The Wheel of Time (2021) s03e02 Episode Script

Safe's not possible anymore.
We were already running
from the Forsaken.
And now the Black Ajah.
[light pulses]
[Lanfear] These friends of his.
They tie him to the boy he used
to be, not the man he must become.
[Siuan] Unless you plan to
jeopardize the centuries-old alliance
between Andor and the Tower,
I expect to see you back in
your novice whites tomorrow.
You are Accepted
of the White Tower.
I'm an Accepted now. So
you can't keep me here.
You think I will hurt them
- [knife slashes]
- to get him to do what we want?
[groans]
- [knife slices]
- [groans]
Yes. That's the only
thing I like about you.
- I have to go.
- I can't go with you.
I'm staying.
I'm sorry.
This is my path, not yours.
I told you, I'm
not going anywhere.
We sail for Tear at dawn.
[Elayne] Andor will always be
a friend to the Dragon Reborn.
We're not going to Tear.
I'm taking us to the
last place the Forsaken
would ever think to look for me.
A place to find the army I
need to fight the Shadow.
We're going to the Aiel Waste.
[bells tolling]
[person sighs]
I told you this day would come,
Your Majesty.
- [sighs]
- [doors open]
[uplifting music plays]
[court members
clamoring] Your Majesty.
- Your Majesty.
- Your Majesty.
- Your Majesty.
- Your Majesty.
[child] Mama!
[whispers] Are
you going to wave?
[song ends]
Since Queen Mordrellen's death,
our nation has suffered the great
uncertainty of a Succession War,
making enemies of friends,
weakening our defenses.
Many of you in this room
were my rivals, and I yours.
But that war is over
now, because I won it.
[inhales deeply]
[queen] Swear yourselves to me,
and nothing you have done
will be held against you.
My only goal now
is to bring our great
nation into a time of peace.
[nobles muttering]
I swear the fealty and soldiers
of House Baryn to your throne,
Queen Morgase of House Trakand.
[nobles muttering]
House Anshar and its armies swear
themselves to you, my Queen.
I, Nasina Caeren, swear the fealty
of my soldiers and my house to you,
Queen Morgase of House Trakand.
All of your actions against
me in the past are forgiven.
[sighs]
But I cannot see my daughter
and our great nation
suffer another Succession War.
[nobles gasp, clamor]
- [screams]
- [grunts]
Brother
- [screams]
- [gasping]
[gasping]
[dramatic music plays]
Long live House Trakand and
the Lion Throne of Andor.
Long live the queen.
[nobles] Long live the queen!
Long live the queen!
Long live the queen!
[people whispering]
- [Verin] We have to trust someone.
- [Leane] Trust?
- Yes.
- Trust? You saw how many of them.
[Verin chuckling] You think
you can do this alone?
[trumpets playing royal march]
[horses whinnying]
Huh, Elayne.
Uh, if I'm not mistaken,
that is your mother's
coronation song, is it not?
It is, Verin Sedai.
And do you know what in Light's name
Queen Morgase is doing in Tar Valon?
I have no idea.
[music continues]
- [court members whispering]
- [music fades]
[Morgase inhales deeply]
[sighs]
[sighs]
- [court member coughs]
- [consort sighs]
[sighs]
[staff bangs]
[Leane] Attend you all!
You come before the Watcher of
the Seals, the Flame of Tar Valon,
the Amyrlin Seat.
Lord Galad of House Trakand.
Lord Gawyn of House Trakand,
First Prince of the Sword.
Lord
um
[sighs] Forgive
me. Lord Gaebril.
Prince Consort of the queen.
Lord Gaebril.
A pleasure as always.
[chuckles]
Elaida Sedai of the Red
Ajah, advisor to the queen.
[court members whispering]
Mother.
Welcome home, Daughter.
[Leane] By the
Grace of the Light,
Queen of Andor,
Defender of the Realm,
Protector of the People,
High Seat of House
Trakand, Queen Morgase.
Queen Morgase.
To what do we owe this honor?
Where's my daughter?
The novices are all well into
their chores by this time of day.
And what time of day
are they kidnapped?
[court members whispering]
You swore to me when I sent my
daughter to you, Siuan, that
[Siuan] Daughter.
