From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   5-01    Fallen Angel   
      
      
      
   First airing was Sep 27, 1999.   
      
   The story starts out with Amarice knocking Joxer down thinking he's a Roman   
   soldier. He tells her   
   he's been having nightmares about Xena and Gabrielle and has come to see if   
   they need his help.   
   Amarice looks down from the cliff they are on and shows Joxer the bodies of   
   Xena and Gabrielle   
   still on the crosses. Then Eli comes up. Joxer says he's going to take their   
   bodies back to Greece   
   whether Amarice and Eli help or not.   
      
   We see them on the crosses, then look up at the falling snow. Gabrielle and   
   Xena are on the top of   
   a craggy mountain. Light comes down and turns into angels. They take Gabrielle   
   up and then Xena.   
   Xena looks down to see demons flying up at them. They cause the guardian   
   angels to drop them and   
   they are falling towards Hell. Just as Xena is about to grab Gabrielle's hand   
   someone grabs Xena.   
   It's demon Callisto. She says she is going to take Xena to her lord. Gabrielle   
   continues to fall   
   down. Xena fights off Callisto, grabs onto a cliff face, but as she begins to   
   fall, Archangel   
   Michael grabs her and takes up and away.   
      
   Xena tells Michael she is going after Gabrielle and dives off the cliff,   
   Michael grabs her feet and   
   brings her back. He says if she goes down she'll be doomed to everlasting   
   torment.   
      
             Gabrielle wakes up next to demon Callisto. She tells her she gets to   
   spend eternity with   
   her. Gabrielle says Xena will rescue her. Callisto wants Gabrielle to eat   
   fruit set out for her.   
   Gabrielle guesses it wall turn her into a demon and refuses.   
      
             Amarice takes out the two guards, they remove the nails from Xena's   
   and Gabrielle's hands   
   and take them down from the crosses.   
      
             Michael tells Xena in order to get her wings she has to walk into a   
   cave. She sees two   
   ways to go - through fire or through water. She comes out of the cave on fire.   
   Michael says she   
   walked through the fire of purification and has to get into the divine water.   
   She does and gets her   
   archangel wings.   
      
             Amarice chastises Eli for infecting Gabrielle with his peace and   
   love talk that made her   
   helpless -- she lost her warrior spirit and it got them killed.   
      
             Xena has her wings and is ready to go down to rescue Gabrielle.   
   Michael tells her if she   
   releases Gabrielle from her pain she would doom herself to stay in her place.   
   Xena says she's   
   ready.   
      
    Callisto has demons force feed Gabrielle until she wants more and she eats   
   some of the fruit,   
   convulses and begins to turn into a demon. She asks Callisto if  she saw her   
   parents on fire and   
   did she smell their flesh sizzling. She says she thinks she wanted them dead   
   so she could be a   
   bitch. She and Callisto being fighting.   
      
             Xena and the Archangels come down and everyone sword-fights. Xena   
   yells for Michael to   
   get Gabrielle away while she fights Callisto. She cuts off Callisto's wings.   
   Callisto says she will   
   never stop hating Xena. Xena puts her hand on Callisto's chest, taking her   
   pain and demon-ness   
   away.   
      
             Michael throws Gabrielle into the divine water and she is saved.   
   When she gets out she   
   asks for Xena. He tells her Xena gave herself up to save one of the damned and   
   after she is rested   
   he will tell her who it was.   
      
             In Hell, demon-Xena tells the other demons it's time to launch a   
   full scale attack on   
   Paradise.   
      
             Gabrielle sees the now pure Callisto and can't believe Xena is in   
   Hell instead of  her.   
   She tells Callisto she murdered her husband and many innocent people Callisto   
   says she doesn't   
   remember. Gabrielle doesn't believe her . Michael tells her she is seeing   
   Callisto as she would   
   have been if Xena hadn't killed her parents. And he says now that Xena is a   
   demon they may not be   
   able to defeat her.   
      
             Joxer and company have taken Xena and Gabrielle's bodies to a cave   
   or barn or some place   
   inside. Amarice says they should bury them there because they will never get   
   them to Greece. Eli   
   has gone off somewhere.   
      
             Gabrielle  tells Michael when the fighting starts Xena will come   
   after her. He says to   
   get her wings she'll have to undergo a trial of purification. Inside the cave   
   she sees Callisto.   
   She asks her if they're going to fight. Callisto says she's not a good   
   fighter. Gabrielle is   
   disgusted at Callisto's sweetness act. She says she's evil and always will be.   
   Callisto talks about   
   the love her family had for her. Gabrielle is still not convinced. Callisto   
   puts her hand on   
   Gabrielle's cheek. Gabrielle sheds tears and touches Callisto's.   
      
             Michael tells Gabrielle that her forgiveness of Callisto made her   
   soul as pure as the   
   divine water. Gabrielle is now an archangel. Another archangel tells them the   
   demons are coming.   
      
             Gabrielle and Xena face off. Xena tells her they shouldn't be   
   fighting, their love is   
   stronger than good and evil, their souls are destined to be together forever,   
   and she doesn't want   
   to walk through hell alone.   
      
             Gabrielle says she's sorry, they fight, then Gabrielle flies away   
   with Xena after her.   
      
             Eli is having a crisis of faith, and praying and lamenting that his   
   friends are dead   
   because of his teachings, and that the way of love wasn't Gabrielle's way. He   
   wants a sign of some   
   kind. Callisto hears him and appears in front of him as an angel. She tells   
   him to go to Xena and   
   Gabrielle. He does so and puts his hands on their foreheads. Callisto appears   
   behind him and puts   
   her hands on his.   
      
             Xena defeats Gabrielle and she falls down to the top of the   
   mountain. Xena picks her up   
   and walks to the edge. Michael runs after them and they all fall over the   
   edge. Xena tells them   
   they're going to Hell.   
      
             As they fall, they disintegrate.  Xena and Gabrielle wake up back in   
   their bodies and sit   
   up. Michael and Callisto are watching. Michael nods to Callisto and she   
   touches Xena's back. He   
   then lets her join her mother and father (What happened to her sister? Maybe   
   in Hell and Callisto   
   didn't have time to find her?)   
      
             Xena and Gabrielle look around and at each other, confused. Then   
   Gabrielle tells Xena   
   they're going to be together for eternity. Xena agrees.   
      
   ...........   
      
             The first episode of the Fifth Season. And a mixed bag of tricks.   
   This episode had some   
   really good things about it. And it had some really hokey things as well.   
   First the good -   
      
             *Callisto. I've said this before and I'll say it again - NO ONE does   
   evil so deliciously   
      
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