From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   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 Callisto 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.   
      
      
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