- Joxer: Oh! Oh! I know! I know! Wait a minute. What if none if this is really happening, and like we're all in somebody else's head, and they're making us up?
- Joxer: [repeated lines and actions throughout episode]
- [Joxer opens barn door]
- Joxer: Rise and shine everyone!
- [comes in barn]
- Joxer: Rise and shine!
- Gabrielle: [Gabrielle emerges from a stack of hay] I'll rise, but I refuse to shine!
- Joxer: Well, I got us breakfast.
- [Joxer takes an egg from his helmet he's holding]
- Joxer: Goose eggs!
- Gabrielle: [Xena hums the funeral song as Joxer's body burns on a floating pyre in the river. Gabrielle looks at Xena] Xena, I shouldn't have sent him after those goose eggs...
- Xena: [quietly] Gabrielle, Joxer died a hero, just like he always wanted.
- [pause]
- Xena: There's no blame here!
- [Gabrielle starts to cry as Xena holds her]
- Xena: Hey, come here. Maybe we should get some rest, hmm?
- Gabrielle: [cries] No, I don't think I can...
- Xena: Yeah, sure you can. Come on.
- [pause]
- Xena: Sleep now. It'll hurt less in the morning...
- Joxer: [Morning; the rooster crows again and Xena wakes up, finding herself and Gabrielle in the same barn as the morning before. Joxer comes in the barn] Rise and shine, everyone!
- [pause]
- Joxer: Rise and shine!
- [Xena just stares at him, completely shocked]
- Xena: [to herself while Joxer listens] Every day, the rooster crows, Joxer walks in, the horseshoe falls, I save the old man, stop a duel and then the whole thing starts all over again...
- Joxer: Maybe it's the rooster.
- [Xena suddenly jerks her head up]
- Joxer: [Sundown; the rooster clucks. Xena throws her chakramn at the rooster and its feathers fly everywhere]
- Joxer: You know the enemy of my enemy is often considered my friend.
- Xena: [exasperated] Joxer...
- [pauses and looks at Lycos and Menos]
- Xena: Go ahead.
- Joxer: [surprised] Really?
- Xena: Go ahead.
- Joxer: Yeah but you don't eve... I knew this would happen someday, you and me on the same wavelength, two great minds, one thought.
- Gabrielle: Only half a wit.