- Ursa: Zuko, please, my love, listen to me. Everything I've done, I've done to protect you. Remember this, Zuko. No matter how things may seem to change, never forget who you are.
- Lee: When my dad goes, will you stay?
- Prince Zuko: No. I need to move on. Here...
- [Handing Lee a knife]
- Prince Zuko: ...I want you to have this. Read the inscription.
- Lee: "Made in Earth Kingdom."
- Prince Zuko: The other one.
- Lee: "Never give up without a fight."
- Young Zuko: I failed.
- Ursa: No, I loved watching you. That's who you are, Zuko, someone who keeps fighting even though it's hard.
- Young Zuko: Where's mom?
- Azula: [almost happily] No one knows. Oh, and last night, Grandpa passed away.
- Young Zuko: Not funny, Azula. You're sick, and I want my knife back, now.
- Azula: Who's going to make me... Mom?
- Prince Zuko: Let the kid go.
- Gow: [laughs] Who do you think you are, telling us what to do?
- Prince Zuko: It doesn't matter who I am. But I know who you are. You're not soldiers, you're bullies; freeloaders, abusing your power, mostly over women and kids. You don't want Lee in your army. You're sick cowards messing with a family who's already lost one son to the war.
- Gow: [after Zuko defeats him with Firebending] Who... who are you?
- Prince Zuko: My name is Zuko, son of Ursa and Fire Lord Ozai. Prince of the Fire Nation and heir to the throne.
- Old Man: [to Zuko] Liar! I heard of you! You're not a prince, you're an outcast! His own father burned and disowned him!
- [Zuko kneels down toward Gow, who shudders in fear. However, Zuko does not harm him; he only takes Lee's dagger back. Zuko walks toward Lee to give it back, but Sela, who had been untying Lee intervenes]
- Sela: Not a step closer.
- Prince Zuko: [Zuko kneels down in front of Sela, with Lee peeking around his mother's back, offering the knife] It's yours. You should have it.
- Lee: No! I hate you!
- Prince Zuko: [regarding the knife he had given Lee] It's yours. You should have it.
- Lee: No, I hate you!
- Uncle Iroh: [voice over, in a letter] "If the city is as magnificent as its wall, Ba Sing Se must be something to behold. I hope you all may see it someday, if we don't burn it to the ground first."
- [laughs]
- Ursa: [reading the letter] "Until then, enjoy these gifts. For Zuko, a pearl dagger from the general who surrendered when we broke through the outer wall. Note the inscription and the superior craftsmanship."
- Young Zuko: [Reading the inscription] "Never give up without a fight."
- Ursa: "And for Azula, a new friend. She wears the latest fashion for Earth Kingdom girls."
- [as Ursa speaks, Azula picks up a doll wearing Earth Kingdom green. The Princess makes a face of disgust]
- Azula: Yuck! If Uncle doesn't make it back from war, then dad would be next in line to be Fire Lord, wouldn't he?
- Ursa: Azula, we don't speak that way. It would be awful if Uncle Iroh didn't return. And besides, Fire Lord Azulon is a picture of health.
- Young Zuko: How would you like it if cousin Lu Ten wanted Dad to die?
- Azula: I still think our dad would make a much better Fire Lord than his royal tea0loving kookiness.
- [She holds out the doll and makes its head burst into flame]
- Ozai: Father, you must have realized as I have, that with Lu Ten gon, Iroh's bloodline has ended. After his son's death, my brother abandoned the Siege at Ba Sing Se, and who knows when he will return home. But I am HERE, Father, and my children are alive.
- Azulon: You dare suggest I betray Iroh, my first-born, directly after the demise of *his* only beloved son? I think Iroh has suffered enough. But you... your punishment has scarecly *begun*!
- Ty Lee: [after Mai and Zuko fall in the fountain] Aww, they're so cute together.
- Mai: [as Zuko skulks aways] You two are such... ugh!
- Ursa: I was just coming to get you. Uncle Iroh has sent us a letter from the war front. You're soaking wet.
- Prince Zuko: Girls are crazy!
- Azula: We *are* brother and sister. It's important for us to spend time together. Don't you think so, Mom?
- Old Man: [while Zuko is fighting the bullying soldiers] Give him a left! A left!
- Old Woman: It's not a fistfight.
- Old Man: He's got a left sword, don't he?
- Azula: By the way, Uncle's coming home.
- Prince Zuko: Does that mean we won the war?
- Azula: No, it means Uncle's a quitter and a loser.
- Prince Zuko: What are you talking about? Uncle's not a quitter.
- Azula: Oh yes, he is. He found out his son died, and he just fell apart. A real general would stay and burn Ba Sing Se to the ground, not lose the battle and come home crying.
- Prince Zuko: How do you know what he should do? He's probably just sad his only kid is gone... forever.
- Ursa: Your father has requested an audience with Fire Lord Azulon. Best clothes, hurry up.
- Azula: Fire Lord Azulon. Can't you just call him "Grandfather?" He's not exactly the powerful Fire Lord he used to be. Someone will probably end up taking his place soon.
- Ursa: Young lady, not another word. What is wrong with that child?
- Sela: Does this guy have a name?
- Prince Zuko: I'm uh...
- Gansu: He doesn't have to say who he is if he doesn't want to, Sela. Anyone who can hold his own against those bully soldiers is welcome here. Those men should be ashamed to wear Earth Kingdom uniforms.
- Sela: The real soldiers are off fighting the war, like Lee's big brother, Sensu.
- Shopkeeper: Those soldiers are supposed to protect us from the Fire Nation. But they're just a bunch of thugs.
- Sela: [about Lee] Then they took him away. They told me if Lee's old enough to fight, he's old enough to join the army. I know we barely know you but...
- [Sela breaks down crying]
- Prince Zuko: I'll get your son back.
- Gow: You throwing eggs at us, stranger?
- Prince Zuko: No.
- Gow: You see who did throw it?
- Prince Zuko: No.
- Solider: That's your favorite word, "no?"
- Gow: Egg had to come from somewhere.
- Prince Zuko: [Turning away] Maybe a chicken flew over.
- Young Azula: Dad's going to kill you. Really, he is.
- Young Zuko: Ha-ha, Azula, nice try.
- Young Azula: Fine, don't believe me, but I heard everything. Grandfather said Dad's punishment should fit his crime. "You must know the pain of losing a first-born son, by sacrificing you own."
- Young Zuko: Liar!
- Young Azula: I'm only telling you for your own good. I know. Maybe you could find a nice Earth Kingdom family to adopt you.
- Young Zuko: Stop it! You're lying. Dad would never do that to me.
- Ursa: Your father would never do what to you? What is going on here?
- Young Azula: I don't know.
- Ursa: [to Azula] It's time for a talk.
- Young Zuko: Azula always lies. Azula always lies.
- Prince Zuko: [as he wakes up] Azula always lies.
- [last lines]
- [as Azulon is being cremated]
- Fire Nation Priest: Azulon, Fire Lord to our nation for twenty-three years. You were our fearless leader in the Battle of Garzai, our matchless conqueror of the Husin provinces. You were father of Iroh, father of Ozai, husband of Ila, now passed. Grandfather of Lu Ten, now passed. Grandfather of Zuko and Azula. We lay you to rest. As was your dying wish, you are now succeeded by your second son.
- [Ozai is crowned Fire Lord]
- Fire Nation Priest: Hail, Fire Lord Ozai!
- [first lines]
- Solider: Come on, Spider-Snake-Eyes.
- [throws dice and laughs]
- Solider: Yeah!