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-It’s not true! It can’t be!

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-Icus, he told me himself.

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-Oh, but Mother!
-There’s no time to argue.

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Now, get your coat while I pack some food...
You’re bound to get hungry.

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-How long must I be gone?

6
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-Until it’s safe for you to return.
-Oh, but mother, I don’t understand.

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-Neither do I, love.

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Neither do I.

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-Icus!

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-Run!

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Find a place to hide and stay there.

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I’ll find you when it’s safe.
-Oh, but...

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-Go!

14
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-How was that?

15
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-Very good... you’re getting the hang of it.

16
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-Really?

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-Come on, Gabrielle, you’ve been wanting
to do this for ages.

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Just reach under this rock...

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... give it your best shot.

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-Ok.

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I did it! I did it!

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-Where is he?

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-Here.

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-Here!

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Come on!

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-Let go!

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-Didn’t your mother ever teach you,
it’s rude to stare?

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-Stay here! You’ll be safer.

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-Come on; come on.

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-Excuse me.

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-Enough!

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I don’t know who or... what you are.
But this business is none of yours.

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-My name is Xena...

34
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...and the way I see it, half a dozen men going
after one small, defenseless boy kinda
makes it my business.

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Call it my maternal instinct.

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-Don’t let them take me, please.

37
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-No one’s taking you anywhere.

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-What will be, will be!

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This isn't over.

40
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-What was all that about?

41
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-That want to take me to be sacrificed.

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-Sacrificed? You mean like on an altar,
with a knife?

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-Who would do such a thing?

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-My father.

45
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-I know how it looks, but my father’s a good man.

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Once, when I was sick, he stayed by my bed, night
and day. He never left till I was feeling better.

47
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He’s always been like that.
-Then why did he send that thug after you?

48
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-Thug? Oh, you mean my brother Maell.

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-Your brother?
-Nice family.

50
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-Maell and his men are very strong
in their faith.

51
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He helped my father teach our people
new ways to farm.

52
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Now we grow twice as much as we used to.

53
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-And your mother? You said she warned you.

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How does she feel about all this?
-Oh, I don't know.

55
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She’s mixed up about all this too, I guess.

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It’s just, my father’s never hurt anyone. Ever!

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-There’s gotta be an explanation.

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Look, we’ll find it... right Xena?

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Xena?

60
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Xena!
-I'm up here! I found it!

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-Found what?
-This cave.

62
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My army came through here a couple of years ago.
I used it as shelter for my wounded men.

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You’ll be safe here.
So make camp; I’ll be back as soon as I can.

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-Where are you going?

65
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-To have a talk with your family.

66
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I wanna see for myself what kind of a father
would want to kill his own son.

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-Come on.

68
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-Are you telling me you don’t have Icus?

69
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-Well, at the moment, no.

70
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But, don’t worry, my men and I will get him
back, even if we have to die doing it.

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-No!

72
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There’s been too much violence already.
That’s not our way.

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-Well, nor would I choose it, Father.

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But this Xena’s left me no alternative.

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These are new times; they demand new ways.

76
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-To follow a path of peace is new.

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We teach by example, not by force.

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-But when the truth can help so many, surely,
we’re honor-bound to spread it in the most
aggressive way we can.

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-One that includes killing children?

80
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-No.

81
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I said no!

82
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-You better sit down... You don’t look well.

83
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-My father’s health, like everything else here,
is not your concern.

84
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Now, just give us Icus and be on your way.

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-You have Icus?

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How is he?

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-Confused...

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He doesn’t understand how his father could
love him one day and wanna kill him the next.

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-I don’t want to kill him. Surely, he knows that.

90
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-Then, why are you doing this?

91
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-Because God has commanded it.

92
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-God?

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Which god?

94
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Ares or Zeus?

95
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-There is only one true Supreme Deity...
The Almighty God of my father...

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The one whose voice speaks only to him.

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-So this all-powerful deity, he told you
to kill an innocent boy?

98
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And I thought Ares was cold.

99
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Why does he want you to do it?

100
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-Our Holy One is not accountable to anyone,
let alone a non-believer.

101
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-Then you’d better pray he has
a change of heart.

102
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Because, until he does...

103
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... Icus stays with me.

104
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-Enough.

105
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She goes unharmed.

