I thought the flashback scenes were pretty fun too. "Twinkle Toes" stuck well past childhood, heh, and Sokka still loves his trusty boomerang.
Combustion Man gets a name-drop as part of the justification for Yakone's conviction, since his defense was that all of the witnesses had to be lying since said ability was "impossible".Meanwhile Tarlokk framed the Equalists for the abduction, so Tenzin, Lin, and the rest of "Team Avatar" came together to go after them. During this time Mako's clear concern for Korra, well, Asami sees reason to think that maybe Ikki's revelation about Korra's feelings were pretty true, especially when Bolin lets slip about Korra's kissing Mako. Mako's attitude when they finally do find Korra (will get to that in a minute) probably confirms it for her to an even greater degree. I'm now darkly wondering if Asami will stab them in the back - she betrayed her father and sided with them, just to have her boyfriend pick the Avatar over her? We'll see, given the previews for next week....
Anyway, they rescue the police officers captured by Sato, but the interrogation of the guards reveals Tarlokk's duplicity, which is confirmed by his secretary (what interesting timing; she witnessed the whole thing and just happens to pick the right moment?) Tarlokk bloodbends them to escape and goes back for Korra, to keep her as a hostage, but Amon and his lieutenant are there for them both. Amon overpowers Tarlokk's bloodbending with great effort and takes away his bending. He sends his lieutenant for Korra, instructing him to electrocute her in the box and take no chances. Korra uses her leather armband to hang from the grated top of the box and pretends being electrocuted, then catches them by surprise and escapes (fleeing when Amon goes after her directly). Naga finds her and brings her back to Republic City, where her howls attract the attention of Tenzin and the others.
Now, I personally wonder if the secretary is not in fact an Equalist agent. The timing of the reveal, knowing just the right things... and of course the fact that Amon and his group got to Tarlokk's private cabin through means unknown.
Tarlokk's not out of the game either; he was outright captured, so I wonder if we'll be seeing more of him.
Amon seems to be ready to deal with Korra now. Even if Sato was acting on his own initiative in The Aftermath to capture her, he was outright looking to pick her up in this episode. And given the promos for next week....
Yeah, to mention that; in two weeks we have an hour-long Legend of Korra coming up, touted as the season finale. It looks like Amon's ready to make his move - possibly aided by the fallout from the revelation of Tarlokk as a Bloodbender like Yakone, which will honestly due great damage to the credibility of the city government - and will be embarking on all out war against the bender population of Republic City.
And it looks like some of the gravest speculations might come true; the end of the promo had Amon preparing to take away Korra's bending. I figure either A) last second rescue of some sort, B) he finds he can't do it, or C)... he does it. Korra loses her bending, and the next season will have her find a way to regain it by getting in contact with the spirit world.
It looks like it'll be an awesome story, and I actually expect Amon will win this one for the moment regardless of whether Korra keeps her Bending or not. He'll take over Republic City and institute a totalitarian nightmare state to purge Benders and their sympathizers and rule by a cult of personality. Book 2 is more reasonably about reclaiming Republic City from him (while possibly keeping the rest of the world from destroying it in the effort to crush Amon).
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