0:02 - 0:04 Water.
0:04 - 0:06 Earth.
0:06 - 0:08 Fire.
0:08 - 0:10 Air.
0:10 - 0:14 Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony.
0:14 - 0:18 Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
0:19 - 0:22 Only the Avatar, master of all four elements,
0:22 - 0:23 could stop them.
0:24 - 0:25 But when the world needed him most,
0:25 - 0:27 he vanished.
0:27 - 0:29 100 years passed, and my brother and I
0:29 - 0:32 discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang.
0:33 - 0:34 And although his airbending skills are great,
0:35 - 0:37 he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone.
0:37 - 0:38 Unh!
0:38 - 0:41 But I believe Aang can save the world.
1:01 - 1:03 Um, aren't you forgetting the tarp?
1:03 - 1:05 Right. Got it.
1:05 - 1:07 Sokka, you're supposed to put the tarp
1:07 - 1:09 on top of the tent.
1:09 - 1:10 You know, so we don't get rained on?
1:11 - 1:12 Ordinarily, you'd be right,
1:12 - 1:14 but seeing how it's the dry season,
1:14 - 1:15 you're not.
1:15 - 1:17 Besides, that tarp makes a pretty warm blanket.
1:17 - 1:18 But what if it does rain?
1:18 - 1:19 What if it doesn't?
1:19 - 1:21 Then I would have put the tarp up for nothing.
1:21 - 1:24 Uh! You're infuriating.
1:24 - 1:26 Katara, why don't you worry about gathering the firewood?
1:26 - 1:30 Because that kindling's looking pretty sorry.
1:30 - 1:32 If you don't like my firewood―
1:32 - 1:33 Uh!
1:33 - 1:36 Fine by me! If you're not gonna do your job―
1:36 - 1:37 Uh!
1:37 - 1:39 Okay, I got the grub if you guys got the...
1:39 - 1:41 Hey, where's the campfire,
1:41 - 1:43 and what happened to the tent?
1:43 - 1:46 Why don't you ask Miss Know-it-all, Queen of the twigs?
1:46 - 1:50 Oh, yeah? Well, you're Mr. Lazy-bum, King of the...
1:50 - 1:51 Tents!
1:52 - 1:54 Okay. Listen, guys.
1:54 - 1:56 Harsh words won't solve problems.
1:56 - 1:57 Action will.
1:57 - 1:59 Why don't you just switch jobs?
2:00 - 2:01 Sounds good. Whatever.
2:01 - 2:02 You see that?
2:02 - 2:04 Settling feuds and making peace...
2:04 - 2:06 All in a day's work for the Avatar.
2:22 - 2:24 Come on, Momo. That's fair.
2:24 - 2:26 Appa's got five stomachs.
2:30 - 2:33 There it is, guys, The Great Divide.
2:33 - 2:36 Wow. I could just stare at it forever.
2:36 - 2:38 Okay. I've seen enough.
2:38 - 2:41 How can you not be fascinated, Sokka?
2:41 - 2:44 This is the largest canyon in the entire world.
2:44 - 2:46 Then I'm sure we'll be able to see it very clearly
2:46 - 2:48 from the air while we fly away.
2:48 - 2:49 Hey, if you're looking for the canyon guide,
2:49 - 2:51 I was here first.
2:51 - 2:54 Ooh. Canyon guide. Sounds informative.
2:54 - 2:56 Believe me, he's more than a tour guide.
2:56 - 2:57 He's an earthbender,
2:57 - 2:59 and the only way in and out of the canyon
2:59 - 3:00 is with his help.
3:01 - 3:03 And he's taking my tribe across next.
3:03 - 3:05 Calm down. We know you're next.
3:05 - 3:07 You wouldn't be calm if the Fire Nation destroyed your home
3:07 - 3:08 and forced you to flee.
3:09 - 3:11 My whole tribe has to walk thousands of miles
3:11 - 3:13 to the capital city of Ba Sing Se.
3:14 - 3:15 You're a refugee.
