From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   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 (so far)?   
      
       Aphrodite can't protect her own temples?   
      
   No one in the back room heard anything up front and went to investigate?   
      
   If Daphne came into the temple unconscious, how did Aphrodite know she had   
      
   [continued in next message]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)