From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
                           5.9 Seeds Of Faith   
      
   First airing was Oct 10, 1999.   
      
   The story starts out in a tavern and a follower of Eli is trying to convince   
   the villagers that the time of the (many) gods has passed. They argue back   
   about retribution from the gods.  Xena and Gabrielle come in and try to calm   
   things down but a fight ensues. Afterward Xena blames Gabrielle for starting   
   the fight.   
      
   Ares appears and Xena says he must be bored to appear at a village squabble.   
   He notices she's pregnant. Xena tells him Gabrielle is responsible.   
      
   He says he would have liked to have  seen that. Xena asks him again why he   
   is there. He talks about a movement that incites people to disobey the gods.   
   Xena mentions the Twilight, and tells Gabrielle what it is. As Ares is   
   leaving, Xena accuses him of being afraid. He says he would hate to kill her   
   and her child, and disappears.   
      
   Xena is talking to Gabrielle about starting the fight. Gabrielle says she   
   made a bad call. They are with Eli's followers going somewhere. He says   
   their teacher is Eli.   
      
   In a temple (of Ares) Eli is telling people the only weapon they need is   
   love as they are burning weapons of war. He sees Xena and Gabrielle. They   
   say they are looking for him. He also notices Xena is pregnant. She tells   
   him the people think he is going to lead them in a war against the gods and   
   they are going to be killed.   
      
   Gabrielle and Eli go to eat but Xena says there is something she has to do.   
   A man in a red robe and a small skull on his hat runs to another temple and   
   tells Ares the first temple is being desecrated and he expected a fireball   
   or lightning to strike down Eli. Ares decided to pay Eli a visit.   
      
   Gabrielle and Eli talk about Gabrielle's violence. She says her heart tells   
   her Eli is right but her head says sometimes you have to fight. And that   
   Xena is wrong and she is not becoming numb to the violence.   
      
   Ares appears and he and Eli trade barbs about war and peace. Ares tells him   
   to walk away and he'll save a lot of lives, including his own.   
      
   Callisto appears to Xena. She tells her not to interfere with Eli. He has a   
   destiny to fulfill and he has to face it alone. Four of Ares' men sees Xena   
   and attack her. She knocks out three of them and puts the Pinch on the   
   fourth to find out which way the army is coming from.   
      
   Eli is praying and Callisto appears, saying she has been sent in answer to   
   his prayers. She tells him how beautiful heaven is. He calls her an angel   
   and says the same thing about earth. She tells him the gods must fall and he   
   is the hammer. She kisses his cheek and says in everything he does 'they'   
   are always with him. He realizes he must die for his beliefs.   
      
   Xena finds Gabrielle and Eli. She tells them Ares' army is coming and   
   Gabrielle is to protect Eli while she goes to try to stop them.   
      
   Xena meets the army on a rope bridge and kills them one by one as they try   
   to get her. She eventually cuts the ropes and the bridge falls into the   
   river.   
      
   Eli is preaching again and Ares appears. Twice he tries to kill Eli with his   
   sword, but Gabrielle stops him. Eli insists she must not use violence to   
   save his life. He turns to Ares and is stabbed and dies. Gabrielle cradles   
   him as he does and cries out loud. Ares disappears.   
      
   Xena comes back and sees them together. A woman says Gabrielle let Ares kill   
   Eli. When Xena asks her, Gabrielle yells out three times not to blame her,   
   that she only did what he asked. Xena says people like her and Gabrielle are   
   the reason people like Eli can exist. Gabrielle runs away hurting and angry.   
      
   Gabrielle is in the desert throwing her sais at a dead tree. Ares appears   
   and tells her not to be so hard on herself, because Eli was selfish to put   
   her in that position. He says he can see into her heart and she tried to do   
   the right thing. He wants to show her what it would feel like to have the   
   power he has. He causes a reddish aura to surround her letting her feel his   
   power. Afterward, he says that’s how he feels every moment. With that power   
   she can change the world, and asks if that isn't what she's always wanted.   
   He disappears.   
      
   Xena sings the funeral dirge as she lights the funeral pyre. Gabrielle is   
   there with a long black scarf wrapped around her, then she walks off without   
   saying anything.   
      
   Callisto appears and Xena blames her for Eli's death. Callisto says Eli will   
   be reincarnated into a new body. Xena says she liked him just fine in the   
   old one, and Gabrielle is suffering because of her game. Callisto says she   
   cares about both of them. Xena demands she take her to the Dagger of   
   Helios, which can kill gods.   
      
   Gabrielle is talking to Eli's ashes. She says she isn't betraying him, but   
   is going to use Ares' knowledge for the greater good. And for him to have   
   faith in her.   
      
   Callisto takes Xena to get the Dagger of Helios but she tries to talk her   
   out of killing Ares. Xena isn't buying it. Callisto tells Xena to listen to   
   Eli because he sacrificed himself to make it easier for people to follow the   
   way of peace. Xena answers 'like sheep to the slaughter' and invites her   
   along to see the twilight of the gods.   
      
   Ares is telling the villagers that Eli is dead and so is his crusade. They   
   all begin chanting Eli's name. Ares threatens to kill someone and Gabrielle   
   intervenes and throws her sais at him. He avoids them. He begins throwing   
   villagers around. Gabrielle gets his sword but he disarms her and starts to   
   kill her. Xena saves her when her Chakram breaks off the end of the sword.   
      
   She puts the Dagger of Helios to Ares' neck but can't kill him because she   
   sees Eli's reflection in it and sees flash backs. She lets Ares live and   
   drops the dagger. He gets it and puts it to her neck. She says he won't kill   
   her because then there will be two martyrs. Ares tells Gabrielle he could   
   have given her the world but she says he can't give what he doesn't have.   
      
   Xena apologizes to Gabrielle. Angel Eli appears and says their faith in each   
   other is the greatest miracle.   
      
   Callisto appears and says it's time for her to be reincarnated and she can   
   think of no greater mother that Xena. Xena asks if it was Callisto all   
   along. They both decide to give back what they took from each other.   
   Callisto puts her hand on Xena's stomach, then is sucked into the baby.   
      
   Eli says "love is the way".   
      
   ……………   
      
   FINALLY!  An actual good episode. And the 100th.   
      
   A lot going on in this one. Good to see Ares back. Xena is looking   
   especially pregnant.   
      
   But first, a few of the little things that were weak –--   
      
      
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