106
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I will pray for guidance, but until I get it,
there will be no more violence...

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... of any kind.

108
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-She’s gotta die.

109
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-But how? You said yourself, Anteus forbids it!

110
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-My father is a wise man;
but also an aging man, in failing health.

111
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No doubt, he doesn’t see Xena for
what she truly is...

112
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A trial, sent to us, by the Almighty,
to test our resolve.

113
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Can you doubt it?

114
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All you have to do is look at her to see she’s
unnatural, an affront to God.

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A woman with the strength of ten men?

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Out in the world alone, save only her
scrawny little companion?

117
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It’s a complete abomination!

118
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And to think, this... freak... of nature...
has my brother...

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... a boy so... innocent... and pure...

120
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... that the All-powerful One has called him
to His side at the tender age of twelve.

121
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How do you think the Supreme Deity
feels about that?

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Leaving his chosen one in the hands of
a woman whose gods are as primitive as she is!

123
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-Xena must die!

124
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-Then suddenly, the soldiers burst "out" of the
wooden horse, surprising everyone... and...

125
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... and then the... the Trojans...

126
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... they turned into "growling" lions...

127
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... with blood dripping from their lips.

128
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And then, oh, the Greeks... they brought in an
army of, oh, fire-breathing, ten-headed Hydras.

129
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And this is very interesting, isn’t it?

130
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Right?!

131
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-Oh, yeah... Right.

132
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-You haven’t heard a word I said, have you?

133
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-Sorry, you tell a great story. It’s...

134
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... it’s just I can’t stop thinking about my
father, and wondering why he’d wanna...

135
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-Hey... look, there’s no use in speculating.

136
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We’ll know more when Xena gets here.

137
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I just hope she brings some food.
I’m famished.

138
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-Oh, I’ve got food.
-You do?

139
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-My mother packed it for me.

140
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I’ve got apples... and pears... and cheese...
and some...

141
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-Is this nutbread?

142
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Ah, yum! I haven’t had this since I was home.

143
00:12:15,822 --> 00:12:19,665
-Help yourself... I’m not hungry.
-Oh, no, I couldn’t. I...

144
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Well, if you're sure.

145
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Yeah... You don’t know what you’re missing.

146
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-Hestia... goddess of hearth and home.

147
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It is many years since I’ve honored you.
But, please, hear my prayer.

148
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Protect my son, Icus.

149
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-Don’t worry, Icus is safe.

150
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-You know my son? Where is he?

151
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Who are you?

152
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-My name is Xena. Icus is staying with me and
a friend until we can sort this thing out.

153
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That’s why I wanted to talk to you.

154
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-But how did you know I was here?

155
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-Where else would a woman who loves her son
enough to defy her husband go?

156
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A shrine to the patron goddess of families.

157
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-If Anteus knew I’d broken with His Gods and
gone back to the old ones, it would kill him.

158
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-Not a tough choice, seeing his God
wants to kill Icus.

159
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How can he believe in a God who needs
to murder children?

160
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-Well, he never has before.

161
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And what’s even stranger...

162
00:13:27,026 --> 00:13:31,468
... not two months ago, our Supreme One told
Anteus to break with tradition...

163
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... and make Icus our next leader,
not our oldest son, Maell.

164
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-Does Maell know this?

165
00:13:37,544 --> 00:13:38,347
-I don’t know.

166
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Lately, Anteus has seemed so...
secretive and strange.

167
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I’m afraid he confides more in his own God
than he does in me.

168
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That’s why you have to try and reach him,
Xena, please.

169
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To kill a child, it can’t be right,
no matter what god you follow.

170
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-I’ll talk to Anteus.

171
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It’s probably better if we went separately.

172
00:14:00,032 --> 00:14:02,019
It might not be good for your health
to be seen with me.

173
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-Oh, wait, wait, I have a little more nutbread.
Would you take it to Icus?

174
00:14:05,797 --> 00:14:09,906
I packed some in his sack. But, well you know
how children are about nutbread.

175
00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,812
And, Maell had this one specially made,
so, I thought...

176
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-Maell had this made?

177
00:14:15,372 --> 00:14:18,045
-It’s one of those special treats he’s been
bringing Anteus lately.

178
00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,500
Still I don’t think he’d mind Icus
having some, do you?

179
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-Gabrielle!

