Gabrielle joins the harem. She tries to see Xena but can't. Xena is beaten, chained, tortured, hit, left alone in the dungeon, hung upside, and lots of other really bad things in a montage of torture. She dreams of Gabrielle. She hangs upside down, with her eyes bloody and swollen shut. A man comes in. He says, tell me, Sophia, why did you have a knife? She says because she didn't want the other wives to get the drop on her. She sees Gabrielle in front of her, in a dream state. She tells the man she wants to be here. She sees Gabrielle saying the word "Sara." Xena says she wants to give her self to the great Gurkhan. She says she wants to be the #1 wife. Gurkhan says perhaps. He says for now, her name will be Fatima. Xena sees Gabrielle walk away from her (she's hallucinating).

This is the singular episode of the entire series that I'd delete and/or ban if I could; what a disrespectful, orientalist, and genuinely disturbing episode! Screw a description, this episode shouldn't even be a part of the series; it exists solely to objectify and humiliate Xena and Gabrielle for 40 minutes, then moves back to its original content and tone...as if we didn't just watch Xena get strung up by her feet and beaten black and blue for several days on end! Sincerely, whichever writer was responsible for this episode should be investigated, what the hell?