For those who don’t have access to the videos or have trouble understanding the language.

This is a complete summary with screenshots (120+) of every scene of all that has happened during Book 3, Episodes 3-6. I’ve managed to capture all of it with bilingual-bending.

To tell the truth, these episodes, the action, the dialogue, and the characters are better than Book 1 and 2 combined.

UPDATE:

1. More screenshots.

2. Corrected name spelling.

3. Further detail.

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Book 3, Episode 2: The Earth Queen

1. Korra and the group with Tenzin, Bumi and Jinora have been searching the Earth Kingdom via airship for newly discovered Airbenders. The reason for their newly acquired bending is not stated. It is implied later in the episodes that these new airbenders were non-benders who spontaneously gained airbending. This phenomenon has been occurring through the Earth Kingdom, and possibly the rest of the world. Kai is a young boy around Jinora’s age. He’s a new Airbender from the Earth Kingdom and an orphan with a mysterious past. He’s the first recruit to join them and joined the group the previous episode. The episode opens with Kai sparring with Bumi and Jinora cheering them on. Bumi asures Jinora that he has been in many fights before, but Kai uses airbending to easily knock Bumi off his feet. Jinora helps Bumi back up and Kai jokingly stole his wallet. Korra is talking with Tenzin and is excited about their new quest. Mako has seemingly taken the kid under his wing.

2. They’re all traveling to Ba Sing Se in order to find the new Airbenders in the city. The surrounding farmlands look exactly like in ATLA. But, once they reach the outer wall, they see that the Outer Circle is in widespread poverty; they can smell the stench all the way from the airship. Bolin states that that must have been the reason his father left the city. Gan, the Grand Secretariat of Ba Sing Se receives them in the front courtyard of the Earth Kingdom Palace.

3. Gan says the Earth Queen is extremely strict and hates all animals, and that they should all make a reverential gesture towards her and to not to look at her in the eyes. He is clearly afraid of the Queen because he is her punchbag. Gan isn’t happy with Naga and Pabu being there because he’ll get in trouble.

NOTICE: The queen is not addressed with her name by the characters, they all call her the Earth Queen or “your highness”. However, the Queen is named Queen Hou-Ting in the credits.

Korra goes to meet the Queen while the group stays in their fancy guest house. The queen is very rude and unpleasant and is yelling orders around people remodeling her garden. She is yelling at an earthbending woman because the bushes near the pond are supposed to look like eel-swans, not turtle-ducks. Also, she’s screaming that the shadow of the bushes is blocking out the view of the pond. The Queen yells at them all saying that they have to start over. The woman being yelled at uses earthbending to flip the earth over and hides the bushes. The Queen hates the Avatar because Aang and Zuko “took advantage of her father’s weakness” and took land away from the Earth Kingdom for the United Republic. She keeps screaming on how the United Republic is part of her Kingdom.

4. The Queen states that her kingdom is in shambles and falling apart due to poverty. She doesn’t want to cooperate at all with Korra. She does tell her that she might be of some aid to Korra if she goes to an Earth Kingdom town to collect some tax gold. Meanwhile, Kai has sneaked out from the group and is using airbending to steel wallets from the Inner Circle citizens. They’re all dressed in more traditional clothing like in ATLA instead of the more modern fashion of Republic City. Mako and Bolin stick out like a sore thumb with their modern clothes instead of robes. Mako and Bolin chase after him through the Inner Circle, but are trapped in a subway cart heading to the Outer Circle from the Inner Circle. Kai remains in the Inner Circle. Mako clearly keeps a close watch on the kid and seems to have taking him under his wing. Interestingly, Mako and Bolin get off the train at the same station Aang and the Gaang are greeted by Joo Dee. The station is clearly in a worst state than in ATLA being littered with trash and the columns needing repair. The scene ends with Mako and Bolin walking through a crowded street with plenty of litter. Bolin jokes that “look at the bright side, at least you can go to the bathroom anywhere you want.”

5. Once they get to the Outer Circle, they have no money or passports to get back so they stay the night in the streets. The next morning Bolin says that it’s been some time since they slept in the garbage and suggests stealing from a fruit vendor. Bolin stars talking about how they used to steal from other fruit vendors when they were kids using the “old trick”. Then he starts saying that he’ll create a distraction while Mako steals the goods. Mako says that the fruit is already rotten so they shouldn’t steal it. The vendor in the stand clearly hears their blatantly obvious conversation and starts getting mad at them. They have an altercation with the vendor in the fruit stand since he feels insulted that they called his fruit “unfit to be stolen” since it was rotten.

