Top cast Edit. Janet Varney Korra as Korra voice. David Faustino Mako as Mako voice. Byrne Bolin as Bolin voice. Simmons Tenzin as Tenzin voice. Steve Blum Amon as Amon voice. Kiernan Shipka Jinora as Jinora voice.
Darcy Rose Byrnes Ikki as Ikki voice …. Lance Henriksen Lieutenant as Lieutenant voice. Carlos Alazraqui Protestor as Protestor voice.
Zach Callison Skoochy as Skoochy voice. Kevin Michael Richardson Butakha as Butakha voice …. Dee Bradley Baker Naga as Naga voice …. Storyline Edit. When Bolin is captured, Korra and Mako find themselves on the trail of Amon, the masked leader of the Equalists. Tension between Korra and Tenzin and Tonraq reach a breaking point after a dark spirit attacks them and Unalaq is the only one who is able to subdue it; Korra breaks off her studies under Tenzin and takes up Unalaq as her instructor.
Korra begins her spiritual training under Unalaq, who leads her to the South Pole to open up the spirit portal residing deep within the frozen tundra. Mako, Bolin, Tonraq, Desna, and Eska come along as well.
Tensions between Korra and her father grow as she discovers the truth about his banishment from the North after having destroyed a sacred spirit forest. After another spirit attack, Korra sends her father home and continues with her quest to open the portal, which she successfully completes. However, Northern forces have arrived at the Southern Water Tribe.
Korra tries to remain neutral as tensions flare between the Northern and Southern Water Tribes. However, things are complicated when the Southerners talk about preparing for war and a group of rebels try to kidnap Unalaq, forcing Korra to intervene. The rebels are arrested, as well as Tonraq and Senna. Meanwhile, at the Southern Air Temple , Tenzin, Bumi , and Kya all search for Ikki who has run away after being teased by her siblings.
During a trial, Senna is the only one released, while all the others are condemned to life imprisonment. In an attempt to get Judge Hotah to release Tonraq, Korra discovers that Unalaq had set up the trial and his brother's banishment, causing her to break away from him and his teachings. With Varrick's help, she and Team Avatar free all the rebels. Meanwhile, at the Southern Air Temple, Tenzin finds Ikki and they reconcile with their respective siblings. Tensions rise when the Southern Water Tribe Cultural Center is bombed, all evidence pointing toward the Northerns as the culprits.
Mako, now a cop, is the only one doubting the Northerners' responsibility. Rising tensions between Mako and Korra lead them to break up. While Bolin becomes the star in Varrick's propaganda mover, Korra heads toward the Fire Nation to gather support there.
Before she can reach the shores, however, she is swallowed by a dark spirit. When criminal activity threatens to put Future Industries out of business, Mako sets up a sting operation in an attempt to arrest the culprits. The plan backfires, however, as it drew them away from the company's warehouse when it was being robbed. Mako investigates further and discovers the true culprit when he notices Varrick's mover technicians use the same type of detonators as he found during the bombing of the Southern Water Tribe Cultural Center.
In order to cleanse herself from a dark spirit's attack, Korra must reconnect with her Avatar Spirit. To do so, she needs to learn about the origins of the first Avatar, Wan.
He shows her how he received the power of fire and learned the ways of the spirits, as well as how he was the one responsible for unleashing Vaatu , the spirit of darkness, into the world. Wan shows Korra how he learned the other three elements and the reason why he eventually merged with Raava and became the first Avatar.
His story makes Korra realize what she must do to restore balance to the physical and Spirit World. As she wakes up, she is alerted by the shaman that Harmonic Convergence is drawing near. Korra seeks Tenzin's help to enter the Spirit World for the first time in order to close to Southern spirit portal from within. However, their attempts prove to be futile until Jinora comes to Korra's aid. Meanwhile, Mako and Asami rekindle their relationship, but Mako's investigation into Varrick's affairs lead to the firebender's arrest.
After successfully arriving in the Spirit World, Korra and Jinora get separated. Jinora ends up at Wan Shi Tong's Library , where she tries to locate the spirit portal, though end up captured by Unalaq.
