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This article is virtually the episode. For the episode with a similar name, see "The Desert". For the character to which the title refers, encounter Jeong Jeong.

"I serve a man. More than a man actually; he's a myth, only he's real, a living legend, Jeong Jeong the Deserter."

— Chey talking of Jeong Jeong to Team Avatar.

"The Deserter" is the 16th episode of Book I: Water of Avatar: The Last Airbender and the 16th of the overall series. It debuted on Oct 21, 2005.

Contents

• 1 Overview
• 2 Synopsis
• three Credits
• 4 Production notes
  • four.1 Transcript
  • 4.2 Translations
  • 4.3 Avatar Extras
  • 4.4 Series continuity
  • four.v Goofs
  • 4.half-dozen Trivia
• 5 References

Overview

After accidentally revealing his condition as the Avatar at a festival, Aang is brought to Jeong Jeong, a firebending master who rejected the Fire Nation. Jeong Jeong initially refuses to teach Aang firebending, but concedes after Avatar Roku appears to him in a vision. During his didactics, Aang accidentally burns Katara; although she is able to cure herself through her newly-discovered healing abilities, Aang vows to never firebend again. Before long after, Zhao locates and attacks them. Aang remembers Jeong Jeong's teaching nigh the importance of self-restraint, and upon realizing Zhao lacks this trait, he manipulates Zhao into destroying his own fleet.

Synopsis

While venturing through the northwestern Earth Kingdom, Aang and his friends make up one's mind to attend a "Fire Days" festival in a Burn down Nation town where Aang tin can witness firebending firsthand. Withal, Sokka points out they are wanted criminals. To ensure they are not discovered, they disguise themselves and acquire festival masks soon afterwards their arrival. At first, the three enjoy the festivities, although they bear witness to a puppet show where Fire Lord Ozai is presented equally a great hero, facing off against "evil" Globe Kingdom soldiers. They stumble upon a firebending show, which has the audience dazzled. When asking for volunteers for his next trick, the performer, Malu, calls Katara up to the phase he has her play the office of a damsel in distress and ties her to a chair. Malu proceeds past creating a dragon of burn down; making a show of information technology, however, he seems to lose command of information technology, and it flies directly toward Katara. Aang, fearing for Katara'due south safety, leaps onto the stage to shield Katara, and uses airbending to stop the burn dragon. It is revealed to the crowd that Aang is the Avatar, causing Fire Nation soldiers to give chase to him, and the three friends escape from them.

Fire Nation deserter Chey helps Squad Avatar escape their pursuers.

Their escape is aided greatly by a human being named Chey; he explains that he serves a firebending master named Jeong Jeong, who has abandoned the Fire Nation. He says that Jeong Jeong is the commencement to leave the Burn Nation Army and live, while he himself is the 2nd. He admits, all the same, that being the second does not make him famous. Chey leads the trio to Jeong Jeong's camp within a forest, merely they are intercepted by Jeong Jeong's followers, led by Lin Yee. Chey greets them as friends, though the followers are indifferent. They arrive at the army camp, where Aang attempts to persuade Jeong Jeong to instruct him. Meanwhile, dorsum at the town, Admiral Zhao arrives and, upon learning Aang and his team passed through, decides to pursue them himself. He orders his men to fix river boats to search the woods into which Aang fled earlier.

Jeong Jeong is angered past Aang's impulsiveness.

Back at Jeong Jeong'due south hut, the firebending master refuses to even see Aang. Regardless, Aang barges into Jeong Jeong's hut to try to persuade the master to teach him firebending. He tells Aang to leave, just the Avatar pushes forrard until he proceeds to tell him a metaphor involving a fish and a river. Jeong Jeong says that Aang must outset main waterbending and earthbending, going on to say that water is "cool and soothing", earth is "steady and stable", but fire "will spread and destroy everything in its path", so Aang is not ready to larn the fine art yet, deeming him to be "besides weak". Right then, a vision of Avatar Roku appears to Jeong Jeong, which sternly asks if Jeong Jeong thinks that he is "too weak" and gain to say that he has mastered the elements a thousand times in a g lifetimes. The vision instructs Jeong Jeong to teach Aang firebending, to which the firebending main begrudgingly agrees.

Jeong Jeong begins by instruction Aang the basics, focusing exclusively on animate exercises, only the young Avatar desires to learn more advanced firebending techniques. Afterward spending hours on end working on squats, performing animate practices, and feeling the sunday'southward energy, Aang grows impatient and accuses Jeong Jeong of wasting his time. Jeong Jeong is profoundly angered with Aang'due south lack of discipline, telling him vehemently that without control, firebending will bring nothing but unnecessary destruction, using a quondam student of his who displayed similar impatience and lack of subject as an example. Aang quickly apologizes and says that he is ready to larn Jeong Jeong's way.

Aang firebends for the first time.

Jeong Jeong proceeds to instruct Aang in bodily firebending, much to Aang's enthusiasm. Withal, his eagerness quickly fades when Jeong Jeong only assigns him the unproblematic job of preventing a leaf from beingness completely burned. Jeong Jeong leaves to take care of other matters, and Aang, nevertheless feeling restricted, takes his exercise to the next level and creates burn. Aang plays effectually with information technology for a picayune while, despite Katara insisting that he be conscientious. Ignoring her pleas, he continues to firebend and accidentally burns Katara's hands when he attempts to imitate a move the performer executed at the festival. Katara cries in hurting and runs away while Sokka angrily tackles Aang and tells the arriving Jeong Jeong that this is all his fault. The firebending master agrees with Sokka'due south accusation and orders Team Avatar to pack upwards and leave immediately.