6. The boys get into a brief fight with the vendor after he flexes his muscles at them. But then the father of the vendor appears, and he recognizes Bolin and Mako as his nephews and calls them by their names because they look a lot like San, his brother. The credits name the fruit vending cousin as Cousin Tu. The uncle is not named. Bolin and Mako are confused since they didn’t know about particular family members in the city. The uncle then tells his son that these are his cousins. In the next scene we see that their newfound uncle leads the boys into an apartment complex to meet their family. This complex is relatively nicer than the littered slums we see when the Krew sees Ba Sing Se for the first time while flying above in the airship. The boys had no clue who their family was in the first place, but they had the general idea that they had some family in Ba Sing Se.

7. Meanwhile, in the Northern Water Tribe, Tonraq and Zuko pay Eska and Desna, the current rulers, a visit because they need to check a very secret prison the twins didn’t know existed. Zuko came flying in his dragon. The twins are sitting down on a throne room with 2 thrones with a very bored look. Eska is glad that finally something exciting is happening.

8. The boys, cousin and uncle are just outside a door leading to the family’s apartment. Their uncle explains that they knew about Bolin and Mako due to pro-bending and the movers and thought that they have lived comfortably all these years. Cousin Tu says that to live in the streets you have to be tough and once again flexes his muscles. But the boys correct them and explain that they first lived in the streets and then in a gym. Bolin and Mako enter the apartment and are greeted by their family, whom they have never met. Their uncle introduces them to Jin, their grandmother. We know her already from ATLA. The family didn’t know the boys parents died, they learn about this when Bolin and Mako tell them right there and all of them are grieved by the news. They thought that they lived comfortably since they’re well-known pro-benders and Bolin was in movers (“pelis”). Jin says that the last communication they had with San was a letter he sent from Republic City saying that he “married a beautiful lady that will be a great wife and mother to their children”.

NOTICE: Grandma Jin is presumed to be Jin from ATLA, the one that had a crush on Zuko. However, the credits list a “Yin” instead of “Jin”; Jin is the official spelling of the name of the ATLA girl. Perhaps this is a spelling error in the LOK credits.

Personally, I believe that they are the same girl because of her similar facial characteristics, expression and mannerisms. Also, look at her ear shape. The eye color discrepancy can be attributed to the change in lighting, which happens often in LOK. Heck, look at the child (a grandchild) behind grandma Jin, he has the exact same face as young Jin.

9. Korra and Asami go in their cruise-like airship to collect the tax money. Asami comments whether they should have brought the rest of the group with them, but Korra assures her they’ll be fine since more Royal Guards will be there. The town is located in a very dry area and is in horrible state. People scurry towards the buildings as they arrive. Korra and Asami exit the airship and walk towards the front door of what seems to be City Hall and are greeted by only 3 Royal Guards. Korra and Asami are attacked by a group of rogues on motorcycles who want to recuperate the gold and the guards flee, leaving the girls on their own. The rogues tell the girls that if they leave the gold alone, they won’t harm them, but Korra is not giving up the gold. The rogues fight on motorcycles and spears, but are quickly defeated by Korra and Asami. Asami fought with her Equalist glove and super fighting skill, and Korra used Earth and Airbending. Before leaving, the rogues yell that the Queen is a despot that has squeezed out all the wealth in the Kingdom for her own riches. Korra believes them since the poverty is so evident, but she still takes the gold away to the Queen.

10. Back at the North Pole, Zuko, Tonraq and the twins go to a super secret extremely secured Magneto-like prison cell thousands of meters under the ice to check on a special prisoner. The prisoner is a woman named P'Li (pronounced in Spanish as Pe-Li), she has the same powers as Combustion Man. Zuko says that ironically he tried to kill the Avatar by contracting another person with the same powers. Eska says that he shouldn’t feel bad that he failed since she tried to kill Korra when she ruined her wedding and that the Avatar has a tendency to avoid being killed (this scene uses Eska’s super dry humor), much to Tonraq’s displeasure. Once they reach the prison cell, the woman is cloaked and has multiple chains. P'Li says that something exciting must have happened because no one important has visited her in 13 years; she deduced that “he” must have escaped. Lastly, P'Li comments that “I can almost feel the heat again.”

11. Back with the boys, they learn that their father left Ba Sing Se because he wanted to see the world, but his father wanted him to be a fruit vendor and had a discussion about it. Jin is not happy with the memory of the fight, that was the last time they saw him. The boys and their grandma go to her bedroom and she shows the family picture to the boys and regrets to not have met their mother. She says Mako has his mother’s eyes, and she must have been a wonderful mother since she has raised such great kids. Mako gave Jin his scarf because his father would have wanted her to have it, and they share a teary hug.

