- [last lines]
- Prince Zuko: [shouting out at skies during a thunderstorm] You've always thrown everything you could at me. Well, I can take it! And now I can give it back! Come on! Strike me! You've never held back before!
- [pause before he falls to his knees and breaks down in tears]
- Prince Zuko: But I don't feel any shame at all. I'm as proud as ever.
- Uncle Iroh: Prince Zuko, pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.
- Prince Zuko: Well, my life has nothing but humbling lately.
- Uncle Iroh: [Draws Fire symbol in the dirt] Fire is the element of power. The people of the Fire Nation have desire and will and the energy and drive to achieve what they want.
- Uncle Iroh: [Draws Earth symbol] Earth is the element of substance. The people of the Earth Kingdom are diverse and strong. They are persistent and enduring.
- Uncle Iroh: [Draws Air symbol] Air is the element of freedom. The Air Nomads detached themselves from worldly concerns and found peace and freedom. Also, they apparently had pretty good senses of humor.
- Uncle Iroh: [Draws Water symbol] Water is the element of change. The people of the Water Tribes are capable of adapting to many things. They have a sense of community and love that holds them together through anything.
- Prince Zuko: Why are you telling me these things?
- Uncle Iroh: [Draws straight lines separating the four symbols] It is important to draw wisdom from many different places. If you take it from only one place, it become rigid and stale.
- Uncle Iroh: [Draws a circle around all four symbols] Understanding others, the other elements, and the other nations, will help you become whole.
- Prince Zuko: All this four elements talk is sounding like Avatar stuff.
- Uncle Iroh: It is the combination of the four elements in one person that makes the Avatar so powerful. But it can make you more powerful, too.
- Sokka: [hunting a cute baby animal] You're awfully cute, but unfortunately for you, you're made of meat.
- Prince Zuko: So, Uncle, I've been thinking. It's only a matter of time before I run into Azula again. I'm going to need to know more advanced firebending if I want to stand a chance against her. I know what you're going to say, she's my sister, and I should be trying to get along with her.
- Uncle: No. She's crazy, and she needs to go down.
- Toph: The key to Earthbending is your stance. You've got to be steady and strong. Rock is a stubborn element. If you're going to move it, you've got to be like a rock yourself.
- Sokka: [Still stuck in the crevice] Okay, karma person or thing, whoever's in charge of this stuff, if I can just get out of this situation alive, I will give up meat and sarcasm. Okay? Ow!
- [the band holding Sokka's hair in the ponytail comes off after a strong tug by the baby moose lion and Sokka's hair becomes a fuzzy mess]
- Sokka: That's all I got. It's pretty much my whole identity. Sokka the meat and sarcasm guy. But I'm willing to be Sokka the veggies and straight talk fellow. Deal?
- Sokka: [Aang appears] Aang! Thank goodness. Have you got any meat?
- Uncle Iroh: Lightning is a pure expression of Firebending without aggression. It is not fueled by rage or emotion the way other Firebending is. Some call lightning the cold-blooded fire. It is precise and deadly, like Azula. To perform the technique requires peace of mind.
- Prince Zuko: I see. That's why we're drinking tea, to calm the mind.
- Uncle Iroh: Oh, yeah, good point. I mean, yes.
- Aang: Maybe there's another way. What if I came at the boulder from a different angle?
- Toph: No, that's the problem. You've got to stop thinking like an Airbender. There's no different angle, no clever solution, trickety-trick that's gonna move that rock. You've got to face it head on. And when I say 'head on', I mean like *this*.
- Toph: This time we're going to try something a little different. Instead of moving a rock, you're going to stop a rock. Get in your horse stance.
- [Aang assumes his stance]
- Toph: I'm going to roll that boulder down at you. If you have the *attitude* of an Earthbender, you'll stay in your stance and stop the rock. Like *this*!
- [Toph demonstrates the stance]
- Katara: Sorry, Toph, but are you sure this is really the best way to teach Aang Earthbending?
- Toph: I'm glad you said something. Actually, there is a better way.
- [Toph blindfolds Aaang]
- Toph: This way you'll really have to sense the vibrations of the boulder to stop it. Thank you, Katara.
- Aang: [sarcastically] Yeah, thanks, Katara.
- [Katara chuckles slightly]
- Katara: Aang, if Fire and Water are opposites, then what's the opposite of Air?
- Aang: I guess it's Earth.
- Katara: That's why it's so hard for you to get this. You're working with your natural opposite. But you'll figure it out. I know you will... Think fast!
- [Katara launches a reed at Aang. Aang splits the reed]
- Katara: Excellent. You have the reflexes of a Waterbending master.
- Aang: Thanks Katara.
- [bowing respectfully]
- Aang: Seefu Katara.
- Uncle Iroh: There is energy all around us. The energy is both Yin and Yang, positive energy and negative energy.
- [He holds up one finger on each hand to stand for the two forms of energy]
- Uncle Iroh: Only a select few Firebenders can separate these energies. This creates an imbalance. The energy wants to restore balance, and in the moment the positive and negative energy come crashing back together...
- [He brings his hands together to illustrate the point]
- Uncle Iroh: ...you provide release and guidance, creating lightning.
- [Shows Zuko]
- Prince Zuko: I'm ready to try it.
- Uncle Iroh: Remember, once you separate the energy, you do not command it, you are simply its humble guide. Breathe first.
- Sokka: [while stuck in a crevice in the ground, talking the animal he was hunting] You probably think I deserve this, don't you?
- [the baby moose lion peers over Sokka's forehead and looks at him]
- Sokka: Look, I'm sorry I hunted you, but that's just the natural order of things. Big things eat smaller things, nothing personal. But this time it didn't work out that way.
- [the baby yawns and then walks in a circle on Sokka's head before lying down again and closing its eyes]
- Sokka: I admit it, you're cute.
- [the moose lion begins licking its paws]
- Sokka: Okay, you convinced me. If I get out of this alive, it's a karmically correct vegetarian existence for me. No meat. Even though meat is so tasty.
- Sokka: Well, if you can't Earthbend me out of here, go get Toph.
- Aang: I can't do that either.
- Sokka: You can't? Why not?
- Aang: I-It would just be really... uncomfortable.
- Sokka: Uncomfortable? Well, I wouldn't want you to feel uncomfortable.
- Aang: Thanks, Sokka. This whole Earthbending thing really has me confused. There's so much pressure. Everyone expects me to get it right away. I-It puts me in a really awkward position.
- Sokka: Awkward position, I think I know the feeling.
- Aang: I-If I try, I-I fail. But if I don't try, I-I'm never going to get it. I feel like I'm caught between a rock and a hard place.
- Sokka: Hmm, how about that?
- [first lines]
- Aang: Today's the day! Can you believe it? After all that time searching for a teacher, I'm finally starting Earthbending. And this place, it-it's perfect, don't you think? Sokka?
- [Sokka, in his sleeping bag, groans]
- Aang: Oh, you're still sleeping, huh?
- [Sokka groans again and rolls over]
- Aang: [whispering] Sorry.
- Prince Zuko: Uncle. You were unconscious. Azula did this to you. It was a surprise attack.
- Uncle Iroh: Somehow, that's not so surprising.
- Uncle: Pride Is Not The Opposite Of Shame, But It's Source... True Humility Is The Only Antidote To Shame.