From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   4-13  Paradise Found   
      
       First air date was Feb 1, 1999.   
      
       The story starts out with a thunderstorm. Xena and Gabrielle have taken   
   refuge in a cave. Gabrielle is wearing only furs (letting her clothes dry we   
   assume). Xena has a gash on her upper thigh thanks to thugs who attacked   
   them. Gabrielle is talking about how much Xena smiled during the fighting.   
   Xena keeps coming back with reasons she was smiling. Gabrielle is stitching   
   up Xena's leg. Xena takes over, telling Gabrielle she has hands like a   
   sailor.   
      
        Xena has a flashback of Gabrielle being nailed to the cross. Gabrielle   
   is mouthing 'I love you.' Then Xena is back to reality and Gabrielle tells   
   her she needs to forget it (the vision), they make their own destiny.   
      
       They hear a noise farther back in the cave and Gabrielle goes to   
   investigate, telling Xena not to break the stitches. Xena doesn't hear   
   Gabrielle and goes to see where she is. She sees a deep, deep hole, and   
   assuming Gabrielle fell into it, jumps in herself.   
      
       They both wake up in a green garden with birds singing in the trees and   
   a tortoise and a hare meandering around. Xena's leg is healed. They hear   
   someone in the bushes and Xena forces a man named Garr out. After   
   questioning him about where they are, he tells them to go to the house to   
   see Aiden.   
      
       They go in and there are blue statues of men and women in various Yoga   
   poses. Gabrielle is impressed. Aiden tells them they represent ultimate,   
   inner peace. Xena wants to leave But Aiden talks them into staying with   
   offers of food and sleep. Gabrielle asks about a warm bath.   
      
       She and Xena are in a hot tub. Gabrielle is loving it but Xena isn't.   
   Gabrielle asks why she isn't curious about Aiden. Xena says most people   
   can't handle spiritual powers -- Aiden is no Lao Ma. Gabrielle wants to   
   learn his breathing techniques.   
      
       The next day Aiden is teaching Gabrielle to concentrate on her   
   breathing, but warns her it could stir up thoughts and feeling she didn't   
   know she had.   
      
       Xena is in the garden doing Tai Chi exercises. She suddenly gets violent   
   and screams for the birds to shut up.   
      
       As she is doing the breathing exercises, Gabrielle hears herself telling   
   Xena she is sorry, she never meant to lie. And she couldn't kill her (Hope).   
   She then breaks down crying, saying she is a monster. As Aiden comforts her,   
   Xena is watching, then leaves with tears in her eyes.   
      
       That night Gabrielle is lying on the white half of a black and white   
   yin-yang bed. Xena is doing sit ups on the floor. Gabrielle says she feels   
   clean and light and wants to stay another night. She wishes Xena could feel   
   how she feels.   
      
       Gabrielle tells Aiden she is concerned about Xena. He tells her Xena's   
   feelings could make her jumpy, there will be changes in her appearance,   
   she'll have mental lapses and delusions and there will be spontaneous   
   bleeding. He says she can beat it because she has Gabrielle.   
      
       Gabrielle finds Xena in the hot tub. She asks if Xena is all right and   
   she says she is. Gabrielle puts her hand on Xena's shoulder and Xena takes   
   it and squeezes until Gabrielle screams out in pain. But it is a delusion.   
   Gabrielle leaves after Xena tells her she is perfect.   
      
       Xena finds Aiden and threatens to put the pinch on him, but he tells her   
   the delusions will only get worse until she hurts Gabrielle. And the only   
   thing she can do is to leave.   
      
       Xena is in their bedroom and Gabrielle comes in with a knot in her back   
   from the doing a meditative pose. Xena starts to massage Gabrielle's back.   
   As she does, blood starts dripping from her nose and she has to keep   
   catching the drops. Xena has another vision of Gabrielle being nailed to the   
   cross. But then she is the one with the maul driving a spike through   
   Gabrielle's feet.   
      
       Gabrielle is asleep. Xena tells her good bye and leaves.   
      
       Going through the garden, Xena notices a service medallion on one of the   
   statues. She finds Garr and he tells her they once were men, his platoon.   
   She wants to know what happened. He says it was Aiden. He makes everyone so   
   still he can leach the goodness out of them and they turn into statues. She   
   realizes it will happen to Gabrielle. Xena says once the goodness is out of   
   her she can fight Aiden.   
      
       Gabrielle is in a meditative pose on her belly with her arms behind her,   
   holding her ankles with the soles of her feet up. Aiden is sitting on her   
   feet. Xena comes in to rescue Gabrielle, but Aiden tells her she's too late   
   and Gabrielle is in too deep. She is turning blue.   
      
       Xena throws her Chakram but Aiden stops it with his mind. When Xena   
   attacks he uses his mind to throw her around, pounding her on the floor. She   
   is about to be defeated when Garr comes in. She hoists him over head, then   
   flips her sword up so it is resting on the end of the handle and the point   
   is up. Before she can impale Garr, Gabrielle comes out of the trance and   
   yells to Xena. Xena then kicks her sword toward Aiden and he is stabbed in   
   the gut. Gabrielle and Xena are back to normal.   
      
       As Aiden dies and melts into a puddle, the house, statues and garden   
   also begin to melt away and they are back in the cave.   
      
        Xena  tells Gabrielle knew that she would never let her take an   
   innocent life.  Garr realizes he is free and goes to find his wife and   
   children.   
      
       Gabrielle says she sometimes talk about Xena's dark side as some kind of   
   disease, but without it neither one of them would be there. Then she asks if   
   she really has hands of a sailor.   
   ……………….   
      
   An episode I remembered, but wasn't sure how much I actually liked it. I   
   liked it a lot.   
      
   Gabrielle never looked better, and I really liked the outfit she was wearing   
   while doing the exercises with Aiden (in the interview clip, Rob said they   
   deliberately made Gabrielle look as good as they could, and made sure she   
   was 'in a hot little number' to do the yoga).  Can't say enough about how   
   Renee/Gabrielle looked doing the yoga -- sweet, sexy and quite erotic.   
      
   The story was interesting. Gabrielle is on a spiritual quest, and they are   
   on their way to India. Of course Xena is going to go along even though she   
   seems to be skeptical of it all.   
      
   Xena keeps having the vision of Gabrielle being nailed to the cross. I can't   
   remember if in the very first vision Xena also saw herself. I thought she   
   did, but in all the subsequent visions all she saw / we see is Gabrielle.   
      
   I guess the tortoise and the hare have some kind of significance. And the   
      
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