As Korra reunites with her friends in Republic City, Wu is abducted on Kuvira's orders. Korra, Asami and Mako rescue him from a train and hide him with Mako's family in Asami's property. Meanwhile, Bolin and Varrick encounter refugees from Kuvira's prison camps, which now house anyone not of Earth Kingdom origin, and help them escape from the now walled-in Empire. In the swamp, Kuvira begins harvesting the spirit vines.