3:15 - 3:17 Huh. Tell me something I don't know.
3:20 - 3:21 Is that your tribe?
3:21 - 3:23 It most certainly is not.
3:23 - 3:24 That's the Zhang tribe,
3:25 - 3:26 a bunch of lowlife thieves.
3:26 - 3:28 They've been the enemies
3:28 - 3:29 of my tribe for a hundred years.
3:30 - 3:31 Hey, Zhangs!
3:32 - 3:33 I'm saving a spot for my tribe,
3:33 - 3:35 so don't even think of stealing it.
3:35 - 3:37 Where are the rest of the Gan Jin?
3:37 - 3:40 Still tidying up their campsite?
3:40 - 3:43 Yes, but they sent me ahead of them to hold a spot.
3:43 - 3:45 I didn't know the canyon guide took reservations.
3:46 - 3:47 Huh! Of course you didn't.
3:47 - 3:49 That's the ignorance I'd expect
3:49 - 3:51 from a messy Zhang,
3:51 - 3:53 so unorganized and ill-prepared for a journey.
3:59 - 4:01 Uhh!
4:04 - 4:07 Sorry about the wait, youngsters.
4:07 - 4:10 Who's ready to cross this here canyon?
4:10 - 4:12 Uh, one of them, I think.
4:12 - 4:14 I was here first. My party's on their way.
4:15 - 4:17 I can't guide people who aren't here.
4:18 - 4:20 Guess you guys will have to make the trip tomorrow.
4:22 - 4:23 Wait! Here they come.
4:30 - 4:31 You're not seriously gonna cave in
4:31 - 4:33 to these spoiled Gan Jins.
4:33 - 4:35 I mean, we're refugees, too,
4:35 - 4:37 and we've got sick people that need shelter.
4:37 - 4:39 I, uh, well...
4:39 - 4:42 We've got old people who are weary from traveling.
4:42 - 4:45 Sick people get priority over old people.
4:45 - 4:47 Maybe you Zhangs wouldn't have so many sick people
4:47 - 4:49 if you weren't such slobs.
4:50 - 4:52 If you Gan Jins weren't so clean,
4:52 - 4:54 maybe you wouldn't live to be so old.
4:54 - 4:56 I could smell your stink...
4:56 - 4:57 Well, Aang, ready to put
4:57 - 4:58 your peacemaking skills to the test?
4:58 - 5:00 I don't know...
5:00 - 5:02 A fight over chores is one thing.
5:02 - 5:05 These people have been feuding for a hundred years.
5:05 - 5:07 Everyone listen up!
5:07 - 5:09 This is the Avatar,
5:09 - 5:10 and if you give him a chance,
5:10 - 5:12 I'm sure he can come up with a compromise
5:12 - 5:14 that will make everyone happy.
5:16 - 5:20 Uh, you could share the earthbender and travel together?
5:20 - 5:22 Absolutely not. We'd rather be taken by the Fire Nation
5:23 - 5:25 than travel with those stinking thieves.
5:26 - 5:28 We wouldn't travel with you pompous fools anyway.
5:30 - 5:31 All right, here's the deal!
5:31 - 5:33 You're all going down together,
5:33 - 5:35 and Appa here will fly your sick and elderly across.
5:35 - 5:37 Does that seem fair?
5:48 - 5:50 Sorry, Appa. You'll have to do this on your own.
5:50 - 5:53 Aang, this feuding tribe stuff is serious business.
5:53 - 5:55 Are you sure it's a good idea getting involved in this?
5:55 - 5:58 To tell the truth, I'm not sure,
5:59 - 6:00 but when have I ever been?
6:00 - 6:01 He's the avatar, Sokka.
6:02 - 6:04 Making peace between people is his job.
6:04 - 6:07 His job's gonna make us cross this whole thing on foot, isn't it?
6:07 - 6:10 Okay, now comes the bad news.
6:10 - 6:13 No food allowed in the canyon.
6:13 - 6:17 It attracts dangerous predators.
6:17 - 6:19 No food? This is ridiculous.
