Young Man: "Are you Cleopatra?"
Xena: "Are you my assassin?"
Young Man: "No! I was coming to see you."
Xena: "We have a front door for that."
Young Man: "But this was the only way. Believe me."

[The room erupts into flames as oil "bombs" are thrown into the room.]

Antony: "Cleopatra!"
Xena: "Where do you think you're going?"
Young Man: "Away from him. He wants me dead. Those assassins were after me."
Xena: "Oh, aren't you the center of attention. Isn't it more likely they were after me?

Young Man: "That's why we must ally. They want us both dead." Xena: "And who are you?" Antony: "Octavius."

Antony: "Queen Cleopatra, may I introduce to you the grand-nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar … and a traitor."
Octavius: "I'm a traitor? What would Julius Caesar think of his closest friend denying me his throne?"
Antony: "Uncle Julius was too busy to realize how ill-equipped you are. It's not that I love Caesar less, I love Rome more."
Xena: "Antony …"
Octavius: "Cleopatra, please! He'll kill me."
Xena: "take him away! I'll deal with him later."

Xena: "How do I know you weren't somehow involved in this?" Antony: "I came here to put out the fire. We have unfinished business, you and I."

Xena: "Yes?" Gabrielle: "I'm losing sight of your plan, Xena. Are you trying to flirt him to death?" Xena: "I'm getting him to trust me so I can do what I want with him." Gabrielle: "Be careful, he's your type." Xena: "You think?"

Gabrielle: "What's this 'unfinished business'?"
Xena: "He's going to try to seduce me into letting him use Cleopatra's navy."
Gabrielle: "And then?"
Xena: "And then I'll have him on his knees - figuratively speaking, of course."
Gabrielle: "Of course."

[Xena … um … Cleopatra seduces Antony to the tune of Natalie Merchant's "Carnival."]

Gabrielle: "Erhem … Queen Cleopatra, don't forget your meeting with your advisors." Xena: "Ah, my advisors. Yes, they're such busy bodies." Antony: "Rome wasn't built in a day."

Xena: "What do you think you were doing? I was in complete control."
Gabrielle: "How far were you going to let that go, Xena?"
Xena: "Until he begged for my navel."
Gabrielle: "Your navy?"
Xena: "I know what I'm doing."

Gabrielle: "Xena, what happens if he's the one who killed Cleopatra?"
Xena: "He's the one I'll kill if I have to. I have no real feelings for him, Gabrielle, believe me."

Shiana: "This (flower) is from Antony." Xena: "Really." Shiana: "He invites you to meet him tomorrow night under the pyramid." Xena: "Tell him I'll be there … got him right where I want him."