Jenya Lano

A marine goes missing after a date with a reporter. During the investigation, the team discovers that three former members of his unit are dead and suspect the unit commander to be a serial killer.

When the sisters try to divert Zankou's attention from the Nexus, he hatches a plan to absorb all their powers. However, when the girls realize what Zankou is up to, they are faced with a life altering decision: sacrifice their powers or their lives.

Upon learning that a college roommate who is now a well known Middle East correspondent is coming to town, Maya is anxious to prove that she's a hard hitting journalist, too. So when she proposes a story about a clothing manufacturer's toxic waste dumping, Jack agrees to let her do it. Meanwhile, with the approach of Jack's birthday, Finch and Nina square off over who can get him the best present. When foreign correspondent Erin Simon arrives, Elliott invites her to join him at a popular nightclub. But Maya is forced to beg off so she can cover her waste dumping story instead. And upon returning home empty-handed from her stakeout, Maya is stunned to find that Erin spent the night with Elliott. Meanwhile, when Finch gets Jack's childhood hero Cowboy Pete Hamilton to appear for his birthday, Nina gets the cowboy's simian sidekick, Monkey Dan. Warned by Maya against a one night stand, Elliott is surprised to find Erin is leaving him after their night together. As Finch and Nina both work to keep Jack from finding Cowboy Pete and the monkey, Maya learns that her next stakeout is going to conflict with her dad's birthday party. But realizing that her dad is worth much more than the story leads a sewage-drenched Maya to return just in time to surprise Jack.

Ares (Kevin Smith) merges Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle (Renee O’Connor) into the same body and forces them to fight Mavican (Jenya Lano), Ares’ potential right hand. After a rollicking roll in the sack, Mavican (Jenya Lano) tells Ares (Kevin Smith) that she wants to be his right-hand woman, just as Xena (Lucy Lawless) once was. Ares dismisses the idea and disappears. Meanwhile at Demeter’s Temple, Gabrielle (Renee O’Connor) complains to herself that Xena is still overprotective of her. Suddenly, Mavican appears and throws a javelin towards Gabrielle’s head. Xena arrives just in time to deflect the javelin and takes over the fight, which greatly upsets Gabrielle.

Marine Lt. Hank Thomas enters BBQ Bob's, the favorite lunchtime hangout of the doctors, wielding a gun in his left hand and threatening three other Marines who are already there. Jesse (CHARLIE SCHLATTER) bravely tries to talk Thomas out of whatever it is he's about to do, but he orders Jesse and everyone else besides the other Marines out of the restaurant.

An injured Shalimar is temporarily replaced in her Mutant X duties by a feral with a hidden agenda that could destroy the team.