From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   4-07 Locked UP And Tied Down   
      
       First air date Nov 9, 1996.   
      
       The story starts out with Gabrielle trying to find knots in Xena's   
   shoulders and trying to massage them away. She asks what Xena's been   
   carrying on her shoulders. She answers she doesn't over-analyze her life   
   like some people (Gabrielle?). They are both aware of six men sneaking up on   
   them. Xena battles four and Gabrielle two.   
      
       One of them  has an arrest warrant for Xena for the murder of a woman   
   named Thalassa. She says she killed her because it suit her purpose.   
      
        Xena says she will go back to stand trial. She gives Gabrielle her   
   Chakram. Xena is chained with shackles around her neck and on her wrists and   
   ankles.   
      
       During the trial witnesses talk about the goodness of Thalassa. Xena   
   flashbacks to a cave with Evil Xena threatening to kill a bunch of village   
   women if she doesn't get supplies. Thalassa volunteers to stay if Xena   
   releases the rest of them. She is tied down at the edge of the lake/sea   
   where crabs begin crawling on her.   
      
       Gabrielle tries defending Xena, but Xena won't help in her own defense   
   and the evidence is too much against Xena. She is sentenced to life   
   imprisonment on Shark Island.   
      
       On the docks Gabrielle talks to Xena, who tells her she's not looking   
   for redemption but, rather, she needs something to make her feel complete.   
   Xena is taken aboard the prison ship.   
      
       In a tavern, Gabrielle is looking at the Chakram when the ex-Healer of   
   Shark Island sits next to her. He says he just quit. Gabrielle asks the   
   bartender when the next ship sails. He says in a week.   
      
       On the island the new prisoners and Xena (all female) witness a hanging   
   because a prisoner killed a guard trying to escape.   
      
       In the prison yard a woman named Ursina confronts Xena because she sent   
   Ursina to prison. She sics her followers on Xena, who beats them up. Ursina   
   says she wants Xena along because they are planning an escape. Xena refuses.   
      
       Later the woman who was hanged is starting to smell. The Captain of the   
   Guard (CotG) tells another guard to cut her down and throw her to the   
   sharks. Xena asks if she can bury her. He says yes and at night during a   
   thunderstorm, Xena buries her and erects some kind of marker or shrine made   
   out of small logs.   
      
       The next day Xena tries helping a woman who is too weak to unload   
   barrels from a supply wagon. The CotG tells Xena to unload it by herself.   
   When another woman tries to help he says to give her 3 three lashes. Xena   
   goes berserk and starts beating up the guards, using a short rope with a   
   noose tied to the end of it.   
      
       The warden, a woman wearing a black hood, tells Xena to stop fighting.   
   The guards grab Xena. The warden is Thalassa wearing a prosthetic wooden arm   
   and hand. She has Xena taken inside where she is chained around the neck   
   with her hands behind her and her feet chained.   
      
       Xena is thrown down into a pit about 20 – 30 feet below. Thalassa tells   
   Xena she is being punished for a crime she didn't commit. Many many rats   
   begin climbing all over Xena.   
      
       The new Healer has arrived and it is Gabrielle wearing the clothes the   
   old Healer was wearing. Thalassa is surprised it is a woman. Gabrielle   
   convinces her she is a real Healer and begins examining the stump of   
   Thalassa arm.   
      
       Down in the pit, Xena starts fighting the rats, biting them and throwing   
   them aside.   
      
       Thalassa tells Gabrielle she has warmth and beauty like she used to   
   have. Gabrielle tells her if she gave herself a chance she might rediscover   
   it.   
      
       Gabrielle is being accompanied by two guards making her rounds. She uses   
   a broom to knock them out and goes looking for Xena. She looks through a   
   locked door with bars calling for Xena. Xena yells back from the pit.   
   Gabrielle rolls the Chakram toward the pit but it falls down on the bars   
   just as guards capture her.   
      
       Thalassa accuses  Gabrielle of befriending her only to find Xena.   
   Gabrielle says that since Thalassa is alive Xena should be retried. The CotG   
   reminds Thalassa of the rules about trying to free a prisoner.   
      
       Down in the yard the CotG has another batch of newbies. He brings   
   Gabrielle out and says she is to die for trying to help a prisoner escape.   
   She is taken up to the gallows and a noose is put around her neck.   
      
       Xena grabs a dead rat by its tail and flings it up to hit the Chakram   
   which falls down and cuts through the chains.   
      
       Thalassa can't give the order to hang Gabrielle, but the CotG does and   
   just as  Gabrielle starts to fall the Chakram cuts though the rope. Xena and   
   all the prisoners start fighting the guards.   
      
       Xena tells Gabrielle to take Thalassa to safety. They go up to her   
   office where Gabrielle bars the door and grabs a staff for protection.   
   Ursina and her followers break down the door. Gabrielle beats off four of   
   them but Ursina gets the staff away from her and Gabrielle is thrown against   
   the stone wall and knocked out. Xena arrives in time to save Thalassa and   
   she and Ursina fight.   
      
       Xena knocks Ursina through a window and down to the yard, then jumps   
   down after her. They fight some more until Xena wins.   
      
       Afterward, Thalassa comes to Xena and Gabrielle, and Xena says she knows   
   she can't asks for Thalassa's forgiveness. Thalassa  tells Xena that   
   Gabrielle helped her get back in touch with her soul.   
      
       Gabrielle asks Xena if she can forgive herself. Xena says she can't but   
   won't let that stop her from doing as much good as she can. Gabrielle says   
   not as long as she's around. And she gives Xena the Chakram back.   
      
   ………………………………………..   
      
       Not too bad of an episode. A lot going on with the flashbacks, the   
   prison fights and Gabrielle showing she has what it takes to be a real   
   Healer.   
      
       *The good things first –   
      
       Gabrielle massaging Xena's shoulders without her armor on.   
      
       Gabrielle's valiant try to defend Xena.   
      
       Gabrielle's clothes as the Healer. As I've said many times before, I   
   really like Gabrielle wearing blue (even the cap wasn't so bad).   
      
       Xena burying the hanged woman during the thunderstorm, very dramatic   
   photography.   
      
       Xena putting the fear of the gods into the rats after using only her   
   teeth to fight them off.   
      
       In the final scene, Xena REALLY looked beaten and worn down from her   
   ordeal. Something we rarely see.   
      
       More of Xena's back story. This must have taken place just before Xena's   
   conversion by Hercules since Thalassa didn't look to be that old.   
      
      
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