You forget yourself.
While you wear that ring,
while you stand in this hall,
you will address me as
befits the Amyrlin Seat.
Forgive me, Mother.
You have not had a
child of your own,
so perhaps you do not know
the power of that word.
What it means to go to sleep at
night and wake in the morning
wondering at your
daughter's breath.
If you did, you would know that
I will not leave this tower
until I have set eyes on Elayne and
know everything that happened to her.
Leaders and mothers are
not so different, perhaps,
in that we will both defend our own
like a lionfish defends its den.
Leane Sedai, please escort the
queen's family to their quarters,
and I will take Morgase
to Elayne myself.
[falcons calling]
[uplifting music plays]
[Aviendha] We're almost
through the Spine of the World,
but the pass is too far ahead.
Aiel would make it before
night on foot, but
we'll camp here.
[uplifting music plays]
[rumbling]
- [electricity crackles]
- [thunder rumbling]
[Loial] A much better way to
travel than all that channeling.
[grunts]
[Perrin] We're not the
first to come this way.
Two sets of tracks.
[sniffs] A man and a woman.
And it smells like ash.
That's strange.
Only Darkfriends dare brave the
Ways alone, without an Ogier.
[breathing heavily]
We should've gone to a
stedding first, Loial.
No. The Longing takes well,
a very long time to do its work.
What is this "Longing"?
When Ogier are away
from the stedding,
we begin to suffer ill effects.
Our health declines
until, eventually
[breathes heavily]
[inhales] But it
is good to feel it.
It is the remembrance in
our bones of our home,
of our ancestors.
Of the things we
shouldn't forget.
[uplifting music plays]
[chuckles] They told
me you'd be in here.
[both chuckling]
[groans] Don't you
have floors to scrub?
- [chuckles]
- It's good to see you too, idiot.
- Gaebril.
- Elayne. [chuckles]
[sighs]
- You look well. [chuckles]
- [chuckles]
Even if they do make you
wear that wretched sack.
- Galad.
- Elayne. It is good to see you again.
[kisses]
I have worried much. We
have all worried much.
- [whispers] Where's Mother?
- [Gaebril] With the Amyrlin.
Best be prepared, though.
She came here with a
head full of steam.
[Gawyn] I mean, you really
gave us all a terrible fright.
Mother was ready to tear the
Tower down with her bare hands
when we'd learned
you'd gone missing.
[chuckles] Well, I'm back in one
piece, so there'll be no need for that.
[Galad] We should have
been here with you.
I told Mother these Aes
Sedai couldn't be trusted.
If she'd just let us start our
Warder training when you came here
like we wanted
Morgase, let all of her ducklings
out of her sight at once?
- I think not. [chuckles]
- [Elayne chuckles]
I'm still not
convinced these Warders
have much to teach us that
we don't already know.
But it's true. We could've
kept you out of trouble.
Mother was always too
soft on you at home.
You know nothing of the world.
It makes you vulnerable.
[whispers] Has he gotten even
more irritating since I left home?
You have no idea.
- [chuckles]
- Well, you're here now.
Perhaps Mother will let you stay,
and your training can finally begin.
[Galad] Hmm.
- What?
- Nothing.
Has no one told
you why we're here?
[Ryma] Focus, sisters.
I'll meld the flows.
[high-pitched chiming]
[Ryma breathing shakily]
Anything, Ryma Sedai?
The weave wouldn't hold.
The mind is a slippery patient.
There must be something
else you can try.
[Ryma] As you might guess,
we've never seen someone
with a problem quite
like your friend's.
And even if we had,
there's almost nothing we can
do for afflictions of the mind.
What if it keeps getting worse?
We'll keep him
under observation.
But healing him?
I won't lie to you, Wisdom.
I fear we may as well be trying
to bring him back from the dead.
[Siuan] I owe you an apology.
I know Elayne's importance
better than anyone.
The alliance between Andor and
the White Tower is the axis
upon which peace in
the Westlands exists.
And Light knows
there have been enough challenges
to that peace as it is.
I must admit, Siuan,
if this is strategy,
it's very disarming.
We both know what's
required of us in public.
I mean it, Morgase.
Sadly, this Tower is not
immune to the changing tides
which threaten to
overturn us all.