Katara places her burned hands in the water to ease the pain, and is shocked when they heal completely. Jeong Jeong explains that she possesses vitakinetic healing powers, with water as the catalyst. He also confesses his want to exist a waterbender for that reason, explaining that burn down only destroys. Nonetheless, during this fourth dimension, Admiral Zhao, who is revealed to be the former educatee of Jeong Jeong mentioned earlier, and his men locate the military camp and, in plough, battle Jeong Jeong, although the master'due south effort is half-hearted.

Aang, hiding abroad in Jeong Jeong's hut in gild to reverberate over his error, vows never to firebend again, but Katara'south revelation that she has fabricated a total recovery restores his battle spirit. With a peppery display, Jeong Jeong and his men make their escape into the woods, while Aang confronts Zhao. Recalling Jeong Jeong'due south lesson of control, Aang provokes the admiral, goading him into destroying his own ships. The enraged Zhao watches his ships burn down equally Aang escapes.

Jeong Jeong unleashes his legendary firebending skills.

With Jeong Jeong gone, the three resume their journey and go out the forest, a hard-learned lesson of burn's destructive ability fresh in their minds. Meanwhile, Chey returns to the military camp, only to notice it deserted.

While riding on Appa, Katara notices Aang had burned his arm while fighting Zhao. She demonstrates her new power by healing the injury. When Katara tells them that she must have always possessed her healing abilities, Sokka rants most the many times in the by when Katara failed to use her abilities to aid him.

Credits

• Written by:
  • Tim Hedrick

• Directed by:
  • Lauren MacMullan

• Starring:
  • Zach Tyler Eisen - Aang
  • Mae Whitman - Katara
  • Jack DeSena - Sokka
  • Dee Bradley Baker:
    • Appa
    • Momo

• Also starring:
  • Jason Isaacs - Commander Zhao
  • Keone Young - Jeong Jeong
  • John Kassir - Chey
  • James Garrett (misspelled Garret) - Avatar Roku

• Additional voices:
  • Dee Bradley Baker
  • Jack DeSena
  • Michael McConnohie (misspelled McConnihie)
  • Scott Menville - Malu
  • James Sie
  • James Arnold Taylor
  • Mae Whitman
  • Keone Immature

Product notes

Transcript

Main commodity: Transcript:The Deserter

Translations

Main commodity: Writing in the World of Avatar

Chief article: Avatar Extras for Volume One: Water

Serial continuity

• This is the get-go episode where Aang firebends. He keeps true to his promise to abstain from firebending until "The Firebending Masters", where he finally becomes comfortable with the art.
• Iroh had previously told Zuko in "The Male child in the Iceberg" that firebending's strength comes from breathing.
• Jeong Jeong is spoken almost in "The Western Air Temple" when the group discusses the chances of finding a firebender willing to teach Aang. Aang says they will never meet Jeong Jeong again; however, Jeong Jeong is seen once more in "Sozin's Comet, Function 2: The Old Masters", although Aang was non with the group at the time.
• All 4 wanted posters seen at the beginning of the episode are later on seen in "The Desert", along with new ones for Iroh and Zuko.
• This episode reveals that waterbenders take healing capabilities, and is the first episode in which Katara uses this ability.

Goofs

• When at the Fire Festival, Katara, though wearing a mask, is all the same wearing her Water Tribe necklace, which if noticed, could have gotten them captured.
• When Katara switches Aang and Sokka's masks at the festival, her necklace disappears. Throughout the festival, her necklace disappears and reappears multiple times.
• The firebending magician's clothes change several times during his scene.
• During the Taming the Dragon part of Malu's human action, the wall behind Katara is perfectly intact, just when the gang runs away, the wall is partially destroyed, without any damage having been inflicted to it.
• As Aang performs breathing exercises on the mountain, Jeong Jeong begins walking downwards the mountain. Right before he completely disappears, the residuum of his visible hair completely vanishes.
• As Aang confronts Jeong Jeong about wasting time, Jeong Jeong's scars get over his eyebrows. Nevertheless, as Jeong Jeong talks, the position of the eyebrows motility but the scars do not, every bit if the scars were not at that place. This happens several times throughout the episode.
• An outline of Zhao's effigy should have been seen through Jeong Jeong's wall of fire before he steps through the flames, just it is non.
• Aang is covered in mud as he hops on Appa after the battle with Zhao, but he is completely clean in the adjacent shot, save for a small patch of mud on his left shoulder.
• No burn marks inflicted by Zhao are visible on Aang during the battle, but when he gets out of the h2o after jumping off Zhao's gunkhole, several can suddenly be seen.

Trivia

• When Sokka argues that they should not become see Jeong Jeong, Katara says, "It wouldn't hurt to at least talk to him." Ironically, Katara subsequently gets hurt because of the firebending Aang learned from Jeong Jeong.
• When Aang saves Katara from the firebending magician, he uses the same move that the shadowed airbender in the opening sequence uses.
• This is the only episode where Zhao appears but Zuko does not.
• This is, chronologically, the second known instance in which an Avatar has broken the order in which they learn the elements. The offset was when Avatar Kyoshi began learning waterbending before airbending, which would take been the next element in the cycle.^[1]

References

1. ↑ Yee, F. C. (author), DiMartino, Michael Dante (writer). (July 16, 2019). The Rise of Kyoshi. Amulet Books.

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