12. Korra takes the tax gold to the Queen, and she says that the Dai Li have looked everywhere, but have found no Airbenders. Korra is pissed at her because the Queen used her to extort the gold from those citizens. Korra storms away and tells the Queen she will find the airbenders.

13. Back with the boys, they tell the family that they’re searching for Aribenders with the Avatar. The family is stricken with the news because they know that the Dai Li has kidnapped all the Airbenders since the Queen wants to make an army with them and perform experiments. Jin says to not say bad things about the Queen, and does a reverence towards the picture of her on the wall and says “may her reign be long and prosperous”.

14. Meanwhile, Kai attracted the Dai Li’s attention by using Airbending to steal wallets. His exact technique is to airbend a draft, knock off the person’s hat and raise their robe; then he “helps” the person by giving him the hat and helping him tidy up while he grabs the wallet. He is captured after a very brief chase and is transported to a secret underground location with the other Airbenders. The Dai Li are exactly like in ATLA; same clothes, same movements, same earth gloves. The Dai Li agent says that he now lives to serve the Queen and fight for her.

-End of episode-

Book 3, Episode 4: In Harm’s Way

1. The episode begins with Zuko flying in his dragon over the secret prison complex scouring for Zaheer, the escaped prisoner expected to free P'Li. The origin and name of the dragon is still unknown. We can deduce that it came from the golden “dragon” egg in ATLA. Zaheer is implied to have been a non-bender because they mention that he escaped with his new and recent airbending abilities. Nonetheless, he is considered highly dangerous with or without bending. Zuko warns Tonraq of an impending snowstorm, but Tonraq says that the storm is Zaheer. We see Zaheer airbending a snowstorm on top of an armored car. Tonraq says that he will once again imprison him and an amazing bending fight ensues between the twins, Zuko and Tonraq against the 3 escaped bending prisoners. Ming-Jua, a woman that uses waterbending tentacles as prosthesis for her missing arms, frees P'Li from her Magneto-like prison by drilling through the ice floor, reaching the abyss below, and quickly defeating the 2 White Lotus guards. The bending used here is incredible, nothing like it before has been seen in the show before. P'Li uses combustion firebending and scores a direct hit against Zuko’s dragon. The earthbender defeats Zuko with boulders in a trailer behind the armored car. Ming-Jua overpowers the twins and their coordinated bending by using her arms as she moves through the giant ice pillars the twins shoot from the ground in a Spiderman-like fashion. Zaher uses his extreme airbending skills to dodge Tonraq’s attacks like Neo in The Matrix. The four of them defeat Tonraq and the others. Zaheer and P'Li share a kiss while they all escape in the armored car. P'Li says that she thought he would never come, but he says that he never doubted that he would rescue her. The driver says there “really, you’re gonna kiss right now?!” uncomfortably.

2. Cousin Tu gave them passports to get in the subway and Mako thanks him. Back with Korra, she’s training with Asami and is mad since she know that the Queen is lying to her. Bolin and Mako arrive to warn her about the imprisoned airbenders. The Queen arrives in a palanquin and tells them that a new airbender has been discovered in a faraway province, and wants them all to leave immediately. The Queen starts sneezing uncontrollably and yells at her assistant telling him that he’ll be executed if she find and animal within 15 meters of her presence; Pabu is hiding in Bolin’s shirt. Asami uses the excuse that the airship needs repairs overnight to gain some time and devise a plan to free the Airbenders.

3. Korra and the Krew, with Bumi, Tenzin and Jinora, devise a plan to rescue the airbenders. Mako suggests to check the base under Lake Laogai since he read about it in Jinora’s books. Jinora suggests that the prisoners could be in several places including the Crystal Catacombs, tunnels under the city, and more. Jinora also states that she can locate the airbenders by using astral projection to check the locations.

4. Back at Kai, the airbenders are forced to fight each other as training. Kai is scolded for going easy on another less experienced airbender. Korra and the rest go to Lake Laogai to check the base, but Jinora saw with astral projection that the place is flooded and deserted. Korra tells her to locate Kai the same way she located her during the fight with UnaVaatu. Jinora says she just concentrated on Korra’s energy. Korra says that since Jinora has a crush on Kai, she should use that energy to find him, much to Tenzin’s displeasure at learning of this crush. Jinora finds Kai inside a small cell because he talked back to guard that was throwing the airbenders earth pro-bending disks as training. Jinora and Kai can communicate and see each other while she’s in astral form. She explains to Kai that she used an advanced spiritual technique. She sees that he is being kept in an underground complex under the Earth Queen’s palace and temple that was seen under construction a few scenes back.

