6-08 The Ring

First airing was Nov. 20, 1999.

The story starts out with scenes from the previous episode, "The Rheingold."

Gabrielle, Brunhilda and Beowulf are walking through the woods looking for Xena. They find blood on
a tree. Beowulf keeps insisting Xena is dead. Gabrielle says she isn't. Gabrielle finds one of
Xena's forearm gauntlets and says again she isn't dead, she's escaped. Then she suggests they split
up to cover more ground.

While Gabrielle is looking around, Xena comes up behind her and puts her hand over her mouth, then
shows her the monster off in the distance. After it goes, Gabrielle turns around, grabs Xena, and
tells her to never leave her again. Brunhilda and Beowulf find them. Xena says she knows Gabrielle
won't go, but the other two should since it's her fight. Both Brunhilda and Beowulf say they won't
leave Gabrielle.

They find Grindl's cave and go inside with torches. Gabrielle wants to know who Grindl is. Xena
flashes back to making the ring. Grinhilda shoots an arrow through the ring and recovers it. She
puts the ring on to have the power of a god to kill Xena. They fight some, then the ring turns her
into a monster. Xena cuts off the finger with the ring and puts it on. Grindl flees. Xena traps it
in the cave and puts the two-headed raven lock on as Grindl gets the ring from her. Back in the
present Xena says that after 35 years, Grindl lost all love and now has the power of the ring and
escaped.

On Aug 3, 4:02 pm, "David E. Milligan" bellsouth.net> wrote:

I love the line "If I knew I had a fan coming, I would have combed my
hair." and the little smile between Xena and Gabrielle.

LOL! One of my favorite lines of the entire series. I laugh out loud
every time. One of these days we'll have to do a thread on favorite
lines from the show. I've got a bunch listed somewhere.