- Yung: Omashu Resistance Leader: It doesn't matter now. Fighting the Fire Nation is the only path to freedom, and freedom is worth dying for.
- Aang: Actually, there's another path to freedom. You could leave Omashu. You're directing all your energy to fight the Fire Nation, but you're outnumbered. You can't win. Now is the time to retreat so you can live to fight another day.
- Aang: I don't understand.
- [Getting angry, the questions becoming rapid fire]
- Aang: Why didn't you free yourself? Why did you surrender when Omashu was invaded? What's the matter with you, Bumi?
- King Bumi: Listen to me, Aang. There are options in fighting, called "jing." It's a choice of how you direct your energy.
- Aang: I know.
- [holding up his fingers as he counts them off]
- Aang: here's positive jing when you're attacking and negative jing when you're retreating.
- King Bumi: And neutral jing, when you do nothing.
- Aang: [Open-mouthed stunned] There are *three* jings?
- King Bumi: Well, technically there are eighty five, but let's just focus on the third. Neutral jing is the key to Earthbending. It involves listening and waiting for the right moment to strike.
- Aang: That's why you surrendered, isn't it?
- King Bumi: Yes, and that's why I can't leave now.
- Aang: I guess I need to find someone else to teach me Earthbending.
- King Bumi: Your teacher will be someone who has mastered neutral jing. You need to find someone who waits and listens before striking.
- Guard: What are you kids doing out past curfew?
- Katara: Sorry. We were just on our way home.
- Guard: [the guard notices Sokka has red marking on his neck] Wait. What's the matter with him?
- Katara: Uh... He has pentapox, sir.
- [the guard walks up to Sokka, and moves to touch him]
- Katara: Um... it's highly contagious.
- Sokka: [Acting ill] Oh, it's so awful, I'm dying...
- Katara: ...and deadly...
- Guard: Hey, I think I've heard of pentapox.
- Guard: Wait, I think I've heard of pentapox.
- Guard: [to another Guard] Didn't your cousin Chang die of it?
- Guard: [as Sokka moves towards them] We'd better go wash our hands... and burn our clothes.
- [guards hurry away]
- Yung: Omashu Resistance Leader: We've got a problem. We just did a head count.
- Katara: Oh no. Did someone get left behind?
- Yung: Omashu Resistance Leader: No, we have an extra.
- [Cut to Tom Tom]
- Azula: Ooh, what kind of dangerous animals do you have?
- Circus Master: Well, our circus boasts the most exotic assortment...
- Azula: [Cutting him off] Release them all.
- Azula: You're right. The royal procession is dead weight. If I want to catch my prey, I must be agile, nimble. I need a small, elite team. It's time to visit some old friends.
- [last lines]
- [after Aang secretly returns their son]
- Governor's Wife: Tom-Tom.