Fans will return to Pandora once again in December once James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire And Ash hits theaters. But before it does, the main star of the films, Sam Worthington, elaborates on how a key moment in the second film will impact Fire And Ash. The second installment in the Avatar series, The Way Of Water, Jake Sully and the rest of his family wound up locked in battle with Stephen Lang’s Quaritch and his forces to defend their newfound home. During the battle, Jake’s oldest son Neteyam got shot in the back, causing him to bleed out surrounded by his family. 

While Netayam’s death had a massive impact in the climax of Way Of Water, the trailer made it clear that it’ll continue to affect the story in Fire And Ash. But even with what fans have been shown in the trailer, Sam Worthington confirmed specific details about the situation. 

“I think the movie picks up not long after the second movie, so it’s going to have a ripple effect,” he told Screenrant. 

One character in particular is already being speculated to feel those effects that Worthington alluded to, and to a huge extent. Zoe Saldaña’s Neytiri, Jake’s wife and mother of the Sully children, was already shown to have an extreme reaction to losing her son in the previous film, brutally killing the soldiers of the opposing faction. But one of her interactions with Jake in the trailer suggests that she still feels the anger that comes with her grief, and is also at risk of letting it consume her. 

Avatar: Fire And Ash hits theaters December 19th.