Writer:	Carl Ellsworth
Director:	Garth Maxwell
Star:	Lucy Lawless (Xena),  Renee O'Connor (Gabrielle)
Recurring Role:	Ted Raimi (Joxer),  Kevin Smith (II) (Ares),  Elizabeth Pendergrast (Atropos)
Guest Star:	Samantha Adriaanse (Clotho),  Mark Warren (Octavius),  Theresa Healey (Celesta),  Stephen Lovatt (Hades),  Paris Jefferson (Athena),  Michael Langley (Theon),  Jed Brophy (Ramius),  Kate Smeda (Kara),  Chloe Jordan (Lachesis),  Jason Hoyte (Hephaestus)

In this episode we learn that Meg's wish to be a mother, revealed in the season 4 episode "Key to the Kingdom", Has indeed come true in the past 25 years. (edit) Kevin Smith was sick when they filmed this episode, so they offered to have a stand-in perform his role when Ares carries Xena's body into the cave. Kevin said no, that it didn't matter how sick he felt, there was no way he was going to drop a woman, and played that scene himself. (edit) Argo (I) makes her final appearance on the series. (edit) Xena destroys Hades' helmet of invisibility in this episode. (edit) When casting Virgil, they almost picked someone else, and if they had the character would have been imbued with more of Joxer's "sweet dumbness". But Greg was deemed to be too sharp for that, so they took the character in another direction. (edit)

Xena: So if you're the god of arts and crafts -- what do you do for a hobby? (edit) Meg: Wait a minute! You spent my nest egg on one lousy piece of parchment?!
Joxer: Please, Meg, it's Gabrielle's last scroll. Maybe it explains what she and Xena were doing.
Meg: What do you care?! Xena and Gabrielle are gone! When are you gonna accept that? (edit) Lachesis: The time depends on you, Xena.
Xena: What do you mean? It's me that determines when the twilight begins? How?
Atropos: You must die, Xena. (edit) Athena: Thank you, Xena. But I think you know who we're really here for. I have to give you credit, Xena. You three are hard ones to catch up to, for mortals. (edit) Ares: Come on. Give us a head start. I don't think that's too much to ask, do you, Sis?
Athena: I think it is. (Xena, Gabrielle and Ares make their getaway) You know what to do. Let them clear the forest first, then drive them to us. (edit)

In the fourth season episode 'The Key To The Kingdom', Meg said that she couldn't conceive. So where did her and Joxer's children come from? Maybe they adopted? (edit) Nitpick:
In the scenes with old Joxer, the join in his prosthetic make-up to his normal skin seems to be visible down the side of his head by each of his eyes. (edit) The actor playing Joxer's son Theon previously appeared in the Young Hercules episode "The Serpent's Tooth". (edit) SERIOUS chakram goof: At the begining, when Xena is fighting Hades and Athena, watch the chakram. It falls of the hook, and in the next shot its back on. Later in the fight, Xena throws it to destroy the helmet of invisibility, but never catches it again! It just flies away! Later in the episode, Xena throws it at the archers of Athena whilst in the wagon to disarm them, then catches it. When they fall off the cliff, and Xena stands up, its not on its hook! What's going on? (edit) When the episode opens we see Xena in the Temple of the Fates with a cut on her right arm, but she doesn't get cut until later in her fight with Hades and Athena. The scenes were reversed in order in the final editing. (edit)

This episode does not have any allusions. Add some now!