From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   50.4 Animal Attraction   
      
   First air date was Oct 19, 1999.   
      
       The story starts out with Xena riding Argo, with Gabrielle, Amarice and   
   Joxer walking. Joxer keeps looking back at Gabrielle and Gabrielle tries to   
   talk to Xena about it, but Xena keeps dozing off.   
      
       Xena hears something ahead and rides off to see what it is. The rest of   
   them run after her. Xena sees a horse with its foot in a trap. She lassos   
   the horse and ties the end to her saddle. When  the others run up, the horse   
   sees Gabrielle and calms down. Xena tells Gabrielle to talk to the horse so   
   she can get the trap off its foot.   
      
       They lead the horse to the town of Spamona, which is famous for its hot   
   springs. Gabrielle gets the horse to go into a stall. The stable guy tells   
   them the town has a law against carrying weapons. Amarice asks who's got the   
   guts to take Xena's. A woman steps up and says she does.   
   She  and Xena sword fight. Xena knocks her feet out from under her. When she   
   helps her up, they hug. Xena tells them she and Talia used to ride together.   
      
       Xena is hungry for raspberry jelly and raw fish. No one is hungry so   
   Xena and Talia go off to eat. They are in a saloon looking tavern and a man   
   tells Talia, who is the local sheriff, a man named Darkon is coming, and he   
   resigns as deputy. Xena offers to help, but Talia makes her promise not to.   
      
       Cut to a co-ed bath house. Amarice comes in and knocks a guy into a tub   
   of water. It is Armon ("The Convert" - Joxer killed his father). She pulls   
   him up and breathes into his mouth a couple of times. Joxer comes up and he   
   kids Amarice about saving a man's life. When she is leaving, she slips down   
   and they laugh at her.   
      
       Joxer and Armon are getting massages and talking about how immature and   
   obnoxious Amarice is. Next door Amarice is telling Xena and Gabrielle, who   
   are in steam boxes, how arrogant and smug Armon is.   
      
       Gabrielle notices that Xena hasn't felt good for a few days and talks   
   her into visiting a healer. The doctor tells her she's pregnant. Xena is   
   angry, grabs him by the throat, and tells him it's impossible because she   
   hasn't done anything in a long time.   
      
       Gabrielle is taking a sack of apples to the horse. Joxer wants to help   
   and they fight over the sack, which breaks open and the apples fall on the   
   ground. In the barn, Gabrielle tries to get the horse to eat one, but it   
   won't. Armon finds Gabrielle there and wants to know how to make peace with   
   Amarice. Gabrielle tells him to take flowers to her.   
      
       After he leaves, Gabrielle wraps a bandage around her ankle to try to   
   bond with the horse, who has his leg bandaged. It doesn't seem to work.   
      
       Xena is trying to talk Talia into letting her help, but Talia tells her   
   Darkon is her problem because he is her husband, but she doesn't love him   
   any more. She knows Xena is pregnant from all the symptoms. And her mother   
   was a midwife.   
      
       Xena goes into the bar and asks for milk. Amarice finds her and wants to   
   know how to deal with her feelings for Armon, Xena tells her to either kiss   
   him or kill him. Xena leaves and Armon come in with flowers and a box (of   
   candy).  She is appreciative until he tells her she needs a man to protect   
   her. They start arguing again. Suddenly they begin kissing passionately.   
   Then theyy start arguing over who kissed who first.   
      
       Xena goes into the stable and tells Argo she's pregnant.   
      
       Armon tells Xena he kissed Amarice but thinks she's scared it will make   
   her feel weak. He goes back into the saloon and talks to Amarice. But they   
   end up arguing again when he tells her she is acting phony.   
      
       Xena is still in the stable. Gabrielle is talking to the horse. Amarice,   
   Armon and Joxer come in, all arguing at Xena about their problems Xena yells   
   out she's pregnant to shut them up. Everyone is stunned. Gabrielle asks   
   when, and who. But finally she believes Xena but with a concerned look on   
   her face.   
      
       Armon and Amarice are in a room to guard Talia's flank. They both talk   
   about how their feelings scare them.   
      
       Xena and Gabrielle are looking out of a second floor window. Gabrielle   
   wonders if Ares did a god thing, but Xena denies it. Gabrielle also wonders   
   about Hercules, but they hear Darkon and his men riding hard to town.   
      
       Talia meets them in the middle of the street. Darkon's men separate and   
   Talia and Darkon draw knives and throw them, both missing. They start sword   
   fighting.   
      
       Xena sees one if the men with a crossbow and throws her Chakram and   
   knocks  him off the roof. Gabrielle takes on two more of them, her sais   
   against their swords. She does good in the first round, but while she's   
   watching Talia and Darkon she is sucker-punched and is knocked down. Armon   
   and Amarice come to her rescue.   
      
       Gabrielle sees the fifth man with a torch heading to the barn. She tries   
   to talk him out of setting it on fire. The Horse breaks down the barn doors   
   and knocks the man down with his front hooves.   
      
       Talia disarms Darkon and tells him he will have to face a judge.   
      
       Armon and Amarice say their good byes, and Amarice kisses him.   
      
       Gabrielle has a horse now. Xena tells her they are a two-horse family,   
   and pats her belly. They mount up and Gabrielle offers to race Xena to   
   Greece. Xena declines and tells Gabrielle if they did, Gabrielle wouldn't be   
   able to walk straight for a month.   
      
   ………………….   
      
       A western-themed show.  Not really one of my favorites.  For some reason   
   I keep thinking this is the episode where they are all shrunk down by some   
   sad god of something.   
      
       I was glad to see everyone FINALLY wearing weather-appropriate clothes.   
   You could see the steam coming out when they breathed.   
      
       When I heard the name of the town was Spamona, I was thinking it was the   
   episode with Salmoneus playing Lord Seltzer. I forgot that was a S1 episode.   
      
       The steam boxes Gabrielle and Xena were in had the same tops that were   
   used around Xena's neck in "The Debt" when Xena was in the water filled   
   dungeon.   
      
       I got kind of tired of Amarice and Armon arguing so much. A little went   
   a L-O-N-G way.   
      
       The sword fighting between Talia and Darkon was pretty good.   
      
       Gabrielle taking on two guys with swords with just her sais was nervy,   
   and she did a good job until she got distracted.   
      
       Nice line from Talia – "…Wake up and smell the diapers."   
      
       And BTW, where did she ride off to? No one knew where she was, but she   
   showed up again to face down Darkon and his men.   
      
      
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