0:02 - 0:06 Water, earth,
0:06 - 0:10 fire, air...
0:11 - 0:15 Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony.
0:15 - 0:18 Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
0:19 - 0:23 Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them.
0:23 - 0:25 But when the world needed him most,
0:25 - 0:26 he vanished.
0:27 - 0:31 A hundred years passed, and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar,
0:31 - 0:32 an airbender named Aang.
0:32 - 0:35 And although his airbending skills are great,
0:35 - 0:38 he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone.
0:38 - 0:42 But I believe Aang can save the world.
1:08 - 1:10 Great. You're back. What's for dinner?
1:10 - 1:12 We've got a few options.
1:12 - 1:16 First, round nuts and some kind of oval-shaped nuts.
1:16 - 1:19 And some rock-shaped nuts that might just be rocks.
1:21 - 1:23 Dig in.
1:23 - 1:26 Seriously, what else you got?
1:34 - 1:35 What was that?
1:41 - 1:43 It's coming from over there.
1:43 - 1:47 Shouldn't we run away from huge booms, not toward them?
1:57 - 1:58 Hyah.
1:58 - 2:00 An earthbender.
2:00 - 2:01 Let's go meet him.
2:01 - 2:04 He looks dangerous, so we better approach cautiously.
2:04 - 2:06 Hello there! I'm Katara.
2:06 - 2:07 What's your name?
2:07 - 2:09 Ah!
2:16 - 2:17 Nice to meet you!
2:18 - 2:19 I just wanted to say hi.
2:20 - 2:22 Hey, that guy's got to be running somewhere.
2:22 - 2:23 Maybe we're near a village.
2:24 - 2:26 And I bet that village has a market.
2:26 - 2:28 Which means no nuts for dinner.
2:28 - 2:30 Hey! I worked hard to get those nuts.
2:32 - 2:33 Yeah, I hate them, too.
2:42 - 2:43 Great hat.
2:43 - 2:45 I'll trade you some nuts for it.
2:48 - 2:49 Hey!
2:51 - 2:52 Hi, Mom.
2:52 - 2:53 Where have you been, Haru?
2:53 - 2:54 You're late!
2:54 - 2:56 Get started on your chores.
2:56 - 2:58 Hey! You're that kid.
2:58 - 2:59 Ah!
2:59 - 3:00 Why did you run away before?
3:00 - 3:03 Uh... You must have me confused with some other kid.
3:03 - 3:06 No, she doesn't. We saw you earthbending.
3:08 - 3:09 They saw you doing what?
3:10 - 3:11 They're crazy, Mom.
3:11 - 3:12 I mean, look at how they're dressed.
3:15 - 3:17 You know how dangerous that is.
3:17 - 3:20 You know what would happen if they caught you earthbending.
3:20 - 3:22 Open up!
3:25 - 3:26 Fire Nation. Act natural.
3:36 - 3:37 Aah!
3:38 - 3:41 What do you want? I've already paid you this week.
3:41 - 3:42 The tax just doubled.
3:43 - 3:45 We wouldn't want an accident, would we?
3:45 - 3:49 Fire is sometimes so hard to control.
3:57 - 3:59 You can keep the copper ones.
4:04 - 4:05 Nice guy.
4:05 - 4:07 How long has the Fire Nation been here?
4:07 - 4:10 Five years. Fire Lord Ozai
4:10 - 4:13 uses our town's coal mines to fuel his ships.
4:13 - 4:15 They're thugs. They steal from us.
4:15 - 4:17 And everyone here is too much of a coward
4:17 - 4:18 to do anything about it.
4:18 - 4:20 Quiet, Haru!
4:20 - 4:21 Don't talk like that!
4:21 - 4:23 But Haru's an earthbender.
4:23 - 4:24 He can help.
4:24 - 4:26 Earthbending is forbidden.
4:26 - 4:28 It's caused nothing but misery for this village.
4:28 - 4:31 He must never use his abilities.
4:31 - 4:32 How can you say that?
4:32 - 4:34 Haru has a gift.
4:34 - 4:36 Asking him not to earthbend
4:36 - 4:38 is like asking me not to waterbend.
4:38 - 4:39 It's a part of who we are.
4:40 - 4:41 You don't understand.
