Writer:	Katie Mattila
Director:	Joaquim Dos Santos, Sun-Ki Kang, Kawgn-Il Han, Jong-Won Kown
Star:	Zach Tyler Eisen (Aang),  Mae Whitman (Katara),  Jack DeSena (Sokka),  Jessie Flower (Toph),  Dante Basco (Prince Zuko),  Dee Bradley Baker (Appa/Momo),  Grey DeLisle (Azula),  Cricket Leigh (Mai),  Olivia Hack (Ty Lee)
Recurring Role:	Takayo Fisher (Lo/Li)
Guest Star:	Erik Von Detten (Chan),  Ross Thomas (Ruon-Jian)

Character Debut: Chan, Ruon-Jian (edit) This episode was animated by Moi Animation. (edit) Azula's feelings about Ursa are very similar to Zuko's feelings about Ozai. Both of them believing that the parent they feel rejected by favored the other sibling more. The only difference is that Ursa never did anything remotely similar to what Ozai did to Zuko. (edit) In this episode we see that the Combustion Man performs a rare form of firebending. He can fire a beam of superheated air that can be detonated either at will or when it comes in contact with something or someone. (edit) Similarly to how Zuko has poor social skills with girls his age, Azula seems to have poor social skills with boys her age. (edit)

Mai: I'm bored.
Zuko: I know.
Mai: I'm hungry.
Zuko: So what?
Mai: So, find me some food.
Zuko: Sure. (edit) Zuko: (Firebending the campfire into huge proportions) I'M ANGRY AT MYSELF!
Azula: Why?
Zuko: Because I'm confused. Because I'm not sure I know the difference between right and wrong anymore.
Azula: You're pathetic
Mai: I know one thing I care about. I care about you. {She kisses Zuko) (edit) Ty Lee: Calm down, you guys. This much negative energy is bad for your skin. You'll totally break out.
Zuko: Bad skin!? Normal teenagers worry about bad skin. I don't have that luxury. My father decided to teach me a permanent lesson on my face.
Ty Lee: Sorry, Zuko, I...
Zuko: For so long I thought that if my dad accepted me, I'd be happy. I'm back home now, my dad talks to me. He even thinks I'm a hero. Everything should be perfect, right? I should be happy now, but I'm not! I'm angrier than ever and I don't know why! (edit) Zuko: Circus Freak!
(Azula laughs)
Ty Lee: Yes, I'm a circus freak! Go ahead and laugh all of you. You wanna know why I joined the circus?
Azula: Here we go
Ty Lee: Do you have any idea what my home life was like? Growing up with six sisters who look exactly like me. It was like I didn't even have my own name. I joined the circus because I was afraid of spending the rest of my life as part of a matched set. At least I'm different now. Circus freak is a compliment!
Mai: I guess that explains why you need ten boyfriends too.
Ty Lee: I'm sorry, what?
Mai: Attention issues, you couldn't get enough attention when you were a kid, so you're trying to make up for it now.
Ty Lee: Well, what's your excuse Mai? You were an only child for fifteen years, and even with all that attention, your aura is still this dingy, pasty, grey--
Mai: I don't believe in auras.
Zuko: That's right, you don't believe in anything.
Mai: I'm sorry I'm not as high strung and crazy as the rest of you.
Zuko: I'm sorry too. I wish you would be high strung and crazy for once instead of keeping all your feelings bottled up inside. She just called your aura dingy! Are you gonna take that?
Mai: What do you want from me? You want a teary confession of how hard my childhood was? Well it wasn't. I was a rich only child and got anything I wanted...as long as I behaved, and sat still, and didn't speak unless spoken to. My mother said I had to keep out of trouble, we had my father's politcal career to think about.
Azula: Well that's it then: you had a controlling mother who had certain expectations, and if you strayed from them, you were shut down. That's why you're afraid to care about anything and why you can't express yourself.
Mai: You want me to express myself? Leave me alone!
Zuko: I like it when you express yourself.
Mai: Don't touch me! I'm still mad at you! (edit) (Zuko makes a campfire with a portrait of the royal family)
Ty Lee: What are you doing?
Zuko: What does it look like I'm doing?
Ty Lee: But, that's a painting of your family.
Zuko: You think I care?
Ty Lee: I think you do.
Zuko: You don't know me! So why don't you mind your own business?
Ty Lee: (sadly) I know you... (edit)

Mai's red skirt is given a black belt top in the ending screen. (edit) Ty Lee says that Mai has been a single child for fifteen years, but she forgot about Mai's brother Tom-Tom. I don't think she means she was one until Tom-Tom was born, because she said "has been" instead of "was", and according to the Nickelodeon site, Mai is fifteen. (edit) When the Combustion Man appears, a beam of light is reflected from his metal hand and shines in Aang's face. Even though there was no seen light source that- at night- should/could produce such a strong light that could refract from the right angle to hit Aang's eyes and hurt them. For that matter, why would the Combustion Man not try to hide the light since he's trying to be sneaky and the light just drew his target's attention to himself? (edit) When everyone enters the living room and we see behind them, the sharp and straight shawl thing that Zuko and Azula wear becomes round like their shoulders. (edit) Why would Ozai send his children to Ember Island just so he can have a private, undisturbed meeting? Surely the palace is big enough so he won't be disturbed and Azula and Zuko should know better than to bother him during a war meeting anyway. (edit)

Cyclops
Combustion Man's attack is very similar to that of Cyclops from X-Men. (edit) The scene where the Combustion Man's bird took down the messenger hawk is a lot like in WWII, where Germans trained falcons to hunt down homing pigeons. (edit) The Combustion Man had two metallic limbs: 1 for his arm and 1 for his leg. Edward Elric also had 1 metallic arm and leg replacing his lost limbs in FullMetal Alchemist. (edit) The scene when Azula releases her power and tells Chan that "Together, you and I will the strongest couple in the entire world. We will dominate the earth!" is very similar to the scene in the Lord of the Rings, where Galadriel changes her shape in front of Frodo and the Ring, and says: "In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen! Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me, and despair!" (edit) The Combustion Man's third eye possesses special ability, similar to Hiei from the anime/manga "YuYu Hakusho" and Tien from "Dragonball Z" (edit)