From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
                         5.1 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 will 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 and with so much fun and gusto as Callisto/Hudson Leick.   
   Her Demon-Callisto was as much fun as Callisto has ever been. Especially   
      
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