4:41 - 4:44 I understand that Haru can help you fight back.
4:45 - 4:46 What can the Fire Nation do to you
4:46 - 4:48 that they haven't done already?
4:48 - 4:50 They could take Haru away,
4:50 - 4:52 like they took his father.
5:00 - 5:02 My mom said you can sleep here tonight.
5:02 - 5:04 But you should leave in the morning.
5:04 - 5:07 Thanks. I'll make sure Appa doesn't eat all your hay.
5:13 - 5:15 I'm sorry about what I said earlier.
5:15 - 5:17 I didn't know about your father.
5:17 - 5:18 That's ok.
5:18 - 5:22 It's funny. The way you were talking back in the store,
5:22 - 5:24 it reminded me of him.
5:24 - 5:25 Thanks.
5:25 - 5:27 My father was very courageous.
5:27 - 5:28 When the Fire Nation invaded,
5:29 - 5:31 he and the other earthbenders were outnumbered ten to one.
5:31 - 5:33 But they fought back anyway.
5:33 - 5:35 He sounds like a great man.
5:36 - 5:38 After the attack, they rounded up my father
5:38 - 5:40 and every other earthbender
5:40 - 5:43 and took them away. We haven't seen them since.
5:43 - 5:45 So that's why you hide your earthbending.
5:45 - 5:46 Yeah.
5:47 - 5:49 The problem is,
5:49 - 5:52 the only way I can feel close to my father now
5:52 - 5:54 is when I practice my bending.
5:55 - 5:57 He taught me everything I know.
5:59 - 6:01 See this necklace?
6:01 - 6:02 My mother gave it to me.
6:03 - 6:04 It's beautiful.
6:04 - 6:07 I lost my mother in a Fire Nation raid.
6:07 - 6:09 This necklace is all I have left of her.
6:09 - 6:11 It's not enough, is it?
6:11 - 6:12 No.
6:17 - 6:19 Aah! Help!
6:19 - 6:20 The mine!
6:20 - 6:22 Aah...
6:23 - 6:24 Help me!
6:31 - 6:32 Ah! It's not working.
6:32 - 6:34 We have to get help.
6:34 - 6:36 There's no time. Pull harder!
6:36 - 6:39 Haru, there's a way you can help him.
6:39 - 6:40 I can't.
6:40 - 6:42 Please. There's no one around to see you.
6:43 - 6:44 It's the only way!
6:53 - 6:55 Ah!
6:57 - 6:58 Haru, you did it!
7:07 - 7:09 It was so brave of Haru to use his earthbending
7:09 - 7:11 to help that old man.
7:11 - 7:13 You must have really inspired him.
7:13 - 7:14 I guess so.
7:14 - 7:16 Everyone should get some sleep.
7:16 - 7:17 We're leaving at dawn.
7:17 - 7:19 Dawn? Can't we sleep in for once?
7:19 - 7:20 Absolutely not!
7:20 - 7:22 This village is crawling with Fire Nation troops.
7:23 - 7:24 If they discover you're here, Aang,
7:24 - 7:26 we'll be eating fireballs for breakfast.
7:26 - 7:27 Good night.
7:27 - 7:29 I'd rather eat fireballs than nuts.
7:29 - 7:31 Good night.
7:53 - 7:55 Ah!
7:55 - 7:56 That's him!
7:56 - 7:58 That's the earthbender!
7:58 - 7:59 Aah!
8:28 - 8:29 They took him!
8:29 - 8:31 They took Haru away! What?
8:31 - 8:33 The old man turned him in to the Fire Nation.
8:33 - 8:35 It's all my fault. I forced him into earthbending.
8:35 - 8:38 Slow down, Katara. When did this happen?
8:38 - 8:41 Haru's mother said they came for him at midnight.
8:41 - 8:43 Then it's too late to track him. He's long gone.
8:43 - 8:44 We don't need to track him.
8:44 - 8:47 The Fire Nation is going to take me right to Haru.
8:47 - 8:49 And why would they do that?
8:49 - 8:53 Because they're going to arrest me for earthbending.
8:56 - 8:58 I thought you were crazy at first, Katara,
8:58 - 8:59 but this might work.
8:59 - 9:01 There are ventilation shafts throughout these mines.
