The Revelation (episode)

"The Revelation" is the third episode of season one of The Legend of Korra, and the third of the overall series. It debuted on April 21, 2012 on Nickelodeon.

Overview
''Mako and Bolin look for ways to get the thirty thousand yuans needed to stay in the pro-bending tournament. Bolin accepts work from the Triple Threat Triads and goes missing. Korra and Mako go on a search for Bolin and encounter the group of chi-blockers who kidnapped him, but the thugs flee. Korra and Mako then find out about an Equalist rally and decide to attend. There, they learn many secrets about the Equalists and rescue Bolin.''

Synopsis
The Fire Ferrets are seen practicing early in the morning. Butakha, the owner of the pro-bending arena, comes to pay them, but because of debts they owe him, he takes it all back. He also says that they need thirty thousand yuans in order to play in the tournament. Seeing that no one has the money, Bolin comes up with the idea that Pabu could do tricks on the street. While trying to raise money, Shady Shin comes up to him and asks him if he wants to help the Triple Threat Triad, a notorious gang, bribing him with money. Bolin accepts and goes with the gang member.

Mako arrives home from a job at a power plant he acquired to raise money and sees Bolin is missing. He finds Korra, and together they go to the Triple Threat hideout, where they find that the criminals are escaping with Bolin as hostage. Korra and Mako chase them on Naga but are stopped when two thugs block their chi and take off. Mako explains that the thugs work for the Equalists, a group that wants to end all bending in order to create equality.

The two continue looking all night until Korra decides to seek out a protester she saw when she arrived in Republic City. They stay in the park that night and Mako tells Korra what happened to his parents and that Bolin's all he has left. The two fall asleep together. In the morning they are awakened by the protester. She interogates him and learns that Amon, the leader of the Equalists, is having a rally known as "The Revelation". She and Mako sneak into the rally and learn that Amon has a plan to take all bending away by using energybending, an old bending form that removes an individual's bending. Amon demonstrates this ability on the leader of the Triple Threat Triad and tries to use it on Bolin. However, before he can do so, Mako and Korra rescue him and escape.

Korra returns to Air Temple Island and reports to Tenzin what she saw. Tenzin is clearly concerned and ends the episode on an ominous note, saying "No bender is safe".

Character revelations

 * Despite being enemies, Mako, Bolin, and Amon share a past; all three of them have had their family murdered by firebenders.

Series continuity

 * Mako's line about Naga when he first sees her is the same line Sokka said in The Boy in the Iceberg about Appa.

Goofs

 * When Jinora states that Mako is cute, her eyes are amber instead of gray.

Trivia

 * "The Revelation" bears similarities to the stories told in Book of Revelation, the final book in the New Testament. Christ must defeat the anti-Christ - a charismatic monster who claims he has been blessed by God - before he destroys the world, similar to how Korra must defeat Amon before he wreaks havoc upon the balance of the Earth.