5. The group is back in their guesthouse and devising a plan to go rescue the airbending prisoners that night. Lin suddenly appears and tells Korra to go back to Republic City since 4 highly dangerous escaped prisoners are after her. Tenzin explains that these 4 tried to kidnap Korra a bit after she was born, but were stopped by Sokka, Tenzin, Zuko, and Tonraq. Korra then deduces that the attempted kidnapping was the reason she was locked up in that White Lotus complex in the South Pole most of her life. These 4 were imprisoned in special cells to neutralize their powers, but have never explained their motive while being questioned during the 13 years of their imprisonment. Lin agrees to help with the rescue.

6. Jinora, Mako and Bolin look for Kai while Tenzin, Korra and Bumi rescue the others. Once they find the benders, they’re a bit reluctant to leave until Tenzin explains they’re busting out away from the city. Bumi contacts Lin with a radio and Asami to bring the airships to make a getaway with cop-code that Lin doesn’t understand so he then talks normally and complains that no one likes to use cop-code.

7. Kai is rescued, but the group is seen by the Dai Li and are chased outside. Jinora is taken by a Dai Li agent, but Kai manages to rescue her quickly with airbending. The Dai Li confronts all of the group and an awesome bending battle ensues. The airbenders use their bending to fight off the Dai Li and enter Asami’s large airship. Korra and Tenzin leap with airbending atop Oogie in the air. The Queen says that taking her prisoners away is an act of war and that she will retaliate “with all the force of her Kingdom”. Bolin, Mako, Jinora, and Kai race down the entrance of the underground base and Dai Li agents bend high earth columns behind them and throw at them rock bullets in a machine-gun fashion from atop the columns. Bolin uses earthbending to throw the Krew into the air and are caught by Oogie’s saddle ridden by Tenzin and Korra. The Queen demands that the Dai Li bring her the airships, but she begins to sneeze with Oogie’s shedding.

8. The following morning, Tenzin gives the airbenders the choice to go free, train as Air Nomads in the Northern Air Temple, or be moved to a safe location. They’re all confused at first, but the kid Kai went easy against decides to train with Tenzin, so then they all agree to go and train. Tenzin and Korra split up. Korra will look for more Airbenders while Tenzin goes to train the others at the Northern Air Temple. Tenzin leaves in the cruise-like airship and the Krew flies with Lin’s police airship.

- End of episode-

Book 3, Episode 5: The Metal Clan

1. The episode begins with Korra playing fetch with Naga using airbending to throw a ball in a beautiful riverside valley next to tall mountains. Lin wants to return to Republic City where Korra will be safe. Korra tells her to relax since nobody else knows she’s there. Asami and Makor enter the scene and she says that they just received a radio message of a new Airbender in Xiao (?) (Sounds like Zaoh) Fu, home of the Metal Clan. Lin says that she has never been to that city, though she knows about it. Naga wants Lin to throw the ball, but she pops it with a metal cable. She is most definitely more abrasive than usual.

2. The group reaches the city in Lin’s airship. It’s the most beautiful city to have ever graced my computer screen. It is really a creative marvel. Entirely made of shining metal, everything there is controlled by metalbenders. The airship docks in an airship landing terminal and metalbenders use their bending to steer the ship into port with cables and cranes. Lin does not want to leave the ship and tells Korra to not tell anyone she’s there, and does not give explanations. The group is received by Zai Wei, who leads them to the new airbender. Zai Wei asks her if there’s anyone else on board, but Korra says no. Zai Wei and the rest are lead by two other metalbenders into a huge elevator and lowers them to the ground floor. Then, the group enters a very clean and modern electric subway and zoom around the city.

3. Meanwhile, in Air Temple Island, a mysterious man named Yur (he’s hot) appears to seek training because he is a new airbender. He said that he gained the ability just a few weeks ago and has come to seek training. Meelo and Ikki are excited about their new recruit.

4. Back to Korra, the guide explains that Toph did not live nor found the city. It is said that she visited the city from time to time, but did not stay for long. It is also never said that Toph has died. All they know is that Toph decided to travel the world in search for enlightenment years ago and they never heard or saw her again. He says that in that city both men and women are encouraged to reach the full potential of their powers.

5. The group meets Su Jin, the mother of the new airbender. She is seen practicing metalbending as a form of dance with a group. The scene is extremely graceful as the metalbenders fly using metal cables and bend the petals of a huge metal lotus. Korra asks if this is some sort of combat training, but then the guide explains that Su is practicing for a dance performance that will happen next month. Su Jin dismisses practice and then turns to Korra and the group. She introduces herself and says that she is a “dancer, mother, wife, leader, and collector of rare meteorites.” Su also states that everyone in the city is encouraged to develop their own special and unique talents and abilities. Su Jin is very pleasant and agreeable, however she is upset when she learns from the guide that Korra lied about no one else being inside the airship. The guide explains that there are no secrets in the city because they can sense the physiological changes when someone lies. Korra explains that Lin did not want to be noticed and apologizes. They all go back to the airship.