180
00:14:55,501 --> 00:14:57,931
Gabrielle, can you hear me?

181
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Wake up.

182
00:15:10,622 --> 00:15:11,406
-Here...

183
00:15:13,141 --> 00:15:14,101
You all right?

184
00:15:14,935 --> 00:15:19,273
-I’m great. I... I can’t see, but, I’m good.

185
00:15:20,178 --> 00:15:21,956
-Try using both eyes.

186
00:15:24,196 --> 00:15:25,585
-Ah, yeah, that’s better.

187
00:15:26,274 --> 00:15:27,340
-Think you can stand?

188
00:15:27,946 --> 00:15:29,084
-You mean, I’m not?

189
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-Come on!

190
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There you go.

191
00:15:34,380 --> 00:15:35,400
-By the gods!

192
00:15:35,940 --> 00:15:36,835
-What is it?

193
00:15:39,412 --> 00:15:41,791
-You are beautiful!

194
00:15:43,995 --> 00:15:46,713
-And you are drugged...

195
00:15:47,047 --> 00:15:50,158
With henbane, if I’m not mistaken, so
the effects should be temporary.

196
00:15:50,706 --> 00:15:51,740
But we’ve got to get you...

197
00:15:54,254 --> 00:15:55,148
... walking.

198
00:15:56,382 --> 00:15:58,124
Come back here. Gabrielle...

199
00:15:59,523 --> 00:16:01,290
I need you to concentrate.

200
00:16:01,522 --> 00:16:03,089
-OK, uh, yep.

201
00:16:03,549 --> 00:16:07,221
But I think this is a big waste of time,
because I have been walking since I was one.

202
00:16:08,116 --> 00:16:11,802
-This is not about walking, Gabrielle.
It’s about Icus.

203
00:16:13,331 --> 00:16:15,193
You do remember Icus, don’t you?

204
00:16:15,525 --> 00:16:17,324
-Of course, I remember Icus.

205
00:16:17,942 --> 00:16:18,626
-Good.

206
00:16:19,304 --> 00:16:20,759
Do you know where he is?

207
00:16:21,478 --> 00:16:22,091
-Where?

208
00:16:22,186 --> 00:16:23,635
-No, I’m asking you.

209
00:16:26,332 --> 00:16:27,429
Where's Icus?

210
00:16:28,548 --> 00:16:29,457
-I don't know.

211
00:16:30,182 --> 00:16:31,160
Icus!

212
00:16:32,098 --> 00:16:33,081
Icus!

213
00:16:37,862 --> 00:16:38,978
I lost Icus.

214
00:16:41,395 --> 00:16:42,478
I lost him.

215
00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:44,587
I lost Icus!

216
00:16:47,105 --> 00:16:48,235
Icus!

217
00:16:49,340 --> 00:16:50,806
-Gabrielle, calm down.

218
00:16:52,618 --> 00:16:54,726
Look, I’m sure you didn’t lose him.

219
00:16:55,194 --> 00:16:58,298
He probably just saw you pass out
and went for help.

220
00:16:59,315 --> 00:17:01,734
By the way, how much nutbread did Icus eat?

221
00:17:02,046 --> 00:17:03,329
-None!

222
00:17:04,649 --> 00:17:08,280
He, oh, you know, I really wanted to share...
But it was just too good!

223
00:17:08,622 --> 00:17:11,410
And he said he wasn’t hungry. And, then, the
next thing I knew, it was just...

224
00:17:11,766 --> 00:17:12,500
... gone!

225
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Like Icus!

226
00:17:15,853 --> 00:17:16,751
-It’s OK.

227
00:17:17,553 --> 00:17:20,352
There’s no sign of a struggle. My guess is he
went to get his mother.

228
00:17:20,970 --> 00:17:23,012
Aside from us, she’s his only ally.

229
00:17:24,618 --> 00:17:26,692
-What are we waiting for? Let’s go!

230
00:17:28,671 --> 00:17:30,343
The rest of you, follow me!

231
00:17:32,007 --> 00:17:32,847
-Hold it!

232
00:17:33,431 --> 00:17:34,780
-At ease! Yeah?

233
00:17:35,394 --> 00:17:36,781
-I’ve got a better idea.

234
00:17:39,408 --> 00:17:44,908
I’ll go and get Icus, while you and the...
others try to, um...