9:01 - 9:03 All Aang has to do is send an air current
9:03 - 9:05 from that vent to this one right here.
9:05 - 9:07 The boulder levitates and ta-da...
9:07 - 9:08 Fake earthbending.
9:09 - 9:10 Aang, did you get all that?
9:10 - 9:12 Sure, sure. I got it.
9:12 - 9:14 Do you remember your cue?
9:14 - 9:16 Yeah, yeah. Just relax.
9:16 - 9:18 You're taking all the fun out of this.
9:18 - 9:20 By "this" do you mean intentionally being captured
9:20 - 9:22 by an army of ruthless firebenders?
9:22 - 9:25 Exactly. That's fun stuff.
9:25 - 9:27 Here they come. Get in your places.
9:30 - 9:32 Uh! Get out of my way, pipsqueak.
9:32 - 9:37 How dare you call me pipsqueak, you giant-eared cretin?
9:37 - 9:39 What did you call me?
9:39 - 9:41 A giant-eared cretin.
9:41 - 9:42 Look at those things.
9:42 - 9:45 Do herds of animals use them for shade?
9:45 - 9:47 You better back off!
9:47 - 9:48 Seriously, back off.
9:48 - 9:50 I will not back off!
9:50 - 9:52 I bet elephants get together
9:52 - 9:55 and make fun of how large your ears are.
9:55 - 9:57 That's it! You're going down.
9:57 - 9:59 I'll show you who's boss,
10:00 - 10:02 earthbending style.
10:05 - 10:09 I said, "earthbending style!"
10:12 - 10:15 That lemur. He's earthbending.
10:17 - 10:19 No, you idiot. It's the girl.
10:20 - 10:22 Oh. Of course.
10:23 - 10:24 I'll hold her!
10:25 - 10:27 You've got 12 hours to find Haru.
10:27 - 10:29 We'll be right behind you.
10:37 - 10:39 Momo, you have some big ears.
11:18 - 11:21 She'll be fine, Aang. Katara knows what she's doing.
11:28 - 11:32 Earthbenders, it is my pleasure to welcome you
11:32 - 11:35 aboard my modest shipyard.
11:35 - 11:37 I am your warden.
11:37 - 11:40 I prefer to think of you not as prisoners,
11:41 - 11:43 but as honored guests.
11:43 - 11:45 And I hope you come to think of me
11:45 - 11:49 as your humble and caring host.
11:49 - 11:52 You will succeed here if you simply abide...
11:55 - 11:56 Hyah!
11:58 - 12:02 What kind of guest dishonors his host by interrupting him?
12:02 - 12:03 Take him below.
12:04 - 12:08 One week in solitary will improve his manners.
12:08 - 12:11 Simply treat me with the courtesy I give you
12:11 - 12:15 and we'll get along famously.
12:15 - 12:17 You will notice, earthbenders,
12:17 - 12:21 that this rig is made entirely of metal.
12:21 - 12:25 You are miles away from any rock or earth.
12:25 - 12:28 So, if you have any illusions about employing
12:28 - 12:31 that brutish savagery that passes for bending
12:31 - 12:34 among you people, forget them.
12:35 - 12:38 It is impossible.
12:39 - 12:40 Good day.
13:05 - 13:07 Katara?
13:07 - 13:08 Haru!
13:08 - 13:09 What are you doing here?
13:10 - 13:11 It's my fault you were captured.
13:12 - 13:13 I came to rescue you.
13:13 - 13:15 So you got yourself arrested?
13:15 - 13:17 It was the only way to find you.
13:17 - 13:20 You've got guts, Katara. I'll give you that.
13:20 - 13:23 Come on. There's someone I want you to meet.
13:24 - 13:27 Katara, this is my father, Tyro.
13:28 - 13:30 Dad, this is Katara.
13:30 - 13:32 It's an honor to meet you.
13:33 - 13:35 Have some dinner, Katara.
13:36 - 13:37 Ew.
13:38 - 13:40 It's not as bad as it looks.
13:42 - 13:43 Eew!
13:43 - 13:45 It's still pretty bad, though.
13:45 - 13:47 Tyro, the prisoners are complaining
13:47 - 13:49 there aren't enough blankets to go around.
13:49 - 13:50 I'll talk to the guards.
