- [Zuko and the Pirate Captain are fighting]
- Uncle Iroh: Are you so busy fighting you cannot see your own ship has set sail?
- Prince Zuko: We have no time for your proverbs, Uncle!
- Uncle Iroh: [points] It's no proverb.
- Pirate Captain: Bleeding hog-monkeys!
- [runs off]
- Prince Zuko: [laughs, then sees the pirates sailing away on HIS ship] Hey! That's my boat!
- Uncle Iroh: Maybe it should be a proverb.
- Katara: My mother's necklace! How did you get that?
- Prince Zuko: I didn't steal it, if that's what you're wondering.
- [first lines]
- Sokka: Would you sit down? If we hit a bump, you'll go flying off. What's bugging you anyway?
- Aang: It's what Avatar Roku said. I'm supposed to master all four elements before that comet arrives.
- Sokka: Well, let's see. You've pretty much mastered Airbending, and that only took you 112 years. I'm sure you can master three more elements by next summer.
- Katara: [after the gang has been captured by pirates] Aang, this is all my fault.
- Aang: No, Katara, it isn't.
- Uncle Iroh: Yeah, it kind of is.
- Prince Zuko: [after his uncle took them off course to a marketplace to search for a game piece that they didn't even have] It's good to know this trip was a complete waste of time for *everyone*!
- Uncle Iroh: Quite the contrary. I always say the only thing better than finding something you were looking for, is finding something you weren't looking for at a great bargain!
- [Cut to a parade of Fire nation soldiers carrying piles of merchandise Iroh just bought]
- Prince Zuko: You bought a Sunghi horn?
- Uncle Iroh: For music night on the ship. Now, if we only had some woodwinds...
- Prince Zuko: [to his helmsman] What's the meaning of this mutiny? No one told you to change course.
- Uncle Iroh: [Interjecting] Actually, someone did. I assure you it is a matter of utmost importance, Prince Zuko.
- Prince Zuko: Is it something to do with the Avatar?
- Uncle Iroh: Even more urgent. It seems I... I've lost my lotus tile.
- [points to his Pai Cho board]
- Prince Zuko: Lotus tile?
- Uncle Iroh: For my Pai Cho game. Most people think that lotus tile insignificant. But it is essential for the unusual strategy that I employ.
- Prince Zuko: [incensed] You've changed our course for a stupid lotus tile?
- Uncle Iroh: See, you, like most people, underestimate its value. Just give me ten minutes to check the merchants at this port of call. Hopefully, they'll have the lotus tile in stock and I can get on with my life.
- Uncle Iroh: [Zuko works hard to contain his anger, ultimately releasing a gout of flame from his mouth the licks over the ceiling. Cut to a smiling Iroh, who is soon clouded with smoke] I'm lucky to have such an understanding nephew.
- Uncle Iroh: Prince Zuko, you're really going to get a kick out of this. The lotus tile was in my sleeve the whole time!
- Katara: [to Aang] Will you please shut your air-hole! Believe it or not, your infinite wisdom gets a little old sometimes. Why don't we just throw the scroll away since your so naturally gifted?
- Sokka: Wait a minute. Sea-loving traders with suspiciously acquired merchandise? And pet reptile birds? You guys are pirates!
- Pirate Barker: We prefer to think of ourselves as "High-Risk Traders."
- Sokka: [after a pirate captures Aang in a net] Oh, what? I'm not good enough to kidnap?
- [an identical net snags him]
- Katara: [jealously while she and Aang are practicing Waterbending] Nice work. Though the over-the-head flare was unnecessary.
- Aang: [as the Pirate Barker is yelling for them] Well, well. Look who's come to their senses. Told you the haggling would pay off.
- [the entire pirate crew appears and draws their weapons]