I guarantee Elayne is safer here
than anywhere else in the world.
[knocks on door]
Mother.
- And Mother. [chuckles]
- My girl.
[sighs]
I'll leave you two to catch up.
[door closes]
I've missed you, Mother.
Come here.
Let me have a look at you.
[softly] I'm so
glad you're safe.
You look exactly as I
did in my novice whites.
[chuckles]
So, show me your room.
Um, well, it's a short tour.
- [chuckles]
- Bigger than I remember it.
Oh, gosh, that's the first time
anyone's accused this room of being big.
[chuckles]
How was your time
with the Amyrlin?
Interesting as ever.
She's hiding something.
As is everybody here.
Including my own daughter.
Won't you tell me what happened?
Something has shaken
everyone here to the core.
We've been instructed
not to tell anyone.
- It's internal Tower business.
- Fair enough.
At least I know where I
stand in the pecking order.
- Mum, that's not
- No, no, no. It's all right.
Of course you have to
be a good little soldier
while you're under Siuan's
roof. I understand that.
I can wait till tomorrow.
What happens tomorrow?
You will receive your
honorary Great Serpent ring,
we'll go home, and you'll
tell me everything.
[stammers] I've barely
spent any time here.
Oh, no, you've done
marvelously well.
Siuan tells me you're one of the
most powerful novices she has.
And to think of the awful
ordeal you have survived,
with no support from the Tower.
I would've thought that you
would be as anxious to leave here
as I am to have you
return safely home.
I want to stay, Mother.
I want to be an Aes Sedai.
Oh, love.
I wish I could give you
all the things you want.
Y-You've said yourself it it
would be a strategic advantage
were I to be the first full Aes
Sedai to hold the Lion Throne.
Daughter.
My only daughter.
No matter how things seem here,
no matter what strategic advantages
I have mused upon in the past,
your first duty is to Andor.
Your life cannot be put at risk.
We've already had one close call.
Say goodbye to the
friends you've made here.
It's time to come home.
[sighs]
[swords clashing]
[both breathing sharply]
[emotional music plays]
[growls]
[grunts]
[Lan] Wait.
Your mind is
elsewhere, sheepherder.
You want to talk about it?
[inhales deeply] Right.
Parting the Silk.
Show me.
I healed those
bruises in Tar Valon.
I would've thought they were
from the Forsaken attack,
yet here they are
fresh again.
- Are they from him?
- [Egwene] No.
I'm not here to help you
control him, Moiraine.
I'm here to protect him.
So am I.
But you're closest to him. You're
the one who will see the first signs.
And the more he channels,
the more the madness
will take him.
She was almost faster than me.
Almost.
[Rand grunting,
breathing sharply]
Why does he waste
his time with swords?
They are not the Aiel way.
When was the last time anyone
caught their supper with a sword?
[chuckles]
[Egwene] Can't you
see he's trying?
We're on our way
to the Aiel Waste.
You wouldn't understand.
Your wetland prophecies
are all so clean.
So easy.
Your Dragon will either save
the world or destroy it.
Aiel prophecies
don't say the same?
"The Car'a'carn shall spill out the
blood of those who call themselves Aiel
as water on sand, and
break them as dried twigs.
Yet the remnant of a remnant
the Car'a'carn shall save,
and they shall live."
Our Car'a'carn is creation and
destruction wrapped in one.
Balanced.
It is my duty to return Rand
al'Thor to the Three-fold Land,
to my home,
so that he may save my
people and destroy them.
The prophecy does not say
that I must enjoy the task.
[uplifting music plays]
You're right.
The air does smell better here.
I wonder why that is.
Perhaps it's a mixture
of pollen and pine
It's clean. [inhales deeply]
Like the Three-fold Land.
[Chiad] I like this place.
There's too much water, still,
and the trees are still too
big and too many, but
I like it.
[Loial] And this is where
Manetheren once stood.
One of the greatest cities and
armies the world has ever seen.
[inhales deeply] That
was a long time ago.
We're farmers and shepherds now.
If you say it.
I've seen you dance the spears.
- [chuckles]
- [Chiad] But if you say it.