6. Lin does not get along well with her half-sister, though the grudge is mostly one sided by Lin. Su says they have not spoken for 30 years, although she has tried to contact Lin before but has never recieved a reply. Lin gets out of the airship and the group goes to meet Opal back at their super awesome metal mansion complex that has its own giant metal lotus. Su then introduces her children. Wei and Win are metalbending twins that invented a game called “Power Disk”, in which a metal disk is thrown against metal columns and walls to score in the other player’s goal; kinda similar to the “Air Ball” game in ATLA. Huan is an older sibling, he creates abstract looking metal sculptures with bending. Bolin comments that the sculpture he is currently working on looks like a banana, but Huan snaps at him and says that it’s supposed to represent the “dawn of a new era” as inspired by the Harmonic Convergence. Bolin says that it still looks like a banana.

7. Su introduces Opal as her daughter (“hija”), she is found reading on a bench in a zen garden. Opal is excited to meet Korra and Lin, her aunt she has never met but always wanted to. She also blushed when Bolin introduced himself. Lin wants to leave immediately, but Su wants Korra to train Opal in the city. Korra agrees to stay while Opal learns the basics. Su is not so keen on Opal leaving for the Northern Air Temple for training. However, Opal is excited about future training in the temple. Su then invites them all for dinner in her home and says that Korra is in the “safest city in the world”, to the ever-growing annoyance of Lin.

8. Opal and Korra then train in an open courtyard under the sunset. They’re practicing basic stances and feet movement. Opal is quick to learn airbending although she claims to be not very good, and the girls have a very sweet bonding moment. The scene is also extremely graceful. Opal is absolutely adorable.

9. Back in Air Temple Island, Meelo and Ikki are training new recruits on the spinning boards. Meelo yells a new recruit that failed like Korra did her first time to “be the leaf”. Yur, the mysterious new guy (still hot), clears the spinning boards in his first try and shows a lot of skill; Meelo says that “he is the leaf”. Yur bows to Meelo and says to him “a student is only as good as his teacher”. Kya then appears and tells them all that they will join Tenzin and the others in the Northern Air Temple tomorrow morning. Yur asks if the Avatar will be there, but Kya says that Korra went elsewhere, to his disappointment.

10. Back with Korra and Su, they’re sitting down for a super elaborate dinner while we see that Su’s husband and eldest son, architect and engineer respectively, will not be joining them because they had a new idea to remodel a train station. She says that she doesn’t want to come between their inspiration, so she’s ok with it. It’s clear that they both love each other very much. This architect is responsible for the design of the city. Bolin reveals that he didn’t have such good food while he was living in the street, however Opal is still very interested in Bolin. She is impressed with his work as a pro-bender, actor in the movers, and helping the Avatar rebuild a lost nation. The city closes its metal lotus petals during the nighttime, the city is still illuminated by lamps.

Their exact dinner was wild Kyoshi carp, stuffed ginger, bean sprouts, and hibiscus root salad. Chef Aiwei, confirmed to be an ex-pirate, is Su’s personal chef and cooks her really elaborate meals every day for her and the family.

11. Korra tells Su about her trouble with the Earth Queen. Su doesn’t like the Queen at all, or the idea of having a queen. She says that it’s an antiquated concept and that the world has evolved past it. Lin rudely comments that Su is an instant expert in international politics, then they have a brief discussion that is interrupted by the arrival of Varrick and Zhu Li. Lin is not at all happy that Su is harboring an escaped criminal. But Su states that Varrick is an old friend and that people change. He is also in charge of the technological division in the city. He says that magnets will revolutionize transportation. Lin storms away from the table because Su gave asylum to someone who escaped her confinement. Asami comments that Future Industries went back to her total control the night Varrick tried to kidnap the President. We’re most certainly going to see more of his shenanigans.

12. The episode then cuts to Bolin and Mako freshening up in the bathroom after dinner. Mako is using a green gel hair-care product and comments to Bolin that Opal is interested in him, and Bolin decides to go after her with his “charms”. Su explains to Korra that she was the one who built the city by buying all the land and then working with an architect, whom she later married. She did this because she wanted to settle down after traveling the world during her youth and wanted to leave her own footprint in the world. Su tries to explain to Korra that Toph was always busy as the Police Chief and gave way too much freedom to her girls, therefore barely payed them attention. Lin and Su fought for their mothers attention. When Su was 16, she left her home and traveled around the world; this included being part of a sandbending tribe, a traveling circus, and part of a pirate crew. However, she still wanted Lin back in her life but lost hope of that happening many years ago.