235
00:17:45,526 --> 00:17:47,602
-Work on our song? Mmm, yeah.

236
00:17:48,595 --> 00:17:51,978
Just between you and me, the altos
are slightly flat.

237
00:17:53,150 --> 00:17:53,855
-Perfect.

238
00:17:55,671 --> 00:18:00,072
Gabrielle, don’t let "anyone" leave the cave.

239
00:18:00,561 --> 00:18:03,576
Understand? Stay here, and wait for me
to get back.

240
00:18:03,887 --> 00:18:05,680
Have I made myself clear?

241
00:18:06,682 --> 00:18:08,293
-Uh... no.

242
00:18:09,022 --> 00:18:13,199
You’re a "little" fuzzy around the edges.
So you keep trying... You’ll get there.

243
00:18:15,133 --> 00:18:17,876
Now I want everyone this side of the cave...

244
00:18:18,155 --> 00:18:21,798
We’re gonna keep working till we get it right!
And I’ve got "all" day.

245
00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,068
So, let’s start with the top!

246
00:18:23,293 --> 00:18:23,974
Are you ready?

247
00:18:24,348 --> 00:18:27,051
You! You’re a tenor.
Get away from the sopranos!

248
00:18:27,466 --> 00:18:29,273
Hey, hey! You’re standing like a stone...
Relax.

249
00:18:33,564 --> 00:18:37,310
-Hurry, Mother. I think she’s really sick.
She started talking all strange.

250
00:18:37,504 --> 00:18:39,540
And then she fell asleep, and I couldn’t
wake her!

251
00:18:39,541 --> 00:18:43,255
-All right, I’m coming. But I’ll be no good to
this Gabrielle without my medicines, now, will I?

252
00:18:43,256 --> 00:18:45,662
Here, go get me some bitterwort
from the garden.

253
00:18:46,493 --> 00:18:49,345
Oh, oh, Icus, I need some haleanthus, too.

254
00:18:50,117 --> 00:18:50,999
Icus?

255
00:18:55,193 --> 00:18:56,423
Icus, do you hear?!

256
00:19:06,360 --> 00:19:10,021
-Mother! Don’t hurt her! I’ll go with you!
Just, don’t hurt her, please!

257
00:19:10,022 --> 00:19:11,584
-Make sure she stays here.

258
00:19:15,539 --> 00:19:17,157
-Don’t give me any trouble!

259
00:19:30,708 --> 00:19:31,688
-Close in behind.

260
00:19:35,550 --> 00:19:36,092
-Come on!

261
00:19:53,198 --> 00:19:54,358
-What’ll we do now?

262
00:20:39,105 --> 00:20:40,179
-Why, you, I...

263
00:20:41,552 --> 00:20:45,952
-That looks mighty painful. You really oughtta
see a doctor about that.

264
00:20:47,562 --> 00:20:48,403
Are you all right?

265
00:20:48,541 --> 00:20:51,831
-Don’t bother with me. The zealots took Icus...
You’ve got to stop them.

266
00:20:52,139 --> 00:20:54,160
-Where? They took him where?
-To the mountain.

267
00:20:54,352 --> 00:20:55,597
To Anteus.

268
00:21:03,300 --> 00:21:04,341
-... please...

269
00:21:06,818 --> 00:21:08,273
... I beg you...

270
00:21:30,103 --> 00:21:31,324
-What was that?

271
00:21:35,013 --> 00:21:36,561
You and you... Go!

272
00:21:53,969 --> 00:21:55,115
-We couldn’t find anything.

273
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,307
-It’s some sort of trick. Keep moving! Hurry!

274
00:21:58,854 --> 00:21:59,600
-Where’s the boy?

275
00:22:00,463 --> 00:22:02,528
-He’s gone! Icus is gone!

276
00:22:10,763 --> 00:22:11,696
-Great percussion!

277
00:22:11,948 --> 00:22:13,942
Now, from the top!

278
00:22:19,999 --> 00:22:22,289
-And I thought our gods were harsh.

279
00:22:31,152 --> 00:22:31,946
-Please...

280
00:22:33,270 --> 00:22:35,096
Please, Almighty God.

281
00:22:36,045 --> 00:22:42,450
You alone know how I have struggled
to follow you always.

