Season 5 Episode 17 - Kindred Spirits

Xena and Gabrielle are still at the Amazon village from the last episode and Gabrielle is considering staying there and becoming the Amazon Queen, but Xena doesn't like the idea much but agrees to consider it. Then over in a river the Amazon tribe are bathing and they hear an intruder on the bushes some of the Amazon's capture the intruder and take him to Gabrielle. When he is unmasked it is revealed that the intruder is Joxer. The Amazons want him to be punished and Gabrielle, who has to respect the Amazon laws, tells him to stay in the stocks until she has thought of a punishment.

In the stocks Joxer keeps getting tormented by some of the Amazons' children, then he needs to use the little warriors room and isn't allowed to, then he is asked by one of the Amazon's if he will have a baby with her. Xena has problems of her own because one of the amazons' wants to be her sidekick and nothing Xena does can persuade her they Xena doesn't want a sidekick. Then Gabrielle finds out that Joxer has to loose an eye according to one of the Amazon laws for spying on naked Amazons. Gabrielle manages to find a loophole, because it is his first offence he can be pardoned, which Gabrielle does. Then Joxer is caught kissing an Amazon and the punishment for this is death. Gabrielle cannot pardon him this time and Cyane, one of the Amazons, is adamant that the Amazon's follow the rules so Joxer has to be executed. Xena and Gabrielle start having different ideas about what is going to happen in there future, this causes an argument and Xena decides that Eve and Xena are going to leave Gabrielle for a few weeks. While packing Xena finds Gabrielle scrolls and reads them for the first time, She realizes how inspiring Gabrielle really is and so decides not to leave. By now they have both found out about Joxer's punishment he is to be executed the next day in a fight with the Queen, Gabrielle. Gabrielle gets Xena to fight for her and then at the end of the fight Xena puts the pinch on him and Joxer dies. He is pronounced dead by Cyane and then Xena brings him back to life. It doesn't say anywhere that he has to stay dead, Gabrielle then tells the tribe that their rules are too strict Cyane agrees and asks to be banished to following them. Instead Gabrielle makes her the new Amazon Queen and decides to leave with Xena and Eve after all. Joxer goes off on his own happy that he wasn't executed.