However, Lucy Lawless later suffered an injury on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This episode was written with Xena returning to her body at the end and as being self-contained.Gallery Screencaps Other įrom Background Information However, she is undergoing intensive psychotherapy to help her work through her resentment and feelings of distrust toward Xena. She is worried Gabrielle cannot accept this, but she tells Xena she will learn to live with it.Īrgo was not harmed during the production of this motion picture.
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In the end, Callisto is dragged back to the Underworld and Xena is free to return to her life above, but in Callisto's body. The two warriors meet again in the dream world where Xena forces Callisto to face the many people she has slaughtered. With her last ounce of strength, Xena manages to hurl a dart into Callisto's neck. Another epic battle between the two women warriors begins as Xena's image starts to fade. Xena realizes that Callisto intends to set her prisoners on fire, insuring that Xena's mother and the rest of the townspeople die like Callisto's family did. With time running out, they race to the cave where Callisto and her men are holding the villagers of Amphipolis captive. After a tense moment, Xena convinces Gabrielle of her real identity, but Callisto manages to get away.Ĭallisto returns to the Underworld and pays for her crimes. As she raises it over her head, however, Gabrielle suddenly appears and points her deadly pike at Xena, whom she believes to be Callisto. Eventually, Xena gets Callisto in a scissors lock and wrests a dagger from the evil one's hand. Xena and Callisto finally come face to face and the battle is on! Swords flash as the evenly matched opponents pull out all the stops. Xena (in Callisto's body) and Callisto (in Xena's body) fight in an epic battle. Xena soon approaches, accompanied by Joxer, who now knows her true identity. Posing as Xena, she slays Theodorus and commands his warriors to capture Amphipolis and bring all of its inhabitants to her. At the same time, Callisto reaches the temporary cave headquarters of Theodorus and his men. Xena, however, arrives on the scene just in time to save her beloved animal. Meanwhile, Callisto, disguised as Xena, taunts Gabrielle into learning some deadly fighting techniques using her staff as a pike.Īs the two set off for Amphipolis, Callisto lags behind and secretly wounds Argo so that Xena will have to put the horse down when she finds her. Xena manages to persuade Hades of her real identity and the God of the Underworld releases her for one day so she can attempt to send Callisto back to Tartarus where she belongs. Callisto's ultimate goal is to have Gabrielle kill Xena, believing her to be Callisto.Ĭallisto taunts Gabrielle into using her staff more violently. She tells Gabrielle that Callisto, with Ares' help, has somehow come back and is on her way to Amphipolis, where she plans to kill Xena's mother, Cyrene. Xena's admission gives Callisto the split-second opening she needs to invade and inhabit Xena's body, banishing Xena's spirit to her own body imprisoned in Underworld.Ĭallisto, now looking and sounding like Xena, returns to the land of the living, prepared to wreak revenge on the Warrior Princess. There, she and Ares manipulate Xena into confessing that she is, in fact, guilty of Callisto's murder since she did nothing to save her. That night, an exhausted Xena is again visited in her dreams by Callisto, who beckons the warrior princess to follow her into the Underworld. Determined to bring him and his men to justice, the two track Theodorus to a deserted village, where they arrive just in time to save the hapless Joxer from certain execution.Ĭallisto and Ares convince Xena that she killed Callisto. Xena's deeply disturbing visions awaken her every night as she and Gabrielle continue to pursue Callisto's evil lieutenant Theodorus. Both prey upon her deep-seated guilt at having let Callisto die, no matter how wicked she was. In the aftermath of Callisto's agonizing death in a pit of quicksand, Xena's dreams are invaded by the evil woman warrior and by Ares. Xena has nightmares about Callisto's death. Xena, now in Callisto's body, must then convince Hades that she is really Xena, so that she can return to Earth and prevent Callisto from destroying her life. When Callisto wants to return to the surface of Earth, she and Ares trick Hades into thinking that she is Xena, by switching bodies with her. " Do you know how boring Tartarus can be? Same old torture everyday, everyday." ― Callisto Intimate Stranger Tramp | Episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess | Ten Little Warlords →