Xena: Warrior Princess (TV Series)
Maternal Instincts (1998)
Lucy Lawless: Xena
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Quotes
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Xena : What makes you think we can trust this child?
Gabrielle : What makes you think that we can't?
[pause]
Gabrielle : Xena, she gave us Callisto's plan.
Xena : Exactly! Callisto wouldn't tell her anything she didn't want us to hear. The child's probably a pawn or worse!
Gabrielle : That is not true! Xena, you were always so quick to blame her, weren't you? Well, she is not evil! She's NOT!
Xena : [shocked] Hope? The child is Hope?
Gabrielle : [Gabrielle nods] I'm sorry. I never meant to lie. Xena, I couldn't kill her. She's my daughter. You're a mother, you know this! I had to save her.
Xena : Maybe it's not too late. She's young; poison'll kill her if her powers aren't mature.
Gabrielle : Poison? XENA, SHE IS MY CHILD!
Xena : She is NOT a child! She is a body, a vessel, an instrument for evil, THAT IS ALL!
Gabrielle : YOU ARE WRONG!
[pause]
Gabrielle : Xena, Hope is the victim here! That is why I sent her to Kaleipus' hut, so she would be safe from Callisto...
Xena : [pause] You sent her to Kaleipus' hut?
[Xena frantically runs to the hut where Solon was left in]
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Solan : [crying about Kaleipus' death] Like my father...
[pause]
Solan : ... and my mom.
[Xena glances at him]
Solan : But why does everyone I love die?
[pause]
Solan : Is it me?
Xena : [quietly] No, no! Of course not...
Solan : Then why are they dead? Everyone who ever loved me?
Xena : They're not! You still have me-
[Xena stops herself as Solan looks at her]
Xena : ... many, many friends. And they've all said how much they love you and want you to come and live with them...
Solan : But I don't want to.
[pause]
Solan : I want to live with you.
Xena : [whispers] What?
Solan : I won't be any trouble, I promise. I'll catch my own food and keep up. And I'm hardly ever sick...
Xena : Solan, I don't think...
Solan : Please! My uncle always said if anything happened to him, you'd be there for me.
Xena : And he was right. But all your ties are here. Don't you wanna be with someone that you know, someone that you care about?
Solan : Yes, you!
[pause]
Solan : You said we were friends and real friends are like family, right?
Xena : [smiles happily] Like family!
Solan : Then take me with you, please?
[pause]
Solan : Don't leave me!
Xena : [starts crying] When all this is over, you be packed and ready to go. We've got a lot to talk about. We might as well do it on the road...
[she leaves Kaleipus' hut]
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Callisto : [as Xena fights Callisto in the cave] You'll trap us both! That's your plan, to trap me here while my pain keeps growing and growing and you die and yours ends!
Xena : You're wrong, Callisto! You let your pain kill you years ago... I'm gonna live with mine!
[Xena escapes and Callisto screams as the cave crumbles on top of her]
