Editing Xena (section)

====The path to redemption continues====
Marcus, a warrior, close friend and lover from her warlord days, whom she persuades to follow her in choosing good, is killed while doing his first good deed.<ref name="path">{{cite episode|title=The Path Not Taken|series=Xena: Warrior Princess|series-link=Xena: Warrior Princess|airdate=2 October 1995}}</ref> Later he is allowed to briefly return to the world of the living to help thwart a vicious killer who has escaped from the Underworld. He and Xena spend a night together before Marcus has to return to the other side.<ref name="belo">{{cite episode|title=Mortal Beloved|series=Xena: Warrior Princess|series-link=Xena: Warrior Princess|airdate=12 February 1996}}</ref> Several years after her first meeting with Lao Ma, a messenger is sent by Lao Ma to ask Xena to travel to China to aid in stopping a great evil. She sets out without delay, but insists that she must deal with this alone and that Gabrielle stay behind.

Xena arrives too late to save her mentor and friend [[Lao Ma]] from being tortured to death by her own son, the emperor [[Ming T'ien]] and is crushed with the loss.<ref name="debt">{{cite episode|title=The Debt II|series=Xena: Warrior Princess|series-link=Xena: Warrior Princess|airdate=10 November 1997}}</ref> Finally, she and Gabrielle are crucified by the Romans on the [[Ides of March]] by her former lover [[Caesar (Xena)|Caesar]]. Caesar himself is betrayed and killed by Brutus.<ref name="Ides of March">{{cite episode|title=The Ides of March|series=Xena: Warrior Princess|series-link=Xena: Warrior Princess|airdate=10 May 1999}}</ref> They are later revived by a mystic named [[Eli (Xena)|Eli]], along with the spiritual aid of Callisto, who became a demon and then an angel after Xena killed her.<ref name="fallen angel">{{cite episode|title=Fallen Angel|series=Xena: Warrior Princess|series-link=Xena: Warrior Princess|airdate=27 September 1999}}</ref>