Season 2 Episode 02 - Remember Nothing

When Xena and Gabrielle defend the temple of the Fates one day, the fates grant Xena one wish as a thanks. Xena wishes that many years ago when her village was under attack she and her now dead brother Lyceus went to the mountains instead of fighting. The Fate grant her wish and to start with Xena loves this new life, but one-by-one things start to go bad. First she finds out her mother is dead, then she finds out that her village is still under attack by the same warlords still and the village is slowly being destroyed. Xena is not prepared to go back to her new life just yet, but she knew it would be hard defending them because the Fates had given her a warning. If Xena made any one bleed then she would be placed back in to her real life and her brother would still be dead.

Then she sees Gabrielle again, but she has changed instead of being a bard/Amazon she is a slave girl. Xena helps free Gabrielle but when things start to go wrong and Xena, Gabrielle and her brother have to fight for their lives Xena refuses to pick up a sword. Her brothers says to her that he would rather die fighting then live knowing what he didn't do Xena stabs a man with her sword now knowing that her brother didn't die in vain but he preferred that life to the new one Xena made.