Writer:	James Eagan
Director:	Dave Filoni
Star:	Mae Whitman (Katara),  Zach Tyler Eisen (Aang),  Dee Bradley Baker (Appa/Momo/Various Others),  Jack DeSena (Sokka)
Guest Star:	Mitch Holleman (The Duke),  Crawford Wilson (Jet),  Sterling Young (Pipsqueak),  Nika Frost (Smellerbee)

According to the Nick.com's flash website for Avatar: The Last Airbender, the episode was originally titled The Rebels.
(edit) Character Debuts: Jet, Longshot, Smellerbee, Pipsqueak, The Duke, Sneerz (Earth Kingdom) (edit) Marks the very first time Sokka is referred to as "ponytail", delivered by Smellerbee. (edit) Aang doesn't like to walk, mainly because he's an airbender, and is used to flying all over the world. (edit) Creature Debut: Hog-monkey (Earth Kingdom) (edit)

Sokka: (to Jet) Wait! False alarm...he's just an old man.
(Jet jumps from a tree and lands in front of the old man)
Jet: (to the old man) What are you doing in our woods, you leech.
Old Man: Please, sir. I'm just a traveler.
Jet: Do you like destroying towns? Do you like destroying families? Do you!?
Old Man: Oh...please let me go! Have mercy...!
Jet: Does the Fire Nation let people go!? Does the Fire Nation have mercy!?
Sokka: Jet, he's just an old man!
Jet: He's Fire Nation! Search him!
Sokka: But he's not hurting anyone!
Jet: Have you forgotten that the Fire Nation killed your mother? Remember why you fight!
Smellerbee: We've got his stuff, Jet.
Sokka: This doesn't feel right.
Jet: It's what has to be done. Now let's get outta here. (edit) Jet: Sokka, you fool! We could free this valley!
Sokka: Who will be free? Everyone will be dead.
Jet (Angrily): You traitor!
Sokka: No, Jet, you became the traitor when you stopped protecting innocent people. (edit) Aang (after having glider stolen by Jet): I won't fight you!
Jet: You'll have to if you want your glider back! (edit) Katara: Who made you the boss?
Sokka: I'm not the boss. I'm the leader.
(edit) Katara: I've never used my bending in water I can't see. (edit)

This is the first time we see Katara use her water pouch for bending. (edit) At one part Appa is lying on the top of the trees. The top branches of any tree are newly grown twigs and they shouldn't be able to support a ten-ton bison. (edit) The Freedom Fighter's hideout was in the trees, but what happens during Autumn? All the leaves fall and their hideout would be in plain sight. (edit) When Jet ask Katara to bend the water from underground. She replies "I've never used bending on water I can't see. I don't know."

But in the episode Imprisoned, she bends water from a well. She also bends the water out of Aang's chest in The Warriors of Kyoshi. (edit) When Jet is commenting on Aang and Katara's bending after his speech during dinner, Katara's braid is missing. (edit)

Jet's hideout is very simmilar to Peter Pan's hideout in the 1991 movie Hook. (edit) It is possible that Jet's name was taken from the movie West Side Story because in that movie the gang called the Jets would whistle in order to communicate. Jet does this with his Freedom Fighters as well, and it can be inferred that this is how the name was though of. (edit) The "blasting jelly" that's used to blow up the dam is possible based on the real explosive Gelignite, which is also called Blasting Gelatin.
(edit) Watanabe
The series honors the works and influence of Shinichiro Watanabe within this episode. Jet's charisma, close-combat skills, and physical features (especially hairstyle) all resemble that of the fictional bounty hunter Spike Spiegal, the main protagonist of the anime/manga series Cowboy Bebop. Jet also shares the name of the series secondary protagonist, Jet Black. Futhermore, the animation used during the duel between Jet and Aang draws heir to a typical exceptionally choreographed Wantanbe fight sequence, especially in regards to the anime Samurai Champloo in terms of the use of traditional weaponry. Jet even manages to express some of the mannerisms of Mugen, one of the series three main protagonists, especially in regards to the habit of chewing on a blade of grass. The creators have openly stated that they were heavily inspired by and cherish his work on both anime series. (edit) Jet's weapons are know as the twin tiger head hook swords, very rare and ancient Chinese weapons dating back to the Qing Dynasty. Best used against a spear, the techniques that the hooks can be utilized for include hooking, drawing, hugging, carrying, holding, pressing, piercing, shaping, hanging, pulling, lifting and locking; almost all were demonstrated by Jet in the episode. The swords were most recently seen being used in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. (edit)