282
00:22:45,135 --> 00:22:46,749
I have given you my life!

283
00:22:47,715 --> 00:22:50,673
To use however You will.

284
00:22:51,022 --> 00:22:56,531
And it is yours even now, to take or leave...
As You choose.

285
00:22:58,668 --> 00:23:00,742
But, my son...

286
00:23:03,249 --> 00:23:07,740
Please, don’t take Icus.

287
00:23:08,919 --> 00:23:12,422
-HOW DARE YOU DENY ME ANYTHING?

288
00:23:12,666 --> 00:23:21,453
EITHER SACRIFICE ICUS BEFORE THE NEXT SUN, OR
I WILL TURN MY FACE UPON YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE...

289
00:23:22,180 --> 00:23:23,769
... FOREVER!

290
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,134
PROVE YOUR FAITH TO ME, ANTEUS.

291
00:23:27,687 --> 00:23:30,701
PROVE IT TO ME ABOVE ALL THINGS.

292
00:23:47,220 --> 00:23:50,119
-Father! Father! What’s wrong with him?

293
00:23:50,374 --> 00:23:52,260
-The strain must’ve been too much for him.

294
00:23:52,524 --> 00:23:54,517
Anteus, Anteus!

295
00:23:54,831 --> 00:23:56,253
-Father, it’s me!

296
00:23:57,325 --> 00:23:59,500
-What hap...
-Don’t try to speak.

297
00:23:59,965 --> 00:24:02,821
You’re very ill. We’ll get you home.

298
00:24:05,340 --> 00:24:06,566
-You heard it, didn’t you?

299
00:24:07,207 --> 00:24:08,521
The voice... You heard it.

300
00:24:09,346 --> 00:24:11,851
-Yes, but unlike you, I don’t believe
everything I hear.

301
00:24:12,609 --> 00:24:13,444
This way.

302
00:24:15,041 --> 00:24:15,965
-What did you say?

303
00:24:17,500 --> 00:24:18,778
I asked him.

304
00:24:19,471 --> 00:24:20,954
What did you say?

305
00:24:22,713 --> 00:24:23,732
That’s what I thought.

306
00:24:24,526 --> 00:24:25,395
Thank you!

307
00:24:27,232 --> 00:24:28,225
I gotta go.

308
00:24:33,711 --> 00:24:35,014
You stay here!

309
00:24:44,233 --> 00:24:45,995
-We’ll stop and rest a while.

310
00:24:46,706 --> 00:24:50,144
No sense in killing ourselves... so to speak.

311
00:24:53,045 --> 00:24:54,646
-You don’t think much of us, do you?

312
00:24:56,095 --> 00:25:00,238
-I don’t think much of your God... or any god
who’d wanna kill a child.

313
00:25:01,406 --> 00:25:02,722
But then, I’m not sure He does.

314
00:25:04,339 --> 00:25:05,994
It’ll ease your breathing.

315
00:25:07,295 --> 00:25:08,418
Lean forward.

316
00:25:09,950 --> 00:25:12,368
Anteus, I know your mind is hazy right now...

317
00:25:12,614 --> 00:25:15,860
... but, did you ever stop to wonder why
he’d ask you to do such a thing?

318
00:25:17,654 --> 00:25:20,234
-Every waking moment of every day
since it happened.

319
00:25:22,519 --> 00:25:25,996
I keep wondering... Is it me?
Have I done something...

320
00:25:27,727 --> 00:25:29,403
... wrong, and he’s punishing me?

321
00:25:30,811 --> 00:25:35,532
Or is this some kind of a... a test, to see
how far I’ll go to prove my faith. Or...

322
00:25:38,683 --> 00:25:42,333
... is He angry with me because He knows
how much I love you.

323
00:25:44,895 --> 00:25:48,100
Or does His love demand the best...

324
00:25:48,970 --> 00:25:51,798
... the brightest... You see... it...
it never stops.

325
00:25:52,050 --> 00:25:53,368
-You can stop it.

326
00:25:54,350 --> 00:25:57,054
You’re still the leader here... You don’t
have to do this.

327
00:25:58,027 --> 00:26:00,138
-You’re asking me to deny my God.

328
00:26:00,406 --> 00:26:04,303
-I am asking you to spare your son!
-And teach him what?!

