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Xena and Joxer are at the edge of a cliff discussing a scroll that she has with her. Joxer thinks they should destroy it, but he can’t tear it. Then he decides that maybe they could disguise it by hiding it within another scroll. Xena approves, then takes both scrolls and stuffs them in a jar, before diving from the cliff into the Ionian sea.

In the present day, C.H.A.K.R.A.M, a group who has been researching Xena and Gabrielle, holds a press conference to talk about a scroll that has been discovered in the Ionian sea. Dr. Fredrick Delaney, who is speaking for the organization, claims that they have proof that Xena was married - to Ares.

written by Melissa Blake
directed by Josh Becker
music by Joseph LoDuca

Cast: Renee O’Connor (Mattie), Lucy Lawless (Annie Day / Meg), Ted Raimi (Harry / Joxer), Kevin Smith (Ares), Elizabeth Pendegrast (Atropos), Chloe Jordan (Lachesis), Leah Mizrahi (Clotho), Jennifer Rucker (Xena Fan #2), Barb Binder (Carly Binding), Michael Saccente (Dr. Frederick Delaney), Lucy Briant (Roxanne Fields), Anne Nordhaus (Xena Fan #1), Campbell Cooley (Random Reporter)

Note: Barb Binder is the webmaster of the Xena fan site, Whoosh!.

Original title: Missing Pieces

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Gabrielle is thinking about what the future may hold, and Xena says she’s been wondering about that too. She thinks maybe they should head to the land of the Pharaohs for a while. Gabrielle notices that someone is lurking about in the woods around them. Xena says that he’s been there for about a half an hour. They find the man, who is a priest from the land of the rising sun. Kenji tells them that he was sent by Akemi, someone who Xena knew a long time ago. He also tells of a demon, Yodoshi, that killed his fellow priest, and says that Akemi believed that Xena would be able to defeat him. As they sail to Japan, Xena tells Gabrielle the story of how she and Borias met Akemi. When they reach Higuchi, the captain of the ship refuses to go near the village because it’s under siege.

teleplay by R.J. Stewart
story by Robert Tapert & R.J. Stewart
directed by Robert Tapert
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Michelle Ang (Akemi), Marton Csokas (Borias), Mac Jeffery Ong (Kenji), Adrian Brown (Yodoshi), Yvonne Tan (Ayako), Shiori Terada (Miyuki), Venant Wong (Morimoto), Gary Young (Saburo), Trevor Sai-Louie (Kao), Ric Chan (Master Swordsman), Gregor McLennan (Captain), Kazuhiro Muroyama (Harukata)

Original title: Japan Part 1

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

The inquiry into the ambush at the Rialto Theater is not looking good for Pezzini - and her prospects of keeping her badge look even worse when the antagonistic Captain Dante is appointed as the head of the homicide department. Evidence involving a bladed weapon at the site of the massacre has turned up, and there are questions about a man who knocked Jake out cold just before the fight - a man who is at this very moment being hunted down by three heavily-armed combatants on motorcycles. After the inquiry session is over, Jake and Pez respond to this duel, only to find that two of the three combatants didn’t make it out of the fight. Pez gives chase to one of them, but loses him after narrowly missing one of his bullets. The trail of evidence eventually leads her to the door of Kenneth Irons, who is also being hunted by the sole surviving assailant of his bodyguard - but will protecting Irons neceessarily be the lesser of two evils for the wielder of the Witchblade?

Season 1 Regular Cast: Yancy Butler (Detective Sara Pezzini), David Chokachi (Detective Jake McCarty), Anthony Cistaro (Kenneth Irons), Will Yun Lee (Danny Woo), Eric Etebari (Ian Nottingham)

teleplay by Ralph Hemecker
story by Ralph Hemecker & Richard C. Okie
directed by Ralph Hemecker
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Nestor Serrano (Captain Dante), Peter Mensah (Moebius), Kenneth Welsh (Captain Siri), Kathryn Winslow (Vicki), Sandrine Holt (?), Wade Eastwood (Black Dragon #2), Fragna Dusai (Black Dragon #3), and Lazar

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The twinned Crichtons continue to argue over which is the original while the crew tries to purchase material needed for Talyn’s repairs. Their request is quickly caught up in family and planetary politics, as rival heirs Sarova and Pralanoth argue over whether to help them. Crais recovers enough to give Aeryn a memento of her mother Xhalax Sun - and then inform her that Xhalax leads the retrieval squad hunting Talyn. The Crichtons manage to bluff the ruling family into delivering the Chromextin, although Sarova warns one that she thinks Pralanoth will try to interfere. A bomb critically injures both of them, although the other Crichton is able to put off any suspicion that John Crichton was involved by showing up on the planet uninjured. But someone continues to sabotage the repair efforts, and that retrieval squad gets closer by the minute.

written by Clayvon C. Harris
directed by Ian Harris
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh (Jool), Rebecca Gibney (Sarova), Robert Brunning (Pralanoth), Sandy Winton (Tolven), Linda Cropper (Xhalax Sun), Julianne Newbould (Felor), Hunter Perske (Bloy)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