13. Next we see Opal practicing some airbending moves in a small gazebo outside. Bolin meets her and tries to turn on his charm on her, but she doesn’t like it because he’s “acting weird”. Bolin quickly retreats and feels disarmed, explaining that Mako told him that she likes him. Opal says that he should just be himself, and that she really does like him. The two are about to kiss but are cockblocked by Korra! Korra wants Opal’s help for something.

14. Back in Air Temple Island, Yur (still hot, decided as next cosplay) is snooping around Tenzins private study. He reaches for a small locket with a Buddha design. The locket says inside “Let go of your earthly attachment. Enter the void. Devoid, and become one with the wind.” Ikki finds Yur and tells him that no one is allowed in Tenzin’s study. He tells her in a kind voice that the locket has a poem by Guru Mahima, “the wisest airbender to ever live”. Kya then enters the scene and tells Ikki to go back to bed. Kya is suspicious about Yur’s extensive knowledge of Air Nomads and airbending. He says that he always admired them. But Kya suddenly realizes that he is really Zaheer, and he attacks her. The fight is taken outside as Zaheer escapes through a window. Zaheer is using an airbending glider very skillfully and is able to overpower Kya’s huge waterbending with it. Kya can hold her own against him, but she is defeated along with other White Lotus guards. He escapes the island with an airbending glider.

15. Back to Korra, Opal is seen entering Lin’s guesthouse and talks to her. She apologizes that Lin’s stay has not been pleasant for her and expresses her wish to know her better since she has head of her from her mother and Toph. She also said that she was sad about Lin not wanting to know Opal better. Lin tells Opal to leave in a very rude manner, causing Opal to run away in tears. Korra then explains to Lin that she had convinced Opal to try and talk to Lin about her feelings. Korra scolds Lin not to be mad at Opal. Lin tells Korra to “concentrate on saving the world and stop trying to fix her family.” Korra says that she will never change and always be bitter and alone. A tear falls down Lin’s cheek as Korra exits the room. Opal is insanely precious.

-End of episode-

Book 3, Episode 6: Old Wounds

1. Korra and the others are having breakfast while the lotus petals open above the city. The twins are commenting on how they’re gonna beat each others ass (yes, they say “trasero”) in Power Disk today. They invite Korra to play, but she says she doesn’t know metalbending. Korra says that she has never learned because she’s too busy with airbending, pro-bending, and fighting the Equalists. Su says that Lin would have made a lousy teacher, and she volunteers to train her. Opal suggests that Bolin should learn too, but he is reluctant and says that he’s “more of the traditional type with the rocks and the ground and a bit of gravel and the sort”. Su tells Bolin that he should seek her if he ever changes his mind. Varrick then enters the scene wearing his new invention, an Iron Man-like armor that can be magnetized with a switch. All the metal plates and objects are drawn to him, creating a mess that Varrick orders Zhu Li (his assistant) to write down that the magnetized suit test has been successful and to to clean up the mess and to enter phase 2, she sighs.

2. Lin is not feeling so well and is wandering around the city. She heavily scolds 2 guards that are not under her jurisdiction about not taking their job seriously and talking too much. The guide that showed them around the previous episode states that Zao (Xiao?) Fu is the safest city in the world. Lin says that she’s going to check every centimeter of it. Lin is clearly not feeling well and shudders in pain. The guide tells Lin that she doesn’t have to work while she’s in the city and refers her to an acupuncturist to help her with the stress her bottled emotions are having in her body. Lin reluctantly takes the guides card with the acupuncturist address.

3. Back in Republic City, Zaheer (seriously, I want to be him when I grow up) and the other 3 members of his extreme bending gang are hiding in the section of the city still under the spirit world’s giant roots and crowded with spirit animals. They’re devising a plan on how to escape the city since the police are looking for them after his fight in Air Temple Island. He says that the plan to kidnap the President will have to wait. They decide to leave the same day and threaten a truck driver to smuggle them out of the city.