6:19 - 6:24 Oh, you babies can go a day without food.
6:24 - 6:27 Would you rather be hungry or dead?
6:28 - 6:30 Now, we're heading down in 10 minutes.
6:30 - 6:32 All food better be in your gut,
6:32 - 6:34 or in the garbage!
6:41 - 6:43 Appa's gonna take good care of you till we get there.
6:44 - 6:46 See you on the other side, buddy.
6:46 - 6:47 Yip yip!
6:59 - 7:00 Huh!
7:02 - 7:03 Nice bending.
7:04 - 7:07 The job's much more than bending, kid.
7:07 - 7:08 Folks want information.
7:10 - 7:12 Many of you are probably wondering
7:12 - 7:14 how canyons are formed.
7:14 - 7:16 Experts tell us this canyon was most likely
7:17 - 7:20 carved into the ground by earth spirits,
7:20 - 7:22 who were angry at local farmers
7:22 - 7:26 for not offering them a proper sacrifice.
7:33 - 7:37 Uh! Ha ha! Guess the spirits are still angry.
7:37 - 7:40 Hope you all brought sacrifices.
7:45 - 7:48 Okay. Everyone stand clear of the wall.
7:49 - 7:51 Uh! Uh!
7:54 - 7:55 Why did you do that?
7:55 - 7:59 These people are fleeing the Fire Nation, aren't they?
7:59 - 8:01 I've got to make sure we can't be followed.
8:01 - 8:03 We'll be safe now.
8:03 - 8:05 Uh!
8:05 - 8:06 Ah!
8:08 - 8:10 We've got to help him! Uh!
8:11 - 8:12 Aah!
8:15 - 8:17 Okay, now we've got to help me!
8:22 - 8:23 Aah!
8:23 - 8:24 Hah!
8:37 - 8:38 What was that?
8:39 - 8:40 Canyon crawler.
8:40 - 8:44 Oh... And there's sure to be more.
8:44 - 8:46 Your arms... They're broken.
8:46 - 8:49 Without my arms, I got no bending.
8:49 - 8:50 In other words...
8:50 - 8:52 We're trapped in this canyon.
9:03 - 9:05 I thought the whole point of ditching our food
9:05 - 9:08 was so we wouldn't have to deal with things like canyon crawlers.
9:08 - 9:09 It's the Zhangs.
9:09 - 9:12 They took food down here even after the guide told them not to.
9:13 - 9:14 What?
9:14 - 9:16 If there's anyone who can't go without food for a day,
9:16 - 9:18 it's these pampered Gan Jins.
9:19 - 9:20 I hope you're happy.
9:20 - 9:22 We're stuck in this canyon with no way out.
9:23 - 9:25 Why don't you thank yourself, food-hider?
9:25 - 9:28 Look, sticking together is the only way to―
9:28 - 9:30 I'm not walking another step with the likes of them.
9:30 - 9:33 Now there's something we can agree on.
9:33 - 9:34 Any ideas?
9:35 - 9:38 No bending. We need to get out of this canyon.
9:38 - 9:40 I won't die down here.
9:40 - 9:43 I won't become part of the food chain.
9:44 - 9:45 See? We're going to become part of the food chain
9:45 - 9:47 because of you.
9:47 - 9:50 Sure. Unjustly blame the Zhangs, like you always do.
9:50 - 9:52 Gladly.
9:52 - 9:53 Enough!
9:53 - 9:55 I thought I could help you guys get along,
9:55 - 9:56 but I guess that's not gonna happen.
9:59 - 10:00 We should split up―
10:00 - 10:03 Gan Jins on this side and Zhangs on that side.
10:03 - 10:05 We'll travel in two separate lines.
10:12 - 10:14 Sokka, you go with the Zhangs,
10:14 - 10:15 and, Katara, you go with the Gan Jins.
10:16 - 10:19 See if you can find out why they hate each other so much.
10:38 - 10:40 So, you guys aren't gonna put up your tarps?
10:40 - 10:42 What for? It's the dry season.
