You Are Not Alone / Live-Action TV

You Are Not Alone in Live-Action TV series.

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• Adam-12: Several episodes during the first season, in particular "You're Not the First Guy's Had the Problem." There, Reed's close friend from the police academy is critically wounded during a robbery, putting Reed's ability to focus on his job to the test. In the end, Malloy reveals that he's been in this position, too (having to focus during stressful if not emotional times, as well as losing comrades in the line of duty) ... and that he won't be the last law enforcement officer to be in those shoes.
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: During the first part of season four, Daisy Johnson's efforts to distance herself from her fellow agents fail, mainly due to this trope:
  May: I know what you're doing. Trying to distance yourself from everyone else so they don't drown in your wake? I invented that move. It doesn't work, for one simple reason; Phil Coulson. He found me in that cubicle and dragged me out. He didn't give up on me and he won't give up on you.
  Daisy: I never asked for any of that.
  May: Uh-uh, no. You don't get to choose who cares about you. And Coulson, he has a bigger heart than most.
  • And Daisy learned that lesson: At the end of the season, when a distraught Fitz volunteers to surrender himself and take sole responsibility for Mace's death, she's the one who talks him out of it.
• Angel does it during "Expecting", when Angel discovered Cordelia very pregnant. "Hey...you're not alone."
• Arrested Development: Parodied. Tobias is a never-nude (which is exactly what it sounds like), and mistakenly believes his nephew to be one too. He ends up shouting in the middle of a large crowd about how there's nothing unnatural about it.
  Tobias: There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
• Felicity gives one of these to Oliver in "Streets of Fire", the penultimate episode of season two of Arrow:
  Oliver: I have failed this city. Yao-Fei, Shado, Tommy, my father, my mother. All that I have ever wanted to do is honor those people.
  Felicity: You honor the dead by fighting. And you are not done fighting! Malcolm Merlyn, the Count, the Clock King, the triad, everyone who has tried to hurt this city, you stopped them! And you will stop Slade.
  Oliver: I don't know how.
  Felicity: Neither do I, but I do know two things: you are not alone, and I believe in you.
• A major theme of Babylon 5. The Opening Narration in each of the first two seasons emphasises that the station is all alone in the night, but given the arc of the series, which begins with each of the alien cultures isolated and ends with the majority of them forming a new political alliance whose origins and nucleus are on the station, it's a strong candidate for the best example of this trope.
  • This is said verbatim by G'Kar to Delenn, after he and Londo get the other alien governments to vote unanimously to provide military support and warships to Sheridan's fleet, in order to aid him in overthrowing Earth's tyrannical President Clark, out of gratitude for what he did for them during the Shadow War.
  • Even the Shadows and Vorlons are capable of this. They are unspeakably ancient and powerful, about equal parts Starfish Aliens and Eldritch Abominations. And yet, when the even more ancient (as in, first sentient being in the galaxy) tells them it's time to pass on...
    Shadow: Will you... come with us?
    Lorien: I have been here since the beginning. I will not leave you now. I will go with you beyond the Rim, and we will see again all those who went ahead of us. All those who we have missed for so long.
    Vorlon: Then we will not be alone?
    Lorien: No, never alone.
• The reimagined Battlestar Galactica episode "Occupation" - the colonists on New Caprica, having suffered for four months under the boot of the Cylons thinking Adama and Apollo had jumped away and left them to their fates finally receive a message from a Raptor - "We will make contact with this frequency every twelve hours. Prepare sitrep for command authority. Have hope. We're coming for you." Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy.
  • In "Faith", a fatally injured Eight reaches out to Athena, who turns away. Instead Anders grabs her hand, telling her, "It's okay. I'm with you." She dies moments later.
• Inverted in Blackadder II episode "Money". At the end of the episode, when Edmund Blackadder is convinced that any attempts to raise the money to pay the Bishop of Bath and Wells or to run away from him are doomed to fail and that he's going to be brutally killed, he asks Baldrick if people would remember him if he dies. Instead of trying to comfort him, Baldrick honestly admits that Edmund is hated and mocked by everyone... but instead of breaking Edmund completely, this enrages him and makes him come up with a new plan to save his life, out of pure spite.
  Edmund: Bloody cheek! I'll show them!
