Me: ok guys episode 15 almost done with this season!!

All: yea!

Me: u guys excited for the this episode

All: yea!

Me: well um- 👍

Me: ok let's start

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Book 1: water

Chapter 15: Bato of the water tribe.

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Katara,Sokka and Aang: oh

Aang:😔

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(The episode opens with a brief daytime shot of a shoreline. The surf breaks against jagged rocks that jut out of the ocean close to shore. Presumably nearby, a water tribe blade has been stuck in the ground in a forested area. Aang's hand enters the frame, then cut to a wider shot of Aang picking up the blade, Sokka coming up behind him.)

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Aang: Hey look! A sword made out of a whale's tooth.

Sokka (grabbing it): Lemme see that.

(Sokka walks forward, examining the blade. Fade to a flashback of daytime at the South Pole. In the distance, many Water Tribe boats are being loaded with supplies. View pans left to reveal the back of a younger Sokka, a view soon replaced by a frontal shot of the boy. He holds his boomerang, a pained look of anticipated loss on his face. Flashback fades, his older face superimposed briefly on his younger face.)

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Katara: oh it's younger sokka.

Suki: oh u look cute.

Sokka: I'm not cute I'm manly.

Suki: come on just admit it.

Sokka: ok fine I looked pretty cute

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Sokka: This is a water tribe weapon. (To Aang, behind him over he left shoulder.) See if you can find anything else.

Katara (entering wider shot): Did someone lose something?

Aang: (looking in a bush): No, we found something.

(Cut to Sokka brushing away some leaves from a broken arrow on the ground. He picks it up and inspects it.)

Sokka: It's burned.

(He throws it away and walks over to a tree with burn marks.)

Sokka: There was a battle. Water tribe warriors ambushed a group of firebenders.

(He looks down at the ground and begins to walk downhill as he interprets the signs left in the earth.)

Sokka: The firebenders fought back, but the warriors drove them down this hill...

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Zuko: how can u tell that from those things.

Sokka: 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ I don't know I just knew I guess

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(He runs down the hill, the others in tow. They soon come to the beach seen in the first clip.)

Aang: So then what happened?

Sokka: I don't know. The trail ends here.

Katara (pointing o.c. to the right): Wait! Look!

(Cut to a shot of a beached water tribe boat.)

Sokka (from o.c.): It's one of our boats!

(They all run to it. Cut to a wide shot of them staring up at the boat.)

Katara: Is this... Dad's boat?

Sokka (rubbing the ship's prow and smiling): No, but it's from his fleet. Dad was here.

(Cut to a close up of Iroh's face. He is drinking tea. He drinks and then cut to a shot of he and Zuko sitting at a table in a cabin on Zuko's ship. Iroh pours Zuko some tea after he takes his sip.)

Iroh: Ahh! See, Prince Zuko, a moment of quiet is good for your mental well being.

(As Zuko raises the cup to drink, a shock causes it to splash the tea all over he face. He wipes it away and gets up from table, making angry noises.)

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Toph: haha u got wet.

Zuko:😑😑😑

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(Cut to the foredeck, where a young, dark haired woman has appeared on deck riding a massive and hideous monster. Members of Zuko's crew scatter as the monster climbs the railing and onto the deck.)

June: Get back! We're after a stowaway.

Zuko: There are no stowaways on my ship.

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Sokka: u sure

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(The monster, a shirshu, proceeds to rip out a chunk of deck plating and hurls it aft. It sticks its head into the gaping hole, then cut to the shirshu's p.o.v. It can see smells. The stowaway's odor shows up as a smoky green trail on the screen which it follows. Nearby a barrel falls over and a man crawls out, whimpering. The man crawls out onto the foredeck where the shirshu quickly whips the back of his neck with its tongue. He falls instantly onto the deck, conscious but paralyzed, with Iroh and Zuko looking on in the background.)

Zuko: He's paralyzed.

June (picking the man up): Only temporarily. The toxins'll wear off in about an hour. But by then he'll be in jail and I'll have my money.

Zuko: But how did you find him on my ship?

June (petting her monster as she gets back in the saddle): My shirshu can smell a rat a continent away.

Iroh (admiring her): Well, I'm impressed.

(She cracks her whip and the shirshu bolts off the ship and down the dock. Cut back to Iroh.)

Iroh (stroking his chin): Very impressed.

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Everyone: 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

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(Cut to a shot of the full moon. The screen pans down to reveal the kids and Appa around a campfire in front of the water tribe boat they found on the beach. Katara and Aang are asleep, Sokka is not. He tends the fire in silence, lost in thought. A flashback begins. It is again daytime on the South Pole. The younger Sokka, his face painted for war, struggles to carry a sleeping bag and gear toward the boats. Cut to an older man, Hagoda, Katara and Sokka's father, helping to load a boat. He sees his son and walks to him.)

