From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   3-11 Maternal Instincts   
      
      
      
   First air date was Jan 28, 1998.   
      
   The episode starts out with Xena and Gabrielle walking through a clearing with   
   war totems covered   
   with flowers. Gabrielle comments on how much difference a year can make. Xena   
   hears something.   
   Suddenly Solan jumps down from a tree to surprise her. Next Kaleipus shows up.   
   He talks about a   
   treaty with (??), so all the delegates have brought their children. Gabrielle   
   suggests to Solan   
   they race to the village edge so Xena and Kaleipus can talk. Xena says she   
   isn't there to take   
   Solan.   
      
   Cut to a little girl about ten years old bouncing a ball. It falls down into a   
   chasm and disappears   
   into some rocks. The ball rests on the floor of a cave. Suddenly the floor   
   splits and fire comes   
   out. The girl faints as Callisto flies up to the top of the chasm She sees the   
   child and says she   
   always wanted one.   
      
   In the village Gabrielle goes into a hut and sees Solan with Ephiny and her   
   centaur son, Xenon.   
   Solan and Xenon leave. Ephiny sees that Gabrielle is upset.   
      
   Back to the totems, and Callisto is setting them on fire with fireballs from   
   her hands. Two   
   soldiers see her and attack.   
      
   Back to Gabrielle  and Ephiny. Gabrielle, almost in tears,  tells Ephiny that   
   in Britannia she had   
   a child that died. Ephiny tells her not to blame herself, no one knows why the   
   Fates steal a   
   child's life.   
      
   Xena and Kaleipus find the dead soldiers. He thinks Ares killed them, but Xena   
   suspects someone   
   else, but can't believe it's who she is thinking of.   
      
   Ephiny leaves for a meeting (of delegates?) leaving Gabrielle alone. Someone   
   sneaks into the hut.   
   It is the little girl. She says her name is Fayla. She says she has a message   
   only for Xena,   
   otherwise the monster-lady will kill her. They find Xena. Xena says she   
   suspected Callisto, but   
   doesn't understand how she was freed. The message is that Callisto knows   
   Xena's secret and will   
   take it to the grave. They decide to hide Solan in the Ixion caves. They want   
   to take Fayla but she   
   has disappeared.   
      
   In the caves Callisto is brushing Fayla/Hope's hair. Hope says she freed   
   Callisto to help her snuff   
   out the people Xena loves.   
      
   Solan doesn't want to hide away in the caves, but Xena tells him it's because   
   Kaleipus loves him.   
      
   Gabrielle bumps into Hope in a store, and Hope drops the carving of the lamb   
   Gabrielle put in the   
   basket when she set her adrift. Gabrielle knows it is Hope and tells her she   
   has something she has   
   to do, but to wait in her hut.   
      
   Xena and a cloaked figure are running through the woods. Callisto finds them,   
   thinking the cloaked   
   person is Solan. But it is Gabrielle. Callisto tells them is was a good plan,   
   and she can't be two   
   places at once - or can she? Xena realizes someone is helping Callisto but   
   doesn't know who.   
      
   Kaleipus is in the Ixion caves. Hope makes a sword fly though the air and stab   
   him. He dies outside   
   where Xena and Gabrielle find him.   
      
   Xena tells Solan that Kaleipus is dead and Solan wants to leave with Xena   
   rather than stay in the   
   village. Xena tells him to pack and when she's finished with Callisto they   
   will leave together. And   
   they will have a lot to talk about on the road.   
      
   Back in the cave Callisto finds a weakened Hope. She starts to go after Solan   
   but Hope tells her to   
   wait or she'll be destroyed by Dahak along with the rest of the gods. Callisto   
   sits down next to   
   her to wait.   
      
   Back in Gabrielle's hut, she is angry when Fayla finally gets there. But Fayla   
   tells her Callisto   
   said she was evil because she can move things with her mind. Gabrielle tells   
   her she IS NOT evil.   
   And she admits she is Hope's mother, and she loves her. Hope says Callisto   
   will kill her, so   
   Gabrielle takes her to the safest place she knows - with Solan.   
      
   Gabrielle tells Xena about Callisto's plan to kill all the children, and that   
   Fayla told her. Xena   
   says Callisto wouldn't have told her the plan and she can't be trusted.   
   Gabrielle says Xena  was   
   always quick to blame her but she's not evil. Xena realizes it's Hope and says   
   poison will kill her   
   if her powers aren't mature.   
      
   Xena runs to see about Solan but he is dead. Gabrielle follows, and can't   
   believe he is dead. Xena   
   tells her to get out.   
      
   In the caves, Callisto hears Xena's cries of anguish, and is momentarily   
   elated.   
      
   Ephiny comes into the hut and tells Xena Callisto is coming and they need her   
   help. Xena tells her   
   to go away. Xenon comes in and Xena leaves Solan to fight Callisto.   
      
   Hope goes back to Gabrielle's hut and says Solan was dead when she got there.   
   At first Gabrielle   
   believes her until she says Solan's name.   
      
   Gabrielle gets poison and pours it into a water skin.   
      
   Callisto is walking through the deserted village. Xena shoots an arrow through   
   her heart. Callisto   
   asks about Xena losing her family, and how it hurts. Xena shoots another   
   arrow, then many archers   
   shoot Callisto until she had a dozen or more arrows in her. She revitalizes   
   and causes the arrows   
   to fly out of her and some of them kill the archers.   
      
   Callisto goes into the caves where the  women and children are hiding. Xena is   
   there waiting for   
   her.  They fight. Callisto throws lighting bolts from her fingers, causing the   
   columns holding up   
   the ceiling to fall. At the last moment Xena escapes, trapping Callitso in the   
   caves.   
      
   Cut to Gabrielle where she had given Hope the poisoned water. Hope is dead and   
   Gabrielle starts to   
   drink but  the water skin is almost empty and she pours the little bit left   
   onto the ground. Xena   
   sees what has happened and she and Gabrielle  exchange painful looks.   
      
   It is night and there are twin funeral pyres, one for Solan and one for Hope.   
   Ephiny is singing a   
   funeral dirge.   
      
   Gabrielle is in tears and admits she should have done what Xena told her. And   
   because of that   
   Kaleipus and Solan are dead. Xena tells her not to speak his name. She trusted   
   Gabrielle but she   
   lied to her, and now Xena's son is dead.   
      
   A tearful Gabrielle tells Xena she loves her then walks away.   
      
   Xena sheds a few more tears and walks away in the opposite direction.   
      
   .......   
      
   And the roller coaster continues on! From the lofty heights of two humorous    
   eps, then plunging   
   down to the very depths of betrayal and despair.  What a ride!   
      
   There was no doubt that Hope would be back.   
      
   But I wonder how it was that Callisto showed up but not Velasca. You would   
   think that Hope would   
   want all the help she could get. Maybe she only had enough power to free one   
   of them and Callisto   
   seemed to be the best candidate.   
      
   Anyway, Callisto was back and just as deliciously evil as ever. Although it   
   was odd to see her   
      
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