• On Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy is being haunted by the spirit of the First Slayer who is trying to show her that the life of a slayer is marked by its loneliness. She looks down at a tarot card in her hands that pictures Giles, Willow, and Xander, and replies: "I am not alone."
  • In a later episode, Spike outright states that having friends and family is what keeps Buffy alive (at this point, she's already more than doubled the average time any girl survives after becoming the Slayer).
• In the Burn Notice episode "Enemies Closer", Larry, Michael's old Evil Mentor, has been trying to turn him in part by sabotaging his cell phone to isolate him from his friends. He's finally succumbed to one of Larry's Breaking Speeches when his brother Nate shows up and complains about how it's been impossible to get hold of him lately. Realizing that his friends and family haven't abandoned him after all, Mike returns to fine form.
• Invoked in the Castle episode "In the Belly of the Beast" when Beckett was recovering from being tortured and nearly killed by Vulcan Simmons:
  Castle: See what happens when I leave you alone?
  Beckett: Babe, I wasn't alone. When they were interrogating me, the only thing that kept me going was thinking about you, about our future, the wedding. You were with me the whole time.
• After Provenza's breakup with his fiance in 'The Closer', he lamented that he's old and alone. His police partner Flynn pointed out that while he is old, he's not alone.
• A recurring theme on Community, where the study group of Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits act like a family to each other. Hell, see the page quote for True Companions:
  Jeff: As long as you have friends, you have a family.
• The 100th episode of Criminal Minds is a real kick in the teeth for Aaron Hotchner: The Reaper kills his ex-wife, Haley, and goes after his young son Jack as well. But the team is there for Hotch no matter what - from Morgan pulling Hotch off Foyet's corpse to the entire team gathered around Jack in Hotch's office after he's just been cleared of any wrongdoing, they've got his back.
  • There's also Season 6's "Lauren". Prentiss, self-isolating from the team for their protection, gets this message on her cell:
    Garcia: Hey, it's me. Hotch asked me to try all your numbers, and I have this as an old listing and you probably don't even use it anymore, but if it is you and you're out there, come home, please. God, Emily, what did you think? That we would just let you walk out of our lives? I am so furious at you right now! But then I think about how scared you must be in some dark place all alone, but you're not alone, okay? You are not alone. We are in that dark place with you. We are waving flashlights and calling your name, so if you can see us, come home. But if you can't, then, then you stay alive because we're coming.
• Daredevil (2015): Karen's response when Matt has a Heroic BSoD after seeing what goes on in Madame Gao's drug lab.
  Matt: I can't do this alone. I can't...I can't take another step.
  Karen: You're not alone, Matt. You never were.
• Doctor Who:
  • These are Arc Words for Series 3 of the revived series. "You Are Not Alone" were the literal Last Words said to the Doctor by the Face of Boe, giving him hope that he wasn't the last Time Lord. He wasn't. Unfortunately, the other survivor turns out to be the Master, hiding as a human plot-conveniently named Professor Yana.
    • Although this worked because the Doctor has a love/hate relationship with the Master, and even said once the Master was defeated, that while he was around the Doctor had something to live for. The real angst kicks in when the Master subsequently dies, meaning that the Doctor now really is the Last of His Kind.
    • Although, "died" is in quotation marks. He "died" again in "The End of Time", but Rassilon knows he'll be back eventually.
    • He's back... though a little different.
  • Not to mention, with Jenny out there, he really isn't alone.
  • "Human Nature": The second time Tim Latimer opens the Chameleon Arch containing the Doctor's consciousness, he's told this, and also warned to keep the device closed and hidden.
    "You are not alone. Keep me hidden. Keep me closed."
  • In "The Fires of Pompeii", the Doctor is forced to cause the destruction of Pompeii in order to save the rest of the world. Donna voluntarily shares the burden by helping him deliver the final blow.
  • Sarah Jane's line at the end of "Journey's End":
    Sarah Jane: You know, you act like such a lonely man, but look at you! You've got the biggest family on Earth!
  • A small thing, but these words are one of the lyrics of "Vale Decem", the song that the Ood sing to the Tenth Doctor as he regenerates.
  • There's also the revelation that Amy and Rory's daughter Melody (who will grow up to be his future wife River Song) has Time Lord DNA.
  • Amy invokes this trope in the opening of "A Good Man Goes to War":
    Amy: And wherever they take you, Melody, however scared you are, I promise you, you will never be alone. Because this man is your father. He has a name, but the people of our world know him better... as the last Centurion.
