Eve: "You preserved Xena for all the ages in these scroll, Gabrielle. Thank you." Xena: [seeing Ares outside in the rain] … "Watch the back!" Xena: "Ares?!" Joxer: "Ow! Man! Materializing is not like it is in the brochure … Hi." Gabrielle: "Joxer? You … you're, um …" Joxer: "Yeah, I'm dead." Gabrielle: "I miss you Joxer." Joxer: "Then you shouldn't have let Eve kill me." Gabrielle: [the Furies materialize and begin whispering and chanting in Gabrielle's ear] … "Joxer, I didn't let Eve kill you." Joxer: "Kill her, Gabrielle. Kill her before she kills someone else." Hope: "Good point." Hope: "Hello, Mother." Gabrielle: "Hope?" Hope: "Xena's making a terrible mistake trying to save Eve -- the same mistake you made when you didn't kill me when you had your chance." Ares: "Hello, Xena." Hope: "Only you can stop the cycle of violence. Eve must die. Xena won't kill her own daughter. You know how hard that is. Be brave, Mother … for Xena. You can do it, Mother. You must do it." Ares: "You're not going to kill me, are you?" Xena: "Why ever not?" Ares: "Because I love you. Yeah, I love you." … [smelling a rat, Xena runs back into the house] Hope: "You can do it. You can do it, Mother. You have to do it. You must do it … [Gabrielle reaches for one of her sais] … Do it, Mother. Kill her. Do it! Do it for Xena. I know you can. This is the decision Xena can't make. Kill her! KILL HER!" Xena: [just a little too late] … "Eve!" [Gabrielle stabs Eve, who is bent over reading a scroll.] Xena: "NO!" … [Xena chucks her chakram straight at the back of Gabrielle's head, literally breaking open her skull.] Xena: [to a gasping Eve] … "Good girl. You hang in there. You're gonna be fine … [inspecting the damage she did to Gabrielle] … Gabrielle … … Furies." |