From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   5-17    Kindred Spirits   
      
      
      
   First airing was Mar 20, 2000.   
      
   The story starts out with Amazons bathing in a river. Someone is spying on   
   them.   
      
   Cut to Gabrielle and Xena and Eve. Both women are wearing Amazon leather   
   buckskin outfits.   
   Gabrielle is talking about staying with the tribe to serve as their queen.   
   Xena hesitatingly says   
   she'll think about staying too.   
      
   Back to the Amazons bathing. Cyane hears the bushes rustle and the others   
   attack and beat up   
   whoever was spying on them and take him to Gabrielle and Xena. It's Joxer. He   
   wants them to   
   acknowledge that they know him. Xena whispers to him, asking if he has a   
   letter from Cleopatra, he   
   says no. Xena says she doesn't know him and he is put in stocks tied between   
   two trees.   
      
   An Amazon named Eris asks Joxer what Xena looks for in a sidekick. He tells   
   her lots of flips and a   
   good war cry.   
      
   Xena, Gabrielle  and some of the Amazons are in a sweat lodge talking about   
   being with men. Xena   
   and Gabrielle have different views on what makes a good lover. Gabrielle   
   mentions they might be   
   settling down. Xena says they're moving too fast. Gabrielle adds that they're   
   only considering it.   
      
   Early in the morning Gabrielle and Xena are awakened by the blowing of a ram's   
   horn to call the   
   queen to ceremonies. Gabrielle tells Xena she can clean up the hut or go   
   hunting.   
      
   Xena is talking to Eve, saying where they are, they're safe from the Greek   
   gods and there are   
   plenty of baby sitters. Eris tries sneaking up on Xena to prove she's worthy   
   of being Xena's new   
   sidekick.   
      
   Cyane takes Joxer to Gabrielle. She tells Gabrielle the Amazon code says the   
   penalty for a man   
   looking at a naked Amazon without her permission is to lose an eye.   
      
   Xena is sitting outside the hut whittling with her knife while Eris cleans the   
   hut. Gabrielle asks   
   Xena's advice about the punishment. Xena says to just let him off the hook.   
      
   While he is tied between the trees, another Amazon, Rhea, asks him why he   
   looked at them. She says   
   he was the first man to see her undressed and wants to know if she was   
   pleasing to look at. He kind   
   of says yes. She asks if he will make a baby with her. At first he indicates   
   he's not just a   
   machine, but then agrees.   
      
   Xena is ready to go hunting when Eris talks her into practice dancing with her   
   and other for   
   Gabrielle's coronation.   
      
   Gabrielle tells Joxer she is trying to find a way out of blinding him.   
      
   Xena tires of the dancing and starts to leave when she sees Gabrielle watching   
   them. They talk some   
   more. Xena says all the communal living together and sharing is making her   
   sick. Gabrielle accuses   
   her of never intending to stay. Xena decides to go fishing for awhile.   
   Gabrielle agrees she should.   
      
   Gabrielle is looking though scrolls of Amazon law looking for a loophole. She   
   finds one. She goes   
   to Joxer and tells him he has to pledge eternal allegiance to her and she can   
   pardon a first   
   offense.   
      
   Gabrielle is stripped and covered with mud for the swearing in ritual. She   
   howls like a wolf at the   
   full moon until day break.   
      
   Eris tries flips and a war cry to impress Xena, and wants to go with her now   
   that she and Gabrielle   
   are apart. Xena says it's only a short separation.   
      
   Gabrielle and other Amazons go to Joxer and he swears allegiance to Gabrielle.   
   She says she'll   
   think about it.   
      
   Eris expects to go with Xena. She says she took Gabrielle's scrolls out of the   
   saddlebags. Xena   
   says she'll get them. She takes them inside the hut and begins reading them to   
   Eve, starting with   
   the 'Return of Callisto.'   
      
   Rhea cuts the ropes holding Joxer and takes him into a hut. She wants to know   
   how to start making a   
   baby. She kisses him.   
      
   Gabrielle tells Cyane about the loophole and insists she will pardon Joxer.   
   Cyane says she'll cut   
   him loose. She finds the rope cut and a trail leading to the hut where she   
   finds Rhea on top of   
   Joxer kissing him. She takes them back to Gabrielle and says he broke another   
   law - kissing out of   
   season. He must fight the queen to the death, and Rhea must be banished.   
      
   Gabrielle is back in the sweat lodge trying to think of a solution. Xena comes   
   in and tells her she   
   read her scrolls. And says she is sure to make a wonderful queen, and that's   
   worth sticking around   
   to see.  Gabrielle tells her about having to fight Joxer to the death. Xena   
   tells Gabrielle she   
   won't have to because she will.   
      
   When Joxer is brought back to Gabrielle, she tells everyone she will have her   
   champion, Xena fight   
   in her place. Joxer tells Rhea he knew Gabrielle had a plan. Xena is back in   
   her leathers and   
   armor.   
      
   Cyane tells Xena the only rule is that someone must die.   
      
   Xena and Joxer climb into a ring. They both make exaggerated boasts about the   
   upcoming fight. Xena   
   mostly throws Joxer around. In a fit of anger, he punches her in the nose. She   
   puts the Pinch on   
   him, three or four times, to satisfy the spectators that he really is dead.   
   When Cyane declares him   
   dead, Xena reverses the Pinches and he wakes up.   
      
   Cyane is angry and says that the laws say - she is interrupted by Gabrielle   
   saying they should be   
   changed when someone must die for a kiss. Rhea adds or get banished. And Joxer   
   adds and get an eye   
   gouged out for getting an eyeful.   
      
   Cyane says she just wanted the tribe to be strong and asks for permission to   
   leave the tribe.   
   Gabrielle denies her request because the tribe will need her since she's   
   leaving with Xena.   
      
   That night Xena, Eve and Gabrielle are by a campfire looking as if there are   
   on the trail and ready   
   to go to sleep. Joxer is sleeping on a blanket off to the side.   
      
   Gab asks where the are going next, Xena says the had a cruise down the Nile in   
   mind, and she knows   
   someone they can stay with.   
      
   ...........   
      
   For the most part, a pretty good episode.   
      
   I liked seeing Xena and Gabrielle 'going native' and wearing the buckskins   
   (probably pretty cold   
   there).  Gabrielle always looks good wearing the antler headdresses.   
      
   I liked Xena trying to fit in because she knew how much Gabrielle wanted to be   
   queen and wanted to   
   help the tribe.   
      
   Xena finally read Gabrielle's scrolls - to Eve. It was about time.  Gabrielle   
   seemed surprised, and   
   pleased.   
      
   Nice conversation in the sweat lodge about men. Xena had the best line -  "The   
   good news is -- it's   
   different every time.  The bad news is it's different every time.  You're   
   always hoping for Greek   
   fire but sometimes you just get diddly."   
      
   Gabrielle had a couple of good lines. When they were awakened by the ram's   
   horn she asked Xena,   
   "Was that you?"   
      
      
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