  • Then there's "The Wedding of River Song". The Doctor's death has been set as a fixed point in time, making it unavoidable. The Doctor wanted to die quietly, forgotten by all except a handful of his closest friends. River is having none of this, and holds the very fabric of reality over the precipice to remind the Doctor of the trillions of lives he's touched:
    River Song: I can't let you go without you knowing you are loved. By so many and so much. And by no one more than me.
  • "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe" opens with an alien warship hovering over the Earth saying "People of Earth, you stand alone." Then it explodes. Guess who did that.
  • Tragically inverted in "Face the Raven", in which Clara must tell the Doctor "You're going to be alone now, and you're very bad at that" since she is about to be Killed Off for Real just as he's about to be delivered into the hands of his enemies. She advises him "Heal yourself" to deal with the anguish he already feels, but as it turns out, he's all too alone in the two episodes that round out the season, resulting in a Protagonist Journey to Villain as he tries to take her advice...
  • Of course he ultimately realizes that he is not alone not just because of the Master, but because Gallifrey Stands.
• Firefly, from "Out of Gas".
  Mal: (sitting on the medical bay bed, with the crew around him) Y'all gonna be here when I wake up?
  Book: We'll be here.
  • It makes for a nice contrast with an earlier scene, where he decides to stay behind on the dying ship and Inara tells him he doesn't have to die alone—and his opinion is that, regardless of circumstances, everyone dies alone. (The above line comes after the crew demonstrate what they think of this by turning their lifeboats around and coming back to what they think is a dead ship, to rejoin Mal.)
    • There's also the moment in the film when Book dies.
      Shepherd Book: You can't order me around, Mal. I'm not one of your crew.
      Mal: Yes you are.
  • A relatively unspoken variation: "Big Damn Heroes, sir!"
    • Later, it very much is spoken:
      Mal: You're part of my crew. Why are we still talking about this?
  • Also the old war credo shared by Mal, Zoe, and Tracey in "The Message":
    When you can't run, you walk. When you can't walk, you crawl. And when you can't crawl, you find somebody to carry you.
  • In the pilot, when River is lying in bed and feeling Simon's face, and then murmurs that she didn't think he'd come for her - to which he replies "Well, you're a dummy."
  • This is basically the entire point of the series.
• Forever:
  • Played far more darkly than usual in that the mysterious caller claims to be the same as Henry, unable to die, but he also implies that he's going to torment him about their curse. The caller also reveals that he is much, much older than Henry—he's roughly 2000 years old. The caller even calls himself Adam because he feels like he's "been here since the beginning."
  • Inverted in a flashback when Abigail tries to convince Adam that she doesn't know of any other immortals and he is, in fact, alone.
• Frasier: When Roz discovers that she's pregnant in season five she spends most of the episode assuring everyone, including the baby's father, that she'll be fine raising the child alone. She eventually breaks down to Frasier and admits how overwhelming it is.
  Roz: I'm really scared. What if I can't do this by myself?
  Frasier: But, Roz, you're not all by yourself. I'm here.
• Ladies & gentlemen, Friends.
  I'll be there for you, when the rain starts to pour.
  I'll be there for you, like I've been there before.
  I'll be there for you, cause you're there for me too.
  • Also played word for word when Chandler freaks out his friends will find people and he'll die old and alone. Monica tells him straight up that's not going to happen. (And, of course, it doesn't... because he does eventually find someone... her).
• This bit of dialogue from Gossip Girl:
  Chuck: I spent eighteen years accepting the fact my mother was dead. It was misguided to let one of my father's girlfriends allow me to question that. To hope things may be different.
  Blair: Your real mother would never turn her back on a chance to know you.
  Chuck: I don't have a real mother Blair. I never will.
  Blair: That doesn't mean you're alone. I love you Chuck. And I will always be your family.
• In the season six finale of Grey's Anatomy, Dr. Miranda Bailey tells this to Charles Percy as he dies from a gunshot wound. Bailey and a patient that helps her hold his hand until the very end.
• An episode of Happy Days has Fonzie getting harassed into leaving town by a cop who wants to purge the town of "leather jackets". When Fonzie is about to give in and leave, Richie, his friends and the whole town stand up to the cop by wearing leather jackets in solidarity for Fonzie.