Hakoda: Sokka...

Sokka: I'm coming with you.

Hakoda: You're not old enough to go to war, Sokka, you know that.

Sokka (his eyes pleading): I'm strong! I'm brave! I can fight! Please, Dad!

Hakoda (putting a hand on his shoulder): Being a man is knowing where you're needed the most, and for you right now that's here protecting your sister.

Sokka (eyes watering): I don't understand.

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Everyone: 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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Hakoda: Someday you will. (Sokka drops his sleeping bag and hugs his father.) I'm going to miss you so much.

(Sokka cries, his father's hand on his head. The flashback fades to the present. In the present, Sokka stares at the fire for another moment before hearing a sound and standing up.)

Sokka: Who's there?

(Cut to a bandaged water tribe man approaching the camp.)

Bato: Sokka?

Sokka: Bato?

Aang (waking up in the background): Who the what now?

Katara: Bato!

Bato: Sokka! Katara! (Hugging them both.) It is so good to see you two! Oh, you've grown so much.

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Suki: yay reunion

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Aang (bowing): Hi, I'm Aang.

Sokka: Where's Dad?

Katara: Is he here?

Bato: No, he and the other warriors should be in the eastern Earth Kingdom by now.

(The wind picks up and they all shiver.)

Bato: Brr! This is no place for a reunion. Let's get inside.

(He puts his arms around Katara and Sokka's shoulder and motions Aang to follow. Cut to Appa beginning to walk away from the campfire after them, then cut to another shot of the moon. The camera pans down to show a monastery complex as Bato begins to narrate from o.c. Then the kids, Appa and Bato appear walking in through the main gate.)

Bato: After I was wounded, your father carried me to this abbey. The sisters have cared for me ever since. (To one of the nearby women.) Superior, these are Hakoda's children. They've been traveling with the Avatar. I found them by my boat.

Superior (bowing): Young Avatar, it gives me great joy to be in your presence. Welcome to our abbey.

Aang (bowing): Thank you! It's truly an honor to be here. If there's anything –

Sokka (cutting Aang off): What smells so good, Bato? (He sniffs the air.)

Bato: The sisters craft ointments and perfumes.

Sokka: Perfume? Maybe we could dump some on Appa? Because he stinks so much! Am I right?

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Toph: ha ha

Sokka: 😑😑😑😑

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(Cut to Bato and Katara, who are not amused.)

Bato: You have your father's wit.

(Cut to a wooden door opening to reveal Bato and the two kids.)

Katara: Bato! It looks like home!

Sokka: Everything's here, even the pelts!

(The pair examine the comforts of the room. Cut to Aang holding Momo, looking a little disconcerted.)

Aang: Yeh, nothing's more comforting than dead animal skins.

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Toph: lol

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(Momo hops down and examine the head of a bear skin rug. The mouth of the bear closes suddenly, scaring Momo into climbing back up to Aang's shoulder. Cut to a pot over the fire in the center of the room. Katara's hand opens the pot and then the camera zooms back to show her looking at Sokka to her left, with Baton sitting down on the opposite side of the fire.)

Katara: No way! Stewed sea prunes?

Bato: Help yourself.

Sokka: Dad could eat a whole barrel of these things.

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Aang: 🤢🤢 oh sea prunes.

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(Katara puts some in bowl, then cut to Aang with a bowl in his hands. He sniffs it and makes a sound of disgust. Cut to a wider shot of the room. Aang sits back from the group having put the untouched bowl of stew beside him. As the conversation continues, Momo tastes the stew, spits it back out and runs away.)

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Katara: I guess momo doesn't like it too huh.

Aang: I guess.

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Katara: Bato, is it true you and Dad lassoed an arctic hippo?

Bato: It was your father's idea. He just dragged me along. Well, the hippo did the dragging.

Aang: Hey, I ride animals too! One time there was this giant eel –

Sokka (cutting Aang off): So who was it that came up with the great blubber fiasco?

Bato (laughing): You knew about that?

Katara: Everyone does.

Aang: What's that story?

Sokka: It's a long one, Aang, some other time.

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Aang: u still haven't told me.

Sokka: some other time Aang.

Aang: when is some other time?!

Sokka: I don't know when we get I guess.

Aang: 😑😑

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(Aang looks sad in the background. The others don't notice.)

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Suki: aw Aang looks sad.

Katara: we're sorry Aang.

Aang: no it's fine I'm the one who messed things up.

Katraa: yea but if we haven't-

Me: stop or else u will spoil it for the others then when we are done u can say ur apologies.

Toph: ha I wonder twinkles did.

