Avatar: The Last Airbender (TV Series)

The Great Divide (2005)

Scott Menville: Scout, Additional Voices

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• Aang : Wait a second. Jin Wei? Wei Jin? I know those guys!

  Gan Jin Leader : Yes, yes, we're all aware of the story.

  Aang : No, I mean I really knew them. I might not look it, but I'm 112 years old. I was there 100 years ago on the day you're talking about.

  [Aang starts telling his story] 

  Aang : There seems to be a lot of confusion about what happened. First of all, Jin Wei and Wei Jin weren't enemies. They were brothers, twins, in fact. And they were eight. And most importantly, they were just playing a game. The sacred orb from the legend, that was the ball. And the Eastern and Western Gates were the goal posts. Jin Wei had the ball and was running toward the goal when he fell and fumbled it. Win Jei didn't steal the ball, he picked it up and started running it back toward the other goal, but he stepped out of bounds. So the official put him in the penalty box, not for twenty long years, but for two short minutes. There was no stealing and no putting anyone in prison. Just a game.

  Zhang Leader : You're saying the sacred orb was actually a sacred ball?

  Aang : Nope, just a regular ball.

  Scout : What about our tribe's redemption ritual?

  Aang : That's what the game was called, Redemption. As soon as someone got the ball from one goal to the other, everyone would yell, "redemption!"

  [the leaders look at each other] 

  Aang : Don't get me wrong, Wei Jin was kind of a slob and Jin Wei was a little stuffy, that much is true. But they respected each others differences enough to share the same playing field.

  Zhang Leader : I suppose it's time we forget the past.

  Gan Jin Leader : And look to the future.

• Zhang Leader : You're not seriously going to cave into these spoiled Gan Jins. I mean, we're refugees too. And we've got sick people that need shelter.

  Canyon Guide : [Holding out the palms of his hands in a gesture of placation]  I, uh... well...

  Scout : We've got old people who are weary from traveling.

  Zhang Leader : Sick people get priority over old people.

  Gan Jin Leader : Maybe you Zhangs wouldn't have so many sick people if you weren't such slobs.

  Zhang Leader : If you Gan Jins weren't so clean, maybe you wouldn't live to be so old.