  Richie: So what are you going to do? You can't kick us all out.
• Hogan's Heroes:
  • Carter is taken off to a chemical warfare plant after a plan goes off the rails and the Germans wind up thinking he's a chemical warfare expert who wants to turn traitor, so the guys have to dress up in SS garb and masks to retrieve him in broad daylight. Before going, Hogan reminds the men that it'll be very dangerous and therefore the mission is strictly voluntary. The boys' answers?
    Kinch: Let's go get Carter, Colonel.
    Newkirk: Now, Colonel. Now.
    LeBeau: Why are we standing here?
  • Earlier in the series, fellow underground member Tiger is betrayed and captured by the Gestapo. Hogan immediately passes the news to London and is livid when the orders come back to not attempt a rescue and leave Tiger to be interrogated and executed. The others are initially hesitant to disobey an order, but Hogan absolutely refuses to leave her behind, and orders the men to start getting together the supplies he'll need to go to Paris where Tiger is being held and bust her out. The men protest he can't do it alone, but when he sarcastically responds that they've "just elected me Lone Ranger," there's a moments pause before Carter throws in with the Colonel by claiming to be his Tonto, followed by the rest.
    Newkirk: (after agreeing to help Hogan) Who's the Lone Ranger? Never mind that, who's bloody Tonto?
• Fabian from House of Anubis gives Nina a speech about this when she's distressed about the mystery and Senkhara, and how the teachers seem to be winning.
  Fabian: Victor may have more luck than we do, but we have something he doesn't have. Each other. Us and all of the Sibunas. We're going to get through this, because we won't let each other give up, and we won't let each other fail.
• In Kamen Rider OOO, Eiji is left to fight Dr. Maki all alone with the fate of the world on the line after Ankh performs a Heroic Sacrifice to allow him to utilize TaJaDor Combo using the Core Medal that contains his existence, killing himself in the process. As Eiji begins to fight, Ankh's spirit manifests and hits Maki in the face before giving Eiji a smile, letting him know that he's far from alone. After killing Maki and saving the world, Eiji is left powerless and plummeting from several thousand feet in the air...only for his friends to rush to his aid and Eiji realizes this trope was true all alone.
• From one of the original LazyTown plays, the song Ég á Góðan Vin (I Have A Good Friend) song fits this trope to a tee.
  "You are never alone / Even though someone tossed you aside.
  You are never alone / Because you have me."
• Little House on the Prairie: Season 8's "A Promise to Keep", featuring the return of Victor French to his role as Mr. Edwards, the Ingalls' friend, as a series regular. The episode itself focuses on Edwards' darkest hour: Edwards — already mourning the death of his son, John Jr., and having lost his family due to alcoholism — learns Grace has found a new boyfriend and plans to have her divorce petition finalized. Edwards snaps and tries to break into the Mercantile to steal all the whiskey and other alcoholic beverages the Olesens had in stock ... and then he sees the church. He trepidly walks in, kneels before the altar and begs God for guidance. Rev. Alden — a man who otherwise considers Edwards uncouth and irritating — walks in and comforts Edwards, and then reveals he himself is a recovering alcoholic, having lost his entire family due to an epidemic. The two kneel before the altar and pray some more to God ... and presumably talk about their shared circumstances (Edwards, early in the series, revealed his first wife and young daughter died due to typhoid when he was living in Kansas).
• In Luke Cage (2016), Method Man delivers an ode to Luke's badassery and awesomeness over a montage of Harlem citizens wearing bullet-pocked hoodies to flummox the cops hunting for him.
  Luke Cage, please believe me sir, the streets got your back!
• Mako Mermaids: An H₂O Adventure: When Rikki proves unwilling to help the new mermaid trio out against the Water Dragon, Ondina manages to talk her into revealing that she feels alone after losing contact with her friends as an adult. Ondina further appeals to her by pointing out that Rikki is a mermaid connected to Mako Island just like herself, meaning she's welcome to join the pod at any time, never having to live her life tiptoeing around humans. It's then that Rikki finally agrees to help, and Ondina gets her to promise to come meet the pod in the future.
• Happens in Merlin quite a bit, especially when Arthur wants to head off to rescue someone or complete some task on his own, only to have Merlin, Gwen, Morgana (in the early days), or his knights remind him that he doesn't have to do everything alone.