[uplifting music plays]
[villagers chattering]
[children laughing]
[wistful music playing]
[villagers screaming]
- [Trollocs roaring]
- [Perrin] Laila, run!
- [Laila shouts]
- [Perrin groans]
- [woman screaming]
- [Perrin] No, Laila. No! [screams]
- [Laila grunts, breathes raggedly]
- [high-pitched ringing]
- [Perrin grunts]
- [Laila] No!
- [Perrin panting] No. No, no.
- [Laila gasping]
- [Perrin] Look at me. Look at me.
- [metallic clanging]
- [horses neigh]
- [Whitecloak] Make way!
[villagers chattering]
[Marin] Perrin?
- Mistress al'Vere? [chuckling]
- [chuckling]
- I almost didn't know you with that beard.
- [chuckles]
- You look a proper man.
- [Perrin chuckles]
I've just had a
letter from Egwene.
She didn't tell me you
were coming back here,
much less with company.
I am Loial, son of
Arent, son of Halan.
Your name sings in my
ears, Mistress al'Vere.
[stammers] And this is Bain and Chiad,
Aielwomen and Maidens of the Spear.
May you always have water
and shade, roofmistress.
We ask your leave to
defend your roof and hold.
[Perrin] What's going on?
Why are the Whitecloaks here?
So much has changed
while you've been away.
- It's not safe for you here, not anymore.
- [Perrin, softly] What?
[Marin] You can't
be out in the open.
Come on. We'll get you inside
the Winespring. There's an attic.
You can stay the
night with the others,
and then we'll send you
all on your way tomorrow.
[stammers] Others?
[Marin] We thought it best for them
to stay up here, out of the way.
Before people started gossiping.
Marin, just wait. I can't
follow what you're saying.
[Alanna] Imagine running into
Perrin Aybara in the Two Rivers.
The Wheel really does weave
as it wills. [chuckles]
What are you hearing
among the Reds?
My sisters are being
very tight-lipped.
Siuan has this Tower
under lockdown.
Whatever happened here
recently, it was significant.
Is Siuan losing
support in the Hall?
There is a real fear amongst
the Sitters, which is uncommon.
But we cannot underestimate
the support she engenders.
I made that mistake once before.
And anything more about
what happened to Elayne?
Who took her?
It seems the Tower had a
Darkfriend right under their noses.
Siuan said as much.
Unthinkable as it is,
the fact that she told me
makes me very worried that
it was something worse.
Elaida Sedai will leave
no stone unturned.
We can expect that much.
She'll only be in the Tower
for a few days at most.
Not enough time to
make any real trouble.
Mmm. She's still well-liked around
here, hard as it is to believe.
Those old allegiances
could prove a threat.
- We have the Black Ajah to worry about.
- [inhales sharply]
Anything from our seer?
I don't like this.
You've made your
position known, Daughter.
Verin, please.
[sighs]
[Verin] I've been having
Min pose as a servant here,
putting her around as many
important sisters as I can.
Go on, child. Tell her.
I've been seeing dead Aes Sedai.
Dead Warders, here, at the Tower.
I thought you saw the
future, not the past.
[Min] Exactly.
Whatever this battle is,
it hasn't happened yet.
Battle?
[sighs]
Can you be certain?
What else could it be?
At least nine Aes Sedai
are as good as dead.
- When?
- I don't know.
My visions don't
come with a clock.
It could be tomorrow,
a year from now or ten.
[Mat chuckles] Yeah, it's
impressive, isn't it?
[person] It is. [chuckles]
[Mat] Try both hands.
[person] Like this?
Just like that.
All right.
[knocks on door]
[visitor] Clara,
are you in there?
Clara, did you invite a friend?
- [chuckles]
- [knocks on door]
Very cheeky.
Come in! The more the merrier.
[sighs] The Andoran
princes are here.
Oh.
- Yeah, I mean, cheeky indeed.
- [visitor] Put that thing away.
- You have to come see this. [giggles]
- [Clara giggles]
I'm sorry, see what?
[crowd cheering]
- [swords clanging]
- [grunts]
- [groans]
- [crowd] Ooh!
[crowd cheering]
- [swords clanging]
- [grunting]
[crowd cheering] Whoo!
[both grunting]
- [crowd] Ooh!
