Mae Whitman credited as playing...
Katara
- Katara: What's going on with you? In the desert, all you cared about was finding Appa, and now it's like you don't care about him at all.
- Aang: You saw what I did out there. I was so angry about losing Appa I couldn't control myself. I hated feeling like that.
- Katara: But now you're not letting yourself feel anything. I know sometimes it hurts more to hope and it hurts more to care, but you have to promise me that you won't stop caring. Come on. You need a hug.
- Aang: Thank you for your concern, Katara.
- [Walking away]
- Sokka: There's the wall!
- [Points toward a vast wall that fills the distant horizon]
- Sokka: Now it's nothing but smooth sailing to Ba Sing Se.
- Ying: [Gasps] Oh, no!
- [doubles over, clutching her belly]
- Sokka: [Apprehensively] What's wrong?
- Ying: The baby's coming.
- Sokka: [In rising panic] What? Now? Can't you hold it in or something?
- Katara: Sokka, calm down. I helped Gran Gran deliver lots of babies back home.
- Sokka: [Completely panicking] This isn't the same as delivering an arctic seal! This is a real... human... thing!
- Katara: It's called a baby. And I helped to deliver plenty of those, too.
- Ying: Look at this writing. How awful.
- Toph Beifong: What does it say?
- Katara: It says 'Abandon Hope.'
- Ying: How can we abandon hope? That's all we have.
- Aang: I don't know. The monks used to say that hope is just a distraction. So maybe we do need to abandon it.
- Katara: What are you talking about?
- Aang: Hope isn't going to get us into Ba Sing Se, and it's not going to find Appa. We need to focus on what we're doing right now, and that's getting across this pass.
- Toph Beifong: You're sure that's the best way to go?
- Sokka: It's the only way. I mean, it's not like we have Appa to fly us there.
- Katara: [Quietly] Shush up about Appa. Can't you at least try to be sensitive?
- Aang: Katara, it's okay. I know I was upset about losing Appa before. But I just want to focus on getting to Ba Sing Se and telling the Earth King about the solar eclipse.
- Katara: Great. We can travel through the Serpent's Pass together.
- Ying: The Serpent's Pass? Only the truly *desperate* take that deadly route.
- Toph Beifong: Deadly route. Great pick, Sokka.
- Sokka: Well, we are desperate.