4. Lin goes to the acupuncturist, and he uses metalbending to levitate and place the small needles. Lin isn’t very convinced about the treatment, but she agrees to go with it. He says Lin’s chi is severely blocked and that this treatment causes old, buried, memories to surface. Once the needle in the Third Eye is inserted, she has a flashback. Su is seen hanging around in her house with some other guys Lin refers to as “losers” while she was skipping school. By this time Lin was working as a Police Officer in the Metalbending Police. Su says that those guys are her friends and that Lin has no right to call them losers. She storms out of the house with the boys behind her. Lin tries to stop her and tells her to not waste her great potential and to not waste her life. Su retaliates saying that “at least I [Su] have a life”. It’s outright stated that Lin and Su have different fathers and the same mother. However, both girls were living with Toph under the same roof. But, none of the fathers are named. It’s implied that none of the girls had a relationship with their respective fathers, and therefore Toph may have not married any of them in the first place. They never mention Toph being married anywhere in the dialogue.

5. Meanwhile, Korra goes with Su to her meteorite garden. She says these meteorites have special properties that make them easy to bend for beginners. Su bends a chip away from the meteorite and bends it into a spike and diamond shape. Bolin is discovered spying on them, he’s too shy to ask for lessons directly since not all earhbenders can metalbend and uses the excuse of looking for Pabu, which was in his shoulder the whole time. Su invites him to learn, but he decides to sit and watch Korra’s lesson. Su tells him to not believe everything he hears about metalbenders being so rare; she tells him that the only thing limiting him is his attitude. Then Korra begins to attempt metalbending. Su tells Korra to concentrate on the fine fragments of earth in the metal, and she is able to make an amorphous shape with it. Bolin isn’t very happy that Korra managed to do it so quickly.

6. We go back to Lin and her acupuncture-induced flashbacks. This time she is chasing another car in a police chase all over the city. She uses her metal cable to blow up a tire of the other car and it turns out that the driver was Su, her sister. Su tells Lin to leave them alone, and Lin confronts her for associating with criminals. Lin abruptly wakes up from her flashback and sends all the needles flying away from her body. She walks out of the treatment and goes to her guesthouse, against the advice of the acupuncturist. She then begins to hallucinate about Opal, but in reality Korra went to check on her. Then she returns to complete her treatment and goes back to her flashback. In the flashback, Lin confronts her sister for working with the Earth Gang. Su says that she was just driving the getaway car because she owed them a favor and that “it was no big deal”. Su doesn’t take Lin seriously (“what are you going to do, arrest me?”) and mocks her. Su turns to walk away and Lin says “don’t you dare take another step” and she does. Lin uses her metal cables to grab Su’s arm, but she was hiding a metal blade (Edward Elric style) under her bracelet and cuts the cable away. The cables fly back to Lin and slash her face, giving her those mysterious scars we have all noticed.

7. The flashback ends, and we go back to Republic City. A police blockade is checking all cars going through a bridge. The 4 super benders have threatened a truck driver to smuggle them out. But, he cracks under pressure when a police officer starts questioning him on his strange behavior and gets out of the truck screaming. The benders then floor the pedal to run for it and escape the police with the help of their bending. Interestingly, there are 4 benders, one for each element. But they’re extreme. Zaheer (kiss kiss fall in love), a new airbender, is extremely skilled at it and very powerful, the waterbender has no arms at all and uses water tentacles as working tentacles that can shape shift and grab things with great dexterity while in liquid form, P'Li (pronounced as Pe-Li) is Combustion Woman, and the earthbender can turn regular stone from the street in the bridge into molten magma with an eartbending fist motion to the ground (this has not been seen before).

8. Back to Bolin, he’s trying to bend a meteorite on his own and is unsuccessful. Opal then surprises him and he tries to hide what he’s doing. He says that he’s frustrated because he has tried and hasn’t been able to metalbend; this failure is embarrassing for him. He has tried to do it ever since he heard about Toph because she is the one whom he most admires. Bolin tries to hide his frustration by saying that he’s just thinking about the mustache he’s going to grow, but Opal says he’s acting strange again. Opal encourages Bolin to ask her mother for lessons, but he confronts her back by saying that Opal wants to go train in the Northern Air Temple but is afraid to ask her mother about it. They share a hug while saying they support each other, and Opal says she likes this.

9. We go back to Lin’s flashback. Toph is scolding both daughters for putting her in such a position. Toph tells Su that she is to leave the city and live with her grandparents immediately. Toph tells Lin to hand her the police report, and she tears it in half. She says that as the Police Chief she can’t have a daughter in jail so she tries to bury this case under the rug. Lin is heavily upset that Su can once again do whatever she wants without suffering consequences. The treatment is over and the acupuncturist takes the needles away. He tells Lin to rest, but she says she has to “do something she should have done a long time ago”.