Aang: ok sorry. (He says to me)

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Katara: You and Dad had so many hilarious adventures.

Bato: Not all of which were hilarious at the time, but everything's funny with hindsight. (Then to o.c.) Aang, put that down (cut to Aang wearing some kind of animal skin headdress), it's ceremonial and very fragile.

(Aang puts it back on the wall and walks off dejected while the others continue from o.c. He sits down, back to the wall, near the door. Momo joins him.)

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Suki: aw poor Aang.

Katara and sokka also looked guilty.

Aang: looked guilty.

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Sokka: Was it you or Dad that put an octopus on your head and convinced Gran-Gran you were a water spirit?

Bato: Your dad wore the octopus, but (in a sinister tone) I did the spooky voice.

(Cut to a scene that same night of the exterior of a squat, three story building with many windows. As the camera pans in, it is clear that the building is packed with people. Cut to a view of the front door where Junee's shirshu can be seen to its right. A few other patrons of the establishment can be seen. Suddenly someone gets thrown through the wall above the door, landing in the foreground and crying out painfully upon impact. Cut to a close of the tattoo of a curled red snake on June's right shoulder, then pan the camera zooms backward to reveal June arm-wrestling a beefy man. They are in a tavern that is filled to capacity with revelers. The beefy man is sweating in his attempt to best the beautiful bounty hunter. She does not even appear to be trying. Suddenly, Zuko appears, forcing his way through the crowd.)

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Zuko: Out of my way! Step aside, filth!

(Iroh appears in Zuko's wake with a smile, addressing the people his nephew has just thrust aside.)

Iroh: He means no offense! I'm sure you bathe regularly.

(Zuko and Iroh at the table where June is arm-wrestling. During the conversation the beefy man continues to grunt and struggle against June's grip.)

Zuko: I need to talk to you.

June: Well, if it isn't my new friends, Angry Boy and Uncle Lazy.

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Everyone laughs except Zuko

Toph: I know I have said this before but I like this June lady.

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(Iroh laughs heartily for a moment before June ends the contest with one swift movement. The crowd erupts and a lot of money changes hands, much of it ending up in a big pile in front of June.)

Zuko: Your beast trashed my ship. You have to pay me back.

June (raking in the pile of coins): Aww, I'd love to help you out, but I'm a little short on money. (To the crowd) Drinks on me!

All : YEHHH!!!!

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Toph: hahaha

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Zuko (grabbing her hand as she raises her cup to her lips): Money isn't what I had in mind.

(Cut to a close up of one of the lamps outside the front door of the tavern. Moths fly around it. Cut to a view of Zuko holding Katara's necklace.)

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Katara: my necklace.

Suki: ah I see ur gonna track them.

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Zuko (from o.c.): I need you to find someone.

June: What happened? Your girlfriend run off on you?

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Zuko and katara had these faces

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And moved away from each other.

Katara: NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE.

Zuko: I agree NOPE NOPE

Aang: 🙃🙃🙃

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Zuko: It's not the girl I'm after, it's the bald monk she's traveling with.

June: Whatever you say.

Zuko: If you find them, I'll consider the damage to my ship paid for.

June: Heh! Forget it.

(She turns and begins to climb into her saddle.)

Iroh: Plus we'll pay your weight in gold.

(She smiles, gets down and walks over to Iroh.)

June: Make it your weight and we got a deal.

Iroh (laughing): You got it!

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Sokka aangs and katara and sukis eyes widens

Aang: that much gold woah 😦

Sokka: sign me up.

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June (grabbing the necklace from Zuko's hand): Get on.

(June walks over to the shirshu and lets it smell the necklace. Cut to p.o.v. of shirshu. The necklace reeks with a purple stench. It scans the area and finds Katara's trail. Cut back to a view of the shirshu's slobbering mouth full of teeth, then camera cuts to June jumping into the saddle in front of Zuko and Iroh. They take off. )

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Zuko: wow is that how they see.

Aang: yea I guess

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( Cut to a long, exterior shot of the abbey still that same night. Bato begins to speak o.c., then cut back to his room as the conversation continues. Aang is still slumped against the wall away from the others. His eyes are closed.)

Bato: There's something I should tell you kids. I'm expecting a message from your father.

Katara: Really?

Sokka: When?

Bato: Any day now. Your father said he'd send a message when they found the rendezvous point. If you wait here until the message arrives you can come with me and see your father again.

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Suki: how about Aang?

Aang: 😔😔😔😔😔

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(Aang has straightened up at this and looks over at his friends, clearly worried that he might lose them.)

Sokka: It's been over two years since we've seen Dad! That would be so incredible. Katara?

Katara: I do really miss him. It would be great to see Dad.