Meanwhile, Korra finds herself in a dark forest, where she reverts to her four-year-old self and encounters Iroh 's spirit. With the help of the former Fire Nation general, she helps a lost dragon bird spirit , who in turn helps her to find the spirit portals. Before she can close the Southern portal, however, she is forced by Unalaq to open the Northern portal, lest he destroys Jinora's soul.
While Korra makes it back safely, Jinora remains trapped in the Spirit World. At the South Pole, Tonraq and his rebels are defeated by Unalaq and his forces. Meanwhile, in Republic City, Bolin prevents four waterbenders from kidnapping President Raiko and his wife.
After a brief battle, the earthbender forces one of the men to reveal Varrick as the mastermind behind the plot, leading to his arrest. With Mako's allegations proven correct, he is released from prison. Korra and Tenzin and his family return to Republic City to gather reinforcements to travel South in order to stop Unalaq from freeing Vaatu and destroying the world.
After leaving Jinora's spiritless body in Katara 's care, Korra and her friends attempt to break through the Northern defenses in order to reach the Southern spirit portal. Although initially unsuccessful, they manage to enter the Spirit World, where Bumi, Kya, and Tenzin leave to find Jinora's spirit, while Mako and Bolin hold back Unalaq in order to give Korra the time to close the portal.
However, Harmonic Convergence starts before she can do so and Vaatu manages to break free from his prison inside the Tree of Time. Korra cannot prevent Vaatu and Unalaq from merging and forming the Dark Avatar , and the two Avatars lock into a battle for the fate of the world.
Vaatu manages to extract Raava from Korra's body and destroys the Light Spirit, effectively severing Korra's connection to her past lives.
Having defeated Korra, the Dark Avatar grows to enormous proportions and makes his way toward Republic City. However, before they can return, Jinora senses that Korra is in trouble and leaves her family in order to help. Tenzin urges Korra to connect with her own inner spirit in order to defeat Unalaq. While meditating in the Tree of Time, she manages to tap into the energy of the universe and astrally projects herself, instigating a fight with Unalaq at Republic City.
After an intervention by Jinora's spiritual projection , who illuminates Raava's presence within the Dark Avatar, Korra manages to extract Raava from him, before using his spirit bending technique to dissipate the Dark Avatar.
She returns to the Spirit World, where Korra uses the last energy of the Harmonic Convergence to permanently merge with Raava again, though her connection to her past lives was not restored. Korra leaves both spirit portals open, ushering the world into a new era where spirits and mankind can coexist.
She also declares the Southern Water Tribe independent. During the two weeks following the events of Harmonic Convergence, Korra has her hands full with trying to remove all the spirit vines that have overgrown Republic City. Her lack of success strains her relationship with President Raiko and brings down her approval rate among the city's populace.
When airbenders are suddenly popping up across the world and causing more trouble for the city, President Raiko demands Korra to leave the city, which she takes as an opportunity to travel the world to find the new airbenders.
Meanwhile, a dangerous criminal uses his newfound airbending abilities to escape. Team Avatar, Tenzin, and Jinora travel across the Earth Kingdom to recruit new airbenders to rebuild the Air Nation , but with little success as they were only able to convince a young boy named Kai to join them.
Meanwhile, Zaheer travels across the four nations to free Ghazan and Ming-Hua from their prisons. Upon learning of their escape, Lord Zuko sets course for the Northern Water Tribe himself in an attempt to stop them from freeing their last member, P'Li.
Team Avatar arrives in Ba Sing Se. While Korra has an audience with the Earth Queen , who demands her to go collect tax money from a small village as a condition for the Queen's help to track down airbenders in the city, the others notice that Kai has gone missing, prompting Mako and Bolin to go look for him.
The brothers track him down, but he manages to shake them in the monorail , which takes the brothers to the Lower Ring , where they eventually run into their family from their father 's side. Meanwhile, Korra and Asami collected the Queen's money, though the Queen brushes Korra off, leaving the Avatar to storm out of the palace. In the city, Kai finds himself arrested by the Dai Li and subsequently conscripted in the Earth Queen's first airbending regiment.
Meanwhile, Mako and Bolin reveal that the Earth Queen is capturing all the airbenders and with Jinora's help, Team Avatar discovers the location of their prison. Despite Lin's warning to Korra that Zaheer and his companions have escaped, causing her life to be in danger, Korra refuses to leave Ba Sing Se without having freed the airbenders.
