Production #V911 - Episode 11
 

WRITTEN BY
Susanne Beck

DIRECTED BY
Denise Byrd

PRODUCED BY
Carol Stephens

SCREENGRABS
Judi Mair

ARTWORK
Lucia

EPISODE TITLE GRAPHIC
MaryD

TEASER

FADE IN:

Scenes from last week’s episode….

EXT. TOWN - NIGHT

Xena and Gabrielle, drawn on by the smoke and screams, have pitched in to help.  Xena stands with a stable hand helping to get the panicked horses from their burning quarters, while across town, Gabrielle stands atop the roof of the village inn, wetting it down to prevent the fire’s spread.

From her position on the roof, Gabrielle can see a young woman running back and forth, pulling at her hair and screaming.  She can’t make out the words, but she knows the woman is in trouble. 

GABRIELLE

Hold this!

Handing off her water pail to a middle aged man, she makes for the ladder and quickly slides down.  Running to the woman, Gabrielle gently grabs her elbow and spins her to face her.

GABRIELLE

(cont’d)

What is it?  What’s wrong?

WOMAN

My baby!  Oh, please…

my baby!!

CUT TO:

INT. BURNING HOUSE - NIGHT

The fire is still blazing all around them despite the great amounts of water being thrown at it.

GABRIELLE

What now?

Xena looks up at where the roof had been just moments before.  She gifts Gabrielle with a wicked grin.

XENA

Ready?

GABRIELLE

Somehow, I just knew that

was going to be your choice.

CUT TO:

EXT. CAMPSITE - NIGHT

GABRIELLE

Are you thinking

what I’m thinking?

XENA

Vacation?

GABRIELLE

Oh, yeah.

CUT TO:

INT. FALAFEL’S SHOP - DAY

FALAFEL

(cont’d, dramatically)

Oh, fair Pompeii, the land of

beauty and legend, an artist’s

paradise!  Rolling green hills,

the beautiful Mount Vesuvius....

GABRIELLE

Excuse me.  Did you

say artist’s paradise?

FALAFEL

Indeed I did, dear woman.

GABRIELLE

Sold!

CUT TO:

EXT. POMPEII - DAY

GABRIELLE

By the gods, Xena, did you

ever see anything so beautiful?

CUT TO:

EXT. POMPEII MAIN SQUARE - DAY

ORATOR

I tell you, my brothers and sisters,

the time for my God’s wrath is

at hand!  But you can save

yourselves!  Repent your sinful

ways!  Repent your wickedness!

Repent and you will be saved!

XENA

(whispering)

Loos.

CUT TO:

EXT. POMPEII - MORNING

LOOS

You thought I was crazy!  Well

you were wrong!  Come see!

Come see the wrath of the

God of Eli against this

unholy city!  Come see!!

GABRIELLE

(nervously)

Xena?  What is it?

XENA

(softly)

Son of a bacchae….

FADE OUT.
 

END OF TEASER

ACT ONE