10:42 - 10:43 Exactly!
10:43 - 10:46 Besides, we like to use the tarp as a blanket.
10:46 - 10:48 Finally someone gets it.
10:56 - 10:57 Do you really think it'll rain?
10:57 - 11:01 No, but you can never be too careful, right?
11:19 - 11:21 Would you care for some bread, Katara?
11:22 - 11:23 So it was you guys who had food.
11:24 - 11:25 Oh, come now.
11:25 - 11:26 Do you really think that tribe of thieves
11:26 - 11:28 isn't smuggling food?
11:28 - 11:30 Why should my people go hungry
11:30 - 11:33 when the sneaky Zhangs are stuffing their faces?
11:33 - 11:37 Well, I guess it's okay if everyone's doing it.
11:41 - 11:44 So, why does your tribe hate the Zhangs so much?
11:45 - 11:47 You seem like a smart girl, Katara.
11:47 - 11:50 I bet you would enjoy hearing some history.
11:57 - 11:59 The patriarch of our tribe, Jin Wei,
11:59 - 12:01 was an earthbender warrior
12:01 - 12:03 who was assigned an important duty:
12:03 - 12:06 Transporting our sacred orb
12:06 - 12:09 From the great eastern gate to the great western gate.
12:15 - 12:17 Taking the orb from the east to the west
12:17 - 12:20 represents the sun's rising and setting.
12:20 - 12:24 It was our tribe's ancient redemption ritual.
12:24 - 12:26 But as he approached the gate,
12:26 - 12:29 Jin Wei was attacked by one of the Zhangs―
12:30 - 12:32 A vermin named Wei Jin
12:32 - 12:35 who looked at the orb with envy.
12:35 - 12:39 That coward Wei Jin knocked Jin Wei to the ground
12:39 - 12:41 and stole our sacred orb.
12:42 - 12:45 Our people have never forgotten.
12:45 - 12:48 You can never trust a Zhang.
12:54 - 12:55 Care for some meat?
12:55 - 12:56 Would I?
12:57 - 12:58 I know what you must be thinking.
12:58 - 13:00 We're horrible for endangering everybody
13:00 - 13:02 by bringing food down here.
13:02 - 13:03 Mmm-hmm.
13:03 - 13:05 The Gan Jins think so badly of us,
13:05 - 13:07 they probably assumed we brought food in
13:07 - 13:09 and decided to bring food in themselves.
13:09 - 13:11 That's why we brought food in.
13:11 - 13:12 Mmm.
13:12 - 13:14 Our conflict with the Gan Jin
13:14 - 13:16 goes back over 100 years.
13:21 - 13:23 Our forefather, Wei Jin, was leaving the western gate
13:23 - 13:26 of our village when he saw a figure in the distance.
13:27 - 13:30 It was a man of the Gan Jin tribe, Jin Wei,
13:30 - 13:32 collapsed on the ground.
13:32 - 13:34 Noble Wei Jin stopped to help him.
13:35 - 13:38 Jin Wei was transporting a sacred orb,
13:38 - 13:41 a very powerful relic used in his tribe's redemption ritual.
13:42 - 13:44 Wei Jin tried to tend to the man's wounds,
13:44 - 13:47 but Jin Wei insisted the orb was more important
13:47 - 13:50 and asked him to take it back to his tribe.
13:50 - 13:53 Kind Wei Jin promised to send help for the man
13:53 - 13:54 as soon as he could.
13:55 - 13:57 But as Wei Jin crossed the border
13:57 - 13:59 to return the orb into Gan Jin territory,
13:59 - 14:00 he was arrested.
14:05 - 14:08 Instead of thanking him for his kind and selfless deed,
14:08 - 14:11 they sentenced him to 20 long years in prison.
14:13 - 14:16 We Zhangs will never forget that injustice.
14:16 - 14:18 That's just terrible.
14:18 - 14:19 Are you gonna finish that?
14:22 - 14:23 Sure would be nice
14:23 - 14:25 to be around one of those campfires.