10. Back in the meteorite garden, Su congratulates Korra for being the first Avatar to metalbend. Korra is bending a meteorite and Bolin finally asks Su for lessons and she very kindly agrees to teach him. Right there Lin appears and attacks Su in her tank top, looking exhausted. Lin confronts her sister for not taking responsibility for her actions and choosing to remain quiet and lead to Toph’s early retirement one year later. Su says that Toph retired on her own as an idol. Lin says that Lin retired because she felt guilty and unworthy of praise as Police Chief because of her daughters exoneration against the law. Su admits she did commit errors in the past, but she is a better person now and that she and Toph have talked about it and settled the matter years ago. Lin says Su has never changed and can see through her act. Su retaliates by saying that it is Lin who has not changed and that she will remain bitter and selfish. The real last straw was when Su right there says “no wonder Tenzin broke up with you years ago”. Then Lin attacks Su and an amazing earth and metalbending battle ensues. It’s really amazing! Korra asks Bolin if she should interfere, but Bolin says that fighting is part of the healing process between siblings. The banana shaped sculpture Huan was working on before is wrecked in the battle, but he says it looks better now. Eventually, Opal uses her airbending to come between them. She says that sisters should not harm each other. Lin then collapses from exhaustion as Korra catches her.

11. The next morning we see Korra, Mako and Bolin knocking on Lin’s guesthouse to check on her since she’s been sleeping for 16 hours. Korra and Bolin are discussing who is to knock on the door since they’re afraid of disturbing her. Mako settles this by volunteering to open the door himself, but Lin opened it as soon as Mako was going to grab the handle and he falls. Lin gets out of her guesthouse and is dressed in Metal Clan clothes saying good morning with a smile. Just like Zuko did when he got over is fever and the dream with the red and blue dragons in Ba Sing Se. Lin apologizes to Opal for being rude to her before and she acknowledges that she has a complicated relationship with her mother. Lin tells Opal that when she was young, all she ever wanted to do was to please her mother. That is why she became a Police Officer, but it didn’t please her as much as she expected. Lin tells Opal that she is wise, perceptive, and a skilled airbender. She tells Opal to follow her own decisions and encourages her to go train with the other Airbenders and Tenzin. Lin tells Opal to not make the mistakes she did when she was young, and they share a hug.

12. Opal has a talk with her parents behind closed doors that we viewers don’t see. Afterwards, Su tells Lin that Opal wants to go train with Tenzin and that Lin might have had something to do with that decision. Su is glad that her daughter was honest. She acknowledges that although Toph gave her daughters plenty of freedom, she has restricted Opal too much and that she should choose her own path. Su apologizes for causing so much trouble when she was young and that she can’t imagine how her life could have been if she hadn’t been sent to her grandparents. Lin says she might still have been in prison. Then Su says that Mako told her that she is a great Police Chief, and that their mother would have been proud. They both agree to put the past behind them and allow each other in their own lives. Su invites Lin to live with her in the metal city, but Lin declines. The scene ends with both being on good terms with each other and shake hands.

13. Elsewhere, the 4 bending fugitives have escaped from Republic City and are resting somewhere on the road. They’re talking about how are they going to find the Avatar. P'Li (Combustion Woman) says that it’s only a matter of time. Zaheer (supremely awesome) is seen meditating, probably using astral projection, in order to find the Avatar. The scene ends with him waking up from meditation and saying that the Avatar is with the Metal Clan.

-End of episode-

Quick Q&A about the anon questions I’ve been receiving:

1. Has Tahno appeared or is he mentioned?

No. The focus of the story is currently away from Republic City. He hasn’t been referenced to at all.

2. How are the group dynamics?

Smooth and without awkwardness. There are no indications of Makorra, Masami, or even Borra or Bosami. All the characters are at ease with each other. The group hasn’t had yet much bonding time since so much action is taking place. Asami and Korra are noticeably closer. They have talked together, went on a mission together, and even fought together.

3. Have any of the characters changed?

Korra is noticeably more level headed and rational. She still gets upset, but has shown patience and wisdom. She even managed to teach Opal basic airbending principles and has grasped the airbending mentality.

Bolin has stayed relatively the same. However, he has been forced to confront reality and his own limiting attitude by both Opal and Su. I have a feeling that by the end of the season he will be able to metalbend and grow up a bit. Opal is sweet, kind, and supportive. She and Bolin are great for each other.

Asami and Mako are able to be at the same time and place without awkwardness. We see Asami’s awesome fighting skills and she is crucial to the action plot. There is indication that Mako has matured in some way since he has taken charge in looking out for Kai and keeping him out of trouble, like a big brother figure. Both have not had much dialogue time since these episodes have mostly focused on action and the Beifong family.

Jinora is now an integral part of the group. She was the crucial point in locating the imprisoned airbenders with spiritual techniques that apparently Tenzin is not able to use. She and Kai have a budding relationship that shows indication of future growth.