The Best Episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess Season 3

The day goes from bad to worse when Joxer is killed, but when the day begins again...and again...Xena realizes she's the only one who knows what's happening and remembers the previous days, she has a second chance to change things.

Director: Andrew Merrifield

Writer: Hilary Bader

Xena, alone, must battle the ruthless Persian army and stop them from plundering Greece, as well as save a poisoned Gabrielle who is slowly dying.

Director: Paul Lynch

Writer: Gene O'Neill, Noreen Tobin

When Gabrielle's evil daughter, Hope, takes the form of her mother and joins forces with Ares to create a race of superbeings, Xena and Gabrielle must stop her reign of terror.

Director: Rick Jacobson

Writer: Paul Robert Coyle

When Xena is summoned to the distant kingdom of Chin to kill the Green Dragon, a task she left undone years before, she tells Gabrielle about her past in Chin in an attempt to justify why she must commit murder.

Director: Oley Sassone

Writer: N/A

After Gabrielle's betrayal of Xena's murderous intentions, Xena is imprisoned by the Green Dragon and sentenced to die, and she reminisces about Lao Mao's teachings and the debt owed to her.

Director: Oley Sassone

Writer: N/A

Maternial instincts are in the air when Gabrielle encounters her evil daughter Hope, who has freed Callisto in order to kill Xena's son, Solan and plans on severing the friendship of Xena and Gabrielle forever.

Director: Mark Beesley

Writer: Chris Manheim

After trying to kill one another, grief-stricken Xena and Gabrielle awake in a strange land called Illusia, filled with familiar faces, where they must face the pain and anger caused by the deaths of their children and forgive one another in order to live.

Director: Oley Sassone

Writer: Chris Manheim, Steven L. Sears

When Xena travels to Brittania to help stop Caesar's invasion, Gabrielle is tricked into losing her blood innocence, by taking the life of an innocent, which binds her to the evil ""one god"" Dahuk.

Director: Oley Sassone

Writer: Steven L. Sears

Xena and Gabrielle must stop Gabrielle's friend, Seraphin, from sacrificing herself to bring back a goddess, but they also have to contend with Ares and Callisto, who are helping Hope be reborn.

Director: David Warry-Smith

Writer: Steven L. Sears

It's all about power, when Xena must deal with Caesar and the politics of Rome by trading a Roman aristocrat for the leader of the Gauls, whom Xena wants freed but first she must try not to kill the hated Caesar.

Director: John Laing

Writer: Steven L. Sears

At Ares's request, Xena is judged by the Furies for not avenging the murder of her father and is punished by persecution and madness, leaving Gabrielle to try and solve the problem and reverse Xena's insanity.

Director: Gilbert M. Shilton

Writer: R.J. Stewart

Jealous of Xena's legendary deeds, Aphrodite puts a spell on Gabrielle's scroll, causing everything written on it to magically become real.

Director: Andrew Merrifield

Writer: Hilary Bader

Xena must board a ship carrying prisoners when Gabrielle, in the belief she's freeing a captured Autolycus, does the same, but they're all wet when a tsunami strikes.

Director: John Laing

Writer: Chris Manheim

Xena, Gabrielle and four warriors go up against Ares and his new army who possess armor and weapons forged by the god, Hephaestus, which cannot be harmed by any mortal weapons.

Director: Rick Jacobson

Writer: Steven L. Sears

In Brittania, Gabrielle becomes pregnant and rapidly gives birth to a baby girl she names Hope. Xena is unsure of what to do because the child is the offspring of the evil god Dahuk and she cannot decide between killing the child or protecting her.

Director: Charles Siebert, Andrew Merrifield

Writer: R.J. Stewart

It's double trouble when Gabrielle, Autolycus and Joxer plot to stop Joxer's lookalike brother, Jett, a deadly assassin, from killing his next target - Queen Cleopatra.

Director: Bruce Campbell

Writer: Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster

While trying to recover the North Star that Aphrodite has stolen, Xena becomes obsessed with fish, Gabrielle with her own reflection and Joxer with being an apeman, all thanks to Aphrodite's distracting obsession spells.

Director: Josh Becker

Writer: N/A

When Xena and Gabrielle meet yet another Xena-lookalike, a virgin priestess named Leah, they have to figure out who's plotting against Leah and keep Meg and Joxer safe at the same time.

Director: Robert Ginty

Writer: Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster

Tortured by her memories of Hope and past misdeeds, Gabrielle visits the temple of Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, and must travel through her past in an effort to live with her memories or erase them forever. Meanwhile, Joxer must protect Gabrielle's body while her mind is away.

Director: Charlie Haskell

Writer: Hilary Bader

Xena and Gabrielle team up with Autolycus to recover a statue that is a symbol of peace between two villages, but they must steal it back Autolycus's way in order for him to maintain his reputation.

Director: Andrew Merrifield

Writer: Terence Winter

A brash teen tries to convince Xena that she would make a better partner than Gabrielle, by leading the duo to the stolen Urn of Apollo.

Director: Garth Maxwell

Writer: R.J. Stewart

When Joxer is beaten to near-death, Xena teams up with two con artists to avenge Joxer, with a major con scam against a ruthless gaming house owner and his son.

Director: Janet Greek

Writer: Chris Manheim