil (Greg Lee) and Hope (Renee O’Connor) to prove to the villagers that she is a changed woman who should be set free to carry out her mission of bringing hope to the world.

9-Search And Rescue

After saving many of the villager’s of Megara from a horrible flood, Eve (Adrienne Wilkinson) sets out to do the impossible: Find and rescue the two hundred slaves she’d sold from Megara years before and return them to their homes. Is this a mission too impossible even for The Messenger?

10- Mighty Aphrodite

The remaining powerful gods of Olympus have formed a council and they bring Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) to trial for his role in the death of Zeus, the Olympian King. In order to save him Aphrodite (Alexandra Tydings) has her son shoot her with an arrow that can transform her from the goddess of Love into a god with the power and strength Zeus himself once possessed. Can she use her newfound powers to bring order to Olympus? Or is this merely an exercise in futility?

11-Learning To Let Go

Gabrielle (Renee O’Connor) must deal with her feelings of anger after Xena (Lucy Lawless) mysteriously returns alive and well with the claim that she’d never been dead to begin with.

12-The Imposters

As Gabrielle (Renee O’Connor) and Benjamin (Karl Urban) prepare for their wedding, Gabrielle must learn how to deal with her contentious, rude future mother-in-law. Meanwhile Eve (Adrienne Wilkinson) is enjoying some unexpected visiting rites with her daughter Rachel (Hudson Leick). However the more time Eve spends with her daughter, the more ill she becomes. Her situation only worsens until finally Gabrielle must find out who-or what-is driving Eve insane and slowly killing her.

13-Her Majesty, The Queen Of Olympus

When violent storms begin tearing Greece apart, the Olympian gods (including Hera-the former queen of Olympus) send Eve on an impossible mission: Go into hell itself and resurrect the slain Olympian gods and return them to power. If she does not succeed Greece will be lost forever.

14-Heaven’s Gate

Eve travels through hell itself to free the Olympian gods slain by her mother in order to save Greece from the violent storms ripping her apart. However she soon discovers that Lucifer is dangerously close to discovering the location of Heaven's Gate when he kidnaps Rachel and Raphael and begins to torture them for the information he needs to win the war against Heaven once and for all. Will Eve be willing to sacrifice everything, even her soul, to save Heaven as well as Greece?

15-Something Wicked This Way Comes

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16-Unto Us A Child Is Born

17-Soul Searching

18-A Day Without Sunlight

19-Till Death Do Us Part

20-Clash Of TheTitans

21-Remember Me

22-Everything Old Is New Again (Season finale)