329
00:26:04,671 --> 00:26:07,901
That faith is just for those times when
it’s convenient to believe? That...

330
00:26:08,117 --> 00:26:11,236
... that when it gets hard, and, and, and, it
hurts to keep faith, y... you...

331
00:26:11,237 --> 00:26:13,438
... you let go... until it gets easy again?

332
00:26:15,362 --> 00:26:18,976
What’s the good in sparing his life if I rob him
of the very thing that makes it worth living?

333
00:26:21,858 --> 00:26:23,291
-You know, I’ll stop you.

334
00:26:25,786 --> 00:26:27,048
-I know you’ll try.

335
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:33,620
God help me.

336
00:26:34,915 --> 00:26:37,509
Deep down inside,
part of me hopes you succeed.

337
00:26:51,092 --> 00:26:51,802
-Mother!

338
00:26:54,565 --> 00:26:56,150
Mother!
-Icus!

339
00:26:56,579 --> 00:26:57,975
You’re safe!

340
00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:02,184
Anteus! What is it? What’s wrong?

341
00:27:03,168 --> 00:27:06,178
-Nothing that some rest and
a change of diet won’t cure.

342
00:27:07,428 --> 00:27:08,678
He’s being drugged.

343
00:27:09,435 --> 00:27:12,584
That’s why he seems so strange to you lately.
-Drugged?

344
00:27:13,180 --> 00:27:15,268
But I don’t understand. Who’d want to...

345
00:27:25,557 --> 00:27:27,397
Y... Yes? Who’s there?

346
00:27:27,641 --> 00:27:28,567
-You don’t know me.

347
00:27:29,067 --> 00:27:32,586
I’m looking for a woman named Xena!
Warrior Princess!

348
00:27:36,806 --> 00:27:38,529
Ah! No! Ow!

349
00:27:39,097 --> 00:27:40,119
-What are you doing here?

350
00:27:40,465 --> 00:27:42,145
I thought I told you to wait for me
at the cave.

351
00:27:42,393 --> 00:27:44,899
-I did, and then this rock told me
I had to come find you..

352
00:27:45,622 --> 00:27:46,948
-The rock spoke to you.

353
00:27:47,255 --> 00:27:50,473
-Oh, yeah, I mean, his voice was
a little gravelly, but I understood.

354
00:27:53,963 --> 00:27:54,735
Right.

355
00:27:55,652 --> 00:28:00,264
-You see, even she’s hearing voices, and all
because she ate some of the drugged food
meant for you.

356
00:28:15,474 --> 00:28:16,404
-Where are you going?

357
00:28:17,331 --> 00:28:18,195
What’s the matter?

358
00:28:21,532 --> 00:28:22,903
What is it, Icus?

359
00:28:23,734 --> 00:28:26,429
Come on, I can’t help you if you
won’t tell me what’s wrong?

360
00:28:28,206 --> 00:28:29,748
What is it?
-You!

361
00:28:30,490 --> 00:28:35,643
It’s God’s command I should die, but
as long as you’re free, we can’t obey him.

362
00:28:45,645 --> 00:28:48,076
-One move, and she dies.

363
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,119
-Maell, what are you doing?
-Quiet, Father.

364
00:28:52,369 --> 00:28:55,235
The time for peaceful ways has passed.

365
00:28:55,834 --> 00:28:58,031
-You know, he was just outside.
-Silence!

366
00:29:03,029 --> 00:29:06,377
-All right, you’ve made your point.

367
00:29:08,046 --> 00:29:10,388
Now, let her go, and I’ll come with you.

368
00:29:11,763 --> 00:29:14,213
-You know, she gets to go everywhere.
You could take me.

369
00:29:15,133 --> 00:29:17,871
-I don’t bargain with savages.

370
00:29:18,432 --> 00:29:19,458
-And what are you?

371
00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:24,119
Drugging your father; trying to kill
your own brother.

372
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,868
-Enough! One more move and I’ll kill her...
I swear!

373
00:29:27,432 --> 00:29:28,051
-No!

374
00:29:29,814 --> 00:29:31,788
Stop! There’s no need to hurt them!

375
00:29:32,092 --> 00:29:33,060
-And I won’t...

376
00:29:34,289 --> 00:29:35,915
... as long as they cooperate.

