From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
                               5.22 Motherhood   
                       (aka  "Twilight of the Gods")   
      
   First aired on May 15, 2000.   
      
   The final episode of Season Five starts with Eve stumbling through the   
   desert in rags. Xena and Gabrielle are on a sand dune looking down at her   
   after catching up to her. Gabrielle says she doesn't think she wants help   
   her because she killed Joxer. But after Xena says she was lucky because she   
   found Gabrielle, Gabrielle changes her mind.   
      
   On Mt. Olympus, the gods are angry at Ares for not telling them Eve was   
   alive. (In attendance are Ares, Athena, Hades, Artemis, Discord, Deimos   
   Aphrodite, and Hephaestus.) Athena calls the Furies. Ares says he already   
   tried using them to get rid of Xena but Athena says her plan is more subtle.   
   Aphrodite whispers to Athena to ask if she can leave Gabrielle out of it.   
   Athena tells her not to watch.   
      
   Back in the desert Xena throws her Chakram at Eve, but just before it hits   
   her, it splits and deflects two spears thrown at her. A bunch of men on foot   
   and horseback ride down on Eve. Xena and Gabrielle run down to protect her.   
   They fight while Eve remains kneeling in the sand. Suddenly Eve is lassoed,   
   and the Eve-Drag is on. Xena throws her Chakram to cut the rope, but Eve   
   catches them (death wish). Xena mounts up and catches the guy and knocks him   
   off the horse and Eve is saved.   
      
   After the fight, Xena gives Eve water while the Furies whisper to Gabrielle   
   that Eve will break Xena's heart and the were be no peace until she's dead.   
   Fury Alecto says she killed Joxer, and who will her next victim be?   
      
   An old woman comes up and, after telling them Xena is known as the defender   
   of the faith (of Eli), offers them shelter in her home. Gabrielle is telling   
   the followers that Eli was just a man who taught that everything can be   
   saved by love.   
      
   Eve tells them about the horrible things she's done – wiped out villages   
   that wouldn’t pay her tribute, and drank the blood of men she killed.   
      
   Xena asks about the initiation Eli used on sinners. The old woman says there   
   is a man they call the Baptist.  They find him in a river baptizing a man.   
   He sees Eve and beckons her to him. While he is baptizing her, and shaft of   
   fire comes down from the heavens to Xena. It has Michael, the Archangel's   
   face.   
      
   Xena says she's ready. Alecto whispers to Gabrielle that Xena is setting   
   herself up to get hurt again.   
      
       Suddenly, Poseidon rises out of the ocean. They start to run way, but   
   many of the gods appear on the other side. Fireballs are thrown. Xena   
   deflects one of them and Poseidon evaporates and dies. In a rage, Discord   
   attacks Xena and Xena decapitates her.   
      
       Hephaestus throws his axe at Xena, but she ends up killing him with it.   
   Mt Olympus shakes, Ares looks worried. Athena realizes Xena can kill gods.   
   She is pissed at the other gods for not letting the Furies work her plan.   
   Ares says Xena needs a distraction, and volunteers to do it.   
      
       Xena explains to Gabrielle that while Eve was being baptized, Archangel   
   Michael came to her and told her Eve would prepare the way for the rule of   
   the god of love and she was her protector. And as long as Eve lives, she can   
   kill gods. Eve is confused. She said one burden was lifted and was replaced   
   by one just as frightening. Xena tells her she needs to face someone she   
   wronged.   
      
       They arrive at Joxer and Meg's tavern. Virgil is writing on a scroll. He   
   sees them ride up, but when he sees Eve, he tries to kill her but Xena won't   
   let him.   
      
       Eve says if her death would bring back Joxer, she'd gladly die. He says   
   he never saw Joxer do or say a mean thing to anyone and Eve killed him. He   
   tells Gabrielle that Meg was mad with grief and took his brothers and   
   sisters to Athens.  He leaves to join them.   
      
       Inside the tavern, Eve has Gabrielle's scrolls. She goes to another room   
   to read them. It is storming and Xena looks out a window and sees Ares. She   
   tells Gabrielle to watch the back and runs out to confront him.   
      
       Young Joxer's ghost appears to Gabrielle. He says she shouldn’t have let   
   Eve kill him. Gabrielle says he didn't let her. Hope appears and says Xena's   
   making a mistake trying to save Eve, just like Gabrielle made one when she   
   didn't kill Hope when she had the chance. Hope says Eve must die to stop the   
   cycle of violence.   
      
       Xena has her sword at Ares' neck. He says she won't kill him because he   
   loves her. Xena is suspicious.   
      
       Gabrielle is standing behind Eve while Hope urges her over and over to   
   kill her. Gabrielle slowly takes out one of her sais and raises it over her   
   head with both hands. Xena realizes Ares is a decoy and runs back into the   
   tavern just in time to see Gabrielle stab Eve. In a panic, she throws her   
   Chakram and hits Gabrielle in the back of her head with it. She catches the   
   bloody Chakram, then realizes what she did. Xena runs to Eve to check on   
   her, then sees to Gabrielle. Xena realizes the Furies were behind it.   
      
       On Mt Olympus, Athena asks Ares how Xena was able to stop Gabrielle. She   
   says they now will launch a full-scale attack.   
      
       In the tavern Athena tells Xena it's four against one but Xena isn't   
   worried. They start fighting. Fireballs are thrown. Xena turns over a table   
   to hide behind. She throws her Chakram and it ricochets over and over   
   keeping the gods ducking away.   
      
       Aphrodite appears next to Gabrielle, dressed in black. Xena pulls a   
   knife but she tells her she just wants to help. She teleports Gabrielle to   
   another room away from the fighting.   
      
   Hades gathers a large fireball to blast Eve but Xena spits wine over a torch   
   and he burns up and dies.  Xena gets Eve into the room with Gabrielle and   
   Aphrodite and tells Aphrodite to take care of her. Aphrodite looks over at   
   Eve.   
      
   A fireball explosion raises a large table and it lands on Deimos and he   
   dies. Athena disappears.   
      
   Ares appears next to Eve, draws his sword and starts to kill her, but Xena   
   throws her Chakram and knocks the sword from his hand. Then the Chakram   
   slices his leg and he disappears.   
      
       Xena drags Gabrielle out of the burning tavern by the arm while half-way   
   carrying Eve.  Aphrodite appears and says things are so sad. Xena tells her   
   to cure Gabrielle. She says gods can't cure without Athena's blessing, which   
   won't happen. Xena tells her to take them to Mt. Olympus, she has a deal for   
   Athena. Aphrodite does. Xena tells her to leave before things get ugly.   
   Aphrodite says goodbye to Gabrielle and Xena thanks her.   
      
      
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