Gabrielle: "Joxer? Joxer, where are you?" Joxer: "Here … I heard guards. I hid in the log." Gabrielle: "Here you go. It was good thinking." Joxer: "Yeah, I have lots of good ideas these days, huh?"

Gabrielle: "Can you get up?"
Joxer: "Yeah."
Gabrielle: "Put your arms around me. Come on."
Joxer: "I can't. I can't. Okay, look, I've got an idea. You go get the resin and come back. I'll wait here."
Gabrielle: "I'm not leaving you."
Joxer: "Now who's not thinking? Xena's probably already in the tree waiting."
Gabrielle: "Well, then she's on her way to find us."
Joxer: "We're so far off the trail, she's not going to know where to look. Gabrielle, why don't you be smart and think about the people you love."
Gabrielle: "I am."

Xena: "See, what we gotta do is keep our eyes peeled for a sign. Gabrielle's smart. She'll try to get our attention if she can. The trouble is the guards would smell a signal fire … (Eve babbles a bit) … Hey. Hey, guards have ears, too, you know. Otherwise, Gabrielle would be raising a ruckus. So, unless you see something that I don't … (looks over shoulder to see one of Gabrielle's parchments strung up like a kite) … well, why didn't you say something? I told you Gabrielle was smart."

Joxer: "Gabrielle!"
Gabrielle: "Hey, it's okay. It's okay."
Joxer: "Was I dreaming?"
Gabrielle: "Yeah."
Joxer: "I dreamt we were in trouble, you know."
Gabrielle: "Us? No way."
Joxer: "Us. How come there was never an 'us', Gabrielle?"
Gabrielle: "Why do people love the people that they do? I don't - I don't know."
Joxer: "I know why. Because you made me feel special."
Gabrielle: "You are special."
Joxer: "Not special enough."
Gabrielle: "You're special enough to see me through the worst times of my life. Enough that I have come to rely on you as a very good friend."

Joxer: "Why don't you love me, Gabrielle?" Gabrielle: "I do love you. It's just not the way that you want. I wish I did."

Gabrielle: "Xena - thank the gods! Did you get to the tree?"

*** Three armies converge on the duo.

Priestess of Artemis: "CHARGE !!!!"

Xena: "It's alright, sweetheart. This will be over soon, I promise."

Xena: (the world around Xena stops in mid-battle) "Gabrielle?" Ares: "Had enough? You know how it could be, Xena. Give me a child. I swear I would never harm it. Dreams can come true, Xena. Give me a child." Xena: "You're not a dream. You're my worst nightmare." Ares: "Enjoy." - the fighting resumes

Ares: (saves Eve from an arrow … and returns her to mom) "Sweet dreams."

*** Two women against three temple armies? No sweat.

Gabrielle: "Is he …um …?"
Xena: "He's going to be fine. Look - the poison is already receeding."
Gabrielle: "Joxer."
Joxer: "Hi, Xena. What'd I miss?"
Xena: "Not a thing, Joxer, not a thing."

Gabrielle: "Joxer, when you were ill, I said -"
Joxer: "I know what you said. You said that you love me, but only as a friend, right?"
Gabrielle: "I do mean that. I - I …"
Joxer: "I know you do. But, Gabrielle, I'll always love you more than that, and that's just something I'll have to live with, you know? That's alright."

Xena: "Gabrielle … is Joxer alright?"
Gabrielle: "Yeah, he's … he's fine. What's wrong?"
Xena: "I've been asking myself that same thing. You know, we live our lives the way we do because someone has to help those who can't help themselves. But, is it wrong to expose a child to that kind of violence, that blood?"
Gabrielle: "I think so. But, Xena, sometimes it's our only resort until we find a more effective way of doing it well."
Xena: "Perhaps a greater wrong is never to fight at all, huh?"

Xena: "You know what? I think it doesn't matter where we take a stand … as long as we make one."

DISCLAIMER: Ares' virility was harmed during the production of this motion picture.