From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   3-22 Sacrifice, Part 2   
      
      
      
             First air date May 11, 1998.   
      
             The episode starts out with scenes from last week's "Sacrifice".   
   Everyone is in the   
   temple watching Hope, covered in plastic-wrap looking goo, emerging from the   
   cocoon. Xena starts to   
   attack her, but Hope uses mind control, and swords, daggers, and axes hanging   
   on the walls start   
   flying at Xena. She uses her Chakram to deflect them.   
      
   Xena throws her Chakram at Hope and it cuts her on the arm, hurting her a   
   little, then sticks into   
   the stone wall. Using her mind control, Hope makes it fly back to Xena and   
   hits her in the belly,   
   throwing her backward, but no real damage. More weapons starts to fly but Xena   
   use her Chakram to   
   cut a chain and a huge shield falls from the ceiling and she and Gabrielle   
   roll it towards the   
   entrance as the swords, etc, bounce off it. Callisto starts to use a fireball   
   on X&G but Hope tells   
   her they have more important things to do and Callisto teleports herself and   
   Hope away.   
      
   Xena berates Gabrielle about saving Hope. Gabrielle tells her about Ares and   
   the Fates and Xena's   
   life. Xena says she would gladly die to rid the world of Hope, but Gabrielle   
   isn't ready to lose   
   her.   
      
   Xena mentions that the face she loves more than anything else in the world   
   (Gabrielle's) is also   
   the face of the one she hates the most (Hope). (Almost exactly what Gabrielle   
   told   
   Xena-in-Callisto's-body way back when.)   
      
   Hope has Callisto use a fireball to change the plastic goo into the clothes,   
   and staff, Gabrielle   
   is wearing.   
      
   Ares goes into the Temple of Dahak and tells the Fire-That-Is-Dahak that the   
   gods will fall and he   
   doesn't regret joining him. The Fire growls and Ares changes that to serving   
   him.   
      
   Xena, Gabrielle and Seraphin enter a town where the villages are being rounded   
   up to be sacrificed   
   to Dahak. Xena fights Dahak's hooded men.   
      
   Ares appears to Gabrielle and she asks how he likes being Dahak's slave. He   
   reminds her about   
   Xena's death if she kills Hope. She says Hope still has to die.   
      
   Callisto and Hope are in one of Ares' temples. Callisto destroys some of it.   
   Ares appears. Callisto   
   wants to fight but he tells her he is on their side now. Hope says they both   
   want the hind's blood   
   dagger.  They fight some anyway until Hope stops them. Hope and Ares begin   
   kissing. Callisto can't   
   stand to watch and disappears.   
      
   Xena, Gabrielle and Seraphin look over a cliff to see hooded men herding   
   people to Dahak's temple.   
   Seraphin says she won't be used to betray her god and jumps off the cliff.   
   Xena jumps after her,   
   grabbing her dress with one hand and a vine with the other. Callisto is   
   standing there looking down   
   at them. Xena throws Seraphin up, then herself.   
      
   Callisto now wants to help Xena since she thinks Hope is just using her. She   
   tells them about Ares   
   and Hope.  She thinks Xena knows where the hind's blood dagger is and will   
   help them if Xena will   
   kill her with it. Seraphin breaks away from Gabrielle and runs off.   
      
   Hope comes out of the temple, touches the stone hand railing and sees a vision   
   of Hercules putting   
   the dagger in the stone. She breaks it away with her mind, but no dagger.   
      
    On the trail Callisto is trying to convince Xena to let her help them.   
   Gabrielle tells Xena it is   
   a good idea. Xena goes along with it.   
      
   Hope sees Joxer and asks him about their relationship (he thinks she's   
   Gabrielle). He stammers but   
   can't answer. Hope asks about Xena and Gabrielle's relationship. He says   
   Gabrielle loves Xena more   
   than anything else in the world. She is perturbed about it. Then she asks   
   about the hind's blood   
   dagger but he doesn't know anything.   
      
   In another village Xena, Gabrielle and Callisto start to help out against the   
   hooded men. Gabrielle   
   takes children to safety. Xena fights the bad guys and Callisto throws   
   fireballs at anyone and   
   everything. Hope walks into the village and watches all this.   
      
   Xena sees her, and thinking it's Gabrielle, drags her away intending to tell   
   her where the dagger   
   is hidden. When Hope turns her back, Xena draws her knife and asks what her   
   sister's name is. Hope   
   asks what sister. Hope's mind throws Xena away. But before Xena can use her   
   Chakram again, Ares   
   appears and takes Hope away with him.   
      
   In Dahak's temple Hope tells the Dahak-Fire that she now knows that Gabrielle   
   and Xena are weak.   
      
   Xena, Callisto and Gabrielle, with Joxer behind her, are on horses. Joxer get   
   knocked off with a   
   tree limb. Xena gets pissed, hits him, calls him names, and runs him off.   
      
   Joxer is captured by the hooded men.   
      
   That night Xena takes a walk and Ares appears. He tries one more time to get   
   her to join them. Xena   
   figures out that Hope is pregnant. Gabrielle walks up and says it isn't   
   possible. Ares tells her   
   she is going to be a grandma.   
      
   Ares says Hope's child will be the first of six soulless destroyers who eat   
   the living and will   
   kill all the gods.   
      
   Xena, Gabrielle and Callisto are on a bluff overlooking Dahak's temple.   
   Gabrielle walks off into   
   the woods. Hope comes to see her and asks her to join them. Gabrielle tells   
   Hope she is sorry ---   
   that the poison didn't kill her the first  time.   
      
   Xena tries to talk Gabrielle into not going into the temple. Gabrielle won't   
   stay out. Xena tells   
   her again how good Gabrielle has been for her, and she gave her life meaning   
   and joy. They hug,   
   then head toward the temple.   
      
   Xena and Gabrielle go inside and start fighting the hooded men. Ares tells   
   Hope they will have to   
   go through him to get to her. Xena throws her Chakram up to cut a chain that   
   holds a large cover   
   and it falls down onto the Fire pit, covering it, stopping Dahak.   
      
   Xena yells to Joxer, who throws the hind's blood dagger to her. Ares dives   
   through the air after   
   it, but Xena catches it. She threatens him with it. Then Callisto throws a   
   giant fireball at Ares.   
   He sails through the air and crashes into a wall, covered with fire and is   
   down for a while.   
      
   Xena starts toward Hope with the dagger. She is slowed but not stopped by   
   Hope's mind control. She   
   slowly backs Hope toward the edge of a lava pit.   
      
   Ares yells to Gabrielle about Xena's fate. At the last moment, Gabrielle uses   
   her staff to vault   
   over the Fire pit, grabs Hope and they fall down into the lava pit. Xena and   
   Joxer scream after   
   them. There are two fiery explosions as they hit the lava.   
      
   Callisto starts laughing, saying watching Gabrielle die makes everything   
   worthwhile. Xena, in a   
   rage, plunges the knife into Callisto's belly, telling her, "no more living   
   for you." Callisto   
   slowly dies. Ares disappears.   
      
   .........   
      
      
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