Re:cap - Moiraine chastises Nynaeve for not bringing her to see Mat once she knew about the darkness in him. Later, she is bathing when she is joined by Maigan, head of the Blue Ajah, she asks about how the Trollocs reached Two Rivers. Moiraine doesn’t know and the head of her order wants her to stay permanently at the tower. Later, Moiraine is taken to see Egwene who shows her the rings of the Aes Sedai taken by Valda. She tells Egwene that her Yellow Ajah allies are the best healers for Perrin. Egwene says his eyes turned yellow and the wolves that might be controlled by him. Night is about to fall and Lan is wondering why she masked their bond. He guards the door until Moiraine’s return. She looks at the wall decoration of a woman looking behind a curtain.
She weaves the One Power and a white door opens that takes Moiraine to the chambers of The Amyrlin Seat, Siuan Sanche. They kiss, in fact they are lovers, which they have hidden in the White Tower. In bed, Moiraine admits that she had found the Dragon, five potential candidates, according to the 3,000 year prophecy. They were both witness to a new prophecy given by the Aes Sedai Gitara who died afterwards. Moiraine says bringing all of the Two Rivers folk, the others will die, the Dragon will destroy the Dark One or join him, to which she vows to kill him before that happens. She says to Siuan that she has to exile her or the Blue Ajah will keep her in the White Tower. In the morning, Lan and Moiraine are talking about Mat when Liandrin asks about the villagers. Moiraine threatens that she knows about her man in North Harbor.
She asks for help from Loial. Egwene reunites with Nynaeve. Moiraine takes them to see The Amyrlin Seat. Nynaeve is of course defiant. The Amyrlin Seat thanks Egwene for the return of Great Serpent rings. She brings up the Last Battle and that the Wheel of Time calls for them. Later, Moiriane looks out from the Tower to see the River Erinin, her last look at the place of her early life and training. The Amyrlin Seat has given the exile to Moiraine Sedai, they weave the One Power to seal the vow on the Oath Road, their fingers almost touch. They will never see each other again. An emotional scene, necessary, but the relationship is felt in their tearful eyes. Moiraine is ordered to look at her sisters who turn away from her. She passes the line of Aes Sedai that were with her at the Gentling of the Dragon including her friend, Alanna.
Moiraine rides to the hill with the Waygate and is met by Loilal with Egwene and Perrin riding up. They are joined by Mat, Rand, Egwene, and Lan also on horseback. Egwene hugs Rand. Moiraine and Lan send away their horses! Loilal says the horses can’t travel to the Ways. She says that it will take them to the Eye of the World, the prison of the Dark One! If they don’t stop the weak Dark One now, his armies will destroy the world! Moiraine weaves and opens the Waygate, it is a dark portal struck with lightning. Lan and Loilal lead the others to the portal, but the gate shuts out Mat! The episode opens with a woman, Tigraine Mantear (Magdalena Sittova) in winter gear with arrows and a spear running in a snowy, burned remains of siege weapons. She pauses by a rock feeling the pain of her baby. I’m figuring that this must be Rand’s mother from her red hair. A knight above her attacks, but he is taken down by Tigraine who stabs his face with her spear!
Then, she has to fend off three more knights with two spears! Isn’t enough that this lady is giving birth?, you have to go on taking her on outnumbering her three to one? Tigraine is able to kill two of them, but the third gets hold of her and stabs her side with his sword! She slams her head back, pulls out the sword, and then cuts the knight with his sword. The wound at her side is bringing the birth of her baby. Tigraine crawls back to the rock with the dead knight’s cape, about to give birth, when a heron-marked sword is held to her! The sword!, this must be Tam al’Thor, Rand’s father! Then, we get torches handed out as the Two Rivers friends want the gate to be opened, but Moiraine says Mat made his choice. The Ways are apparently a dark limbo with hexagonal rock paths and columns that kinda reminds me of the underground in Big Trouble in Little China (1986).
Loilal tells them the Way was once covered with fruit trees and grass. Perrin warns them that he senses something up ahead. It is a Guiding Stone from Loilal’s Ogier people, but defaced. Moiraine has them rest, it will be a day more to reach the Waygate, as Loilal tries to read the Guiding Stone. Lan tells Moiriane that they are being followed. Rand draws Egwene over as they rest. Later, Egwene hears whistling, suddenly a Trolloc appears, but Rand blasts it off their rock clearing with the One Power?, shrieking into the void. Moiraine realizes that they used the Way to reach the Two Rivers undetected. Loilal explains that the use of One Power has awakened the Machin Shin, he translates it means the Black Wind, Lan warns them not to listen to it. Moiraine tells Loilal they must reach Fal Dara. Something is screeching and formed like the black wings of insects. They start to cross a narrow bridge and then the Black Wind swirls around them!
Everyone hears their own distorted voice telling them their doubts and fears. Nynaeve hears her failure to protect the villagers again and again, she screams and forms the burst of white light in a circle! Moiriane opens the Waygate and Lan pulls away Nynaeve. They have reached the plains where Loilal points out the fortress city of Fal Dara. Moiriane says they have to walk for a day to The Eye of the World. They are all disturbed by the voice of the Black Wind, but continue on to walk to Fal Dara. The eye-patched Lord Yakota (Amar Chadha-Patel) welcomes Lan’s return, whom he calls Dai Shan, to the city. They meet with the bearded ruler, Lord Agelmar Jagad (Thomas Chaanhing) who also greets Dai Shan. He says that his sister, Lady Amalisa Jagad (Sandra Yi Senchindiver) warned the White Tower of the Blight. Lord Agelmar says they have defended the Borderlands from Trollocs.
Moiraine warns him about the Dark One moving his armies through the Waygate and says they should wall it up. Lord Agelmar makes the order and offers the group his hospitality. Fal Dara makes me think of Osgiliath that was the farthest outpost to protect Minas Tirith in Lord of the Rings. Out of the Waygate is the coat of what looks like Mat, but how did he get through the Way and open the Waygates? Moiraine walks with Lady Amalisa and says she will visit Min. What I remember from the books was that she was an annoying character. Lady Amalisa wants to know why they traveled the Ways, but Moiriane says while she trained at the White Tower, Lady Amalisa is not an Aes Sedai. Moiraine wants her to send a message to the White Tower to have the Red Ajah find Mat.
Walking through the streets, Perrin remarks to Nynaeve that he thought he saw Padan Fain who was at the very beginning of their adventures! They enter a tavern, Moiraine talks with the bartender, Min Farshaw (Kae Alexander) whose power, as a Seer, was hidden from the Aes Sedai. She looks at the Two Rivers friends and says Perrin has “yellow eyes with blood running down his chin.” Min says she sees Rand holding a baby. Then, with the girls, “white flame and a ring of gold.” There is also sparks between them, a connection, that is consumed by darkness. Min also tells Moiraine that The Amyrlin Seat will be her "downfall." Moiraine tells them about Min and what she saw in the Pattern and also about the fate of the others in the Last Battle. Egwene knows what is right, but Nynaeve is still distrustful of Moraine. This seems to separate the Two Rivers villagers, Nynaeve finds herself with Lan, and the Dragon Reborn is discovered! By the way, besides Min, the other new characters are unnamed in the show. Some mysteries are revealed, we have our heroes in danger, as we get closer to the Eye of the World in this episode of Wheel of Time!
Four Ter’angreal out of Five!
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