Season 1 Episode 07 - The Titans

A group of villagers persuade Gabrielle to help them read a scroll that will reawaken a group of Titans (giants) locked inside a cave near their village. Gabrielle succeeds but fairly soon her influence over the Titans fades and they start to follow their own agenda; one that does not bode well for the villagers. Xena has to step in and try to regain control of the Titans and save the village before one of their number, Hyperion, carries out his plan to awaken hundreds more of the sleeping titans. When a thug Xena was trying to bring to justice persuades the villagers to turn on her, she finds herself captured and being taken to the titans.

But Being Xena she manages to get free and persuades the villages to follow her. They all do and Xena makes and trap for the worst titan, whilst Gabrielle reads out the scroll, which turns them back in to stone.