14:25 - 14:27 Telling stories and laughing.
14:28 - 14:31 It's okay, Momo. We'll be out of here soon enough,
14:31 - 14:33 and then we can eat our weight in litchi nuts.
14:40 - 14:42 Nah. I'll wait for the litchi nuts.
14:43 - 14:46 It's lonely, isn't it, being impartial?
14:47 - 14:49 I wish I could help these people get along,
14:49 - 14:51 but it just seems impossible.
14:51 - 14:52 Anyhow, I guess our biggest problem
14:52 - 14:54 Is getting out of here.
14:54 - 14:58 I'm not so sure the two problems are unrelated.
15:05 - 15:09 All clear. We're almost to the other side.
15:19 - 15:21 Katara, Sokka, will these people cooperate
15:21 - 15:23 long enough to get out of the canyon?
15:23 - 15:24 I don't think so, Aang.
15:24 - 15:27 The Zhangs really wronged the Gan Jins.
15:27 - 15:30 They ambushed Jin Wei and stole the sacred orb.
15:30 - 15:31 What are you talking about?
15:32 - 15:33 Yeah, Katara, what are you talking about?
15:34 - 15:36 Wei Jin didn't steal the orb.
15:36 - 15:37 He was returning it to their village gate
15:37 - 15:39 and was wrongfully punished by the Gan Jin.
15:39 - 15:41 Not punished enough, if you ask me.
15:42 - 15:44 Okay, okay. I get it. Now I need your help.
15:45 - 15:47 Let's get everyone together at the base of the canyon wall.
15:56 - 15:58 Please, everyone. As soon as we get out of here,
15:58 - 16:00 we can eat and then go our separate ways.
16:00 - 16:02 But I need you all to put your heads together
16:02 - 16:04 and figure out a way up this cliff.
16:04 - 16:06 Maybe the Zhang can climb the wall
16:06 - 16:08 With their long, disgusting fingernails.
16:08 - 16:11 Oh, sorry. I forgot that to the Gan Jin,
16:11 - 16:15 unclipped fingernails is a crime punishable by 20 years in jail.
16:15 - 16:17 Why, you dirty thief.
16:17 - 16:18 You pompous fool.
16:21 - 16:22 Guys, focus!
16:22 - 16:24 How many times do I have to say it?
16:24 - 16:26 Harsh words won't solve problems.
16:26 - 16:27 Action will!
16:28 - 16:30 Perhaps the Avatar is right.
16:31 - 16:32 Yes. Perhaps he is.
16:35 - 16:37 Harsh words will never solve our problems.
16:38 - 16:39 Action will.
16:42 - 16:43 Huh! Huh!
16:43 - 16:44 Aah!
16:48 - 16:52 To the death, and let this be the end of this rivalry.
16:52 - 16:54 You know, I take it back.
16:54 - 16:55 Harsh words aren't so bad.
17:03 - 17:04 Huh?
17:11 - 17:13 Hyah!
17:21 - 17:23 Is that food?
17:23 - 17:25 Everyone smuggled food down here?
17:25 - 17:27 Unbelievable!
17:27 - 17:28 You guys put our lives in danger
17:28 - 17:31 because you couldn't go without a snack for a day?
17:31 - 17:34 You are all awful!
17:41 - 17:42 So hungry...
17:42 - 17:46 Is that egg custard in that tart?
17:55 - 17:58 Oh, no. That's a lot of canyon crawlers.
17:58 - 18:00 We barely survived one.
18:00 - 18:02 They're coming back for me.
18:02 - 18:05 They've had a taste, and they're coming back for me.
18:05 - 18:06 Sokka, wait.
18:07 - 18:09 I don't care about the stupid feud.
18:09 - 18:11 I just want us to get out of here alive.
18:11 - 18:14 Me, too. I only took their side because they fed me.
18:20 - 18:21 Hyah!
18:34 - 18:35 Hyah!
18:48 - 18:49 Aah!
18:54 - 18:55 Aah!
