Avatar: The Last Airbender (TV Series)

The Crossroads of Destiny (2006)

Dante Basco: Prince Zuko

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• Katara : [trapped with Zuko in a crystal cave]  Why did they throw you in here? Oh, wait, let me guess. It's a trap. So that when Aang shows up to help me, you can finally have him in your little Fire Nation clutches.

  [no answer from Zuko] 

  Katara : You're a terrible person, you know that? Always following us, hunting the Avatar, trying to capture the world's last hope for peace. But what do you care? You're the Fire Lord's son. Spreading war and violence and hatred is in your blood.

  Prince Zuko : You don't know what you're talking about.

  Katara : I don't? How dare you. You have no idea what this war has put me through. Me personally. The Fire Nation took my mother away from me.

  [Katara starts to cry] 

  Prince Zuko : [sympathetically]  I'm sorry. That's something we have in common.

• Katara : I'm sorry I yelled at you before.

  Prince Zuko : It doesn't matter.

  Katara : It's just that, for so long now, whenever I would imagine the face of the enemy, it was your face.

  Prince Zuko : My face?

  Prince Zuko : [touches his scar]  I see.

  Katara : No, no, tha-that's not what I meant.

  Prince Zuko : It's okay. I used to think this scar marked me. The mark of the banished prince, cursed to chase the Avatar forever. But lately... I've realized that I'm free to determine my own destiny, even if I'll never be free of my mark.

  Katara : Maybe you *could* be free of it.

  Prince Zuko : What?

  Katara : I have healing abilities.

  Prince Zuko : It's a scar, it can't be healed.

  Katara : [pull out the amulet]  This water from the Spirit Oasis of the North Pole. It has special properties, so I've been saving it for something important.

  Katara : [walks closer to Zuko]  I don't if it would work, but...

  [Zuko closes his eyes and Katara gently touches the side of his face near his scar] 

• Azula : We've done it, Zuko. It's taken a hundred years, but the Fire Nation has conquered Ba Sing Se.

  Prince Zuko : I betrayed Uncle.

  Azula : No, he betrayed you. Zuko, when you return home, Father will welcome you as a war hero.

  Prince Zuko : But I don't have the Avatar. What if Father doesn't restore my honor?

  Azula : He doesn't need to, Zuko. Today, you restored your own honor.

• Uncle : You're not the man you used to be, Zuko. You are stronger and wiser and freer than you have *ever* been. And now you have come to the crossroads of your destiny. It's time for you to choose. It's time for you to choose good.

  Azula : [Bursts in and traps Iroh]  I expected this kind of treachery from Uncle. But Zuko, *Prince* Zuko, you're a lot of things, but you're not a traitor, are you?

  Prince Zuko : Release him immediately.

  Azula : It's not too late for you, Zuko. You can still redeem yourself.

  Uncle : The kind of redemption she offers is not for you.

  Azula : Why don't you let him decide, Uncle? I need you, Zuko. I've plotted every move of this day, this glorious day in Fire Nation history, and the only way we win is together. At the end of this day, you will have your honor back. You will have Father's love. You will have everything you want.

  Uncle : Zuko, I am begging you. Look into your heart and see what it is that you truly want.

  Azula : You are free to choose.

• Katara : I thought you had changed!

  Prince Zuko : I have changed.

• Azula : You're so dramatic. What, are you going to challenge me to an Agni Kai?

  Prince Zuko : Yes. I challenge you.

  Azula : [Smiles mockingly]  No, thanks.

• [Iroh jumps out of a hole blasted in the palace wall and lands on a bush] 

  Uncle Iroh : Come on! You'll be fine!

  Prince Zuko : No. I'm tired of running. It's time I faced Azula.