IN SICKNESS AND IN HELL

One beautiful morning, Gabrielle wakes up with foot rot and Xena with lice! (Xena's searching for Argo now.) Enter Joxer. He's been hired to protect a village from marauders and is looking for their help. As Gabrielle's fungal condition worsens, she heads off to catch some rabbit for breakfast. The rabbit attacks (in Monty Python fashion) after she lures it in, feeding it berries which "play tricks on the mind." They end up eating Joxer's radish stew, instead. Xena wonders why Argo is avoiding her. Was it because she saw Xena ride off on another horse? Gabby uses the chakram to scratch her fungus. So Xena ties Gabrielle's hands to keep her from scratching. Joxer returns. A sarcastic and irritable Gabby begs to be untied and throws up at his feet! Later, we find that Joxer's stew has given our duo stomach problems. Elsewhere, the bad guys capture Argo! Finally, Joxer and the girls arrive at the village. Their sickly condition does not inspire much confidence. We learn that the enemy is after the town's "Greek fire" -which is oil heated deep in the ground. Xena and Gabrielle bathe in the mineral bath and find they've caught each other's rot/lice. AH!!! Later, by an indoor fire, Gabrielle and Xena talk about Argo. Xena figures there's an assassin out to get her. Gabrielle drinks linseed root for her skin -which was supposed to go on her skin! Consequently, her tongue goes numb. That night, the assassin tries to kill Xena to no avail. Gabby drools all over his face in a very funny "pinch" scene. A demanding interrogation. Later, an attack and a fight! Argo's on the dark side? Joxer feeds his stew to the baddies and they are down for the count. Xena tries to free Argo and Gabrielle gets her hair tangled in a shrub while failing to whistle a warning about approaching warlords. Fight! Xena gets her horse back. Another fight! The village is saved. ...Joxer gets sick!