19:16 - 19:20 Everybody, watch me and do what I do!
19:46 - 19:48 Now follow me.
19:48 - 19:49 We're riding out of this hole.
20:06 - 20:08 Everyone get off!
20:13 - 20:14 We made it!
20:15 - 20:16 Uh!
20:18 - 20:19 Huh!
20:27 - 20:29 I never thought a Gan Jin could get his hands dirty like that.
20:30 - 20:33 And I never knew you Zhangs were so reliable in a pinch.
20:33 - 20:35 Perhaps we're not so different after all.
20:37 - 20:39 Too bad we can't rewrite history.
20:40 - 20:43 You thieves stole our sacred orb from Jin Wei.
20:44 - 20:48 You tyrants unjustly imprisoned Wei Jin for 20 long years.
20:48 - 20:51 Ugh. Wait a second...
20:51 - 20:55 Jin Wei? Wei Jin? I know those guys.
20:55 - 20:58 Yes, yes. We're all aware of the story.
20:58 - 21:01 No, I mean I really knew them.
21:01 - 21:04 I might not look it, but I'm 112 years old.
21:04 - 21:05 I was there 100 years ago
21:05 - 21:07 on the day you're talking about.
21:08 - 21:10 There seems to be a lot of confusion about what happened.
21:11 - 21:14 First of all, Jin Wei and Wei Jin weren't enemies.
21:14 - 21:17 They were brothers. Twins, in fact.
21:17 - 21:20 And they were eight, and most importantly,
21:20 - 21:22 they were just playing a game.
21:22 - 21:23 Ahh! Ahh!
21:23 - 21:24 The sacred orb from the legend―
21:24 - 21:26 That was the ball.
21:26 - 21:27 And the eastern and western gates
21:27 - 21:28 were the goal posts.
21:29 - 21:31 Jin Wei had the ball and was running toward the goal
21:31 - 21:32 when he fell and fumbled it.
21:33 - 21:35 Wei Jin didn't steal the ball.
21:35 - 21:36 He picked it up and started running it back
21:37 - 21:39 toward the other goal, but he stepped out of bounds.
21:41 - 21:42 So the official put him in the penalty box―
21:43 - 21:45 Not for 20 long years but for two short minutes.
21:45 - 21:47 Hee hee hee!
21:47 - 21:50 There was no stealing and no putting anyone in prison...
21:50 - 21:51 Just a game.
21:52 - 21:54 You're saying the sacred orb was actually a sacred ball?
21:55 - 21:56 Nope, just a regular ball.
21:57 - 21:59 What about our tribe's redemption ritual?
21:59 - 22:01 That's what the game was called, Redemption.
22:02 - 22:04 As soon as someone got the ball from one goal to the other,
22:04 - 22:07 everyone would yell, "Redemption!"
22:09 - 22:11 Don't get me wrong... Wei Jin was kind of a slob,
22:11 - 22:12 and Jin Wei was a little stuffy.
22:12 - 22:13 That much is true.
22:14 - 22:16 But they respected each other's differences
22:16 - 22:18 enough to share the same playing field.
22:19 - 22:21 I suppose it's time we forget the past.
22:22 - 22:23 And look to the future.
22:32 - 22:35 Good to see you, boy. Did you miss me?
22:36 - 22:38 I cannot thank you enough, Avatar.
22:38 - 22:40 Well, you know. I try.
22:40 - 22:41 Oh!
22:43 - 22:45 Let us travel to the Earth Kingdom capital
22:45 - 22:47 as one tribe.
22:49 - 22:50 I'm going, too!
22:50 - 22:52 I'm sick of this place.
22:53 - 22:55 That's some luck you knew Jin Wei and Wei Jin.
22:55 - 22:57 You could call it luck,
22:57 - 22:59 or you could call it lying.
22:59 - 23:01 What? I made the whole thing up.
23:02 - 23:03 You did not.
23:04 - 23:05 That is so wrong.
23:05 - 23:07 Now, where's that custard tart?
23:08 - 23:09 I'm starving!