ONE
Fire Nation ships dock at a fortress location.
TWO
It’s Commander Zhao. He’s here for these legendary archers. When he’s denied, a message conveniently arrives that promotes him. What was a request is now an order, and the archers are his.
We see a face, a blue mask, watching this exchange.
THREE
Now we get to our team at camp. Sokka is sick with a fever. His hallucinations are, of course, funny. As we often see in this show, Sokka is the Three. Katara, tending him, starts to cough. Aang needs to find some medicine for both of them now.
FOUR
Zuko on his ship resists Zhao’s orders. Aang, running up to the mountaintop herbalist institute, is spotted by Fire Nation spies. Katara repeatedly tries to send Momo for water. These storylines intercut throughout the Four.
Eventually Aang learns that his friends need to suck on frozen swamp frogs as a cure. Yes, it’s truly comedic perfection. During his search, the legendary archers trap him, pinning his arms to a tree.
SWITCH
Aang is captured.
FIVE
Zhao taunts Aang, in chains, that he’ll keep him alive. If he kills Aang, another Avatar will be born and the search will have to start over again.
Meanwhile, we watch as the blue masked man sneaks into the fortress. While Zhao is giving his balcony speech to the troops, as every military villain in cinema does, the Blue Spirit frees Aang.
SIX
Here’s where the Enneagram gets messy. Momo, who had been sent for water, has brought back everything but the kitchen sink. Junk heaps around the bed-ridden Katara and she wears a crown. This, especially when Sokka in his delusion calls her “your majesty”, is one possible Six and the one that mirrors best.
However, the next sequence has Zhao notice the unconscious guards surrounding the prison room. As he realizes he’s lost the Avatar, a defrosted frog croaks at him in a mocking manner. Is this an extended Six? That would be wrong. A Six can’t have multiple beats. We all want to see Zhao humiliated but this is structurally not the place.
SEVEN
As the Blue Spirit and Aang run to escape, the gates begin to close. Aang can get free, but he chooses to stay inside the walls and help his mysterious rescuer.
EIGHT
After a lovely fight sequence, Aang using much air bending and working in tandem with the Blue Spirit, they are cornered. Blue takes his double swords to Aang’s neck, forcing Zhao to let them escape. We’ve already established that Zhao won’t let the Avatar die.
As they leave, one of the legendary archers on the wall knocks out the Blue Spirit, cracking the mask. Aang and the audience see the reveal at the same time: it’s Zuko. Aang’s instinct is to run away, but he rescues Zuko instead.
When Zuko awakens, Aang, watching over him, says he misses his friends from childhood. Does Zuko think they could’ve been friends? A fire blast is the answer.
Aang returns to the team, popping the frozen frogs into their mouths, and drops onto Appa’s tail to sleep. Zuko returns to his ship and goes to bed. Loneliness and sadness hang over the end of this episode.
NINE
Before Zuko drifts off, he contemplates the Fire Nation banner mounted on his wall.
And then we get the moment we’ve been waiting for: Sokka sucks on the defrosting frog as it begins to move. Spit!