The Big Bolin Question

When Bolin and Opal decide to propose to each other, everything their friends do to help ends up making a mess of the whole thing.

## Summary

### Bolin Sansson's proposal

The episode begins with Strike, Jörmungand, Clara Lawrence, and the Crusaders all explaining to an off-screen character about a crisis that recently occurred in Zaofu. Beginning from Strike's point of view, the story flashes back to some time prior; on a hill overlooking the Iron City, Bolin shows Strike something shiny, then pulls it back when he seems to try to eat in. Jörmungand suddenly appears and badgers them to let her see, which they are initially reluctant to do because of her sometimes big mouth. Bolin relents in the end, however, and shows the young Nassera what he has: an engagement ring that he plans to give to Opal when he asks her to marry him.

As part of his elaborate marriage proposal, Bolin is putting together a romantic hilltop meal on a picnic table similar to the shelf he made for Opal once and leaving apples with messages tied to them around Zaofu leading Opal to the hilltop. While Bolin finishes building the table, Strike volunteers to get the picnic food while assigning Jörmungand to leaving the apples around town, which the young Nassera.

### Plans quickly come apart

Transported by Jörmungand outside Lawrence Manor, Strike tells the Nassera to carefully leave apples around town for Opal to find while he gets food from Clara. All of a sudden, Opal and the the Crusaders come out of the bakery and run past them. Inside, Strike finds Clara frantically baking twenty-one desserts and placing a piece of paper in each one for a mysterious reason. When Strike offers to help Clara complete her task faster with his message-delivering fire, he accidentally sets all the desserts on fire.

Jörmungand tries leaving an apple with a message attached for Opal to find, but Opal does not notice due to circumstances. In an attempt to be more direct, Jörmungand brings all the apples to life and instructs them to go to their designated locations and verbally deliver their messages to Opal. As a result, all of Zaofu quickly devolves into chaos as the living apples terrorize the people in their mission to deliver their messages.

Strike confronts Jörmungand over the trouble she has caused, and when Opal wanders into town during the chaos, Discord transports her to the hill. Upon realizing Bolin is not there, he blindfolds Opal and warps her back to Sugarcube Corner, where Spike, Bolin, and Mrs. Cake have gathered. Before Bolin can chew out Discord for nearly ruining his proposal plans, the Crusaders and Granny Yin suddenly appear being followed by a giant monster.

### Opal's proposal

The story then shifts to the Crusaders' point of view; while Strike and Jörmungand help Bolin with his proposal plans, the Crusaders and Clara help Opal, who also has plans to ask Bolin to marry her. As part of her proposal, Opal is making twenty-one desserts and putting part of a proposal message in each one, and she instructs the Crusaders to deliver an extra dessert to Bolin with an invitation to the Manor inside.

When Opal and the Crusaders notice Strike and Jörmungand outside the bakery, they quickly run past them before they realize what is going on. The Crusaders head to the Sansson's Farm to find Bolin, but he inadvertently eludes them while building the picnic table. When Bolin finishes building the table, he waits for Opal to arrive. When she takes too long to appear, Bolin heads into town to look for her.

After searching for Bolin all around town and failing to find him, the Crusaders return to the farm and ask Granny Yin where he is. As Granny goes into detail about the strange dream she woke up from, a giant apple monster—formed when all the apples Jörmungand brought to life merged into one—appears before them. The monster chases them to Lawrence Manor, where Strike, Jörmungand, Bolin, Clara, and Opal have gathered.

With the episode's two storylines now together, the giant apple delivers Bolin's "will you marry me?" message in front of Opal, causing his surprise to be ruined. As Clara chews out Strike for ruining Opal's proposal plans and nearly everyone casts blame on Jörmungand, Bolin and Opal go off on their own.

### The perfect "pear-posal"

Bolin and Opal walk together to one of the apple and pear trees that were planted by Bolin and Mako's parents. Bolin apologizes to Opal for everything that happened that day, comparing the day's disaster to what happened in when he asked her out and on Valentine's Day.

However, Opal recalls San and Naiko's story and the hardships they faced trying to be together, and she is certain that just as Bolin's parents survived everything they went through together, so too will she and Bolin. With that, both Bolin and Opal propose to each other, and they both answer yes, much to the delight of the friends that tried to help them throughout the day.

The story shifts back to present day, and it is revealed the off-screen character that Strike, Jormungand, Clara, and the Crusaders were speaking to is Mako, Asami and Korra, the former who is moved to near tears after hearing their story. With their explanations over, the friends gather for Bolin and Opal's wedding, with a vast collection of their friends and family in attendance, Mako as Bolin's best man, Kuvira as Opal's maid of honour and Lin as the officiant. The police officer/aunt of the bride declares them husband and wife, and Jörmungand celebrates the occasion with more of his living apples.