(Angel and the others have reached town and are making their way down a narrow, shadowed alley.)

LORNE: Just remember, keep your heads down. Xenophobia is kind of a watch-word where I'm from.

GUNN: I don't get it. Why're they afraid of Xena? I mean, I think she's kind of fly.

WESLEY: Xenophobia. Fear of foreigners?

GUNN: Oh. Then can we pretend I didn't just say that?

LORNE: Now, right over there is Blix's house -- a boyhood chum of mine. Ah, we were the best of buds, always playing games, watching out for each other, close as a Torto demon and its parasite. (Off their looks) I'll make the approach. You three stay here -- we gotta keep a low profile.

ANGEL: Why?

LORNE: Because otherwise you might get beaten to death with sticks. Be right back.

(He goes into Blix's house. An instant later he runs out, with Blix after him with an ax.)

BLIX: What?! - Traitor! Deserter! Betrayer!

LORNE: We should run. Now!

(After a brisk chase, they end up in the market, surrounded.)

CROWD: Seize them!

ANGEL: Hey, what now? Where do we go now?

LORNE: Probably to the nearest dungeon. We're surrounded.

• Funnies
• Lorne's Pylea & family issues

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