Korra, Tenzin, Kya and Bumi return to the Air Temple where Tenzin's family has been waiting for them. But Tenzin's wife doesn't see Jinora until Tenzin lifts her up, carrying her down to the ground to a panicked mother. Tenzin and Korra both blame themselves, and Tenzin vows to bring her back. Kya places Jinora in healing waters, bending to keep Jinora functioning without a spirit in her body.
Guess we suck as babysitters....
Bolin visits Mako in jail, wanting to share his own happiness from fame and money. Maybe Bolin is trying to cheer Mako up. In true completely obtuse Bolin fashion, he emphasizes how different their lives are now. Mako reminds Bolin he was framed by Varick because he figured out Varick was attacking Asami's business and the Southern Water Tribe Cultural Center. Bolin thinks that using his crazy story as an insanity defense is the way to go.
I'm doing great... guess you're not
Mako wants to speak to Asami. Bolin reminds Mako that Asami is too depressed to visit, as jails remind her that her dad is a criminal. So Mako warns Bolin to be careful and watch for Varick to launch something at the premiere of Bolin's biggest mover yet that night. Bolin dismisses Mako's warnings, certain Mako is crazy.
Who could resist seeing this?
The premiere starts off fantastic, with Bolin arriving with his co-star Ginger, and taking some nonsense from the announcer as proof that he and Ginger are dating, which Ginger brushes off, calling Mako "as dumb as the rocks you bend". Smart one, that Ginger. President Reiko arrives with his wife, enduring Varick's shameless ass-kissing, and reminds Varick that his propaganda films won't change his mind- he still won't send Republic Forces to the South Pole. Varick, behind Reiko's back, is confident that tonight will definitely convince Reiko to intervene.
I'm sure my evil kidnapping scheme will go just as planned....
Chief Beifong has her police officers patrolling the premiere, including the two most incompetent cops ever, more obsessed with eating than patrolling. However, said cops don't notice when a tiny boat with about four bad-looking guys in Northern Water Tribe army costumes comes to a rest just under the stadium, and four water benders take the detectives easily.
Ginger, Bolin, and Asami are all sharing a box in the theater which is conveniently also the pro-bending stadium with a giant movie screen on one side. The "mover" is classic early talkies cinema, full of obvious cuts to conceal effects, and a convoluted Doomsday device that Nuktuk, Hero of the South, must stop. Nuktuk arrives in Republic City and gets enthusiastic help from the President, in an obvious propaganda technique. As one of the animal characters, played by Bolin's ferret, dies in the movie, Bolin leaves, getting air on the railing that has a view of the dock. Asami comes out to comfort him, wanting to make sure he understands his ferret isn't really dead. Bolin, typically, knows the ferret will live as it comes back to life at the end of the mover. Polarity shifts, and all that. No, Bolin is really upset that members of Team Avator have all gone separate ways, and he misses his friends. Asami reminds Bolin that people change, that things are different these days for everyone. Then Asami goes back in, leaving Bolin to notice the empty little boat just underneath the stadium.
Bolin discovers the two worst detectives ever stuffed in a locker, and he immediately realizes that Mako is right. Off he goes to the President's box in the theater, to fight off the water benders trying to kidnap President Reiko and his wife. Each move in his fight matches the movie. Bolin uses his earth bending to defeat the kidnappers, as Nuktuk "bends" water in the mover to defeat the evil Unalaq's armies. Bolin and his attackers leap down onto the pro-bending platform, with the water benders accessing the water underneath and Bolin using the clay discs from the platform. Once awesome move has Bolin building two towers of discs, and slamming them together as a wall from a blast of water. Bolin, after much heroics, defeats the attackers as Nuktuk defeats Unalaq in the mover, and Bolin becomes a real life hero. Bolin demands one of the water benders tell him who hired them- he admits it was Varick.
Bolin defeats three water benders all by himself!
Varick realizes the jig is up too late; Beifong is right there in Varick's box to arrest him. Asami congratulates Bolin and Ginger is suddenly practically married to Bolin. Asami wants to get Mako freed from prison. Bolin, at first, thinks he should have time with Ginger first. Reiko and Beifong are relieved to have caught the culprit behind the bombing and piracy, with Beifong praising Mako for figuring it out first. They're all about to head over to jail to free Mako when a sky bison interrupts all the action. Enter Korra! With Tenzin! The band's back together!
Korra tries to tell Reiko Unalaq's real plan, using Harmonic Convergence to free the spirit of dark and chaos and ruin the world, and tells him the time has come to commit his troops. But Reiko, after a moment of thought, still refuses. If the world will be in chaos, he says, his troops must be in Republic City to protect the people. Tenzin is angry, but Reiko holds firm. So Korra settles for going with everyone else to jail to free Mako.
Sure, the show's about you. But that doesn't mean it's ALL about you.
Quick editorial: I like Reiko. Sure, he seems like a real pain in the ass. But notice, he wants his troops to protect his constituents, not Korra. He's immune to shameless propaganda. He's a hard ass, but he praises Mako after Beifong admits he was the real detective here. I look forward to watching his character working with hot-headed Korra.
At jail, Mako is brought out to all his friends, Chief Beifong, and the two most incompetent detectives ever. Beifong offers Mako a detective position, and fires the two louses he'll be replacing.
The band's back together!
Korra, not to be outdone, kisses Mako full on the mouth, to Asami's mortification. Mako is terribly confused as he reminds Korra they just had a fight, and is embarrassed when she admits she's lost chunks of her memory, and was their fight bad? Considering that they broke up, you'd think Mako would say, "Do bears shit in the woods?" Instead, he can only manage a weak "no". So Asami continues to look heartbroken. The team struggles to find a solution to having no army, until they consult…. Varick! Who else would know how to deal with an impossible situation that the Father of Impossible Situations.
The original Club Fed
Varick, the King of Being Ready for Anything, is luxuriating in his own private, opulent jail cell with his trusty assistant Ju Li to care for him in prison. Admitting that Varick industries built the prison, so he made his own private luxury cell, just in case, for himself, Varick tells the group he's done a lot for them. He told Korra that Unalaq was up to no good, he made Bolin famous, he helped Asami's business after almost ruining it, and he put Mako in jail. Oops, those last two were bad. Oh well. Varick's an ideas man, not a details manager, and his latest idea is for Team Avatar to take his battleship, named Ju Li after his battle-ax assistant, to the South Pole. Team Avatar... together again... and away! Off to the South Pole, Jinora, Unalaq, and Vaatu!
Korra is excited to finally be helping her dad, even if it is without an army. Tonraq has decided to recapture his city from Unalaq's forces. They start the attack from the top of a hill bordering the city, ice-boarding down to the city, but are ambushed by Unalaq's dark spirits.
One way to snowboard
Tonraq isn't fazed, he proceeds to finding Unalaq, and the two waterbenders duke it out, arguing over the past while they do. But Unalaq is just more powerful than Tonraq. He easily deflects Tonraq's best shot, traps him in a pillar of ice, and knocks him out. Then Unalaq gleefully pronounces that this will be Korra's fate, too. All that optimism on the Ju Li... all totally wrong. They'll arrive in an even more hostile land than they even thought.
So... close....
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