From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   5-08 Little Problems   
      
      
      
             First air date was Nov. 22, 1999.   
      
             The story starts out with a band of thugs/warriors/soldiers looting   
   one of Aphrodite's   
   temples. A very pregnant-looking Xena and Gabrielle come in and fight them   
   off. The leader, Sandor,   
   is wearing an arm band that Xena recognizes as belonging to Tharon, someone   
   she thought was dead.   
   She tells Sandor to tell Tharon to stop looting, etc., or she will finish what   
   she started.   
   Aphrodite appears and takes X&G into another part of the temple where some   
   'sisters' are   
   ministering to sick people. Xena sees an unconscious little girl and asks   
   about her. Aphrodite says   
   her name is Daphne and she's been like that since she got there and she lost   
   her will to live. She   
   says her mother is dead and her father comes by every morning on the way to   
   work.   
      
             Xena talks to Daphne and says if she could trade places with her,   
   she would. Aphrodite   
   takes her at her word and switches them, but the spell isn't complete and both   
   souls are in   
   Daphne's body. She wakes up as her dad gets there and he takes her home.   
   Aphrodite says she will   
   figure out what went wrong. Xena is unconscious.   
      
             Sandor tells Tharon what Xena said. He tells Sandor to scour the   
   town and find Xena.   
      
             Daphne and her father get home and Daphne is looking for her mother.   
   After his hemming   
   and hawing, she figures out her mother is dead.   
      
             Aphrodite is looking at scrolls for a spell to reverse her spell.   
   She says if they can't   
   put Xena back into her body by sundown her soul will stay in Daphne forever.   
   Plus she wants to go   
   to the Gemini Club to see Castor and Pollux. Gabrielle remembers that Castor   
   carries magic oil that   
   will separate them in times of battle. Gabrielle makes Aphrodite promise not   
   to use her magic   
   anymore that day.   
      
             Daphne wakes up and when she looks in the mirror she sees Xena. Xena   
   tells her she needs   
   to start talking to her dad.   
      
             Gabrielle drags Xena's body into a cave while Aphrodite watches.   
   Sandor and his men   
   arrive to get Xena's body. Aphrodite is insulted by Gabrielle's remarks and   
   disappears. Gabrielle   
   has to fight off the gang by using a rope as a whip. The second time they   
   attack, she sets the end   
   on fire and snaps it at them again. They all run off.   
      
             Aphrodite reappears and Gabrielle asks her to seal the cave so no   
   one can get to Xena's   
   body. Then they leave for the Gemini Club.   
      
             Daphne and dad are in the town market. Daphne sees Xena's reflection   
   in everything and   
   Xena tells her to talk to her father. She sees daisies and dad tells her they   
   were her mother's   
   favorite flowers. A horse and wagon run away and Xena takes over Daphne's   
   body, jumps on the   
   horse's back and saves the day. Daphne's dad is clueless and they go home.   
   Sandor sees this and is   
   suspicious.   
      
             Gabrielle and Aphrodite try to get into the Gemini Club but it's for   
   twins only.   
   Gabrielle has a plan.   
      
             Sandor tells Tharon that Xena is in the little girl's body. He tells   
   Sandor to go get   
   her.   
      
             Back home, Xena tells Daphne, AGAIN, to talk to her dad. Daphne asks   
   what happened to her   
   mother but he won't tell her and she runs out of the house and away.   
      
             Gabrielle and Aphrodite come back to the club dressed and Bruna and   
   Hilda, Swedish   
   Siamese twins. The are let into the club. They see two women wrestling in a   
   ring.   
      
             Daphne found her mother's grave and says she want to be with her.   
   Sandor finds her and   
   says it can be arranged. Xena takes over her body again and beats up the gang   
   again.   
      
             Gabrielle/Aphrodite find Castor and Pollux and see the oil hanging   
   in a pouch from   
   Castor's belt. They talk to them and arrange to have an oil wrestling match   
   against them.   
      
             Back home Daphne is practicing the butt-kicking moves. Xena's   
   reflection tells her she   
   has to grow up faster than she thought. And she and her dad are going to have   
   to take care of each   
   other.   
      
             Tharon is disappointed at Sandor and tells him they will lure Xena   
   to them.   
      
             Daphne is cooking and Xena tells her she never knew HER dad, that he   
   wasn't a very good   
   man, but she misses the idea of him. And that Daphne and her dad are lucky to   
   have each other.   
      
             Gabrielle/Aphrodite are in the ring to wrestle Castor and Pollux.   
   Eventually they are   
   found out and Gabrielle grabs the oil and she and Aphrodite run away with it.   
      
             Daphne is fishing on some rocks next to the sea. She remembers she   
   fell in and her mother   
   drowned trying to save her. She blames herself for her mother's death.   
      
             When her father goes looking for her Sandor and his men knock him   
   out and take him to   
   Tharon.   
      
             Xena is trying to tell Daphne she isn't to blame for her mother's   
   death. Gabrielle finds   
   her and tells Daphne she needs to talk to Xena. She shows Xena a scroll from   
   Tharon saying he will   
   kill the dad by sundown if she doesn't give herself up. Xena/Daphne tells   
   Aphrodite to get her body   
   and meet them at Tharon's castle.   
      
             Tharon tells the dad he wants Daphne. The dad doesn't understand why.   
      
             Xena/Daphne put the Pinch on one of the thugs to find out where   
   Sandor is.   
      
             Xena/Daphne comes into the castle, finds dad, and breaks off  the   
   finger of a skeleton   
   and unlocks the shackles on him. Xena lets Daphne take over and she and dad   
   have the 'meaningful   
   talk.' Gabrielle tells them the coast is clear.   
      
             As they run away, an iron gate drops down trapping Daphne with   
   Tharon while Gabrielle and   
   dad have to fight off soldiers.   
      
             Xena takes over Daphne's body again and fights Tharon. Eventually he   
   falls over the wall   
   of the castle.   
      
             Aphrodite has Xena's body and they start to pour the oil on her.   
   Xena and Daphne find   
   Gabrielle and dad after the battle is over. He thanks her for saving his   
   daughter.   
      
             When they start to go Daphne asks Xena if she'll ever see her again.   
   Xena says every time   
   she looks in the mirror.   
      
             Aphrodite disappears. Gabrielle asks Xena what it's like being young   
   again. Xena says is   
   some ways harder than being an adult. Gabrielle says something about when   
   Xena's child becomes   
   teenager and Xena says not to say the 'T' word.   
      
   The episode ends with X&G walking along the beach. So where was Argo?   
      
   ..........   
      
             And it just gets worse and worse. "Little Problems"?  How about 'Big   
   Problems" with most   
   of this season?   
      
             Aphrodite can't protect her own temples?   
      
      
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