Xena sends Gabrielle and Kenji off to find Mirimoto’s archers, who are gathering nearby, while she heads off alone in the opposite direction. When Gabrielle reaches the area where the archers are supposed to be, she finds that no one else is around. She starts thinking about what Xena has said and done over the past few hours since they arrived in Higuchi. Afraid of what is about to happen to the warrior, Gabrielle sets off at a run after her friend.

teleplay by R.J. Stewart
story by Robert Tapert & R.J. Stewart
directed by Robert Tapert
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Mac Jeffery Ong (Kenji), Michelle Ang (Akemi), Kazuhiro Muroyama (Harukata), Adrian Brown (Yidoshi), Venant Wong (Mirimoto)

Original title: Japan Part 2

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Pezzini receives an anonymous tip - suspicious in itself - about a murder. When she and McCartey arrive on the scene, all they find are bleached bones. Clues lead Pez to a modeling agency run by Dominique Boucher. In the course of questioning the victim’s roommate, Pez stumbles upon a stunning discovery - a photograph of a woman, circa World War II, who looks exactly like her, and she appears to be wearing the Witchblade on her wrist. The evidence begins to point toward Ms. Boucher, who Pezzini discovers has had a torrid past with Kenneth Irons - and she also finds out, too late, that Boucher has also worn the Witchblade…and knows how to control it, even if someone else is now wearing it.

teleplay by Edithe Swensen
story by Ralph Hemecker & Richard C. Okie
directed by Neill Fearnley
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Laila Robins (Dominique Boucher), Malin Ackerman (Karen Bronte), Kathryn Winslow (Vicki), Will Corno (Photographer), Quancita Hamilton (Gina Maris), Malcolm Xerxes (?), Martin Samuel (?), and Lazar

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stark, Rygel, Aeryn and one of the Crichtons are now passengers on Talyn, on the run from the retrieval squad. Crichton seems to be having particular trouble getting used to his new surroundings, and accuses Crais of using his control over Talyn to harass him. The argument is interrupted by the appearance of a Budong, which invites Talyn inside for lunch. Crichton and Aeryn manage to temporarily anchor the ship to the beast’s insides, but that’s a temporary solution at best. When Rygel and Stark attempt to rendezvous with Talyn in their transport pod, the sight of the Budong sends Stark into a panic. The sight of Aeryn and Crais consummating their relationship, which Crichton finds on a surveillance log, sends Crichton into a very different state, especially when Aeryn decides to accept a neural interface with Talyn. Stark eventually calms down enough to help hatch an escape plan. But for it to work will require Talyn’s cooperation, and Crichton soon learns that Crais is not as in control of the warship as he appears.

written by Ben Browder
directed by Tony Tilse
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: none

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

Pezzini’s sixth sense tells her something is wrong during an investigation into the murder of a New York art dealer - and she’s irritated with McCartey’s reluctance to touch the case with a ten-foot pole because the victim was homosexual and the trail of clues leads back to Badlands, a well known gay bar. Artist Issac Sullivan seems to be a promising lead until Pezzini discovers that his whereabouts can be vouched for at the time of the murder. Another murder is committed, and Pezzini realizes she has a serial killer on her hands. Her search for clues about the Witchblade is also proving fruitless, with Dominique Boucher rapidly aging toward her death in a holding cell, but she does find a potential ally in a young internet entrepreneur, Gabriel Bowman. Little does Pez know that the key to both mysteries is Kenneth Irons.

teleplay by David Michaelson
stoey by Ralph Hemecker & Richard C. Okie
directed by Vern Gillum
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: John Hensley (Gabriel Bowman), Laila Robbins (Dominique Boucher), Anthony Lemke (Isaac Sullivan), Rory Feore (Dr. Dandwell), Peter Cockerey (Foster), Jeff Courington (Foster’s lover), Andrea Pinock (Waitress), Johnie Chase (?), Shaun Austin-Olsen (?), Milka Schiro (?), and Lazar

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Scorpius continues his wormhole research with mixed results and a growing sense of urgency; he tells Braca that the Scarrans’ fears that the Peacekeepers have wormhole weaponry is the only thing preventing an invasion. On Moya, the other Crichton remains equally interested in wormholes, to the annoyance of Jool, Chiana and D’Argo. When Moya passes through an electromagnetic cluster, he quickly gets other priorities - shortly after he sees a strange light creature, he discovers large amounts of his own blood on the floor, with nary a wound to account for them. At first his crewmates consider this merely more evidence that he’s going mad, but with the help of a DRD they soon realize that something aboard is knocking everyone unconscious for lengthy periods and subjecting them to some kind of violent examination. When they go to Pilot looking for answers, they find that he’s not quite himself; an energy rider has possessed him, searching for the smaller rider that Crichton saw before his first blackout. He tells them that the diseased rider has possessed one of them, and he’s not leaving until he finds out which one.

written by Justin Monjo
directed by Catherine Millar
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: Tammy Macintosh (Jool), David Franklin (Lt. Braca), Jo Kerrigan (Linfer), Danny Adcock (Co-Kura Strappa), Ian Bliss (PK Scientist Drillic), Tux Akindoyeni (PK Pilot Rinon)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer