1 00:00:03,897 --> 00:00:06,368 Water. 2 00:00:06,568 --> 00:00:08,005 Earth. 3 00:00:08,305 --> 00:00:10,309 Fire. 4 00:00:10,309 --> 00:00:12,146 Air. 5 00:00:12,580 --> 00:00:16,956 Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. 6 00:00:16,956 --> 00:00:21,064 Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. 7 00:00:21,064 --> 00:00:25,172 Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them. 8 00:00:25,172 --> 00:00:28,646 But when the world needed him most, he vanished. 9 00:00:28,646 --> 00:00:31,485 100 years passed, and my brother and I discovered 10 00:00:31,718 --> 00:00:34,524 the new Avatar, an Airbender named Aang. 11 00:00:34,758 --> 00:00:37,030 And although his airbending skills are great, 12 00:00:37,030 --> 00:00:40,503 he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. 13 00:00:40,503 --> 00:00:44,044 But I believe Aang can save the world. 14 00:01:11,131 --> 00:01:15,139 Spare coins for weary travelers. 15 00:01:16,375 --> 00:01:17,610 This is humiliating. We're royalty. 16 00:01:17,610 --> 00:01:21,118 These people should be giving us whatever we want. 17 00:01:21,118 --> 00:01:24,157 They will if you ask nicely. 18 00:01:25,493 --> 00:01:30,403 Spare change for a hungry old man. 19 00:01:30,403 --> 00:01:32,673 Oh... Here you go. 20 00:01:32,673 --> 00:01:36,181 The coin is appreciated. 21 00:01:36,181 --> 00:01:39,120 But not as much as your smile. 22 00:01:42,493 --> 00:01:45,466 How about some entertainment in exchange for... 23 00:01:45,466 --> 00:01:47,871 a gold piece? 24 00:01:47,871 --> 00:01:49,707 We're not performers. 25 00:01:49,707 --> 00:01:52,313 Not professional anyway. 26 00:02:03,268 --> 00:02:06,374 Come on, we're talking a gold piece here. 27 00:02:06,374 --> 00:02:07,543 Let's see some action. 28 00:02:08,345 --> 00:02:10,416 Dance! 29 00:02:22,273 --> 00:02:25,947 Nothing like a fat man dancing for his dinner. 30 00:02:25,947 --> 00:02:27,383 Here you go. 31 00:02:30,055 --> 00:02:32,493 Such a kind man. 32 00:02:56,374 --> 00:02:58,378 Hey, you taking us down for a reason? 33 00:02:59,747 --> 00:03:01,953 Aang, why are we going down? 34 00:03:01,953 --> 00:03:03,455 What? 35 00:03:03,455 --> 00:03:05,259 I didn't even notice. 36 00:03:05,259 --> 00:03:07,496 Are you noticing now? 37 00:03:07,496 --> 00:03:08,967 Is something wrong? 38 00:03:08,967 --> 00:03:10,769 I know this is going to sound weird, 39 00:03:11,137 --> 00:03:12,874 but I think the swamp is... 40 00:03:12,874 --> 00:03:14,244 calling to me. 41 00:03:14,244 --> 00:03:16,448 Is it telling you where we can get something to eat? 42 00:03:16,448 --> 00:03:17,783 No. I... 43 00:03:17,783 --> 00:03:20,222 I think it wants us to land there. 44 00:03:20,222 --> 00:03:21,625 No offense to the swamp, 45 00:03:21,625 --> 00:03:24,130 but I don't see any land there to land on. 46 00:03:24,130 --> 00:03:25,132 I don't know. 47 00:03:25,132 --> 00:03:26,635 Bumi said to learn earthbending, 48 00:03:26,635 --> 00:03:28,138 I would have to wait and listen. 49 00:03:28,138 --> 00:03:30,609 And now I'm actually hearing the earth. 50 00:03:30,609 --> 00:03:32,480 Do you want me to ignore it? 51 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,317 Yes. 52 00:03:34,317 --> 00:03:35,319 I don't know. 53 00:03:35,319 --> 00:03:39,160 There's something ominous about that place. 54 00:03:42,133 --> 00:03:44,804 See? Even Appa and Momo don't like it here. 55 00:03:44,804 --> 00:03:48,111 Okay, since everyone feels so strongly about this... 56 00:03:48,111 --> 00:03:49,547 Bye, swamp. 57 00:03:49,547 --> 00:03:51,418 Yip-yip. 58 00:03:56,027 --> 00:03:57,563 You better throw in an extra "yip." 59 00:03:57,563 --> 00:03:58,933 We got to move! 60 00:04:40,416 --> 00:04:41,919 Where's Appa and Momo? 61 00:04:47,329 --> 00:04:49,801 Appa! 62 00:04:49,801 --> 00:04:51,738 Momo! 63 00:04:53,608 --> 00:04:56,916 Sokka, you've got an elbow leech. 64 00:04:56,916 --> 00:04:58,218 Where? Where? 65 00:04:58,218 --> 00:04:59,720 Where do you think? 66 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,728 Why do things keep attaching to me? 67 00:05:05,065 --> 00:05:06,869 You couldn't find them? 68 00:05:06,869 --> 00:05:07,871 No. 69 00:05:07,871 --> 00:05:09,841 And the tornado... 70 00:05:09,841 --> 00:05:11,678 it just disappeared. 71 00:05:48,485 --> 00:05:50,389 We better speed things up. 72 00:05:51,691 --> 00:05:55,032 Maybe we should be a little nicer to the swamp. 73 00:05:55,032 --> 00:05:56,501 Aang, these are just plants. 74 00:05:56,501 --> 00:05:58,505 Do you want me to say "please" and "thank you" 75 00:05:58,505 --> 00:06:00,208 as I swing my machete back and forth? 76 00:06:00,208 --> 00:06:02,580 Maybe you should listen to Aang. 77 00:06:02,580 --> 00:06:06,354 Something about this place feels... alive. 78 00:06:06,354 --> 00:06:09,260 I'm sure there are lots of things that are alive here. 79 00:06:09,260 --> 00:06:11,264 And if we don't want to wind up getting eaten by them, 80 00:06:11,764 --> 00:06:14,770 we need to find Appa as fast as we can. 81 00:06:47,871 --> 00:06:49,373 Appa...! 82 00:06:49,875 --> 00:06:51,244 Momo...! 83 00:06:51,244 --> 00:06:54,050 There's no way they can hear us and no way we can see them. 84 00:06:54,550 --> 00:06:56,054 We'll have to make camp for the night. 85 00:07:00,863 --> 00:07:02,232 What was that? 86 00:07:02,232 --> 00:07:04,070 Nothing. Just swamp gas. 87 00:07:04,570 --> 00:07:07,076 Look, there's nothing supernatural going on here. 88 00:07:07,076 --> 00:07:08,078 Ugh! 89 00:07:11,952 --> 00:07:14,623 I think we should build a fire. 90 00:07:17,396 --> 00:07:19,400 Sokka, the longer we're here, 91 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,404 the more I think you shouldn't be doing that. 92 00:07:21,404 --> 00:07:22,907 No, I asked the swamp. 93 00:07:22,907 --> 00:07:23,909 It said this was fine. 94 00:07:24,410 --> 00:07:25,412 Right, swamp? 95 00:07:25,412 --> 00:07:27,416 "No problem, Sokka" 96 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,167 Does anyone else get the feeling that we're being watched? 97 00:07:36,167 --> 00:07:39,507 Please. We're all alone out here. 98 00:07:45,152 --> 00:07:48,091 Except for them. 99 00:07:48,591 --> 00:07:51,597 Right. Except for them. 100 00:08:38,458 --> 00:08:39,693 Aah! 101 00:08:48,144 --> 00:08:49,613 Aah! 102 00:09:20,141 --> 00:09:22,346 Guys? 103 00:09:27,589 --> 00:09:30,595 What'd you reckon make a track like that, Tho? 104 00:09:30,595 --> 00:09:31,597 Don't know, Due. 105 00:09:31,597 --> 00:09:33,902 Something with six legs. 106 00:09:33,902 --> 00:09:36,240 Pretty big'uns, too. 107 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,711 Leaves a nice wide trail to follow. 108 00:09:38,711 --> 00:09:41,083 You know what's at the end of that trail? 109 00:09:42,352 --> 00:09:44,156 Dinner. 110 00:10:16,053 --> 00:10:18,391 Aang? 111 00:10:18,391 --> 00:10:20,195 Sokka? 112 00:10:23,134 --> 00:10:24,136 Hello? 113 00:10:24,136 --> 00:10:25,672 Hello. 114 00:10:26,173 --> 00:10:27,609 Can you help me? 115 00:10:28,979 --> 00:10:30,916 Mom? 116 00:10:30,916 --> 00:10:32,686 Mom! 117 00:10:35,692 --> 00:10:37,596 I can't believe...! 118 00:10:47,984 --> 00:10:49,620 Aang...! 119 00:10:49,620 --> 00:10:51,490 Stupid swamp. 120 00:10:51,490 --> 00:10:53,361 Dumb, ugly vines! 121 00:10:53,361 --> 00:10:55,365 Katara! 122 00:10:55,365 --> 00:10:57,870 You think you're so tough, huh? 123 00:11:04,951 --> 00:11:06,453 Hello? 124 00:11:10,863 --> 00:11:12,265 Yue? 125 00:11:12,265 --> 00:11:14,770 This is just a trick of the light. 126 00:11:14,770 --> 00:11:16,273 Swamp gas. 127 00:11:16,273 --> 00:11:18,277 I hit my head running away last night. 128 00:11:18,778 --> 00:11:20,950 I'm going crazy. 129 00:11:22,252 --> 00:11:24,089 You didn't protect me. 130 00:11:24,089 --> 00:11:26,160 didn't protect me. 131 00:11:29,066 --> 00:11:30,368 Aah! 132 00:11:38,517 --> 00:11:40,021 Katara! 133 00:11:42,025 --> 00:11:43,394 Appa! 134 00:11:44,196 --> 00:11:45,198 Hello? 135 00:11:45,198 --> 00:11:46,700 Who are you? 136 00:11:49,206 --> 00:11:50,141 Hey! 137 00:11:50,141 --> 00:11:51,610 Come back! 138 00:12:25,144 --> 00:12:27,549 Looky there, Tho. 139 00:12:27,549 --> 00:12:30,555 Is that little hairy fellow riding that thing? 140 00:12:30,555 --> 00:12:32,893 No, that's what they call a lemu. 141 00:12:32,893 --> 00:12:34,997 Saw one at a traveling show once. 142 00:12:34,997 --> 00:12:36,600 Real smart, they say. 143 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:38,437 Bet he tastes a lot like possum-chicken. 144 00:12:38,939 --> 00:12:41,443 You think everything tastes like possum-chicken. 145 00:12:41,443 --> 00:12:43,114 Come on now, fellas. 146 00:12:43,481 --> 00:12:46,587 Just a little closer. Nice and easy. 147 00:12:46,587 --> 00:12:47,890 Nothing to worry about. 148 00:12:47,890 --> 00:12:49,961 We just fixin' to eat ya. 149 00:12:51,230 --> 00:12:53,134 What'd you say that fer? 150 00:12:53,134 --> 00:12:54,136 Well, we are! 151 00:12:54,136 --> 00:12:56,640 But you don't have to tell them that! 152 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,144 Well, how'd I know they'd understand me? 153 00:12:58,144 --> 00:12:59,146 Come on! 154 00:13:27,068 --> 00:13:28,304 Who are you? 155 00:13:39,192 --> 00:13:40,695 What do you guys think you're doing? 156 00:13:40,695 --> 00:13:43,200 I've been looking all over for you. 157 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,705 Well, I've been wandering around looking for you. 158 00:13:45,705 --> 00:13:47,642 I was chasing some girl. 159 00:13:47,642 --> 00:13:48,644 What girl? 160 00:13:48,644 --> 00:13:49,947 I don't know. 161 00:13:50,281 --> 00:13:53,721 I heard laughing and I saw some girl in a fancy dress. 162 00:13:53,721 --> 00:13:55,591 Well, there must be a tea party here, 163 00:13:55,591 --> 00:13:57,897 and we just didn't get our invitations. 164 00:13:57,897 --> 00:14:00,601 I thought I saw Mom. 165 00:14:02,405 --> 00:14:04,743 Look, we were all just scared and hungry 166 00:14:04,743 --> 00:14:06,747 and our minds were playing tricks on us. 167 00:14:06,747 --> 00:14:08,217 That's why we all saw things out here. 168 00:14:08,217 --> 00:14:10,221 You saw something, too? 169 00:14:10,221 --> 00:14:11,657 I thought I saw Yue, 170 00:14:11,657 --> 00:14:13,460 but that doesn't prove anything. 171 00:14:13,460 --> 00:14:15,933 Look, I think about her all the time, 172 00:14:15,933 --> 00:14:18,437 and you saw Mom, someone you miss a lot. 173 00:14:18,437 --> 00:14:19,941 What about me? 174 00:14:19,941 --> 00:14:21,777 I didn't know the girl I saw, 175 00:14:21,777 --> 00:14:24,082 and all our visions led us right here. 176 00:14:24,082 --> 00:14:26,553 Okay, so where's here? 177 00:14:26,553 --> 00:14:28,057 The middle of the swamp? 178 00:14:28,057 --> 00:14:29,359 Yeah, 179 00:14:29,359 --> 00:14:33,100 the center. 180 00:14:33,100 --> 00:14:34,937 It's the heart of the swamp. 181 00:14:34,937 --> 00:14:36,740 It's been calling us here. 182 00:14:36,740 --> 00:14:37,609 I knew it. 183 00:14:37,609 --> 00:14:38,945 It's just a tree. 184 00:14:39,446 --> 00:14:41,316 It can't call anyone. 185 00:14:41,316 --> 00:14:43,787 For the last time, there's nothing after us 186 00:14:43,787 --> 00:14:46,928 and there's nothing magical happening here. 187 00:16:18,343 --> 00:16:21,583 Now what would a lemu need a shirt for? 188 00:16:21,583 --> 00:16:23,253 Ya-hoo! 189 00:17:34,662 --> 00:17:36,066 There's someone in there! 190 00:17:36,066 --> 00:17:37,936 He's bending the vines! 191 00:17:51,696 --> 00:17:54,669 Why did you call me here if you just wanted to kill us? 192 00:17:54,669 --> 00:17:56,473 Wait. 193 00:17:56,473 --> 00:17:58,978 I didn't call you here. 194 00:18:00,547 --> 00:18:01,884 We were flying over 195 00:18:01,884 --> 00:18:02,886 and I heard something calling to me, 196 00:18:02,886 --> 00:18:04,288 telling me to land. 197 00:18:04,288 --> 00:18:05,824 He's the Avatar. 198 00:18:05,824 --> 00:18:07,695 Stuff like that happens to us a lot. 199 00:18:07,695 --> 00:18:10,902 The Avatar? Come with me. 200 00:18:13,707 --> 00:18:15,711 So, who are you then? 201 00:18:15,711 --> 00:18:17,681 I protect the swamp 202 00:18:17,681 --> 00:18:19,685 from folks that want to hurt it, 203 00:18:19,685 --> 00:18:22,058 like this fellow with his big knife. 204 00:18:22,058 --> 00:18:24,028 See? Completely reasonable. 205 00:18:24,028 --> 00:18:27,034 Not a monster, just a regular guy defending his home. 206 00:18:27,034 --> 00:18:29,038 Nothing mystical about it. 207 00:18:29,038 --> 00:18:33,013 Oh, the swamp is a mystical place all right. 208 00:18:33,013 --> 00:18:34,449 It's sacred. 209 00:18:34,449 --> 00:18:36,820 I reached enlightenment right here 210 00:18:36,820 --> 00:18:39,325 under the banyan grove tree. 211 00:18:39,325 --> 00:18:42,331 I heard it calling me just like you did. 212 00:18:42,331 --> 00:18:44,335 Sure, you did. 213 00:18:44,335 --> 00:18:46,773 It seems real chatty. 214 00:18:46,773 --> 00:18:49,045 See, this whole swamp is actually 215 00:18:49,545 --> 00:18:52,551 just one tree spread out over miles. 216 00:18:52,551 --> 00:18:55,557 Branches spread and sink and take root 217 00:18:55,557 --> 00:18:58,063 and then spread some more. 218 00:18:58,063 --> 00:19:04,977 One big living organism, just like the entire world. 219 00:19:04,977 --> 00:19:07,348 I get how the tree is one big thing, 220 00:19:07,348 --> 00:19:09,352 but the whole world? 221 00:19:09,352 --> 00:19:12,691 Sure, you think you're any different from me 222 00:19:12,691 --> 00:19:15,731 or your friends or this tree? 223 00:19:15,731 --> 00:19:19,572 If you listen hard enough, you can hear every living thing 224 00:19:20,073 --> 00:19:21,543 breathing together. 225 00:19:21,543 --> 00:19:24,482 You can feel everything growing. 226 00:19:24,983 --> 00:19:25,952 We're all living together, 227 00:19:25,952 --> 00:19:28,891 even if most folks don't act like it. 228 00:19:29,392 --> 00:19:30,862 We all have the same roots 229 00:19:30,862 --> 00:19:35,304 and we are all branches of the same tree. 230 00:19:35,304 --> 00:19:37,308 But what did our visions mean? 231 00:19:37,308 --> 00:19:40,814 In the swamp, we see visions of people we've lost, 232 00:19:40,814 --> 00:19:42,084 people we loved, 233 00:19:42,084 --> 00:19:44,589 folks we think are gone, 234 00:19:45,090 --> 00:19:47,328 but the swamp tells us they're not. 235 00:19:47,328 --> 00:19:49,832 We're still connected to 'em. 236 00:19:49,832 --> 00:19:53,740 Time is an illusion and so is death. 237 00:19:53,740 --> 00:19:55,577 But what about my vision? 238 00:19:55,577 --> 00:19:57,414 It was someone I had never met. 239 00:19:57,414 --> 00:20:00,153 You're the Avatar, you tell me. 240 00:20:00,153 --> 00:20:03,861 Time is an illusion, 241 00:20:03,861 --> 00:20:07,768 so... it's someone I will meet. 242 00:20:09,038 --> 00:20:10,407 Sorry to interrupt the lesson, 243 00:20:10,407 --> 00:20:12,745 but we still need to find Appa and Momo. 244 00:20:12,745 --> 00:20:15,550 I think I know how to find them. 245 00:20:15,550 --> 00:20:18,189 Everything is connected. 246 00:20:36,726 --> 00:20:38,596 Come on. We've got to hurry. 247 00:20:57,601 --> 00:20:59,238 Appa! 248 00:21:00,006 --> 00:21:03,580 Oh! We're under attack! 249 00:21:06,819 --> 00:21:09,792 Hey, you guys are Waterbenders. 250 00:21:09,792 --> 00:21:11,362 You, too? 251 00:21:11,362 --> 00:21:13,400 That means we're kin. 252 00:21:18,243 --> 00:21:20,847 Hey, Huu, how you been? 253 00:21:20,847 --> 00:21:25,323 You know, scared some folks, swung some vines, the usual. 254 00:21:26,225 --> 00:21:27,594 Huu? 255 00:21:31,436 --> 00:21:33,373 How you like that possum-chicken? 256 00:21:33,373 --> 00:21:35,610 Tastes just like arctic hen. 257 00:21:35,610 --> 00:21:38,116 So why were you guys so interested in eating Appa? 258 00:21:38,116 --> 00:21:40,620 You've got plenty of those big things wandering around. 259 00:21:40,620 --> 00:21:42,591 You want me to eat ol' Slim? 260 00:21:43,092 --> 00:21:45,530 He's like a member of the family. 261 00:21:45,530 --> 00:21:46,900 Nice Slim. 262 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:49,371 Aah! 263 00:21:49,371 --> 00:21:52,044 Oh, oh, he don't eat no bugs. 264 00:21:52,544 --> 00:21:54,048 That's people food. 265 00:21:54,048 --> 00:21:55,784 Where'd you say you was from? 266 00:21:55,784 --> 00:21:56,987 The South Pole. 267 00:21:56,987 --> 00:21:58,356 Didn't know there was Waterbenders 268 00:21:58,356 --> 00:21:59,860 anywhere but here. 269 00:21:59,860 --> 00:22:01,696 They got a nice swamp there, do they? 270 00:22:01,696 --> 00:22:04,335 No, it's all ice and snow. 271 00:22:04,335 --> 00:22:07,107 Mm, no wonder you left. 272 00:22:07,107 --> 00:22:10,046 Well, I hope you realize now that nothing strange 273 00:22:10,046 --> 00:22:11,549 was going on here. 274 00:22:11,549 --> 00:22:14,054 Just a bunch of greasy people living in a swamp. 275 00:22:14,054 --> 00:22:15,857 What about the visions? 276 00:22:15,857 --> 00:22:18,129 I told you, we were hungry. 277 00:22:18,129 --> 00:22:22,471 I'm eating a giant bug. 278 00:22:22,471 --> 00:22:23,573 Ugh. 279 00:22:23,573 --> 00:22:25,076 But what about when the tree showed me 280 00:22:25,076 --> 00:22:26,914 where Appa and Momo were? 281 00:22:27,147 --> 00:22:29,018 That's Avatar stuff, that doesn't count. 282 00:22:29,018 --> 00:22:30,320 The only thing I can't figure out 283 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,791 is how you made the tornado that sucked us down. 284 00:22:32,791 --> 00:22:35,196 I can't do anything like that. 285 00:22:35,597 --> 00:22:38,436 I just bend the water in the plants. 286 00:22:38,436 --> 00:22:40,707 Well, no accounting for weather. 287 00:22:40,707 --> 00:22:42,678 Still, there's absolutely 288 00:22:42,678 --> 00:22:45,083 nothing mysterious about the swamp. 289 00:22:59,445 --> 00:23:01,182 Who's there?