13:51 - 13:53 In the meantime, make sure the elderly are taken care of.
13:54 - 13:56 The rest of us will simply have to hope for warmer weather.
13:56 - 13:58 If you don't mind me asking,
13:58 - 13:59 what's your escape plan?
13:59 - 14:00 Excuse me?
14:00 - 14:03 You know, the plan to get everyone off the rig?
14:03 - 14:05 What is it? Mutiny, sabotage?
14:05 - 14:08 The plan? The plan is to survive,
14:08 - 14:10 wait out this war, hope that one day
14:11 - 14:13 some of us can get back home and forget this ever happened.
14:13 - 14:15 How can you say that?
14:15 - 14:17 You sound like you've already given up.
14:17 - 14:20 Katara, I admire your courage.
14:20 - 14:22 And I envy your youth.
14:22 - 14:25 But people's lives are at stake here.
14:25 - 14:27 The warden is a ruthless man,
14:27 - 14:29 and he won't stand for any rebellion.
14:30 - 14:33 I'm sorry, but we're powerless.
14:33 - 14:34 We'll see about that.
14:38 - 14:40 Earthbenders!
14:40 - 14:43 You don't know me, but I know of you.
14:43 - 14:46 Every child in my water tribe village was rocked to sleep
14:46 - 14:49 with stories of the brave Earth Kingdom
14:49 - 14:52 and the courageous earthbenders who guard its borders.
14:52 - 14:54 Some of you may think that the Fire Nation
14:54 - 14:56 has made you powerless.
14:56 - 14:59 Yes. They have taken away your ability to bend.
14:59 - 15:02 But they can't take away your courage.
15:02 - 15:04 And it is your courage they should truly fear,
15:04 - 15:06 because it runs deeper than any mine
15:07 - 15:08 you've been forced to dig,
15:08 - 15:11 any ocean that keeps you far from home.
15:11 - 15:13 It is the strength of your hearts
15:13 - 15:14 that make you who you are,
15:14 - 15:18 hearts that will remain unbroken when all rock and stone
15:18 - 15:19 has eroded away.
15:19 - 15:22 The time to fight back is now!
15:22 - 15:25 I can tell you the Avatar has returned!
15:25 - 15:27 So remember your courage, earthbenders!
15:27 - 15:30 Let us fight for our freedom!
16:04 - 16:05 Ah!
16:05 - 16:06 Shh.
16:10 - 16:11 Your 12 hours are up. Where is Haru?
16:11 - 16:13 We've got to get out of here.
16:13 - 16:15 I can't.
16:15 - 16:17 We don't have much time. There are guards everywhere.
16:17 - 16:18 Get on!
16:19 - 16:20 Katara, what's wrong?
16:20 - 16:22 I'm not leaving.
16:23 - 16:25 I'm not giving up on these people.
16:31 - 16:33 What do you mean, you're not leaving?
16:33 - 16:35 We can't abandon these people.
16:35 - 16:37 There has to be a way to help them.
16:37 - 16:40 Maybe she's right. What do you say, Sokka?
16:40 - 16:41 I say you're both crazy.
16:43 - 16:46 Last chance. We need to leave now.
16:46 - 16:47 No.
16:48 - 16:50 I hate when you get like this.
16:50 - 16:51 Come on, we better hide.
16:53 - 16:54 Go.
16:59 - 17:00 Look!
17:01 - 17:03 Tell me exactly what you saw.
17:03 - 17:05 Well, sir, it looked like a flying bison.
17:05 - 17:06 What?
17:07 - 17:08 It was a giant, flying buffalo, sir,
17:09 - 17:10 with an empty saddle.
17:10 - 17:13 Which was it, a buffalo or a bison?
17:13 - 17:16 I'm not sure what the difference is,
17:16 - 17:18 but that's not really the point, is it, sir?
17:18 - 17:21 I'll decide what the point is, fool!
17:21 - 17:23 Aah!
17:24 - 17:28 You! Wake up the captain! Search the entire rig!
17:28 - 17:30 Sir. What?
17:30 - 17:33 That was the captain you just threw overboard, so...
17:33 - 17:36 Then wake up someone I haven't thrown overboard
17:36 - 17:37 and search the rig.
17:37 - 17:40 There's something going on here, and I don't like it.
