4. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Joxer meets with Xena and Gabrielle and delivers a package containing the head of Orpheus. Bacchus has decapitated him, and Orpheus asks Xena to find his lyre in order to stop Bacchus. While searching a nearby town, Gabrielle dances with a group of Bacchus' bacchae: female vampires created by Bacchus. Meanwhile, Xena defeats two bacchae but is unable to take the lyre from them. The next day Xena, still carrying Orpheus' head, Gabrielle, and Joxer go to the cemetery next to Bacchus' catacombs to collect dryad bones. These bones are the only thing capable of piercing a bacchae's heart and killing them.

Xena kills one of the skeletal, winged dryads and procures a sharp bone. After the battle, Gabrielle turns into a bacchae, having been bitten by another bacchae the day before. She escapes into the catecombs, with Xena and Joxer following. When they arrive, Gabrielle is about to drink Bacchus' blood from a cup and become a permanent bacchae. Xena knocks the cup to the ground with her chakram. A fight ensues and Xena attempts to kill Bacchus, but only a bacchae can kill him. Xena lets Gabrielle bite her so that she also becomes a bacchae. Able to resist Bacchus normal control over bacchae, Xena kills Bacchus and return Orpheus' lyre. Gabrielle and the other girls are restored to normal.