- Prince Zuko: Not up to anything, huh?
- [Sokka is startled, yells and falls off Appa]
- Sokka: Fine, you caught me. I'm going to rescue my dad. You happy now?
- Prince Zuko: I'm never happy.
- Prince Zuko: There's one thing my dad's good at. it's war.
- Sokka: Yeah. Seems to run in the family.
- Prince Zuko: Hey, hold on. Not everyone in my family is like that.
- Sokka: I know, I know, you've changed.
- Prince Zuko: I meant my uncle. He was more of a father to me. And I really let him down.
- Sokka: I think your uncle would be proud of you. Leaving your home to come help us? That's hard.
- Prince Zuko: It wasn't that hard.
- Sokka: Really? You didn't leave behind anyone you cared about?
- Prince Zuko: Well, I did have a girlfriend... Mai.
- Sokka: That gloomy girl who sighs a lot?
- Prince Zuko: [smiling] Yeah.
- Sokka: Oh, good, you guys have met.
- Suki: A-Actually, we met a long time ago.
- Prince Zuko: We did?
- Suki: [slightly angry] Yeah. You... kind of burned down my village.
- Prince Zuko: ...Oh, sorry about that. Nice to see you again.
- Katara: [Reading a note] "Need meat. Gone fishing. Back in a few days. Sokka and Zuko."
- [Aang yawns and lies down]
- Katara: "One more thing. Aang, practice your Firebending while I'm gone. Do twenty sets of fire fists and ten hot squats every time you hear a badger frog croak. Zuko."
- [a badger frog croaks]
- Aang: [sighs, getting up] Nobody else has homework. One hot squat, two hot squat, three hot squat, four hot squat...
- Sokka: If I had just cut my losses at the invasion, maybe we wouldn't be in this mess. Maybe sometimes it's just better to call it quits before you fail.
- Prince Zuko: No, it's not. Look, Sokka, you're going to fail a lot before things work out.
- Sokka: That's supposed to make me feel better?
- Prince Zuko: Even though you'll probably fail over and over and over again...
- Sokka: Seriously, not helping.
- Prince Zuko: ...you have to try every time. You can't quit because you're afraid you *might* fail.
- Prince Zuko: Oh, what would Uncle say...? "Sometimes clouds have two sides, a dark and light and a silver lining in between. It's like a silver sandwich. So, when life seems hard, take a bite out of the silver sandwich.'
- Sokka: Maybe we haven't failed after all.
- Prince Zuko: That's the spirit. I can't believe that worked. I didn't know what I was saying.
- Sokka: No, what you said made no sense at all. But look... It's Suki!
- [first lines]
- Prince Zuko: [Filling cups with tea] No one can make tea like Uncle, but hopefully I learned a thing or two. Would you like to hear Uncle's favorite tea joke?
- Katara: Sure.
- Aang: I like jokes.
- Toph: Bring it.
- Prince Zuko: Okay. Well, I can't remember how it starts, but the punch line is, "Leaf me alone! I'm bushed."
- [Everyone stares in silence]
- Prince Zuko: Well, it's funnier when Uncle tells it.
- Katara: Right. Maybe that's because he remembers the whole thing.
- [Sokka enters Suki's cell dressed as guard]
- Suki: What is it? Did I do something wrong?
- Sokka: You mean you don't recognize me?
- Suki: You people all look the same to me.
- Sokka: Oh, then maybe you'll recognize this.
- [Sokka puckers up. Suki grabs him by the throat and shoves him against the far wall, knocking his helmet off and recognizing him]
- Suki: Sokka! It's you!
- Warden: Get the fugitives and throw them in the Cooler.
- Bully Guard: Uh, they are in a Cooler, sir.
- Warden: [yelling] One that's bolted down and not floating in the water! This is a lockdown!
- Sokka: When the invasion plan failed, some of our troops were taken. I just want to know where they might be.
- Prince Zuko: I can't tell you.
- Sokka: What? Why not?
- Prince Zuko: Trust me. Knowing would just make you feel worse.
- Sokka: It's my dad. He was captured, too. I need to know what I put him through.
- Prince Zuko: It's not good, Sokka.
- Sokka: Please.
- Prince Zuko: My guess is... they were taken to the Boiling Rock.
- Warden: [to Chit] No one has ever, ever escaped from here. I'd sooner jump in the Boiling Lake myself than let that record fall. Don't forget it. Now go back to your shivering.
- Warden: Well, well, well. I never thought I'd find you in here... Prince Zuko.
- Prince Zuko: How did you know who I am?
- Warden: How could I not? You broke my niece's heart.
- Prince Zuko: You're Mai's uncle? I never meant to hurt her.
- Warden: Quiet! You're my special prisoner now. And you'd best behave. If these criminals found out who you are, the traitor prince who let his nation down, why, they'd tear you to shreds.
- Chit Sang: I heard you hatching an escape plan, and I want in.
- Prince Zuko: There's nothing to get in on.
- Sokka: Yeah, the only thing we're hatching is... an egg.
- [Zuko and Suki sigh at Sokka's lame attempt to hide the truth]
- Prince Zuko: How are we gonna get off the island if the balloon won't work?
- Sokka: We'll figure something out. I suspected it might be a one-way ticket.
- Prince Zuko: You knew this would happen, and you wanted to come anyway?
- Sokka: My *dad* might be here. I had to come and see.
- Prince Zuko: Uncle always said I never thought things through. But this... This is just crazy.
- Sokka: Hey, I never wanted you to come along in the first place. And for the record, I always think things through. But my plans haven't exactly worked, so this time I'm playing it by ear. So, there.
- Prince Zuko: Well, what should we do? Are we going ahead with the plan or are we waiting another night?
- Sokka: I don't know. Is it right for me to risk Suki's freedom, all our freedom, on the slim chance that my dad is going to show up?
- Prince Zuko: It's your call, Sokka.