- Up.
[cheering continues]
[both grunting]
[giggles]
[grunts, groans]
[cheers]
[princes grunting]
- [cheering continues]
- [Galad groans]
[princes grunting]
Didn't think you'd be in for
this kind of thing, Nynaeve.
I think everyone is in for
this kind of thing, Mat.
[groans]
- [Mat] Sorry, who are these tossers?
- Come on!
- My brothers.
- [Galad] On your feet.
So they're princes or something?
And they act like it.
Entitled bastards.
No offense, Elayne.
None taken. Coming from someone
sleeping with an actual king.
[Galad grunts]
[both grunting]
- [hisses]
- [cheering continues]
[Mat] I've seen enough.
[crowd] Oh!
- [chattering]
- [crowd cheering]
Most people are happier
to see their families.
Well, my family never
turns up anywhere
without each one of them having 12
plots and plans they're hatching.
And that's just what you
can see on the surface.
Sounds completely unlike you.
[chuckles]
I was told to deliver this to
you by the Amyrlin Seat herself.
[bell tolling in distance]
[sighs]
- [knocks on door]
- [door opens]
[Elayne] Mother,
you sent for us?
There was no one outside.
Liandrin and her sisters went.
But how many of their number did they
leave behind like a stub in shallow water
that you don't see till you've
put a hole in your boat?
I don't understand.
You're the only two in the Tower I can
be absolutely sure are not Black Ajah.
Even Verin.
Even Leane.
Who knows how deep the Shadow's
roots have taken hold here?
What I do know is I
will rip them out.
[stammers] What does
that have to do with us?
[inhales sharply] You
are to be my hounds,
hunting down the Black Ajah.
No one will believe it of you,
not a pair of half-trained
girls, scrubbing floors.
[gasps] Nynaeve can't even
channel when she wants, Mother.
Each of you is a match for Liandrin in
sheer power and she's their strongest.
She could have killed you
in the Hall and she didn't.
Ask yourself why and how you might
use that weakness against her.
And why should we trust you?
That's exactly how
I want you to think.
Elayne will go through
the Arches tonight
and then Verin will
find you tomorrow
and give you all the information we have
so far about Liandrin and her sisters.
And then you can
start your search.
The Amyrlin wasn't telling
us the whole truth.
Does any Aes Sedai ever?
I saw Verin and Leane arguing
this morning, deep in the Tower.
There's something more going
on with them. I know it.
[indistinct whispering]
We don't need to
trust any of them,
not even the Amyrlin, to do
what's being asked of us.
Because the truth
is, she's right.
Someone needs to find Liandrin.
And if there are more Black
Ajah still in the Tower?
They will kill again
unless they're rooted out.
The only people I trust
to do that are you and me.
- [whispers] Nynaeve.
- [gasps]
I think the Amyrlin might've had
another reason to pull me into this.
My mother came here to
take me back to Caemlyn.
We leave tomorrow.
What?
No, y-you can't leave. Not now.
You're going to be accepted.
My duty is to the Lion Throne.
And is the Lion
Throne under threat?
Your mother looks well in
control of everything to me.
I should've known
better than to
Nynaeve.
It started with the Trolloc
attacks a few months back.
[Perrin] Trollocs?
[Marin] Nothing like Bel Tine.
But groups of two or three would
come for a family farm at night,
taking sheep or cows first.
Then one night, they took
the Killarney's eldest sons.
And that's when the
Whitecloaks came.
Perrin, they say
they're here for you.
For me?
[Alanna] They said you
killed a man in Falme.
Geofram Bornhald.
What else did they say?
- [Maksim] That you're a Darkfriend.
- What?
Probably the eyes.
A load of codswallop.
Nobody but the Congars
and Coplins pay any mind.
But now they've offered 100 pieces
of gold for anyone related to you,
and more people are
paying attention.
What about my family?
[Marin] Bran, Tam and
Abell got them out.
Those Whitecloaks, Perrin.
I would've thought men sworn to the
Light would be better than that.
[Bain] Why don't
you fight them off?
Fight?
Against proper soldiers?
With pitchforks
and sheep shears?
[inhales sharply] And the
Whitecloaks, bad as they are,
they're our only real
protection from the Trollocs.
