Last episode, the villagers of Emond’s Field have traveled with Moiraine and Lan ending up at the cursed city of Shadar Logoth. Moiraine has helped Egwene fulfill her potential as an Aes Sedai. The, they had encountered the fanatic Whitecloaks with the Questioner, Eamon, saying he will remember them. We also had Perrin having a bit of a bonding moment with wolves. Perrin has found a dagger in Shadar Logoth. Moiraine had been poisoned by the Trollocs and Lan ends up riding off with her when he can’t find the others. The villagers end up separated; Perrin and Egwene and Rand and Mat. Lan is with Moiraine when he has a blade by Nynaeve who wants to find the others! The former Village Wisdom has survived!
We hear muffled screams as a bashed up Nynaeve is being dragged by a Trolloc back in Emond’s Field at night. The Trolloc drops Nynaeve out in the forest, he walks over to a wounded Trolloc, and then begins to tear it apart! Nynaeve runs as the Trolloc begins to feed! She finds the strength to run hearing the Trolloc roar behind her. Nynaeve heads to the sacred cave of the Women’s Circle and slips into the pool as the Trolloc arrives! It stabs its spear into the pool and then walks into it. Nynaeve appears behind it, takes its sword, and stabs the Trolloc in the chest! Blood spreads in the pool and then Nynaeve bursts out gasping for air. A very cool catch up though I knew Nynaeve survived from the book. We return to Nynaeve wanting to find her friends. Lan says he doesn’t know and that the Dark One is looking for them.
He wants Nynaeve’s help to heal Moiraine who is still fighting the poison. Lan easily reverses Nynaeve and gets a hold of her before knocking her out. It is morning, Rand calls out for his friends on a rocky hilltop and Mat tells him that he can’t attract attention. Mat wants to return to the village, but Rand trusts Moiraine who wanted them to go to the White Tower. They continue on heading east. On a plain, Perrin and Egwene walk while they hear wolves howling in the distance and walk against the strong winds. Perrin has them take shelter in a patch of trees and tries to set a fire. He is grinding his knife blade against a rock, but can’t get a good spark. Egwene starts to concentrate wielding the One Power and a small flame starts in the branches. She says she thinks Rand will return to the village, but Perrin says Rand will go where he thinks Egwene would go, the White Tower.
Nynaeve is gagged and bound to a tree while Lan checks on Moiraine. He gives Nynaeve a drink from his canteen and wants to know if she will help Moiraine. Nynaeve cuts a purple flower as Lan stands guard over her. He wants to know how she tracked him to Shadar Logoth. Nynaeve prepares the ointment and dresses Moiraine’s wound on her shoulder. She says she knows his bond as a Warder and Moiraine as Aes Sedai. Nynaeve presses the wound, pushing out the poison, Lan checks on Moiraine. This is a debt he owes as Warder since Nynaeve saved Moiraine’s life. Thunder wakens Perrin as he wakes up in his house as the rain pours down at night. Nightmare. He walks to the forge and then sees a wolf chewing on the intestine of his wife! She turns and says, “I know.”
He sees the face of the Dark One before Egwene shakes him awake. Egwene says the wolves are close and they end up running in the forest. The wolves are right behind them, but Perrin and Egwene break from the forest to the strong winds. The wolves stop at the forest. In the mountains, Mat complains about the walking, they end up at a ravine. A village, Breen’s Spring, rests at the edge of a river below them. They pass by a dead man in an iron cage with arrows piercing his body. Mat and Rand walk by villagers at work or giving them a wary glance. They enter the rowdy Four Kings tavern and Rand asks the owner of the tavern, Dana (Izuka Hoyle) about other strangers. Hoyle seemed familiar, of course she was Wren in The Outpost! She replies there is only a gleeman which is a bard or entertainer.
Everyone is quiet as the gleeman takes the stage and picks up his guitar. The bearded man (Alexandre Willaume) starts to sing. He finishes his song about a man who cannot forget and the breaking of the world. Dana gets the crowd cheering with more drinks. Then, he walks into the crowd collecting coins. The gleeman joins Rand and Mat’s table and Dana place his drink there. She asks for three coppers, the gleeman gives her a coin, from Mat’s pouch! He walks away with their donation to him! Perrin and Egwene continue walking hearing the wolves. They find sets of tracks, wagons of traders or Whitecloaks?, and Egwene thinks the wolves took them in that direction. Rand takes Mat to see Dana to ask for a room. Mat pleads his case of lack of funds and Dana takes them to piles of wood to cut with an axe.
Perrin is uninterested in the work and says Egwene and Perrin are dead. Influenced by the danger, his precious? Rand sends him off. Moiraine still seems endangered by the poison which Nynaeve says she is unfamiliar. Lan rides away. Egwene and Perrin meet with a nomadic group, the Tuatha’an. Irish fairies are called the Tuatha Dé Danann. They see the young member, Aram (Daryl McCormack), and leaders, Ila (Maria Doyle Kennedy), and Raen (Narinder Samra). Dana gives Rand a place to stay in the shed. Lan has found what he was looking for and needs Moiraine to ride. Mat is at the caged body, he turns with a knife at the gleeman, he explains the dead man was an Aiel with red hair. The villagers killed him because he was different. He leaves Mat to steal from the body and then begins to bury the corpse. There is a deadly purpose to Dana, she takes Rand’s heron-marked sword, and the gleeman tells Mat that his name is Thom Merrilin. The Wheel of Time turns out a great episode full of tension, mystery, and allies that may be threats!
Five Ter’angreal out of Five!
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