the children to the safety of the temple, Hyperion kills Crias and follows her. Upon entering the temple, Xena is captured by the evil schemer Hesiod and a group of villagers who have freed him in their eagerness to appease the Titans. Placing her in a wooden coffin, Hesiod and Rhodos (David Mackie) deliver the box to Hyperion, but are themselves killed when the furious Titan opens the coffin and finds that the warrior woman has escaped. Xena makes her way back to the temple just before the terrified villagers are about to turn Gabrielle and Phyleus over to the Titans, and tells them of Hyperion's plan to destroy humanity by releasing