[Chiad] If you ask the lion
to protect you from the bear,
you've only chosen to end up in
one belly instead of another.
[gasps]
[chuckles]
And what about you two? Did
you use the Ways to come here?
Nynaeve told me you were in
the battle with the Black Ajah.
And that no one knew where
you went after it ended.
She was worried about you after
what happened to your other Warder.
Ihvon.
[whetstone scraping]
Why should any of you
worry yourselves about us?
May I ask what happened to
your shoulder, Aes Sedai?
Trollocs.
Few are out there
in the woods now.
[Marin] Enough of this talk. Get some
rest and I'll pack you some food.
We'll get you fast horses
in the morning and put you
- on your way out of the Two Rivers.
- No, I'm not leaving.
[breathes shakily] Look, what
the Whitecloaks said is true.
[inhales deeply] I did kill
Geofram Bornhald in Falme.
[gasps]
And if all this trouble is
because they're looking for me,
then there's a simple solution.
I'll turn myself in.
- [voices whispering] Damane. Damane.
- [whimpers]
[gasps]
- [voices warbling, whispering]
- [breathing heavily]
- [thuds]
- [whimpering]
[Renna] Pour the water.
- [shrieks]
- [whimpers]
- [whimpers] Renna, don't!
- [shrieks]
[choking, panting]
[whimpers] No! No!
[Rand] It's funny, I used to think this
would be the only view I'd ever see.
That the rest of my life was
going to be here in Cairhien.
In this room.
Might have been a nice life.
Not big enough for
you, not by a mile.
Not big enough for you either.
You're heading to
the Aiel Waste?
What happened to
Tear and Callandor?
It's hard to protect
you from the Forsaken
if you don't tell me what
you're doing, you're thinking.
Well, it's harder
to find me now.
Perhaps, but don't get
too comfortable, Rand.
There are Darkfriends
everywhere.
I left the idea of comfort
behind in the Two Rivers.
No, you didn't.
Come on.
I remember a few things
we did in this room
which were far more
exciting than the sunrise.
- Lanfear.
- [chuckles]
- Is this about that doe-eyed cow?
- Don't.
[chuckles]
Is that where you draw
the line, name-calling?
- You do amuse me, Rand al'Thor.
- [sighs]
Someday, she's going to see you
as you really are, you know.
The way I see you.
All that darkness raging
beneath that farm-boy smile.
- [door opens]
- [breathes shakily]
[Egwene] Renna, wait!
Do you really think
she'll love that?
[grunting]
No, please! [grunts]
[breathes heavily]
[inhales sharply]
Uh-uh, you shouldn't.
[wails] No!
I'll see you soon.
Enjoy the sunrise.
[grunts, gasps]
No, please, stop!
[crying] Stop, I can't breathe.
[whimpering]
[grunts, breathes shakily]
[exhales sharply]
What did I
[whispers echoing]
You do not belong here.
[whimpering, panting]
Hey, it's all right.
It's all right.
Come here. You're
safe. You're safe.
It's all right. Hey.
[sighs] Sorry. [inhales sharply]
No, it's okay.
[exhales sharply] Sorry, it
just [breathing shakily]
it feels so real.
Was it the Arches again?
Renna?
It's Renna.
Something I don't understand.
An Aielwoman in the desert.
I have nightmares too.
Remembering things I've done.
And what you had to go
through was terrible.
I don't regret it though.
If Renna was here now,
I'd kill her again.
I just wish she'd stay dead.
[muffled moaning]
[sighs] God.
[inhales sharply] Shh.
- [knocks on door]
- [gasps]
[knocks on door]
Coming! [grunts]
Clara, is that you?
[muffled giggling]
- Hell
- Ugh, Light.
- Put a shirt on.
- Min? What?
Seriously, can you close your
robe? I can't look at that.
I didn't invite you
to look at this.
Anyway, what are you wearing? You
look like you're working here.
- It's called a disguise, all right?
- All right, well, word of advice,
they normally don't come and clean
the rooms in the middle of the night.
- This way above my pay grade.
- [muffled moaning continues]
[gasps] Is that
- [groans] Yes!
- [chuckles]
- That is Galad.
- [Galad moaning] Ah, yes!
