Avatar: The Last Airbender – North and South

Part One

Katara and Sokka return to their home village in the Southern Water Tribe, discovering that it has been transformed into a bustling and thriving city reminiscent of the Northern Water Tribe, and that their father Hakoda has been elected leader of the entire south. Though Sokka is enthusiastic at the changes, Katara fears that their tribe is losing its cultural identity. While dining out with Malina and her brother Maliq, the northerners in charge of the redevelopment process, thieves steal a briefcase containing important documents from Maliq, with Malina getting injured in the struggle.

Katara and Sokka pursue the thieves to a secret hideout occupied by a group of southern nationalists, who resent the northern tribe's imposement of their values onto the southern tribe, as well as Hakoda's complicity in the matter. Their leader, Gilak, expresses his belief that Malina and Maliq have a hidden agenda, before Katara and Sokka escape the group and return to the city. The siblings and Maliq enter the tent where Malina is recovering with Hakoda by her side, only to discover the pair of them kissing passionately.

Part Two

Hakoda investigates the nationalists' hideout, only to discover it abandoned with a note informing him that he will soon see the truth. Elsewhere, Katara and Sokka learn from Malina and Maliq that, as part of the redevelopment process, they will be extracting from a massive oil reservoir recently discovered in the Southern Water Tribe, in order to enable a new age of machinery in which machines become part of everyday life. Katara continues to have issues with Malina and her relationship with Hakoda, owing to her plans and the racist undertones in her words. Further conversation reveals that Malina and Maliq are business partners of Toph's father, with Toph herself later arriving as a representative of her father.

At a festival thrown by Malina and Maliq, Katara and Sokka meet up with Aang, who has returned from helping to solve the crisis in the Fire Nation. As Malina makes a speech about her plans, the festival is attacked by Gilak's nationalists, with Gilak accusing her and Maliq of attempting to seize the oil for the Northern Water Tribe, in order to make the Southern Tribe a puppet state of the North. As proof, he cites the documents that were stolen from Maliq. Malina admits that she had originally planned to give the oil to the North, but changed her mind upon meeting Hakoda and seeing that the South was capable of handling the oil properly. Maliq however insists that they carry on with the original plan, decrying the South as culturally backwards and incapable of governing itself.

As Malina tries to defuse the situation, Gilak and the nationalists attack. In the ensuing battle, Gilak stabs Hakoda in the chest before he and his men are captured. The night following the battle, Gran-Gran suggests that the present conflict is the result of someone with a misguided opinion, with Katara arguing that this person is Malina, and and Sokka arguing that it is Gilak. Malina, who is to be deported the following morning with the other Northerners, attempts to reconcile with Katara and see Hakoda, but the younger woman rebuffs her on both counts, before Hakoda calls for Malina. Elsewhere, as Gilak sits in his prison cell, one of Hakoda's officers smuggles him the key to his cell door.