Korra and her friends struggled through rocky terrain on The Legend of Korra season 4, episode 7. Read our recap and share your thoughts on “Reunion”!
Where everybody knows your name
Korra, the airkids, and Opal return to Air Temple Island. After a joyful reunion with Naga, Korra expresses her guilt over failing to handle Kuvira. Tenzin promises that they will find a way to deal with the Great Uniter together.
Sharing the load, or not
Bolin drags Varrick through the Earth Empire, both men feeling guilty about their complicity in Kuvira’s actions. Bolin insists they return to Republic City and warn everyone about the spirit-bomb, but Varrick’s brief burst of enthusiasm just lands them in a trap.
This is awkward
Korra and Asami reunite at a restaurant, where they flirt catch up before joining Mako and Prince Wu for lunch. The three friends are thrilled to see each other, but Wu immediately starts to drive Korra crazy.
The tension amplifies when Korra admits that she wrote to Asami while she was away, but not Mako or Bolin. Asami shares the news about trying to mend her relationship with her father, and get angry herself when Korra suggests that Hiroshi’s motives may not be pure.
Basically, Team Avatar is finding it hard to pretend that Korra’s years away have not effected their friendship.
Bad timing
Wu makes things even more awkward when he goes to relieve himself. Mako chooses the exact wrong time to stand up for himself and refuses to come along, so naturally, Wu is drugged and kidnapped by Kuvira’s forces.
When they realize this, Korra, Mako, and Asami race after the laundry truck carrying the hilariously hapless prince. Asami handles her car like a badass, but they lose Wu briefly and he is transferred to another vehicle.
All seems lost, but Korra uses the spirit vines to track Wu to the train station.
Allies of circumstance
Bolin and Varrick’s captors arrive and cut them down. They are a band of escapees from one of Kuvira’s prison camps – mostly waterbenders and firebenders, recently “purged” from the Earth Empire and imprisoned.
The group is distinctly mistrustful of Bolin and Varrick, decked out as they are in the Empire’s uniform and coming out of Kuvira’s inner circle. Bolin and Varrick are no more trusting, and initially object to their plan of using their official appearance to sneak the group through a checkpoint.
But the group’s leader insists that the plan is their only chance of getting through the wall closing off the region. The former Earth Empire brass and the former Earth Empire prisoners have no choice but to trust each other.
Train job
After explaining to an impressed Mako and Asami that she met Toph in the spirit swamp (and describing her as “a cranky, more miserable version of Lin”) Korra and co. hunt for Wu in the train station.
Korra’s spirit sense leads them to find Wu packed into a trunk on a moving train. They chased onto the roof of the train by Kuvira’s soldiers, and Korra airbends Mako, Asami, and Wu off the elevated track and safely to the ground.
Redemption
Bolin and Varrick bluff their way through the checkpoint by the skin of their teeth, but are unfortunately recognized on a Wanted poster. They and the prisoners are attacked by several mechatanks, which are frighteningly resistant to even Bolin’s lavabending.
Varrick rigs up some kind of electromagnetic pulse to take out the mechas, and calls Bolin to race off, but Bolin stays back to rescue the rest of the prisoners.
“Thanks,” their leader says. “You didn’t have to come back.”
“Yeah, I kind of did,” Bolin says.
Stronger than time
Wu is gibbery with relief and asks Korra out; she is unimpressed. Asami admits that the adventure felt like old times – Mako agrees, including the bickering – and the three hug, happy to be reunited in spite of the rough edges.
Mako parks Prince Wu at Asami’s house with his family. His grandmother swoons with joy at seeing a royal, and Wu finally gets to go pee.
Healing
Bolin apologizes to the prisoners for what Kuvira has done to them. His sincerity is appreciated, and he and Varrick are invited to sail north on the prisoners’ leaky tugboat. At Bolin’s insistence, Varrick gingerly accepts.
Hurting
Kuvira and Bataar Jr. have discovered the enormous wealth of spirit vines in Toph’s swamp. Kuvira orders her soldiers to harvest the otherworldly plants “until there’s nothing left,” and her mechatanks begin to carve up the ancient spiritual grove.
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