- And that
- [chuckling]
- [Gawyn moaning]
- is Gawyn.
So yeah, I think I'd prefer
my dungeon cell at this point.
[chuckling]
Well, come on. Why
are you here, Min?
Siuan wants to see you.
And there it is.
So you're not just working.
Well, of course not. No.
You're working for the Amyrlin Seat
herself. Siuan even. That's casual.
I know you're upset with me for how things
went the last time we saw each other but
Yes, you could say that
I'm still a bit upset
about how you sold me
out to the Forsaken.
I'm trying to apologize.
And I don't hear you
saying the word "sorry."
I am, Mat.
- [sighs]
- I'm sorry.
But I swear to you
I didn't know tha
You said that the Amyrlin Seat wanted
to see me. So should we just go?
[scoffs]
Bring the horn.
You heard about that?
[scoffs]
[door opens]
[scoffs]
[sighs]
Mum?
[melancholy music plays]
[Gaebril] It suits you.
- [inhales sharply] Gaebril.
- [Gaebril chuckles]
I I didn't hear you come in.
- Stole this from the kitchens.
- [laughs]
Don't tell on me.
I won't tell on you if
you don't tell on me.
[chuckles] You want some?
- [softly] Desperately.
- Come.
- To the Daughter-Heir of Andor.
- [chuckles]
To the most popular Prince
Consort in all the land.
- [both chuckling]
- Long may he reign.
[sighs]
- [inhales, sighs]
- Where is everyone?
I was hoping to find Mother.
[sighs] You know her,
always politicking.
And the boys?
I think they might be busy after that
little show they put on this afternoon.
[chuckles] Course they are.
[chuckles, inhales sharply] Don't
they have any other party tricks?
Do they need any?
Though how anyone can tolerate Galad after
talking to him for more than one second,
- is beyond me.
- [chuckles]
I was really hoping he
wasn't serious earlier.
About Mother wanting me home.
I know, sweetheart.
I'm not ready to go back.
You mother would never tell you this
herself, especially not here, but
she's facing challenges at home.
From the noble houses?
Worse, the people.
The military.
You may have heard she had to
dismiss Captain-General Bryne.
No, I hadn't heard that.
Your position as heir is, for the very
first time since she ascended, vulnerable.
She hadn't told me any of this.
Well, let's keep it between us.
I know she'll tell you
eventually. [inhales deeply]
But I thought you
deserved to know now.
Thank you for telling me.
[chuckles] Besides, you've left me alone
with your ghastly brothers for too long.
All they do is train.
We need some sense
- returned to the palace halls.
- Sense? [chuckles]
Hardly. All you and I do when
we're home is drink like fish.
What better sense
is there than that?
[both chuckle]
[door opens]
Your Majesty.
I am the Matrim Cauthon.
Hornblower, if you prefer.
Have a seat.
Thank you.
I understand, Matrim, that
you blew the Horn of Valere.
[Mat] Mmm.
That you summoned the
greatest heroes from ages past
to battle against the
Forsaken, Ishamael, at Falme.
[clicks tongue, chuckles] Well, uh,
normally, I would never be one to brag,
but I can humbly confirm that what
you say is indeed factually correct.
- [huffs]
- Mmm.
It is a powerful object,
- the Horn of Valere.
- Yeah.
For you, it will summon dead
heroes back from the grave.
For anyone else,
it's only a horn
- so long as you live. Mmm.
- Thank you.
S-Sorry, sorry, um
so long as I live?
If you die, then the
ownership of the Horn goes
to the next person who blows it.
So, I'm sure you wouldn't
wanna tell anyone
- about being the Hornblower
- Oh, no
or about having the
Horn in your possession
- [stammers]
- fully accessible to anyone
who might want to
kill you and take it.
No.
And I'm sure you
would never use it
as social capital among the
novices of this very Tower
or [chuckles]
do something as stupid as have
your portrait painted posing with it.
I [chuckles]
I would never
N-No.
Would you like to give the
Horn to me for safekeeping?
Y-Yes.
- Yes. Yes.
- Oh, thank you.
You know, you remind
me of someone.
My uncle Huan.
He was, um No one
could ever pin him down.
He liked to gamble too,
and he'd much rather
have fun than go to work.
