History Recap / TheLegendOfKorraS1E9OutOfThePast

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Admit it, you were ''cheering'' when Amon took Tarrlok's bending.

* OffModel: Toph has six fingers again. Of course, they did use the exact same footage.

* {{Frameup}}: Tarrlok tries to pin Korra's disappearance on the Equalists, throwing a rope around one of the pillars, dropping a mask on the floor, and injuring himself with a taser glove (also left on-scene) to make the supposed attack more convincing. The Equalists are not pleased about this, especially after Team Avatar broke into their lair.

Korra meditates again and witnesses Yakone's trial. Chairman Sokka and the rest of the United Republic Council hear out the accusations towards Yakone, that he's been bloodbending, something that's been illegal for decades. Yakone's lawyer dismisses those claims, saying it's impossible to bloodbend without a full moon. Sokka announces the verdict: Yakone is guilty of all charges. When Sokka was younger, he met people who had extraordinary abilities, so Yakone's isn't impossible. He sentences Yakone to lifetime imprisonment.

* JurisdictionFriction: Toph and Aang had shades of this when the latter came in to help deal with Yakone, as Toph believes crime bosses within Republic City are a police problem. Since Yakone is a super-dangerous criminal, that's where the Avatar has to step in, which Aang uses as reasoning. Toph reluctantly agrees to let him join in.

* LoveEpiphany: Revealed in the episode Endgame. Mako realizes that he is in love with Korra during their search.

** Their anger also makes sense in-story. Amon had made it clear Korra was to be saved for later to prevent her from becoming a martyr. Tarrlok's frame-up risks doing that -- to say nothing of bringing down the full might of law enforcement when they're in the middle of preparations for their impending endgame.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Tarrlok's secretary stayed around long enough to catch what he was doing and warn everyone of his abilities.

* MotiveMisdientification: Upon finally getting to see Aang's full vision, Korra realizes her predecessor was trying to warn her about Tarrlok and his bloodbending. Two episodes later, however, it'll be revealed she ''had'' the right idea, but that Tarrlok was only ''part'' of the warning...

* MotiveMisdentification: Upon finally getting to see Aang's full vision, Korra realizes her predecessor was trying to warn her about Tarrlok and his bloodbending. Two episodes later, however, it'll be revealed she got it wrong: Tarrlok was only ''part'' of the warning.

->''I am the solution.''

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Played with. Amon attempts to avert this by explicitly telling his soldiers not to underestimate Korra then ordering them to electrocute the cage she's trapped in and knock her out rather than risk a fight with her. However, the Equalists do wind up underestimating her ''ingenuity'', as she wraps one of her armbands around the top bars on the cage and thus avoids being hurt by the electricity.

* PragmaticVillainy: Amon explicitly orders his soldiers to knock out Korra by electrocuting the cage she's trapped in rather than risk a fight with her.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When she sees Amon, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Korra ''runs''.]]

!!Tropes in this episode:

** Toph still calls Aang "Twinkletoes," despite them both being in middle adulthood.

** Bolin retells the kiss that happened behind Asami's back between Mako and Korra. Hell of a way to learn your man's cheated on you.

* DePower: The metalbending cops captured in "The Aftermath," Tarrlok.

* AFatherToHisMen: Lin's very direct with Tenzin and the members of Team Avatar, but when she rescues her metalbending cops and states that their bending must have been taken away already her voice and expression are gentler than we've ever seen her before.

* {{Frameup}}: Tarrlok tries to pin Korra's disappearance on the Equalists, throwing a rope around one of the pillars, dropping a mask on the floor, and injuring himself with a taser glove (also left on-scene) to make the supposed attack more convincing. The Equalists were not pleased about this, especially after Team Avatar broke into their lair.

* InsigniaRipOffRitual: When Lin suits back up to begin her outside-the-law business, she takes the police badge off her armor.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Mako grabs one of the Equalist mooks and thereatens to burn him alive if he doesn't tell them where Korra is. Considering how angry he was Mako might very well have done it too.
* JurisdictionFriction: Toph and Aang had shades of this when the latter came in to help deal with Yakone, as Toph believes crime bosses within Republic City are a police problem. Since Yakone is a super-dangerous criminal, that's where the Avatar has to step in, which Aang uses as reasoning to step in. Toph reluctantly agrees to let him join in.

* TheNicknamer: Toph still calls Aang Twinkletoes even after 28 years.
* NoSell: Amon is almost unaffected by Tarrlok's bloodbending. Let that sink in. Even Aang had trouble fighting against bloodbending (even resorting to the Avatar State) and yet here Amon is making it look easy.

-->'''Amon:''' (''To Tarrlok.'') It is time for you to be equalized.

* WhamShot: Aang's first appearance in the series outside of brief glimpses can be seen as this. Then, in the present day, Amon's appearance in Tarrlok's shack and then ''resisting his bloodbending almost effortlessly''.

* WorkingWithTheEx: It's right there in the synopsis.
** PlayedForLaughs when Lin slaps Tenzin to wake him up after being bloodbent into unconsciousness by Tarrlok.

* {{Flashback}}: How Korra learns about the incident with Yakone and deduces that Tarrlok is his son.

* BadassLongcoat: Lin wears one.
* ChekhovsGunman: Or in this case Chekhov's polar bear-dog. We're told that Naga is missing at the beginning of the episode. She appears at the end to pick up Korra from the snow.
** Also the council page.

* AFatherToHisMen: Lin's very direct with Tenzin and the members of Team Avatar, but when she rescues her metalbending cops and states that their bending must have been taken away already her voice and expression are gentler than we've ever seen her before.

* HeldGaze: The [[FoeYay moment]] between Korra and Amon after she has broken out of Tarrlok's prison.

* LockAndLoadMontage: We see Lin Beifong dressing in her police armor with some BadAss metalbending.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Tarrlok is Yakone's son.
* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother To Her Men]]: Lin's very direct with Tenzin and the members of Team Avatar, but when she rescues her metalbending cops and states that their bending must have been taken away already her voice and expression are gentler than we've ever seen her before.

* [[OneManArmy One-Woman Army]]: Lin really comes off as one in this episode.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Tarrlok is Yakone's son.

* {{Frameup}}: Tarrlok tries to pin Korra's disappearance on the Equalists, throwing a rope around one of the pillars, dropping a mask on the floor, and injuring himself with a taser glove (also left on-scene) to make the supposed attack more convincing.

* CallBack: After he's been revealed as a bloodbender, Tarrlok bloodbends everyone in the courtroom into unconsciousness, then runs away - exactly what his father did in the flashback. Tarrlok also meets a similar fate to that of his father: he's intercepted by Amon, who resists his bloodbending and debends him.
** To the original series. Mako's interrogation of the Equalist about where Korra is uses some very familiar lines.
---> '''Mako:''' "Avatar Korra! Where are you keeping her?" "Where is she?"
---> '''Sokka:''' "Where. Is. Suki." "Where are you keeping her?"
*** Both scenes even include the interrogator holding the questioned against a wall, but with Mako, he's the firebender, and it's the other way around for Sokka.

->''Toph, I'm forty years old. Do you think you can stop with the nicknames? //
'''Fraid not.''