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Sort of a take on Abraham / Isaac story.  (Anteus is Abraham, Ikus is Isaac.)
==Xena-Gabrielle relationship==
The first episode that shows some of the sexual subtext between Xena and Gabrielle. The scene starts with the two of them in the pond: The camera pans past their clothes on bushes, making it apparent that they are skinny-deeping.  Their banter is ambiguous. Xena urges Gabrielle to dive, and she comes back with a slippery fish. ... At the end of the episode, Xena and Gabrielle are thrown down a well; Xena has Gabrielle climb up her body, before Xena begins climbing up the rope.


==Dialog==
==Dialog==

Revision as of 17:57, 15 February 2007

Xena: Warrior Princess episode
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Episode no. Season 1
Episode 19
Guest star(s) David de Lautour (Ikus), Karl Urban (Mael), Teresa Woodham (Zora), David Ackroyd (Anteus)
Writer(s) Chris Mannheim; editor Robert Field
Director Michael Levine
Production no. 76926
Original airdate 1996 April 22
Episode chronology
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"The Prodigal" "Ties That Bind"

List of Xena episodes

Sort of a take on Abraham / Isaac story. (Anteus is Abraham, Ikus is Isaac.)

Xena-Gabrielle relationship

The first episode that shows some of the sexual subtext between Xena and Gabrielle. The scene starts with the two of them in the pond: The camera pans past their clothes on bushes, making it apparent that they are skinny-deeping. Their banter is ambiguous. Xena urges Gabrielle to dive, and she comes back with a slippery fish. ... At the end of the episode, Xena and Gabrielle are thrown down a well; Xena has Gabrielle climb up her body, before Xena begins climbing up the rope.

Dialog

Mael: I don't know who -- or what -- you are, but this business is none of yours.
Xena: My name is Xena. And the way I see it, a half-dozen men going after one small defenseless boy kinda makes it my business. (pause) Call it my maternal instinct.

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Mael: preaching to a bunch of men: My father is a wise man, but also an aging man in failing health. No doubt, he doesn't see Xena for what she truly is: A trial, sent to us, by the Almighty, to test our resolve. Can you doubt it? All you have to do is look at her, to see she's unnatural -- an affront to God. A woman with the strength of ten men? Out on the road alone, save only her scrawny little companion? It's a complete abomination! And to think -- this ... freak of nature has my brother. A boy, so innocent and pure that the all-powerful one has called him to his side at the tender age of twelve. How do you think the Supreme Deity feels about that? Leaving his chosen one in the hands of a woman whose gods are as primitive as she is?
Crowd: Xena must die!
Crowd: Yeah! [cheers]