• On NCIS, after Ziva's father, the only living relative she had left, is gunned down, Tony tells her "Aht lo leh-vad" (Hebrew for "You are not alone").
• Person of Interest:
  • John gives this to Carter despite the fact she is trying to arrest him. He again does this to Agent Shaw, claiming despite the fact they walk in the dark, they don't have to do it alone.
  • This is really a recurring theme throughout the show. Everyone in the main cast has reminded each other of this.
  • In Season 4, Shaw's hostage negotiation with Gary who is wearing a suicide bomb on a crowded train. After some thinking, she listens to Fusco's idea of trying to convince the man he is not alone by talking with his other victims, the average people who like him suffered because of the financial crash. The people on the train, sans the jerkass banker right next to Gary who advocates Shaw just kill him, do come to Gary's emotional support, despite his current actions.
    Shaw: See, Gary? Life is crap. Welcome to the human race. But the good news is? You're not alone.
  • In the penultimate episode of the series, when all the odds seem to be against them in the fight against Samaritan, Team Machine discovers that there's another Team Machine in Washington D.C. created from Numbers they've helped save in the past. It's implied there are other Team Machines all over the world.
• In The Red Green Show, there's always a segment where Red offers some (humorous) advice to his fellow middle-aged schmucks, always ending with the line "Remember, I'm pulling for you, we're all in this together."
• In Renegadepress.com's "Dying To Connect", this is how Zoe manages to stop Ralph from overdosing online.

• Schitt's Creek:
  • The Roses coming together as a family is largely the theme of the show, though it happens gradually in small moments such as when the family searches for David after he has run away to an Amish Farm or when David lends his father money for the first time. There's usually a tart undercurrent, however, such as the fact that Moira is primarily concerned with retrieving her lost bag or the fact that Johnny and David can only manage The Un-Hug after the money incident.
  • Stevie consoles David and asks why he and Patrick didn't communicate about their pasts, and David confesses he feared Patrick would leave him if he knew about David's past. Stevie reminds David that she knows everything about him and is still there, and they realize they are best friends.
  • When Patrick is about to come out to his parents, he expresses his fears of rejection to David, and David says if the worst happens then he'll be there for Patrick.
• Sports Night: In the episode "Mary Pat Shelby", Natalie has been wrestling with what to do after being sexually assaulted by a football player during an interview. The rest of the team rallies around her, saying that no matter what, they'll be in her her corner.
  Dan: No matter what you decide, you've got friends. And this is what friends gear up for.
• The entire point of Daniel visiting Jack in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Abyss".
  • Not to mention his speech to an amnesiac Vala at the end of "Memento Mori".
• Star Trek is built on this concept. Beyond the personal and crew-level examples below, the entire overarching premise of the show is that humankind isn't alone and that's good: as scary as the universe and its denizens can be, having other sapient species to connect with is ultimately healing and strengthening, for us and them, and gives us something to hope and strive for.
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation:
    • In "Loud as a Whisper", the telepathic, deaf, and mute Mediator's Chorus (a group of three who speak for him) are killed. He is highly upset and desperately trying to convey his frustration and distress to the crew, who can't understand him without words. Captain Picard grabs his hand, grips it against his chest and practically yells at him.
      Picard: You are not alone! Do you understand? We — are all in this — together — now!
    • In "The Bonding", a small boy is being told about his mother's death, claiming that he's "all alone now, sir." The response from Picard, uncomfortable around most children at the best of times?
      Picard: On the starship Enterprise, no one is alone.
  • The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Body Parts" ends with Quark broke and forced to liquidate most of his assets. He's ruined and is forced to close the bar. Then the others start dropping by to leave spare furniture, drink...
  • Star Trek: Voyager:
    • In "Message in a Bottle", the Doctor gets transmitted to a Starfleet vessel in the Alpha Quadrant. After the Doctor and the Prometheus's EMH subdue the Romulans that tried to steal the ship, the Doctor returns to Voyager and delivers a message from Starfleet Headquarters:
      Doctor: They said they would contact your families to tell them the news and promised that they won't stop until they've found a way to get Voyager back home. And they asked me to relay a message: they wanted you to know you're no longer alone.
      Janeway: (starts to smile) Sixty thousand light years seems a little closer today.
