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The Storm is the 12th episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender's first season.

A powerful storm brings up painful memories of the past - and puts everyone in jeopardy in the present.

Episode synopsis

Aang, Katara and Sokka stop by a market, but then realize they're out of food and money. They run into a fisherman, who hires Sokka, but when he finds out that Aang is the Avatar, he yells at him that "he turned his back on the world." Aang becomes upset, so he flies away into a cave. Katara reprimands the fisherman for his harsh words, and goes after Aang, as a horrible storm begins brewing.

Aang starts telling his story, beginning with the day the monks told him he was the Avatar. Burdened with extra training exercises and ostracized from his friends, Aang becomes confused and afraid: so when he learns that the monks are planning to separate him from his guardian, Gyatso, he decides to run away. Aang is caught in a horrible storm, and as he is about to drown, the Avatar Spirit inside him forms an air pocket, saving himself and Appa but freezing them inside for the next 100 years. Aang suffers terrible guilt over abandoning the world, but Katara convinces him that "it was meant to be", and he "gives people hope".

Meanwhile...

Uncle Iroh predicts that there will be a terrible storm, but Prince Zuko informs him that capturing the Avatar is more important then the crew's safety. When the lieutenant hears this, he tells Zuko that he knows nothing about respect and calls him a "spoiled brat".

While the lieutenant is complaining about Zuko and his obsession with capturing the Avatar, Iroh comes in, and begins telling the story of his nephew's exile. The story starts with a handsome, younger Zuko, who doesn't have his scar yet. He complains to his uncle that he wants to get into his father's war chamber, and although he initially refuses, Iroh allows him to join, on the condition that he remain silent.

When one of the generals suggests sacrificing the 44th division as "bait", Prince Zuko speaks up against it. Zuko's father, Fire Lord Ozai grows angry, and demands a fire duel, or "Agni Kai" to solve the matter. Zuko agrees to the duel, believing that he is going to fight the general, but when it is revealed that his opponent is the Fire Lord, he falls to his hands and knees, begging for mercy and declaring that he will not fight his own father. The Fire Lord demands that he get up and fight, but when he refuses, the screen lights up as Zuko screams: Ozai has burned his son's face, causing Zuko's distinctive scar.

Iroh explains that Prince Zuko was banished because his refusal to fight was seen as "shameful weakness", and the only way to redeem himself is by capturing the Avatar. Iroh adds that life will never return to normal, but that the Avatar gives Zuko hope...

Lightning strikes the ship. In a move of true selflessness, Zuko saves the helmsman, with the help of the lieutenant. Meanwhile, Aang and Katara go rescue the fisherman and Sokka. When the trio and the fisherman pop out of the water close to Zuko's ship, he allows them to fly away, deciding that it is more important to help his crew get to safety. He also apoligizes to his uncle.

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