He died pulling children
from a burning house.
He wouldn't stop going back
in till the last one was out.
Are you like him, Mat?
Will you be there when
the flames are high?
[sighs] I'm no hero.
[clears throat]
[breathes shakily] I do
what I have to do, but
I'm no hero.
Those we call heroes only
did what they had to do.
You can go.
Elayne.
[both kiss]
[Morgase] It's very late.
What's all this about?
I'm not coming with you, Mother.
[inhales deeply] Is that so?
Since I was a child, I've
worried about filling your shoes.
A queen who can out-strategize
and outmaneuver any opponent.
Who fought and won a war for the crown
when she was younger than I am now.
But the truth is, I can't
follow in your footsteps.
I must forge my own path.
The last Daughter-Heir
who set off on her own
disappeared without trace and
was never heard from again.
There never was
a Queen Tigraine.
And yet, Tigraine leaving is why
you were able to ascend the throne.
The Pattern weaves in ways
that we don't understand,
but what do know is the
Last Battle is coming,
and to think Andor won't be on
the front lines of it is naive.
As terrifying as it was to be
dragged half a world away to Falme,
I fought in a battle
against a Forsaken.
I healed the Dragon Reborn
as he clung to life,
and here, too, there's
work I must do.
I mean to make Andor's most
important alliance iron-clad.
For Andor's sake?
Or for Siuan's?
For mine.
I will go through
the arches tonight,
I will root out the
Shadow in this Tower,
and I will become the
first Aes Sedai queen.
[breathes shakily]
It's too dangerous.
I won't lose you.
There is no going back to a
cloistered life inside palace walls.
Far too much is at stake.
As my queen, as
your Daughter-Heir,
we both know safety is a luxury
this world no longer affords us.
My path will always
lead back to Andor.
To the Lion Throne.
[softly] But I
must earn it first.
As you once did.
I will be a better ruler for it.
[sighs] How did you get so wise?
[both chuckle softly]
I must have learned
from the best.
[both sigh]
[breathes shakily]
[door opens]
[chuckles softly]
[door closes]
Are you going to
keep ignoring me?
Why are you training with Lan?
He listens.
I feel grounded with
a sword in my hands.
It's something I can control.
You have to channel
eventually, Rand.
You have to.
- I know you're afraid of it
- I'm not afraid of it.
You don't understand
at all, do you?
I'm dying of thirst.
And there it is, a pond,
right in front of me.
- [weave chiming]
- And the water tastes like life itself.
Trust me. I understand.
[Rand] It's so sweet.
But it's poison too.
It fills my stomach with filth.
- So bitter.
- [weave whooshing]
But I don't care.
'Cause I just want to taste
the sweetness forever.
Do you understand that?
No.
But you will have to.
You have to embrace the
bitter and the sweet,
so you never forget
which is which.
[Siuan] Safe travels back to
Caemlyn, Queen Morgase. I
I hope you got
what you came for.
Perhaps you've heard.
Elayne's brothers are going
to remain here at the Tower
and begin their Warder training.
Indeed I did.
I am not sure the novices
will ever recover.
[Morgase, court members chuckle]
I am also leaving Elaida
Sedai here at the Tower.
[court members muttering]
There has been an Aes Sedai advisor
in Andor for over 1,000 years.
[Morgase] I'm sure the Tower
can use as many strong sisters
as it can get right now.
And who's stronger than the woman who
almost bested you to the Amyrlin Seat?
You encouraged me
to speak freely.
So let me do just that.
If anything happens to
Elayne, and I mean anything,
the next time I come
to these Shining Walls,
I will have my army at my back.
The Tower has never tested itself
against the full strength of Andor,
and I don't think either of us wants
to see what will happen if it does.
I assure you, we do not.
[dramatic music plays]
[upbeat music plays]
[Moiraine] The Aiel Waste.
[sighs]
[Aviendha] Who did you
tell we were coming here?
- No one.
- Who did you tell?
[both gasp]
[gasps]
This is him?
"He will come from the west,
beyond the Spine of the World.
Of the blood but not
raised by the blood.
He will tie us together
with bonds we cannot break.
He will take us back home
and he will destroy us."
[suspenseful music plays]