    • In "Pathfinder", Voyager actually gets through to Starfleet Command. Starfleet Command emphasizing in their message to the lost Voyager is that they are working to bring them home. It also applies to Reg Barclay, who felt he lost a family after leaving the Enterprise but can open up to his new co-workers.
      Admiral Paris: I want you all to know we're doing everything we can to bring you home.
      Janeway: We appreciate it, sir. Keep a docking bay open for us.
  • Star Trek: Enterprise: In "Minefield", when Archer and Reed are trying to remove a Romulan mine from the ship. Reed tells Archer that he feels he's too "close" and friendly with the crew. Archer responds that he had a CO who felt the same way, but Archer believes that he must maintain a closer bond with his crew, because this far from home, "all we have is each other."
  • Hit home especially strongly in the third season of Star Trek: Discovery. After Burnham travels to the future, the very first thing she does is to collapse in hysterical relief to find out she is, literally, not alone: her suit detects that there are millions of life forms and her one-way mission to save sapient life was a success. The rest of the season is all about how deeply the crew must and can rely on each other, not just strategically but very much emotionally.
    In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate with just two people, we are all indeed very fortunate. — Gene Roddenberry (quote displayed at the end of the season finale)
• In Supernatural's season five finale, when Sam has been taken over by Lucifer, Dean tells him it's okay, he's there. Dean's presence enables Sam to throw himself into hell's solitary confinement to trap Lucifer.
  • In "I Know What You Did Last Summer" demon Ruby says this to Sam before making out with him, and in the very next episode Fallen Angel Anna says this to Dean before making out with him.
• Super Sentai:
  • In episode 47 of Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, main character Takeru, who turns out to be a Body Double for the true current head of his "family's" clan, is lead to believe that his life up to now was worthless, and is nearly tricked into falling into darkness by his season-long archrival. Only the appearance of his teammates, who both help defeat the archrival for good and reaffirm their dedication and friendship to him instead of to the clan head who replaced him, keep him from falling. The scene ends with him breaking down in tears amidst his friends' support.
  • Two examples from Mahou Sentai Magiranger; in episode 13 the siblings come together to help Urara realize that she can rely on them and not just see them as children, and in the final episode it is Kai who receives the support of his family when N Ma has killed their father and brother-in-law, assuring him that he'll be able to pull through where they failed.
  • A good example is from Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters during episode 20, when Filmroid shows illusions, Hiromu is stuck in one of being re-united with his parents. Yoko then tells him he shouldn't hide his loneliness since the team is there for him.
• Ted Lasso: The first season finale, "The Hope That Kills You", sees the Richmond team losing the match against Manchester City due to a last-second goal, leading them to be relegated back to the Championship league. While surveying the devastated players in the locker room, Ted gives them some much-needed wisdom on how to proceed as Marcus Mumford's cover of "You'll Never Walk Alone" plays in the background:
  Ted: I want you to be grateful that you're going through this sad moment with all these other folks. I promise you there is something worse out there than being sad, and that's being alone and being sad. Ain't nobody in this room alone.
• In The Untamed, Lan Wanji reassures Wei Wuxian that he isn't alone after the latter's identity was revealed to the public and he stands beside Wei Wuxian, drawing his sword against all the cultivators pointing their swords at the latter.
  Lan Wangji: The feeling of sticking to the single-log bridge until it is dark is indeed not bad.
• In The Vampire Diaries Jeremy promises Anna that she won't be alone, because once the current spell that gives ghosts physical presence ends, he'll be the only person who can see her, and only that when he wants to.
• The West Wing has several examples, but one of the great ones is Leo's "guy in the hole" story to Josh, ending with, "Long as I got a job, you got a job, you understand?"
• Happens in the very first episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. A repentant Xena is trying to perform a Heel–Face Turn and make amends for her violent and bloody past, but due to her reputation, with the sole exception of Gabrielle no one seems willing to give her a second chance no matter what she does, and even her own mother rejects her. Eventually Xena goes to visit the tomb of her dead brother Lyceus.
  Xena: Since you've been gone I kind of lost my way, now I've found it. I thought I could start over... but no, they don't trust me. Not even mother. I can't blame her, she can't see into my heart but I've got to believe that you can, and I wish you were here... it's hard to be alone.
  Gabrielle: (quietly, standing in the doorway) You're not alone.

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