[That pause tells him so much more about bloodbending than her words ever will. Kyle knows the feeling of your own body being turned against you and it's not something he would wish upon his worst enemies. Not being able to move, or speak... it had been his worst nightmare. One of them, anyway.]

Tarrlok's been.. informative about this but it's not wise to trust anything a politician says.
[Or does, for that matter.]

[A beat.]

Popular support doesn't come from nowhere. People must have been hurting, and angry, and they get behind somebody who can give them blood. I'm not excusing anything that happened, I'm saying there was a point to it and [he waves to the now-being-fixed-house] it can't be drawn in such black and white terms.