The Boiling Rock, Part 2

This is the fifteenth episode of Season 3 and the second part of "The Boiling Rock" episodes. At the recent New York Comic Con, it was revealed that the episode will air around July, long after its release onto DVD on May 6.

Synopsis
The episode opens with the arriving prisoners from the previous episode being lined up for the warden. Hakoda, however, defies the warden's orders. The next scene shows the warden coming upon the recaptured Chit Sang and interrogates him to find out who was helping him on the escape plan, as he knows Chit Sang and his friends are not smart enough to think of such an intricate plan. Chit Sang refuses to talk. He is then tortured by being held upside down until he will reveal the identity of the individual who helped him.

Sokka, in disguise, is almost attacked by his father who assumes he is a prison guard. They then embrace each other and proceed to devise a plan for escape. Sokka makes his way to Zuko's prison cell and tries to share a plan, but is interrupted by two Fire Nation guards. Sokka feigns brutalizing Zuko as he reveals when they should next meet. Zuko is taken into another cell, where he is confronted by Mai.

Meanwhile, the warden comes back to see that the guards have been holding Chit Sang upside-down, while the blood flows to his head. Chit Sang then reveals somebody did help him, although he only vaguely by indicating it was someone disguised as a Fire Nation soldier.

The next scene shows Mai, obviously hurt, berating Zuko for leaving with only a letter for a goodbye. Elsewhere, Sokka goes to Suki to fill her in on the plan. The plan is to escape on the gondola, using the warden as hostage. As Sokka leaves casually, two Fire Nation guards tell him that the warden wants to see him. Sokka is lined up with other Fire Nation soldiers, who are being inspected by Chit Sang to see who was devising the escape plan from last night. Chit Sang points to the Fire Nation soldier that bullied him from the previous episode. The other guards, buying the identification, capture the accused guard and put him into a prison cell for interrogation. While the accused guard is being interrogated, someone comes to see the warden: Princess Azula and Ty Lee.

Sokka tells a guard in charge of lockdown to unlock the cells. The guard at first refuses to, until Sokka bluffs on ratting him out to the warden. Soon, the prisoners are released from their cells. Now that Sokka, Suki, Hakoda, and Chit Sang are together, all they need in order to escape is a riot. Chit Sang starts it by merely saying "Hey! RIOT!". While Sokka and Zuko argue about how to capture the warden, Suki comes up with a plan of her own. After displaying many acrobatics, she ties up and gags the warden. The group meet up, gasping for breath, and make their way to the gondola.

The groups makes it onto the gondola and Zuko breaks the lever so the guards can't stop them. However, they are being followed by Azula and Ty Lee, though Zuko and Suki have been waiting for a rematch. Sokka, Suki, and Zuko climbs to the roof of the gondola and battles Ty Lee and Azula. Suki battles evenly with Ty Lee and Sokka and Zuko matches Azula fairly. The warden breaks free of his binding and orders the guards to cut the line, meaning that he and the others won't survive. The guards proceed on doing so. Azula and Ty Lee makes it onto another gondola, but the group is trapped. Just as the guards are about to finish cutting the line, they are stopped by Mai. Mai starts to pin the guards with her daggers, much to everyone's confusion. A guard asks her what she's doing, to which she replies, "Saving the jerk that dumped me." She frees the line and the gondola used by the group starts moving again. The group makes it out, while leaving the warden behind, and the group leaves. Although Suki points out how are they going to leave, Zuko figures out that Azula must've came to the Boiling Rock somehow and spots a Fire Nation Airship. The group uses the airship as a tool for escape.

Meanwhile, Mai is interrogated by Azula on why she saved the escapees. Mai exclaims she loves Zuko more than she fears Azula. Enraged, Azula prepares to strike Mai down, but is double-crossed by Ty Lee, who blocks her chi. Both Mai and Ty Lee are captured and Azula orders the guards to "put them somewhere that I'll never have to see their faces again, and let them rot!"

Meanwhile, back at the Western Air Temple, Katara asks Sokka and Zuko what happened to Zuko's small war balloon. Zuko merely answers, "It kinda got destroyed.". Aang states, "Sounds like a crazy fishing trip." Toph asks, "Did you at least get some good meat?" Sokka answers that he did and it's the best meat of all, which is the meat of friendship and fatherhood. Hakoda, Suki, and Chit Sang presents themselves (though Chit Sang said, "I'm new. What's up everybody?") Katara embraces her father and asks what's going on. Sokka tells her they went to a Fire Nation prison, then he is dragged into the family reunion. The episode ends with Toph asking, "Seriously, you guys didn't find any meat?"

Air Date
According to the Nickelodeon Avatar site, new episodes of Avatar will begin airing on July the 14th. The DVD release will still be on May 6th. However, copies of the DVD were already out by April 25, and on the same day, episode 314 showed up on youtube and torrent search sites.