Working together, Team Avatar succeeds in the prison break and they flee the Earth Kingdom capital. Tenzin, Jinora, and the airbenders head toward the Northern Air Temple, while Team Avatar and Lin continue their quest through the Earth Kingdom to find more airbenders.
There they meet up with Suyin , Lin's half-sister, whose daughter, Opal , is the new airbender. While Opal and Bolin form an instant connection, tension between Lin and Suyin runs high as they have not had contact in thirty years. Meanwhile, in Republic City, Zaheer infiltrates Air Temple Island in an attempt to find the Avatar's whereabouts, though is eventually exposed by Kya, forcing him to flee. Korra begins to learn metalbending under the instruction of Suyin.
Opal admits her reluctance to leave Zaofu due to her obligations to her family while Bolin deals with his fear of learning how to bend metal. Meanwhile, Lin faces her past during an acupuncture sessions, forcing her to relive the circumstances which led to her and Su's strained relationship. After a cathartic release of her repressed emotions, Lin makes amends with her sister as well as Opal, who she convinces to travel to the Northern Air Temple to train with Tenzin.
Elsewhere, Zaheer and his group determine Korra's whereabouts shortly after escaping Republic City, deducing that she is under the Metal Clan's protection in Zaofu.
Tenzin attempts to train the new members of the Air Nation with little success. Things become more complicated for the airbending master as Jinora, with Kai's influence, begins to exert her independence and demand her airbending tattoos.
The new airbenders are tested when they are forced to face a group of bison rustlers who have captured Jinora and Kai along with several flying bison calves. After Team Avatar and the Beifong family say farewell to Opal as she departs to the Northern Air Temple, Zaheer and his group infiltrate the city of Zaofu, in an attempt to kidnap Korra.
Their failed attempt results in an investigation on behalf of Team Avatar, who discover that the mole is Aiwei. The truth seer managed to evade arrest and destroys any possible incriminating evidence in the process. Intent on standing up to the Red Lotus , Team Avatar leaves the city in an attempt to track them down. August 1, online October 6, television. While Asami escapes with Korra's unconscious body, Mako and Bolin hold off the two members of the Red Lotus, which eventually leads to their own capture.
Although Asami manages to evade her pursuers, she and Korra are arrested by the Earth Queen's forces. August 8, online October 7, television. While en route to Ba Sing Se, Korra and Asami manage to escape from their cell, but their attempt to take control of the vessel results in it crashing in the Si Wong Desert. After the airship gets completely destroyed, Asami engineers a sand-sailer out of scrap metal and with Korra propelling the vehicle, the two girls and the four man crew make it out of the Si Wong Desert.
However, she eventually ends up being killed by Zaheer, who subsequently has Ghazan take down the city's inner walls. He releases Mako and Bolin under the condition that they deliver a message to Korra. August 15, online October 8, television.
While flying over the Lower Ring, they stop to take their family with them, saving them from the flames that are consuming the city.
They eventually track their friends down to the Misty Palms Oasis, where they reunite and relay Zaheer's message: Korra in exchange for the survival of the Air Nation.
In an attempt to warn Tenzin of the Red Lotus' approach of the Northern Air Temple, Team Avatar heads back to Zaofu to use their radio transmitter and prepare for takeoff toward the temple.
The warning comes too late, however, and the Red Lotus manages to capture all the temple's inhabitants. This episode serves two functions: one, to give us our first real look at Amon, why he started the Equalists movement, and what he can do to further that goal, but also to give us time to get to know Mako. The bulk of the episode is Korra and Mako searching out Bolin, and through this, we learn their tragic backstory.
Orphaned when they were very young by a firebender mugger attacking their parents, Mako has had to raise Bolin and provide for him as they are the only family they have left. He was naturally stand-offish. This plot allows us to deal with who Amon is, as well. When Korra and Mako infiltrate an Equalists rally, they find that though Amon himself an orphan thanks to a firebender killing his entire family and burning his face — what is it with this show and facial burns?
Amon can do it permanently — and does, to several captives before Korra and Mako are able to save Bolin from a similar fate. I spoke last week about how we struggle with privilege in our own world, and this episode raises an interesting question — does equality mean removing the privilege from those who have it? But there were two other, subtler commentaries happening in this episode.
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