7.4/10559 votes#1 - Orphan of War
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1996
When Xena tries to help the centaurs protect a sacred stone that contains their evil, she encounters someone from her past...her son.
Director: Charles Siebert
Writer: Steven L. Sears
7.7/10590 votes#2 - Remember Nothing
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1996
When Xena defends the Fates's temple, they give her the gift of changing the past: her brother Lyceus never died and she never became the warrior princess...but that also means she never met Gabrielle.
Director: Anson Williams
Writer: N/A
6.8/10555 votes#3 - The Giant Killer
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1996
When Gabrielle defends a young Isrealite named David, her life is threatended until Xena proposes to fight her old friend, the giant Goliath in return for freedom for the Philistines.
Director: Gary Jones
Writer: Terence Winter
7.4/10601 votes#4 - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1996
When Orpheus loses the power to subdue the god Bacchus with his music, Xena and Gabrielle risk their lives to end Bacchus's reign of terror.
Director: T.J. Scott
Writer: Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster
7.9/10633 votes#5 - Return of Callisto
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1996
Gabrielle plans to marry Perdicus, her hometown sweetheart, and must leave Xena and their travels, at the same time that Callisto has escaped from prison and is headed straight for them with vengeance in mind.
Director: T.J. Scott
Writer: R.J. Stewart
7.5/10583 votes#6 - Warrior... Princess... Tramp
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1996
When Diana's father takes ill, Xena is summoned and runs into yet another lookalike, a barmaid named Meg, who seems quite taken with Joxer.
Director: Josh Becker
Writer: R.J. Stewart
7.9/10575 votes#7 - Intimate Stranger
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1996
Callisto makes a bargain with Ares, from Tarturus, to switch bodies with Xena, sending Xena into Tarturus and freeing Callisto. Xena, in Callisto's form, makes her own bargain with Hades, to make things right but the only problem is...she has one day to fix it.
Director: Gary Jones
Writer: Steven L. Sears
7.7/10577 votes#8 - Ten Little Warlords
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/1996
Trapped in the body of Callisto, Xena must help a mortal Ares recover his sword and restore him as the god of war. If she doesn't mortals will not be able to control their anger and she'll never recover her own body.
Director: Charles Siebert
Writer: Paul Robert Coyle
6.8/10567 votes#9 - A Solstice Carol
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/9/1996
During Winter Solstice, Xena and Gabrielle visit a town where it's Scrooge-like King has deemed that celebrating the holiday is a crime.
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.0/10575 votes#10 - The Xena Scrolls
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/1997
In the year 1940, two female archaeologists searching for the Xena scrolls end up in an ancient tomb confronting legendary figures from the past.
Director: Charlie Haskell
Writer: Robert Sidney Mellette
7.1/10593 votes#11 - Here She Comes... Miss Amphipolis
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/20/1997
Xena masquerades as a beauty pageant contestant, to stop a sabateur, bent on destroying a peace treaty between two warlords.
Director: Marina Sargenti
Writer: Chris Manheim
8.1/10628 votes#12 - Destiny
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/1997
After being gravely injured, Xena's life flashes before her, including the time when she learned the art of pressure points from a slavegirl and when she met Julius Caesar for the very first time.
Director: Robert Tapert
Writer: N/A
8.0/10610 votes#13 - The Quest
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1997
After Xena's death, Gabrielle becomes Queen of the Amazons, while Autolycus finds himself possessed by the warrior princess, Xena who needs ambrosia to bring herself back to life. But Xena's rebirth and Gabrielle's life are both threatened by an Amazon bent on obtaining the Amazon crown and the ambrosia.
Director: Michael Levine
Writer: N/A
7.9/10580 votes#14 - A Necessary Evil
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1997
Xena, Gabrielle and the Amazons must battle an evil Amazon, who ate ambrosia and is now a god. She wants Gabrielle dead and in order to stop her, Xena and Gabrielle resort to asking for the help of the now immortal Callisto.
Director: Mark Beesley
Writer: Paul Robert Coyle
8.0/10699 votes#15 - A Day in the Life
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1997
Xena and Gabrielle spend a day trying to save two villages, one from a band of thugs, the other from a giant, while getting on each other's nerves and trying to not kill on another.
Director: Michael Hurst
Writer: R.J. Stewart
7.4/10583 votes#16 - For Him the Bell Tolls
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/1997
With Xena away on a mission, Gabrielle must contend with Aphrodite, who's interfering in one of Cupid's lovespells that will unite two kingdoms and who's put a spell on Joxer, who behaves like a real hero whenver a bell rings.
Director: Josh Becker
Writer: Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster
7.1/10526 votes#17 - The Execution
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 4/7/1997
Xena and Gabrielle have only one day to determine what really happened when Gabrielle's friend, Meleagor, is sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit.
Director: Garth Maxwell
Writer: Paul Robert Coyle
7.5/10535 votes#18 - Blind Faith
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/14/1997
After getting oil in her eys during a fight, Xena goes blind and must deal with a man determined to kill her and rescue Gabrielle before she is forced to marry a king, who has died, or Gabrielle will soon join him.
Director: Josh Becker
Writer: Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster
7.0/10536 votes#19 - Ulysses
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/1997
Xena and Gabrielle must help Ulysses, King of Ithica, who is trying to return to his island homeland after ten years away, but the god of the sea, Poseidon, doesn't make it easy.
Director: Michael Levine
Writer: N/A
7.9/10554 votes#20 - The Price
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/1997
After becoming the hunted prey of the vicious Horde, Xena must lead the local army against them, while Gabrielle tends to the wounded and worries that Xena is returning to her dark and dangerous ways by stooping to the Horde's level.
Director: Oley Sassone
Writer: Steven L. Sears
7.6/10540 votes#21 - Lost Mariner
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/1997
After a shipwreck, Xena must rescue Gabrielle from the cursed ship of Cecrops, the lost mariner, where anyone who steps aboard is there until they die.
Director: Garth Maxwell
Writer: Steven L. Sears
7.2/10556 votes#22 - A Comedy of Eros
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/1997
When Cupid's infant son, Bliss, runs amok putting love spells on unsuspecting people, Xena falls in love with the warlord, Draco, Draco falls for Gabrielle and Gabrielle gets the hots for Joxer.
Director: Charles Siebert
Writer: Chris Manheim
The Best Episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2
Every episode of Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2!
Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied by her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy...
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Orphan of War" is the best rated episode of "Xena: Warrior Princess" season 2. It scored 7.4/10 based on 559 votes. Directed by Charles Siebert and written by Steven L. Sears, it aired on 9/30/1996. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Remember Nothing".