- Xena: My mother's soul is trapped. My daughter is half dead. And the portal to Hell opened up in my backyard!
- Mephistopheles: You're hold back, Xena! Is something bothering you?
- Xena: Other than your *STENCH*?
- Mephistopheles: [angrily] WHAT?
- Mephistopheles: [rejoicing after being sent on earth] I AM *AT LAST* MADE *FLESH*!
- Xena: [scoffs] Enjoy it while it lasts!
- [Mephistopheles charges towards Xena and they fight]
- Xena: Gabrielle?
- Mephistopheles: [Gabrielle is being possessed by Mephistopheles] She's with me, Xena!
- Xena: Mephistopheles, why are you doing this to my family?
- Mephistopheles: [possessed in Gabrielle's body] I seek the Messenger of Eli... your daughter!
- Xena: What do you want with her?
- Eve: [Eve runs into the room] He knows I can do this...
- [pause]
- Eve: In the name of Eli and all the powers of Heaven, I command this evil presence to be cast out!
- [she touches Gabrielle's body, but nothing happens]
- Xena: [to Mephistopheles] Why have you come here?
- Mephistopheles: [possessed through Gabrielle] You killed the Olympian gods, Xena. The time has come for my reign to begin! I shall inherit the Earth! When your blood is spilled, Eve, I'll be made flesh!
- Xena: It will never happen Mephistopheles! Never!
- Mephistopheles: [possessed through Gabrielle] Your mother cried out for you, Xena... even at the end.
- Mephistopheles: [Mephistopheles shows Xena a vision of what happened to her mother when she was burned at the stake and cried out her name as she was dying] I helped eat her soul, Xena! She'll spend eternity reliving only agony you put into her life! Unless you spill your daughter's blood and bring me into the world.
- Eve: No!
- [Eve repeats her chant]
- Mephistopheles: Damn you! I leave this body, Xena, but I'll keep your mother's soul! Do you want your mommy? Release me into the world!
- Xena: Again, Eve. Do it again, now!
- [Eve repeats her chant and Mephistopheles is cast out of Gabrielle's body]
- [repeated line]
- Eve: In the name of Eli and all the powers of Heaven, I command this evil presence to be cast out!
- Gabrielle: Xena... Xena! Wait! You cannot spill your daughter's blood.
- Xena: It's better than the beating she was taking in there.
- Gabrielle: You will bring hell onto Earth! After all the evil we've seen, you want to unleash that onto the world?
- Xena: My mother's soul is trapped, my daughter is half dead, and the portal to hell opened up in my backyard! I am going to face Mephistopheles, Gabrielle--it is the only way!
- Gabrielle: You cannot kill every demon from hell!
- Xena: I only need to kill one, and he will never expect me to...
- Gabrielle: [Gabrielle has a look of concern and realization] To what? To what?
- Xena: To take his place. Mephistopheles said whoever kills the king of hell must take his place.
- Gabrielle: [Whispers] Xena...
- Xena: I will cross that bridge when I come to it, but I am *not* going to let Mephistopheles torment my family any longer! Do ya hear me?
- Gabrielle: Eve... Eve, your destiny is to stop this evil, not bring it into the world.
- Xena: We make our own destiny in this family. Eve, the choice is yours.
- Eve: Yes.
- Eve: Destiny comes to pass in strange ways. I'll fulfill mine--I'll deliver Mephistopheles into the only hands capable of beating him.
- [to Gabrielle]
- Eve: Will you help me?
- [Xena and Gabrielle hug]
- Xena: Glad to have you back. Gabrielle, Mephistopheles has my mother. I've got to find a way to release her soul, but cleansed or not, I want you out of here.
- Gabrielle: Where do you want me to go?
- Xena: Mephistopheles is using you!
- Gabrielle: I'm not leaving!
- Eve: He can't take her; she's been cleansed.
- Gabrielle: He's afraid of you.