- Gabrielle: [after Xena failed to send Lucifer into the portal of Hell] You were supposed to throw him in the portal.
- Xena: Yeah? Well, he wasn't ready!
- Gabrielle: Xena, no one is *ready* to go to Hell. That's the point.
- Xena: Really? Well, you and Virgil were lookin' ready to burn not long ago!
- Gabrielle: [shrugs] Yeah? So what?
- Xena: [smiles] Evil, the dark side! It's intoxicating, isn't it?
- Gabrielle: Oh yeah, it's intoxicating!
- Eve: You may not be descending to Mephistopheles' throne voluntarily, but obviously it's coming up to claim its new queen...
- Xena: You mean its rightful ruler.
- Gabrielle: That would be you.
- Xena: Not if I can find someone else to take my place.
- [looks at Lucifer]
- Xena: Him.
- Gabrielle: You're gonna turn an archangel into the king of Hell?
- Xena: Oh, he's less of an angel than I am. He just doesn't know it yet!
- Gabrielle: So, how do you plan on making him *see* the light?
- Xena: [coolly] By showing him how much he's gonna *love* the dark!
- Eve: Eli says, "To corrupt another is to corrupt yourself..."
- Xena: Evie!
- [She stands and leads Eve with her to look at Lucifer]
- Xena: Listen. Fruit rots from the inside out. It's not called corruption if you just peel away the layers to expose the rotten core.
- [pause]
- Xena: That is, unless you want Mommy to go to Hell.
- [Eve shakes her head]
- Xena: Well, then...
- Eve: [when Xena and her friends crashes the temple to party] Mother, your purpose will not be served by subjecting this temple or this town to further desecration!
- Xena: It's not desecration, Eve! We're just throwing a farewell bash for our celestial guest, assuming that he'll give us the pleasure.
- Lucifer: The pleasure's all mine, Xena; because the farewell I'll be celebrating is yours.
- Gabrielle: You should listen to your mother, Eve. She knows what she's doing.
- Eve: I wouldn't be so sure, Gabrielle! Not anymore.
- Archangel Michael: You dare talk of heaven, when you've besmirched so many souls with your nefarious filth?
- Xena: Besmirched... is that even a real word?
- Gabrielle: Thought I had lost you for a minute there.
- Xena: Yeah, which minute was that?
- Gabrielle: You and Lucifer were looking , um... a little... uh...
- Xena: Gabrielle, every time I felt myself lose control, I just thought of you -- you led me back home.
- Gabrielle: Now don't go getting all emotional on me, Xena.