17:48 - 17:51 We don't have much time. What are we gonna do?
17:51 - 17:53 I wish I knew how to make a hurricane.
17:54 - 17:57 The warden would run away, and we would steal his keys.
17:57 - 17:59 Wouldn't he just take his keys with him?
17:59 - 18:01 I'm just tossing ideas around.
18:01 - 18:03 I tried talking the earthbenders
18:03 - 18:05 into fighting back, but it didn't work.
18:05 - 18:08 If there was just a way to help them help themselves.
18:08 - 18:12 For that they need some kind of earth or some rock,
18:12 - 18:14 something they can bend.
18:14 - 18:16 But this entire place is made of metal.
18:19 - 18:21 No, it's not. Look at the smoke.
18:21 - 18:24 I bet they're burning coal.
18:24 - 18:25 In other words...
18:25 - 18:27 Earth.
18:30 - 18:33 It's almost dawn. We're running out of time.
18:33 - 18:34 You sure this is gonna work?
18:35 - 18:36 It should.
18:36 - 18:37 These vents reminded me of our little trick
18:37 - 18:39 back at the village.
18:39 - 18:42 We're gonna do the same thing, but on a much bigger scale.
18:42 - 18:45 There's a huge deposit of coal at the base of this island.
18:45 - 18:46 And the whole system is ventilated.
18:46 - 18:49 Aang closed off all the vents except one.
18:49 - 18:50 When he does his airbending,
18:50 - 18:52 the coal only has one place to go...
18:52 - 18:53 Right back here.
18:53 - 18:55 There's the intruder!
18:55 - 18:57 Stay back! I'm warning you!
18:57 - 19:00 Katara, stop. You can't win this fight.
19:03 - 19:05 Listen to him well, child.
19:05 - 19:07 You're one mistake away
19:07 - 19:10 from dying where you stand.
19:30 - 19:32 Here's your chance, earthbenders!
19:33 - 19:35 Take it! Your fate is in your own hands!
19:44 - 19:45 Foolish girl.
19:46 - 19:48 You thought a few inspirational words
19:48 - 19:52 and some coal would change these people?
19:52 - 19:56 Look at these blank hopeless faces.
19:56 - 19:59 Their spirits were broken a long time ago.
19:59 - 20:03 Oh, but you still believed in them.
20:03 - 20:05 How sweet.
20:05 - 20:09 They're a waste of your energy, little girl.
20:09 - 20:11 You failed.
20:15 - 20:16 Grr.
20:18 - 20:19 Hyah!
20:25 - 20:27 Show no mercy!
20:30 - 20:31 Aah!
20:31 - 20:32 For the Earth Kingdom,
20:33 - 20:34 attack!
21:10 - 21:12 Get to the ship! We'll hold them off!
21:12 - 21:14 Do not let them escape!
21:17 - 21:19 Guys, throw me some coal!
21:33 - 21:36 No, please. I can't swim.
21:36 - 21:39 Don't worry. I hear cowards float.
21:49 - 21:52 I want to thank you for saving me,
21:52 - 21:53 for saving us.
21:53 - 21:55 All it took was a little coal.
21:55 - 21:58 It wasn't the coal, Katara.
21:58 - 21:59 It was you.
21:59 - 22:02 Thank you for helping me find my courage,
22:02 - 22:04 Katara of the water tribe.
22:04 - 22:06 My family and everyone here
22:07 - 22:08 owes you much.
22:09 - 22:11 So, I guess you're going home now.
22:11 - 22:14 Yes, to take back my village.
22:14 - 22:16 To take back all of our villages!
22:16 - 22:18 The Fire Nation will regret the day
22:18 - 22:20 they set foot on our land!
22:21 - 22:23 Come with us.
22:23 - 22:24 I can't.
22:24 - 22:26 Your mission is to take back your home.
22:26 - 22:30 Ours is to get Aang to the North Pole.
22:30 - 22:32 That's him, isn't it? The Avatar.
22:34 - 22:38 Katara, thank you for bringing my father back to me.
22:38 - 22:40 I never thought I'd see him again.
22:40 - 22:42 I only wish there was some way...
22:42 - 22:43 I know.
22:43 - 22:46 My mother's necklace! It's gone!