377
00:29:39,550 --> 00:29:41,330
-What do you want us to do?

378
00:30:07,580 --> 00:30:08,729
-That’s a long way down.

379
00:30:09,668 --> 00:30:12,257
Don’t let go.
-Just don’t let go of my hand.

380
00:30:18,874 --> 00:30:19,771
-Come, Father.

381
00:30:22,629 --> 00:30:23,916
God’s waiting.

382
00:30:46,312 --> 00:30:48,096
-Go ahead, climb up my body.

383
00:30:51,977 --> 00:30:52,944
-All right...

384
00:31:04,561 --> 00:31:05,489
OK, now what?

385
00:31:06,350 --> 00:31:08,329
-Now, for the fun part.

386
00:31:12,405 --> 00:31:15,129
-Xena, ah, how could you do this?

387
00:31:19,135 --> 00:31:20,049
Do I hurt you?

388
00:31:22,281 --> 00:31:23,096
-No, no...

389
00:31:23,876 --> 00:31:25,596
Loving every moment of it.

390
00:31:26,207 --> 00:31:27,594
-How did we get in here, anyway?

391
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,429
And, why does my head feel like
it was kicked by a centaur?

392
00:31:30,641 --> 00:31:32,126
-Does it? Good...

393
00:31:32,565 --> 00:31:34,174
The henbane must be wearing off.

394
00:31:34,934 --> 00:31:35,565
-Henbane?

395
00:31:43,134 --> 00:31:44,143
-Long story.

396
00:31:45,961 --> 00:31:48,086
-Yeah, well, if we fall, tell it to me
on the way down.

397
00:31:52,917 --> 00:31:55,222
-I couldn’t let others die protecting me,
Father...

398
00:31:56,128 --> 00:31:58,364
Not when my death is part of God’s plan.

399
00:31:59,750 --> 00:32:02,863
I.. Isn’t that right?
Father, let me help you.

400
00:32:03,111 --> 00:32:05,668
-No, no, no, it’s all... it’s all right...
lead the way.

401
00:32:21,330 --> 00:32:22,170
-Xena?

402
00:32:35,930 --> 00:32:36,820
-Icus, wait!

403
00:32:37,649 --> 00:32:39,891
-Father, what is it? Are you ill again?

404
00:32:40,323 --> 00:32:41,093
-No.

405
00:32:44,014 --> 00:32:45,229
I can’t do this, Icus.

406
00:32:46,612 --> 00:32:48,301
I know what I said about faith but...

407
00:32:50,418 --> 00:32:51,437
... it's too hard.

408
00:32:52,219 --> 00:32:54,374
It’s too much to ask! I’m old! And...

409
00:32:56,266 --> 00:32:57,311
I can’t.

410
00:33:04,597 --> 00:33:07,776
-Father, it’s OK... Really, it is.
-No!

411
00:33:08,036 --> 00:33:10,522
Our God is a benevolent master.

412
00:33:45,486 --> 00:33:46,961
-What is Heaven like, Father?

413
00:33:48,307 --> 00:33:51,103
-I don’t know, Son, but it must be glorious.

414
00:33:53,763 --> 00:33:55,691
-My stomach doesn’t feel so good.

415
00:33:56,367 --> 00:33:57,927
-Don’t even think about it.

416
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:04,662
We’re almost there...

417
00:34:05,729 --> 00:34:07,019
... almost there.

418
00:34:35,457 --> 00:34:36,277
-What’s next?

419
00:34:41,875 --> 00:34:43,188
-Come on.

420
00:36:22,863 --> 00:36:24,184
-I love you, Father.

421
00:36:27,856 --> 00:36:32,058
-ANTEUS, HEAR ME AND OBEY.

422
00:36:33,495 --> 00:36:36,914
I am your one, true God.

423
00:36:38,165 --> 00:36:41,405
THE ONE WHO SHOULD COME FIRST
IN YOUR HEART.

424
00:36:42,541 --> 00:36:44,477
Yet, you love Icus more.

425
00:36:45,664 --> 00:36:47,224
You always have.

426
00:36:50,171 --> 00:36:53,598
Therefore, you must obey this command.

427
00:36:54,078 --> 00:36:55,653
-Tell him to stop.

428
00:36:56,533 --> 00:36:58,334
Make him let Icus go.

