Season 4 Episode 06 - A Tale of Two Muses

Xena and Gabrielle travel to a village and find a girl about to be whipped. Naturally they save her and then find out it is Tara, the girl they helped a year ago when she was involved with stealing an urn. They find out that Tara has committed a serious crime and must receive the punishment, but when Gabrielle asks what she did they learn that all she did was dance. Xena and Gabrielle persuade the villagers to just banish Tara instead, but after they leave the village Tara reveals that she has no plans of staying away, she wants to go back and get her boyfriend and his father. Xena has a better idea and tries to save the whole village by getting Autolycus to pretend to be a strong believer of their laws and then try and change them. After scarring the parents of the village by telling them that if the children don't dance they will fight and kill instead the father of Tara's boyfriend runs for town mayor. With a little help from Xena, Gabrielle and Autolycus he gets elected and changes the laws so that they aren't so strict.