- Xena: [Gabrielle wakes up to see Xena gone and a scroll on her bed. She picks it up and looks at it. It is signed with an "X" and print of Xena's lips. Gabrielle reads Xena's letter] Gabrielle, I've gone to take care of some unfinished business. This mission is so dangerous, I'm afraid I won't survive and I can't ask you to die with me once again. Whatever happens know that my love for you is endless. Xena.
- Xena: [Brunnhilda tells Gabrielle the story of Xena; a flashback of a younger Xena riding slowly through the woods is shown. Odin, the King of the Norse Gods, is heard moaning. Xena rides over to him] Whoa...
- [She stops her horse to look at Odin. He is crucified on a tree. A raven is with him]
- Xena: Hey, there. Who did you mess with?
- Odin: No one is capable of doing this to me without my consent.
- Xena: What kind of an idiot has himself crucified?
- Odin: I don't wish to take part in the struggle of life anymore.
- Xena: Why would you wanna do that?
- Odin: I am Odin, king of the Norse Gods. It is my duty to bring peace to the Norse country. Yet as I sit in Valhalla, and watch the bitter struggle called life on this Earth, I ask, "Are we doomed to live in a constant state of endless conflict"?
- Xena: Damn straight. That's what makes life so worth living! You know, every day I wake up and I feel pumped by the knowledge that there is always someone around the next corner - someone for me to challenge, to fight, and to conquer.
- Odin: Someday... someone may conquer you.
- Xena: Precisely... which is why I don't have time to waste chatting with a God who doesn't know what to do with his immortality.
- Odin: [as Xena starts to leave with her horse] Wait... who are you?
- Xena: The name's Xena.
- [pause]
- Xena: You know, you can't escape the struggle, Odin. Ya gotta embrace it!
- Brunnhilda: [voice-over] Xena brought Odin out of his despair by sharing with him her lust for life. He, in turn, made her a Valkyrie.
- Gabrielle: [Gabrielle rides a white horse. There is an overlapping scene of a moon]
- [voice-over]
- Gabrielle: I know Xena wouldn't have done this if she didn't feel this was something she had to do by herself.
- [Gabrielle camps out. She writes on a scroll]
- Gabrielle: I debated whether to respect her wish, but I can't.
- [Gabrielle rides and camps again]
- Gabrielle: Her path is my path.
- [she keeps writing]
- Gabrielle: I've been following her now, for weeks. Her trail has taken me North, due North...
- [Gabrielle writes as she glances up to the full moon]
- Gabrielle: Farther North than I've ever been.
- Xena: [Brunnhilda tells Gabrielle the story of Xena; a flashback of a younger Xena riding slowly through the woods is shown. Odin, the King of the Norse Gods, is heard moaning. Xena rides over to him] Whoa...
- [She stops her horse to look at Odin. He is crucified on a tree. A raven is with him]
- Xena: Hey, there. Who did you mess with?
- Beowulf: No one is capable of doing this to me without my consent.
- Xena: What kind of an idiot has himself crucified?
- Beowulf: I don't wish to take part in the struggle of life anymore.
- Xena: Why would you wanna do that?
- Beowulf: I am Odin, king of the Norse Gods. It is my duty to bring peace to the Norse country. Yet as I sit in Valhalla, and watch the bitter struggle called life on this Earth, I ask, "Are we doomed to live in a constant state of endless conflict"?
- Xena: Damn straight. That's what makes life so worth living! You know, every day I wake up and I feel pumped by the knowledge that there is always someone around the next corner - someone for me to challenge, to fight, and to conquer.
- Beowulf: Someday... someone may conquer you.
- Xena: Precisely... which is why I don't have time to waste chatting with a God who doesn't know what to do with his immortality.
- Beowulf: [as Xena starts to leave with her horse] Wait... who are you?
- Xena: The name's Xena.
- [pause]
- Xena: You know, you can't escape the struggle, Odin. Ya gotta embrace it!
- Odin: [voice-over] Xena brought Odin out of his despair by sharing with him her lust for life. He, in turn, made her a Valkyrie.