429
00:36:59,313 --> 00:37:00,412
-Kill him!

430
00:37:00,688 --> 00:37:02,790
KILL HIM!

431
00:37:08,076 --> 00:37:08,959
-Get that thing!

432
00:37:09,588 --> 00:37:10,723
Try to stop them!

433
00:37:11,177 --> 00:37:14,291
-You’re too late! It’s already begun!

434
00:37:33,725 --> 00:37:35,670
-You’ll never stop the will of our God.

435
00:37:37,168 --> 00:37:39,667
-Killing Icus isn’t the will of any god.

436
00:37:40,359 --> 00:37:41,745
It’s your idea.

437
00:37:42,690 --> 00:37:46,475
Drugging your father simply helped convince
him that your voice was real.

438
00:37:46,890 --> 00:37:50,421
-You know, for a pagan nonbeliever,
you’re really quite bright.

439
00:37:52,176 --> 00:37:53,089
Pity.

440
00:38:10,486 --> 00:38:12,512
-Your schemes won’t work forever.

441
00:38:13,225 --> 00:38:14,301
-It doesn’t need to.

442
00:38:14,745 --> 00:38:17,674
You see, with Icus gone, Father will have to
make me leader.

443
00:38:17,998 --> 00:38:20,005
There’ll be no one left to stand in my way...

444
00:38:21,729 --> 00:38:22,719
No one.

445
00:39:07,873 --> 00:39:10,058
-May our God show you mercy.

446
00:39:13,370 --> 00:39:14,592
For I never will.

447
00:39:27,888 --> 00:39:28,870
-Take my hand.

448
00:39:35,102 --> 00:39:36,988
-Let God’s will be done.

449
00:40:22,577 --> 00:40:24,051
-HOLD ANTEUS!

450
00:40:24,461 --> 00:40:25,762
LET YOUR SON LIVE.

451
00:40:26,168 --> 00:40:28,480
YOUR FAITH IS ENOUGH.

452
00:40:29,666 --> 00:40:31,713
-Father! Oh, Father!

453
00:40:52,860 --> 00:40:53,731
-Bye, Xena.

454
00:40:54,773 --> 00:40:55,719
-Thank you!

455
00:40:56,061 --> 00:40:57,034
-Take care!

456
00:40:58,167 --> 00:40:59,656
-Do you think you can talk any louder?

457
00:41:00,154 --> 00:41:01,766
I don’t think they heard you on Mount Olympus.

458
00:41:02,490 --> 00:41:05,898
Unless, of course, you’re trying to convert
to the one true God.

459
00:41:06,174 --> 00:41:07,203
-One God...

460
00:41:07,653 --> 00:41:09,709
Although, you’ve gotta admit, it’s a pretty
interesting theory.

461
00:41:11,272 --> 00:41:11,870
How’s the head?

462
00:41:13,868 --> 00:41:14,989
-Look, do me a favor, OK?

463
00:41:15,881 --> 00:41:18,011
If you ever see me take a drug again,
just kill me.

464
00:41:18,112 --> 00:41:19,172
-You’ve got a deal.

465
00:41:20,216 --> 00:41:23,747
Still, for someone high on henbane,
you do a pretty fair voice of God routine.

466
00:41:23,957 --> 00:41:24,933
-What’s that supposed to mean?

467
00:41:25,196 --> 00:41:28,309
-Your voice of God impersonation. Not bad,
although, you could improve your timing.

468
00:41:28,905 --> 00:41:30,563
You almost cost Anteus an arm.

469
00:41:31,026 --> 00:41:34,027
-Wait! Are you saying that you heard it, too?
The voice!

470
00:41:34,637 --> 00:41:36,380
And here, I thought it was the henbane.

471
00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:37,626
-Very funny.

472
00:41:37,627 --> 00:41:40,864
Although, it wouldn’t have been if you had taken
much longer getting that loud-talking thing.

473
00:41:41,093 --> 00:41:43,162
-Well, that’s just it... I never did get the
loud-talking thing.

474
00:41:43,342 --> 00:41:46,356
I mean, I tried. I even had it
in my hand, but I lost it.

475
00:41:46,986 --> 00:41:50,188
-That can’t be. I mean, come on.
If you didn’t do it, then who...?

476
00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:17,885
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